As part of a recent product briefing, I created a fairly comprehensive application with multiple integrations from scratch using AgilePoint NX v8.0 in less than 90 mins which is shown in the video at the end of the post. If you’ve never heard of the low code approach to app development before then get ready…
Author: Nishant Shrivastava
Google Chrome Blocking Mixed Content Downloads
Google began to roll out gradual changes to the Google Chrome browser to block mixed-content rendering and mixed-content downloads. Starting in January 2021, Google will begin to block HTTP file (images, docs, pdf) downloads from an HTTPS site by default. Does this impact the AgilePoint Platform code? AgilePoint product team has assessed how this change…
Analytics Center Overview – Part 12 – Canned Reports
In this blog I will discuss canned reports, alternatively known as the Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) reports. AgilePoint NX till release v7.x provided canned reports as part of its reporting module. In release v8.0, the Analytics Center will continue to provide canned reports and may add more in upcoming releases. A canned report is a ready to…
Analytics Center Overview – Part 11 – Sample Reports Setup Guide
A good practice while rolling out platform-products is to provide working examples, testable samples or ready to use templates along with the product offering. AgilePoint already provides industry standard applications which can be downloaded from the AppStore. For the Analytics Center, we are providing sample reports and dashboards which I covered in one of my…
Analytics Center Overview – Part 10 – Report Delivery Mechanisms
In this article, we are going to look at various report and dashboard deliver mechanisms which are included as part of Analytics Center module. Once reports are created, the next thing users are looking for is to consume it in different ways. Some of the common scenarios can be Email the report to manager or…
Analytics Center Overview – Part 9 – Import Reports and Dashboards
Continuing on from my previous blog post on Analytics Overview series, in this post, I am going to walk you through the process of importing reports and dashboards from your development environment to production environment. As a best practice, we advice all our clients to have a separate non-production and production environment so that all…
Analytics Center Overview – Part 8 – Report Part Widget
In this article, we are going to see how you could take the charts and tables which have been created using Analytics Center and expose them to end users using portal pages created using the Page Builder module. Page Builder module lets citizen developers design nice looking landing pages for various teams within your organization…
Generic OAuth2 Token for REST Connector
In this video, we are going to look at how to configure the new generic OAuth2 token which can then be used with the generic REST connector in forms as well as process model. However, before that, lets first understand the use case as it is not very common. As you might already know, AgilePoint…
AgilePoint NX Connector for Microsoft Dataverse
As part of the series of product update videos on AgilePoint NX v8.0 release, the next one I would like to share is about the Microsoft’s Dataverse Integration which is one of the key elements of the Power Platform from Microsoft and is the backbone of Microsoft’s Dynamics line of products where Dynamics apps store…
‘Add an App’ Goes Mainstream
AgilePoint NX v8.0 is the latest major leap forward in a rich tradition of relentless product innovation. As you’ve seen in prior videos, there are a number of recurring themes for the upcoming release – a crisp and modern UX, new features, and laser focus on enabling the less technical application designer, sometimes called Citizen…
Modern Work Center: The Key to Effective Work Management
If you’ve been reading my blog recently, you already know that AgilePoint NX v8.0 release is packed to the gills with a fresh, modern user interface, new features and integrations, and citizen developer-oriented usability enhancements – to say that we’re excited to share it with you would be a massive understatement! One of the key…
AgilePoint NX Connector for Microsoft Power Automate and Logic Apps
In our series of announcements for AgilePoint NX v8.0, the next one I am going to cover is the new Power Automate connector for AgilePoint NX which will be released with AgilePoint NX v8.0. In addition to this there will also be an AgilePoint NX connector in Power Automate and Logic Apps for facilitating two…
Bulk Import and Export for Data Entities
A few days back, we announced that how you can generate a data entity using an existing excel sheet which auto generates the metadata of ten entity and also imports any existing records. Here is a reference to that blog post. However once the entity has been generated in development environment using Excel or other…
Analytics Center Overview – Part 7 – Data Entities
Continuing on from my previous blog post on Analytics Overview series, in this post, I am going to walk you through the process of enabling analytics on Data Entities created within AgilePoint NX platform to facilitate creation of comprehensive report and dashboard for Data Entities. This has been a highly sought after feature within our…
Redesigned SubForm Control for Better Performance and Enhanced Features
SubForm control is used quite often in the eForms development. It is a composite control which can hold multiple rows of records where each row can contain multiple sub-controls. Use of SubForm control is quite common in a Master-Detail kind of forms where user has to interact with multiple rows and columns of set of…
Introducing App Categories
With the rise of low-code platforms, building apps has been widely accessible for both professional developers and citizen developers without putting high engineering efforts. As enterprises accelerate their digital transformation programs, the number of enterprise applications will significantly increase. So, how does one manage and organize this vast expansion of apps portfolio? With AgilePoint NX…
Bulk Update Records with a List View Control
Have you ever needed to update a field on a set of records shown in a List View control of a Form Based App? Navigating to and updating each individual record could be very time consuming. We’ll show you how to do it swiftly from the List View control provided it is using AgilePoint Data…
AgilePoint NX Connector for ServiceNow
As part of the series of product update videos on AgilePoint NX v8.0 release, the next one I would like to share is about the ServiceNow Integration. The following workflow actions have been added Add Attachment Create Record Delete Attachment Delete Record Get Record Query Multiple Record Update Record ServiceNow provides dozens of products and…
New Process Activities for AgilePoint NX Data Entities
AgilePoint NX currently offers 8 workflow activities to interact with AgilePoint NX data entities/picklists via process. AgilePoint NX v8.0 release takes the total number of data entities workflow activities to 17 by introducing 9 new activities. The focus of the new additions is picklists, entity records and permissions. Here is a complete list of new…
Introducing Excel as a Data Source for Your Applications
In this article, we are going to see how to create AgilePoint NX Apps with Excel as a data source. Many businesses today run significant part of their business on Excel sheets. Even in large enterprises, lot of structured information is stored in Excel files. The problem with using Excel is it doesn’t scale well….