1.4 Wizard Terminology
When executing the Wizard, you will need to become familiar with these terms:
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Process Group |
A Process Group allows you to nominate a subset of processes to use when working with the Wizard. This effectively defines the boundaries of the Web application. |
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Current Process |
When a process has been selected in the Wizard Left Menu, this is referred to as the current process. The current process is the process which will be modified by any subsequent actions with in the Wizard. |
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Style sheet |
LANSA Web functions allows you to use cascading style sheets (CSS) with your applications. Cascading style sheets allow you to describe a style that applies across one or more of your HTML pages. You can use CSS to define the presentation of an HTML page, including the font (face, size and color), background color, the positioning of elements within your HTML page as well as text decoration such as italics or underline. |
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Execution Language |
The language the Wizard is running in. This is indicated as part of the URL used to execute the Wizard. The default language is used if no language is indicated. When running in a non-multilingual partition, this value is not required. |
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Development Language |
The language components will be generated in. This is indicated as the Language in the Left Menu of the Wizard. When running in a non-multi-lingual partition this value is not displayed and all components will be generated as NAT (National) language. |
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Menu Component |
A Web component used to display a menu in your application. There are two styles of menu – Standard or DHTML and three positional settings – left, right and horizontal. |
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DHTML Menu |
DHTML Menus can include multi-level sub-menus. Only a single DHTML menu can be included in the process layout. DHTML menus can only be defined with a Left or Horizontal orientation. |
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Standard Menu |
Standard menus can include a combination of images, buttons/tabs and hyperlinks. Left, right and horizontal Standard Menus can be defined and used concurrently on a layout. |
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Left Menu Component |
Either a Standard or DHTML menu which appears on the left side of the function. Items are listed down the menu. |
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Right Menu Component |
A Standard menu which appears on the right side of the function. Items are listed down the menu. |
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Horizontal Menu Component |
Either a Standard or DHTML menu which appears at the top of the function. On the first level of the menu items are listed across the menu. |
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Menu Item |
A menu item is an option which appears on one of the left, right or horizontal menus. |
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Layout |
This describes the overall presentation of the function including the background colors used, the style of the window and the menu components included in the presentation. |
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Variable |
This refers to graphic variables used by browse lists, processes or as system wide defaults. |