West Heavens AppMaker 4.0.8
AppMaker delivers the ability for you to create a full blown,
feature rich, royalty free, database application in less than a
day; and on top of that, programming is not required.
AppMaker fully exploits the latest component and database
technologies to deliver state-of-the-art applications in a
fraction of the time and cost as was previously possible.
AppMaker employs unmatched RAD techniques to deliver fully
functioning applications ready to be put into production.
Feature Rich Software:
The primary focus of the AppMaker software has been to allow
the developer to create feature rich software for their end
users. End users can modify many of their data views to group
or sort based on their needs, and AppMaker saves these views to
automatically apply them on the users next visit to the screen.
We have been very careful to give users many options while
still not allowing them to break the pre-set rules defined by
the database administrator or database author.
AppMaker has other abilities that have been created with the
database author in mind. These features are not revealed to the
end users. We include a full-blown SQL Query Builder to assist
with building your SQL Statements, or for less experienced
developers, we include an application-building wizard.
Database Requirements:
AppMaker ships with MS Access 2000 databases to get you going
right away. If you prefer to run your database against a SQL
Server database, no problem, just ask us for our SQL Server
transformation script and your MS Access database can be
imported at any time, ... either before you begin development,
or after you are finished. For evaluators, we recommended
creating linked tables in MS Access. Point these linked tables
to your various other databases.
The AppMaker software does not have any hard limitations, and
is bound by your database's capabilities and workstation's
available memory. For example, you could build an edit screen
containing 255 tabs, and have a sub query on each tab. This
would consume many more resources than are available to a
windows 98 system, but would run correctly on a Windows NT,
2000, or XP Professional system (where GDI and USER resources
are allocated dynamically). We strongly recommend that the
database author's workstation is Windows NT, 2000, or XP
Professional. This is not necessary for end users, but is for
database authors since they typically have multiple instances
of the software running.
How Do You Build an AppMaker Application?
It's easy. You first define your database tables (within MS
Access), or use an existing database. Then you log into the
AppMaker software with a user name of System" and enter a
series of Main Catalog SQL Statements (i.e. SELECT * FROM
MyTable). You then group these statements and assign icons to
give you a two level, Outlook style interface. Next you define
your secondary tables (Sub Catalogs - typically the "many side"
of your "one-to-many" relationships) and attach them to the tab
pages of the Main Catalogs (for example, if a record in your
Main Catalog contains Order information, a tab page may contain
Order Details). The remaining tables needed are validation
tables (Pick Catalogs) and are attached to any other field in
your database that requires validation and/or selection. All of
the Pick Catalog values are suggested as you type. In the end,
you have a series of SQL statements that define your database
to the AppMaker software.
You can go back and change your database at any time. Adding
new fields or tables is not a problem for AppMaker
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