This specification defines the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML). The objective of IFML is to provide system architects, software engineers, and software developers with tools for the definition of Interaction Flow Models that describe the principal dimensions of an application front-end: th...
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 many applications, such as corporate intranets or CRM, the user may need to access the archive of all registered people, and that archive may be very large. One way to support this requirement is by offering a search form, which however assumes that the user knows at least some information abou...
Using an Enterprise Project aims to divide a project of great size in sub-projects to give an opportunity to organize work in a team with different access modes, managed by the repository. Also you can reduce the amount of memory occupied by the tool during editing. The Enterprise project allows a m...
WebRatio introduced the chance to use Visibility Conditions in a Web Project. This feature allows you to disable or show elements in the generated Web application if the conditions specified for those elements are verified.
It is now possible to integrate the horizontal profiling of the Web appli...
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...
"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...
The deploy process of a Web application is the final step of the application development. In a structured company, the Web application must pass different tests before going to production.
Usually companies have several different environments where the Web application must be deployed and tested.
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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...
WebRatio Reports is an add-on of WebRatio aimed to design and produce professional-quality reports.
WebRatio Reports leverages on Jasper Reports, a popular open source reporting solution, and on its accompanying visual report designer (iReport), to enhance Web applications with professional quali...
The purpose of this article is to provide the basics to operate with styles in WebRatio. A Style Project contains the layout templates needed to generate the graphical elements of your Web Application; the project includes also the resources used in the templates.
A search engine uses a set of well known rules to decide the visibility of a website. One of these rules is to have simple URLs containing the keywords the page should be indexed with. WebRatio 6 introduces a new feature named URL Fragments. This feature allows to increase the search engine ranking ...
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...
WebRatio support all the databases that are supported by Hibernate. Nevertheless, the list of the database types that you have at disposal when creating a new database connection does not contain the full list, but it proposes the most used. Therefore WebRatio gives you the chance to integrate a new...
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.