How many ways can you turn a field into a phone link in AppGini?

So many users tell us how much they like the hooks feature in AppGini. It allows almost unlimited ways to customize the generated AppGini apps; changing appearance, adding features, pages, rapid workflows, … etc. In fact, users really surprise and amaze me with the very creative things they do using hooks. Due to the power […]

Prevent specific groups from directly accessing a table in AppGini

In some application scenarios, you might meet the usage case where you want one or more user groups to be able to access a table only if it’s displayed as a child table, but not directly as a master table. Let’s take an example from the Northwind demo. Let’s say you have a users group […]

Make it mandatory for new users to agree to terms and conditions before signing up

I got a question from an AppGini user on how to make it a requirement for users to check an ‘I agree’ box when they sign up to AppGini — possibly as part of GDPR compliance, or to agree to some other terms and conditions. We do plan to add support for this as part […]

Displaying count of child records on the tab title

AppGini supports displaying a list of child records in the detail view of the parent record. For example, here is the detail view of an employee record from the online Northwind demo: (Ignore the weird cartoons for now!) So … It would be nice if the count of subordinates is displayed on the ‘Subordinates’ tab, […]

Hiding the nicedit component from a page

AppGini uses nicedit Javascript component for displaying rich text areas, where users can enter formatted input. You might wish to hide/show the rich editor in an AppGini page, or in one of your custom pages. This can be done using JavaScript code. To hide nicedit components in a page:

To show nicedit components:

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Creating an ON/OFF switch using bootstrap and jQuery

In some projects that I work on, I need a quick way of adding some cool-looking user-friendly on/off switch. Checkboxes are ugly! And I don’t want to add a new component/plugin to the already loaded pages. So, I wrote some quick code snippet for a switch based on Bootstrap 3 and jQuery. Here is the […]