m-Power maintenance applications have long supported Checkboxes as input values. One complaint of this feature, however, was that these values could only support one value at a time. This document will explain how the main m-Power maintenance templates (Single Row Maintainer and Display & Maintain Rows) can be configured to support multi-value checkboxes. To implement: … Continue reading Multi-values Checkboxes
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Formatting Cells in Excel Output
m-Power Reports and Retrievals allow users to export their data to Excel, a very popular feature of our platform. Occasionally, some developers desire to have the ability to control what formatting options their data has within Excel. For example, some users want their numeric data to be formatted as text when outputted to Excel. Developers … Continue reading Formatting Cells in Excel Output
Converting m-Power Stylesheets to use Sass
With the March 2016 update, new dictionaries now use an upgraded stylesheet, compiled with a CSS pre-processor known as Sass. This gives developers an easy interface for changing certain styles, the ability to manage multiple stylesheets, and the ability to use any Sass syntax when customizing stylesheets. More information on this feature can be found … Continue reading Converting m-Power Stylesheets to use Sass
m-Power Graphing Version Upgrade
Beginning with the December 2015 update, m-Power begins exclusive support of JavaScript graphs. Due to a lack of support with mobile devices, the previous Flash based graphs are no longer supported. The new graphing logic also includes benefits of improved performance, a new graph type, as well as the support of graph themes. What this … Continue reading m-Power Graphing Version Upgrade
Masking & Scrambling Sensitive Data
When creating web applications, developers occasionally wish to hide, scramble or otherwise obfuscate data that is displayed on the page and/or sent via the URL. The main reason for this is that application developers need to protect the information being sent across the URL from being read by the end-user. An example of this would … Continue reading Masking & Scrambling Sensitive Data