Composite views

A composite field may be added to a view in two ways.

• A single field is needed i.e. a user has a company that is of type Company - but in a blotter view the only field needed is the companyName. Thus, in the view we specify the foreign-field attribute:

      <field name="company" type="${user.pkg}.Company">
        <view in="quick" foreign-field="companyName"/>
      </field>
  ...
  

  note: that companyName needs to be a valid field in the Company object.
• More than one field is needed - so a view of the composite field is required. The foreign-view attribute is used instead and a view that exists in the other class must be specified.

      <field name="company" type="${user.pkg}.Company">
        <view in="quick" foreign-view="simple"/>
      </field>
  ...