The following task describes how to configure the wiring between components on a page. Wiring defines how components interact with each other.
A component can send a wiring context to another component indicating what has changed in the first component, and the second component can respond to this change. For example, suppose View Explorer is defined as a source component which sends the CI Selection wiring context to Top View (target component). When you select a CI in View Explorer, Top View focuses on this CI as well.
Default pages have wiring predefined; you can also modify default wiring definitions.
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Open the Wiring dialog box
Open the page whose wiring you want to configure, and click the Page Wiring button on the Page Management toolbar. The Wiring dialog box appears. For details, see Wiring Dialog Box.
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Select a source component for wiring
From the list of Source Components on the left side of the Wiring dialog box, select a component whose contexts will be sent to one or more target components.
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Select a context to send from the source component
The list of Context Types shows which contexts can be sent from the selected source component:
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Select CI Selection to control which components are notified when a different CI is selected in the source component.
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Select Event Change to control which components are notified when a different event is selected in the source component.
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Select View Change to control which components are notified when a different view is selected in the source component.
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Select target components for wiring
From the list of Target Components on the right side of the Wiring dialog box, select one or more components that will receive contexts from the source component.
The Summary of Page Wiring area displays all of the wiring defined for the page.
To define wiring for this page from additional source components, repeat the above steps as required.