HowTo Guides
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For Users
These guides tell you how to get the most out of the platform. You should be familiar with Navigating the User Interface.
Platform Access
Basic Operations
Customize Your Interface
Manage Your Data
- Future Guide:Import Data
- Future Guide:Remove Recently Imported Records
- Future Guide:Send an email when a record is created or updated, using a Data Policy
Specialized Operations
For Application Designers
These guides tell you how to create and customize applications. You should be familiar with one or more of HTML coding, CSS formatting, have a basic understanding of JavaScript, and be adept at Navigating the User Interface.
Customize the Application Interface
- Create a Custom Sidebar Using Graphic Images
- Future Guide:Use a Custom Web Page to make a Personalized Widget
Build and Customize Applications
When you create an application, much is done for you. The platform automatically constructs record views, forms for adding and updating data, and basic reports. From there, you can begin to customize the application.
- Future Guide:Use the Application Wizard to Build a Sample Order Processing System
- Create an Object
- Display Customer Data in an Order as a Read-Only Field
- Future Guide:Aggregate values for multiple Related Records displayed in a Subform
- Future Guide:Automate a standard business process by creating a Workflow
- Future Guide:Automatically take action when Object data changes (event-Based Data Policy)
- Future Guide:Automatically take action on specified dates (calendar-Based Data Policy)
Build Custom Web Pages
For Platform Developers
These guides tell you how to program the platform APIs to take advantage of advanced platform features. You should be familiar with one or more of Java, JavaScript, AJAX, SQL, and REST.
Set up Your Environment
- Future Guide:Develop using the Eclipse Plug-In
- Future Guide:Use the Debug Log effectively
- Future Guide:Use the Platform's Unit Test Framework
- Future Guide:Debug using Eclipse
Customize Applications
- Future Guide:Create a Simple JSP Page using Java
- Future Guide:Create an HTML Page using JavaScript Functions and the REST API
- Create a JSP page and Java Controller
- Future Guide:Create a Component and a Java Controller
- Future Guide:Create an external Site wired to a Java Controller
- Use a SQL Query to List Records in a Custom Page
- Future Guide:Use SQL Queries and Java Sets to Get the Inverse of a Complex Query
Tackle Advanced Projects
- Handle Incoming Emails Programmatically
- Create a Data Handler to Add Data to a Package
- Write Java Code for Data Policies
- Future Guide:Write Programs using the REST APIs
- Future Guide:Use the HttpConnection Class to access a web service
- Future Guide:Programatically add an Activity or Add Note to a record