Understanding Pagelet Wizard Display Formats

Pagelet Wizard supports the creation of pagelets based on the following display formats:

  • Table

  • List

  • Chart

  • Menu

  • Search list

  • Passthru

  • Custom (Extensible Stylesheet Language, or XSL)

Table Display Format

The table display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet that displays data from the PeopleSoft query and rowset data sources. This example shows a table pagelet displaying data from a PeopleSoft query data source:

 Table pagelet example

List Display Format

The list display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet that displays data from the PeopleSoft query and rowset data sources. This example illustrates a list pagelet that displays data from a PeopleSoft query data source:

 List pagelet example

Chart Display Format

The chart display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet that displays data from the PeopleSoft query and rowset data sources. This example shows a chart pagelet displaying data from a PeopleSoft query data source.

 Chart pagelet example

Menu Display Format

The menu display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet that displays data from a navigation collection data source. This example illustrates a menu pagelet displaying data from a navigation collection data source.

 Navigation collection pagelet example

Search List Display Format

The search list display format is appropriate for creating pagelets that display data from the search record data source as shown in this example:

 Search record pagelet example

This example shows the same search list pagelet when the Show Results option has been set to yes.

 Search record pagelet example - Search results

Passthru Display Format

The passthru display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet that displays data from the HTML, IB Connector, and URL data sources. Because the passthru display format performs no further transformations on data from the data source, it should be used only with data sources that return HTML that can be directly displayed as a pagelet. The following example shows a passthru pagelet displaying data from an HTML data source:

 Pagelet passthru format example

Custom Display Format

The custom display format is appropriate for creating a pagelet using all data sources that return XML. Generally, most data types return XML, but circumstances potentially occur in which IB Connector, URL, and HTML data types do not return XML. In those instances, the custom display format would not be appropriate.

Use the custom display format when you want to use a display format other than the ones expressly listed in Pagelet Wizard. When you select the custom display format, Pagelet Wizard enables you to select a format provided by one of the delivered XSL prototypes, or you can select an XSL template that you created on the Define XSL page.

The following example shows a custom pagelet displaying data from a PeopleSoft query data source:

 Pagelet custom format example

This custom pagelet uses the same PeopleSoft Query data source as the table pagelet example shown previously; however, this example has a custom XSL template applied.