Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
You can integrate GIT in WebRatio Platform using the EGIT project. EGit is an Eclipse Team provider for the Git version control system. Git i...
This guide goes through the required steps to download and install WebRatio Platform 9.
This guide goes through the activation procedure for each WebRatio Platform 9 edition.
The use of static values is often required when designing an application. Static values may depend on the application’s deployment environment. You can set these static values in a dedicated *.properties file, which is loaded at the application startup. This file contains a list of key-value pairs. ...
Each application has a couple of log files to which it write log messages to monitor the health of the running application. This guide helps you understanding and configuring these files.
This kick start guides you through the modeling of a Web application using WebRatio Platform 9. The Web application you will model, will help you manage your daily tasks and your business contacts.
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.10 Release introduced a couple of interesting upgrades. Now, the mobile applications generated are based on Apache Cordova / PhoneGap 7.1. The Ionic framework has been upgraded to 1.3.5 version and generated mobile applications now support iPhone X. Read the full docum...
The Jump Operation permits to jump forward and backward within the application without modeling an explicit navigation flow. A forward jump redirects the user to the specified Parameter Collector Operation. A backward jump redirects the user to the last visited Jump Operation and follows that operat...
Validation is used to verify that the data inserted into a form by the user complies with the application domain’s requirements. WebRatio Platform includes several predefined types of Validation Rules that cover the most common validation cases. But sometimes, depending on the scope of the Web appli...
The Layout View lets you organize view components in the page using the 960 Grid System. The 960 Grid System (http://960.gs) is very popular CSS framework for defining page layout and is known for its ease and flexibility. The framework is a set of style sheets with CSS rules. It provides two grids:...
In WebRatio Platform, the state of a component is represented by the Component State Object, a particular data structure that represents the internal state of particular component. This means that each type of component has its particular Component State Object. In its implementation, a Component St...
Content is the most important part of a Web application, and it should be presented in an engaging and professional way to provide the best user experience. Designing, which is the way a specific piece of information must be rendered for the user, is a web designer’s main task when creating a Web ap...
The Parameter Collector Operation permits one to collect a set of parameters from multiple sources and to redistribute them to multiple targets. In this way, the operation reduces the model complexity by deleting some data flows, improving its reading and creating a neater model.
The Connect Operation is an operation used to enable the association between instances of two entities (the source entity and the target entity), connected by a specific relationship role.
This article guides you to the usage of the Connect showing also a working example.
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.
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.
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...
This article can help you on BPM basic features using WebRatio Platform, or refresh your memory on how to use it.
You will also find a quick reference for the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), the standard adopted for business process modeling using a graphical notation based on a flowch...
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.9 Release includes some new features in the mobile application modeling. Now, the mobile applications generated are based on Apache Cordova / PhoneGap 6.
Let’s review the main functionalities of this product release.
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.8 Release includes some new features in the mobile application modeling. Now, the user interface of the data service project has been improved.
Let’s review the main functionalities of this product release.
The WebRatio BPM Platform 8.8 Release includes some features for building an application managing their business process through a BPM engine.
It is now possible to delete a process archive. In the Admin View, it is possible to delete an uploaded process archive.
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.7 Release includes some new features in the mobile application modeling. It is now possible to create mobile custom events that allow to integrate with the device.
Plus, you can now activated the WebRatio Mobile Professional Edition using the new “license server” opti...
The WebRatio BPM Platform 8.7 Release includes some features for building an application managing their business process through a BPM engine. It is now possible to suspend or resume a process and retrieve the BPMN information of a specific historic process. In the Admin View, is now available the ...
WebRatio Mobile Platform lets you add to your mobile application a feature that allows to take a photo with the camera or to select an image from the gallery.
Let's see how to model this integration in your mobile application.
WebRatio Mobile Platform gives the chance to model bars for a mobile application using two reserved sections of the screen: Top Bar and Bottom Bar.
This lesson shows you how to model an application menu to browse between different sections using the Toolbar element.
WebRatio Mobile Platform is a powerful development environment that supports business users and IT developers in building mobile applications that can be installed on mobile phones and tablets. Your mobile applications can work both offline, without the use of an internet connection; or online, sync...
WebRatio BPM Platform is a powerful development environment that supports Business Analysts in building an application that manages their business process through a BPM engine. Let’s look at the main functionalities of this product release.
This article explains how to model step by step the Vacation Request business process available on the WebRatio add-on. The Vacation Request process focuses in controlling the requests of vacations of the organization, from the initial request up to its approval or rejection.
WebRatio BPM Platform is a powerful development environment that supports Business Analysts in building an application that manages their business process through a BPM engine. Let’s look at the main functionalities of this product release.
WebRatio Mobile Platform is a powerful development environment that supports business users and IT developers in building mobile applications that can be installed on mobile phones and tablets. Your mobile applications can work both offline, without the use of an internet connection; or online, sync...
Create your first Business Process application and discover the main features available for your application in WebRatio BPM Platform.
Try yourself how easy and quick is to get your BPM application watching this tutorial.
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.4 Release includes some new features in the mobile and back-end application modeling. It is now possible to create a mobile application where you can set the orientation and specify whether the mobile application must be opened in fullscreen mode or not.
The back-end...
The WebRatio BPM Platform 8.4 Release includes some features for building an application managing their business process through a BPM engine.
It is now possible to model business processes using the dedicated project named “BPMN Project”, generate and Run on Cloud business processes and get the B...
WebRatio Mobile Platform lets you extend the set of components that can be used inside projects to add new functionalities.
In this lesson you learn how to create a new custom component for DataService Projects that allows to convert a string.
WebRatio Mobile Platform lets you add to your mobile application a feature that allows one to see a location on a map and to get directions to reach it.
Let's see how to model this integration in your mobile application.
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.3 Release includes some new features in the mobile and back-end application modeling. It is now possible to create a mobile application that it is able to show one or more locations in a map. The mobile application can now also be integrated with the device's native ma...
mobile applications usually interacts with the device in several ways. This lesson shows you how you can model with WebRatio Mobile Platform a Mobile Application that interacts with the device address book. You will learn how to specify the saving of a contact in the device address book and also the...
In a mobile 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 a section so that user can manage the application data.
In this lesson you learn how to model...
WebRatio Mobile Platform lets you extend the set of components that can be used inside Mobile Projects to add new functionalities to your mobile applications. In this lesson you learn how to create the "SendSMS" operation that allows to send messages from the mobile application. You can download the...
Mobile applications usually interacts with the device in several ways. This lesson shows you how you can model with WebRatio Mobile Platform a mobile application that let the user scan a QR Code/Barcode with the photocamera. You will learn how to model the scan of a QR Code/Barcode but also how to g...
A mobile application can be localized in order to show texts using the device language.
Localization means translating texts and customizing data patterns according to a specific locale. This lesson shows you how to add several locales to your mobile applications, how to translate texts and set dat...
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.2 Release includes some new features in the mobile application modeling. It is now possible to create a mobile application that it is able to show a QR Code/Barcode and/or to scan a QRCode/Barcode. The mobile application can now also be integrated with the device addre...
In a mobile application, you often need to manage information that is shown to the user. Managing the information means to create, update, or delete information.
In this lesson you learn how to model a screen that allows the user to create an object in WebRatio Mobile Platform.
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...