Presentation Designer Overview

Presentation Designer is an integral component of Presentation Builder, which provides several component applications that work together to create, manage, and deploy custom host access applications.

The process of creating a custom application with Presentation Builder is flexible and allows easy iterations for testing during development. Using Presentation Designer, you can quickly generate a simple application with minimal customization, and then add further customizations gradually.

Creating Simple Applications

Simple applications provide users with access to a Java applet that displays the host application just as it would display in a terminal emulator, except one of several pre-defined themes determines how the screens appear. Within minutes you can put a new face on all of the screens in your host application and make it available in a quickly downloadable Java applet. To learn how to make this happen, see How to Create a Simple Application.

Customizing Applications

Three major types of customizations you can make are:

• global — change how the host screens and fields are converted into applet forms and controls

• individual — customize individual screens or fields

• structural — restructure your application by changing the logic, workflow, or integrating other data sources

The following links provide access to introductory information to get you started with using Presentation Designer:

• Creating a New Project. To create a custom Presentation Builder application, you begin by creating a project in Presentation Designer.

• Customizing Applications Globally. Using Presentation Designer, you can make changes to an application that take effect globally; for example, if you want to change the appearance of every host screen or the functionality of every instance of a certain host field.

• Customizing Individual Screens. Using Presentation Designer, you can navigate through the screens of a live host session, creating a corresponding customizable form for each screen.

• Publishing Applications. After you've created your custom application in Presentation Designer, the next step is to publish it to Management & Control Services (MCS) for deployment.

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