For more information on London Axure Meetup visit: http://AxureLondon.com The RP File for the repeater widget presentation can be found here: http://axurelondon.com/RP_Files/RepeaterWidget_AxureLondon.rp Meetup Description: Thank you all for voting on what our next topic should be. And the winner is (drum roll)... The Repeater Widget! The Repeater Widget is one of the exciting new feature introduced with Axure 7, and it was created with the purpose of display repeating patterns of text, images, and links or in other words, the ability to "fake" a backend. For Show-and-Tell, Scott from TalkTalk will walk us through the Axure prototype that helped shaped TalkTalk's current YouView TV app. He will demonstrate how to use Axure to prototype TV apps using a TV remote control to control the app…. I know what you all thinking… I had no idea that could even be done! If so, come along and check it out :D Last but not least, I have a very special guest, author of the book Axure for Mobile, Lennart Hennigs, who will be joining us via Skype. I will have a few questions prepared for him, and I will be opening the floor for Q&A, so have your own brilliant mobile prototyping questions ready for him as well. As always, there will be pizza and drinks sponsored by Axure, and I will have plenty this time, I pinky promise ;) Well that's it for now, I hope to see you all in three week! Cheers! Sandra

1. How to fake a backend in Axure
Axure 6.5 & Axure 7
#AxureLondon
July 30, 2014

2. Very Special Thanks!
@Axurerp@TalkTalk_Uk
#AxureLondon

3. Very Special Thanks!
@scott_room
#AxureLondon

4. Very Special Thanks!
@LennartHennigs
#AxureLondon

5. Paul Godfrey - Head of Creative
#AxureLondon

6. Introduction
#AxureLondon

7. Just so you know…
@AxureLondon
 New twitter account and website
@AxureLondon
AxureLondon.com

8. Prototyping for TV
with Axure 6.5
by Scott Room

9. Prototyping for TV in Axure 6.5
 Challenge: Create a rapid prototyping mechanism
allowing for customer testing of TV interactions using
the interface controls customers will have in their
homes (i.e. a remote)
 Questions: Can we get an axure prototype onto a set
top box?
 How do we translate mouse and key strokes into
remote button presses?
@scott_room

10. The solution
 RedRat infrared device
 Allows infra-red signals to be collected through a PC
 Provides software that maps these signals into key-presses
 Collects infra-red signals from pretty much any remote
(although the TalkTalk remote is the only one you’ll ever need!)
 Can work on any application – not just websites!
 Issues/limitations
 Only works on PC technology (we all know that mac’s are the
creative go-to!)
 Complex to set-up (need to teach the software the relationship
between the remote signals and the buttons available) – but
you can save your setup once complete.
 You still need an application that can accept key-presses!

11. Prototyping for TV in Axure 6.5
@scott_room

12. Prototyping for TV in Axure 6.5
@scott_room
Global variable holds the value of the “Last Button Pushed”

13. Prototyping for TV in Axure 6.5
@scott_room
A OnPanelStateChange event gets triggered and the global variable holding the
information on what key was pressed determines the next interaction.

14. Outcome and Future uses
 Used to inform the interaction design of the TV player,
identify immediate pain points for action.
 Recently went live with TalkTalkPlayer v2.
 Future rapid prototyping to bring interactions to life
without complex POCs and external technology support
 Ability to put quick ideas and concepts in front of
customers to get immediate feedback with a tactile
device.
@scott_room

15. How to fake backend systems
with Axure 7
by Sandra Sears

16. What is a Repeater Widget?
@metrowiseux
 Is a way to bring database capabilities into Axure.
 An advanced widget used to display repeating
patters of text, images and links.
 Great for repeating product listings, contact info list,
blog post and more.

17. What is a Repeater Widget?
@metrowiseux
 Today’s guinea pig:

18. What is a Repeater Widget?
@metrowiseux
Index App Name App ID App Platform Description Picture
1 Add &
Subtract
123 WP Learn to Add & Subtract:
right answers get stars &
help you advance levels.
Game achievements
and summaries
available!
2 RecNote 456 W8 Make/Share bookmarks
of specific times in
YouTube vids w/
RecNote—it's speech
enabled & Xbox Music
integrated too!
3 Firefly
Runner
789 both Play as Switch the hero
firefly & run, fly, or shoot
evil foes in the magical
3D running game Firefly
Runner!
4 PoP! 952 both Have your own dessert
factory & PoP! bubbles
filled w/ ingredients for
new recipes. "Combo
pops" earn more points!

