Validation is used to check that the data inserted by the user via the application’s user interface complies with the requirements of the application domain. Validating the data, for example data that is inserted into a form (or in any other View Component or View Component Part with input capabili...

In many applications, such as corporate intranets or CRM, the user may need to access the archive of all registered people, and that archive may be very large. One way to support this requirement is by offering a search form, which however assumes that the user knows at least some information abou...

WebRatio introduced the chance to use Visibility Conditions in a Web Project. This feature allows you to disable or show elements in the generated Web application if the conditions specified for those elements are verified. It is now possible to integrate the horizontal profiling of the Web appli...

Web applications are usually structured according to the MVC Pattern. The MVC Pattern logically splits the application in three tiers: Model, View and Controller. WebRatio brings the MVC pattern to its full power, both as design and architectural pattern, by splitting the application in three diffe...

In a Web Application, we often need to grant different groups of users access to different resources. For example, in a Web Application used for Enterprise Resource Planning, the head of Human Resources will have access to all the employees’ sensitive data (such as person details, salary, etc.), whi...

"A rich text editor is an interface for editing rich text within web browsers, which presents the user a ‘what you see is what you get‘ editing area." (Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_rich-text_editor) A rich text editor can be useful when you want the user to be able to write...

Most Web applications have protected sections that only registered user can access. Users must remember the credentials provided for each site to which they subscribe. When users are no longer able to authenticate themselves because they have lost or forgotten their passwords, it is necessary to pr...

The purpose of this article is to provide the basics to operate with styles in WebRatio. A Style Project contains the layout templates needed to generate the graphical elements of your Web Application; the project includes also the resources used in the templates.

This article explains how to model step by step the Vacation Request business process available on the WebRatio add-on. The Vacation Request process focuses in controlling the requests of vacations of the organization, from the initial request up to its approval or rejection.

In a Web application, feedback messages are used to notify the user about the result of a business logic execution. Feedback messages vary depending on message types, which can be: success, information, warning, or error.

An important aspect of a Web Application is the visual identity it has. The Visual Identity represents all the graphic widgets that you may want to use in order to make the Web Application good looking and in order to have a great user experience. Since it's possible to specify a personalized ...

Content is the most important part of a Web application, and it should be presented in an engaging and professional way to provide the best user experience. Designing, which is the way a specific piece of information must be rendered for the user, is a web designer’s main task when creating a Web ap...

This article explains step by step how to create the business process model of the "Vacation Request" process. You will see a brief explanation about the process proposed and then the procedure to create the process model in WebRatio using the BPM perspective.