Features

WebSmart templates help you quickly create programs with a professional look and include powerful built-in programming logic and functionality. You can choose from the following 9 different functional templates (also choose between 7 different schemes) or you can create your own templates.

• Page at a time maintenance - Subfile with options to Add, Change, Display or Delete records
• Input-capable page at a time - Transaction-style direct data entry into a list of records on a page. Add or change many records at once
• Record listing - List all records in a file on a single page
• SQL page at a time maintenance (shown in image) - SQL subfile with Add, Change, Display or Delete records; sortable columns and flexible filtering option;
• Single record maintenance - Add, Change or Delete a single record.
• Simple page - build any page you want using this template. No predefined programming logic
• Login page - Use as the starting point for logging in to any web application
• Frameset - Useful for creating a common look

Choose from one of our many different template schemes for the professional look and feel that you want to achieve. You can also modify the schemes or create your own with your own company logo and colors.

• Birds Eye Blue
• Blue Keys
• Business Blue
• Graded Yellow
• Green Checkers
• Vanilla

The WebSmart Wizards will save you valuable time by walking you through creating programs by prompting you for values and validating your entries. Here is a list of some of the wizards and you can also create your own:

• Program attributes
• Adding and linking files
• Selecting fields to display
• Action options on subfile (Add, Change, Delete)
• HTML wizards

WebSmart makes coding HTML as simple as possible with the HTML Visual Editor as well as other features such as color coding, intelligent help, drag and drop of fields, code snippets, previews, syntax checker, etc. For users who prefer to code HTML with a different WYSIWYG tool you can seamlessly integrate WebSmart with third party tools like Dreamweaver.

All the functionality in WebSmart programs is handled by the PML, BCD's custom language. Coding in this 4GL language will save you a lot of time versus coding RPG. PML is a very powerful language and can be extended by creating your own functions. The IDE comes with a sophisticated PML editor including auto-prompting, syntax checker, intelligent help, color coding, indentation and an extensive list of over 100 pre-defined functions. Actions can perform tasks with fewer lines.

There are over 100 PML pre-defined functions to help you develop apps much quicker than you could by hand coding RPG. There are functions for record retrieval, date manipulation, validation, drop down boxes, session handling, working with data areas and many many more. If there's a function you need that doesn't exist you can even create it yourself since the PML is extensible.

There is a seamless connection between WebSmart and your iSeries database during development and runtime. Easily retrieve file layouts which are updated automatically when file is changed and the field tags are dynamically replaced by database values at runtime.