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    #16
    Re: Using AppLauncher

    You mean the menu down the left hand side (of a standard Tabbed UI setup)? I created a Tabbed UI, added two components to it, previewed it. Then added it to the AppLauncher to launch under Windows and iPad and the Tabbed UI is all there. Buttons down the left side, tabs across the top. I tested with LivePreview and RemoteTest.

    Is there anything in it's place when it disappears... any message? Or just a blank screen?

    There is a message that you get after adding a Tabbed UI about checking the option for a full page reload.

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      #17
      Re: Using AppLauncher

      Yes it's the menu on the left. No message or error just gone. The page loads no problem. The UI was done in 11 and now I'm using 12.

      Thanks for your quick response.

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        #18
        Re: Using AppLauncher

        Can you open your UI in 12 and change something insignificant and then save it? Is there something unique about the Tabbed UI?

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          #19
          Re: Using AppLauncher

          Ok I'll try that and post the results. Thank you

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            #20
            Re: Using AppLauncher

            Ok its fixed. It was a bug. If you have this problem it will be fixed in the next update.

            Thanks David

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              #21
              Re: Using AppLauncher

              I've clicked on this link http://www.screencast.com/t/Dqkm2m7fs ... screencast comes up but no video just a blank screen?

              Is this still on screencast?

              Thanks -

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                #22
                Re: Using AppLauncher

                here it is on you tube

                http://youtu.be/RC8A-Af072s
                Richard Rabins
                Co Chairman
                Alpha Software

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                  #23
                  Re: Using AppLauncher

                  Hi David,

                  Checking the YouTube link at: http://youtu.be/RC8A-Af072s
                  It seems that video start showing again the same steps right from the middle.

                  Regards,

                  Doron
                  The Farber Consulting Group, Inc.

                  Web site: http://www.dFarber.com
                  Blog: http://www.dfarber.com/computer-consulting-blog.aspx
                  Alpha Five Software Developer
                  Convert Ms Access to Web

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                    #24
                    Re: Using AppLauncher

                    Originally posted by Richard Rabins View Post
                    here it is on you tube

                    http://youtu.be/RC8A-Af072s
                    This says it has been removed by the user

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                      #25
                      Re: Using AppLauncher

                      Sorry Andy... it was a bad copy of the video... it's up again here...

                      http://youtu.be/r7YUW5Z0DAU

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                        #26
                        Re: Using AppLauncher

                        Thanks for the Video.


                        Regards,

                        Doron
                        The Farber Consulting Group, Inc.

                        Web site: http://www.dFarber.com
                        Blog: http://www.dfarber.com/computer-consulting-blog.aspx
                        Alpha Five Software Developer
                        Convert Ms Access to Web

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                          #27
                          Re: Using AppLauncher

                          I have a security question. I have the app launcher going to a Tabbed UI component and I only want certain links to have security. Most of my options don't have security so I don't want to have everyone log in all the time to use it.

                          My problem is, the tab UI doesn't let me log in after being launch from the launcher. I get a 403 forbidden error. If I go to the A5W page by it's self it works fine. I've attached the error.forbidden 403.JPG

                          Thanks

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                            #28
                            Re: Using AppLauncher

                            Really guys I am getting quite tired of searching for documentation on v12 stuff, including this new AppLauncher.

                            I have configured and installed the component, it leads me nicely to the TUI when I am approaching it with a Windows pc, but it doesn't seem to do anything (that is: I get the TUI anyway) when I approach it per smartphone. Now there is a list of client.xxxxx available, but what do they all mean? What type of client to choose when the user is approaching with a Android phone for instance? Why is there a client.Galaxy and not other Samsungs?

                            Is the applauncher self executing? It seems not needing to be wrapped in an A5W page? Does the Application Server find it automatically when published to the webroot?

                            I can't find anything about the AppLauncher v12 in AlphaPedia
                            I can't find anything about the AppLauncher in the v12 Release Notes page either.

                            So what am I missing? How do you all do this? Or do I look at the wrong place for documentation on this?

