With version 5.6, AwareIM now has 29 video tutorials (described below) available which describe in great detail how to configure all the components of an AwareIM application.

You have heard it said that a picture is worth a thousand words ... well these each of these videos is worth a thousand pictures. Well done, support!

1- Getting Started

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/getting_started/getting_started.html

This video tutorial is a brief introduction to the application development cycle in Aware IM. It shows how to design, test, make changes and deploy Aware IM applications. It also shows how to use sample applications supplied with Aware IM.

2- Creating Applications

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/creating_applications/creating_applications.html

This video tutorial walks through the steps of designing an Aware IM application. It covers topics such as business objects and their attributes, business rules, business processes, user login and access control, reports and document templates, outgoing emails and visual perspectives.

3- Relationships

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Relationships/Relationships.html

This video tutorial explains how Aware IM handles relationships between business objects. It explains how to create relationships, types of relationships (one-to-many, many-to-many etc), matching attributes and parent/child relationships

4- Forms

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Forms/Forms.html

This video tutorial describes how Aware IM works with business object forms. It explains how default forms are created, how to customise forms, how to create different type of form cells (attributes, HTML, Google Map etc).

5- Advanced Forms (Part 1)

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Advanced_Forms/Advanced_Forms.html

This video tutorial describes some more advanced aspects of business object forms, such as HTML cells, Gauge graphs, attribute styles and using Javascript in forms

6- Advanced Forms (Part 2)

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Advanced_Forms2/Advanced_Forms2.html

This video tutorial continues describing some more advanced aspects of business object forms, such as multi-attribute cells, references represented as drop downs, swap selects etc.

7- Business Rules

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Rules/Rules.html

This video tutorial covers the concept of Aware IM business rules. It explains how business rules implement business logic of an application, how to create business rules, when they are executed and what they consist of.

8- Rule Execution

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Rule_Execution/Rule_Execution.html

This video tutorial describes in detail how rules are executed in Aware IM. It also explains how to interpret rule execution log.

9- Processes

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Processes/Processes.html

This video tutorial explains the concept of Aware IM processes. It explains why processes are necessary, the difference between processes and business rules, as well as when and how to create processes.

10- Queries

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Queries/Queries.html

This video tutorial explains the concept of Aware IM queries. It shows how to specify conditions for queries to retrieve particular information from the system as well as how queries present the retrieved data in the form of a grid of records.

11- Presentation of Queries

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Query_Presentation/Query_Presentation.html

This video tutorial describes how query results can be presented in Aware IM grids – how to display rows in different colors, how to display summaries, filter results, expand rows and so on.

12- Visual Perspectives

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/VP1/VP1.html

This video tutorial describes how Aware IM works with screen layouts (called “visual perspectives”). It explains how to create screen layouts, how to use them in an application and how to customize them.

13- Access Control

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Access/Access.html

This video tutorial explains how to implement data access control in Aware IM. It explains the concept ofAware IM access levels to implement static access restrictions and also explains how to define protection rules to implement access restrictions based on particular conditions.

14- Documents

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Documents/Documents.html

This video tutorial explains how Aware IM works with documents. It describes how Aware IM performs ‘mail merge’ of different document types (MS Word, Excel, HTML etc). It also explains how Aware IM stores documents in the system.

15- Emails

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Emails/Emails.html

This video tutorial describes how to get Aware IM to send e-mails in your application.

16- Calendar and Scheduler

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Calendar/Calendar.html

This video tutorial explains how to get Aware IM to display a calendar where the users can define their events and tasks. It also shows how to get Aware IM to display a scheduler where users can schedule events for a particular list of resources.

17- Trees

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Trees/Trees.html

This video tutorial explains how to configure trees in Aware IM.

18- Charts

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Charts/Charts.html

This video tutorial explains how to configure charts in Aware IM.

19- Google Maps

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Google_Maps/Google_Maps.html

This video tutorial explains how to configure Google Maps in Aware IM.

20- Mobile Applications

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Mobile/Mobile.html

This video tutorial explains how to configure applications for mobile devices in Aware IM. It walks through steps required to create such an application.

21- Web Services

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/WebServices/WebServices.html

This video tutorial explains how to consume and expose web services in Aware IM.

22- User Defined Workflows (Processes)

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/UDP/UDP.html

This video tutorial explains how to get the end users to define their own workflows.

23- Import and Export Templates

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/UDIT/UDIT.html

This video tutorial explains how to define import and export templates for mapping data to be imported and exported into Aware IM.

24- Building an Application (part 1 of 6)

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Application_Example_1/Application_Example_1.html

This is the first part of the tutorial that explains the Aware IM development methodology and walks you through the development of a sample application. A must to watch for any Aware IM developer. The first part describes the theory behind Aware IM development.

25- Building an Application (part 2 of 6)

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Application_Example_2/Application_Example_2.html

This is the second part of the tutorial that explains the Aware IM development methodology and walks you through the development of a sample application. This part walks you through the steps of creating a model of the sample application – business objects, relationships and business rules.

26- Building an Application (part 3 of 6)

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Application_Example_3/Application_Example_3.html

This is the third part of the tutorial that explains the Aware IM development methodology and walks you through the development of a sample application. This part starts the user interface of the sample application describing the use cases of the administrator and explaining visual perspectives, forms, processes and queries involved.

27- Building an Application (part 4 of 6)

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Application_Example_4/Application_Example_4.html

This is the fourth part of the tutorial that explains the Aware IM development methodology and walks you through the development of a sample application. This part continues the user interface of the sample application describing the use cases of the staff member users and explaining visual perspectives, forms, processes and queries involved.

28- Building an Application (part 5 of 6)

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Application_Example_5/Application_Example_5.html

This is the fifth part of the tutorial that explains the Aware IM development methodology and walks you through the development of a sample application. This part continues the user interface of the sample application describing the use cases of the member users and explaining visual perspectives, forms, processes and queries involved.

29- Building an Application (part 6 of 6)

http://www.awareim.com/tutorials/Application_Example_6/Application_Example_6.html

This is the last part of the tutorial that explains the Aware IM development methodology and walks you through the development of a sample application. This part describes how to polish the user interface of the sample application and create application dashboard.