Defining Logic Exercise

Defining Logic Exercise
Table of Contents
Outline................................................................................................................................. 2
Resources 2
Scenario 2
How-To................................................................................................................................. 4
Getting Started 4
Negative Or Positive? 7
Order of Magnitude 13
Factorial 16
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Outline
In this exercise, we will focus on developing some logic flows using an If, a Switch, and
an implementation of an ad-hoc loop. These tools will be used to help us on the
following scenarios:
● By clicking on a button with a number, the application will display a message

indicating if the number is positive or negative.

indicating the number's order of magnitude (e.g: 10K, 100K, …)

with the value of the number's factorial.
When this is completed, the application will have three Actions that will support all of
these scenarios.
Resources
This exercise has a Quickstart application already created. This application has
everything needed to start the exercise. This quickstart application can be found in the
Resources folder of this exercise, with the name Logic Exercise.oap .
Scenario
In this exercise, we will start from an existing application with one module. Inside that
module we have one screen, called Home .
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The screen has three sections with a set of Buttons: Negative or Positive? , Order of
Magnitude , and Factorial .
Each of these sections is related with the Screen Actions of the Home screen, with the
same name. Specifically, each one of the Screen Actions is called when a button of the
section of the screen with the same name is clicked.
This mechanism is already implemented. Starting with this, we want to implement

three different scenarios, in each one of these Screen Actions. The general idea of the
exercise consists of the user clicking one of the buttons, and a feedback message being
displayed with a particular information related to the number in the button.
In the Negative or Positive? section, by clicking on a button, a message should appear

indicating whether the number is positive, negative or zero. In the Order of Magnitude
section, the message should indicate the order of magnitude of a number: 1K, 10K,
100K or >=100K. In the Factorial section, the message should display the factorial of
the number in the button that is clicked.
How-To
In this section, we will show you how to do this exercise, with a thorough step-by-step
description. If you already finished the exercise on your own, great! You don't need
to do it again. If you didn't finish the exercise, that's fine! We are here to help you.
Getting Started
First, we need to install the Quickstart file, which has an application ready for the
exercise. This application has one screen containing a set of buttons. These buttons are
bound to three screen actions that you will implement in the course of the exercise.
The first step that we need to take is to install the Quickstart application in our
development environment. Before proceeding, you must have Service Studio opened
and connected to an OutSystems Environment (e.g. Personal Environment).
1) In the main window of Service Studio, select the Environment menu on the top
left.
2) Select the Open Files...
3) In the new dialog that appears, change the file type to OutSystems Application
Pack (.oap), find the location of the Quickstart and open the file named Logic
Exercise.oap
4) In the new confirmation dialog, select Proceed
5) The application will begin installing automatically. When it's finished, we're
ready to start!
6) Open the application in Service Studio.
7) The application has only one module. Let's open it!
Negative Or Positive?
In this section, we will implement the first of three screen actions. This one will validate
if a number is positive, negative or zero.
1) The module already has the Home Screen created, with three Screen Actions.
2) The Screen has a set of four buttons that call the NegativeOrPositive Screen
Action. Each one of these buttons is associated to that screen action with a
different value for the Number Input Parameter.
3) Double-click one of the buttons or the NegativeOrPositive Screen Action on

the elements area to open it.
4) Drag an If and drop it between the Start and End.
5) Double-click the If, and set its Condition to
Number < 0
6) Click Done to close the Expression Editor.
7) Drag a Message to the right of the If
8) Set the Message property to
"Negative Number."
9) Create the True branch connector from the If to the Message.
10) Drag an End and drop it to the right of the Message, then create the connector
between both.
11) Drag another Message , and drop it on the False branch of the If.
12) Set the Message property of the added element to
"Positive Number."
13) Publish the module, and test the four buttons inside the Negative or Positive?
area.
14) Open the application in the browser to validate that each button shows the
correct info message.
15) Notice that when the button with 0 is pressed, the Positive Number feedback
message is shown.
16) Drag another If and drop it between the If and the existing If.
17) Set the Condition of the new If to
Number = 0
18) Drag another Message and drop it to the right of the newly created If, then
create the True branch connector from the If to the Message.
19) Set the properties of the Message as follows
20) Drag an End node and drop it to the right of the newly created Message, then
connect both. The flow should look like this
21) Publish the module and test again the existing buttons inside the Negative or
Positive? area.
Order of Magnitude
In this section, we will implement another Screen Action. This one will analyze a given
number and return either one of the following options: "<1K", "<10K", "<100K" or
">=100K".
1) Double-click the OrderOfMagnitude Screen Action to open its flow.
2) Drag a Switch node and drop it between the Start and End.
3) Drag a Message and drop it to the right of the Switch
4) Set the Message property of the recently added element to "<1K" , then create
a connector from the Switch to the Message.
5) Set the Condition of the Connector 1 created in the previous step to
Number < 1000
6) Drag another Message and drop it below the existing one
7) Set the Message property to "<10K" .
8) Create another connector from the Switch to this new Message, then set the
Condition of the connector to
Number < 10000
9) Repeat the previous three steps to make your logic look like the following
10) Drag one End node and drop it to the right of the flow, then connect the three
existing Messages to that End node.
11) Drag another Message and drop it on the Otherwise branch.
12) Set the properties of the newly created Message as follows
13) The flow should look like this
14) Publish the module to save these latest changes.
15) Click the Open in Browser button and test the five existing buttons on the
Order of Magnitude area.
Factorial
In this section, we will implement the final Screen Action logic that will calculate the
factorial of a number.
The factorial is a mathematical function that is represented as n! and essentially is the

