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Version: 2025

Project functions
List of functions for managing projects
Associating documents with the project
To describe a project in detail, you can associate documents with it...
Cleaning the project
After months or years of development and maintenance, the directory of your project often contains several files that are not used anymore but that you don't dare delete...
Making a backup of a project
It is possible to regularly make a backup of the different elements of a project...
Project anomalies: dead code and orphan elements
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to easily detect these "dead codes" and "orphan" elements.
Renaming a project
Renaming a project is used ton modify the name of the project. All the elements linked to the project before it is renamed are kept.
Environment of the project editor
The main elements of the project editor are as follows:
Importing elements into a project
All the elements of a project (windows, reports, classes, sets of procedures, queries...
Project Management Hub: Schedule management
The project contributors can manage their tasks directly from the schedule or from the task list...
Creating a Java project
WINDEV allows you to generate a Java application without even knowing the Java language...
Project elements
The project includes windows, reports, queries, help files, sets of procedures, ...
Creating a WINDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Recompiling the project
The project compilation is a process used to...
Importing a WINDEV/WINDEV Mobile project and its elements
A WINDEV project and all its elements compatible with WINDEV Mobile (analysis, windows, classes, sets of procedures, queries, ...
Common project
Projects are often cross-platform...
Transforming a WINDEV project into Mobile: a detailed audit
Transforming WINDEV applications into Mobile is very easy...
Project compilation: Warning, Error, Information, Programming standard...
When developing a project, the project is compiled on a regular basis.
Testing a static project
The test of the entire project allows simulating the startup of the site...
Restoring a project backup
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to regularly save the different elements of your project in an archive file (ZIP extension)...
Creating a WINDEV Mobile project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Creating a WEBDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Handling the versions of a window, report, query or project
When creating and developing the different elements of a project (window, query, report, project, ...
Duplicating a project
Duplicating a project allows you to have two identical projects with the same name but found in different directories...
Custom-Folders
"Custom-Folders" simplify the organization of projects, allowing you to group the elements of your application by themes...
Time management
For each element (windows, reports, ...
Carrying over the differences from an element to another one
The project comparator is used to compare two elements and to list the differences found...
Using several libraries in an application
A library is a WDL file that contains all the resources...
What is an application?
An application is a set of objects (windows, controls, ...
Automated tests on an executable
WINDEV allows you to test a project using the corresponding executable...
"About" window
The "About" window is used to display and access various information about the current application...
Opening a help file (CHM, HTML or PDF)
There are several ways to open a help file...
Creating an application that manages the Euro
The method for creating an application supporting the switch to the Euro is as simple as the method for creating a WINDEV application.
The "Favorites" pane
The "Favorites" pane gives direct access to the favorites of your project...
Exporting elements to a directory
All the elements handled by a project (window, report, classes, set of procedures, queries, ...
Business rules
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to manage the business rules...
Global procedure/function
A global procedure can be used in all the processes or events of the project.
Execution platform
WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop applications for different families of products...
FishEye
The "FishEye" effect is used to enlarge a section of editor graphs (analysis graph, UML graph, ...
Test of a WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile application
WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile feature multiple methods to test applications...
Site testing: the different types of tests available
WEBDEV includes multiple methods for testing your sites...
RETURN statement
The RETURN statement is used to exit the current event, process or procedure and return a result...
Defining specific character sets in HFSQL data files
When an application is used to display or save data in HFSQL files, this data is entered...
Creating the Table pages of the WEBDEV RAD pattern
Creating the Relation pages of a WEBDEV RAD pattern
Creating the Vision pages of the WEBDEV RAD pattern
Google Contacts management functions
List of functions for managing Google contacts...
Creating the Form pages of a WEBDEV RAD pattern
Managing Google contacts
The Google Contact service is used to manage contacts on Internet......
GDPR: Concrete solutions
GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation...
Management of Google contacts (prefix syntax)
The Google Contact service is used to manage contacts on Internet......
Customizing the report viewer (preview)
You can display a print preview in the report viewer......
Real Time Performance Profiler (RTPP)
The Real Time Performance Profiler (RTPP) is a tool that helps you identify what is slowing...
LanguageToCharset (Function)
Returns the character set corresponding to a language.
HFSQL Control Center: Open an analysis
The HFSQL Control Center allows you to fully manage an analysis......
UI modifiable by the end user
By default, WINDEV applications allow end users to modify the interface of the application......
Validity period of site pages
When creating a page, a validity period can be defined for this page......
New Features brochure - Version 27: New WINDEV features
New features in WINDEV 27 presented in the New Features brochure....
Creating the menus for the pages of the WEBDEV RAD pattern
Batch processes: Creating executables, WDLs, components, and more...
WINDEV and WEBDEV allow you to perform multiple types of processes from a command line......
WEBDEV layouts
A layout allows you to define several views of a page without duplicating it......
Multi-product external components
Components are a remarkably useful tool for development teams......
Dynamic Island
One major feature of the latest iPhone is the Dynamic Island, which transforms the black notch...
Analysis: Describing data files
The analysis is used to define the structure of data files used by the project......
Test of a query
The query editor allows you to run the test of query result......
WindowCount (Function)
Calculates the number of windows currently opened in the current application.
Creating the Form windows of a WINDEV RAD pattern