The dynamic forms that are designed using forms editor, already have some client-side funtionality built in - i.e.:

• show/hide user controls depending on the state of checkboxes, radiobuttons and dropdowns

• tab sets

If you need funtionality beyond this, you may add JavaScript to the form templates.

• JavaScript may be attached to client side events (i.e. onchange, onclick).

• JavaScript code added to the configuration may use JavaScript libraries that are already being used by the framework:

  • TOPICA's own JavaScripts library

  • ASP.NET's AJAX library

  • Telerik RadTools for ASP.NET - client side API

  • jQuery including sevaral jQueri-UI modules

  It is also possible to use any additional JavaScript libraries.

JavaScript may use AJAX to invoke server-side functionality.

• TOPICA's built-in generic SOAP webservices.

  A special case of this: TOPICA exposes a webservice to evaluate TOPICA Basic expressions. This makes it possible to read any data from the database - in most cases using the object-oriented notation of TOPICA Basic.

• TOPICA's built-in REST webservices (under development)

• Custom webservices defined in the current configuration

• External webservices (any webservices defined outside TOPICA)