How to: Fast Track

An Example Usage of Fast Track

Fast track is an option to create an app within seconds. By typing predefined commands into the fast-track editor, entities and fields will be created and associated between each other, and a multi-tenant, web and mobile based cloud application with basic CRUD functionality will be up and running.

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Here is an example usage of creating CRM app:

/* Creates an entity with name option (name is required) 
*  All the fields declared after this entity will be associated with this entity
*/
entity --name Customer

/* Creates a field with name option with type text (name is required, default type is text) */
field --name name
field --name surname

/* Creates a field with defined name and type option */
field --name birthdate --type Date

/* Creates a masked field */
field --name phone --masked true --mask (###)####### 

/* Creates a field with type another entity, which can be declared later */
field --name account --type Account

/* Creates a field where value is from a constant group, i.e. creates a select field 
*  listitems are not yet created but will be created in a couple of lines later
*/
field --name city --listtype cities
list --name cities --selectiontype SINGLE_SELECTION

/* Creates list items with name and key option (default type is Text, --type can be used to change) */
/* These listitems will be added to cities list (the order between list & listitems are important */
listitem --name istanbul --key 34
listitem --name izmir --key 35
listitem --name ankara --key 06

/* Creates a field type of List, where each element in list is another entity. 
*  Creates an n-m relationship between entities
*/
field --name accounts --type EntityList --listtype Account

/* Creates another entity */
entity --name Account

/* Reuses a field that is created already, ( --reuse <field_name> ) */
field --reuse name

entity
     name:  (required) name of the entity
     inherits: (optional) name of the parent entity
     caption: (optional) caption of the entity
     focus: (optional) name of the entity yo be switched to

field
     name:  (required) name of the field
     caption: (optional) caption of the field
     type:  (optional) type of the field, default value is Text. 
           { Text | Integer | Double | Date | RichText | TextBox | Email | Rate | Percentage | Currency | List | Long | Departmant | Document | Image | Linkedin }   
     masked: (optional) true if the field is masked, default value is false.
     mask:   (optional) mask of the field, default value is empty string
     listtype: (optional) used when the type of field is List. Entity name will be the list type.
     reuse:    (optional) Name of the field. Used when the field is already declared. Enables to use a previously declared field in multiple entities.

list
    name:   (required) name of the list
    caption: (optional) caption of the list
    reuse:  (optional) name of the list that is previously created
    listitems: (optional) constant values (i.e. listitems) to construct the list. The value should be comma seperated listitem names. (without space in between)
    selectiontype: (optional) selection type of the list. Default value is SINGLE_SELECTION.
                    { SINGLE_SELECTION | SINGLE_SELECTION_WITH_GROUPING | MULTIPLE_SELECTION | MULTIPLE_SELECTION_WITH_GROUPING }

listitem
    name:   (required) name of the list item.
    caption: (optional) caption of the list item.
    key:    (optional) key of the list item. Default value is name of the list item.
    type:   (optional) type of the list item. Default value is Text.              

Note: Whitespaces can be used within in quotes for example;

entity --name CustomerNum --caption "Musteri Numarasi"