App Studio


522I8205: Advanced Reporting Application Techniques Using App Studio

This course will show you how to work with and maintain reporting applications for a user community. It covers a wide range of topics, such as controlling data source access at different levels, creating reusable modules to reduce maintenance, and improving web page response times by caching data.

You will learn how to:

521I8205: Building InfoApps Using App Studio

This course will show you how to build a professional user interface for your InfoApps application. Using App Studio’s HTML canvas tool, you will build a cohesive and efficient series of user interfaces for existing reports and charts that range from non-parameterized procedures to heavily parameterized self-service procedures.

You will learn how to:

Video: How to Set Dynamic Date Ranges for Calendar Controls

Control chaining is a great way to ensure that when you filter an HTML page using a control, all of the available values for other controls on the page will display valid data.  Chaining is easy when one control depends directly on another, but things can get complicated when the relationship between control values is less direct.  

Video: Environment Differences

Hello and welcome to this App Studio to Developer Studio transition video.  The goal of this video is to outline how you can manage WebFOCUS Environments in App Studio.
In Developer Studio, you use the Explorer window to manage your WebFOCUS environments and content.
In Developer Studio, virtual folders are used to group your content by file type. You reorder content by using the columns at the top of the details pane.

Video: Welcome to App Studio

Welcome to App Studio, which provides a variety of tools that you can use to access your existing data, create content with it, and combine that content based on your needs. 
You can access these tools using the Application menu, the Quick Access Toolbar, the ribbon, and the Environments Tree.
The Environments Tree shows all of your configured environments – WebFOCUS Environments that you have connected to at some point.  Connecting to a WebFOCUS environment allows you to access content in the Domains of the Environments Tree.

Video: How to Create Content Using Wizards

The goal of this video is to show you how you can create content using the wizards in App Studio.
App Studio uses numerous wizards that streamline the content creation process by providing you with a series of customization options before you begin developing.
Depending on what content you are creating, the wizard will be different. However, all wizards allow you to select the location where you want to create your content and they list recently used content.

Video: How to Use Panels in App Studio

This video introduces the basic information about panels and how to customize them. It also shows you how to access panels or remove them from view. 
The first panel you see when you open the AppStudio workspace is the Environments Tree panel, which allows you to view, modify and create content in your environments.  By default it is located on the left side of your screen.
You can change the position of any panel by clicking the arrow button, located in the upper right corner of the panel container.

Video: How to Use the Quick Access Toolbar

The goal of this video is to introduce the Quick Access Toolbar. You will learn how to access and customize the Quick Access Toolbar.
The Quick Access Toolbar is located in the upper-left corner of App Studio, next to the Application Button. It gives you access to frequently used commands.
By default, the toolbar includes the Open, Save, Save All, Quick Print, Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Run commands. 

Video: How to Display Objects in the Order of the Document Object Model

This video introduces the new Accessible property for HTML pages.  This property controls how screen readers, such as JAWS, read your HTML pages, ensuring that your content is accessible to everyone.
You can configure an HTML page so that the screen reader reads your content from left-to-right and top-to-bottom by setting the Accessible property for the HTML page.