An application handles data and procedures involved in performing tasks. An application is useful for procedures that are repetitive or are performed by many people. Applications are ideal solutions where efficiency, consistency, and ease of training are concerns.
In this lesson you'll design an application for the SkyWrite database and build it with the R:BASE Application Wizard. When you're finished, the application, named SkyWriteApp, will consist of menus with options for entering, editing, deleting, and printing data from all the tables in the database.
At the end of this lesson you'll be able to:
•Start the Application Designer
•Develop an application with three menu levels
•Create WHERE clauses for forms and reports
•View the application and startup files from R:BASE
•Run an application
•Modify existing rows in a table using a form
The application you'll create in this lesson will allow the employees at SkyWrite, Ink to enter and access their employee, customer, and flights information. They'll use SkyWriteApp to keep current, to print reports, and to answer questions using data from the database. This application will be especially useful for repetitive tasks, such as adding new customer information or printing mailing labels.
