098_add_page_description_in_view.adoc

ADR-098 - Add PageDescription definition in the View DSL

Context

In the View DSL definition (in view.ecore), it’s only possible to organize FormDescription in separate groups.

Decision

We will add a new level to organize groups in different pages. This new object PageDescription will be contained in a FormDescription and may contain any number of GroupDescription.

Frontend

The Material-UI Tabs representation will be used to display the pages of the FormDescription. A new drop area will be added to drop new page elements from the editor. To change the page order, the Tab will be draggable. The Tab are Material-UI component, and it’s not recommended to add a new drop area to Tabs between them to offer the possibility to place Tab at any position. To get around that, it will be possible to drop elements directly on the Tab element in order to place it before.

Backend

The new structure of the class FormDescriptionEditor will be just like the ecore definition i.e., the new layer List<Page> will be introduced in place of List<Group> which is moved in the Page object.

Status

Accepted.