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Version: 2026

Dynamic site: Persistent session
For a dynamic WEBDEV site, when starting the site (site called from a browser), a session representing the site is loaded in memory on the server...
Refreshing the page data
In a dynamic WEBDEV site, the page data is refreshed during a user action...
Testing a dynamic project (session or AWP mode) from WEBDEV
The test of the entire project allows simulating the startup of the site...
The different types of sites
WEBDEV enables you to create static sites and/or dynamic sites...
Site testing: the different types of tests available
WEBDEV includes multiple methods for testing your sites...
Testing a dynamic project from the administrator
Running the test from the WEBDEV administrator (WDAdmin) is used to check ...
Differences according to the test mode of a dynamic project
The test of a dynamic project can be run ...
Managing short URLs automatically
For the standard dynamic sites (with context), the access to the site can be done via a "standard" URL:
DynamicSiteDisplay (Function)
Starts a dynamic WEBDEV website from a static page or from a dynamic WEBDEV page.
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.
fReadLineRegularExpression (Function)
Reads a line in an external file, gets sections of this line according to a regular expression and assigns them to a variable.
<DiskFile variable>.ReadLineRegularExpression (Function)
Reads a line in an external file, gets sections of this line according to a regular expression and assigns them to a variable.
Standard FTP functions
List of standard FTP functions...
The framesets
Via the management of framesets, WEBDEV allows you to display several HTML pages in the same browser window......
Zombie data files and items
During the life of an application, items live and die......
Shared information
The information entered when creating the files and the items is shared throughout the environment......
Reinitializing the parameters automatically saved
WINDEV allows you to automatically save the different application parameters......
Creating a frameset
WEBDEV proposes several methods for creating a frameset......
fReadLine (Function)
Reads a line from an external file (ANSI or UNICODE).
tapiPlay (Function)
Plays a sound file (.WAV) for the specified line.
xlsVersion (Function)
Returns the Excel version that was used to save the file.
<DiskFile variable>.ReadLine (Function)
Reads a line from an external file (ANSI or UNICODE).
<DiskFile variable>.WriteLine (Function)
Writes a line into a text file (ANSI or UNICODE).
<DiskFile variable>.Seek (Function)
Gets and sets current position in an external file.
fWriteLine (Function)
Writes a line into a text file (ANSI or UNICODE).
fSeek (Function)
Gets and sets current position in an external file.
Communicating with the Web user
From now on, with the new Web technologies, the sites can look more like Windows applications and display dialog boxes......
GDPR (Property)
The GDPR property is used to: find out if the GDPR applies to an item from a data file. define whether the GDPR should apply to an item (in the item description in the code only)....
Second (Property)
The Second property is used to: Retrieve the number of seconds from a Time, DateTime or Duration variable. Modify the number of seconds in a Time, DateTime or Duration variable. Retrieve the seconds or the number of seconds from a Date item (in "Date and Time" or "Duration" format) Modify the seconds or the number of seconds in a Date item (in "Date and Time" or "Duration" format)...
Millisecond (Property)
The Millisecond property is used to: Retrieve the number of milliseconds from a Time, DateTime or Duration variable. Modify the number of milliseconds in a Time, DateTime or Duration variable. Retrieve the milliseconds or the number of milliseconds from a Date item (in "Date and Time" or "Duration" format) Modify the milliseconds or number of milliseconds in a Date item ("Date and Time" or "Duration" format)...
Error messages that can be displayed in the browser
This help page presents the different error messages that can be displayed in the browser......
Preset page templates
The preset page templates provide some structures of pages corresponding to a wide range of sites and they also improve the re-usability and the graphic harmony between the projects......
Managing assertions
...The main available features are as follows:...
<Source>.ExtractMemo (Function)
Extracts the content of a binary memo item from an HFSQL file, a query or an HFSQL view to a physical file (on disk).
<Source>.Reset (Function)
Initialize: one or all variables of file items with their default values. one or all items of a Record variable with their default values....