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Custom Page Layouts Using IMLAn Iron Speed Designer Product Training

Product Team Presenter:

Alan Fisher

Please dial 800-261-3225 and then 989-5492# for audio

“Every minute spent on infrastructure programming is a minute wasted.”

- Juval Lowy, Microsoft .NET Software Legend

Moderator: Stephanie Miller

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Product Training Event Information

Training will take about 1 hour to complete

Questions: Anytime-Just ask

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Ask questions using the question feature in PlaceWare on the left of this window

Alan and Stephanie will stay online to answer all questions after allotted time is up

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Training Agenda

Page Layouts:

Creating custom pages

Using Iron Speed Markup Language (IML)

Binding components to the database

Page layouts

Design Themes: Extending the code generator

Sample applications and Demo

Review and Questions

At any time: Send Questions

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Custom Page Layouts – The Challenge

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Custom Page Layouts – The Challenge

Custom Masthead

Select MenuItems

Custom Form

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Specify what you want generated and where…

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IML Tags Drives Code Generation

Declarative programming

generates procedural logic

State what you want – a control,

a filter, a menu, etc.

The code generator generates,

connects the components for you

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Layout pages are HTML files with tags

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40 IML Tags for Generating Controls, LayoutData Display Tags:

FieldLabelFieldValueGrandTotalGrandTotalRowHeaderRowImagePageTotalPageTotalRowRecordRecordRowSortTableTableView

Filtering and Navigation Tags:BaseMenuItemBaseSearchCategoryPathFilterDateValueFilterFilterMenuMenuItemNumberValueFilterPageSizePaginationCurrentPagePaginationFirstPagePaginationLastPagePaginationNextPagination Previous

Layout and Display Tags:BaseButtonButtonFooterForEachHTMLSectionSelection

PaginationTotalPagesSearchSubcategoryFilterValueFilter

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Questions?

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Insert IML tags into your HTML layout pages

Wizard guides you in linking tables with the database

Bind components

Generate!

The Application Generation Process

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Bind components

Generate!

Upload Custom Layout Pages

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Upload Custom Layout Pages

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Link to Database



Bind components

Generate!

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Link to Database

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Bind Components



Bind components

Generate!

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Bind ComponentsBind with Iron Speed Designer wizard

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Bind Components

Bind with Iron Speed Designer wizard

Manually bind in CDF files: Order_tableview.xml

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Bind Components

Bind with Iron Speed Designer wizard

Manually bind in CDF files: Order_tableview.xml

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Record Panel Layout Page

(HTML)

Custom layout page

(HTML)

Table definition files (XML)

Component definition files

(XML)

File Locations

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Table Definition File

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Component Definition File

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Questions?

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Layout Pages – Option One

Create a new page by hand with IML tags – Advanced Pages

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Layout Pages – Option Two

Use the New Page Wizard to create pages – Standard Pages

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Layout Pages – Option Two

Use the New Page Wizard to create pages – Standard Pages

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Hey Alan! Where are those layout files?!!

Component Definition File

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<Template>common\Src\Record.html</Template>

Layout File is Shared

Customizing a standard page

1. Copy shared record panel to local file directory

2. Change the CDF to point to the new copy

3. Edit the copy

4. Season to taste

5. Generate

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Design Themes

Change layout in one central location

Customize only when you need to

Create your own reproducible layouts

Tags embedded within tags

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Customize the Code Generator

Generate anything:

HTML, DHTML,JavaScript, other

Presentation level tags

Third party controls

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Questions?

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V1.4 Release: July 2003

Simplified user interface

On-demand standard pages and new page creationwizard

Easier customization of HTML layout files

Enhanced database re-linking feature

Enhanced component binding wizard

Additional support for binary data types

Improved source code organization

Sample applications included

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Future Training Events

V1.4 Product Preview - Early July

Product Training: Extending the Code –Late July

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