In almost every Web application, users come across a form where they are supposed to fill in some information.
In WebRatio, forms are handled by a dedicated View Component named "Form".
In this lesson you learn how to use the "Form" component to model and configure a Form with Fields.
"A rich text editor is an interface for editing rich text within web browsers, which presents the user a ‘what you see is what you get‘ editing area." (Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_rich-text_editor)
A rich text editor can be useful when you want the user to be able to write...
Using the search function is the main way the user looks for content on an application.
For this reason it's important to know the best practices for modeling an efficient search with IFML and WebRatio Platform.
WebRatio Platform provides you with a predefined set of "View Components" that you c...
An important aspect of a Web application is its Visual Identity.
The Visual Identity represents all the graphic widgets that you may want to use in order to make the Web application look good while providing a great user experience.
WebRatio lets you create Web applications with a great Visual I...
Validation is used to check that the data inserted by the user via the application’s user interface complies with the requirements of the application domain.
Validating the data, for example data that is inserted into a form (or in any other View Component or View Component Part with input capabili...
In a Web application, you often need to manage information that is shown to the user. Managing the information means to create, update, or delete information. With WebRatio Platform you can easily model an administration section so that the Web application user can manage the application data.
In t...
In a Web application, feedback messages are used to notify the user about the result of a business logic execution.
Feedback messages vary depending on message types, which can be: success, information, warning, or error.
Most Web applications have protected sections that only registered user can access. Users must remember the credentials provided for each site to which they subscribe.
When users are no longer able to authenticate themselves because they have lost or forgotten their passwords, it is necessary to pr...
In a Web Application, we often need to grant different groups of users access to different resources. For example, in a Web Application used for Enterprise Resource Planning, the head of Human Resources will have access to all the employees’ sensitive data (such as person details, salary, etc.), whi...
Granting access to protected resources is a key aspect of many Web applications.
From an interface point of view, you need to define a place for users to insert and validate their credentials.
This lesson shows you how to model the user login and logout. You will learn how you can personalize the ...
This is the first lesson that explains the Domain Model in WebRatio Platform.
In this lesson, we introduce the main concepts related to the Domain Model, including a deep analysis of the notation adopted - Entity Relationship (E-R). The following lessons show some detailed content and will explain ...
In the lesson dedicated to the Domain Model Overview, you learned about the Entity-Relationship model and its main concepts: Entity, Attribute and Relationship.
The representation of the Domain Model in WebRatio Platform is quite similar to the Entity-Relationship notation ad it is based on the sam...
Learn how to speed up your productivity by letting WebRatio Platform create physical elements on the database starting from your Domain Model, or letting it extract the Domain Model starting from an existing database structure.
Forget about writing SQL by hand! WebRatio Platform helps you generate ...
Learn how to enrich the Domain Model with calculated information, derived from the materialized data existing in the Domain Model itself. This process is called "derivation", since it creates redundant information that can become handy when defining IFML models. Derivation can be applied by using va...
When you are working on a new Web application, you will need to implement a set of common features. In the previous lessons you learned how to model these features in IFML, concentrating on the user interaction.
These features cover how to publish and maintain information, as well as the login ...