by mikes | Nov 16, 2018 | DataFlex, DataFlex WebApp, VPE for DataFlex
Even though there is no designer for VPE reports especially column based reports can be created very quickly and can also be maintained rather easily as an example lets walk through creating a simple customer report the skeleton for a report object looks as follows...
by mikes | Nov 16, 2018 | DataFlex, DataFlex WebApp, Xamarin
In this post on DataFlex and native mobile applications we will show how to create a native mobile application and connect it to our DataFlex application using web services built with the WebApp Framework. While web applications can run on devices and become more and...
by mikes | Nov 8, 2018 | DataFlex
What is oAuth2 oAuth2 is a authentication framework that allows third party applications to authenticate with services without the need for the user to provide credentials to the third party application. For example if our application would like to connect to an end...
by mikes | Nov 7, 2018 | DataFlex WebApp
I planned on writing a blog post on this for a while. A recent support request reminded me that i had not done this yet. For someone coming from desktop application development there are a number of concepts with web applications that are new or different. Some of...
by mikes | Nov 6, 2018 | DataFlex
EDI always had and still plays an important role in communication between trading partners. A long time ago we implemented a class library to handle EDI communication in DataFlex. The class library consists of a multi layer design. The base layer is a class...
by mikes | Nov 6, 2018 | DataFlex
Recently we had been tasked with connecting an existing DataFlex ERP System to use the Amazon Marketplace Web Service to integrate selling services using Amazon. After investigating the Amazon MWS API we designed the interface which consists of a base layer for the...
by mikes | Nov 5, 2018 | DataFlex WebApp
Our second article in this series is about Two Factor Authentication. Two Factor Authentication or Multi Factor Authentication (2FA or MFA) require the user to supply multiple forms of authentication something the user ‘knows’ and something the user is in...
by mikes | Nov 3, 2018 | DataFlex WebApp
In this first post on security with DataFlex WebApp we are looking at hardening the login of our webapp using Googles reCaptcha technology. Googles reCaptcha is a free service that allows us to tell humans apart from bots and use that information to keep our site more...
by mikes | Oct 1, 2018 | DataFlex, DataFlex WebApp
The calendar control can be used as a stand alone calendar control but it also used as a DatePicker It supports 3 different modes month year years Month Mode In month mode the calendar shows all the days of a month. The user can switch months and years and can select...
by mikes | Oct 1, 2018 | DataFlex, DataFlex WebApp
The QR Code control is a simple WebApp control that allows a developer to embed qr codes into a webapp application The code to embed a QRCode control is very simple Object oQRCode is a cszWebQRCode Set piColumnSpan to 0 Set psValue to...
