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Inspect and Edit Pages

Inspect pages and edit pages display the data for a single record of an entity. An edit page allows you to make changes to the record and save the changes, while an inspect page is read-only.

An inspect page looks like this:

Note the buttons at the bottom of the page:

Delete allows you to delete the record from the database.
Cancel takes you back to the page from which you accessed this inspect page.
Edit brings up the equivalent edit page for this record, so that you can make changes. (However, if your application specifies a particular entity as read-only, you won't be able to edit it.)

Also note the Movies property in the example above. You click the triangle to display the movies of this studio in a list, browser, or table, as in the following example:

This property is configured with the DisplayToManyTable component. For more on how this is done, see Representation of Relationships .

An edit page (or edit component) looks like this:

It is similar to the inspect page, except that it has a Save button (for saving changes to the database) instead of an Edit button. If you click the Edit button next to the list of Movies, an edit-relationship page is displayed for editing the records in the to-many relationship. Edit components can occur in multiple-component pages, such as the master-detail page.