Repository Development Tutorials

Visual LANSA

Repository Development Tutorials

What Are the Repository Development Tutorials?

The exercises in this tutorial have been written for new LANSA developers, so no experience with the LANSA Repository or RDML programming language is required. They are designed to introduce the fundamental repository skills required to build fields and files that will create your application database. Read REP000 - What is the LANSA Repository?

In order to do the exercises, you should be familiar with the Microsoft Windows user interface and it is recommended that you complete the Visual LANSA User Interface Tutorial before you start these exercises.

The following exercises are included:

REP001 - Create Fields

REP002 - Field Visualizations

REP003 - Validation Rules

REP004 - System and Multilingual Variables

REP005 - Creating Files

REP006 - Logical Views

REP007 - File Validation Rules/Triggers

REP008 - Virtual Fields

REP009 - Access Routes and Predetermined Join Fields

REP011 - Repository Summary

REP012 - Check In Objects (Optional)

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.