BAM Template Developer Guide

Genero Studio comes with a set of templates used with the Business Application Modeler (BAM) 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. Use POINT/BLOCKs to modify generated code. See Using POINTs and BLOCKs. Use resource files (styles, action defaults). See Modify action defaults (dbapp.4ad), Modify styles (dbapp.4st), Modify the Topmenu (dbapp.4tm), Modify the Toolbar (dbapp.4tb)
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