In the previous chapter, we really focused on creating the data elements of our entities. Now, we will look at the other features that will start to feed into our model-driven app—Views, Forms, and Dashboards.
We should always keep in mind the differences in approach between creating a model-driven app and creating a canvas app. With model-driven apps, you ideally need to consider what your Views and other components are going to be before you really get into the build phase of your app. You can come back later to revisit these components; however, you will need to create at least one of each element to be able to add some functionality to your app.
In Chapter 15, Introducing Model-Driven Apps, when we talked about modeling data, we looked at the links that were available across the top of the entity. Now we will investigate some more of these links, as well as what they do.
First, let's start with Views.
Creating Views
As we discussed...