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RAD Server Industry Template

Hospitality Survey Sample Application Setup Guide

The template consists of four different projects that interconnect with each other. The projects
are:

Hospitality Survey Setup


Hospitality Survey EMS
Hospitality Survey Admin
Hospitality Survey Client

You should deploy and run the projects in the following order:

1) The Hospitality Survey Setup app will help you set up your database, the tables and data,
and your EMS user accounts.

2) The Hospitality Survey EMS is the RAD Server side REST resource which both the
Hospitality Survey Client and the Hospitality Survey Admin interface with. It should be
deployable on Windows and Linux through IIS, Apache, or the standalone EMS server.

3) The Hospitality Survey Client is a RAD Studio client application for Android, iOS, macOS
and Windows. The client application should allow you to select a tenant from your RAD Server
and then log in as a user. Once logged in, it will download the survey data for your current
tenant and allow the survey to be filled out. Once the survey is complete it can be submitted
back to the server and a new survey can be started.

4) The Hospitality Survey Admin app is an AngularJS application for the web. You should be
able to log into the application with your Tenant ID and RAD Server user ID. The web app
should allow you to view statistics and graphs about the results of the survey questions and
each individual question and answer. You can also export a list of emails collected from the
surveys.

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Quick Start Guide
I. HospitalitySurveySetup

You will need two tenant IDs already set up in RAD Server to be able to complete the setup
process. You need 5 user account spaces available (you should delete your test user).

Set up a user:
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/EMS_Console_UI

Setup two tenants:


http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/RAD_Server_Multi-Tenancy_Support#EM
S_Multi-Tenant_Console

The default tenant 1 used in the setup is as follows with a password of "secret":
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001

You should create a second tenant ID and enter it on Step 2.

Step 1:

You will need to set a path to your stores database. It will be created if it does not exist. The
default is:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\EMS\HOSPITALITYSURVEY.IB

You will need to set a path to your EMSServer database. The default is:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\EMS\EMSSERVER.IB

Step 2:

When you run Setup Users you will need to provide the user account as mentioned above.

Step 3:

Be sure to update the tenant IDs to to match your tenant IDs. You can skip this step if you don't
need to modify the existing survey questions. Otherwise customize them to your liking and
Re-Generate.

Step 4:

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Initialize All to create the store tables and insert the template questions.

At this point the tenants, users, database, tables, and data should now be setup for the
template.

II. HospitalitySurveyEMS

Step 1:

Open the RADServerHospitalitySurvey project and configure the path to your EMS database
and your stores database in the TFDConnection component in both DataModules.

Step 2:

Run the project to deploy your edge module into the EMS Development Server.

III. HospitalitySurveyClient

Step 1:

Open the HospitalitySurvey project.

Step 2:

Configure the EMS_SERVER and EMS_PORT const in uMainForm.pas to point at your


development server. The default is localhost 8080.

Step 3:
Run the project to deploy your client to Windows. You should be able to select your tenant, log
into the store, log into a user account, and complete a survey.

IV. HospitalitySurveyAdmin

Step 1:

You should be able to open index.html in your browser and log in with your tenant and a
manager account (created in the Setup step).

If you selected the same tenant that you completed a survey in from the HospitalitySurveyClient
you should see your survey stats on the Dashboard and results in the Surveys tab.

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Step 2:

You can also deploy the HospitalitySurveyAdmin files to the same web server as your EMS
Server module or a different web server as long as your CORS permissions are setup correctly.

Hospitality Survey Setup


Start: Your EMS Server should already be setup and running.

Step 1: Set a path for your stores database. Set the path to the EMSServer database.

The stores database is created, used, and populated with data in Step 4.

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The EMSServer database link is used to populate the drop down of Tenant IDs in Step
3.

Step 2: Setup the demo users on the EMS Server using the EMS API.

You will need your EMSServer Host, Port, and Tenant IDs in this step. The Setup will
connect to your EMSServer and create groups and users for the template.

You can create Tenant IDs using this tutorial:


http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/RAD_Server_Multi-Tenancy_Sup
port#EMS_Multi-Tenant_Console

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Step 3: Customize the questions to be asked in the survey for each tenant. A blank
tenant_id will be asked to all tenants.

