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Dialog Deployment User Interface

Viabl.ai Dialog Objects (aka Dialogs) are used to create a custom web Browser user interface for Viabl.ai applications. Dialogs can be built using one of two alternative editor views; XpertForm or Dialog HTML Form.

In the XpertForm view the full set of features are available for Dialog deployment.

The selected View is rendered by the deployed application even if both views are populated

The XpertForm View

Using the XpertForm View, Smart Forms can be developed using a drag-and-drop editor. For example drag-and-drop a Question Object from the Objects Catalog to create Dialog Controls tied to this question. Alternatively you can drag-and-drop a Control from the Control Dialog toolbar then tying a Question Object to this

XpertForm Dialog objects supports a special 'Dialog Inference' mode to create 'Smart Forms' This includes 'Constraint' Inference and 'Form Rules' Inference as well as firing a number of 'Events' linked to the Dialog and it's Controls:

Constraint Inference

When an XpertForm Dialog is rendered at runtime, any Constraint Knowledge relating to Questions captured on this Dialog is activated.

XpertForm Rules

The XpertForm View allows rule-based changes to affect the display at runtime through the application of XpertForm Rules. These rules can be defined using the XpertForm Rules editor (located at the bottom half of the XpertForm View). More on using the XpertForm View

Dialog Events

There are a number of dialog events linked with the XpertForm view.

oncanexit
onenter
onexit
onshow
onupdate

Control Events (Object OnUpdate Event)

When an object is tied to a dialog control its OnUpdate event is shown in the XpertForm view.

An XpertForm Dialog can be created as the 'child' of another 'parent' XpertForm Dialog with the 'child' dialog inheriting the controls of the parent Dialog. This inheritance is only one level ie. a child dialog cannot be made the parent of another dialog. The parent dialog must have a 'child dialog container' control, as it is this container that will be editable in the child dialog.

The 'Dialog HTML Form' View

A Dialog can be developed using the Dialog HTML View. This mode allows developers with HTML skills to build their dialogs using HTML code but it is the responsibility of the developer to ensure that the Viabl Platform objects are correctly referenced by the HTML code and that validation is performed before leaving the dialog to continuing the inference.