The Disconnect Operation is an operation used to delete the association between instances of two entities (the source entity and the target entity), connected by a predefined relationship role.
This article guides you to the usage of the Disconnect showing also a working example.
WebRatio Platform provides a built-in feature for the localization of Web applications.
The localization is based on the usage of keys instead of terms for all the static elements of the Web application (e.g., labels, components and page titles, field labels and so on). WebRatio Platform allows use...
Implementing a custom component sometimes means querying the database in the component service class. This article wants to give you an introduction on how to retrieve the hibernate session in the component service and how to use Hibernate efficiently to query the database.
The Mail Operation permits users to send personalized emails to each destination address. The email body can be dynamically computed, replacing placeholders in the defined templates with the real content. The email body can also contains images.
This article explains how you can use images static a...
WebRatio Platform gives you the chance to add a Captcha control to the forms of your Web Project.
Read this article to know more about the Captcha control.
The Periodical Page Refresh is a feature that allows you to add a trigger to a navigation flow with the selective refresh enabled. In this way, it’s possible to automate clicking on a link to update some information in real time. This feature is very useful when you need to execute a business logic ...
Autocompletion allows you to specify an information source to be used as a suggestion for the fill-in of a text field. In this way, the user can type only the initial letters of the word or of the value to be inserted in the field. The Web application shows different options from which the user can ...
Popups are a commonly used rich interaction. By using a popup you can open a new layer above the current main page. If the popup is set as “Modal”, it also prevents any interaction with the rest of the web application. When the popup window is closed, the underlying main page becomes active again, a...
Rich forms are forms in which the user interaction triggers an event and the execution of a specific business logic. The aim is facilitate the form compilation and improve the user’s experience in the web Application. Many events can be managed to enrich the user’s interaction with a form, and some ...
In order to publish content or to introduce interface elements for data entry in your Web application, we must use View Components. IFML defines a View Component as an element of the interface that displays content or accepts input. Let's see how a generic View Component works in WebRatio and which ...
Reloading an entire page can be expensive in terms of computational costs: it means recomputing all the components contained on a page and the queries included in them. This operation can take some time and have a significant impact on performance. For this reason, a partial refresh of the page can ...
IFML, the modeling language of WebRatio Platform, is built on very few, highly composable concepts, which can be used to assemble complex Web applications for publishing or updating content. The key aspect of IFML is the capability of defining a Web Model consisting of pages, view components, and op...
A job is a sequence of operations that has to be executed asynchronously by the application. It's possible to schedule a job at a specific time or interval, which means that jobs can be automatically triggered (scheduled when the application starts). It's also possible to schedule a job at runtime: ...
WebRatio Platform provides you with a set of predefined elements that allow you to model around 90% of the features that are commonly needed by a Web application. However, the remaining 10% may require custom business logic, or integration with a specific external system.
Although it is not possibl...
WebRatio Platform lets you define graphic containers for content shown to the user. These containers can be reused for many projects and applied to different type of content. This is possible thanks to the ability to create a dedicated resource containing the graphic container code. This resource is...