Customizing Default Web Pages

Default web pages are ideal for prototyping sessions with end users at an early stage, but early on you will want to do development work on them so that they are customized to the application's specific requirements.

Do NOT customize default pages

The default application only gives access to default info pages - the standard pages offered by USoft. It is good practice to AVOID customizing default pages, even if Web Designer lets you do that. This is because you never know when you would like to revert work and re-instate the default.

Before you start development work on a page, therefore, follow these steps:

1.	In the Web Designer catalog, identify the page class you want to customize, for example, the "Persons" page class.

2.	Right-mouse click on that page class and choose New.

A new node for a subclass will appear in the tree view.

3.	Click on that node and rename the page class to something logical, for example, "MyPersons".

4.	Open the new page class and start development work.

NOTE: You will not be able to use the default menu for testing and debugging this development work. So, you will need to replace the default menu by a user-defined menu early on.