User Guide

54 Chapter 5: Lesson 1: Preparing to Build the Sample Application
Developing the sample application
Given the application functional requirements and the database provided, you are ready to use
ColdFusion to develop the Trips Maintenance application. The remaining lessons in the tutorial
will step you through the process of constructing this application. When you are done, the main
page for the Trip Maintenance application will appear as follows:
The main application page is where users will come to view information about trips and to
navigate to other ColdFusion pages to add, edit or search for new trips.
The following lessons explain how to do these tasks:
• Develop a trip search facility (Lesson 2: Writing Your First ColdFusion Application).
• Build the main application page (Lesson 3: Creating a Main Application Page).
• Write code to enforce Compass Travel business rules (Lesson 4: Validating Data to Enforce
Business Rules).
• Implement browsing and trip maintenance functions (Lesson 5: Implementing the Browsing
and Maintenance Database Functions).
• Develop the trip add and update pages (Lesson 6: Adding and Updating SQL Data).