You can customize the questions in your survey on Step 3. The fields are:

ID - An ID for the question.


name - A short name for the question with no spaces.
title - The text of the question as it will appear in the survey.
type - The type of question controls which question template is loaded on the client. The
existing types are: rating, yesno, edit, options
options - If the type of the question is set to options this field is used to populate the
options. It's value is a JSON array of options.
value - The value is where the user submitted data is stored. It can be left blank but
could be used to provide a default answer.
category - The category of the question. This field is provided for expandability.

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tenant_id - The tenant ID of the question. If the tenant_id field is blank all tenants will
get the question. If it is set to a tenant only that tenant will get the question.

Be sure to update the tenant IDs to to match your tenant IDs.

Pressing the Re-Generate button will create new INSERT queries on Step 4.

Step 4: Create the tables and insert the questions data into your stores database with the
Initialize All button.

This step contains the SQL setup queries for the stores database. There are three tables
which will be set up which are: SURVEYS, QUESTIONS, RESULTS

Each table will be dropped and re-created when the queries are run (any existing data in
the tables will be lost). In the third TMemo field the SQL queries from your questions
defined in Step 3 will appear.

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Pressing the Initialize All button will execute the SQL queries against your defined stores
database from Step 1.

Complete: After step 4 the databases and users should be setup and ready for you to use
the client and admin areas.

Your EMS database and users should be setup at this point. You should be able to
connect the Hospitality Survey EMS package to your new stores database and compile
the package.

Once your Hospitality Survey EMS package is running in the EMS Development Server
you should be able to open and compile the Hospitality Survey Client.

After you submit some survey results via the Hospitality Survey Client you should be
able to log into the Hospitality Survey Admin and see your results.

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Hospitality Survey EMS
The Hospitality Survey EMS is the RAD Server module for the Hospitality Survey Client and the
Hospitality Survey Admin to interface with.

The end points mainly return the FireDAC JSON format which can be easily loaded in to a RAD
Studio client or access via standard JSON in a non-RAD Studio environment.

Endpoints:
GET /survey/ - Download the survey questions in FireDAC JSON format.

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GET /survey/results/* - Download the survey results in a paged fashion in FireDAC
JSON format. The page number is placed where the * is.
GET /survey/stats/all - Download various stats about the survey results in FireDAC
JSON format.
GET /survey/details/* - Download the questions and answers from a specific survey ID
in FireDAC JSON format. The survey ID is placed where the * is.
GET /survey/emails/csv - Download a list of all of the email addresses from completed
surveys in CSV format.

GET /tenants/ - Download a list of the server Tenants which are active in FireDAC
JSON format.

The endpoints are defined like this in code:

// SurveyModule.pas
[ResourceName('survey')]
//
procedure Get(const AContext: TEndpointContext; const ARequest: TEndpointRequest; const
AResponse: TEndpointResponse);
//
[ResourceSuffix('{query}/*')]
procedure GetData(const AContext: TEndpointContext; const ARequest: TEndpointRequest;
const AResponse: TEndpointResponse);
//
[ResourceSuffix('{query}')]
procedure PostData(const AContext: TEndpointContext; const ARequest: TEndpointRequest;
const AResponse: TEndpointResponse);
//
//
if ARequest.Params.Values['query'] = 'results' then
if ARequest.Params.Values['query'] = 'stats' then
if ARequest.Params.Values['query'] = 'details' then
if ARequest.Params.Values['query'] = 'emails' then
//
//
// TenantModule.pas
[ResourceName('tenants')]
procedure Get(const AContext: TEndpointContext; const ARequest: TEndpointRequest; const
AResponse: TEndpointResponse);

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The variable in the /survey/results/* and /survey/details/* endpoints is accessed via
ARequest.Segments object like below:

if ASegments.Count = 3 then // first segment is "survey" second is "results or "details" third


segment is the variable
begin
SurveyId := ASegments.Items[2];
end;

User permissions:

User permissions are governed by the {$DEFINE GROUPPERMISSIONS}. You can comment
or uncomment this line for dev and live deployments. User permissions are ignored when
{$DEFINE GROUPPERMISSIONS} is commented out.

