Overview
This lesson is focused on how we can create new Pages in Wayfast. Like we explained in other lessons, Pages are the main unit to build User Interfaces in Wayfast. Even if we are building Web Applications or Mobile applications the life of our end users inside our app is going to happen between pages. You can think of a page as an application screen. Pages are made of controls, datasets and actions. The visual structure of a Wayfast page is defined by its layout.
How to create a new Page in a Project?
Once we generated a Project and built the structure connecting a database (DB), let’s work on create new pages and associate them to the project.
Click on “Project Pages” button at the top menu
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“Page” “Pages” dashboard displays all the Page items Pages for this Project. Grid view contains the quantity of DatasetIt contains a grid that shows the amount of Datasets, Controls and Actions items associated on to each page.
Click First let’s click on the “New Page” button.
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Popup A popup is displayed with the “General” information to be completed for new page.
There are two page types:
“Form” type is
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Click on “Layout” tab
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used to create screens or standard pages.
“Include” type is meant to create composite controls that can be embedded in other pages.
“Initial Page” checkbox allows you to set a page as the starting point of your application. This means this page will be the first to be displayed when you run your application.
If we move to the “Layout” tab we can pick a layout to organize the controls that we add to this page.
More layouts can be created or added to your project from Wayfast library in the Layouts menu in “General Options” screen.
Now let’s click on “Accept” button to save the changes and verify the new page is created on Page’s dashboard.
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We can remove any new page item clicking on “Cross” red icon under the “Delete” column. |
Recap
During this lesson, we learnt how to create new pages in our new project. You can think of a page as an application screen. The visual structure of a Wayfast page is called layout. It gives Wayfast the ability to place controls in the screen. Layouts are meant to be reused so you can create your own or pick one from the thousands of built-in layouts that come with Wayfast. In the next lessons, we will work on how we can define the information and how we can display it under each pageadd visual controls to a page, connect it with a data source and add behavior to it through actions.