m-Power Manual

Business Rules Designer   Overview The Business Rules Designer allows developers to create their own custom business processes, directly in m-Power, without any coding. These business rules can be invoked on a per row basis (such as returning a result for every record in a report), per action (such as calling logic when a user […]

Return Data External Object   Beginning with the May 2013 update of m-Power, developers will have access to a Return Data Java external object for use within maintenance applications. This object takes in 1 parameter to find a row within a retrieval, and then returns that value(s) to your maintainer. A common example of using […]

Regular Expression External Object   Beginning with the May 2013 release of m-Power, developers will be able to use a Regular Expression Java external object for parsing field values. The most common example of when this would be done is with the Email Upload template, in order to grab a piece of data from one […]

Working with Lengthy Fields   m-Power has always easily handled fields of lengths less than 1000 characters. Beginning with the August 20th, 2012 update, fields of any length can be used within m-Power. When registering tables, simply add them as normal and the proper field lengths will be registered: Calculations also now support large field […]

Sample External Object (Java) Source Code   package MRCWORKLIB; import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.Statement; import org.apache.log4j.Logger; import com.mrc.dbo.MrcConnection; /**  * Delete Order # from MRCWORKLIB.ORDDET  * 2011-09-22  * @author RH  *  * 2. Define external object  *  * Class Name: MRCWORKLIB.DELDETAIL  * Method Name: run  * Then define one object parm to […]

Redirecting from a Maintainer Occasionally you may want to redirect to another page after a user has performed an action within a Maintenance application (such as Update, Delete, or Add). One of the most common uses of the redirect is after a user fills out a form. Once they have completed and press the "Accept" […]

Sample External Object (SQL) Source Code   CREATE procedure MRCWORKLIB.DELDETAIL(  inout orderno decimal(6,0)) LANGUAGE SQL IS DETERMINISTIC MODIFIES SQL DATA BEGIN DELETE FROM MRCWORKLIB.ORDDET WHERE ORDNUM = orderno; END

Calling a Sample External Object (RPG)   This document will explain how to create, register, and call a sample External Object written in RPG. Recall from basic training that the purpose of an External Object is to call your back-end business logic directly through an m-Power web application. In this case, the purpose of this […]

Calling a Sample External Object (SQL)   This document will explain how to create, register, and call a sample External Object written in SQL. Recall from basic training that the purpose of an External Object is to call your back-end business logic directly through an m-Power web application. In this case, the purpose of this […]

Calling a Sample External Object (Java)   This document will explain how to create, register, and call a sample External Object written in Java. Recall from basic training that the purpose of an External Object is to call your back-end business logic directly through an m-Power web application. In this case, the purpose of this […]