Designer/2000

Designer/2000 Tutorial

Release 2.1.1

August 1998

Part No. Z23274-02

Designer/2000 Tutorial

Part No. Z23274-02

Release 2.1.1

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 Contents

Send Us Your Comments ................................................................................................................... v

Read This First!.................................................................................................................. vii

Purpose of this document ................................................................................................................... vii
Intended audience for this document ............................................................................................... viii
Prerequisites for using this document ............................................................................................... ix
Structure of this document ................................................................................................................... x
How to use this document.................................................................................................................... x
Conventions used in this document.................................................................................................... x
Related documentation ......................................................................................................................... x
Your comments are welcome .............................................................................................................. xi

Part I Before You Start

1 Introducing Designer/2000
What is Designer/2000?................................................................................................................ 1-1
The components of Designer/2000.............................................................................................. 1-2
Starting Designer/2000 tools and utilities for the tutorial........................................................ 1-3

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2 Preparing for the tutorial
Scope of the tutorial ....................................................................................................................... 2-1
Time to allow for the tutorial........................................................................................................ 2-2
How to follow the tutorial ............................................................................................................ 2-2
Removing existing tutorial tables ................................................................................................ 2-3
Background to the tutorial............................................................................................................ 2-4

Part II Tutorial

Lesson 1 Create process steps and add flows

Create a process step ..................................................................................................................... Le 1-2
Add a flow, a trigger and an outcome ........................................................................................ Le 1-7

Lesson 2 Create entities and add relationships

Create an entity .............................................................................................................................. Le 2-2
Add a relationship ......................................................................................................................... Le 2-6
Create attributes ............................................................................................................................. Le 2-8

Lesson 3 Refine default functions

Identify functions to automate ..................................................................................................... Le 3-1
Add entity usages to a function ................................................................................................... Le 3-6
Create attribute usages using the function/attribute matrix utility........................................ Le 3-7

Lesson 4 Transform the data model into a table design

Create a table definition from entities ......................................................................................... Le 4-2

Lesson 5 Refine the default database design

Modify a default table definition ................................................................................................. Le 5-2

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Lesson 6 Build a database
Create the database tables............................................................................................................. Le 6-1

Lesson 7 Create default working forms

Generate default module definitions .......................................................................................... Le 7-2
Accept the candidate module definitions for generation ......................................................... Le 7-4
Generate a working form.............................................................................................................. Le 7-6

Lesson 8 Refine modules for generation

Change form characteristics ......................................................................................................... Le 8-1
Create a lookup table..................................................................................................................... Le 8-3

Lesson 9 Generate a refined Developer/2000 Form

Set preferences to influence generation ...................................................................................... Le 9-1
Change a display characteristic of the generated form............................................................. Le 9-3
Generate, run and use a form....................................................................................................... Le 9-4

Lesson 10 Generate a WebServer Application

Implement the Speedy Pizza system as a Web application...................................................... Le 10-1

Lesson 11 Conclude the tutorial

Exit from Designer/2000 and drop the tutorial tables.............................................................. Le 11-1

A Tutorial installation notes

Importing the TUTORIAL application system .......................................................................... A-1
Setting up for WebServer Generator users ................................................................................. A-4
What the Oracle Installer installs on the client........................................................................... A-4
How tutorial users are instructed to start the tutorial .............................................................. A-5

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 Read This First!

Before you start reading this document, it is important that you understand the
following:
• the purpose of this document
• the intended audience for this document
• the prerequisites for using this document
• the structure of this document
• how to use this document
• conventions used in this document
• related documentation
• that your comments are welcome!

Purpose of this document

This document is a tutorial for Designer/2000. It aims to:
• provide you with practical hands-on experience using Designer/2000
• reinforce concepts explained in the Designer/2000 help system and other parts
of the documentation set
Upon completion of this tutorial, you will know how to:
• create process steps and flows
• create entities and relationships
• create definitions of database objects in the Repository

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 • refine the default database design
• generate objects in the database
• refine default functions
• create default module definitions
• set preferences for generation
• create lookup tables
• generate a form
• generate a WebServer application
This tutorial does not attempt to describe in detail the functionality of every
Designer/2000 product component. Instead, the tutorial concentrates on how to use
the components together to progress from a high level business model to a working
generated application. For comprehensive information, refer to the Designer/2000
help system.
Note that to enable you to use several different Designer/2000 product components
within a relatively short period, the tutorial assumes a very small business scenario.
This scenario is not representative of the more sophisticated environments in which
Designer/2000 is typically used.

Intended audience for this document

This tutorial is intended for analysts and designers who want to know how to use
the Designer/2000 tools and utilities to model, design and implement business
systems.
This tutorial does not explain in detail terms that are familiar to such an audience
(for example, entity relationship diagrams, function hierarchy diagrams and SQL
DDL commands).

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Prerequisites for using this document
This tutorial does not assume you have any prior experience with Designer/2000.
However, this tutorial does assume that:
• you are familiar with the operation of your personal computer (PC) and its
keyboard.
• you are familiar with the Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT environment,
as appropriate.
• the PATH variable on your PC includes the appropriate path to the \bin
directory below the <ORACLE_HOME> directory (the directory in which
Oracle products are installed). For example:
Environment Example ORACLE_HOME PATH must include
Windows 95 C:\orawin95 C:\orawin95\bin
Windows NT C:\orant C:\orant\bin

• all components of Designer/2000 (Release 2.1 or later) have been successfully

installed on your PC (including the tutorial form and menu executables and
templates).
• the Forms and Reports components of Developer/2000 (Release 2.1 or later)
have been successfully installed on your PC.
• you have a user account with access to the TUTORIAL application system on a
Designer/2000 Repository
For more information about importing the TUTORIAL application system, refer
to Appendix A “Tutorial Installation Notes”.

Note: If you are going to follow lesson 10, "Generate a WebServer

Application", you will need to have WebServer Generator installed.
You will also need to know additional connection details, as set out
at the beginning of the lesson. Your System Administrator will be
able to set up WebServer Generator and tell you the necessary
connection details.

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Structure of this document
The tutorial is organized into the following Parts:
Part I “Before You Start”, introduces Designer/2000 and prepares you for the
tutorial.
Part II “Tutorial”, comprises 11 lessons, each made up of one or more tasks.

How to use this document

If you are not familiar with the Designer/2000 toolset and how the tools relate to
one another, refer to Part I, “Before You Start”. Each lesson in Part II begins with a
brief discussion of the concepts behind the tasks in the lesson. If you are already
familiar with these concepts, go straight to the first task in the lesson. The concepts
are covered in more detail in the Designer/2000 help system.

Conventions used in this document

Menu selections are shown with an arrow separating the name of the menu and the
name of the option. For example, to show a selection of the New option from the
File Menu, the following appears in the text:
Select File → New
Characters you type are shown in monotype. For example:
Type Order Request
The screenshots in this document are of Designer/2000 Release 2.1 running in a
Windows NT environment. You might notice some minor differences between what
you see on your screen and the corresponding screenshot if:
• you are running Designer/2000 in a Windows 95 environment
• you are running a later release of Designer/2000

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Related documentation
Information about Designer/2000 products is available in printed form in the
following manuals:
• Oracle Designer/2000 Installation Guide
Part No. Z23276

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 Part I
Before You Start

Introduces Designer/2000 and prepares you for the tutorial.

