App Builder Guided Tour

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The Lianja App Builder is all about the Rapid Application Development of data-centric business Apps. It has a high performance SQL database engine embedded in it.

It is a great tool for prototyping and working in an agile team.

It organizes its UI into “workspaces”. The modebar down the left hand side contains a strip of vertical buttons which when clicked causes the UI to switch to that particular workspace. No matter what workspace is selected the modebar is visible allowing you to switch between workspaces with one click.

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When developing an App you are working on live data.

If you are in the “Apps” workspace and are editing code, switching to another workspace will automatically save your edits and dynamically compile the code then refresh the UI in the “pages” workspace for you.

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Workspaces

Name Description
Home The Home workspace is where you find your published Apps and links to development operations.
Projects The Projects workspace is where you create a new Project or open an existing one. You use projects to group together your Apps, Database and Library files.
Apps The Apps workspace is where you create a new App or open an existing one. All scripts that you write that are associated with the App can be edited here in the Script editor.
Data The Data workspace is where you perform database administration operations on your data, browse and modify it and view it in a variety of different data views: Grid, Form and Split View.
Pages The Pages workspace, or Page Builder, is the focal point for building Lianja Apps for Desktop, Web and Mobile devices.
Library The Library workspace is where you create and/or edit scripts that can be shared across multiple Apps.
Versions The Versions workspace keeps track of all of your modifications to your Apps and scripts and can be used to restore previous versions.
Users The Users workspace is where you control access to your Apps and their visual elements (Pages, Sections, Fields).
Build The Build workspace is where you configure and build PhoneGap Apps in the cloud using the Adobe PhoneGap Build service and Electron Apps. With Electron you can package up a Lianja Web App into an executable for Windows, MacOS or Linux. You build Electron executables in the Electron workspace.
Deploy The Deploy workspace is where you deploy your App and optionally its database to a runtime directory on your LAN or into the cloud to a remote server.
Console The Console workspace is used by advanced users to perform database administration tasks.

Tools were previously accessed from the Tools workspace, they can now be accessed from the Tools option in the system menu.

Name Description
Tools The Tools interface provides developers with the ability to write their own user-defined tools that are integrated into the Lianja App Builder. These tools can be written in Lianja/VFP, Python, PHP or JavaScript.

Pages in category "Workspaces"

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