User Interface Exercises

What is the User Interface Tutorial?

These exercises are designed to introduce and reinforce the fundamental user interface skills required to use the Visual LANSA Development Environment. They focus on the user interface, navigation, and search techniques as opposed to teaching programming skills to build applications. (Refer to the Repository Development and Programming using Visual LANSA Forms or Programming using Web Pages Tutorials to learn LANSA development skills.)

These exercises are designed to be completed in sequence. Later exercises are designed to use skills from the earlier exercises and in some cases you set up objects to be used in a later exercise.

While all the essential areas are covered to enable a new LANSA developer to get started, they are not comprehensive. The User Interface tutorials include:

VUI001 – Starting LANSA

VUI002 – LANSA Editor Parts

VUI003 – Repository Tab

VUI004 - Details, Outline, Favorites Tabs

Before you Begin

You must have the shipped Demonstration System installed in the partition that you will use for training. See also the set up options as described in What Partition Should I Use?

The LANSA Demonstration System contains all the objects used by these exercises.

Tips for using the exercises

Follow the instructions very carefully.

The first steps in an exercise will provide very precise descriptions of the tasks to be performed. As the steps and course progresses, the instructions will become much more general.

Remember to replace iii with your unique 3 characters. You will not always be reminded to make this substitution.

These exercises assume that you have not previously customized the editor interface. If you have already customized your environment, the example screens and instructions may not exactly match your customized development environment.

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