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Client
Workstation computer of a user. Uses the applications or resources provided
by the server.
Cloud computing
Displacement of IT resources (memory, software) to central servers that
aren't considered to be part of the company infrastructure but rather
made available by independent third-party providers.
Collaboration
Teamwork between employees with the aid of functions of a software platform.
The context menu of every element can be access with the right mouse button.
Control
Elements, for example from the
Applications
and
Design modules are also called
controls.
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Foreign key
Foreign keys are used to identify data records which are stored in other
database tables but are related to data records from the current table.
Departments are saved in the following table.
Primary key | Department |
1 | Sales |
2 | Marketing |
3 | Support |
The next table contains employee data.
Primary key | Department | First name | Last name |
1 | 3 | Betty | Miller |
2 | 2 | Sam | Cook |
3 | 2 | Ralf | Miller |
4 | 1 | Sam | Hampton |
The primary key of the department is saved as the foreign key in the
Department column. This makes it very simple to
identify, for example, that
Betty Miller
works in the
Support department.
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GUID
The GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) is the unique identifier for each
individual element in Intrexx. In
expert mode,
the GUID of can element can be identified using the Details dialog.
Intrexx GUIDs consist of 160 random bits that are generated using a
cryptographically secure random generator. This results in hexadecimal
coded character strings with a length of 40 characters
(e.g. 926B444D13B87CE9EEA22BBF9EDAA27A8C7DFE4D).
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Installation directory
Refers to your Intrexx installation directory: on Windows e.g.
C:\Program Files\intrexx and on
Linux
/opt/intrexx/.
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Mandatory field
If the property
Input required has been activated
for an element, such as here for the
Edit field, the element becomes a mandatory field. Saving a page in the
browser is only perormed when all mandatory fields have been filled in. The user
will be informed about empty mandatory fields by a notification before saving
the data record.
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Portal directory
All files of a portal can be found in the Intrexx Portal Server in this
directory: on Windows e.g.
c:/ProgramData/intrexx/<portalname>. You can determine the
portal directory in the portal properties; this is reached from the
Portal main menu.
Prefix
A prefix is placed in front of the actual term. If, for example, a data field
is called STR_TITLE,
TITLE is the term
and
STR_ is the prefix - the so-called
data type prefix.
Primary key
Primary keys are used to uniquely identify data records. In the following
example, the last name
Miller and the first
name
Sam occur more than once. With the
primary key, which saved in its own database column, each data
record can be identified uniquely.
Primary key | First name | Last name |
1 | Betty | Miller |
2 | Sam | Cook |
3 | Ralf | Miller |
4 | Sam | Hampton |
A primary key can also be assembled from a combination of various attributes,
for example when multiple database tables are connected together in another
table. It's important here that each combination is unique, meaning it
only occurs once.
Properties dialog
The settings for an element are available in its properties dialog
and can be modified there. The properties dialog can be opened by
double-clicking on the element or via the
context menu
/
Properties.
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R
Restart Intrexx services
Intrexx services can be restarted, for example, in Windows
under
Control panel / Administrative tools.
You can recognize the Intrexx portal services because of the prefix
Intrexx Portal followed by the name of the
portal. The
Intrexx Supervisor service
is responsible for the distribution of licenses, downloading software
updates among others. This very rarely needs to be restarted.
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T
Tagging
Tagging describes the labelling of content. Tags are not predefined and can be
assigned freely. The tags are gathered together to form a so-called tag cloud
that provides information about how often a tag was assigned – the larger a
tag is shown in the cloud, the more often it has been used.
Temporary directory
Temporary directories are used for caching files to be able to, for example,
generate them fully without other applications accessing them during the
process. Furthermore, the data isn't stored in the memory during the entire
generation process in this way. You can access the temporary directory via
the environment variable
%TEMP% (Explorer or command line) in windows
(e.g.
%USERPROFILE%%/AppData/Local/Temp).
The Intrexx client saves open processes in this directory, for example.
Log files from processes are stored as XML files here.
Normally, the Intrexx server uses other temporary directories, such as
the
/tmp directory in the
Installation directory or
internal/tmp
in the
Portal directory.
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