How to optimize the app performancesWhen deploying an application is important to apply all known best practice to get the best performance possible. WebRatio Platform simplifies this task generating a release artifact that is optimized for production. However there are some best practice related to...
Usually, Web applications are not standalone; they need to integrate with external systems and other applications in the company intranet. The best way to make different Applications communicate with one another is to use a Web service infrastructure.
That’s why it is important to know how you can...
In a Web application, you often need to manage the information shown to the user.
Managing information means to create, update, or delete information.
In this lesson we discuss an enhanced version of the Data Management pattern, which allows you to manage more than one piece of information at th...
In a mobile application you need to define which are the information managed by the application and their structure.
The Domain Model is the data representation used by the WebRatio Platform consisting of three main elements: Class, Attribute and Association.
In this lesson you learn how to define...
This lesson gives you the basic knowledge required to define reusable portions of IFML models using the module and module definition concepts.
Working on real-world Web applications may require modeling a large project. In this situation it’s important to be able to manage the project to avoid loss...
Usually, Web applications do not exist standalone but need to integrate with external systems and applications that are on the company intranet. The best way to make different applications communicate with one another is by using a Web Service infrastructure. That’s why it is important to know how y...
Usually Web applications do not exist standalone but need to integrate with external systems and applications already existing in the company intranet.
The best way to make different applications communicate with one another is using a Web Service infrastructure.
That’s why it is important to kn...
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 8.8 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 search function is the main way the user looks for content on an application.
There are different way to model a search, each one addressing a specific user need.
One way to model a search is to filter the result using many fields. The structure of the form depends on the searched information....
A mobile application may have a feature that allows a user to create his own account in order to be able to use the application.
This lesson shows you how to model a basic "Registration" feature using WebRatio Mobile Platform.
Data management is the crucial aspect for Data Centric Web applications. So far you learnt how to create, read, update and delete data, but data is meant to be shown in so many different ways.
Reading data through View Component is not the only option you have in WebRatio Platform.
Imagine that y...
Usually Web applications are not standalone; they need to integrate with external systems and other applications in the company intranet. The best way to make different applications communicate with one another is to use a Web Service infrastructure. That’s why it is important to know how you can ea...
The purpose of this technical document is to provide instruction on installing, configuring and using the WebRatio License Server. The WebRatio License Server manages the distribution of WebRatio licenses in use and checks the limit on the maximum number of concurrent users. A user can work only if...
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 ...
Learn how to migrate your WebRatio 7.1 project to WebRatio 7.2.
This document contains all the instructions needed for the migration process.
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...
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...
In a Web application you may need to specify a piece of business logic that is executed periodically.
In this case, the execution is not triggered directly by a user interaction on the Web application, but is triggered automatically at a specific timestamp. WebRatio Platform lets you model this ...
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...
Debugging is a fundamental tool for developing a reliable Web application. In the standard debugging approach, every time a problem arises or whenever you want to investigate the behavior of your application, you can easily debug it by placing breakpoints in your lines of code.
Debugging with WebRa...
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.
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 Mobile Platform you can easily model a section so that user can manage the application to delete the data.
In this lesson y...
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...
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.
When you are testing a feature of your Web application, you may face some problems that prevent the feature from working properly. Using the "Application Logs" is the best way to understand what’s going on, find out the root cause of the undesired behavior and eventually understand which part of the...
The interaction between a Mobile Application and a device is sometimes useful for certain functions.
In our example, the user selecting a course from a list can save it as a reminder in the device calendar app.
This lesson shows you how to integrate your Mobile Application with the device calendar...
The interaction between a mobile application and an external data source is useful for certain functions.
In our example, your mobile application receives Push Notifications by using the back-end to send Push Notifications.
This lesson shows you how to enable your back-end to send Push Notificatio...
Usually Web applications are not standalone; they need to integrate with external systems and other applications in the company intranet. The best way to make different applications communicate with one another is to use a Web service infrastructure. That’s why it is important to know how you can ea...
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...
The best way to make different applications communicate with one another is using a Web Service infrastructure. That’s why it is important to know how you can easily integrate your WebRatio Platform designed application with existing web services. This lesson gives you the knowledge to help you inv...
If you are working on a back-end project, once you defined your data structure in the Domain Model, you need to connect it with a persistent database.
Using the Domain Model synchronization process, you can extract the Domain Model elements starting from an existing database structure. The imported...
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...
One of the most common features of a mobile application is the receive of Notifications.
Notifications are sent from an external server on the Internet to the device on which the mobile application is installed.
This lesson shows you how to enable your mobile application to receive Notifications u...
Data management is a crucial aspect for data-centric Web applications. So far, you have learned how to create, read, update and delete data through basic patterns. However, information often needs to be displayed and dealt with in different ways.
Displaying data through View Components is not the o...
Learn how to migrate your WebRatio 6 project to WebRatio 7.0.
This document contains all the instructions needed for the migration process.
When you are working on a new Web application there is a set of common requirements that you are going to implement many times. In IFML lessons you learned how to model several commonly recurring requirements focused on the user interaction.
Recurring requirements comprehend how to publish and ma...
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 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.
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...
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...
The "Logout" is the Operation that explicitly terminates the user's session.
When the user press the "Logout" button, the user should be redirected to a public Screen
(e.g., the "Login" screen).
In this lesson you learn how to model the basic "Logout" feature for your application using WebRatio M...
If you are working on a back-end project, once you defined your data structure in the Domain Model, you need to connect it with a persistent database.
Using the Domain Model synchronization process, you can transpose the Domain Model elements on the database in terms of tables, views, and columns.
...
Learn how to migrate your WebRatio 7.0 project to WebRatio 7.1.
This document contains all the instructions needed for the migration process.
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.
Work as a team effectively requires communication, collaboration, organization and time management skills. This document is not a complete guide on how to work as a team rather it is a guideline to use WebRatio Platform with a revision control system for better project management. This document will...
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.
In this lesson you learn how to model a screen that allows the user to create an object in WebRatio Mobile Platform.
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.
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...