19. What is a Repeater Widget?
@metrowiseux
ID
App Name
App ID
App Platform
Description
Picture

20. What is a Repeater Widget?
@metrowiseux

21. What is a Repeater Widget?
@metrowiseux

22. Step 1
 Drag a repeater into the grid
@metrowiseux

23. Step 1
 Add the following columns into the repeater dataset:
 Index
 App Name
 App ID
 App Platform
 Description
 Picture
 Populate the dataset (4 first apps)
@metrowiseux

24. Step 2
 Name the repeater and the shape.
 Surface name using the “OnItemLoad” event.
 There are two ways of changing this event.
 Change
 Name to the shape: App Name
@metrowiseux

25. Step 3
 Set up the repeated information to be in columns
and not rows
@metrowiseux

26. Step 4
 Set up the shape to be the right width (164 px) and
height (318 px)
 Add a space of 10px in between rows.
@metrowiseux

27. Step 5
 Open the repeater item
 Drag and drop and image widget
 Set it up to 164 x 164
 Name it “App Image”
@metrowiseux

28. Step 6
 Link the pictures of the data set into the repeater.
@metrowiseux

29. Step 7
 Open the Repeater
 Select the shape and go to Alignment and Padding
section:
 Alignment: Left and Top
 Padding T: 168
@metrowiseux

30. Step 8
 Open the OnItemLoad Case and edit the content
displayed below the picture.
 Include the App description
 Bold the App Name, add an space between the app
title and the description.
@metrowiseux

31. Step 9
 Make the background of the Repeater Shape
transparent as well as the lines of the shape
@metrowiseux

32. Step 10
 Add another app (row in the database)
@metrowiseux

33. Step 11
 Open the Repeater
 Tick on “Wrap (Grid) from the layout section, and
enter the number 4 on the “items per row” input field.
@metrowiseux

34. Step 12
 Open the Repeater
 Add a 164 by 32 rectangle into the Repeater shape
with no lines and filled with the same gray as the site
(#f2f2f2) and an transparency of 80%
 Convert rectangle into a dynamic panel and call it
“Platform icon”
@metrowiseux

35. Step 13
 … here is where I took the wrong turn!!!
@metrowiseux

36. Step 13
 REPEATER ARE NOT ALLOW INSIDE REPEATERS!!!
 Drag another repeater on the page
 Set the database with three columns: Platform, icon and
icon_hover
 Add the two rows with the correspondent info.
 Add a 30 by 30 image into the shape.
 Name the image icon.
 Set up the OnItemLoad Interaction as follows:
 Case 1:
 Set default image to value [[Item.Icon]]
 Set Mouse Over image to value [Item.Icon_hover]]
@metrowiseux

37. Step 13
 Open the Repeater Formatting for the icon and
change the layout from Vertical to Horizontal.
 Delete the rectangular shape which is defaulted
when the repeater launches.
 Add 10 pixel spacing in between
 Place the repeater in the right position
 Open the Repeater Formatting for the icon and
change the layout from Vertical to Horizontal.
@metrowiseux

38. Step 13
@metrowiseux

39. Step 13
 Create the three states necessary to support the
three different cases: Only Windows Phone app,
only Windows 8 app or both
 Call the states:
 WP7
 W8
 both
@metrowiseux

40. Step 9
 Add the logic to pick the right state on the repeater
@metrowiseux

41. Axure Stop Motion Movie
The inception of AxureLondon.com
#AxureLondon

42. The Movie
 Birth of our new AxureLondon.com
@metrowiseux

43. A few more tips
 Think a head!
Give enough space for all sorts of data
Think about long strings, alignment and wrapping
@metrowiseux

44. A few more tips
 Think a head!
Most copy would required a limit of character
given
that there is no truncation capabilities in Axure.
@metrowiseux

45. Advanced tutorial
Achieving responsive, realistic, data driven design
using Repeaters and RWD Views.
 http://www.axureworld.org/library/achieving-
responsive-realistic-data-driven-design-using-
repe.html
#AxureLondon

46. Building Mobile Prototypes
with Axure 7
by Lennart Hennigs

47. @LennartHennigs

48. Slides for this presentation
can be found here:
http://www.slideshare.net/problemloeser/buildin
g-mobile-prototypes-with-axure-rp-70

49. Thanks!
 @AxureLondon
 AxureLondon.com
 axurelondon@gmail.com
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