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Testing Your Wizard

Now you can test the wizard to see how the changes and additions you made work.

For best results, make sure you have entered some Employee records into the database before you test the wizard. For more information, see Adding Employee Records in the Chapter "Modeling Entity Relationships."

To test the wizard:

  1. In the Generate and Build window, select Project Wizard.
  2. Click the Run toolbar button.

    Testing Your Wizard (1)

  3. When you are prompted to select a data source, select Plex r7.0 Tutorial.dsn and click OK.

    The wizard appears:

    Testing Your Wizard

    In the next step, you create a new project by entering a Project ID and a description.

    Note: You made all of the fields except Project ID (the key field) optional, so you do not have to enter a project start and end date.

  4. Enter Proj04 in the Project ID field.
  5. Enter the following text in the Project Description field:
    Port client to Java, to enable staff to view email from a browser.
    
  6. Click Next.

    The second part of the wizard appears. Notice that the Project ID field is already filled in for you.

    Defining the Wizard (3)

  7. Enter Task01 in the Task ID field.
  8. Enter the following in the Task Description field:
    Setup client
    
  9. Double-click the Employee ID field.

    The Selector dialog appears:

    Testing Your Wizard (2)

  10. Select an employee from the grid on the left, and click Select.
  11. On the wizard, click Apply.

    At this stage, you can enter more tasks if you want.

  12. Click Finish.