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Introducing Designer/2000

This chapter introduces the Designer/2000 tools and utilities and contains the
following sections:
■ What is Designer/2000?
■ The Components of Designer/2000
■ Starting Designer/2000 Tools

What is Designer/2000?
Oracle Designer/2000 is a software tool for analyzing business requirements and for
designing and generating client/server systems that meet those requirements.
Designer/2000 incorporates support for business process modeling, systems
analysis, software design and system generation.
Designer/2000 provides a multi-user Repository and is closely integrated with
Developer/2000, Oracle’s client/server development toolset. In this way,
Designer/2000 allows organizations to design and rapidly deliver scalable,
client/server systems that can adapt to changing business needs.

Introducing Designer/2000 1-1

The components of Designer/2000
The Designer/2000 tools are grouped into areas that reflect the primary needs of its
different types of user:
■ Modelling System Requirements
Use the tools in this area to: model business processes; re-examine the methods
used to achieve the goals of the organization; create diagrammatic
representations of business processes; record details about them; describe
business requirements in detail; create diagrammatic models of the entities,
functions and flows of data in the systems that make up the organization.
■ Generating Preliminary Designs
Use the Transformers to generate preliminary designs from the models created
earlier.
■ Designing and Generating
Use the tools in this area to: design a system that meets the business
requirements of an organization; provide a development environment for
system engineers and designers; create server-side components and client-side
applications from definitions recorded in the Repository.
■ Utilities
Use the tools in this area to: enter and edit information in the Repository; show
relationships between elements in the Repository; generate predefined and
custom reports on the contents of the Repository; administer Repositories; write
SQL-based interactive queries.
In the development environment, Designer/2000 can be installed flexibly. For
example, you could install the entire Designer/2000 suite on a client PC in a single
operation, or you could install the components of Designer/2000 separately. Each of
the generators can be installed separately.
For this tutorial, you must install Designer/2000 as described in Appendix A.
For full details about the installation process, see the Oracle Designer/2000 Installation
Guide.
Oracle Corporation also publishes the Repository Application Programmatic
Interface (API), which provides a programmatic way of creating and maintaining
information in the Repository. The API is viewable as part of the Designer/2000
help system.

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Starting Designer/2000 tools and utilities for the tutorial

Different ways to start Designer/2000 tools and utilities

You can start Designer/2000 tools and utilities in one of two different ways:
■ from within a currently running tool, using the Tools menu or the Utilities
menu as appropriate
■ from the appropriate button in the Designer/2000 window.
During this tutorial you will be told to start most of the Designer/2000 tools from
the Designer/2000 window.

Displaying the Designer/2000 Window for the tutorial

When you are following the tutorial, select the Designer/2000 for Tutorial User
program in the Designer/2000 Tutorial folder. Do not use the program in the Oracle
Designer/2000 folder. Using the Designer/2000 for Tutorial User program will
ensure that:
■ items produced by the Designer/2000 tools and utilities during the course of the
tutorial are kept separate from any other work you do with Designer/2000
■ you won’t have to specify the location of the object libraries and templates
required for the tutorial, only their names.

Note: The working directory specified for the Designer/2000 for

Tutorial User program must be writeable.

Introducing Designer/2000 1-3

Connecting to a database for the tutorial
Depending on how Designer/2000 has been installed on your system, the Connect
dialog box might appear when you start the Designer/2000 for Tutorial User
program.

If this dialog box appears, enter the username and password for the user account
you will be using during the tutorial. In the Connect String field, enter the name of
the database you will be using.

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Below is an example of a completed Connect dialog box.

In this example, a user with the username ‘analyst’ and a password of ‘teachme1’ is
attempting to connect to a database called ‘olympic’.
If you are not sure what to enter in the Connect dialog box, ask your system
administrator.
The application system dialog box appears, enabling you to select the application
system you will be using to follow the tutorial.

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 Unless your system administrator has told you to use a different application system,
select TUTORIAL from the Application System drop-down list and click on OK.
The application system you specify is used when you start any of the Designer/2000
tools.

Starting tools and utilities from the Designer/2000 window

When you have logged on to a database and selected an application system, the
Designer/2000 window appears.

To start a Designer/2000 tool from the Designer/2000 window, you click once on
the button for that tool.

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 Part II
Tutorial

Comprises 11 lessons, each made up of one or more tasks.

 2
Preparing for the tutorial

This chapter describes the tutorial in this document, and includes the following
sections:
■ Scope of the tutorial
■ Time to allow for the tutorial
■ How to follow the tutorial
■ Removing existing tutorial tables
■ Background to the tutorial

Scope of the tutorial

This tutorial does not attempt to describe in detail the functionality of every
component of Designer/2000. Instead, the tutorial concentrates on how to use the
components together to progress from a high level business model to a working
generated application. For comprehensive information, refer to the Designer/2000
help system.
Note that to enable you to use several different Designer/2000 product components
within a relatively short period, the tutorial assumes a very small business scenario.
This scenario is not representative of the more sophisticated environments in which
Designer/2000 is typically used.

Preparing for the tutorial 2-1

Time to allow for the tutorial
The length of time to allow to complete the tutorial will depend on:
■ the specification of your system
■ your current familiarity with Designer/2000 (the tutorial does not assume any
prior knowledge of Designer/2000)
Typically, allow around 90 minutes to complete the tutorial.

How to follow the tutorial

Before you follow the tutorial, the following must already have been done:
■ The TUTORIAL application system must have been imported into the
Repository. (If you are responsible for importing the application system, refer to
Appendix A for more information.)
To follow the tutorial for the first time, you must begin by ensuring that the
database tables that will be created during the tutorial do not already exist. You do
this by following the instructions in the next section "Removing existing tutorial
tables". The remainder of this chapter sets the scene for the tutorial.
Start the tutorial with the first task in Lesson 1 and continue until you reach the end
of the final task in the last lesson. If you attempt to start the tutorial half way
through, you will be unable to complete some of the lessons.
If you want to take a break during the tutorial and resume later, we suggest you
stop between lessons, rather than in the middle of a lesson.

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Removing existing tutorial tables

To remove existing tutorial tables:

1. Select the Drop Tutorial Tables program in the Designer/2000 Tutorial folder
The SQL*Plus window appears.
2. When prompted to enter a username, enter the username, password and
database you will be using to follow the tutorial on one line, in the following
format:
Enter user-name:<your_username>/<your_password>@<your_database>
For example, if the username is ‘analyst’, the password is ‘teachme1’ and the
database you are using is called ‘olympic’, you would type the following:
Enter user-name:analyst/teachme1@olympic
If you are not sure what to enter, ask your system administrator.
You are prompted to confirm you want to delete the following tables (if they
exist):
CUSTOMERS
ORDERS
PRICED_PRODUCTS
ITEMS
PRODUCTS
Do not delete these tables unless you are sure these tables are no longer
required. If you are not sure, type N and press [Return]. Ask your system
administrator to create a new user for you to follow the tutorial, and repeat
steps 1 and 2.
3. To delete the tables, type Y and press [Return].
The tutorial tables are removed.
When the operation is complete, you are prompted to close the window.
4. Type EXIT and press [Return] to close the SQL*Plus window.

Preparing for the tutorial 2-3

To drop the tutorial tables after you have completed the tutorial:
■ Follow the procedure set out in "To remove existing tutorial tables", above.
For more information, refer to Lesson 11, "Conclude the Tutorial".

Background to the tutorial

Analysts and developers at a pizza delivery company called Speedy Pizza have
already carried out some analysis and design activities to produce a system for
taking customer orders and despatching pizzas.
Your task is to make additions to the design of the system and to implement a small
part of it.
In particular, you will create an on-screen form for entering details of the company’s
new products. These details will be stored in a database that you will design and
create.
If you have Oracle’s WebServer Generator installed, you can implement the same
system as a Web application.

