Building in Nova (for administrators)

If you configure applications, Nova gives you powerful, modern tools for designing pages and managing your data model.

The Page Builder

The Page Builder is a drag-and-drop, snap-to-grid environment for creating professional-looking pages and forms. You can switch between Desktop, Tablet and Mobile views to tune the experience for each device. Available components include:

  • Page headings, rich text and static images for guidance and context.

  • Reports, charts, data tables and hero counters.

  • Filters, including date-range filtering.

  • Info banners to highlight important messages as Danger, Informative, Warning or Success.

  • Choice-field lists and cascading fields with conditional formatting.

[ SCREENSHOT: The Nova Page Builder with the component panel and Desktop/Tablet/Mobile switcher ]

Component binding

Nova offers greater flexibility in linking components together, so a selection in one component can drive what others display - letting you build dynamic, connected pages.

Enhanced form visibility

You can set visibility on individual form items, including by security role, giving you fine-grained control over who sees what on a form.

The Object Manager

The Object Manager gives you an end-to-end way to view and manage an object's schema - its fields, groups, relationships, inheritance and schema-level properties - and to move across related objects and inheritance hierarchies using relationship navigation and breadcrumbs.