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 Built-in Features
- BriteWorks™ Application Server (Client, Server, Web, PDA)
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When an application is designed in BriteWorks, it is ready to run!
Not only does it run in a standard multi-tiered environment on virtually any platform,
but it also runs on the web, without any further coding or deployment. There is no compilation of code, no source code control, no huge migration effort and certainly no balancing act between design and runtime. The move to production is simply a matter of copying a database (or portions of it); updates to the application do not require deployment on each client machine! Furthermore, the runtime provides the customer with a huge set of functionality, out of the box, irrespective of the data model or schema used. The following sections describe in detail the level of functionality that is available in the BriteWorks™ Application Framework.
- Security
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The security features within BriteWorks are extremely powerful and deal with every aspect of application components
as well as application data depending on the role defined. The following are the various levels of security provided:
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Users & User Groups
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Ability to add users and user groups dynamically and grant / revoke access for the user groups
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| Application Level |
Ability to grant / revoke access to an application by user group, simply by checking or un-checking a box |
| Window Level |
Ability to grant / revoke access to individual windows within an application |
| Window Control Level |
Ability to grant / revoke access to any control in a window, such as a field, button, drop down etc. |
| Functionality Level |
Ability to grant / revoke access to functions such as Add/Update/Delete/View etc. |
| Schema Level |
Ability to grant / revoke access to individual tables or attributes in a particular schema. For instance the balance in an account must only be visible to a particular user group, in any window. |
| Data Level |
By far the most comprehensive security feature, which applications do not typically have. This feature provides the ability to grant / revoke access to data within the database to a particular user group. For instance a user group must only be able to access a particular or group of products rather than all data. |
| System Level |
Ability to grant/revoke access to system functions such as security, audit log, design etc. |
- Auditing
- Ability to decide what is auditable and what is not
- At table level
- At field level
- Facility to show what data has changed by the following criteria:
- User, Schema, Table
- Function/Action (Add/Update/Delete)
- Users
- Date and Time
- Highlights exact changes that have taken place on each field in a table with a full before and after image of the data
- Window Design at Runtime
- Ability for the users to customise / design their version of a window at run time. This includes moving fields about, changing fonts, changing colour and names of buttons, resizing items, using different images etc.
- Ability to redesign the window layout such that the menu tree, message area, shortcut area and other aspects can appear in a different location within the main window, or indeed in a floating position
- Ability to define shortcuts bars and shortcut items such that the users define their own set of menus and quick keys for an application.
- Help Tools
- Ability for users to be able to define help for the system dynamically.
- Internationalization
- The ability to select any language which is context sensitive, i.e. English appears left to right and Arabic appears right to left
- Ability for the users to dynamically define their own language text
- Localization - ability to show numbers etc. in desired locale.
- User Defaults & Preferences
- Ability to dynamically set up windows to appear upon login
- Ability to set up default data as filters to appear in selection or search items for a display, so that the user does not have to enter these values every time
- Ability to define one of several menus to appear upon login.
- Ability to define a default language
- Ability to define default directories for pictures, objects etc. for the application to pick up from.
- Window Operations
- Ability to limit the amount of data retrieved from the database by any field.
- Ability to filter retrieved values by any field on the window or table.
- Ability to display or hide any of the values on a window
- Ability to make mass changes, such as all items in a column in one go, instead of having to do this a record at a time. This is in order to save time in voluminous, homogenous changes.
- Date Interchange - Import/Export Facility
- Ability to dynamically define an import or export (or both) format for exchanging data with Excel, CSV files and XML.
- A user can map any field in the import/export format to a field in the database.
- Ability to invoke the import or export and view a log for results.
- Themes: Change on the fly
- In client/server, any theme can be defined through a visual interface. This can be changed on the fly in the runner.
- In the web, themes are defined in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) files and again can be changed on the fly.
- In mobile devices, a smaller footprint theme or skin can be defined and changed on the fly.
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