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Web Components

Web Components are building blocks that let you create sophisticated web applications without writing code. Web components take care of the hard part of publishing databases to the web. They read and write to the database, they display the data, and they handle all user interactions on the web page.

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There are currently 7 types of web components. Among them are: Dialogs - forms that accept and display user input and are the basis of many applications. Grids - similar to views or spreadsheets, and are bound to the data in a table. Grid Linkers which display multiple grids related in parent-child (one-to-many) relationships. Tabbed Grid Linkers which are grid linkers that display only one child grid at a time. Navigation System components are menus that tie together the pages of your application. There is also the Login Component for accepting usernames and passwords. And there is a maintenance component, which allows you to rebuild indexes and perform other database maintenance operations via the web.

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