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Overview
ASPRunnerPro 4.1 comes with WYSIWYG editor. To enable drag-n-drop
editing of generated pages HTML part was separated from the code.
Each page now consists of .htm file (visual template) which defines
appearance of the page and .asp file that provides page functionality.
ASPRunnerPro uses very basic template engine that was written from
scratch for this project. It uses syntax similar to original Smarty
templates syntax.
Project
structure has changed
Each project in ASPRunnerPro goes to its own directory which contains
the following subdirectories:
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visual
- Contains modified visual templates.
- tmp
- Temporary storage of visual templates.
- output
- Directory with output files. Can be changed on Output directory
step to point to any other directory.
Default directory for a new project is
ASPRunnerPro/projects/project_name. Project file will be saved under
project directory as project_name.aspr.
When you open projects created with previous versions of ASPRunnerPro
you are prompted to choose project directory. After you select a
directory your project file is copied there. Next time open your
project from the folder you selected, not from the original location.
If you upload files to the Web server using third party FTP client
you need to upload the whole content of the output directory.
When you make a backup of your project you may backup the whole
project directory with subdirectories. As a minimum backup the
project file itself along with visual directory.
Save Project As option appears. If you want to save current project
as other one for development purposes or to create a backup, for
example, you should choose Save Project As option. In this case new
project directory with project file and all necessary files will be created.
No
hidden fields
In new version we recommend to use readonly fields with default
values or assign default values via events.
Here is the sample code for Before record added event:
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Function BeforeAdd(dict)
' Parameters:' dict -
Scripting.Dictionary object. ' Each field on the Add form represented
as 'Field name'-'Field value' pair
dict("Field1")
= "default value for Field1"
dict("UpdatedDate")
= dbvalue(now())
dict("UpdatedBy")
= SESSION("UserID")
BeforeAdd = True' set
BeforeAdd to True if you like to proceed with adding new record' set
it to False in other case End Function |
There
are no arguments in OnLoad events
OnLoad event handlers don't have parameters anymore. The events code
is converted automatically when you open old project.
Template
editor is gone
In new version there is no template editor anymore. It was replaced
by WYSIWYG visual editor.
Custom
templates created in older versions
You cannot use custom templates created in older versions of ASPRunnerPro
Old
URL of search results won't work
Now to obtain new search URLs you should run search once again and
copy URL from browser's address box.
Passing
master key value to another page
To obtaining the current master table key value in ASPRunnerPro 4.1 use:
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SESSION(strTableName & "_masterkey1") |
instead of:
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GetRequestForm("masterkey") |
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