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The Web Screen Painter (WSP)

Use Web Screen Painter as the primary customization tool for CA SDM. You can install this tool on any CA SDM server. It provides a simple user interface that lets you customize web forms and schema to the requirements of your site without programming. Use WSP for the following tasks:

• Modifying field labels
• Moving fields in a form, or modifying the appearance of a data grid list
• Adding fields to a form, or columns to a list
• Adding a nested tab to a form, or modifying default nested tabs
• Creating forms and forms groups
• Customizing Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) files
• Previewing your changes in a browser window with your own data before publishing them to other users
• Adding new tables or columns to the database, or changing the characteristics of existing columns
• Previewing forms that use customized schema before changing the database.

You can use drag-and-drop or point over desired control from the Control Palette and double-click, without any programming, and without looking at form source code. However, if you want to review and modify source code, WSP also provides a source code editor with keyword highlighting, and seamlessly integrates your source level changes with your design view changes.

However, some of the Knowledge Management forms cannot be customized in the design view of WSP. For these forms, there are alternate approaches to providing customization such as.

• Document View—The document template that is used when creating the document determines the contents of this page. These templates can be modified on the Administration tab under Documents, Document Templates.
• Knowledge Categories document list—You can modify this page by using Web Screen Painter, but it is also manage by user preferences. The “Preferences” screen provides personalization per user for defining which document properties displays in the document list and how many documents display per page.

Note: Modifying the schema by adding new tables and columns requires administrator authorization.

More information:

Schema Customization