After years of paying for Wappler, I’ve finally gotten down to learning how to use it. Not that I haven’t tried before–it’s just not all that intuitive (for me anyway after using DW for years).
So my first question is, what version of Wappler is shown in the documentation found at https://docs.wappler.io/ ???
It certainly doesn’t perfectly match the version I have (3.9.7) and some parts of it are wildly different.
Even a simple task such as creating a mail form has proven impossible when the tutorial doesn’t match the software.
Ha ha. You get complaints that the docs aren’t up to date within a few days of Wappler 4.0 release. Now they are pretty much all updated, you have complaints that they don’t match an old version
I would say, though, now the docsdev version seems to be pretty much there, it would be worth making it more accessible from the community site and make the main webpage point to it too. I can see how someone might struggle to access it, particularly if new to Wappler.
Thank you for the helpful comments to those that provided them.
George, a couple of things:
It would be really helpful if, at the top, of the Docs page, it stated which version the docs were suited for. I haven’t yet upgraded to 4.x because it was my understanding that the docs had not yet been updated. So a bold statement at the top of the docs saying Documentation for version X.x would be very helpful.
The menu at the top of wappler.io points to docs.wappler.io whereas Nishkarsh has mentioned docsdev.wappler.io (which is hidden?). Again, neither mention a version number and both are different so I still don’t really know which version of Wappler I should be using with which set of docs. Maybe it’s me, but the docsdev docs don’t even seem to offer guidance on creating an email form.
While some docs have the old ui you can still follow most of them as the logic hasn’t changed much in them, the main things are in the old ui you was already in the api area now you have more options on the new ui.
Api is where you create your normal server actions what the old docs show
Library is actions you can reuse in those api actions
Globals is where you define things like Mailer security provider and database etc
In most of the old docs you need to add a database connection or mailer etc etc in every action with globals you define them there once and can skip that step of the old docs
(and feeling the same too)