App Studio

This content describes App Studio, a Windows-based GUI development environment for users who create WebFOCUS reports, charts, HTML pages, and applications. App Studio provides innovative features and functions that simplify development, enabling you to concentrate on interface design, business logic, and data manipulation. Features include data visualization, color exception reporting, intelligent drilldowns, and the ability to generate HTML pages without writing code.

Key Features

The following Key Features are introduced in Release 8.2.01M:

App Studio Source Control Support for Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS). App Studio Source Control Support for Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS). Source Control functionality is available through App Studio and provides version control for your individual and multi-user application resources. The Source Control system manages access to source code and keeps track of all code changes. At this time, Microsoft Team Foundation Services (TFS) is supported. Additional version control systems will be supported in upcoming releases.

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Esri On Premise. The Esri On Premise functionality enables you to download and access mapping files through the use of a local Application Programming Interface (API). Once you download and configure the API, you do not need an internet connection to utilize the robust mapping features that Esri provides.

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The following Key Features are introduced in Release 8.2.01:

Maps: HTML5 Viewer and Developer UIs. The App Studio Esri map component allows you to visualize your BI data superimposed on background maps (basemaps) available from ArcGIS Online using any commonly used geographic dimensions, for example, countries, states, and cities. The Esri HTML5 Viewer enables developers to create map applications using a simple User Interface for configuring map layers, properties, interactions with other components and controls on an html page.
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Responsive Design and Templates. Responsive web design is an approach to webpage creation where content automatically realigns to fit a variety of different window sizes and screen sizes. This allows the content from one HTML file to automatically adapt to multiple footprints such as a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
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Precision Reports. With Precision reports, you can create perfectly aligned PDF, PS, and DHTML output for a preprinted form, such as a Bill of Sale. Precision reports offer all of the benefits of the Report canvas, as well as access to specific tools for controlling items on a form, including fields, images, and other objects required by the form. It also offers additional tools and tabs that enable you to precisely match the format of your pre-printed form.
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App Studio Maintain Data. Maintain Data is an application development feature, which creates web-based data maintenance applications. Using App Studio Maintain Data and its multi-platform 4GL language, you can easily create, test, and deploy complex business applications that span the Internet, IBM mainframes, midrange servers, and workstations.
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