Revision as of 12:23, 21 February 2014

Administration allows you to manage your Rapid server and applications.

Rapid server administration

At the top of the administration screen are features with affect your Rapid Server:

- To create a new application use the Create... button. You will be prompted to enter a name and title for your application with an optional description. The name is used to create a prefix unique to your application which is used for all resource files. It's recommended that the name is as short as possible, but should also include a version number. You'll notice only the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, -, and _ are allowed. The title is presented to users. Finally the description is an optional free text field.

- To import a Rapid previously exported Rapid application use the Import button. You will be prompted to browse to the exported .zip file and specify a name for the imported app. The name must be unique and only the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, -, and _ are allowed. Your imported application will assume the new name, but will retain the same title.

- To select a Rapid application to manage in detail use the Application drop down. Only Rapid applications in which you have the "RapidAdmin" security role will appear. Once you select an application the administration tabs will appear.

- To open the designer to the application you have selected use the Design... button

- Rapid is highly extendable and you are able to create your own controls, actions, and adapters. Should you modify any of these and wish to reload them into a running Rapid server use the corresponding reload button. Should you modify any controls, or actions you will also have to reload the applications as this will regenerate the application source files, and incorporate your changes.

Application administration tabs

Once an application is selected from the Application dropdown the application administration tabs will become visible. Here you can manage any settings that affect your whole Rapid application.

General

- Use the Name box to change the name of your application. This will regenerate all resource files and change any urls to your application

- Use the Title box to change the title of your application as it appears to your users

- Use the Description box to change the description of your application

- Change the default start page with the Start page dropdown

- Advanced users might like to see the engine generated control and action ids amongst a control's properties in the designer. Use the Show control id numbers and Show action id numbers checkboxes to turn this feature on or off.

- Save any changes you have made to any of the above features with the save button. You will see a message "application saved" once this has been successfull.

- The Duplicate... button allows you to duplicate an existing Rapid application into a new Rapid application. This is useful for creating new versions, or experimenting with possible new features. You will be prompted for the name, title, and description of the application you are about to duplicate the selected application into. As usual only A-Z, a-z, 0-9, -, and _ are allowed

- The Export button allows you to export your Rapid application for backup, or for importing into a different Rapid server. Once you click the button a file called rapid.zip will start to download. It contains all off the files required to import your application.

- Rebuild application pages is an experimental feature. Currently, if the html behind any controls is modified each page the control is in needs to be reloaded and saved using the designer. This feature will update all of an application's page html at once.

- Finally you can delete any applications with the Delete application button