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What Is a Business Object?
Create Applications and Business Objects in VLF-ONE Tutorials |
VLF002 - Defining Your Business Objects in VLF-WIN Tutorials |
From the design perspective a business object defines a "thing" that end-users use in their day-to-day activities. For example:
- Users dealing with an order processing application would use the words Orders, Customers and Products.
- In working with e-mail people talk about Inboxes, OutBoxes and Messages.
- A Human Resources application would use Employees and Timesheets.
- In many applications, users talk about the Daily Reports, or the Monthly Reports – these can be business objects.
- A banking application would use Banks, Branches, Transactions, Customers and Accounts.
From the implementation perspective a business object exists within an application and defines the lowest level of end-user navigation control.
VLF-ONE
For example, in VLF-ONE business objects are used for navigation like this:
VLF-WIN
In VLF-WIN they are used like this:
Note that both VLF-ONE and VLF-WIN can visualize end-user navigations in ways other than show here.
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