Successfully Generate and Build

Contents

• Introduction
• Generate and Build the Websydian Subject Areas
• Generate and Build all Entities and Functions
• Generate and Build the Message Files (iSeries Web Server only)
• Specify the URL for your Document Templates
• Generate the Document Templates
• Create the Dispatcher program (PC Web Server only)

Introduction

Before continuing make sure you have set up the Plex environment as stated in the "Setting up Your Advantage Plex Environment" section.

In order to successfully generate and build we recommend adding all required libraries and header references in the System properties.

The required libraries are:

• Websyd.lib (supplied with Websydian)
• WsyHTTPxxx.lib (supplied with Websydian, xxx representing the Plex version)
• Obpt32.lib (supplied with Plex, these are the date routines)
• ws2_32.lib (supplied with Microsoft Visual Studio)
• wininet.lib (supplied with Microsoft Visual Studio)
• WsydXML11.lib (Supplied with Websydian)
• WsydXML11_dll.lib (Supplied with Websydian)

The required header directories are:

• Directory holding websyd.h (Supplied with Websydian)
• Directory holding dwa header files (Supplied with websydian

Generate and Build the Websydian Subject Areas

The Websydian Libraries supplies a number of Plex subject areas that you need to Generate and Build. 
 

• Open the Generate and Build Window. (CTRL-G)
• Verify that the "Show Library Objects" is toggled on for both the "Generate and Build" window and the "Object Browser" window. 
• In the Object Browser select "Subject Area".
  A list of Subject Areas will be displayed depending on the Websydian Libraries extracted to the model.
• Drag the Subject Areas to be Generated and Build to the "Generate and build" window. 
• Perform the Generate and Build of the Subject Areas needed (see list below).

Generate and build all Entities and Functions

• Generate and Build the entities and functions of your Model.

Generate and build Message File (iSeries Only)

  If you have set the variant of the WSYBASE to "AS400 web server" or "PKA - AS400" complete the following step in order to create the Message file. 

• Choose menu item Build -> iSeries Message File -> Generate and Build

Specify the URL for your Document Templates

When generating the Document templates, information about the URL for the Dispatcher function to refer to is required.

• Edit/verify the obxxxRC.ini (xxx representing the Plex version)  file in the bin directory of Advantage Plex to make sure it includes the section [HTML]. Make sure that the DISPATCHER_URL refers to the correct library and dispatcher.
   

  ---

  [HTML]
  DISPATCHER_URL=/webtutor/dispat.exe

  ---

  The URL specified, is the URL the users will be using in order to refer to your Websydian Application when deployed on the Web Server e.g. http://myhost/webtutor/dispat.exe

Generate the Document Templates

• Verify that a subdirectory called HTML exists in your gen directory otherwise create it. 
• Run all the Document Template Generators (_DocumentTemplateGenerator) scoped under the PageGenerator functions.

Create the Dispatcher or Application Service for your Websydian Application (PC Web Server or DWA - Windows Only)

• Drag your Dispatcher Function or Application Listener to the "Generate and Build" window and Create an EXE file of this function. This will create both the EXE file and the INI file.