multiplication of all numbers between n and 1. Below you have a few examples of the
factorial function
4! = 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24
7! = 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 5040
More information about the factorial function can be found in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial
1) Switch to the Logic tab, right-click the Server Actions folder, then select Add
Server Action.
2) Set the Name of the Server Action to CalcFactorial .
3) Right-click the CalcFactorial Server Action and select Add Input Parameter
4) Set the Name of the Input Parameter to N , and make sure the Data Type is set
to Integer .
5) Right-click the CalcFactorial and select Add Output Parameter
6) Set the Name of the Output Parameter to Result , make sure the Data Type is
set to Integer , and the Default Value is 1 .
7) Drag an If and drop it between the Start and End
8) Set the Condition of the If to
N > 1
9) Drag an Assign and drop it to the right of the If
10) Create two connectors as follows
11) Define the following assignments in the Assign
12) Right-click the Exceptions Folder and select Add User Exception
13) Set the Exception Name to NegativeNumberException
14) Drag another If and drop it between the Start and the existing one
15) Set the Condition of the If to
N < 0
16) Drag the previously created Exception and drop it to the right of the If created
above
17) Create the True branch connector from the If to the Raise Exception element.
18) Select the Raise Exception element, and in its properties set the Exception
Message to "Number must be positive." .
19) Return to the Interface tab, and open the Factorial Screen Action
20) Drag a Run Server Action from the toolbox and drop it between the Start and
End.
21) In the dialog, select the CalcFactorial Server Action that we created and
implemented in previous steps, then click OK.
22) In the properties, set the N argument to the Number input parameter.
23) Drag a Message and drop it between the Run Server Action and the End
24) Double-click the Message, and set the expression to
"Factorial of " + Number + " is " + CalcFactorial.Result
25) Close the Expression Editor.
26) Publish the module, then click the Open in Browser button to test the
application.
27) Below you can find the expected results for each number
1! = 1
3! = 6
8! = 40320
-5! = (Invalid Number Exception)

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● By clicking on a button with a number, the application will display a message

● By clicking on a button with a number, the application will display a message

● By clicking on a button with a number, the application will display a message

This mechanism is already implemented. Starting with this, we want to implement

In the Negative or Positive? section, by clicking on a button, a message should appear

2) Select the Open Files...

6) Open the application in Service Studio.

3) Double-click one of the buttons or the NegativeOrPositive Screen Action on

4) Drag an If and drop it between the Start and End.

5) Double-click the If, and set its Condition to

6) Click Done to close the Expression Editor.

8) Set the Message property to

9) Create the True branch connector from the If to the Message.

12) Set the Message property of the added element to

17) Set the Condition of the new If to

19) Set the properties of the Message as follows

1) Double-click the OrderOfMagnitude Screen Action to open its flow.

5) Set the Condition of the Connector 1 created in the previous step to

Number < 1000

6) Drag another Message and drop it below the existing one

7) Set the Message property to "<10K" .

Number < 10000

11) Drag another Message and drop it on the Otherwise branch.

13) The flow should look like this

14) Publish the module to save these latest changes.

The factorial is a mathematical function that is represented as n! and essentially is the

2) Set the Name of the Server Action to CalcFactorial .

7) Drag an If and drop it between the Start and End

8) Set the Condition of the If to

10) Create two connectors as follows

11) Define the following assignments in the Assign

13) Set the Exception Name to NegativeNumberException

15) Set the Condition of the If to

24) Double-click the Message, and set the expression to

"Factorial of " + Number + " is " + CalcFactorial.Result

25) Close the Expression Editor.

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