During this tutorial

During the course of this tutorial you will make the necessary changes to the
information held in the Designer/2000 Repository. You will:
■ Add new process steps for "Add new product to the menu" and "Publish menu
on the web".
■ Enter a new entity, PRODUCT, required by the "Add new product to the menu"
process step. You will define the attributes of PRODUCT and specify the
relationship between it and other entities.
■ Enter new entity usages and attribute usages for the "Add new product to the
menu" function (the "Add new product to the menu" process step is stored in
the Repository as a function).
■ Create default table definitions (database design) in the Repository from the
PRODUCTS entity and other entities.
■ Refine the default database design by adding an extra column to a table.
■ Define and generate the database in which the Speedy Pizza company will store
its information.

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■ Create default module definitions that provide the functionality to implement
the system. You will make these default definitions ready for generation, then
use one of them to generate an initial working form ("Priced Products") for the
input of product information. You can use this form to record information on
the database, if you wish.
■ Refine one of the module definitions further, to make significant changes to the
appearance and operation of the Priced Products form.
■ Make further refinements to the appearance of the Priced Products form, then
generate a final version and use it.
■ If you have Oracle’s Webserver Generator installed, implement the Priced
Products form as a Web application.

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 Lesson 1
Create process steps and add flows

Processes play a critical role in the way a business works. Modeling a process
enables you to both understand and improve existing processes, and also to design
new processes.
With Designer/2000, you model a business process using a process diagram. The
diagram shows the sequence of process steps that create a product or service within
the business, and the flow of information between them. Some products and
services might be for customers outside the organization. Other processes provide
internal benefit and help manage the business.
Process Modeller enables you to create process diagrams to model business
processes. The data from a process diagram is stored in the Designer/2000
Repository and is available for use by other Designer/2000 tools. In particular,
process steps are stored in the Repository as functions, which you can access using
the Function Hierarchy Diagrammer.
A process diagram has already been created to model customer order processing at
a pizza delivery company. During this lesson you will:
■ enter new process steps called ADD NEW PRODUCT TO THE MENU and
PUBLISH MENU ON THE WEB in the Satisfy Customer Order process
■ indicate the flow of information between the new process steps

Note: Before you start this lesson, make sure you have followed the
instructions in Chapter 2, “Preparing for the Tutorial”.

Create process steps and add flows Le 1-1

Create a process step
A process step represents an individual task within a business process. Each
business process undertaken by an organization can be broken down into individual
process steps.
When you save a process step in the Repository, it is saved as a business function.

Objective
To add new process steps to the existing diagram modeling the Satisfy Customer
Order process. These process steps are to be represented on the diagram by two of
the icons shipped with Process Modeller.

Instructions
1. Display the Designer/2000 window (follow the instructions in “Starting
Designer/2000 Tools and Utilities for the Tutorial” in Chapter 1).
2. Click on the Process Modeller button in the Designer/2000 window to start
Process Modeller.

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3. Select File → Open to display the Open Diagram dialog box.

4. Double click on PM1 SATISFY CUSTOMER ORDER to open the diagram.

Create process steps and add flows Le 1-3

 5. Select View → Iconic to make sure the diagram appears in iconic mode (as
shown below).

6. Click on the Create Process Step toolbar button.

7. Move the mouse pointer into the lowest swim lane (the horizontal strip next to
the ’Unspecified’ organization unit).

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8. Click the mouse button.
The Create Process Step dialog box is displayed.

9. Enter the following details for the new process step:

Short Definition: Add new product to the menu
Label: DELI 10.4 (AUTO)
10. Click on OK to close the dialog box.
The new process step is represented on the diagram by an icon, as shown below.

You can now change the icon that represents the new process step.
11. Double click on the ADD NEW PRODUCT TO THE MENU process step to
display the Edit Process Step dialog box.

Create process steps and add flows Le 1-5

 12. Display the Multimedia tab of the Edit Process Step dialog box.

13. Select perscmp1.bmp from the Animation Icon drop-down list.

14. Click on OK to close the Edit Process Step dialog box.
15. In the lowest swim lane, add a second process step as descibed in step 7 to 10,
above. For this second process step, enter the following details:
Short Definition: Publish menu on the Web
Label: DELI 10.5 (AUTO)
16. Using the procedure described in steps 11 to 14, above, change the icon of the
new process step to globe1.bmp.

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Add a flow, a trigger and an outcome
A flow represents the movement of information between individual elements (e.g.
process steps) on a process diagram. A trigger is an event that initiates the business
process that a process diagram illustrates. An outcome is an event that results from
the business process that a process diagram illustrates.

Objective
To add a flow to the process diagram, between the ADD NEW PRODUCT TO THE
MENU process step and the PUBLISH MENU ON THE WEB process step, and to
add a trigger and outcome.

Instructions
1. Click on the Create Flow toolbar button.

2. Click on the ADD NEW PRODUCT TO THE MENU process step.

3. Click on the PUBLISH MENU ON THE WEB process step.
The Create Flow dialog box appears.

4. Click on OK to close the dialog box and add the flow to the diagram.
5. Click on the Create Trigger toolbar button.

Create process steps and add flows Le 1-7

 6. Click on the ADD NEW PRODUCT TO THE MENU process step.
The Create Trigger dialog box appears.
7. In the Name box, type NEED FOR MENU CHANGE and click OK.
8. Click on the Create Outcome toolbar button.

9. Click on the PUBLISH MENU ON THE WEB process step.

The Create Outcome dialog box appears.
10. In the Name box, type PRODUCT PUBLICISED and click OK.
The diagram now appears as shown.

11. Select File → Save Diagram to save the diagram.

12. Select File → Exit to close the Process Modeller.

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Lesson summary
In this lesson you used the Process Modeller to enter new steps called ADD NEW
PRODUCT TO THE MENU and PUBLISH MENU ON THE WEB in the Satisfy
Customer Order process. You indicated an information flow and recorded a trigger
and outcome.

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 Lesson 2
Create entities and add relationships

Any application you develop will store and manipulate information, so an essential
part of developing a system is constructing an accurate model of the information
needs of an organization. The information model will act as a framework for the
development of new or enhanced systems.
One technique used to model an organization’s information requirements is entity
relationship modeling. Entity relationship modeling involves identifying the things
of importance in an organization (entities), the properties of those things (attributes)
and how they are related to one another (relationships).
The Entity Relationship Diagrammer, one of the Designer/2000 tools, enables you to
create an entity relationship model in the form of a diagram showing the elements
of information and the way they are logically related.
An entity relationship diagram has already been created for Speedy Pizza, modeling
the information needs of the business. During this lesson, you will:
■ enter a new entity, PRODUCT
■ specify the relationship between the PRODUCT entity and the PRICED
PRODUCT entity.
■ define the attributes of PRODUCT

Create entities and add relationships Le 2- 1

Create an entity
An entity is a thing of significance, whether real or conceptual, about which the
business being modeled needs to hold information.

Objective
To add an entity representing PRODUCT to the entity relationship diagram
modeling the order processing area of the business.

Instructions
1. Click on the Entity Relationship button in the Designer/2000 window to start
the Entity Relationship Diagrammer.

2. Select File → Open to display the Open Diagram dialog box.

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3. Double click on SPEEDY PIZZA - ERD1 to open the diagram.

