Bellvue Online Demo
Tour
The shown objetcs and functionality of this demo are not meant to make up a useful
application as a whole. The prupose is to show the basic functionality that the Bellvue platform provides
to applications.
Follow this tour to quickly experience most of Bellvues web gui features from the user side.
This takes about 10 minutes.
Start the demo here - If you are not already logged in.
This opens a new window to keep this alongside.
- Log On
Fill out all fields of the logon form,
check the "Create New Account" box and click "logon" or hit enter.
- Entering and retrieving data
Select "Demo" in the "App:" dropdown list on the upper left.
The items in the table below change. Click on the icon in the last line of the table beside "Address".
A result list showing data items appears in the main frame.
Click through the object and navigation links ontop of this finderlist:
[XX] [X] [F/L] [T/O] [clip] [exp] [prev] [next] [first] [last]
[F/L] Toggles between list view and finder query form
[T/O] Toggles between list view and table input form
[XX] closes all views in the right frame, [X] closes only the view its in.
Click [help] on the the upper left frame to get more info.
- Object Collections
Select "Orders" from the dropdown list and click on "Account"
A new Account Object names "my Account" gets displayed. Click on "new" in the "cashflow" line.
The fieldname "cashflow" gets active. Clicking it brings a list of items in the collection.
Since we clicked "new" once there is now exactly one in it. Click "new" again to add cashflow objects.
Click on T/O besides "new" to get the view to edit the cashflow objects all at once.
- Line-chart
Click [PlotChart] to get a line-chart showing the balance of the account over time.
To see a proper line the values in the cashflow and account must make sense.
- Select and insert
Corresponding to drag and drop to move or make links between objects bellvue uses
a select and insert paradigm. It gets operated by clicking on the "sel" and "ins" links.
The currently selected objects gets listed (on a green background) in the middle frame on the left side.
Try to make a new Cashflow objects by clicking on "CashFlow" underneeth the App: drowdown list. Click "sel"
and it gets listed in the selection frame.
Open an Account Object and click "ins" in the "cashFlows" field.
- Clipboard
Clicking "clip" put the object or finder in the clipboard. Since the data in the clipboard
is persistent you see the same data next time you log in until you explicitly remove it from the clipboard.
This is useful to have frequently used objects handy or to save complex finder querys.
- Monitor
Change to /bellvue/monitor in the browser location for the system monitoring data.
- Online help
Reach the main help index with [help] on the upper-left frame. User and programmers guide is in there.
- Custom JSP Application
Change to /bellvue/squash.jsp in the browser location to see a sample jsp app using the Bellvue data store.
Log on with the same user you have created before to see the calendar booking and news entry views.
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