Download - Appronto Appstore Mendix Meetup 8 dec 2014
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
• Reporting module
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
• Reporting module
for statistic year
book
• Reporting module
for ad hoc Excel
reports
• Reporting module
for datacorruption
detection and
cleaning
What’s more, check it out
• Twitter widget • Custom feedback
• Appronto
Commons
• CSV export • Reporting
DTAP Sync
• Chatter