Page canvas overview

The center pane of the PCF editor provides the graphical page canvas. The page canvas provides drag-and-drop capabilities for composing and managing the graphical and interactive elements on a page.

The page canvas displays the following:

• Elements that represent page content, such inputs and similar items, in simplified versions to illustrate how they appear within the PolicyCenter user interface.
• Elements that function primarily as containers (data views, for example) as light gray boxes, with a header indicating the element type and ID.
• Elements that define or expose additional Gosu symbols to their descendants as light gray boxes, with a list of symbols at the top. If you move your mouse over a symbol, Studio shows a tooltip with the name, type, and initial value of the symbol.
  • If the symbol represents a Require, the tooltip indicates this as well.
  • If you click a symbol name, Studio selects the containing element, and then opens the appropriate properties tab for editing whatever is providing the symbol. Finally, if necessary, Studio selects the symbol in the Properties tab.
• Elements that are conditionally visible with a dotted border.
• Elements that iterate over a set of data and produce their contents once for each element in the data by a single copy of the contents. It follows this with an ellipsis to indicate iteration.
• RowIterator widgets with inferred header and footer cells in the position in which they appear within PolicyCenter.