OpenROAD speeds development by using standard components, predefined templates, and templates that you design and deliver to team members to allow new components to be built quickly. This approach lets you leverage and enforce development standards and enables you to globally apply changes to fields or frames that have been created from templates.

To enhance the look-and-feel of your application frames, you can use an extended set of field templates contained in a number of OpenROAD libraries. You can add various types of fields—such as spin controls and many desktop tools—with a few mouse clicks. You also can create fields dynamically using assistant technology, which steps you through the field customization process.

OpenROAD enables you to generate frames using its assistant-based frame templates that solve a wide variety of common business problems. All frames that you generate using this feature are fully operational, including completely functional database access with update, delete, and insert capability. No frames require you to write a single line of code. The generated frames are completely customizable, as are the generation procedures.