Main menu in the Applications module
File
Edit
New
View
Application
File
Connect portal service
This menu item opens the dialog to log in to a portal.
Disconnect portal service
This menu item will log off an opened portal. You will be notified
of unsaved changes with a message.
New, Open, Close, Delete application
These menu items open the application manager, in which new applications
can be created or existing applications can be deleted, copied, opened,
unlocked, or closed.
Import / Export application
Information on import and export of applications can be found
here.
Publish application
This menu item serves to publish an application. A newly created application
will be available in the browser only after saving it.
Save working copy
Via the sub menu item a working copy of the currently opened application in its
current status can be saved local or on the server. The application data will not
be applied to this. This file, with the ending
*.ixapp,
can be loaded again later via the menu item
File / Open application.
Delete application
Opens the Application Manager where existing applications can be deleted.
Publish JavaScript / Velocity / Groovy files
If your application contains
JavaScript,
custom Velocity files, or Groovy scripts, click this menu item to publish
changes to the scripts and changes to the Velocity file on the server.
Changes to the application will not be published if you do this.
Publish JavaScript, Velocity or Groovy files
With this menu item, only the changes to the script will be published.
Changes to the application will also not be saved here.
Publish layout files
With this menu point, only the
Layout files
that relate to the application will be published.
Recently opened applications
Select the menu item
Close to see a list of most
recently opened applications. From here, they can be loaded directly.
Quit
Closes the Portal Manager.
Edit
In the
Edit menu, some menu items will only be
available if elements have been selected. This means, for example, that the
menu item
Group is only available when multiple
elements have been selected on the workspace.
Undo
This command allows you to undo individual editing steps. The size of the
history (number of editing steps) will be set in the menu
Extras / Options.
Redo
This command allows you to reproduce individual editing steps that you have
previously undone.
Copy
All elements, as well as pages can be copied to the clipboard. Properties
set for them will be retained.
Paste
Copied elements will be inserted from the clipboard. Pasting elements with
all defined properties can only be executed within the same data group.
Delete
The selected element will be deleted.
Copy / Apply view
With the
Copy View menu item, the
style properties of the currently highlighted control can be copied. Then,
highlight the control onto which you want to transfer the copied view, with
the menu item
ApplyView.
Move to hidden area
Moves the selected element to the
Hidden area.
Create template
Creates a
template for new
elements based on the properties of the selected element.
Display links
With this function, all of an element's links with other elements will be
shown in the
Search window (e.g. pages with buttons that open other pages)
Properties
This menu point opens the properties of the currently selected element.
Details
This menu point can only be accessed if the setting
Enable expert options is activated in
the menu
Extras / Options.
Group
The elements selected in the workspace will be gathered together in a
grouping.
Ungroup
The grouping is removed.
Edit script
Via this menu item the script editor for editing
- JavaScript for desktop
- JavaScript for mobiles
- Velocity script
- Groovy script
will be opened.
Start page
Clicking on this menu item will define the currently selected page as
the start page of the application.
Create label
With this menu item, a static text field will be created, which contains the
title of the selected element and which can be used as a label for the element.
Show / Hide elements
Shows or hides the elements of a page in the application structure.
The
properties dialog of a page element can also be reached here via the
context menu of an element or by double clicking on an element. If a page
element is selected in the application structure, it will be highlighted on
the workspace.
Show / Hide data fields
Shows or hides data fields and
references of a data group in the application structure.
Define tab order
In the browser, users can move from one edit element to the next with the
TAB key. This order will be defined via the
Tab order menu.
Edit Web services
This menu item leads you to the settings dialog for
web services.
Decrease frame / Increase frame
This menu decreases or increases the frame area of the
Grid element on the workspace,
respectively.
Set full size
With the
Set full size command, an image that is
included in a view element of type
Image will be
shown in the workspace in its original dimensions.
Create preselection
If a
View table
is selected, a preselection can be created from this menu point.
Delete preselection
Deletes the preselection.
Move left / Move right
With these menu points, the order, and also the priority, of preselections in a
View table
can be adjusted. The following rule applies: the further to the left, the
higher the preselection's priority. If, for example, you use a preselection
for customer data, which filters all of the customers with the country code
DE, and this is positioned on the far left, then
all of the preselections that are to the right of this preselection will use
the filter result of this first preselection. This means that the additional
preselections will filter customers with the country code
DE.
Edit layout / Edit for mobile devices
For every application, individual styles for desktops and mobile devices can
be defined by using the menu
Edit / Edit layout
or
Edit layout for mobile devices, these are
included when the application is exported.
Design presets for elements
This menu point opens a dialog in which margins and user-defined style
classes for elements in layouts without tables can be edited.
Decrease grid
The grid on the workspace may be made smaller with this menu item.
Increase grid
The grid on the workspace will be made larger.
New
In addition to the area toolbox and the
context menus of the application
structure, all application structure elements can be created via the
New menu item. This page is shown when an
element in the application structure is selected.
Page wizard
The
Page wizard will
help you with creating new pages.
Form wizard
The
Form wizard will
help you with designing new pages.
Copy GUID
Via this function the
GUID of the
following controls can be copied to the clipboard, if they are selected
in the application structure:
- Application
- Page
- Data Group
- Data Field
- Reference
- Reference Data Field
Copy name
Via this function the name of the following controls can be copied to the
clipboard, if they are selected in the application structure:
- Data group
- Data field
- Reference data field
View page with elements
This menu item allows for an edit page to be used to create a view page,
which will contain all elements of the edit page as view elements. The view
elements will then be already connected to a corresponding data field and
located at the same position were placed on the edit page.
View menu
In this menu, the individual areas of the
Applications
module can be shown or hidden. An area that is shown will be shown in its own
window depending on space, which you can move wherever you wish via drag & drop.
If you want to anchor the area as a fixed tab in the module, drag the
window with the mouse on the title of the area (here you see
Description, for example do not drag the title
bar of the window) to the desired position.
Global views
Via this menu item, views of the
Session activity,
the
Database activity and the
Memory usage will be displayed in the lower area of the Portal Manager.
Restore default view
Restore default view will arrange all areas according to the original view mode.
Application
Import / Export texts
With this menu item, all descriptions or titles of elements in an application
will be exported in the formats
CSV, XLS or
XML. The function can be used in the translation
of applications into other languages.
Manage language constants
Opens the dialog to manage application
language constants.
Refresh
Individual elements may be assigned layout attributes (styles) via the
Views tab in the properties dialog. If you
have opened an application for editing and switch to the
Design module in order to change its style
properties there, the attributes that you edit there will first be available
in the
Applications module after you refresh the
application.
Access permission
This menu opens the dialog to configure application's permissions.
Show license
This menu item is available when a licensed application is opened.
Information on the publisher and notes regarding the
license can be found here.
Properties
Opens the properties dialog for the application.