BAM Template Developer Guide

Genero Studio comes with a set of templates used for the code generation. You are free to customize these templates or create your own templates so that the generated application meets your requirements.

You can customize and configure Genero Studio and the Business Application Modeler to generate the application you want to build, the way you want to build it.

For example you may find that instead of adding POINT or BLOCK code repeatedly for each application, you want to use a template that generates your customized code. Or, perhaps you want to add custom properties to a modeling diagram.

Options for modifying templates or creating new templates can be categorized in this order of complexity.

Table 1. Options for modifying templates
Option	Types of modifications
Modify a generated application without touching templates.	Modify diagram property values. See Customize with properties Use POINT/BLOCKs to modify generated code. See Customize with POINTs and BLOCKs. Use resource files (styles, action defaults). See Customize action defaults (dbapp.4ad), Customize styles (dbapp.4st), Customize the TopMenu (dbapp.4tm), Customize the Toolbar (dbapp.4tb) Note: If you are repeating these changes in every generated program or you have functionality requirements that cannot be achieved by modifying properties or there is no POINT/BLOCK to use for your requirement, you should consider modifying the template files.
Modify the default template files.	Add, remove, or change diagram properties Change generated 4gl code
Customize template files.	Change build rules Create new file types Create new File >> New options Customize Genero Studio diagrams. See Example 1: Adding a new property, Example 3: Adding an entity to the BA Diagram File templates, code templates, user action