10 1 1 What is the Web Function Editor

LANSA Web Functions

10.1.1 What is the Web Function Editor?

The Web Function Editor provides you with full text editing capabilities to create and modify, the HTML/XML pages generated for your Web function application. You manage your application's Components and Graphic Variables using the Web Function Editor. The Editor also allows you to create and maintain documents supporting XML transformations (for example XSL style-sheets).

To accommodate specific HTML or XML editing tasks, you will need to specify whether you want to run the Web Function Editor in XML or HTML mode.

If you have more generic tasks, you can use the BASIC mode. BASIC mode provides the functionality valid for all modes and is a sub-set of the other modes (i.e. XML or HTML).

Throughout this section of the document, mode-specific tasks are labeled as such. Where there is no label (e.g. XML only) the task is valid for both modes. Features not available with the current mode are grayed out on the Editor's dialog boxes.

The Web Function Editor does not provide a facility for you to edit the generated HTML/XML graphically as the LANSA generated pages include LANSA Web components and LANSA tags. The effect of some LANSA tags will not be shown until the LANSA function is run. In addition, if your partition is multilingual, you will not be able see the descriptions of the fields, since these are inserted when the function is executed.

Ý 10.1 Introduction to Web Function Editor