Downloading, registering, and activating WebRatio Platform involves several decisions that are not easy to take without proper knowledge. Attend this lesson to understand all the steps and to find some help if something goes wrong.

 

Your First Web Application

Getting Started with WebRatio Platform
7,696 views Published on Sep 16, 2014 | Time 8 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

Walking through the creation of a very simple application is the most natural way of getting started with a new tool. WebRatio Platform is no exception: with its large offer of options and features, the newbie may not be immediately able to find his/her way through the required steps to accomplish t...

 

WebRatio Platform General Overview

Getting Started with WebRatio Platform
2,947 views Published on Nov 29, 2013 | Time 9 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

When you get to a new town it is likely that you want to look at a map of the town. In the same manner we start with providing an overview of the main parts of WebRatio Platform. WebRatio Platform is built on Eclipse. Even though you could be familiar with Eclipse it is worth watching this brief tut...

 

Developing Web Applications

3,258 views Published on Jan 30, 2014 | Time 12 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

The Internet is a telecommunication infrastructure that enables many of today’s most prominent technologies and applications. Familiarizing with the main notions, keywords, and acronyms used in this context is important in order to better understand the role of WebRatio Platform and the structure of...

 

WebRatio Projects Read this article and get points!

by Mario Bruno
22,416 views Published on Oct 24, 2011
Applies to: All versions

Web applications are usually structured according to the MVC Pattern. The MVC Pattern logically splits the application in three tiers: Model, View and Controller. WebRatio brings the MVC pattern to its full power, both as design and architectural pattern, by splitting the application in three diffe...

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Modeling Reports Read this article and get points!

by Lucio Bordonaro
15,753 views Published on Jul 04, 2013
Applies to: All versions

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...

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Installing and activating WebRatio Mobile Platform involves several decisions that are not easy to take without proper knowledge. Attend this lesson to understand all the steps and to find some help if something goes wrong.

 

IFML General Overview

IFML Modeling with WebRatio Platform
3,226 views Published on Nov 29, 2013 | Time 6 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

 

Your First Mobile App

Getting Started with WebRatio Platform
6,405 views Published on Jan 08, 2015 | Time 3 min
Applies to: 8.0 or higher

Create your first Hello World Mobile Application with our 3mins tutorial. Follow this beginner guide to find your right way in getting started through the wide offer of options and features.

 

View Components & Data Binding

IFML Modeling with WebRatio Platform
3,461 views Published on Oct 27, 2017 | Time 20 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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 ...

 

Organize the Workspace

Getting Started with WebRatio Platform
1,986 views Published on May 12, 2014 | Time 18 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

When starting WebRatio Platform, the first thing the user must do is to choose the workspace. Knowing the workspace and which options are available is useful when organizing the projects stored on the local drive. Effectively organizing projects in workspaces helps save time. Additional rea...

 

View Containers

IFML Modeling with WebRatio Platform
278 views Published on Nov 29, 2013 | Time 11 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

 

How to Model the Alphabetical Index Read this article and get points!

by Piero Fraternali
23,810 views Published on Apr 09, 2014
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

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How to model a Simple Validation Read this article and get points!

by Davide Martinenghi
24,084 views Published on Mar 27, 2014
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

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How to Model Rich Text Editing Read this article and get points!

by Ombretta Malinverno
19,871 views Published on Mar 28, 2014
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

"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...

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Master & Details

IFML Modeling with WebRatio Platform
2,781 views Published on Apr 28, 2014 | Time 25 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

 

IFML Quick Reference Card

by Paolo Riviello
74 views Published on Mar 31, 2014
Applies to: All versions

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.

 

Create a Style Project from a mockup Read this article and get points!

by Lucio Bordonaro
14,179 views Published on Oct 24, 2011
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

An important aspect of a Web Application is the visual identity it has. The Visual Identity represents all the graphic widgets that you may want to use in order to make the Web Application good looking and in order to have a great user experience. Since it's possible to specify a personalized ...

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Search Pattern

IFML Modeling with WebRatio Platform
207 views Published on Apr 09, 2014 | Time 30 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

 

Form Inputs

IFML Modeling with WebRatio Platform
368 views Published on Apr 11, 2014 | Time 30 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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.

 

How to Model User and Group Management Read this article and get points!

by Davide Martinenghi
21,500 views Published on Feb 03, 2014
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

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How to Model Feedback Messages Read this article and get points!

by Ombretta Malinverno
14,610 views Published on Mar 31, 2014
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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.

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List & Details

IFML Modeling with WebRatio Mobile Platform
1,751 views Published on Feb 13, 2015 | Time 8 min
Applies to: 8.0 or higher

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.

 

Enterprise Project Read this article and get points!

by Laura Cigardi
24,310 views Published on Jan 21, 2013
Applies to: 7.0 or higher

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...

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How to Model Password Recovery Read this article and get points!

by Ombretta Malinverno
15,924 views Published on Jul 31, 2014
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

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Domain Model Overview

Domain Modeling with WebRatio Platform
1,346 views Published on Nov 29, 2013 | Time 8 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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 ...

 

Choose and Apply Style

IFML Modeling with WebRatio Platform
1,244 views Published on Mar 27, 2014 | Time 20 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

 

Installing Subversion

1,212 views Published on Dec 02, 2013
Applies to: All versions

Subversion is a free, open-source revision control system (RCS). Subversion manages files and directories over time. These files and directories are placed into a central storage called a repository. The repository is quite similar to an ordinary file server, except that it remembers every chang...

