The Excel Style is a predefined style available in WebRatio Platform. This style allows to export the content of a modeled page in an Excel spreadsheet file. The generation process creates a JSP page containing XML code that is processed by a custom tag that invokes the Apache POI engine to render t...
Tomcat Application Server is able to manage by default all the ISO-8859-1 characters to encode URIs.
If your Application uses characters that does not belong to this character set, you have to configure the Application Server or your Application in order to correctly manage them.
If not config...
Let's suppose that you want to deploy your project directly on the remote host that will contain the Web Application. You have to configure the Deploy Configuration that allows you to obtain the final Web Application package in order to be able also to upload the package on the remote host. This art...
The UnsupportedClassVersionError can occurr in a Web Project that uses custom components, such as custom validation rules, servlets or listeners.
All these components are developed using a different project (e.g. a Java project) in which you have to compile the Java classes and create a jar file...
This article explains step by step how to create the business process model of the "Vacation Request" process. You will see a brief explanation about the process proposed and then the procedure to create the process model in WebRatio using the BPM perspective.
WebRatio provides some properties that define the information reguarding the runtime of your web application. RTXConfig.properties file is the properties file where you can configure your preferences. The RTXConfig.properties file contains information that control your work directory where the appli...
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.
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...
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 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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
The Domain Model Utility Component is available starting from the WebRatio 5.1 version.
It's a hybrid unit, which means that it can be placed in every View (Site View, Module Definitions View, Service View).
It permits to retrieve information about entities and relationship of the Domain Model....
In the Domain Model you can define BLOB attributes to store files.
This type of attribute is objectified using an instance of a particular object implementing the RTXBLOBData Interface. This type of object gives access to some properties such as the name, lenght and extension of the wrapped BLOB....
When designing Web Projects, often the use of static values are required, such as values of conditions, passing of static values in Links Coupling, values in configuration Properties of the Units, etc. The problem of the usage of static values is that they may vary according to the environment in wh...
It’s a very common practice to display the number of active users of a web application.
WebRatio gives you the possibility to easily get the number of users which are currently navigating your Web application and add this feature to your Web application.
The solution proposed in this article ...
Sometimes may happens that a user has to access to a content and depending on some parameters or actions that content has to change. By the alternative pages,it's possible to decide which content has to be shown depending on one or more conditions defined at run time.
Alternative element is usefu...
WebRatio Mobile lets you build iOS apps that you can use for test on your mobile or for submission on the Apple Store. This article guide you through the build process, showing how to create a release build, prepare and submit the Application on the Apple Store.
This article is a step by step tutorial to guide you in the management of Signing Identities and Certificates.
You need to read, understand and accomplish each step reported to be able to build iOS application in debug and release mode.
WebRatio Mobile Platform allows you to send push notifications from a DataService Project. You need to add and configure a Notification Provider to enable the project for push notifications. The Notification Provider requires a specific configuration for each platform. For the Android platform you n...
WebRatio Mobile Platform gives you the possibility of making continuous builds of your Mobile Projects. This can be very useful to schedule builds on a dedicated server and for instance get a new build every night.
This process requires to create an Ant file that describes the result of the build o...
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.
This lesson gives you the basic knowledge required to define common content in an IFML Model through the "Master Page" concept.
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 of control and...
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...
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...
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...