Builder Interface

Components

The Builder is the interface you use to build Templates on Coast. It contains 5 primary areas:

  • Left panel: Features navigation control for all steps, and the ability to browse all values in the local database
  • Right panel: Configure displays, UI appearance, and theming
  • Editor: Construct technical requests, responses, iFrames, etc
  • Designer: Center canvas with ability to toggle between Edit mode and Preview mode.
  • Config: Control Customization Items, Load Script, and Resource Library

Terminology

Throughout these docs, as well as on the platform, you will find references to UI, Codeblock and Guide Panel.

  • UI: The interactive section of the demo, pictured by a mobile phone view on the example above. UIs can take the form of a mobile container, web container or no container at all.
  • Codeblock: Formatted code shown on the demo. Codeblocks can be a cURL request or a JSON response payload.
  • Guide Panel: Container just above the codeblock. The Guide Panel is used to provide context for the UI, and it can contain text, tables, headings, hyperlinks, inline code, warning messages, quotes, or custom HTML.