Courses for Building Web Applications
Alpha 100: Alpha Anywhere Install
Welcome to the Alpha Anywhere installation course. This course will teach you how to install the Alpha Anywhere development environment.
Step by step directions for installing the Alpha Anywhere development environment.
Quick walk through of the user interface.
Verify that the installation will work on your environment.
Alpha 101: Introduction to Web Development with Alpha Anywhere.
Kick start your Alpha Anywhere web development skills with this powerful course. Starting with the basics, this course will get you up and running quickly on the Alpha Anywhere development system and developing your first data driven web application. The course includes over 6 hours of step by step video including extras!
By the end of this course you will be able to confidently use the Alpha Anywhere development system to build a data driven web application.
Alpha 102: Advanced Web Development with Alpha Anywhere.
This course will take your Alpha Anywhere web application development skills to the next level. We will cover:
- Grid Row Expander
- Linked Grids
- Field formatting and client side calculations.
- Linking Grid and UX components together.
- Embedded Grids in UX Components
- Single Record Reports
- Multi-Record Reports
- Sub-reports
- Tabbed UI tab panes with Grids and UX components.
- Much, much more!
Alpha 103: Advanced Grids with Alpha Anywhere
This powerful course will show you how to take the Alpha Anywhere grid component and add incredible functionality to your system. Techniques such as:
- Row Expander Grids
- Linked Grids
- Mapping
- Totaling
- Conditional Formatting
- Embedded Grids
Alpha 104: Advanced UX Components with Alpha Anywhere (for Building Mobile and Web Apps)
Expand your understanding of how to use the Alpha Anywhere UX component to build very powerful user interfaces. The UX component is the core of your Alpha Anywhere system.
We will be covering the following core topics in the Advanced UX Components with Alpha Anywhere:
- Panel card core technology.
- Panel Layout control and associated panel behaviors.
- Panel Navigator control and its use on web and mobile interfaces.
- Quick Panels - Ability to quickly generate complex panel structures quickly and easily.
- Built in alternative record navigation capabilities.
- Deep dive into the UX server side event lifecycle. This allows you to take fine level control of your UX user interface.
- The three types of field validation for UX controls. Validation Rules, Javascript Validation and Xbasic Validation.
- Building data editing systems using the List/Detail View UX controls.
- Offline data editing and data conflict management using the List control.
- Building one page web and mobile interfaces for improved user experiences.
Alpha 105: Alpha Anywhere Security System
Security System Initialization and Configuration. Including user groups (roles) and users. How to apply the security system to your components to restrict access to to resources based on user groups. Using the Extended User Information Table to maintain extended information about your users and use that information to drive functionality in grid and UX components. Implement the built in UX Security Templates that allow you to add “self-management” security to the system while deployed. We will also cover some other built in features that are enabled in the Alpha Anywhere system when security is activated.
Alpha 106: Introduction to Web Dashboards with Alpha Anywhere.
Alpha Anywhere is a fantastic tool for building web and mobile dashboards. The Alpha Anywhere platform has fantastic data connection capabilities combined with easy to use graphic user interfaces to display that data. This fun and informative course walks you through the process of building a web dashboard using Alpha Anywhere.
Courses for Building Mobile Applications
Alpha 201: Introduction to mobile development with Alpha Anywhere
Connecting your mobile application to a back end SQL data source
Using the built in mobile UX component template to quickly build your first mobile application. Add images, buttons and other navigation items to your mobile application. Using the built in Action Javascript to provide navigation and other behaviors to your mobile application. Using the new ControlBar technology to add powerful headers and footer control areas. Adding a list/detail view combination to display and edit data both online and offline. Data field formatting to present a clean user interface to your users. Updating and synchronizing data offline. Adding a map to your mobile application to present customer maps to your users. Using the built in Remote Testing facility to test your mobile application on your mobile device.
Alpha 202: Advanced mobile development with Alpha Anywhere
Topics include:
- Enhancing the navigation of the application using the ControlBar control.
- Adding Action Javascript to the ControlBar to enable navigation behaviors.
- Add field formatting to better display customer data.
- Use the semi-circular display to make it easy for the user to understand customer data.
- Add a child list to show parent-child customer survey data that is fully editable online and offline.
- Mobile optimized field controls to the survey data capture.
- Add signature and image capture to the survey system.
- Leverage advanced ControlBar functionality for an improved user experience.
- Capture device location data automatically during survey collection.
Course For Publishing and Consuming APIs
Alpha 300: Introduction to Web Services using Alpha Anywhere.
This introductory course will walk you through the steps on how you can consume and publish web api's using the built in Alpha Anywhere tools. To demonstrate consuming web services, we will take a common use case of checking the strength of a password and incorporate a public API to use that in an Alpha Anywhere application.
FAQ
Q: Are these online course presented live or are they on demand?
A: All courses are available ondemand.
Q: What requirements do I need to have?
A: Familiarity with Alpha Anywhere is desirable, but not necessary.
Q: If multiple people from my organization want to attend, what are my options?
A: Quantity discounts for multiple attendees are available, please contact us for further details.
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