Navigate the UI Builder application
Learn how to navigate through UI Builder.
UI Builder home
The UI Builder home page provides easy access to recently opened experiences, options for creating experiences or page collections, and help for getting started using UI Builder. You can also use the search bar to quickly find your experiences by name.
You can access the list of experiences in the top by selecting the Experiences tab in the top bar.
You can access the list of page collections in the top by selecting the Page collections tab in the top bar.
You can access the list of controllers in the top by selecting the Controllers tab in the top bar.
You can access the list of presets in the top by selecting the Presets tab in the top bar.
You can access the list of UI interactions in the top by selecting the UI interactions tab in the top bar.
Select the What's new link in the header to view the latest changes to UI Builder.
UI Builder experience view
The UI Builder experience view is a central place to view and understand the structure and details of an experience. Use the Pages list to see all pages and expand them to view associated variants. Locate pages or variants using the search field, which supports filtering by name, URL, page type, or variant.
Structure of UI Builder
- Use the left vertical bar for access to the following in UI Builder:
- Use the top bar to access pages in the experience and view Help. Change page settings, such as availability, order, and audience. Preview and open the URL path for the page you're editing to see what the page looks like
for users. You can also select a domain and set application scope. View page errors and warnings by selecting the icon next to the save
button. And finally, click the Save button often to save your page.
- Use the content tree to view and edit column layouts, columns, and components on your pages.
- Add column layouts and components to your page using the UI Builder toolbox.
- Work in the UI Builder staging area to build and modify your pages.
- Go to configuration panel to modify column layouts, columns, components, styling, and events.
Data resources: Bind data to your components using data resources to dynamically expose your data from tables, records, or other elements on your page. Data resources enable you to reuse your components. See Connect data to your components for more information.
Client state: Set the parameters for the client state for your page. The client state parameters consist of a name, a type, and an initial value. You can see the preview of the client state parameters.
Client scripts: Scripting automates aspects of the page, like event handling.