User Interface Tutorials
What is the User Interface Tutorial?
This tutorial contains exercises that are designed to introduce and reinforce the fundamental user interface skills required to use the Visual LANSA Development Environment. They focus on the user interface, navigation, and search techniques as opposed to teaching programming skills to build applications. (Refer to the Repository Development and Programming using Visual LANSA Forms Tutorials to learn LANSA development skills.)
While all the essential areas are covered to enable a new LANSA developer to get started. They are not comprehensive. The User Interface tutorials include:
VUI004 - Details, Outline, Favorites Tab
Before you Begin
You must have LANSA Demonstration Personnel System installed in the partition that you will use with the set up options as described in What Partition Should I Use?.
The LANSA Demonstration Personnel System contains all the objects used by these exercises.
Tips for using the exercises
- Check off each step in the exercise as you complete it.
- Follow the instructions very carefully.
- Remember to replace iii with your unique 3 characters. You will not always be reminded to make this substitution.
For further information refer to How many developers can use the exercises?
- These exercises assume that you have not previously customized the editor interface. If you have already customized your environment, the example screens and instructions may not exactly match your customized development environment.
The following are important notes regarding the structure of the exercises:
- The first steps in an exercise will provide very precise descriptions of the tasks to be performed. As the steps and course progresses, the instructions will become much more general.
- Later exercises are designed to use skills from the earlier exercises. These exercises are designed to be completed in sequence.