Publishing one or more files in a project places them in a server directory, so that the Application Server can make them available to users.

Alpha Anywhere provides the following functions for controlling the Web Application Server.

The Web Project Properties dialog now has a new section called Application Global Variables where you can define global variables that can be seen by all .a5w pages and components in an application. The variables you define here are inside the AppVar variable frame/namespace. For example, say that you defined an Application Global Variable called var1 and set its value to "Alpha". Here is how you would reference this value in your code:

A default style can be defined in Web Project Properties that will be used by all components in your application.

The Microsoft XPS printer driver can be used as an alternative to generate reports.

A Web Project Profile is used to publish the web application to the local webroot, a remote server or computer on a local area network (LAN), or to an IIS server. The properties you can configure in a Web Project Profile are listed below.

Different web project settings available in Alpha Anywhere

Performs an action on the web-socket server, such as 'Send a message to the web-sockets server'. The message will be received by all UX and Grid components that are listening for web-socket messages and the 'webSocketOnMessage client-side event in all listening components will fire.

The Web Socket Server allows you to build 'connected' application (like a message board) where all of the clients are permanently connected to the Web Socket Server. To enable the Web Socket Server you must turn it on in the Project Properties dialog (accessible from the Web Applications Control Panel). You must also enable Web Socket support in any UX or Grid component that will communicate with the Web Socket server.