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Version: 2025

Specific page for displaying the site errors
If an error occurs in the dynamic WEBDEV website, a standard error page is displayed by default. This page informs the Web user of the error that occurred in the site.
Site testing: the different types of tests available
WEBDEV includes multiple methods for testing your sites...
DynamicSiteDisplay (Function)
Starts a dynamic WEBDEV website from a static page or from a dynamic WEBDEV page.
Testing a dynamic project from the administrator
Running the test from the WEBDEV administrator (WDAdmin) is used to check ...
The different types of sites
WEBDEV enables you to create static sites and/or dynamic sites...
Testing a dynamic project (session or AWP mode) from WEBDEV
The test of the entire project allows simulating the startup of the site...
Managing short URLs automatically
For the standard dynamic sites (with context), the access to the site can be done via a "standard" URL:
Differences according to the test mode of a dynamic project
The test of a dynamic project can be run ...
nWDOpenWDL: Opening a library
Opens a library created by WINDEV (file with a WDL extension)......
LooperDisplay (Function)
Refreshes a Looper control based on a data file from a given position: the modifications performed in the linked file are applied to the looper.
FTPTime (Function)
Returns the different times (creation, modification or access) associated with a file found on an FTP server (File Transfer Protocol).
NetGetFile (Function)
Retrieves an existing file from an FTP server (File Transfer Protocol) powered by WINDEV. This function is kept for backward compatibility....
XML management: Use example
This application example manages an XML file named "Orders......
hdfsStatus (Type of variable)
The hdfsStatus type is used to define the advanced characteristics regarding the status of an element (file, directory, link) in the Hadoop file system.
<Source>.MigrateLinkedCompositeKey (Function)
Migrates the values of the linked composite keys coming from a file in Hyper File 5.5 format to the HFSQL Classic format.
FTPDateTime (Function)
Returns the different dates and times (creation, modification or access) associated with a file found on an FTP server (File Transfer Protocol).
MySource (Reserved word)
MySource is used to handle the current data source (file, view or query) associated with a report or with a table based on a data file...
CtDescribedPassword (Property)
The CtDescribedPassword property allows you to set the password used to open the data file in an OLE DB connection (file defined in the code only).
Starting WDOptimizer in a command line
HMigrateLinkedCompositeKey (Function)
Migrates the values of the linked composite keys coming from a file in Hyper File 5.5 format to the HFSQL Classic format.
fCompress (Function)
Compresses a file.
Composite keys
A composite key is a key item containing several other items......
Execution platform
WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop applications for different families of products......
How to populate a TreeView control using a data file?
By default, the TreeView control cannot automatically display the data coming from a data file......
<Table>.SelectToFile (Function)
Positions on the data file record corresponding to a row selected in the multi-selection Table control based on a data file.
Skin template
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to customize the interface of your applications via several preset interfaces......
Special paste
The Special paste command is used to explicitly choose the format in which the clipboard content will be pasted in the window editor......
hdfsRights (Type of variable)
The hdfsRights type is used to define the advanced characteristics regarding the access rights to an element (file, link, directory) of the Hadoop file system.
spHash (Property)
The spHash property is used to: Get the algorithm used for salting an item of type "Password". This property can be used for items of type "Password" defined in the data model editor or programmatically. Set the algorithm used for salting (only for "Password" items described programmatically)....
<Source>.Add (Function)
Add: the record found in memory into the data file (query or view). the record found in a Record variable into the data file (query or view)....
Configuring the automatic modification of data files
The automatic data file modification updates the description of data files on user computers......
WDInst: Configuring the automatic data file modification
The automatic data file modification updates the description of data files on user computers......
fRead (Function)
Reads: a block of bytes (characters) in an external file (ANSI or Unicode), the content of an external file (ANSI or Unicode) and assigns it to a memory area....