Hospitality Survey Client


The Hospitality Survey Client connects to the Hospitality Survey EMS server on multiple end
points for downloading and upload data. It is built to be cross platform on Android, iOS, macOS,
and Windows using a single code base and single UI.

The survey is dynamically generated based on the questions that are downloaded from the
Hospitality Survey EMS server. Each question is assigned to a TFrame which displays that type
of question.

Architecture:
The architecture of the app is built in a rapid application development style using TTabControl
for handling pages and individual frames for each page. TActionList is used to consolidate much
of the code in the MainForm.

Forms:
uMainForm.pas - Contains the main form of the application including the TTabControl with the
design time frames.
uTenantListForm.pas - Contains a separate form for selecting the active Tenant ID.

DataModules:
uTenantsDM.pas - Contains the non visual components for downloading the Tenant list.

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Design Time Frames:
uStoreLoginFrame.pas - Contains the store login frame.
uLoginFrame.pas - Contains the user login frame.
uMenuFrame.pas - Contains the main menu of the application including the Take Survey button.
uFinishFrame.pas - Contains the final frame of the application including the Thank You button
after a survey has been completed.
uBackendFrame.pas - Contains the non-visual components for downloading survey data and
uploading the results.
uProgressFrame.pas - Contains the animated progress controls which are displayed when the
application is doing work.

Dynamic Frames:
uComboBoxFrame.pas - Contains the combo box survey question type.
uCompleteFrame.pas - Contains the complete button for the survey.
uEditFrame.pas - Contains the edit survey question type.
uRatingBarFrame.pas - Contains the star rating track bar survey question type.
uSurveyHeaderFrame.pas - Contains the header for the top of the survey.
uYesNoFrame.pas - Contains the Yes/No survey question type.

If you want to make changes to the design time frames be sure to edit the frame itself and not
the version of it that is embedded in the MainForm. This will keep your changes consolidated in
one place. If you changes don't update in the MainForm you can delete the Frame from the
MainForm and re-add it. Be sure to add it to the correct Tab and set to Align Client after you add
the frame.

Credits:
Restaurant Image
http://www.freeimages.com/photo/restaurant-1233046
http://www.freeimages.com/search/restaurant

Store Login Frame:

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Note: You must log in with your Tenant ID as the Store ID and not the Tenant Name.

User Login Frame:

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Main Menu Frame:

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Dynamic Survey Tab:

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Finish Survey Form:

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Hospitality Survey Admin
You should be able to log into the Admin area using a Tenant ID and Tenant Secret plus the
login and password for a user in the Managers Group. For this template the default user is
Manager1.

Note: You must log in with your Tenant ID as the Store ID and not the Tenant Name.

Installation:

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Copy index.html and the img, js, and styles subdirectories to your web server. Optimally you
should place them on the same web server as your RAD Server DLL or Shared Object file. They
could be placed in an admin subdirectory. You can place them on a different web server than
RAD Server but you will need to make sure that your CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin is set
up correctly.

Within the js/admin.js file you should configure the $scope.ServerURL variable to point to the
host where you RAD Server install is located. The default is: http://localhost:8080/

CORS Accept permissions:

Within the js/admin.js file you can configure the CORS settings for dev and live versions within
the $scope.getHeader function. By default it is setup for development. When you want to switch
to the live version (and enable user permissions) you can uncomment the line containing the
X-Embarcadero-Session-Token and comment out the line without it. Switch back and forth
between the two as needed.

There is a similar setting in the Hospitality Survey EMS server for configuring permissions for
dev or live.

REST Endpoints & FireDAC

The Hospitality Survey EMS endpoint returns FireDAC tables as JSON. This allows
interchangable compatibility between RAD Studio and clients like AngularJS. Here is an
example of walking through the FireDAC table JSON tree to get to the records:
data["FDBS"]["Manager"]["TableList"][0]["RowList"]

Admin Dashboard:

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Admin Surveys:

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