Page components

The following table lists the main page components. Platform adds some to pages when they are created; you can add others by dragging them onto a page from the list of available components in the page editor.

Many components have page-level properties that can be changed in the page editor. See Adding and configuring components for details.

Component	Use	Where Available
Form	Contains buttons to edit, cancel, or submit a form.	Added automatically to view, new, edit, status change, and mass update pages. Cannot be deleted.
Chart	Renders the selected chart.	Generic and record list pages - if at least one chart is created for this object.
Gauge	Renders the selected gauge.	Generic and record list pages - if at least one gauge is created for this object.
Comments table	Renders a list of comment records created on a particular record.	View page
Audit trail	Renders a list of audit trail records created on particular record.	View page
View	List of records which can be paged, sorted, filtered, grouped, etc.	Generic, record list, and selector pages - only one view component per object type can be placed on a page.
Lookup field	When clicked, displays either a selector page or a picklist that allows users to select one or more related records.	Edit page
View of related records	List of records related to or having a relationship with the record currently being viewed.	View page
Recurrent events	List of recurrent instances of event or task	View page
Detailed search	A configurable search component providing a way to allow users to do field-specific searches (for instance, Amount>Min AND Amount<Max).	Generic and record list pages
Field	Renders an object field in view or edit mode. View mode (in certain cases) allows inline editing using the icon. Many field types have properties that can be configured at the page level.	View, new, edit, status change, and mass update pages. When new fields are created, each field is added to the Default New Fields Section of each page.
Grid control	A configurable component used in create/edit pages to create and edit a group of records related to the current (master or parent) record. For more details, see Using grid controls to manage multiple records.	New, edit, view, and status change pages - No more than one grid control can be used on any given view page.
Organization tree	Displays an interactive hierarchy of locations, departments, or functions.	Record list pages (for LDF objects only)
Report link	Link to a particular report	Generic, record list, and view pages
HTML component	Template-based HTML component	All pages
Script component	Template-based script component	All pages