Using standalone perspectives in Business Central

Business Central provides specialized editors for authoring assets based on the asset’s format. Business Central has a feature that enables you to use these editors individually. This feature is known as the standalone perspective mode of the editor or simply the standalone perspectives.

As a business rules developer, you can embed a standalone perspective in your web application and then use it to edit rules, processes, decision tables, and other assets. After embedding a perspective you can edit an asset in your own application without switching to Business Central. You can use this feature to customize your web application. In addition to standalone perspectives you can also embed standalone custom pages (dashboards) in your applications.

You can access a standalone perspective by using a specific web address in a browser with the standalone and perspective parameters. A standalone perspective’s web address may also contain additional parameters.

You can use the library perspective of Business Central to select a project you want to edit. You can also perform all the authoring functions on the selected project.

The standalone library perspective can be used in two ways, with and without using the header=UberfireBreadcrumbsContainer parameter. The difference is that the address with the header parameter will display a breadcrumb trail on top of the library perspective. Using this link you can create additional Spaces for your projects.

You can use the standalone editor perspective of Business Central to access an asset’s specific editor. By using this perspective, you can open an asset’s editor and can modify the asset as required.

The web address for accessing an asset’s standalone editor perspective contains the standalone and path parameters. The path parameter must contain the complete path to the asset and the web address can end with #StandaloneEditorPerspective string. Also, by varying the path parameter, you can access a specific asset’s editor in the standalone mode.

By using the standalone content manager perspective in your application, you can create and edit your application’s content and its navigation menus.

Apart from standalone perspectives, you can also embed custom pages, also known as dashboards, in your application. For accessing the custom pages from your application, provide the name of the custom page as the value of the perspective parameter. Note that the perspective parameter is case-sensitive.