Understanding the IBM WebFacing Tool: A Guided Tour (IBM Illustrated Guide series)

This chapter offered a variety of ways to enhance the WebFacing conversion results. Some of the Web settings give you excellent capability to override the default HTML generated by the WebFacing tool.

Adding graphics and allowing users to click these instead of using command keys offers an easy way to let the user interface appear more like a real Web application.

Here is what you did if you completed all the exercises:

• You added a graphic to click, one that links to a static Web page, using the Insert HTML Web settings.

• You added a graphic and used some JavaScript to simulate a command key being pressed when the graphic is clicked, using the Insert HTML Web settings.

• You added a pop-up calendar to support input for a date field, using the Insert HTML Web settings.

• You used your own HTML to emphasize the display of the city name using the User defined HTML Web settings.

• You added a new style class to emphasize the appearance of certain fields and used the Appearance and Text Web settings to implement this change.

• You enhanced the appearance of the radio buttons that are generated for entry fields with the VALUES keyword, using the Appearance and Text Web settings.

• You added a graphic to the user interface to enhance its appearance by using the Create Graphics Web settings.

• You changed the command key appearance by using the record format Web settings for command keys.

• You investigated alignment of fields and headings with subfile columns and you learned that using nonproportional fonts will prevent most alignment problems.

• You learned how split up subfile headings in the DDS source to align them correctly with subfile columns in the WebFaced user interface.

• You learned how to right-align fields when needed.

• You learned how to change the WebFacing project template to customize it for your individual needs.

You are ready to move on. The next chapter offers troubleshooting tips, so if you don't have any problems, you can skip it and go to Chapter 19 how to create your Web application on a remote Application server instead of running it in the WAS test environment of the Development Studio Client.