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App Studio is the new WebFOCUS desktop development environment that you can use to create reports, charts, HTML pages, documents, and much more. Building on the industry-familiar Microsoft Office® ribbon interface, App Studio offers a simplified user experience and workflow, allowing developers to create application content immediately, without a costly and time-consuming learning curve. Additionally, it dramatically increases development efficiency by eliminating the need for developers to utilize multiple tools to piece together an application.
App Studio uses panels, canvases, and a ribbon to eliminate the complex, multi-tool paradigm that is so prevalent in other business intelligence developer solutions. You can rapidly create and design all of your applications within a single, fully-integrated environment.
App Studio is customizable. You can add your own shortcuts using the Quick Access Toolbar. You are able to move your canvases next to one another, so that you may view and develop them, side by side. Panels can also be pinned, hidden, or moved to any position around the interface.
App Studio enables you to work in several development modes at the same time. This development environment provides access to a variety of features and modes from which you can build your applications. The modes available to you in App Studio include, but are not limited to, Report mode, Chart mode, HTML mode, and Document mode.
In addition to its native modes, App Studio invokes WebFOCUS tools, such as the Chart tool, Alert Assistant, and Reporting Objects. These tools are invoked as development modes that are contained within a canvas. This means that when you create a chart, App Studio invokes the WebFOCUS tool as a development mode on the Chart canvas.
The following tables provide a reference for corresponding terms and labels that have changed between the Developer Studio and App Studio user interface.
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Developer Studio |
App Studio |
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Toolbar |
Ribbon: tabs and groups |
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Main Toolbar |
Home tab |
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Commands Toolbar |
Home tab |
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WebFOCUS Environments Toolbar |
WebFOCUS Administration menu |
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Report Painter toolbars |
Report tab, Format tab, Data tab, Layout tab, View tab, Images tab, Field tab, Appearance tab, Active Report Options tab, Modeling tab |
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HTML Composer toolbars |
Components tab, Controls tab, Positioning tab, Utilities tab |
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Document Composer toolbars |
Insert tab, Positioning tab, Utilities tab |
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Synonym Editor |
Metadata tab |
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Developer Studio |
App Studio |
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Tool |
Canvas or Mode |
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Graph Tool |
Chart canvas, Chart mode |
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Report Painter |
Report canvas, Report mode |
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HTML Composer |
HTML canvas, HTML mode |
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Document Composer |
Document canvas, Document mode |
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Synonym Editor |
Metadata canvas |
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Developer Studio |
App Studio |
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Window |
Panel |
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Developer Studio Explorer |
Environments Tree panel |
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Procedure Viewer, Task Viewer |
Procedure View panel |
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Properties window |
Properties panel |
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Developer Studio |
App Studio |
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Dialog Box |
Dialog Box, Panels, Tabs, Groups |
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Properties and Settings dialog box |
Settings panel |
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Report Options dialog box |
Report tab, Format tab, Data tab, Style group, Field tab, Layout tab, Active Report Options tab, Modeling tab |
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Field Options dialog box |
Report tab, Format tab, Data tab, Style group, Field tab, Layout tab, Active Report Options tab, Modeling tab, Field Properties dialog box |
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Properties dialog box |
File/Folder Properties panel |
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