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Building Low-Code Applications with Mendix

You're reading from   Building Low-Code Applications with Mendix Discover best practices and expert techniques to simplify enterprise web development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800201422
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bryan Kenneweg Bryan Kenneweg
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Imran Kasam Imran Kasam
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Micah McMullen Micah McMullen
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Mendix FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Mendix Platform 4. Chapter 3: Getting to Know Mendix Studio 5. Chapter 4: Getting to Know Studio Pro 6. Section 2: Building Your First App
7. Chapter 5: Getting Started with Your Baseline App 8. Chapter 6: Understanding Domain Model Basics 9. Chapter 7: Understanding the Basics of Page Design 10. Chapter 8: Getting to Know Microflows 11. Section 3: Leveling Up Your App
12. Chapter 9: Customizing Your App 13. Chapter 10: Error Handling and Troubleshooting 14. Chapter 11: Storing Data 15. Chapter 12: Getting Some REST 16. Chapter 13: A Review and What's Next 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 9: Customizing Your App

In this chapter, we will dive deeper beyond opening pages and saving records. We will take a closer look at adding custom business logic and rules to drive user experience and functionality. We will turn your user stories into working, navigable applications that take your development to the next level!

To help get us there, we will cover the following topics and concepts:

  • Functions and expressions – We will discuss functions that will help us work with and manipulate string attributes, integers, enumerations, and DateTime attributes. We will also explore relational expressions that are used to work with multiple data points at the same time, for example, finding the delta between two integers.
  • Sub-microflows – You may know what a microflow is, but what is a sub-microflow? In the previous chapter, we extracted a set of activities in a microflow to create a sub-microflow. But why was that necessary? In this chapter, we will...
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