If you want to quickly provide a Web presentation for a UTS application without implementing any significant changes to the interface appearance, you do not need to capture the screens of your application. A UTS application can be run from a Web forms application or an MVC Web application by using ePortal's dynamic page creation feature. Each screen that is presented to ePortal at runtime is rendered as a Web page automatically.
In addition, the UTS application can be presented within a master page or layout page. Refer to Modifying the Master Page or Modifying the Layout Page for details.
On the File menu, point to New and click Project.
In the Create a new Project dialog box, do the following:
Notes:
Select C# or All Languages from the Language list.
Select Windows or All Platforms from the Platform list.
The ePortal templates are not displayed if other values are selected.
Select ePortal Data Source from the Project Type list.
The ePortal Data Source templates are displayed.
Do one of the following to select the template:
From the templates list, select OS 2200 UTS Data Source, and then click Next.
Enter OS 2200 UTS Data Source in the search option, select the template from the search result, and then click Next.
In the Project name box, type a name for the ePortal data source project. The name must be a valid C# name.
In the Location box, identify the path to the location where you want to save the project.
(Optional) In the Framework box, select the desired .NET Framework version from the list. For information on selecting the .NET version, refer to Multi-Targeting Issues.
Note: If you do not select a desired Framework, a default Framework version is selected.
If the Add to Source Control checkbox is present and the project should be put under source control, ensure that the checkbox is selected.
Accept all other default settings.
Click Create.
Select Build, then select Build Solution to build the project.
Create a new Web presentation project as follows:
To use a Web Forms application, follow the instructions for Procedure 1 in the topic Creating an ASP.Net Web Application (Terminal Screen Appearance).
To use an MVC Web application, follow the instructions for Procedure 1 in the topic Creating an MVC Web Application, and then scaffold the data source using the Scaffold Unisys Controller for ePortal Data Source with Views Dialog; ensure that you select the Preserve Screen Layouts and Styles option.
The presentation project appears in Solution Explorer.
In Solution Explorer, right-click the presentation project, and click Set as StartUp Project.
To review the ClearPath ePortal application configuration property values, right-click the presentation project, and click ClearPath ePortal Application Configuration. The ePortal Application Configuration dialog box appears. The <project name> tab contains the properties of the data source project, and the Web tab contains the properties of the presentation project. Refer to ePortal Application Configuration Property Values for information about the property values.
Make any required changes and click Apply.
If detailed tracing is needed, refer to Logging Errors and Tracing for information about selecting logging levels.
On the Debug menu, click Start Debugging. The new presentation starts. If the logging level was set to level 4 in step 8, ClearPath ePortal displays some simple traces to help with the debugging process in the output window of the debugger. These traces show the contents of the messages sent and received for the Web browser page. In addition, the data sent to and received from the OS 2200 server is displayed.
To display the trace output, open the Debug menu, click Windows, and click Output.