Making an application

Creating an application from scratch is just as simple. Hover over the More tab, select Applications and then click the Add Application link.

Give the application a name and a description and set the status to active. Then, click Create at the bottom of the page.

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Next, you need to add objects to your application. For example, customers, products and employees are some of the objects you can have for a business app. Go to the Business Objects section of the page and click the plus sign to add an object. When finished click Save Changes. When you create business objects, a table gets generated in the database.

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To edit an object click the pencil icon next to it. You can then change the object definition, permissions, display it on the calendar, and customise the form.

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Click the customise form link to set up your form. You will find a bunch of commonly used fields, which you can drag back into Available items. You can also add your own fields and fieldsets.

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When adding your own fields, you need to choose what type they are (eg, Button, Small text, Text option list). To edit an already created field just double click it.

When you are done click Save form layout and then Finish customizing. Your form will get displayed and you can start entering information into it.

As you can see below, I've created a form for the Employee object, which can be used to enter a new employee into the system.

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In Iceberg the applications can be interconnected and objects in different applications can still talk to each other.