Hint: You might have to resize the window to view all the entities.
4. Click on the Entity toolbar button.

Create entities and add relationships Le 2- 3

 5. Move the mouse pointer to below the PRICED PRODUCT entity and click to
create the entity.
The Create Entity dialog box appears.

6. Enter the following details in the Create Entity dialog box:

Name: PRODUCT
Short Name: PDT
Plural: PRODUCTS

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7. Click on OK to close the Create Entity dialog box.
The PRODUCT entity appears on the diagram.

Hint: You might have to resize the PRODUCT entity.

Create entities and add relationships Le 2- 5

Add a relationship
Relationships are named significant associations between two entities. Relationships
on an entity relationship diagram display graphical indications of their optionality
(whether a relationship is mandatory or optional) and cardinality (the number at
each end of a relationship).

Objective
To create a relationship between the PRICED PRODUCT entity and the PRODUCT
entity.

Instructions
1. Click on the Many-to-One (Mandatory to Optional) Relationship toolbar button.

Note: It is important to click on the correct toolbar button. Check

that the tooltip is "M:1 (M to O) Relationship" and that the text in
the status bar is "Creates a M:1 (mandatory to optional)
relationship".

2. Click on the PRICED PRODUCT entity.

A line starts from the edge of the entity that you clicked on and stretches to
wherever you move the mouse pointer.
3. Click on the PRODUCT entity.
A line appears between the PRICED PRODUCT entity and the PRODUCT
entity, and the Create Relationship dialog box appears.

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4. In the Create Relationship dialog box, enter the following details:
From Name: FOR
To Name: OBTAINABLE AS
5. Click on OK to close the Create Relationship dialog box.
The names of the two ends of the relationship appear on the entity relationship
diagram.

6. Select File → Save Diagram to save the entity relationship diagram.

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Create attributes
An attribute is any detail that serves to qualify, identify, classify, quantify or express
the state of an entity.
A unique identifier is a combination of attributes and/or relationships that uniquely
identifies an occurrence of an entity.

Objective
To add attributes to the new PRODUCT entity.

Instructions
1. Double click on the PRODUCT entity to display the Edit Entity dialog box.

You are now ready to enter the attributes of the PRODUCT entity.

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 If a particular attribute is always required, the attribute is described as
mandatory. If the attribute has a value for only some of the time, it is described
as optional. An attribute’s Optionality (Opt) property specifies whether the
attribute is mandatory or optional.
The type of data represented by an attribute is defined by the attribute’s Format
property. Some attribute formats require further definition, including length
and the number of decimal places (specified by the Max Len and Dec properties
respectively).
Attributes can be associated with a domain (a common set of properties that
apply to a group of attributes).
2. On the Attributes tab, enter the following details:

Name Seq Domain Opt Format Max Dec Primary

Len

DISCOUNT DISCOUNT æ CHAR 1

DAY DAY

PRODUCT VARCHAR2 30
DESCRIPTION

PRODUCT ID INTEGER 6 æ
PRODUCT PRODUCT VARCHAR2 10
TYPE TYPE

Hint: Use the horizontal scroll bar to see the Format, Max Len, Dec and Primary
fields.
3. Double check that you have entered all of the attribute details correctly (this is
important for the rest of the tutorial).
Each occurrence of an entity can be uniquely identified by one or more of its
attributes. Because you have checked Primary against ID, that attribute will be
used as the unique identifier (UID). You can confirm this on the UIDs tab. You
could also use the UIDs tab to change the composition of the UID or to create
alternate UIDs. For this tutorial, we will not make these changes.

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 4. Click on OK to close the Edit Entity dialog box.
The attributes for the PRODUCT entity are displayed on the diagram.

Hint: You might have to resize the PRODUCT entity to see all the attributes.
5. Select File → Save Diagram, then select File → Exit to close the Entity
Relationship Diagrammer.

Lesson summary
In this lesson you used the Entity Relationship Diagrammer to enter a new entity,
PRODUCT. You specified the relationship between the PRODUCT entity and the
PRICED PRODUCT entity. You defined the PRODUCT entity’s attributes.

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 Lesson 3
Refine default functions

Functions are arranged in a hierarchy. A function hierarchy shows the information

used by functions, in terms of entities and attributes. Each function in the hierarchy
is decomposed until the lowest level functions (called elementary business
functions) that comprise it have been identified. It is the elementary functions that
become the forms, reports and utilities in the finished system.
You use the Function Hierarchy Diagrammer to decompose functions, define
elementary functions and show how functions use data.

Identify functions to automate

The process model showed the process steps for the business carried out by Speedy
Pizza. All of the process steps were recorded in the repository as functions, but only
some of these functions are suitable for automation (e.g. "Record customer order").
The remaining functions (e.g. "Assemble products in a box") will be implemented as
manual processes

Objective
To identify which of the existing functions are to be automated.

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Instructions
1. Click on the Function Hierarchy button in the Designer/2000 window to start
the Function Hierarchy Diagrammer.

2. Select File → New to create a new diagram based on existing function

definitions.
The New Diagram dialog box appears.

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3. Highlight "DELI 1 Satisfy Customer Order" in the list and click OK.
The DELI 1 SATISFY CUSTOMER ORDER function and its child functions
appear.

Hint: You might have to resize the window or use zoom to view the entire
function hierarchy.
4. Click the Function button in the toolbar.

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 5. Click in an empty part of the diagram. This opens the Create Function dialog
box.

6. In the Label box, type AUTO 1 and in the Short Definition box type in Handle
automated functions. Click the OK button. The AUTO 1 function appears
on the diagram as a root function.
This new root function can now be used as the parent of functions that already
exist on the diagram. To do this, you drag the child functions and drop them
onto the root function. It is important when doing this that you position the
mouse pointer precisely in the centre of the root function before releasing the
mouse button. Otherwise, the moved function will become another root
function. The mouse pointer changes shape to help with this.
7. Drag the Record Customer Order function (i.e., DELI 1.1 (AUTO))to the centre
of the AUTO 1 function until the mouse pointer shape changes to that shown
below.

Releasing the mouse button reparents DELI 1.1 (AUTO) Record Customer
Order under the AUTO 1 root function.

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8. Using the technique described in step 7, above, reparent the following
additional functions under AUTO 1:
DELI 1.3 (AUTO) Print customer’s order
DELI 10.3 (AUTO) Record time to transport and payment
DELI 10.4 (AUTO) Add new product to the menu
DELI 10.5 (AUTO) Publish menu on the Web

The new function hierarchy for the AUTO 1 module is as follows:

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Add entity usages to a function
To create working applications, the information used by a function must be
identified. This typically involves specifying whether a function can create, retrieve,
update or delete an instance of an entity.

Objective
To specify how the PRODUCT entity is used by the "Add new product to the menu"
and "Publish menu on the Web" functions.

Instructions
1. Double click the function DELI 10.4 (AUTO) Add new product to the menu.
This opens the Edit Function dialog box.

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 2. On the Entity Usages tab, add the PRODUCT and PRICED_PRODUCT entities
to the Entity column (by selecting them from the drop down list in each cell of
the Entity column) and set their usages as set out in the following table. It is
important that PRODUCT appears above PRICED_PRODUCT in the table.

Entity Create Retrieve Update Delete Archive Other

PRODUCT æ æ æ æ
PRICED_PRODUCT æ æ æ æ
The usage flags indicate how the function uses the information represented by
the entities.
Hint: Use the horizontal scrollbar to see the Delete, Archive and Other usage
flags.
3. Click on OK to close the Edit Function dialog box.
4. Set up entity usages for entities DELI 10.5 (AUTO) as below.

