Concepts of ASG-Safari™ 4GL: 2 Days

Tools

ASG-Safari 4GL (Windows®-based)

Course Content

This course uses the Windows-based version of the 4GL product, based on the popular ASG-Safari™ InfoServer. This class focuses specifically on the creation of 4RW (4GL-ReportWriter) and 4DM (4GL-Data Manager) tasks and the 4th Generation Language these tools employ.

During the course, the user will be introduced to the non-procedural nature of 4GL tasks, the order in which the 4GL directives are processed, and how to override the order of processing through the use of procedural blocks. The user will also be introduced to the following features, which are exclusive to ASG-Safari 4GL:

• An embedded Microsoft Windows® Notepad editor which uses cut, paste, copy, search, find/replace, and undo functions
• Field and directive syntax palettes (create 4RWs and 4DMs more quickly)
• Graphical identification of report errors and error corrections
• Online help
• Ability to print to client-networked printers as well as server-based printers
• Creation of iconized ASG-Safari 4GL reports

The user will develop the skills required to effectively create complex reports and data management tasks. Complex reports may include two-pass and indented bill-of-materials reports.

Who Can Benefit

• Power users and super users
• Experienced users who want to perfect their report-writing skills and who have a need for the power and flexibility of a 4GL ReportWriter
• Users who have a requirement for transactional processing in a bulk update mode
• Users who wish to improve processing speed through the use of two-pass reporting
• Users who have installed ASG-Safari™ on Windows NT®, VMS, UNIX® or Linux operating systems

If you are currently using the server-based UDMS 4GL tool to create 4GL tasks, we recommend that you attend the course, "Understanding ASG-Safari UDMS 4GL."