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The Alpha Software Forum Participation Guidelines

The Alpha Software Forum is a free forum created for Alpha Software Developer Community to ask for help, exchange ideas, and share solutions. Alpha Software strives to create an environment where all members of the community can feel safe to participate. In order to ensure the Alpha Software Forum is a place where all feel welcome, forum participants are expected to behave as follows:
  • Be professional in your conduct
  • Be kind to others
  • Be constructive when giving feedback
  • Be open to new ideas and suggestions
  • Stay on topic


Be sure all comments and threads you post are respectful. Posts that contain any of the following content will be considered a violation of your agreement as a member of the Alpha Software Forum Community and will be moderated:
  • Spam.
  • Vulgar language.
  • Quotes from private conversations without permission, including pricing and other sales related discussions.
  • Personal attacks, insults, or subtle put-downs.
  • Harassment, bullying, threatening, mocking, shaming, or deriding anyone.
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory jokes and language.
  • Sexually explicit or violent material, links, or language.
  • Pirated, hacked, or copyright-infringing material.
  • Encouraging of others to engage in the above behaviors.


If a thread or post is found to contain any of the content outlined above, a moderator may choose to take one of the following actions:
  • Remove the Post or Thread - the content is removed from the forum.
  • Place the User in Moderation - all posts and new threads must be approved by a moderator before they are posted.
  • Temporarily Ban the User - user is banned from forum for a period of time.
  • Permanently Ban the User - user is permanently banned from the forum.


Moderators may also rename posts and threads if they are too generic or do not property reflect the content.

Moderators may move threads if they have been posted in the incorrect forum.

Threads/Posts questioning specific moderator decisions or actions (such as "why was a user banned?") are not allowed and will be removed.

The owners of Alpha Software Corporation (Forum Owner) reserve the right to remove, edit, move, or close any thread for any reason; or ban any forum member without notice, reason, or explanation.

Community members are encouraged to click the "Report Post" icon in the lower left of a given post if they feel the post is in violation of the rules. This will alert the Moderators to take a look.

Alpha Software Corporation may amend the guidelines from time to time and may also vary the procedures it sets out where appropriate in a particular case. Your agreement to comply with the guidelines will be deemed agreement to any changes to it.



Bonus TIPS for Successful Posting

Try a Search First
It is highly recommended that a Search be done on your topic before posting, as many questions have been answered in prior posts. As with any search engine, the shorter the search term, the more "hits" will be returned, but the more specific the search term is, the greater the relevance of those "hits". Searching for "table" might well return every message on the board while "tablesum" would greatly restrict the number of messages returned.

When you do post
First, make sure you are posting your question in the correct forum. For example, if you post an issue regarding Desktop applications on the Mobile & Browser Applications board , not only will your question not be seen by the appropriate audience, it may also be removed or relocated.

The more detail you provide about your problem or question, the more likely someone is to understand your request and be able to help. A sample database with a minimum of records (and its support files, zipped together) will make it much easier to diagnose issues with your application. Screen shots of error messages are especially helpful.

When explaining how to reproduce your problem, please be as detailed as possible. Describe every step, click-by-click and keypress-by-keypress. Otherwise when others try to duplicate your problem, they may do something slightly different and end up with different results.

A note about attachments
You may only attach one file to each message. Attachment file size is limited to 2MB. If you need to include several files, you may do so by zipping them into a single archive.

If you forgot to attach your files to your post, please do NOT create a new thread. Instead, reply to your original message and attach the file there.

When attaching screen shots, it is best to attach an image file (.BMP, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, etc.) or a zip file of several images, as opposed to a Word document containing the screen shots. Because Word documents are prone to viruses, many message board users will not open your Word file, therefore limiting their ability to help you.

Similarly, if you are uploading a zipped archive, you should simply create a .ZIP file and not a self-extracting .EXE as many users will not run your EXE file.
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    new to alphafive

    Hi,

    Any comments the web development features of alphafive ?Also rgd the learning curve and development speed.
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    RE: new to alphafive

    Jon,

    Welcome to the Alpha Community. I would suggest you follow the first post at the top of this formum: Please read before posting

    Do a search in this forum as well as the web application server forum. Your questions have been asked and discussed multiple times already.

    Good luck
    Cheryl
    Cheryl
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      RE: new to alphafive

      Shucks, I've got a sec to say that Alpha is great! And might I suggest to the list management that the search features could use some innovation? Even a list of your most popular search terms would be better than nothing. Staring at that blank field trying to guess what mystery words will yield results can be annoyingly difficult. Not everybody likes puzzles. Come on, you're data people. Invent something !

      To answer your question, I had my first simple web application working within 30 minutes of trying, and I'm no programmer. (Dim:Yet) The learning curve depends entirely upon your background knowledge, your ability to learn , how serious you are about it, and how complicated your needs are. It's Conquerable!

      Welcome, and Good Luck.

      Shirley

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        RE: new to alphafive

        Thank you for yr reply.

        In short, if one is already developing for desktop applications for over 5 years but no experience in web development, do you think alphafive web app development is the tool for such a guy? Can alphafive incorporate 3rd party components that's meant for VB.NET or Java?

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          RE: new to alphafive

          Jon,

          Java 'script' is browser based so YES it can be used with WAS. I am not familiar with vb.net but you may benefit from scanning and reading the WAS forum, it will be a wealth of information for you.

          I understand that the genies provided are extremely helpful to people that are not well versed with the web and would probably be the best place for you to start.

          Alpha offers a lot of tutorials and help files that reading would be to your benefit. The learning curve is all up to you. Reading and experimenting is the way to go.

          Good luck
          Cheryl
          Cheryl
          #1 Designs By Pagecrazy
          http://pagecrazy.com/

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            RE: new to alphafive

            Thank you for yr reply !

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              RE: new to alphafive

              John -

              We have ported our entire application to the Web as well. The learning curve is there, but once you understand the differences between A5 Native and the WAS, you will be fine.

              Jim

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