Pagination and Miscellaneous Properties

Many apps have repeating items in their information, sometimes only a few and sometimes a very large number of items. Showing all the items at once can be overwhelming to users and can make the app perform very slowly.

Pagination lets you control how many repeating items appear on one page (display of the app) and provides buttons to allow users to page through the data. However, pagination may not be appropriate for some kinds of views, such as a pie chart or some types of maps, where it is important to show all items together.

The two properties that you can set for pagination in the Preview step include:

Enable pagination: this is set by default which adds a pagination toolbar in every view of the app to allow users to flip to other pages. Clear this option to show all repeating items in every view of the app.

Note:

Because pagination for the app applies to all of views in the app, it is sometimes better to create several basic apps with individual views so that you can control pagination individually. If you want these views to appear together, use a workspace to group the individual apps.

Rows per page: this determines how many repeating items can appear on one page within the app. This defaults to 20, but you can choose another value.

Miscellaneous properties for the app include:

Show View Title is set by default, which adds a title bar above each view along with the

Maximize V iew toolbar button. Clear this option to remove view title bars everywhere this app is published.

MashZone NextGen developers have additional ways to control title bars and toolbar buttons for apps in different contexts. See Title Bars and Toolbar Buttons in Apps for more information.

Height and Width default to auto which allows the app to fit into the height or width of the page area wherever the app is published. You can set a suggested maximum height or maximum width as a number of pixels, although this is less flexible and is not guaranteed to be used.

Note:

Changing the width and height does not change the preview of the app, but may change the size of the app when it is published or embedded in other environments.

Auto Refresh Interval defaults to zero. Users must manually refresh data with the Refresh toolbar button on the app’s title bar. If the data for this app changes frequently, set this to the number of seconds that should elapse before the app automatically refreshes its data.