Appronto Appstore Mendix Meetup 8 dec 2014

Appronto & Mendix Appstore

Herbert Vuijk - CTO

Pim van der Noll – Business Engineer

Topics

• Mendix and reporting

• Appronto’s solution overview

• Reporting for Mendix Module

• What’s more..

• Demonstration

• Q&A

Mendix and Reporting current options

• Mendix standard reporting widgets

– Designtime OQL

– Flash based (doesn’t work well with every browser)

• SimpleChart

– Design time xpath based widget with aggregation possibilities

– Advice: use for straight forward presentation, don’t use for aggregation

• Generic challenges:

– Limited runtime flexibility

– Performance

– A lot of microflows for report generation

Reporting for Mendix solution overview

• Reporting for Mendix

• If This Than That (IFTTT)

• Updated highcharts widget

• Excel for power users

Summary

• Key features Reporting For Mendix

– Design time OQL designer and more

– Queries to graphs mapping functionality

• Key features IFTTT

– Runtime configuration of events (triggers) and actions

– Integration with Reporting For Mendix for dynamically data merge

• Roadmap

– Making the modules more business friendly

– Adding more advanced query possibilities

– Extending IFTTT with more actions

Licensing

• Essential functionalities in java encrypted

• Make changes, give feedback

• Use for tests, proof of concepts without license!

Customer case Offective

• Reporting module

for graph

presentation


management

reporting

• IFTTT module for

creating

notifications to

users

Customer case Collin Crowdfund

• Configured around 60 runtime e-

mails.

• No model updates required for

new e-mails

• Also used the IFTTT module for

task creation

Customer case PKN


for statistic year

book


for ad hoc Excel

reports


for datacorruption

detection and

cleaning

What’s more, check it out

• Twitter widget • Custom feedback

• Appronto

Commons

• CSV export • Reporting

DTAP Sync

• Chatter

Demonstration

Demonstration

Questions?

Appronto Appstore Mendix Meetup 8 dec 2014

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