Entity Create Retrieve Update Delete Archive Other

PRODUCT æ
PRICED_PRODUCT æ
5. If you wish, save the diagram with a name of your choice. Note that you do not
have to save the diagram in order to save the data that you have input in this
lesson.

Create attribute usages using the function/attribute matrix utility

Having specified the entities used by a business function, and how those entities are
used, you specify how the function uses the attibutes of those entities, including
whether a function can:
■ create or insert a value into an optional attribute
■ retrieve the value of an attribute
■ update the value of an attribute
■ delete the value of an optional attribute
You can use the Function/Attribute Matrix utility to create usages for all attributes
of the entities used by a function.

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Objective
To create attribute usages for the "Add new product to the menu" and "Publish
menu on the Web" functions.

Instructions
1. In the Function Hierarchy Diagrammer, select Utilities>Function/Attribute
Matrix.
This displays the Create Function/Attribute Matrix dialog box.

2. Highlight the following functions in the list:

DELI 10.4 (AUTO) Add new product to the menu
DELI 10.5 (AUTO) Publish menu on the Web

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 3. Click the OK button.
The Create Function/Attribute dialog box closes and the attribute usages are
created.
To confirm that the attribute usages have been created, open the Edit Function
dialog box for the functions (see previous section) and view the Attribute
Usages tab. For each entity used by the function, the attributes will be listed and
the usages shown by completed check boxes. If you scroll across to the
Comments column, you will see "Created by system on <date>".
4. Close the Function Hierarchy Diagrammer.

Lesson summary
In this lesson you identified which functions should be automated and created
entity and attribute usages.

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 Lesson 4
Transform the data model
into a table design

When you record an entity model in the Repository, you are specifying the things
the business needs to manipulate and about which information has to be stored. The
next stage is to design a database in which to hold this information.
The Database Design Transformer, one of the Designer/2000 tools, enables you to
create and maintain a database design based upon the entity model recorded in the
Repository. The resulting database design comprises a number of database object
definitions including table definitions (to record instances of entities), column
definitions (to store attributes), and foreign key constraint definitions (to implement
relationships between entities). The Database Design Transformer also creates and
maintains additional elements to support the design.
Like the entity model, the database design generated by the Database Design
Transformer is stored in the Repository. Later in the tutorial, you will use other
Designer/2000 tools to create the database itself, based on this design.
During this lesson, you will use the Database Design Transformer to create new
table and column definitions in the Repository from the entity and attributes that
you defined in the previous lesson (and from the supplied entities).

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Create a table definition from entities
The Database Design Transformer maps entities to tables to create table definitions,
and creates column definitions from attributes.

Note: The instructions below direct you to start the Database

Design Transformer from the Entity Relationship Diagrammer.
However, you can also start the Database Design Transformer
directly from the Designer/2000 window using the Database
Transformer button.

Objective
To create table definitions in the Repository from the design information on the
entity-relationship diagram.

Instructions
1. In the Entity Relationship Diagrammer, open the SPEEDY PIZZA - ERD1
diagram.
Note that the PRICED PRODUCT entity has no unique identifier (i.e., no
attribute marked with a #). This will be created later by the Database Design
Transformer.
2. Select Utilities → Database Design Transformer.

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 A progress box, then the Database Design Transformer dialog box, appears.

3. Ensure that the "Run the Transformer in Default Mode" and "All entities"
options are selected.
4. Click on Run to run the Database Design Transformer.
The Design Transformer Output window appears, detailing the operations
performed by the Database Design Transformer.
The Database Design Transformer creates table and column definitions from the
entities and attributes. The name of the table definition is the plural version of
the entity name, with spaces converted to underscores. The names of the
column definitions are the attribute names preceded by an abbreviation
(representing the table name) and an underscore.
In the next lesson, you will use the Design Editor to view the definitions created
by the Database Design Transformer.

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 5. Close the Design Transformer Output window and the Database Design
Transformer dialog box.
6. Select File → Exit to close the Entity Relationship Diagrammer.

Lesson summary
In this lesson you used the Database Design Transformer to create new table and
column definitions in the Repository from entities and attributes.

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 Lesson 6
Build a database

Having refined the database design, you use the Server Generator to generate the
server-side components for the system.
The Server Generator can create objects on a local or remote database from
definitions recorded in the Repository.
During this lesson you will:
■ create the database tables on a local Oracle database

Create the database tables

Designer/2000 can take the table definitions created by the Database Design
Transformer and create the database that your applications will use to store data.

Objective
To create the database tables required for your system.

Instructions
1. In the Design Editor, select Generate → Generate Database From Server Model.
This opens the Generate Database From Server Model dialog box.
2. On the Target tab, choose the Database option button and enter the connection
details (the same as for your current connection).
3. On the Objects tab, move all objects into the Generate list by clicking the double-
right-arrow button.

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 4. Click the Start button. The messages window is opened in the Design Editor.
This reports the progress of the generation process.
When generation is complete, the Generation Complete dialog box opens.

5. Click the Execute DDL button. This creates the database tables and other
objects.
After the ’Processing Complete’ message appears in the message window, you can
use the Database Navigator to see the database objects that have been created.
You open the Database Navigator by selecting Tools → Database Navigator. Note
that no triggers have been created for any of the tables. You should close the
Database Navigator before continuing.
You can close the Design Editor. There is no need to save the server model diagram
that you created, but you may do so if you wish.

Lesson summary
In this lesson you used the Server Generator to create the tables on the database.

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 Lesson 7
Create default working forms

Once the analysis data is as complete as possible and the database design is stable
and complete, you are ready to create a first-cut application design based on
information stored in the Repository.
The Designer/2000 utility to produce the first-cut application design is the
Application Design Transformer. The Application Design Transformer converts
functions into candidate modules, which can then be implemented as forms, reports
and utilities. The Transformer also converts function data usages to module data
usages that define how a module uses the tables and columns in the database.
The modules created by the Application Design Transformer are ’candidate’
modules and are not included in the application design until you accept them (by
changing their ’Candidate’ property to ’No’). Modules you accept, and their usages,
can then be used for generating applications.

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Generate default module definitions

Objective
To create module definitions for the automated functions.

Instructions
1. Click on the Function Hierarchy button in the Designer/2000 window to start
the Function Hierarchy Diagrammer.

2. Create a new diagram based on the function AUTO 1 "Handle automated

functions".
You do this by selecting File → New, then double clicking on AUTO 1 in the
New Diagram dialog box. You may have to resize the diagram to see all of the
functions.
3. On the Function Hierarchy Diagram, select the function AUTO 1 "Handle
automated functions".
4. Select Utilities → Application Design Transformer.
This opens the Application Design Transformer dialog box.
5. Ensure that the following options are set (these should be the default settings):
Common Parameters - Start Function AUTO 1
Common Parameters - Module Prefix TUTORI

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6. Set the Merge Granularity option to Identical Entities And Usages.

Note: If you leave this option set to the default (i.e., Identical
Entities), the Application Design Transformer will create a single
module definition for functions DELI 10.4 (AUTO) and DELI 10.5
(AUTO). This single module definition will not enable you to
continue with the tutorial.

7. Click the Generate button.

8. At the end of the generation process (wait for the percentage completion figure
to reach 100%), close the progress box and the dialog box, then exit from the
Function Hierarchy Diagrammer. You can save the diagram if you wish, but
there is no need to, because all the underlying data was saved in the Repository
as you worked.

