Quick Navigation Included in the April 2015 m-Power update is a new enhancement that allows you to quickly access any settings page in m-Power. In the top-right hand corner of the interface, next to the current developer signed in is now a lightning bolt icon. Inside this pop-up window, is all of the pages you […]
Color Coding via m-Painter
Color Coding via m-Painter Click here to view documentation for the current version of this feature. To help highlight data patterns, developers often employ the use of conditional styles to color code their data. For example, when a percentage is greater than 80%, you may wish to make that data cell green, whereas otherwise you […]
Merge Data to PDF
Merge Data to PDF Occasionally, customers desire to have data from within their database be merged into an editable/interactive PDF file (Also known as PDF Forms). This documentation will walk you through this process. Note: The output you generated is not intended to be fed back into the database. This template's sole purpose to quickly […]
Manage Data within m-Power
Manage Data within m-Power The Manage Data section of m-Power is a critical component of your m-Power Data Dictionary. This screen controls many facets of data management, including: Registering Existing Tables to m-Power Creating New Tables Uploading Spreadsheet Data Modifying Table & Field attributes (Description, Format Code, etc) Create Logical Fields Add Database Field […]
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Cross Tab Report Template
Cross Tab Report Template Jump to: Features Template Notes Runtime Walkthrough Template In-Action Application Properties Web Parameters The Cross Tab Report template allows end users to control the columns of a report, while maintaining developer customization of the HTML layer. Moreover, this template summarizes measure values into separate columns/buckets across the page, one for […]
Grid Add Maintenance Template
Grid Add Maintenance Template Jump to: Features Jump to Template Specific Notes Runtime Walkthrough Template In-Action Application Properties Web Parameters As it sounds, this template allows adding multiple records on a grid at the same time. This template makes it a simple to create powerful, user-friendly interfaces for adding data. Features that Apply to […]
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Grid Update Maintenance Template
Grid Update Maintenance Template Jump to: Features Template Notes Runtime Walkthrough Template In-Action Application Properties Web Parameters As it sounds, this template allows maintenance directly on a grid of records with the ability to edit and/or delete multiple records at once. This template makes it simple to create powerful, user-friendly interfaces for maintaining data. […]
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Ad-Hoc Sorting on Multiple Columns
Sorting on Multiple Columns Via URL At runtime it is possible to sort on more than one field via parameters over the URL, by doing this developers can easily reuse applications to satisfy many end user sorting requests. Being able to sort on multiple columns allows an application to display data in multiple ways, eliminating […]
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Field Settings
Field Settings Using the Field Settings specification, you can delete, reorder, and edit the appearance of fields you have selected for your application. Deleting a Field To delete a field from your application, check the box referring the field you want to delete and click accept. Notice that in the screenshot the Customer Number field […]
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Record Selections
Record Selections Record Selections can be used to display subsets of data in an application. For instance, imagine a retrieval built over a sales history table with over 100,000 records. It is not always practical to show all 100,000 records at one time. Perhaps an end-user needs to be able to select a particular date […]
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