About Application Models and User Interface Defaults

The Create Application Wizard is designed with the assumption that the developer may run it multiple times. To facilitate this iterative approach to application development, every time you run the wizard it saves the page definitions to an application model.

Consider the following example. You create an application by running the Create Application Wizard. After viewing the application, you realize it is not quite what you wanted. Instead of altering it, you can run the wizard again and select an application model. By selecting an existing application model when you rerun the wizard, you can quickly improve your application with minimal time and effort.

Leveraging Application Models and User Interface Defaults

You can increase your productivity when creating applications by leveraging application models and user interface defaults. Consider the following scenario:

Create an application based on tables or views by running the Create Application Wizard.
Run the generated application. Note any functional deficiencies.
Evaluate whether to create or edit user interface defaults.

For example, you can use user interface defaults to control how form field or report labels display. You can also utilize user interface defaults to display specific columns or have columns display in an alternate order.
Navigate to the Application home page and create an application by clicking Create.
Select Create Application.
When prompted to enter application details, specify the following:
1. Name - Enter a name to identify the application.
2. Application - Enter a unique integer value to identify the application, or accept the default.
3. Create Application - Select Based on existing application design model.
Select an application model.

Note the pages you previously created already appear.
Add pages, edit pages, or remove pages.
Complete the wizard.
Repeat steps 2 through 9 until the application meets your functional requirements.