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Accept the candidate module definitions for generation
The Application Design Transformer has created "candidate" module definitions.
These will not be used for generation unless you change this status.

Objective
To make the default module definitions ready for generation.

Instructions
1. Click on the Design Editor button in the Designer/2000 window to start the
Design Editor.

2. Choose the Module Applications option on the Welcome screen, then click the
OK button. (If the Welcome screen did not appear, change directly to the
Modules tab in the Navigator window.)
3. Select Options → Use Property Palette (the option may already be chosen), then
expand the list of Modules in the Navigator and double click on the icon for the
first module in the list.

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 The properties for the module are shown in the Property Palette.

The property names for a particular object are listed in the cells in the left
column. The values for the properties are listed in the cells in the right column.
When you click on a values cell, it changes to an appropriate input control. The
controls you will be using include the drop-down box and the list box. When
using the list box, you obtain the list of possible values by clicking the icon on
the right of the cell.
The changes that you make to the values of a particular object (in this case
module definitions), will be saved automatically if you display the values for
another object. You can also save the values manually.
To save the changes that you make on the Property Palette manually, select
File → Save Uncommitted Data, or click on the Property Palette toolbar.

4. Under the heading "Planning", change the Candidate? property to No, then save
the data manually (as described above).
The icon for the first module changes to represent a Form.

5. Change the Candidate? properties of all the other modules to No.

The icons for TUTORI0020 and TUTORI0050 will change to represent a Report.

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 6. Display the properties for module TUTORI0050 "Publish menu on the Web",
change the language to Oracle WebServer, then save the change.
Leave the Design Editor open for the next stage.

Generate a working form

You can now generate a first-cut working form. The generated form will provide
basic functionality that you can refine in later lessons.

Objective
To generate a default working form from a module definition.

Instructions
1. In the Navigator, highlight module TUTORI0040 ("Add new product to menu").
2. Select Generate → Generate Module. This opens the Generate Form dialog box.

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3. In the Standards group on the Generate Form, ensure that the Object Library
Name box is set to find tutorial.olb and that the Template Name box is set to
find tutorial.fmb. If they are not already set, click each Browse button to find
them.

Note: The tutorial.olb and tutorial.fmb files are copies of the files
ofgstnd1.olb and ofgpc1t.fmb files, as they were originally supplied
with Designer/2000. If you use modified versions of these files, or
alternate files, you will not get the results described in the
remainder of this tutorial.

4. Click the Options button to open the Form Generator Options dialog box, and
on the Run tab set the Run Form option to Yes. Click the OK button.
5. On the Generate Form dialog box, click the Start button.
Progress is reported in the message window. Blue messages will tell you about
changes that the generator intends to make to the module definition. The
Generation Complete message box is then displayed, giving you the option to
save the changes to the module definition or to revert to the pre-generation
state.

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 6. On the Generation Complete message box, click the Save button.
Because you set the Run Form option to Yes in step 4, above, the Forms Runtime
program will open. The default working form is displayed.

You can use this form now if you wish. The details that you enter will be
recorded on the PRICED_PRODUCTS and PRODUCTS tables of the database
that you generated earlier.
The cursor will be flashing in the Size Code field, but first you need to set up
Products information, so click the Discount Day field. Notice that there is a hint
message at the foot of the window that says there is a list of values available. To

obtain the list of values, click the List button in the toolbar. Double click on
one of the values to enter it into the list.

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 Tab to the Product Description field and type in Ham and mushroom
supreme.
Tab to the Product Id field and type in 1001.
Tab to the Product Type field and choose PIZZA from the list of values
available.
Click the Save button in the toolbar to save the information to the database.
Click the Clear Record button and make further entries if you wish (e.g., for a
beverage), but not too many at this stage.
Now click the Size Code field. Enter M (a list of values is available).
Tab to the Price field and enter 9.99.
Tab to Quantity In Stock but don’t enter a value.
Tab to Label and type in Medium Ham and Mushroom Supreme.
Tab to Product Id. Enter 1001 from the list of available values.
Click the Save button in the toolbar. The message "Transaction complete - 1
record applied and saved" is shown at the foot of the window.
Make a few more entries, if you wish.
You will have noticed that the fields on the form are held within two blocks, one
relating to the Priced Products table and one to the Products table. In the next
lesson, the Products table will be made into a lookup table and you will enter
only Priced Products information through the generated form.
7. To close the generated form, press ALT+F4.
The generated form is closed.
Leave the Design Editor open for the next lesson.

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Lesson summary
In this lesson you:
■ created default module definitions
■ modified the default module definitions to make it possible for them to be used
in generation
■ generated a working form based on a default module definition.

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 Lesson 8
Refine modules for generation

In lesson 7 you generated (and possibly used) a form that had been given default
characteristics based on design information supplied earlier. You can now change
the default characteristics to meet your further requirements. One way to do this is
to use the Navigator to find the object that you want to change (e.g., the Discount
Day field), then open the Property Palette and make the changes. Another way is to
open a diagram so that the objects can be easily seen, then to open the Property
Palette from the diagram. The latter method is described in this lesson.

Change form characteristics

By default, the form generator will provide a button on the toolbar for opening a list
of values for a field on a form. As an alternative, you can provide a list of values by
making the field a drop-down list.
An automatically generated attribute is given a name that might not be meaningful
when used as a prompt on a generated form. You can change such prompts to a
more meaningful one.

Objective
To set up a drop-down list and change a field prompt on the Priced Products form.

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Instructions
1. In the Design Editor, create a module diagram for the TUTORI0040 module.
You do this by dragging TUTORI0040 from the list of modules in the Navigator
to the blank work area of the Design Editor.

2. Display the Property Palette for the SIZE_CODE bound item property, in one of
the following ways.
If the Property Palette is already open, you display the correct properties by
single clicking SIZE_CODE on the diagram.
If the Property Palette is not already open, you open it by selecting
Options → Use Property Palette then double clicking the A icon next to
SIZE_CODE.
The Property Palette title bar will say "TUTORIAL: Bound Item Properties".

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 3. Scroll down to the Display Type property and change it from "Text" to "Pop
list", then save the change by clicking the Save button on the Property Palette
toolbar.
4. Display the Property Palette for PP_ID.In the Display section, change Display?
to Yes and change the Prompt text to "Priced Products Id". Save the changes.

Create a lookup table

In the default generated form that you have already seen, the fields for inputting
Products data appeared on the Priced Products form. Now we are going to assume
that Speedy Pizza will store product data on the database as a separate operation,
and that the "Add new product to the menu" process uses this information to create
specific "menu" items. For example, Speedy Pizza has a basic product called "Ham
and mushroom supreme", one of its pizzas. This is available in small, medium and
large sizes, and each of these variants must appear on its menu. This is achieved
through the Priced Products form, by creating separate records for small, medium
and large pizzas, all incorporating "Ham and mushroom supreme" from the
Products lookup table.

Objective
To change the Products table into a lookup table.

Instructions
1. On the module diagram for TUTORIO0040, drag the PRODUCTS table usage
(yellow box) so that its left side overlaps the right side of the
PRICED_PRODUCTS table usage.
2. When a broken vertical indicator line appears to the right of the
PRICED_PRODUCTS table usage, release the mouse button.

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 A lookup link appears on the diagram. The crow’s foot always points to the
table on the left, which is the usage that contains the foreign key column.

Leave the Design Editor open for the next lesson.

Lesson summary
In this lesson you:
■ made it possible to choose the values for Size Code from a drop-down list
■ changed a field prompt to make it more meaningful
■ set up a lookup table.

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 Lesson 9
Generate a refined Developer/2000 Form

During this lesson, you will make further changes to the default design of the Priced
Products form. You will then regenerate the form to incorporate all the changes you
have made.

Set preferences to influence generation

The final appearance of a generated form is determined by many of the design
decisions and defaults that you have already encountered. There is, however, one
very important set of preferences that you have not yet seen. These are the
Generator Preferences, and the purpose of this exercise is to make you aware of
their potential by changing just one of them. If you do not change the Generator
Preferences, a default set will apply in all circumstances and this might be perfectly
acceptable to you.

Objective
To increase the width of border lines on the generated form.

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Instructions
1. On the module diagram for the TUTORI0040 module, select the
PRICED_PRODUCTS module (outer, gray box) and click the Generator
Preferences toolbar button.

This opens the Generator Preferences palette.

2. Expand the Layout - Block preference node and change the "Block brush width"
(BLKBWD) preference to 4.
You can obtain an explanation of a preference by clicking on the Context
Sensitive Help button on the toolbar and then clicking on the preference name.
3. Save the preference data by clicking the Save button on the palette toolbar.
4. Close the Generator Preferences palette.

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Change a display characteristic of the generated form
So far, you have looked at module diagrams in "data view". There is an alternative,
which is "display view". In display view, you can change certain physical aspects of
the generated form by direct manipulation of objects on the diagram.

Objective
To change the order of the fields on the generated form so that Product Id is the
first.

Instructions
1. Make the Module Diagram for TUTORI0040 active, then select View → Display
View.
The diagram appears as follows:

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 2. With the mouse pointer, grab each of the module component items in turn and
move them up or down the list, into the following order:
Product Id
Product Id
Product Description
Product Type
Discount Day
Size Code
Price
Quantity In Stock
Label
Priced Products Id

Generate, run and use a form

You generated and used a form in a previous lesson, but that was a default design.
Now is the time to generate the changes you have made to that design.
This lesson also deliberately gives alternate instructions for procedures you have
already followed, so that you can see that there is more than one way to do some
things.

Objective
To generate, run and use the refined Products form definition.

Instructions
1. Select Options → Generator Options → Forms. This opens the Form Generator
Options dialog box.
2. On the Run tab, set Run Form to No, then click the OK button.
3. Select the TUTORI0040 module in the Navigator or on a Module Diagram.

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4. Select Generate → Generate Module.
This opens the Generate Form dialog box. Check that the Object Library Name
and Template Name boxes are still set to tutorial.olb and tutorial.fmb.
5. Click the Start button.
The message window is opened in the lower part of the Design Editor. Blue
messages tell you what further changes the generator intends to make to the
module definition. When generation is complete, the message "Generation of
module ’TUTORI0040’ complete" appears in the message window and the
Generation Complete dialog box opens.
6. On the Generation Complete dialog box, click the Save button.
If you wish, you can close the message window by choosing View → Message
Window.
7. Select Run → Forms Runtime.
This opens the Developer/2000 Forms Runtime window and the Forms
Runtime Options dialog box.
8. In the File box, type in the name of (or browse to) the generated module
(cgenf50\ADD_NEW_PRODUCT_TO_THE_MENU.fmx) , enter your user id,
password and the database name, then click OK.

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 The Priced Products form is displayed, showing the changes that you have
made since lesson 7.

If you wish to use the form and did not enter Product information in the default
form on lesson 7, you must now populate the PRODUCTS table using the script
provided. You do this by choosing the Populate Tutorial Tables program from
the Designer/2000 Tutorial folder. if you are prompted to enter a username,
enter your username, password and database connection name in the following
format:
<username>/<password>@<connection_name>
You can now use the form to record priced products data on the database. You
will have noticed the thicker border. Notice also that the Product Id field is the
first in each record. Also that the Size Code field has a drop-down list.
You can save the data that you enter on the form by clicking the Save button on
the toolbar. You can close the form by selecting Action → Exit.
Close the module diagram in the Design Editor, but leave the Design Editor
open for the next lesson.

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Lesson summary
In this lesson you:
■ set a generator preference
■ used the display view of a module diagram to change a display aspect of the
module definition
■ regenerated the Products form to show all the changes that you made.

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Le 9-8 Designer/2000 Tutorial
 Lesson 10
Generate a WebServer Application

The WebServer Generator creates fully functional WebServer applications that

enable users to query, update, delete and enter information in an Oracle database
over the World Wide Web. In this lesson, you learn how to generate basic
WebServer applications.
Note: You can follow this lesson only if Oracle’s WebServer Generator has been
installed. You will need a username, password and connect string for the
WebServer, and these may be different to those you have been using for the
previous lessons. You will also need to know the full path of a Web browser
executable and the Web Agent URL. Your System Administrator will be able to tell
you these if WebServer Generator has been set up.

Implement the Speedy Pizza system as a Web application

In lesson 1 you created a process step called "Add new product to the menu". You
progressed this process step as part of the Speedy Pizza system and implemented it
as a form. In this lesson, you will implement the same process as a Web application.

Objective
To implement part of the Speedy Pizza system as a Web application.

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Instructions
1. In the Design Editor, in the list of relational table definitions on the Modules or
Server Model tabs, highlight all the table names and select Generate → Generate
Table API.
This opens the Generate Table API dialog.

2. Select the Oracle option button and enter the connection details if these are not
already shown.
3. Click the Start button.
The Design Editor message window is opened, through which progress is
reported.

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4. When generation of the table API is complete, close the message window by
choosing View → Message Window.
5. In the Navigator, expand the Modules node and highlight TUTORI0040.
6. Select Utilities → Copy With New Language. This opens the Copy With New
Language dialog box.

7. Enter TUTORI0060 in the New Short Name box and select Oracle WebServer
from the New Language drop-down list, then click the OK button. The new
module is listed in the Navigator.
8. Create a module diagram for the TUTORI0060 module.
9. Allow Insert as an operation for all of the items in the Products lookup table.
One way of doing this as follows. Open the Property Palette for one of the items
(e.g., DISCOUNT_DAY). Highlight all the lookup items on the diagram (i.e.,
DISCOUNT_DAY, PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION, PRODUCT_ID,
PRODUCT_TYPE). In the Operations section of the Property Palette, change the
Insert? value to Yes. Click the Save button on the Property Palette toolbar.
10. Select Options → Generator Options → WebServer and use the connection
information supplied by your System Administrator to complete the dialog.
Check the "Auto-install after Generation" check box. For a full description of the
details to be entered into the Options dialog box, click the Help button. Click the
OK button to save the information and close the dialog box.

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 11. Highlight module TUTORI0060 in the Navigator (or on the module diagram)
and select Generate → Generate Module. This opens the Generate WebServer
dialog box.

12. Click the Start button.

Progress is reported in the message window.
13. When the "Generation is complete" message box is displayed, click the OK
button.
14. On the message window toolbar, click the List Actions button.

15. Highlight "Run generated application using browser..." and click the Run
button.
Your browser executable is opened and the generated application is shown.

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The first page of the Web application is a query form. Click the New button to
move to the "add new product to menu" functionality (the Priced Products
page).

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 Just as with the Forms application, the first field you fill in is Product Id. This is
the identity of the product (e.g., 1011 for a Seafood Special pizza) that forms the
basis of the new menu item. You can choose from the products on the Products
table by clicking LOV next to the Product Id box.

