Widgets

A widget is an element that PolicyCenter can render into HTML. PolicyCenter then displays the HTML visually. Buttons, menus, text boxes, and data fields are all examples of widgets. There are also a few widgets that you cannot see directly, but that otherwise affect the layout of widgets that you can see.

For most locations, a screen is the top-most widget. It represents a single HTML page of visual content within the main work area of the PolicyCenter interface. Thus, a screen typically contains other widgets. You can reuse a single screen in more than one location.

The following diagram shows a possible widget hierarchy:

Hierarchy with screen at the top, widgets as children, and widgets as children of other widgets.