Building Custom Wizards; Saving Wizard Files - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION STUDIO 5-USING COLDFUSION 5 STUDIO Use Manual

Building Custom Wizards

Building Custom Wizards

This section describes how to give users an easy way to enter information that can
then be published on the Web or used to drive ColdFusion applications. Wizards are
an integral part of many software products today because they enable users to
perform complex tasks in an orderly, comprehensible interface. Another benefit is
that a well-designed wizard controls its input and ensures a high probability of user
success.
The Visual Tools includes a number of wizards and you can create your own with the
the Wizard Markup Language (WIZML). If you have worked with VTML to create or
edit tag dialog boxes, you are familiar with building interface containers and controls
and with defining page layout. You can use these skills to add wizards to your
applications.
To create a wizard:
1 Write a wizard definition file (.vtm) to specify the pages, parameters, output, and
logical flow.
2 Implement one or more output template files (.wml) for the wizard.
3 Create wizard graphic (.bmp) files.
4 Each of these steps is described in detail in the following sections.

Saving wizard files

The recommended way to organize wizards and supporting files is to save the vtm
and wml files in the \Wizards\Custom folder and to save the image files in the
\Wizards\Images folder of your Visual Tools directory.
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