WebRatio Platform lets you define graphic containers for content shown to the user. These containers can be reused for many projects and applied to different type of content. This is possible thanks to the ability to create a dedicated resource containing the graphic container code. This resource is...
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...
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.
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 ...
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:...
Showing more than one component as a single one is a very common need that may occur while creating the style of a WebRatio Web application.
The first option to achieve this is to use the customization available from the Layout View of the specific page, which offers a wide set of criteria to pla...
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...
Working with templates allows you to make customization with number patterns. Suppose that you do not want to use the separator symbols for numbers according to the current locale, but you want to use custom character (unusual for separators). You just have to create a custom attribute template that...
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....
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...
In the Domain Model you can define BLOB attributes to store files.
A common issue related to BLOB attributes is to show a dialog for the download of the blob data as a file.
You can consider as a solution to change the layout template to use the Content Disposition feature, which forces the "Sa...