Overview

In this lesson, we are going to explore the Wayfast interface that will be our tool to make the application development more easier.

What’s an IDE?

IDEs that are provided as a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provide a number of unique benefits compared to local development environments. For one, as with any SaaS offering, there is no need to download software and configure local environments and dependencies, so developers can start contributing to projects quickly. This also provides a level of standardization across team members’ environments, which can mitigate the common "this works on my machine, why doesn’t it work on yours" problem. Additionally, since the development environment is centrally managed, no code resides on an individual developer’s computer, which can help with intellectual property and security concerns. 

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https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/middleware/what-is-ide

Let’s explore Wayfast…

We can identify 4 main sections during the Wayfast navigation experience:

Top Header Menu		All the sections provided by Wayfast can be accessible from this header.
Body Screen		Each section will display the details on the body screen. We can find a drill down path in case we want to go back or forward in the project.
Left Navigation Bar		As precondition to develop any Project in Wayfast, we will need to create and activate tasks. As Wayfast User, we can end tasks to execute a deployment or start new tasks to continue working on development.
User Info	Image RemovedImage Added	This section will display the details about Wayfast user.

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Now that we identify the main sections, let’s review each of the Top Header items. This will be a brief analysis since we will go deep on each of them in the following lessons.

Sections	Description
Solutions	Solutions are the main containers for any project that needs to be developed in Wayfast. It can contain projects that are Wayfast approach for slicing and reusing features. It’s a key point to build your application and organize your development.

Sections	Sub Menu	Description
General Options	Modify Project
	Layout
	Menu
	Customers

Sections	Description
Project Roles

Sections	Sub Menu	Description
Requirements	Requirements
	Weigh and Assign
	Sprints
	Wayfast User

Sections	Sub Menu	Description
Project Pages	Page Menu
	Pages
	Translator
	Actions
	Dataset
	Search Elements

Sections	Sub Menu	Description
Database	Instances
	Database
	ERD
	Tables
	Views
	Stored Procedure
	Functions
	Jobs
	Partitions
	Documentation
	Synchronize DB
	Query Analyzer

Sections	Sub Menu	Description
Connectors	DLL
	Webservice
	PDF Definition

Sections	Sub Menu	Description
Project Execution
	Release
	Deployment
	Documentation

Sections	Sub Menu	Description
Optimization	Unused Items
	Ondemand Elements
	Stats
	Conditional by Customer