WEBDEV Concepts

32 Part 2: Developing a site Projects in practice 1 Overview The first step in describing a site is to create a project. When creating a project, you will be asked multiple questions so that your project meets all your expectations. All project characteristics specified when creating the project can be modified later. 2 Creating the project To create a project : 1. Click in the quick access buttons in the WEBDEV ribbon. The new element window appears: click "Project". The project creation wizard starts. 2.  In "Type of project", select "Site, SaaS site". Go to the next step. 3. Select the desired skin (also referred to as "style book") and color palette, if necessary. This style book will be available by default when creating a page or report, and will be applied to all new controls. This option can be modified in the project description window ("Style" tab). Go to the next step. 4. Specify the project name and location. These options cannot be modified. The project corresponds to a ".WWP" file for WEBDEV. This file can be opened by WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile. For more details, see Common project. All the objects associated with the project will be created in the specified directory ("C:\My Projects\<Project name>" by default). 5. Finish the wizard. The new project is opened in the editor. It contains a specific "Site" configuration that corresponds to the type of project you created. Remarks: • If you choose a "Site, SaaS site" project, a "Session" site is created by default. You can change the type of site (Session, AWP, PHP, Static) in the "Project" tab of the project description. • The specified information can be modified in the project description. To open the project description window, go to the "Project" tab, "Project" group and click "Description". 3 Dashboard and project elements 3.1 Dashboard All project managers seek to have a global and synthetic vision of the progress status of the projects they lead. The QA manager wants to know the number of bugs and their priority, and follow up their status. The product manager would like to know what new features are requested by the users. The developer wants to quickly access the most frequently used project elements, sections of code, etc. The dashboard meets all these requirements. Additionally, it contains different indicators or "Widgets". These widgets can be configured by the user: the user can add, delete or resize them. You can also display the project statistics (e.g., the number of pages), the results of different audits (static audit, dynamic audit, etc.) and more. To display the dashboard of your project : 1. Open the project context menu by right-clicking the "P" button next to the open document tabs. 2. Select "Display dashboard". 3.2 Project elements The project includes pages, reports, queries, sets of procedures, etc. To know the list of elements of a project, on the "Project" tab, in the "Project" group, click "List of elements".