Restructuring the Product list with the List Designer

How a list should be displayed depends on the requirements of users. In the current example, the List Designer offers these main options:

  • To expand the hierarchy and display the full list.
  • To display the list as a hierarchy and let users expand and collapse its layers.

To expand the hierarchy and display the full list:

  1. In Design mode, click the border of the Product hyperblock to select it.
  2. Select the Advanced pane in the List Designer.
  3. In the Hierarchy section of the Advanced pane, Hierarchized has the value True. Select False from the list.
  4. Apply the changes to the list.
    In View mode, the hierarchy is now fully expanded to display all its elements, including consolidated elements, such as All Tires and Summer Tires.
  5. To display the list as a hierarchy again, return the value of Hierarchized to True.
  6. In Design mode, click the border of the Product hyperblock. Click Functions in the Structure Selection pane and select Elements Underneath > All Base Elements.
    Base elements are those elements of a list which have no children.
  7. In the Selection Settings pane, select All Tires.
  8. Apply the changes to the list.
    The report displays all, and only, base elements.
  9. Open Structure Selection, click Elements underneath All Tires (base elements) and click Delete.
  10. In the Structure Selection pane, click Select Children.
  11. In Selection Settings, select All Tires.
  12. Save the report and then create a copy called Tutorial4.