1. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Web Publishing with Alpha Five Session 1

2. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing What Why Where How Integration with Alpha Five Desktop Overview of Web environment Getting Started

3. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing - What Runs xbasic code on the server and sends html/javascript to the client (your web browser). ServerClient (browser) XbasicHtml PerlJavascript Cold FusionXML ASP.net

4. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing – Hello world Demo, only seen by the server.

5. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing - Why Leverage current knowledge of Alpha Rapid development environment Integrate with other tools, e.g. Dreamweaver Hybrid desktop – web applications Technologies such as AJAX

6. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing - Where Local development – localhost Local web server Hosted service “Publishing” is ALWAYS required. (must convert paths on local machine to path used by web server)

7. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing - How No-ip.com – see slide notes. No-ip.com https:// - secure web connections Active vs. Passive mode FTP Server licensing

8. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing – Application Server

9. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing – Desktop Integration Field Rules – engine level Reports – Yes, but no UI features (Ask vars.) Forms – No Operations – Yes, via xbasic Xbasic – Yes, but no UI Xdialog – No Action scripting – Must convert to xbasic

10. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing – Web Overview Read the Web Publishing Tutorial in Help file Video tutorials on Alpha’s web site http://www.alphasoftware.com/AlphaFive/video/#tutor http://www.alphasoftware.com/AlphaFive/video/#tutor Set up the Application Server http://www.alphasoftware.com/documentation/afas_setup/ http://www.alphasoftware.com/documentation/afas_setup/ New Web Profile genie in version 9 http://support.alphasoftware.com/WhatsNewInV9/NewInV9.htm http://support.alphasoftware.com/WhatsNewInV9/NewInV9.htm View -> Show quick start help. Sample web pages shipped with A5.

11. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing – Sample Pages

12. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing – Web Control Panel Demo – Tour of Web Control Panel

13. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Alpha Web Publishing - Profiles Concepts important to understand. Best learned by the following examples.

14. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Publishing – Localhost

15. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Publishing – Localhost folders

16. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Publishing - LAN

17. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Publishing - FTP

18. Alpha Five User Group, Bill Parker, Web Publishing - Session 1, April 2008 Publishing - Aliases