Trilogy Dialogs
Using Trilogy you can define dialogs to front-end your server-side
UDPs quickly and easily using simple plain-text layouts. Simply type your
text, defining fields with [ and ] characters, radio buttons with o's and
checkboxes with x's. The dialog is defined on the server and is translated
into a GUI by the Trilogy client when the UDP is invoked. This means
that dialogs are created once and are immediately visible across your entire
client user-base with no software to distribute or code to write.
Figure 1: Define a dialog on the server with simple plain-text.
Since the dialog is defined on the server, it means that changes to the user
interface to a UDP can be done quickly and from a single location, just like
changing the server UDP itself.
Figure 2: GUI Dialogs are created at run-time from the server-based
dialog definition
Data-entry fields can be turned into drop-down lists, entered data can be
validated and fields can be pre-populated, all with server-side scripts.
Trilogy populates environment variables with the contents of the GUI
before invoking the server-side script. This means it is easy to read the
entered information from the GUI as well as the standard input and command
line parameters as passed by Harvest.
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