12.1. Defining Custom Dialog Boxes

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## 12.1. Defining Custom Dialog Boxes

EKM enables you to create custom dialog boxes for use within EKM. These dialog boxes can be used in the following contexts:

- Action Menus: You can define new actions for custom types and built-in types. These actions can be executed using the action menu. If the action requires any user input then you will need to show a dialog box when the action menu is clicked.

- Job Execution: When defining a job template, you can specify that you want a custom interface to be displayed when that template is used to execute a batch job.

- Process Templates: By default, EKM shows an automatically generated dialog box for task completion and batch execution. But you could define a custom dialog box to be used in its place, especially if you want more control over the task being presented.

- Custom Applications: You will need to define a dialog box for any custom application. This dialog box is shown when the custom application is executed in the web user interface.

Note: In custom dialog boxes that involve job execution, only batch jobs are supported. Interactive jobs are not supported.

There are two aspects to defining a custom dialog box:

- Defining the interface in an XHTML file

- Defining the steps and variables in a macro

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