2.17 External Resources
External Resources provide you with the ability to enroll all resources associated with an application in the Repository. This makes it easier for you to package completed applications for deployment as well as to use external resources in your applications.
External resources include:
- Images
- Cascading Style Sheet files
- JavaScript files for a Web application
- Visual LANSA Framework /RAMP screen definition xml files
External Resource objects are stored internally within LANSA as BLOBs. They can be checked in and checked out, task tracked and deployed.
The Visual LANSA IDE detects when the physical file has changed so it can be re-saved, and it provides the ability to publish/recover files from the Repository to the file system.
External resources are used with LANSA for the Web to ship:
- Themelets
- jQuery and jQuery UI Libraries
- Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript files associated with the jQuery Weblets.
External Resources are selected from the Repository tab or Favorites tab. Expand the tree view or double click on External Resources to open the list of External Resources available for this partition.
Note that you can view External Resources by their location on disk. Just right-click to open the context menu and select Group by Location.
Also See
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