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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.
The impact of processes on local machines is also different. Processes like running builds and testing suites are typically compute-intensive, which means developers are probably unable to continue using workstations while a process is running. A SaaS IDE can dispatch long-running jobs without monopolizing the compute resources of a local machine. Cloud IDEs are also typically platform agnostic, allowing connection to different cloud vendors.
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/middleware/what-is-ide
Let’s explore Wayfast…
IDE’s interface and its main sections so we can have a smooth experience across this training.
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What’s an IDE? You can find more details on this link. |
Key Areas
We can identify 4 main sections during the Wayfast navigation experience:
Top Menu |  | All the sections provided by Wayfast can be accessible from this header. |
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Body Main 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 BarTo-Do List |  | As precondition to develop any Project in Wayfast, we will need to create and activate tasks. As Wayfast Userrequirements. Requirements will be automatically displayed in the To-Do list at the left side of the screen. As Wayfast Users, we can end tasks to execute a deployment or start new tasks to continue working on development. |
User InfoTop right panel |  | This section will display the details about Wayfast user and platform level menu. |
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.
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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. |
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Sections | Sub Menu | Description |
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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 | |
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 | 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. | |||
User friendly visual tool to edit our database. | |||
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 applicationAllows to updated Wayfast’s database model so it reflects database most up-to-date state. |
Sections | Sub Menu | Description |
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Connectors  | In Wayfast we can include any kind of method to be developed in our projects.Webservice | |
Lists the Project’s APIs exposed by Wayfast. | ||
PDF DefinitionOne of | DLL methods available is related to generate PDF documents and we can customize depending on our projectPDF Templates for exporting to PDF. |
Sections | Sub Menu | Description | |||
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| 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 is meant to continue application’s lifecycle after development. | ||
Project Release | This section will track the release plan during the execution. | ||||
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. | |||||
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Sections | Sub Menu | Description |
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 | Unused Elements
| We can find a code quality tool that identify different elements like Pages, Controls, Datasets and more that are not being used inside the application. . |
Ondemand Elements | We recommend to avoid “Ondemand” avoiding “On demand” execution type on pages, this is a tool where we can modify those elements and select the “Pre” execution to make the application more efficient. | |
Stats | This is a dashboard page where we can view different statistics associated to the unused and ondemand on demand elements available in the project. | |
Conditional by Customer | This is a report page that display all those elements that were created using conditional option. |