Tool tips often come in handy when you need the user to have access to additional information quickly. Imagine you hover over an entry in a datagrid, and as you hover over the entry, a tooltip displays a summary of all the information about this entry. That would be great, wouldn’t it? You can in fact configure exactly that with a few simple and easy clicks in the modeler! Just follow these four steps:

Select the complete datagrid
Go to the properties menu
Go to the behavior section en select tooltip form
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For those who are not aware of this feature, this tip will be really useful! Instead of displaying text in a datagrid, you can also chose to display images. Sometimes this can enhance the clarity of the information displayed for the user. The only pre-requisite is that you have images associated with the enumeration you are planning to display. It’s very easy, all you have to do then is the following:

Select a column in a datagrid
Go to the properties menu
Select display mode in the appearance section
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Did you know that you could easily drag and drop cell content from one cell to another? If not, this tip will save you some time in future! Instead of creating fields and labels again and again, when you change the order or change the location, you can simply drag and drop the existing ones into the new cell. Here is how it works:

Select the content of a cell
Drag and drop it, for example by moving a text-box, or a drop-down into another cell

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You would like to specify in advance what the user can enter into a text box? The input mask might be just what you need! Take the following steps to specify an input mask for your text box:

Select the text box
Go to the properties menu
Select ‘Input mask’ in the behavior section
Note that in the documentation box, underneath the properties box, you will see clues on what to enter into the input mask
Insert the desired input

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Did you know that you can easily set the row appearance conditions with just a few mouse clicks? If you have an enumeration attribute you can hide some of those attributes so that the user only sees those he needs to see. Try it for yourself:

Right mouse click on a cell
Select “select row”
Right mouse click on the selected row
Select “set conditional formatting’” to set the appearance behavior of a row

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In Mendix 2.4.4 there is a new property in the action trigger: Form validation! This property can be set to ‘all’ or ‘none’. If set to ‘none’ the Action trigger has the same behavior as in previous releases. If the form validation property is set to ‘all’ the action trigger will only execute its associated microflow if all form validations (required property on input widgets) are met. With this new property you are now able to completely reproduce the behavior of the default save button using an action trigger and microflows.

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You are wondering how to work with a list of objects in a sub-microflow and then return this list to the parent microflow? You might be surprised about how easy this is! When editing a microflow you can find, on the right-hand side of the screen under the behavior tab, the ‘return type’ attribute. Set this to ‘List’ and then set it to the desired object. After that you simply define your end event to return this list. That’s it!

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In Mendix 2.4.4 things have just become even easier: You can now trigger downloads with the new microflow activity “Download File”. This new client activity needs a file document as input parameter that will be downloaded by the client when the microflow is finished. You can also use the property ‘Show file in browser’ that will give it the same behavior as in the conventional file manager widget.

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In Mendix 2.4.4 there is a nice new property on the file manager widget called “Show file in browser”. If this property is set to true the client will try to open the downloaded file into a new browser tab. Note: This is particularly useful for PDF documents!

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New feature: Show file in browser.

New release: Mendix 2.4.4 is here!  Amongst the new features there is a new microflow activity for downloads, a new action trigger functionality, and numpad support… Check out the complete release notes: Release Notes.

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New microflow activity in Mendix 2.4.4