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:
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Sections | Sub Menu | Description |
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General Options  | This panel will help us to change any aspect that we selected in our first setup and now that we are in a process of learning the application, we want to renew | |
“Layout” section displays the different templates set by default in our initial “New Project” steps. It offers the possibility to remove or associate new layouts to the Project. | ||
This feature allow us to group different linked items that serve in navigating between the different pages or sections we have created in the project. | ||
This feature is connected to the project execution functionality where we can manage the deployments at customer level. |
Sections | Description |
|---|---|
 | This feature will help us to create relationships between the roles and the menu items. Also we can define permission to develop our application. |
Sections | Sub Menu | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | Requirements | This section will help different team members to organize the development work in any instance at project management level. |
This section helps Product Owner(s) to setup the priority, estimations and assignments in one place all the different requirements previously generated in the project. | ||
This section will help us to organize the items created in the project backlog and reassign on the different iterations defined in our roadmap. | ||
Define the team roles for those Wayfast users who manage the project development. |
Sections | Sub Menu | Description |
|---|---|---|
Project Pages  | This section allow us to group different linked items that serve in navigating between the different pages or sections we have created in the application. | |
Pages are the main unit to build User Interfaces in Wayfast, here we can create them and associate with other objects. | ||
Wayfast has the ability to setup multiple languages and every control created on pages for the Project can be translated and mapped to the language selected. Every time that the application is synchronized with the language that we map, all the controls in the application will be updated in corresponding language. | ||
Actions are events that allow us to interact with our Project database. We can establish a connection between any action with a control. | ||
This section allow us to connect the Controls with our Project Database and bring the information to make data available in any page whenever is needed | ||
Search Elements | Under this section, we can search all the elements that can be associated in any page from the project. |
Sections | Sub Menu | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | This section will manage the different instances as different work environments. We can handle requests to work with the data in any of the databases managed by that instance. | |
We can create or associate existent databases in our project and the relation with the different Instances depending on the environment that we are going to develop the application. | ||
ERD | ||
This section will manage existent Tables in our databases and synchronize new ones from the SQL Server Management. | ||
Views are like a virtual table that contains data from one or multiple tables. This section will manage the different views associate them to the database. | ||
This section will manage the Stored Procedures created in database that are going to be used in the functions like Actions, Dataset and Controls. | ||
This section will display all the functions created from our database and also we can edit function’s statements or synchronize them between Wayfast and SQL. | ||
Here we can setup a simply scheduled program for each of the jobs connected to our database. | ||
In cases where database process where very large tables are divided into multiple smaller parts, we can manage this partitions on this section to reduce the overall response time to read and load data for particular SQL operations. | ||
This section will track automatically all the objects associated to out project’s database. | ||
Synchronize DB | ||
This section can be used to monitor SQL queries and it can help developers to create or edit database objects (functions, views, jobs, partitions, stored procedures) improving database performance inside the application. |
Sections | Sub Menu | Description |
|---|---|---|
Connectors  | In Wayfast we can include any kind of method to be developed in our projects. | |
One of DLL methods available is related to generate PDF documents and we can customize depending on our project. |
Sections | Sub Menu | Description |
|---|---|---|
| In this mode, we can review the application to create defects or add/modify controls inside the page that we are working on. This objects will be automatically added to the Requirements section. | |
Release | ||
This section will help developers to identify which version of the application can be deployed to any of the instance where it needs as part of the development process. | ||
This section will bring a detailed extract to analyze the code structure and define new actions to take and also an easy way to audit what are the strengths and weakness of our code. | ||
Sections | Sub Menu | Description |
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 | Unused Items | |
Ondemand Elements | ||
Stats | ||
Conditional by Customer |