In terms of adding business intelligence to the UI, we will not use OLAP cubes (which provide statistical data that is not real-time), but instead add real-time key information to list pages and detail forms in the form of parts. OLAP is beyond the scope of this book.
There are three types of parts:
Info parts: These are the most common, and you can see these on the right-hand side of most list pages and details forms. They show a small, key piece of information based on a query.
Form parts: These are used in many places. They can show pop-up information as you hover over a field, or more complicated information on the right-hand-side pane.
Cues: These are placed onto a form as a cue group. Cues are used on the role center and as parts on a list page or details form. On the list page, they are presented as a set of links that will take the user to a filtered set of data and show a count of the associated records, with an optional total.
In this chapter, we will add each of these...