Dynamic Display is a generic display element that can act at runtime as any other display element. Its typical usage is to dynamically change part of the display on screen according to the type of data the application needs to display.

Dynamic Display is similar to Variable Pane, but Variable Pane can switch only between a set of specific display elements explicitly specified in its model, while Dynamic Display can bet set at runtime to any display element.

	Variable Pane	Dynamic Display
Child Elements	Any number of display elements ("display options")	None (no specific display element is contained in the Dynamic Display model)
Dynamically deciding what is displayed at runtime	Setting a value to an element within one of the display options	Setting the Dynamic Display to the desired display
Adding a display option	Explicit in model – Add an additional display element to the Variable Pane	At runtime, as determined by the model’s logic (setting the Dynamic Display to a display of another type)
What is displayed by default	Nothing	Nothing
Hiding current content at runtime	Set to 'No' the <Visible> element of the Variable Pane (or one of its parents).	Set to 'No' the <Visible> element of one of the Dynamic Display’s parents.
Removing current content at runtime	Choose another display option	Use a Remove flow with the Dynamic Display element as target.
Model Validation	Currently none	Currently none

Usage Example

The ‘Tersus Web Site Application’ project contains an example of using Dynamic Display to display web pages.

The model contains a Dynamic Display element called Dynamic Content that is set at runtime to one of several different display elements: