How-To Videos

An introduction to the BrightXpress platform for advanced users with a basic understanding of programming concepts. Helps to familiarise users with the various products in the platform for designing mobile applications in BrightBuilder, deploying them to mobile devices running BrightForms and configuring BrightServer.

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This first video in the BSP Overview series starts looking at the screen layout editor in BrightBuilder, introduces form expressions and starts to cover the Data Binding feature.

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This second video in the BSP Overview series continues looking at Data Binding, and covers the rest of the Form Editor tabs – Validation, Variables, and Menus.

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This final video in the BSP Overview series demonstrates using the Reports to create a print-out using BrightForms, discusses creating multilingual projects using the centralised Languages feature, and concludes by covering the re-usable Globals.

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This video covers the BrightBuilder BEP file. It demonstrates synchronising data from a file on BrightServer and discusses the Sync Panel, Table, Mapping and Script elements.

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A demonstration of the debugging using BrightBuilder, including break-points, stepping through expressions line-by-line, hovering over an object in the expression to see its value, using the Watch window, and setting values in real-time while you are debugging.

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This video shows what to do after receiving a device license from Bright Software. It walks through connecting to a running BrightServer and installing the licenses to the server.

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This video shows how BrightBuilder can be used to monitor any BrightServer that is connected on the network. Real-time data can be viewed directly from BrightServer, including online users, logged user activity, as well as live log tracing.

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This How-To video from Bright Software explains how to configure a running BrightServer, by connecting using BrightBuilder. It demonstrates updating server settings, and how to add and delete licenses and users.

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This demonstration walks through creating a PDA application that can collect field data, and send its data to the central SQL serve, via BrightServer. BrightBuilder connects to the SQL database to receive the table definitions. A cursor form is used to create the new data records, and a sync rule is set-up to send the data to BrightServer. The BrightServer configuration (BEP) file commands BrightServer to persist the incoming to an SQL database table.

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A walk-through using BrightBuilder to download data from an SQL database to a PDA. This video goes through creating the BEP server configuration, connecting to the SQL server, defining the data flow from database to handheld device, and finally running the PDA application to demonstrate the data transfer.

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This demonstration starts with a completed PDA application project in BrightBuilder. BrightServer is configured to read data from a text file, to provide to the PDA application. The PDA application is deployed to BrightServer, and released to the users. A PDA with BrightForms freshly installed is set up to connect to BrightServer and receive the new application, as well as the latest data. Finally, the demonstration closes by making a modification to the main screen, deploying the change to BrightServer, and then updating the application running on the PDA.

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An introduction to the concept of Online Queries in BrightXpress Mobility Suite. This video the difference between Online Queries and “normal” queries in BrightXpress, and explains the situations where Online Queries are useful. There is a walk-through using a simple Standard Online Query to get data from a data source to populate a list view, and finally each different type of Online Query is explained.

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An overview of Scripts in BrightServer using JavaScript. This video explains the situations where scripts are useful, goes through the different templates that are provided by the New Script Wizard, and breifly walks through the code skeletons provided by the wizard.

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This How-To video introduces BrightWeb that is built-in to BrightServer version 7. The benefit that BrightWeb brings is the ability to deploy mobile web applications with No Web Programming skills required.

There is a walk-through of a simple demo application, and also an explanation for how to dynamically render on different screen sizes using the Aspects feature.

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Demonstration using BrightXpress Mobility Suite to put together a simple web application from start to finish.

The purpose of this video is to show how it is possible to develop and deploy a web application without Web Programming skills (i.e. No HTML or JavaScript required) using BrightWeb.

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