Welcome to HATS!

With HATS, you can transform your critical business applications on the host into Web or rich client applications. We strongly recommend you follow all the steps below to quickly get started with HATS.

If you need help: As you work with HATS wizards and editors, press F1 to get explanations on specific fields. Refer to the Getting Started book for more information on each topic (and its glossary for terminology definitions, and What's New for V7.1), and the Information Center for the latest helpful updates.

Expand the ordered tutorial topics and click on related links to learn about HATS:
Click to Collapse Create your first project

Creating a project is the first step in developing with HATS.
  1. Click here to launch the Create a Project wizard ( Create a Project wizard: this icon is also available on the toolbar above). Specify project type, connection settings, theme and template. Click on the 'Welcome to HATS' tab above to return to this page after finishing the wizard.
  2. Test your HATS project using Debug On Server (Debug on Server) for a Web project or Debug (Debug) for a rich client project. When asked, do start the display terminal. For Web projects, you may have to specify which server to start. For rich client projects, you can likely accept the defaults in the Debug window, and double-click on the application name in the Host Access window to start it. This built-in test environment runs your project so that you can preview and test it before deploying it. Note that your host screens are currently being displayed using the default transformation.
  3. Starting with version 7, HATS is installed as a trial product. If you have purchased HATS licenses, click here to launch the License Settings dialog. Click here for more information.
Congratulations, you have created and previewed your first project!

Click to Expand Modify the template

Click to Expand Edit the default rendering and global rules

Click to Expand Customize a screen

Click to Expand Combine screens

Click to Expand Work with macros, Integration Objects and Web services (SOA)

Click to Expand Utilize host simulation

Click to Expand Explore advanced functions of HATS

Click to Expand Prepare your project for production

Click to Expand View the library of online information for HATS