 

Getting started with Visibility Conditions Read this article and get points!

by Lucio Bordonaro
23,384 views Published on Oct 24, 2011
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

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Search by keyword

IFML Modeling with WebRatio Mobile Platform
978 views Published on Feb 13, 2015 | Time 10 min
Applies to: 8.0 or higher

The search function is the main way the user looks for content on an application. There are different ways to model a search, each one addressing a specific user need. One way to model a search is to filter the result using a "keyword" field. In a CRM application, an example is a company search by...

 

Setting Up WebRatio License Server

527 views Published on Nov 29, 2013
Applies to: All versions

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...

 

Getting started with BPM Read this article and get points!

by Ombretta Malinverno
9,765 views Published on Oct 24, 2017
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

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Connecting the Database

Domain Modeling with WebRatio Platform
2,713 views Published on Feb 28, 2014 | Time 20 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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 ...

 

Data Management: IFML Model

IFML Modeling with WebRatio Platform
1,946 views Published on Mar 28, 2014 | Time 20 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

 

WebRatio Platform Modeler Laboratory

1,303 views Published on May 13, 2014
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

This is the case study used during the WebRatio Platform Modeler Classroom Training Course. You need to download this file in order to have the set of requirements used during the training course as reference. You can also try do model this case study by yourself in order to test your knowledge in W...

 

Interaction Flow Modeling Language: Model-driven UI Engineering of Web and Mobile Apps With IFML

by Marco Brambilla, Piero Fraternali
44,668 views Published on Sep 04, 2014
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

"Interaction Flow Modeling Language" describes how to apply model-driven techniques to the problem of designing the front end of software applications, i.e., the user interaction. The book introduces the reader to the novel OMG standard Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML). Authors Marco Brambi...

 

How to choose the primary key ID Generator Read this article and get points!

by Ombretta Malinverno
12,870 views Published on Oct 24, 2011
Applies to: All versions

Modeling the domain information managed by the Web Application is a task that can be easily done with WebRatio. In fact, you have at your disposal many options that allow you to easily create the Domain Model starting from an existing database. Nevertheless you may need to manually add some new obje...

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Getting started with the Style Project Read this article and get points!

by Lucio Bordonaro
15,895 views Published on Oct 24, 2011
Applies to: All versions

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.

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How to use a generated Report as attachment Read this article and get points!

by Laura Cigardi
11,566 views Published on Oct 24, 2011
Applies to: All versions

In WebRatio it's possible to generate PDF, Excel or RTF reports. This article discusses a particular usage of the WebRatio generated reports. The goal is to create a report in order to use it as attachment for a newsletter (or to store it in the database). Suppose you want to send an email to all th...

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How to Use Generation Commands Read this article and get points!

by Ombretta Malinverno
8,150 views Published on Dec 04, 2013
Applies to: All versions

To get the Web Application from your Web Project, you have to generate it. When a project is generated, the Application Server loads the corresponding Web Application. WebRatio uses Apache Tomcat as the default Application Server Apache. Tomcat implements the JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Sun Microsys...

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IFML Official OMG Specification

by OMG
40,513 views Published on May 13, 2014
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

 

Can I integrate a manually written JSP page in a WebRatio application? Read this article and get points!

by Alberto Molinaroli
18,042 views Published on Oct 24, 2011
JSP
Applies to: All versions

It is possible to integrate manually written JSP pages inside WebRatio applications. The procedure is short and composed of four phases. This guide shows the steps required to integrate a JSP in a WebRatio application.

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How to define Custom Components Read this article and get points!

by Ombretta Malinverno
8,139 views Published on Oct 24, 2017
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

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How to print Variables and Context Parameters in templates Read this article and get points!

by Alberto Molinaroli
9,788 views Published on Oct 24, 2011
Applies to: All versions

WebRatio allows the user to define Context Parameters and to add Variables, these model elements are used to accomplish different tasks. Context Parameters are strictly related to session storage, as they save information in the sessionContext and make their content available for all the JSP sessio...

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How to use Math Unit Read this article and get points!

by Laura Cigardi
1,315 views Published on Oct 24, 2011
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

The Math is an Utility Component designed to parse and evaluate mathematical expressions. A mathematical expression is composed by variables and operators and can be either statically defined at modeling time or dynamically provided through an input parameter at run-time. The Math replaces the varia...

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How to Enable Single Sign On Read this article and get points!

by Ombretta Malinverno
11,215 views Published on Jan 13, 2014
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

“Single sign-on (SSO) is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent, software systems. With this property a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them.” (source Wikipedia). WebRatio allows you to enable the single ...

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Defining the Domain Model

Domain Modeling with WebRatio Platform
1,785 views Published on Feb 04, 2014 | Time 15 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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...

 

Action Definitions & Operations

Modeling Actions with WebRatio Platform
2,169 views Published on Feb 17, 2014 | Time 17 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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 ...

 

Access Control & Personalization: IFML Model

IFML Modeling with WebRatio Platform
2,957 views Published on Apr 24, 2014 | Time 35 min
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

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 ...

 

WebRatio 7.2 Release Notes

3,817 views Published on Nov 29, 2013
Applies to: 7.2 or higher

This document contains the full list of major changes contained in WebRatio 7.2. The WebRatio Platform 7.2 Release includes the new updates relative to the last release 7.2.20. This is a Security Release. We recommend upgrading to 7.2.20 to ensure the security of your web applications and data. Thi...

 
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