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UX Component File Upload to Amazon S3 Storage Amazon S3 is a popular service for storing files. In this video we show how you can build a UX component that allows a user to upload files from their machine directly to S3 storage.Watch Video - Part 1
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Download Component Date added: 2014-31-22
UX and Grid Component Image Upload When you use the Image Upload action in Action Javascript to upload an image to an image field in a database you now have the option of uploading the image to Amazon S3 storage, rather than to a folder on the Alpha Server.This video shows how to set up image upload to Amazon S3 and discusses some of the benefits of upload to images to Amazon S3, rather than to the Alpha Anywhere server that is hosting your application.

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Date added: 2015-01-28
UX Component Applying Security Client-Side A common pattern in applications is to control the visibility (or enabled state) of certain controls on a page based on the 'role' that the user has in the application security framework. For example, a button might only be visible to users in the 'Administration' role.Typically, the security settings are enforced server-side. But in some situations you might want to enforce the security rules on the client-side.

In this video we show how controls in a UX can be shown/hidden client-side based on the user's role.

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Download Component

Date added: 2015-02-06
UX Component - List Control Exporting Data in List to Excel or Ascii Files A popular feature in the Grid component is the ability to export the data in the Grid query to an Excel or Ascii file. The UX component List control also allows the data in the List to be exported to Excel or Ascii. When you export data from a List you can either export the data currently shown in the List, or the data in the query that the List is based on. Setting up the code to export the List data is easily done using Action Javascript.In this video we show how the data in a List and in a List query can be exported to Excel.

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Download Component

Date added: 2015-02-09
UX Component 'File Upload' Action in Action Javascript This video shows how you can configure the UX component to upload a file to the Alpha Anywhere server and then store the filename of the uploaded file in a character field in the table to which the UX component is data bound.Watch Video - Part 1
Watch Video - Part 2Date added: 2015-02-15
UX Component 'File Upload' Action in Action Javascript - Uploading to Amazon S3 This video shows how you can configure the UX component to upload a file to Amazon S3 storage and then store the object name of the S3 object in a character field in the table to which the UX component is data bound.TIP: It is recommended that you watch these videos (Watch Video - Part 1    Watch Video - Part 2 ) which discuss uploading files to the Alpha Anywhere server (as opposed to Amazon S3) before watching this video.

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Date added: 2015-02-15
UX Component File Download from Amazon S3 This video shows how you can use the File Download action in Action Javascript to download files that were previously uploaded to Amazon S3 storage.The video discusses the two different download modes - 'Indirect' (in which the Alpha Anywhere server retrieves the file from S3 and then sends it to the client) and the much more efficient 'Direct' mode (in which the file is downloaded to the client directly from Amazon S3 storage, thus placing minimal load on the Alpha Anywhere server).

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Date added: 2015-02-15
     
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Richard Rabins
Richard Rabins

Co-founder of Alpha Software, Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder, and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology and O3B Networks, and is co-founder of Tubifi www.tubifi.com.


The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

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