The project properties area of the Dynapage development environment, allow you to change certain settings on your application.

These are as follows:

GENERAL PROPERTIES:

Authentication Type / Stored Procedure:

There are two types of authentication you can use for a dynapage web application - Windows NT authentication, and Anonymous Users.

Depending on which is needed for the type of application being created, the only difference is that with NT authentication, you need to assign an existing stored procedure from the drop-down list, to validate the current user against a database table.

Start-Up Page: You can also assign your project, with a certain page you wish it to start with, for example, in your dynapage project, if you create a welcome page, and a login page, you can assign the startup page to be a login page so everyone must login before they see the welcome page.

Default Page Width: By setting a default page width here, you can override the page widths set for each page, and they will all appear in the web browser, with the width set here either in pixels or percentage.

Screen Resolution: This option is here to optimize the layout of the web application, based on the general resolution that the users might be using. This is only a guide, and will still work on all resolutions, but will be optimized for the selected resolution.

See below:

FIELD PROPERTIES:

The field properties is a main area of the dynapage development process.

From here, this will give you a list of all the fields that are in the database, and you can select the fields that are most frequently used in your application. By previous experience, these are usually the main primary key fields in your tables.

By selecting these commonly-used fields, these will dynamically create session variables, so you can pass information easily between your Dynapage created web pages.

As shown in the image below:

You won't always need to use the Field properties, unless you project requires you to pass information to other pages, for example, an OrderID, which could be used throughout a number of pages, to create an order.