MENDIX

DOCUMENTATION
 STARTING WITH MENDIX

 Open sprintr.home.mendix.com and sign in with Mendix

username and password.

Method I: Creating an APP in the Developer Portal

 Click Create App and name your App
[Note: If you want to Edit the name of your App, go to General
Settings and Click on Edit App Info]

Method II: Creating an APP from the Studio Pro

 Open the Mendix studio pro File—New App—Choose the
template (for now it is blank web app)—click use this starting
point—Enter the app name –repository (svn)—default language
(English United States)—select the appropriate app directory.

Creating a Team

 Go to the Developer Portal sprintr.home.mendix.com

 Select your App
 Go to Section Team under Collaboration
 Click on Invite Member
 Add Email IDs of the member to be invited and send invitations.
 Add as Business Engineer/Scrum Master
 ADD USER STORIES

 Select Stories-More- Select Import/Export

 Select Update stories from Excel
 Browse and select user stories
 Click Import and click Next
 Then Delete the Get Started sprint

ADDING STORY POINTS

 Select each user story

 Add Description
 Add Tasks
 Add Points based on the complexity of work
Illustration
Let us see how to create this simple page shown below and make it functional to input data and save the
data to the database along with validations.

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Creating the domain model

1. Open the app which you have created.
2. Go to the myfirstmodule folder , you can see a domain model folder below that , double click on
it and open the domain model
3. The domain models page looks the same as the image given below when you open it.
4. Click on the entity icon(highlighted in blue near the cursor icon figure 3 ) and drag and place it
on the blank space
5. Double click on the entity , it opens up the properties page (figure 2),specify the name of the
enity(in this case employeedetails) and the attributes along with the datatypes(for this click on
new which is in the attributes tab and proceed).
6. Thus the domain model is created.
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Creating the page
1. Go to myfirstmodule right click on the folder – and click on add page

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2. Enter the page name (in this case Employee_Details) select the template as blank and
navigation layout as atlas default
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3. Click ok.
4. You can see the page you just created on the left hand side

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5. Double click on the page to open the page

6. Drag and drop a data view from the toolbox(on the right hand side refer image 7) to the page

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7. Double click on the data view(where it is written unknown)to select the entity source .

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8. Select the entity source from the list of the entities (in this case employee details) select and
click ok.

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9. A pop up message will come up asking if autofill has to be done click ok. By clicking on, the
attributes of the entity are automatically filled in the page with appropriate widgets.
10. You can also not autofill the contents instead select different widgets from the toolbox and
specify the attributes individually.

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11. Thus you have created a page with a data view and its attributes.
Creating the object EmployeeDetail, committing
the object to the Database and performing
validations for the fields using microflow.

Creating the EmployeeDetail Objects

1. Double click on the save button which is below the gender radio button
2. Go to the events section(refer image 11) select the call a microflow option from the drop dow

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3. Click on the new button and name the microflow as ACT_EMPLOYEEDETAIL_COMMIT.

4. You can select the microflow from the left and double click on it this will open the
microflow(refer image 13)

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5. Go to the toolbox search for the create object activity.

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6. Drag and drop the create object activity from the toolbox on the line.
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7. Double click on the activity to open its properties as shown in the image below.

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8. Select the entity as employee details and add all the members(attributes) that has to be created
by clicking on new and adding each members separately.

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9. Thus you have created all the objects .

PERFORM VALIDATION
1. Drag and drop a create variable activity from the toolbox on the line after the create object
activity you just created.
2. Set the datatype to Boolean and the value to true,change the variable name to commit.

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3. Drag and drop a decision box(yellow diamond shaped) as shown in the image below

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4. Double click on it to open its properties fill in the caption and give the following expression
as given in the figure below .
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5. Draw a sequence flow line from below the condition and add another activity which is the
change variable activity by dragging and dropping in on the sequence flow line .Double click
on it and set the properties commit variable and the value to false.

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6. Right click on the red line and set the condition value to true as shown in the image below.

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7. Below the change variable activity add another activity the validation feedback activity and
double click to open its properties and click ok.
8. Assign the values to the properties as shown in the image below.

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9. Place a merger after the true value and draw a sequence line from the decision to the
merger as shown in the image below .

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10. Similarly perform the validation until the last filed (ie gender in this case).
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11. The microflow will look like the image shown below after you complete all the validation.

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12. After the final merger add another decision to check the decision as shown in the image
below.

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Commit the objects to the database
1. Drag and drop another activity which is the commit object activity after the decision
box and double click the activity to open its property. Set the value of the object or list
as shown in the image below.

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2. After that add a show message activity. Double click on it to open its properties

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 3. Select the type information and specify the template message as shown in the image
below.

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4. Add a close page activity after that.

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Add the page to the navigation and run the app
1. Double click on the navigation on the left side

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2. It opens up this page click on new item

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 3. Give the caption as Employee Details , choose any icon, on click –create object—select the
entity as employee details and onclick click page – employee_details and click ok.

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4. Click on the green play button on the top bar click on save and continue.

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5. Click on the View App to view your app in the browser.

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6. Click on the icon from the navigation menu to go to the page you just created.

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7. Check for the validations and see if the microflow we created is working also fill in the details
and check if the objects created are committed to the database.

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