New App using Application Wizard

Kinetic ERP
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Anyone know why my application shows blank when I click preview? I am pretty new to this and the content I have been reading, does not cover this issue. I follow all the steps but when I click on Preview the page is blank.

Here is how I create a new application:

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Then it opens with the basic layout:

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Then I click on Activity and click on “Edit Page”:

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Then I add a PanelCard, and then a 2Column inside the panelcard and a button inside the 2Column:

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Then I click save and then click “Preview”:
Its a blank page! I tried those steps on the Detail page and still a blank page. What am I missing?

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You need to add something to the landing page (i.e. Main App), so that you can open into a record where you’ve got things added to the Activity page.

The Preview is opening to the landing page, but you don’t have anything there. It’s not opening to the Activity page, which is why you aren’t see what you’ve added there.

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Thanks for your reply! This is what ‘Main’ looks like which you can see the two ‘Activity’ and ‘Detail’ tabs. Also when I try and add a card on main, it just doesn’t add. It shows a preview of where I want to add it but after I drop the card on the Main page, it disappears and does not get added to the page.
Is there something I need to do on Main to make it work?

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My guess is the Main, like you’re showing, will show what you have built in the Activity tab.

But, like @d_inman stated, when you preview, your app is opening to the Landing Page. But the Landing Page is not MAIN, it is the (App) page in your Application Map. Do you have anything there?

If you want the application to open up showing the Main page… my suggestions would be to add an event like the below:

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So, after the form loads… set the page-navigate-to: Main

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@dcamlin thanks for the correction; ‘App’ is what I meant rather than Main. Saving away your event suggestion for future use.

@Samm Sorry for the confusion. Other than on some screens the action buttons/icons, I’ve yet to see where you can do much editing of the ‘Main’ page.

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Thanks and no worries!
So if all the page layout is on the App page, why cant I delete Activity and Detail pages? Also why do we even need them?

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Thank you David!

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An “Application” is a little more complex. This is the set-up for things like Customer Entry, Part Entry, etc.

I think “Applications” are meant to deal with Business Objects like Customers, Orders, Parts, etc. So you then can see the Details of a Part or Activity related to a Part.

A “Dashboard” is less complex. If you use App Studio to create a dashboard, you end up with (1) form. “Main” I think, and you don’t get the Details and Activity by default.

I guess the question is, do you need to create an Application? Or is a Dashboard more inline with what you’re trying to do?

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Are dashboards limited in terms of usng events, functions, access to user views etc?

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Not that I know of.

I don’t think I’ve ever created an “App”. I’ve either customized existing apps or created custom dashboards. But I don’t know of any hard limitations where you CAN’T do something in a dashboard that you CAN do in an app.

Perhaps others may chime in, if they know of anything.

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