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• Mon  - STEP 1 (1/2 Day): HOW TO BUILD YOUR INTRANET ON YOUR NETWORK
  
                                   - STEP 2 (1/2 Day): FUNDAMENTALS OF HTML PROGRAMMING
• Tue  - STEP 3 (1/2 Day): REPORTS - filePro HTML PROGRAMMING AND WEB PAGE OUTPUT
  
                                   - STEP 4 (1/2 Day): SCREENS  - HTML AND fPcgi PROGRAMMING AND FORMS
• Wed - STEP 4 (1/2 Day): SCREENS  - fPcgi AND HTML PROGRAMMING AND FORMS; (Concluded)
  
                                   - STEP 5 (1/2 Day): MENUS      - Hyperlinks and Buttons PROGRAMMING
• Thu - STEP 6: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER - APPLICATION LAB MAKES YOUR WORK INTERACTIVE
• Fri  - STEP 7: OPTIONAL: EXTENDED WORKSHOP WITH HEAVY TIPS, TRICKS AND TECHNIQUES

This series of classes is intended for the filePro developer who is ready to take advantage of one of the latest and most promising filePro capabilities - browser-based filePro. This course provides you with the tools to:

• provide your users with graphic, browser access to your traditional, text-based filePro applications,
• create an internal "internet" - an intranet,
• add webserver capabilities to your network server that houses your filePro databases,
• replace filePro OUTPUT REPORTS with full graphical web pages,
• replace filePro SCREENS with full graphical web "forms",
• replace filePro MENUS with full graphical hyperlinks and buttons, and
• put it all together into a complete browser-based filePro application.

With this technology, operators can access filePro applications either with their web browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc) or by the traditional, text-based method.

Step One (1/2 Day) You will learn how to put your internal Intranet for filePro on your internal network - hardware options and specifications; operating systems; Apache Server installation and configuration; and filePro and fPcgi installation and configuration.

Steps Two through Six are devoted to creating interactive, browser-based filePro applications. You will receive in-depth instruction and training, and will work on a networked laptop to put these skills to work on an assigned database. You will create sophisticated, interactive web applications to access your filePro database from the browser.

Step Seven is an optional day, working on your projects with Bill Doyle. He will teach many more tricks and techniques to expand and enhance your programming abilities.

Each student works with an IBM laptop on our new, wireless network with a SCO Unix Server. Each student has a dedicated filePro database with which to create the filePro elements as they are learning them. Student work can be printed as well as displayed on your own laptop with Internet Explorer, or on the main teaching screen, to discuss techniques and results obtained.

Register Now For This Fabulous Course . . . Download And Fax Back The Registration Form. Or Please call or E-mail Davy who will be happy to help you with any detail or information you may need.

Davideen Price, EOM . . (888) 321-1940 (In Florida), or (800) 321-1969 (In Maryland), or Email Davy
 

Also, please contact me for your upgrade to filePro Version 5.0 or to the new Version 5.6, fileProODBC, fileProGI, filePro fPcgi; or for a copy of the filePro Developer's Reference; or for other available products and services from STN, Inc.

STEP 1: HOW TO BUILD YOUR INTRANET - H/W, OS, Apache Server, filePro, fPcgi.

Course Description

Training provides detailed documentation, discusses any changes that might be needed to your hardware. Written and presentations are made about software specs, procedures and configuration information for running the intranet in your current network environment. The network server is reviewed in detail, with specific instructions in configuring the Operating System. Apache Server will be installed and configured in class. filePro configuration considerations will be discussed. fPcgi will be installed and configured.

Students will have the fundamentals needed to reproduce this on their office networks. 

Prerequisites: A working knowledge of multi-user filePro networks is useful.

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STEP 2: FUNDAMENTALS OF HTML PROGRAMMING

Course Description

Training provides an introduction to the basics of HTML, the language and tags. An overview of HTML processing is taught, including steps in development; terminology; planning the output; coding output; and HTML formats and tags.

Prerequisites: An understanding of the concepts of HTML is useful but not required.

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STEP 3: REPORTS - filePro HTML PROGRAMMING AND WEB PAGE OUTPUT

Course Description

This class teaches HTML editing particularly as they relate to filePro. The filePro command-set for creating HTML documents directly from your processing tables is powerful but requires training to learn this unique "language". The resulting output is an HTML document that can be read directly with any browser. You will create and maintain your web pages right from your filePro database. You have the full functionality of filePro directly linked to your web page output! We will explore the use of fonts, colors, and tables to control web page layout and user experience.

Students will create HTML documents for web posting and see the results with their Internet Explorer browser. Three lab projects will be completed using skills taught in the class with increasing levels of difficulty and complexity.

You will use filePro to manipulate fonts, tables, color and other HTML features. You will integrate images into your web pages, right from filePro.

Prerequisites: Steps 1 and 2, and a working knowledge of filePro programming.

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STEP 4: SCREENS - fPcgi PROGRAMMING AND FORMS

Course Description

• Students will learn to build web pages (called "forms") that replace Text-based screens and will develop proper techniques to create forms and their input fields. In one lab project, students will construct forms for data entry and searching.

• fPcgi
• fPcgi provides cgi action to your HTML forms without having to write any perl or C scripts. It provides a standardized set of interface functions to speed up development and to pass form-entered data to your filePro database.
• Training provides an introduction and overview of CGI processing including Steps in Development; Terminology; Planning the Output; Coding Output; and CGI formats and tags. CGI programs will be created directly in filePro processing, and will be accessed by the fPcgi program to generate web pages.
• Students will build browser-ready web pages accessing their regular filePro databases using fPcgi and filePro processing with the HTML and JSFILE commands. You will see the results in your browser. You will use filePro to manipulate fonts, tables, color and other graphical features.

Prerequisites: Steps 1, 2, and 3.

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STEP 5: MENUS - Hyperlinks And Buttons PROGRAMMING

Course Description

Menus will be constructed in HTML documents to provide Browser access to data entry forms and reporting functions that were constructed in the previous classes. Students will learn two techniques to build menus in HTML pages using hyperlinks and buttons. During the lab project, students will complete menu pages that will drive data entry and reporting.

Prerequisites: Steps 1 through 4.

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STEP 6: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER - APPLICATION LAB MAKES YOUR WORK INTERACTIVE

Course Description

This day is devoted to completing your entire system - menus, forms (screens), and web-page reports. You will integrate the work done on the previous days into your complete application.

Students will design and code HTML report request pages. You will create advanced input pages (forms) with retrieval capabilities, and develop report pages with selection techniques.

Your forms and output programs will be linked to the menus created. Using techniques taught, you will enhance your earlier work to build complex forms for data entry and reporting from your filePro database.

These browser-ready web pages will access your regular student filePro database You will see the results in your browser. You will use filePro to manipulate fonts, tables, color and other graphical features.

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STEP 7: OPTIONAL: EXTENDED WORKSHOP WITH HEAVY TIPS, TRICKS AND TECHNIQUES

Course Description

This is an optional day. You will expand your work on your projects with the instructor. Many more tricks and techniques will be taught to expand and enhance your programming abilities.

Prerequisites: Steps 1 through 6.

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