During the last few weeks I was brought in to a new Mendix project to help troubleshoot and fix production bugs. One issue that was especially difficult to figure out involved the creation of a document based on a template with a whole lot of tokens. For those uninitiated, tokens are attributes that you can use in your application for emails or document generation to allow the dynamic values to populate instead of fixed text. Once I figured out what was causing the issue, I found what I believe is a limitation of the “generateDocument” action in a Microflow. I’m creating a ticket about this but if you’re interested in the problem and short-term solution, read on and I’ll explain.
How To Make Your Mendix Application Environment Aware
While perusing the Mendix Forum this week I saw someone post the question as to how to make their Mendix Application aware that it was in Dev, Test, or Production. It had already been answered with a technique I use but for the novice Mendix user I’m not sure the answer was clear enough to be followed. I’m going to share what I do and what I’ve learned about this in greater detail to hopefully clarify the opaque answers given in the forum.
How To Use Your Mendix Cloud Database locally
Recently I was asked to help out on a Mendix project. In order to test changes in the Business Modeler, I needed to get a copy of the data from the Acceptance environment so I could use it locally. I hadn’t needed to do this before so I put together a quick guide to help walk me through the process. I thought it made sense to share on my blog for others that might need to do this.
Reporting with Mendix - Failures and Successes Explained
A month or two ago I wrote about using Document Templates for reporting. At that time I was pressed for time and needed to get a few reports in PDF form out the door. I even commented that I had tried to use the Report Pane and OQL built into Mendix but struggled with the process and didn’t really have time to dive into figuring it out. This past week, however, I couldn’t build the reports I needed to do using Data Grids or Document Templates. I went back to OQL feeling confident I could write the syntax to achieve what was needed and after a day and a half of trial and error, I figured it out. I’d like to share what I learned.
So Easy A Salesman Can Do It
Just the other day one of our client relationship directors demonstrated a unique use of Mendix with me that I simply had to share. I wish I could show you screenshots of this, but unfortunately there is no way to do so given the proprietary nature of what the application contained. Here's what happened...