WaveMaker Studio User's Guide

Version 5.x

Overview

This guide helps you get the most out of WaveMaker Visual AJAX Studio™ (WaveMaker Studio). To learn how to create and run a simple project, it's a good idea to start with the WaveMaker Studio Tutorial.

This guide contains the following sections:

Running WaveMaker Studio

Building Pages

Getting Started
Page Designer Overview
Designing Pages In WaveMaker
Working with Widgets
LiveData
Tying Components to Data
About Pages and Layers

Widgets

Common Widgets

Button
DataGrid
Label
Picture
Spacer
Splitter

Containers

Accordion
Layers
PageContainer
Panel
Tabs

Editors

CheckBox
Currency
Date
Number
RadioButton
Select
Slider
Text
TextArea
Time

Dojo Widgets

Grid
Chart
Menu

Form Tools

DataNavigator
EditPanel
LiveForm
RelatedEditor

More Widgets

Bevel
Calendar
Content
HTML
IFrame
List
ProgressBar

Web Content

FeedList
Stocks
Weather
YouTube

Experimental- widgets that are not tooled or may require additional functionality

Tree
Ticker

Working with Databases

Database Access in WaveMaker Studio
Importing a Database
Exporting a Data Model
Re-Importing a Database
Data Objects in the Data Model

Working with Services and Operations

Calling Services
Web Services
JavaScript Services
Java Services

Security

User Authentication
Role Based Access Control (RBAC) [Commercial Version Only]

Deploying and Exporting Projects

Importing and Exporting Projects
Deploying (Generating a WAR file)
Tips on Tomcat Deployment

Customizing WaveMaker Applications with JavaScript

• Javascript Basics
• WaveMaker Variables
• Debugging Using Firebug
• WaveMaker Javascript Basics
• Editor Widget Javascript Functions
• Live Variable Javascript Functions
• Live Form Javascript Functions
• Service Variable Javascript Functions
• Data Grid Javascript Functions
• Popup Window Javascript Functions
• Navigation Javascript Functions
• Customizing Widgets
  

Other JavaScript topics

Executing Service Variables in Your JavaScript Code
Setting Data Properties
Referencing Components at Runtime
Commonly Used Utilities