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Time for another Open UI adventure. In this article, I would like to show you the results of an experiment. If you watch the Siebel Open UI space attentively, you are sure aware of the introduction of presentation models and physical renderers for views in monthly patch 8.1.1.11.3. And this is exactly what I tried. What I had in mind was a way to select a record in a list applet of a parent list view (e.g. the "My Accounts" view) and to view details about the record in a form nearby. Of course there is a form applet at the bottom of the view, but what if the end user has clicked the Show More button in the list and needs the information on some other location on her or his screen. Let's see a screenshot of my experimental solution: Click to enlarge  As you can see, the form applet is no longer bound to the bottom of the view. It (or to be more precise, its content) is now displayed in a jQueryUI dialog  so the end user is free to move it around, resize it or close it. Wh...