Pages
- Sergio Rodriguez
- Matias
Overview
Like we explained in other lessons, Pages are the main unit to build User Interfaces in Wayfast. Even if we are building Web 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?
Before creating a page we need to make sure we cover a few conditions. We need a Solution and a Project. We can create them from scratch or reuse an existing project. In this example we are going to reuse our “Hello World” project. Once we have our Project we need to make sure we have a skin and layout set for this project. You can know more about these steps in the following sections:
Now let’s work on our new page.
First let’s click on “Project Pages” button at the top menu.
“Pages” dashboard displays all the Pages in this Project and some useful information about them like the amount of Datasets, Controls and Actions associated to each page.
Now let’s click on the “New Page” button.
The “New page” form is displayed in a popup where you can set all the key attributes of your page.
There are two types of page:
“Form” type is used to create screens or standard pages.
“Include” type is meant to create composite controls that can be embedded in other pages.
In the “Layout” field we can choose one of the layouts associated to the Project. Layouts are visual “skeletons” to indicate Wayfast how to organize the controls we are going to add to this page.
Remember you can always add more layouts to your project from Wayfast library in the Layouts menu in “General Options” screen or even create you own layouts from scratch.
The “Is 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. At least one page in the project must be set as Initial Page for the app to work.
Now let’s click on “Submit” button to save the changes and verify the new page is created on Page’s dashboard.
For viewing or editing the page you just need to click on the Page name in the list.
We can remove pages by clicking on the red “X” icon under the “Delete” column.
Recap
In this lesson we learnt how to create new pages in our project. In the next lesson, we will work on how we can add visual controls to a page, connect it with a data source and add behavior to it through actions.