Working with elements

Page configuration format files contain three basic types of elements:

• Physical elements (buttons and inputs, and similar items) that have a visual presence in a live application.
• Behavioral elements (iterator sorting and client reflection, and similar items) that exist only to specify behavior of other elements.
• Structural elements (panels, screens, and similar items) that do not represent a single element in the Web interface, but instead indicate some grouping or other structure.

After you create a new page, you can select page elements from the Toolbox tab for inclusion in the page. PolicyCenter does not permit you to insert elements that are invalid for that page or grouping. After adding an element to a page, you can change its type if needed, rather than removing it and starting again.

Guidewire strongly recommends that you label the widgets that you create with unique IDs. Otherwise, you may find it difficult to identify that widget later.

You can perform the following actions with PCF elements:

• Adding an element to the canvas
• Changing the type of an element
• Adding a comment to an element
• Find a PCF element on the canvas
• View the source of a PCF element
• Duplicate a PCF element
• Delete a PCF element
• Copy a PCF element
• Cut a PCF element
• Paste a PCF element