To create a new layout type, click the administrative tab named Create and Maintain Layout Types. You can also access this screen from within the Design Center, by clicking the New button within the Layouts Panel
The following screen appears:
Maintaining Layout Types
To add a new layout type, press the Add button and use the following screen:
Maintaining Layout Types
Adding a New Layout Type from the Design Center
Layout types must have a name, a title and a usage. The usages are:
| Layout Type | Purpose |
| EMBEDDED_REPORT | Embedded Report – Creates a layout that contains a report to be embedded within an Add or Edit screen |
| MENUBAR | Menubar – Layouts that are used to contain the menubar buttons that are displayed at the top and bottom of Add and Edit screens |
| MENUBAR_BUTTON | Menubar Buttons – used to create layouts that contain buttons embedded within an Add, Edit and Related Issue Display screens. They can be single buttons or a layout containing multiple buttons. These are used to create buttons and dropdown select menus that are placed within these screens |
| REPORT | Report – Detailed Report, Quicklist and Related Issue Display layouts |
| SCREEN | Screen – Embedded layouts within Add and Edit screens |
| SEARCH | Search – Query layouts and search layouts embedded within Add and Edit screens |
| USER_REPORT | User Report – Used when creating reports that contain user information |
When you edit a layout type, you will see a list of all the places where the layout type is used as a layout within your installation, and you can click the Edit button by each usage, to take you to the Design Center where that layout is used.
If, and only if, you are creating a new layout type to be used as a repeating row, then complete the bottom section of the form. If you are creating a new repeating row layout type, then you also give this a name and a title. When you press the radio button to Create a new repeating row type these fields are shown. You can create a new layout type using an existing repeating row type, in which case you choose the option to Select an existing repeating row type. In this case you select the repeating row type from the list.
Note: The edit function allows you to delete layout types, whether they were created by yourself as an administrator, or created by ExtraView. You should not delete an ExtraView created layout type. ExtraView will not function correctly if you do so.