eBusiness Sites: Efficiently Planned and Easily Programmed

Openshop FlowEditor is an easy-to-use, Java-based tool with graphical user interface and built-in HTML editor for developing customized eBusiness sites quickly and professionally. This tool facilitates the planning and drafting of site structures and supports straightforward programming and content editing, all the way through modifying and updating established eBusiness solutions. Shifting from Openshop FlowEditor to Openshop Business is just as simple as building the solutions in the first place.

Openshop FlowEditor - The Features:

• Graphical interface: As the effortless method of planning and designing the flow of an eBusiness solution, Openshop FlowEditor shows the individual components as icons, accompanied by their important contents (see Fig. 1). Zoom and grid functions ensure fingertip control.
Fig: The graphic view of an ongoing FlowEditor 2 project

• Reverse engineering is an option: Existing eBusiness solutions can be imported.
• Choice of views: Graphic view, structural view, macro/variables view or tag-structure view. Each type of link has its own distinctive color. Links can be inserted and removed simply by clicking with the mouse. Integral HTML editor: For typing in HTML code or creating HTML and Openshop tags using wizards; Syntax highlighting and search functions for quick, straightforward, structured programming. All mainstream HTML design elements can be used.
• Preview function: Use an external browser to preview pages as they are made.
• Straightforward calls for Openshop Business 2 functions: Openshop macros, tags, and variables are easily inserted using wizards. Existing macros and variables can be embedded into the HTML code by drag & drop. All Openshop macros, variables and templates are supported. The wizards eliminate the need for integrating existing databases. Join, insert and update operations are all simple and fast.
• Create new macros: The Macro Assistant makes the creation of new macros quick and easy.
• Straightforward, fast interface to Openshop Business: Once the work has been completed in Openshop FlowEditor, the solution can be exported straight to Openshop Business. Seamless integration with the preprocessor in Openshop Business allows bugs to be pinpointed and displayed directly in FlowEditor. You can home in automatically on bugs in the HTML code for the fastest possible debugging (Openshop Business).
• Flexible integration: Openshop modules such as Openshop Auction Tool, Database Links and Openshop Payment Links integrate seamlessly.
• Fast compilation of project documentation: Openshop FlowEditor 2 automatically generates made-to-measure documentation of the entire project.

System requirements / platforms

• Windows NT 4.0/Windows 2000
• Linux (glibc)
• Minimum: Pentium II, 64 MB RAM
• Recommended: Pentium III, 192 MB+ RAM
• Solaris 2.6
• Sun UltraSparc II