Click on one of the active Product Ids in the List Of Values table to add it to the
Priced Products page. Fill in the other fields to describe the new menu item,
then click the Insert button to create the record.

Lesson summary
In this lesson you created module TUTORI0060 and implemented it as a WebServer
application.

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 Lesson 11
Conclude the tutorial

This lesson describes what you must do after completing the tutorial.

Exit from Designer/2000 and drop the tutorial tables

Instructions
1. Close any Designer/2000 tools you might have open.
2. Select File → Exit to close the Designer/2000 window.

Where to go for more information

You have now completed the tutorial. Remember that the tutorial does not attempt
to describe in detail the functionality of every Designer/2000 product component.
Instead, the tutorial concentrates on how to use the components together to progress
from a high level business model to working generated applications.
For comprehensive information about Designer/2000, refer to the help system
referenced in the “Read This First!” section at the start of this tutorial.

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Dropping the tutorial tables
To delete the tutorial tables when you have finished the tutorial:
1. Select the Drop Tutorial Tables program in the Designer/2000 Tutorial folder.
The SQL*Plus window appears.
2. Enter the username, password and database, in the format
<your_username>/<your_password>@<your_database>
You are prompted to confirm that you want to delete the tutorial tables.
3. To delete the tables, type Y and press [Return].
When the operation is complete, you are prompted to close the SQL*Plus
window.
4. Type EXIT and press [Return] to close the SQL*Plus window.

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 A
Tutorial installation notes

This appendix is intended for Repository Managers who are responsible for
enabling users to follow the Designer/2000 tutorial. This appendix explains how to
import the TUTORIAL application system. For information purposes only, this
appendix also lists the files installed by the Oracle Installer, and describes what
users have to do before starting the tutorial. The sections in this appendix are:
■ importing the TUTORIAL application system
■ setting up for WebServer Generator users
■ what the Oracle Installer installs on the client
■ how tutorial users are instructed to start the tutorial

Importing the TUTORIAL application system

The tutorial in this document requires that users have access to an application
system containing predefined entity and function definitions. This application
system is shipped with Designer/2000, and was originally created with the name
TUTORIAL.
To import the application system, you must start the Repository Object Navigator as
a user with:
■ the Designer/2000 Repository Manager privilege
You can import the TUTORIAL application system:
■ as the tutorial user
■ as a different user (in which case you will have to grant the tutorial user access
to the TUTORIAL application system)

Tutorial installation notes A-1

 The instructions given to users elsewhere in this document assume the application
system is called TUTORIAL. When you import the TUTORIAL application system,
you have the option to give the imported application system a different name. If you
do give the application system a name other than TUTORIAL, make sure you tell
users the name.

To import the TUTORIAL application system:

1. Start Designer/2000 as a user with the Repository Manager privilege.
2. Select any application system from the drop-down list in the Application
System dialog box and click on OK. If you do not have access to any existing
application systems, click on Cancel.
3. Start the Repository Object Navigator.
4. Select Application → Restore to display the Application-Restore dialog box.
5. Click on the Browse button to display the Select XT Archive Import File dialog
box.
6. Specify tutapsys.dmp as the file to import.
By default, this file is located in the \ctutx70 directory, below the
ORACLE_HOME directory. For example:
Environment Example location of tutapsys.dmp
Windows 95 C:\orawin95\ctutx70\tutapsys.dmp
Windows NT C:\orant\ctutx70\tutapsys.dmp

Click the Open button to close the Select XT Archive Import File dialog box
7. Ensure that tutapsys.dmp is specified in the Import File box, then click on the
Import button to begin the import.
If the current user has not imported or exported an application system before,
you will be prompted to create the archive tables before the file is imported.
Click on OK to accept the default tablespaces for tables and indexes.
If the archive tables already exist but are not empty, you will be prompted to
delete existing data before continuing. Click on OK.
8. If you want to change the name that the application system will be given in your
repository, type the new name in the New Name field.

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 9. Click on the original name of the application system (i.e. TUTORIAL) to select
it.
10. Click on the Restore button to create the application system in the Repository
with the name you specified.
When the process is complete, the application system status shown in the dialog
box is set to **Restored**.
11. Click on Close to close the Application - Restore dialog box.
12. Either follow the instructions below to grant access to the new application
system, or close the Repository Object Navigator.
If you are prompted to save changes (i.e. to the unnamed application system
created when you started the Repository Object Navigator if you did not have
access to any application systems), click on No.

Granting access to the TUTORIAL application system

If you were not logged on as the tutorial user when you imported the TUTORIAL
application system, you must grant access to the TUTORIAL application system to
the tutorial user now.
1. In the Repository Object Navigator, select Application → Grant Access By Appl
to display the Application - Grant Access By Application dialog box.
2. Select the name you have given the TUTORIAL application system from the For
Application drop-down list.
3. Click on the Add User button to display the Add User dialog box.
4. Click on the tutorial user name.
5. Click on the OK button.
6. Check the Access Rights checkboxes as indicated below:
Select Insert Update Delete Share Admin

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7. Click on the Grant button to grant the tutorial user access to the TUTORIAL
application system with the specified access rights.
8. Click on Close to close the Application - Grant Access by Application dialog
box.

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 9. Close the Repository Object Navigator.
If you are prompted to save changes (i.e. to the unnamed application system
created when you started the Repository Object Navigator if you did not have
access to any application systems), click on No.

Setting up for WebServer Generator users

Tutorial users will not be able to follow lesson 10 unless WebServer Generator has
been installed and set up.
Set up WebServer Generator as described in the Installation Guide and on-line Help.
Be prepared to make the following information available to the tutorial user:
■ the username, password and connect string for the WebServer
■ connection information for the Web Agent URL
The connection information is needed for the WebServer Generator Options dialog
box. You can see this dialog box by opening the Design Editor and selecting
Options → Generator Options → WebServer. Use the Help button on the dialog box
to obtain a detailed description of what is required. You may wish to enter this
information before the tutorial user starts the lessons.
The tutorial user will also need to know the location of a Web browser executable,
which may be local.

What the Oracle Installer installs on the client

This section describes the operation of the Oracle Installer during installation of the
Designer/2000 tutorial, and is for information purposes only.
During installation, the Oracle Installer:
■ Copies into the <ORACLE_HOME>\ctutx70 directory the following files:

tutapsys.dmp des2ktut.drp des2ktut.sql

des2ktut.dat yesno.sql des2ktut.txt

■ Creates a directory in <ORACLE_HOME>\ctutx70\ called tutorial.

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 ■ Copies into the <ORACLE_HOME>\ctutx70\tutorial directory the following
files:

tutorial.fmb tutorial.olb

■ Creates a folder called Designer/2000 Tutorial.

■ Populates the Designer/2000 Tutorial folder with the following programs:
− About the Tutorial (displays the text file des2tut.txt)
− Drop Tutorial Tables (runs the SQL script des2ktut.drp)
− Designer/2000 for Tutorial User (starts Designer/2000 with the working
directory set to <ORACLE_HOME>\ctutx70\tutorial)
− Populate Tutorial Tables (runs the SQL script des2ktut.sql).

Note: The working directory specified for the Designer/2000 for

Tutorial User program must be writeable.

How tutorial users are instructed to start the tutorial

When following the tutorial, users are instructed to start Designer/2000 by selecting
the Designer/2000 for Tutorial User program in the Designer/2000 Tutorial folder.
The working directory of this program item is set to
<ORACLE_HOME>\ctutx70\tutorial.

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