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...
Developing the front-end of a user application is a costly and inefficient process for a number of reasons.
WebRatio Platform has solved the User Interface modeling challenge by developing an interaction Flow Modeling Language, or IFML, which covers the existing gap in front-end application develop...
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 ...
The web model is where you use the IFML Web Extensions to build the user interface of your Web application, and where you specify the business logic for each IFML action using a set of predefined operations.
In this lesson we introduce the View Containers you can use to organize your Web applicatio...
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...
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...
"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...
IFML Quick Reference Card is the new one page document to print and keep on you desk when you want to learn the new OMG standard IFML (Interaction Flow Modeling Language), the modeling language for the User Interaction definition.
The ability to show a list of elements and the details of each listed element is one of the most common patterns in Web applications, the so-called "Master and Details" pattern. This lesson shows you how to build several variants of this pattern in WebRatio Platform, and illustrates related basic "I...
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...
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.
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.
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...
The ability to show a list of elements and the details of each listed element is one of the most common patterns in Applications.
This lesson shows you how to model the List & Details in WebRatio Mobile Platform.
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...