Effective Page Display Techniques

An Expo Display Page is an ASP.NET RazorPage that uses ASNA.Expo TagHelpers to Render a Workstation file using a flexible Grid Layout suitable to present with fidelity a migrated IBM i Displayfile.

Model

QSys.Model Attributes

Monarch Base provides the following Attributes to assist in defining the data model Display Page. All of these Tag Helpers reside in the ASNA.QSys.Expo.Model namespace. Even though their names end in Attribute, it is the convention to omit this suffix.

File Level

DisplayPage

Record Level

Record

SubfileControl

SubfileRecord

Field Level

Byte

Char

Date

Dec

View

QSys.Expo Tag Helpers

Monarch Base provides the following Tag Helpers to assist in rendering the information on the Display Page Model. All of these Tag Helpers reside in the ASNA.QSys.Expo.Tags namespace. Even though their names end in TagHelper, it is the convention to omit this suffix.

File Level

DdsFile

DdsFunctionKeys

DdsMessagePanel

Record Level

DdsButton

DdsRecord

DdsSubfileControl

DdsSubfileRecord

Field Level

Define a Constant with:

• DdsConstant

Define Fields with these Tag Helpers:

• DdsCharField
• DdsCheckboxField
• DdsDateField
• DdsDecDateField
• DdsDecField
• DdsRadioButtonGroupField
• DdsSignature

Locate an arbitrary HTML Element at a particular Row/Column position with:

• Col
• ColSpan
• DdsGridRow