Create Your First Two Overview and Detail Pages

1 Introduction

This how-to explains how you can create overview and detail pages in Mendix.

This how-to will teach you how to do the following:

Before starting with this how-to, make sure you have completed the following prerequisite:

To create a new overview page and add it to your project, follow these steps:

Right-click the module and select Add > Page:
Click Responsive.
Enter CustomerOverview in Page name.
Select _Sidebar_FullResponsive as the navigation layout.
Click Blank, then select the Blank page template** and click OK:
Click Data Grid in the menu bar of the page builder to select the data grid widget:
Click inside the page editor to create the data grid widget:
Right-click the data grid and select Select Entity:
Select the Customer entity in the Select Data Source pop-up window and click Select:
Click OK to auto-fill the data grid with search fields and columns:

You should now have an overview page like this:

Right-click New on the data grid on the overview page and select Generate page:
Select PopupLayout as the Navigation layout.
Select Form basic horizontal and then click OK:
Right-click New on the data grid on the overview page again and select Go to page: You should now have a detail page like this:

Now create a navigation item for your overview page to start using it. For details on how to set up the navigation structure, see How to Set Up the Navigation Structure.
If you switched on security for this application, you need to configure page access on both the overview and detail pages. For more information on configuring page access, see How to Create a Secure App.