WBF015A – Getting Started with Web Programming-A

Introduction

The Getting Started exercise creates a Hello World web page. This is a single web page which demonstrates how to program simple functionality and explore programming using events, properties and methods.

Objectives

• To introduce the basic concepts of components, properties, events and RDML commands.

• To learn how to add components to the web page

• To learn how to handle component events

• To learn how to use methods

• To learn how to compile and execute your web page.

To achieve these objectives, you will complete the following:

Step 1. Editor Settings

Step 2. Create a Web Page Component

Step 3. Add a Table Layout to the Web Page

Step 4. Add Components to the Web Page

Step 5. Change the Push Button Properties

Step 6. Add a Field to the Web Page and Set its Properties

Step 7. Add Logic to the Hello Button Click Event

Step 8. Add Logic to the other Click events

Step 9. Compile the Web Page

Step 10. Execute the Web Page

Summary

Before You Begin

It is recommended that, before you start these exercises, that you complete the preceding modules: Explore LANSA's Editor, LANSA's Repository and LANSA's editing tools.

For more information on the topics in this exercise, go to Components in the Technical Reference Guide.