The explosion frame template is used to generate a frame that displays in greater detail a single row from the table field of a frame generated from the table_field, master_detail, or detail frame templates.

Typically, for queries with a large number of result columns, creating a table field that represents all of them is inconvenient. A better solution is to have a select number of critical columns reflected in the table field, and use an explosion frame to display the values of all the other columns for the current row of the table field.

Although similar in appearance to frames generated from the simple_field frame template, explosion frames do not perform queries and are not meant to run stand-alone. They depend on a parent table field, master-detail, or detail frame to provide them with the data to be displayed.