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Background and motivation When implementing action code and logic in Web Experience Factory, there are three builders that are commonly used: The Action List builder . This provides pointandclick support for creating a sequence of actions. For example, you can easily assign a value to a ...

Creating Editable Tables with Support for Adding and Deleting Rows This sample shows how to create an tabular input form for editing some repeating data. There are checkboxes for deleting rows, and a button for adding a new row at the bottom. Here is the initial view: Here's the edit form – any ...

Custom builder to add Text on multiple elements on a page

Custom builder to control visibility of multiple elements on a page

Resourced Text Builder Sample This sample builder lets you apply text from a resource bundle to any number of page locations in a model. This can let you use a single Resourced Text builder in place of a potentially large number of Text builders. The Resourced Text builder looks through all the ...

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Text With Image custom builder This is an example of a simple “control” builder that adds a couple of elements to the specified page location. It also shows how a custom builder can be automatically applied to data fields using a Rich Data Definition library along with the Data Field Settings ...

This article discusses who to configure ant build scripts to include shared resources from a sharedlinked project.

This sample builder provides new highlevel builder support for constructing various types of pages in Web Experience Factory (WEF). This builder creates a new page in a model and automates several common page design patterns that can be applied to that page. The builder's inputs are designed to ...

Chart With DrillDown Sample The attached samples illustrate how to create a data chart with support for clicking on a bar in the chart to display information related to that item. In this example, the chart shows the total orders for a region; clicking on a region then shows a table of all the ...

Sample XML File Data Service builder for quick prototyping and UIfirst development In many situations, it's valuable to be able to create a data provider in Web Experience Factory (WEF) without a dependency on any back end data store. You may want this for: Learning the UIrelated tools of WEF ...

This article discuss how to use DOJO Charting JS API with WEF to develop custom charts using other than commercial APIs like Fusion Charts or Highcharts JS APIs. So I started building a sample chart demo in WEF V8 using DOJO APIs which shipped with WEF designer. Find detail steps in attached ...

Use the links below to learn more about using IBM Web Experience Factory to rapidly develop custom portlets and web applications that are optimized for mobile and desktop devices.

This article provides an overview of the steps required to create a hybrid iOS shell application using Worklight and Web Experience Factory. A hybrid shell application is one in which the UI and behavior of the application is provided by a web application hosted on a server such as Portal or ...

The attached slides are from a session at IBM Connect 2013 that describes the new Multichannel Feature Pack for WEF 8.0 Abstract: Applications are the heart of many web experiences. Developers are challenged to deliver these over multiple channels including desktops, smartphones and tablets across ...

The attached slides are from a "Jump Start" session at the IBM Connect 2013 conference. Abstract With IBM WebSphere Portal you can deliver access to your complete web site for all devices, and when combined with IBM Worklight, you can also provide an installed application that uses native ...

Overview This article describes three samples that illustrate the use of the Worklight Camera builder that's provided with the Multichannel Feature Pack for Web Experience Factory 8.0. The three samples are: – CameraTest: A simple test model for verifying your configuration for using hybrid ...

Overview From a user interface perspective, Web Experience Factory (WEF) provides builders to generate customizable navigation menus for multichannel applications (traditional desktop browsers, Smartphones, and Tablets). From an application design perspective, WEF also allows you to break ...

Overview For complex applications with potentially large numbers screens with complex functionality, breaking apart your application UIs into different models provides many benefits. To name a few, it can help you avoid mammoth models with an unmanageable number of builder calls, developers ...

This document provides step by step guide to configure Worklight Android with IBM Web Experience Factory to create a hybrid application.

The new fp80responsivetemplate.html template allows details, create, and update pages to dynamically and responsively support a two column layout. The template has a layout that uses css floats to lay out the fields. Columns are automatically laid out with the first field in the first column and ...

Learn how to build an IBM Web Experience Factory portlet that creates PDF files on the fly, using XSL files (.fo) and the Apache Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) library. In our builder, XSLFO syntaxes are extended with custom XML elements that allow us to add dynamic behavior during the ...

In this article we will talk about the new data layouts that we created for this feature pack. These layouts are designed to work with the new responsive theme for portal 8.0.0.1 and the new Web Experience Factory theme defined in this feature pack. Some of these layouts require the new portal ...

You understand Web Experience Factory’s value proposition. But let’s talk about the real world: How do you best use Web Experience Factory with development methodologies like Agile and code management tools like version control, Maven and Ant? And how do you modularize your application and share ...