Preview


To the right of the Application Builder tab is the Preview screen. Each time you do a Preliminary Build, the finished product will be loaded into the preview screen if you are building a Visual Application or the Server Job Preview window will appear if you are creating a Non-Visual Server Side module.

Previewing Visual Client Applications

When creating Visual Client side applications with the Application Builder you will be placed on the Preview tab whenever you do a Preliminary build using the fourth button on the top right of the Application Builder window. The screen that has just been compiled with be loaded and running in this tab. No code modifications can be done here.

The previewed screen is "live" and running as though it were deployed. All database connectivity is active. Updates, inserts and deletes done here will affect the database.

If the Preliminary compile fails, JDesignerPro will not be able to load into Preview. Instead it will leave you in the Application Builder and the compile errors will appear on the bottom of the Application Builder window.

Once you have previewed the finished product you can step back into the Application Builder to modify it. If you like it as it is and are ready to deploy it, or at least add it to an application menu option, go back to Application Builder and press the Final Build button. It is the sixth button on the top left of the Application Builder window.

Previewing Non-Visual Server Side Applications

When creating Non-Visual Server side applications with the Application Builder you will be placed on the Preview tab whenever you do a Preliminary build. A Preliminary Build is done by pressing the fourth button of the button group at the top left of the Application Builder window. Because this application does not have a visual aspect, you will not seeing it running here as with client applications but you will see a set of four tabs. These tabs contain the necessary functions to submit this application to run on the Enterprise Management Server, monitor its progress and view its completion status and job log.

The four tabs are as follows. After starting your job pressing the Locate Job button at the bottom of the window will locate your job:

  1. Start Job - submit the job to the Enterprise Management Server.
  2. Check Job Queue - check if it's queued and release it if necessary. Your job will be highlighted after pressing the Locate Job button if it is still queued.
  3. Check Subsystems - check if it's running and adjust its priority if necessary. Your job will be highlighted after pressing the Locate Job button if it is still active.
  4. Check Job Log - check the completion status and examine the job log. Your job will be loaded into the Job Log screen after pressing the Locate Job button if it has completed. There you can view the Job Log and completion status.

Locating your job once it has been submitted