The Storga manual

Get started with Storga

▸ The choice of software to use Storga

▸ The 12 things to remember before you start using Storga

▸ Step-by-step description of the most common elementary operations
     Edit a page, make files available, etc.

The basics of the user interface

▸ The basics of the Storga user interface
     Explain points 1, 2 and 3

▸ Storga modes
     Explain point 9

▸ Understanding the structure of a Storga document
     Explain points 6 and 8

▸ The toolbox: the different types of blocks available to build a document

▸ The models
     Explain point 10

Advanced user interface

▸ Create a web page using office tools

▸ Send the mailing of an online questionnaire

▸ Exports (PDF, ePUB, to office automation)

▸ Imports (CSV, text)

Administration

▸ Rights

▸ Manage URLs, choose your domain name

▸ User accounts and groups

▸ Mail boxes

▸ Configure program execution

Automating

The two basic building blocks for automation: forms and reports

▸ The sheets and their programs
     Explains point 11

▸ The states, the base
     Explains point 12

▸ States, advanced functions

The basics of programming

▸ The syntax

▸ Variables and types

▸ Operators, constants, execution context

▸ Other digital operations and conversions

▸ Strings

▸ Dates and times

▸ Index

▸ Control Instructions

Automatic processing of forms and reports

▸ Subtable management

▸ Handling of a file by program (continuation and end)

▸ Access and automatic creation of other forms

▸ Use states
     The 'lookup' and 'report' instructions

Advanced formatting

▸ The Dataware data type

▸ Table and graph representations

▸ Drawing

▸ Change the style of a Storga site

Automatic processing of other Storga blocks

▸ Handle the paper press by program

▸ Automatic processing in stacks of sheets

▸ Automatic processing of received emails

▸ Automatic preparation / sending of outgoing emails (messages)

▸ File manipulation

▸ Summary of batch transformations (CSV file - SQL - Dataware)

Automatic data exchange

▸ General presentation of automatic data exchange

▸ HTTP and FTP interface
     To access or modify data on external servers

▸ SQL interface
     To access or modify data on external servers

▸ PLC interface
     To connect Storga with automated industrial production: read sensors, control relays and other motors, communicate with the PLC control loop

▸ REST server and mail
     To access or modify Storga data from an external application

Simple examples

This part of the manual will gradually be replaced by the self-study part.

Automatic filling of fields in a form

▸ Pre-fill a field of a record using the other records on the page
     An example of using the 'each_form' instruction
     Provided an example showing how to pre-populate a form field using the other forms on the page.

▸ Validation of the entry of a customer code (or any other code field)
     An example of using the 'lookup' instruction

▸ Summary sheet
     An example of using the 'report' statement

Organize collaborative work

▸ Form for entering a comment
     Use the 'new_form' instruction
     Shows how to allow comments to be entered in a Storga page without mastering edit mode, much like on a blog page.

Annex

▸ Problem resolution

▸ Understanding synchronization

▸ Test