Fundamentals of WebSmart Training Course Outline

Four Day WebSmart Course Outline

Module 1 - Introduction to WebSmart

• What is WebSmart?
• Why Use WebSmart?
• Training overview

Module 2 - Fundamentals of HTML

• General document structure
• The nature of a markup language
• Document elements and attributes
• HTML document structure
• HTML elements and attributes

Module 3 - Working with Images and Links

• Using HTML Links
• Insert a Link in the WebSmart IDE
• Using relative and absolute addressing
• Using images in a web page

Module 4 - Working with Tables

• HTML table elements
• Content in tables
• Using tables for page layout

Module 5 - Creating a WebSmart program

• How CGI requests are processed
• Setting up the IDE
• Using Library List Objects
• Selecting a program template
• Setting program attributes
• Generating the program

Module 6 - Displaying and formatting information

• Placing fields on the page
• Formatting fields with edit codes and edit words
• Run-time field transformations
• Retrieving information from files
• Setting up key lists

Module 7 - HTML Segments

• Using HTML
• Grouping HTML via HTML Segments
• Viewing HTML Segments in the WebSmart IDE
• Working with HTML Segments
• Using HTML Previews
• Sending output to the page

Module 8 - Introducing PML

• What is PML?
• Working with PML in the WebSmart IDE
• PML Syntax
• PML Built-in functions
• Function prototypes
• PML function parameters and return values
• Declaring variables

Module 9 - Specifying Parameters

• Dissecting the Request
• Specifying parameters on the request
• Retrieving parameters when the WebSmart program begins execution
• Mandatory parameters
• Parameter and variable types

Module 10 - Controlling Program Execution

• General program execution
• The main() function
• WebSmart Tasks and functions
• Using the runtask function
• Defining Tasks and associating functions with them
• Tasks and parameters
• Program redirection

Module 11 - More File Access

• File properties: rrn, status, and defaultlink
• Retrieving by relative record number, and by key
• File maintenance

Module 12 - More PML: Loops, calculations and conditions

• Limiting a list on a high order key field
• Simple calculations
• The SELECT branching mechanism

Module 13 - Getting User Input

• What is an HTML Form?
• The HTML Form elements
• The different types of <input> elements
• Creating forms with WebSmart

Module 14 - More Input: Checkboxes and multiple parameters

• Creating a drop down list based on a file
• Creating custom-made drop down lists
• Using checkboxes
• Complex checkbox processing

Module 15 - Validation

• Preventing errors: limiting user input
• Client side validation
• Server side validation
• Displaying validation errors
• Writing validation logic

Module 16 - Session handling

• The problem with parameters
• Using Session IDs (Smurf IDs)
• Generating Smurf IDs
• Saving information with a SmurfID
• Retrieving information from a SmurfID
• Persistent SmurfIDs

Module 17 - Securing an application

• Using the Login Page template
• Securing other programs to the Login Page program
• Using encryption
• Overriding default SmurfID handling

Module 18 - Using SQL with WebSmart

• Using the SQL template
• Sorting by Column
• Filtering an SQL result set
• Setting other SQL environment characteristics
• Using WebSmart’s SQL utility

Module 19 - Repository Extensions

• What is the Repository?
• Creating repository field extensions for output HTML
• Creating repository field extensions for input HTML
• Creating complex logic with repository extensions

Course Evaluations

The afternoon of day 4 can be spent continuing on the advanced labs, going over all the PML functions, highlighting version 5 new features, WCM or if on-site spending time helping them build their own application or templates.