Copying Forms from Browser to Web Projects

Morfik AppsBuilder 2.0 allows you to work with two kinds of projects: Browser and Web. Browser projects are strictly client side, running entirely inside the browser and Web projects include both browser and server side code.

If you created a Browser project and found out that you are really going to need some server side code, there is no need to despair. Though there is no way to convert a project from one type to the other, you can create a new project and copy your objects from the other.

Copying objects between objects can be achieved in the simplest possible way, just Copy in one and then Paste into the other. This works flawlessly for just about all types of objects and all in types of projects, except for a small problem when you try to copy a form from a Browser project and paste it into a Web project.

Since Browser project Forms do not have any server side code, the IDE creates the server side module and class declaration and your form has been moved across. There is a small glitch in AppsBuilder build 2.0.4.78 (the first release build of AppsBuilder 2.0) that causes the member declaration for the controls in the form to be omitted from the generated server side code. It is very easy to get around this small issue. All you need to do is copy the member declarations for the controls from the Browser side form class declaration and paste them in the appropriate place in the server side version of the corresponding class.

This tiny issue taken care of, you are all ready to go.