User Guide

Creating Templates for G4 PanelBuilder
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G4 PanelBuilder
The template must have at least one of each of the following elements:
 Navigation Elements - This is the main menu where most of your navigation selections
are made.
 Consists of at least one popup but can contain multiple popups.
 Cannot contain any pages
 Only one can be displayed at a time.
 Placeholder Elements - This is a blank device element that allows you to represent
unique items in the diagram area.
 Consists of one page and may have optional popups.
 Only one Placeholder element can be displayed at a time.
Navigation Element Specific Conventions
[nav#navName]pageName
navName The name of the Navigation as it will appear within G4 PanelBuilder.
pageName The base page name that will be used in the generated TP4 project.
[info]buttonName
This text is used to populate the
mouseover element description
in the toolbox.
Only one of the pages or popups in A Navigation element can contain an Info
button. The Info button contains the page flip information for displaying the
Navigation element and can contain an optional icon image.
buttonName This is unused and the button is deleted in the generated TP4 project.
[item]buttonName The popups in the Navigation element must contain at lest one item button that
will be filled with navigation information. Item buttons are ordered within the
Navigation element in order of left to right then top to bottom.
buttonName This is the button name used in the generated TP4 project.
[title]buttonName Popups in a Navigation element can contain one or more Title buttons. The text
will be replaced with the name given to the Navigation in the generated TP4
project.
buttonName This is the button name used in the generated TP4 project.
Placeholder Element Specific Conventions
[placeholder#placeholderName]pageName
placeholderName The name of the Placeholder element as it appears in G4
PanelBuilder.
pageName The base page name used in the generated TP4 project.
[info]buttonName
This text is used to populate the mouseover element
description in the toolbox.
Only one page or popup within a Placeholder element can
contain an Info button. The Info button contains the page flip
information for displaying the Placeholder element and can
also contain an optional icon image.
buttonName This is unused and the button is deleted in the generated TP4
project.