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                              #29
                              Re: Using AppLauncher

                              If you put the applauncher on your index.a5w page as the first component then it will execute. In the applauncher you define the conditions as to what component to run or what page/URL to redirect to.

                              It is plain simple. Simply publishing a component does not do anything; components need to be on an a5w page.

                              This is a sample A5W page with an applauncher component called "start" on it:

                              If the client is mobile it will launch UX1 otherwise UX2:

                              al.png

                              I advise you to first play with sample UX components then with tabbed UI because that is kind of special as a tabbed ui cannot be put on an a5w page (it generates it's own a5w page)

                              Also use the source tab NOT the WYSIWYG tab in the htm editor.

                              it is all very simple.



                              Code:
                              <!DOCTYPE html>
                              <html>
                              <head>
                              <meta name="generator" content="Alpha Anywhere HTML Editor Version 12 Build 1564-4158">
                              <!-- must use in order to make XP Themes render -->
                              <meta HTTP-EQUIV="MSThemeCompatible" content="Yes" />
                              <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
                              <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> 
                              <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
                              <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
                              
                              <title>Nexco on the web</title>
                              
                              
                              <%a5
                              Delete tmpl_START
                              DIM tmpl_START as P
                              tmpl_START = a5w_load_component("start") ''SYSTEM GENERATED COMMENT - PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE (LOAD:start)
                              
                              'Override settings start -----------------------------------------
                              with tmpl_START
                              .alias = "START"
                              _customComponentFilename = "start"
                              end with 
                              'Override settings end -----------------------------------------
                              
                              delete x_START
                              dim x_START as p
                              x_START = a5w_run_Component(tmpl_START) 'SYSTEM GENERATED COMMENT - PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE (RUN:tmpl) (EDIT:start)
                              
                              ?x_START.Output.Head.JavaScript
                              ?x_START.Output.Head.CSS_Link
                              
                              ?x_START.Output.Head.Title 
                              %>
                              
                              
                              <!--Alpha Five Temporary Code Start - Will be automatically removed when page is published -->
                              <!--CSS for tmpl -->
                              <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/a5V12/css/GrGray/style.css">
                              <!--Alpha Five Temporary Code End -->
                              
                              
                              </head>
                              <body>
                              
                              <body class="GrGrayPage">
                              
                              <%a5 ?x_START.Output.Body.CustomComponent_HTML %>
                              
                              
                              
                              <div>
                              This is the normal version of index.a5w that you get to see with a non mobile device.
                              </div>
                              <div>
                              <a href="http://www.alphasoftware.com" target="_blank"><img src="images/alpha-img8.png" title="click to go to the Alpha Software website" style="border:none;" /></a>
                              </div>
                              <div>
                              <a href="http://www.alphasoftware.com" target="_blank">This is a normal link to the Alpha Software Website</a>
                              </div>
                              
                              
                              </body></html>
                              Frank

                              Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand

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                                #30
                                Re: Using AppLauncher

                                First, thank you Frank for your effort to state all of this and to put the code there together with screenprints. I believe I pretty much did the same, for the code I used the tool available that shows the code you need to insert in the A5W page per component.

                                it is all very simple.
                                Then, obviously, I must be very dumb...... to expect at least some documentation.

                                Since I would not know how to get to all of these conclusions without proper (or any at all for that matter) documentation.
                                My AppLauncher actually WAS on an A5W page (when it would not work without), with the right code in the right elements of the A5W page.
                                I also stated, that it worked since it connected the user with a windows environment to the TUI component A5W page.
                                What the problem was, is that the mobile device I used was not detected by the 3 different mobile rules I put in the AppLauncher, hence, the TUI option fired again.
                                I can't make out what device to use since there is a list, but there is no documentation about what all of these choices mean or what choice to make for what device.
                                There is a "client.Galaxy", but why for this Samsung type device and why not for all other Samsung devices? Many other questions pop up in relation to this, none of them are answered by any documentation.
                                Especially when it is all so simple as you state, it should be even more simple to write a bit of documentation on it wouldn't you say?

                                It simply doesn't make sense to "trial and error" around a bit, waiting until you have the documentation on what it exactly is that you are doing.
                                So for now I have stopped this development until there is documentation available.

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