Apps

1 Introduction

The Apps page gives an overview of all the apps belonging to your company. The page has the following tabs available: Mendix Cloud, Mendix Free Cloud, Other Apps, and Deactivated Apps.

2 Mendix Cloud

The Mendix Cloud tab gives an overview of all the licensed apps that can be published on the Mendix Public Cloud.

By default you only see apps and their production environments. Turn off the Production toggle on the right side above the table to see all the environments.

You can customize the columns of the table by clicking the column selector (the icon) on the upper-right corner of the table. The items selected are shown as columns in the table.

The description of the items that you can select are as follows:

• AppID: the unique identifier of the app

• App Name: the name of the app

  You can view the app details by clicking the app name in the table.

• Technical Contact: the technical contact of the app.

  You can edit the Technical Contact of an app by clicking Edit () next to the current Technical Contact in the table.

• EnvID: the unique identifier of the environment.

• Environment: the name of the environment.

• Deployed Status: whether the app has been deployed on this environment

• Mainline Version: the Mendix version of the app on the mainline in the repository

• Deployed Version: the Mendix version of the app deployed on this environment

• Last Commit: the date of the last commit in the main line

• Members: the number of the team members in the app development team

• Production: Whether the environment is a production environment

• Created Date: the date the app was created

You can filter the apps in the table. For details, see the Filtering Apps in the Tablesection.

You can export apps to an Excel file. For details, see the Exporting Apps to an Excel File section.

3 Mendix Free Cloud

The Mendix Free Cloud tab shows all the free apps that are deployed on the Mendix Cloud.

You can customize the columns of the table by clicking the column selector (the icon) on the upper-right corner of the table. The items selected are shown as columns in the table.

The description of the items that you can select are as follows:

• AppID: the unique identifier of the app

• App Name: the name of the app

  You can view the app details by clicking the app name in the table.

• Technical Contact: the technical contact of the app.

  You can edit the Technical Contact of an app by clicking Edit () next to the current Technical Contact in the table.

• EnvID: the unique identifier of the environment.

• Deployed Status: whether the app has been deployed on this environment

• Mainline Version: the Mendix version of the app on the mainline in the repository

• Deployed Version: the Mendix version of the deployed app

• Last Commit: the date of the last commit in the main line

• Members: the number of the team members in the app development team

• Created Date: the date the app was created

• Actions: adding the action menu () to enable you to Deactivate App and Delete App (For more information, see the Deactivating and Deleting Apps section.)

You can filter the apps in the table. For details, see the Filtering Apps in the Table section.

When you select the apps via the checkboxes in the table, a context menu appears at the bottom of the screen with the options for deactivating and deleting apps. For details, see Deactivating and Deleting Apps section.

You can export apps to an Excel file. For details, see the Exporting Apps to an Excel File section.

4 Other Apps

The Other Apps tab shows the unlicensed apps that are not deployed and the apps that are linked to private clouds.

You can customize the columns of the table by clicking the column selector (the icon) on the upper-right corner of the table. The items selected are shown as columns in the table.

The description of the items that you can select are as follows:

• AppID: the unique identifier of the app

• App Name: the name of the app

  You can view the app details by clicking the app name in the table.

• Last Commit: the date of the last commit in the main line

• Members: the number of the team members in the app development team

• Created Date: the date the app was created

• Actions: adding the action menu () to enable you to Deactivate App and Delete App. (For more information, see the Deactivating and Deleting Apps section.)

You can filter the apps in the table. For details, see the Filtering Apps in the Tablesection.

When you select the apps via the checkboxes in the table, a context menu appears at the bottom of the screen with the options for deactivating and deleting apps. For details, see Deactivating and Deleting Apps section.

You can export apps to an Excel file. For details, see the Exporting Apps to an Excel File section.

5 Deactivated Apps

The Deactivated Apps tab shows all the deactivated apps that belong to your company.

You can customize the columns of the table by clicking the column selector (the icon) on the upper-right corner of the table. The items selected are shown as columns in the table.

The description of the items that you can select are as follows:

• AppID: the unique identifier of the app

• App Name: the name of the app

  You can view the app details by clicking the app name in the table.

• Created Date: the date the app was created

• Mainline Version: the Mendix version of the app on the mainline in the repository

• Last Commit: the date of the last commit in the main line

• Members: the number of the team members in the app development team

• Actions: adding the action menu () to enable you to Activate App and Delete App. (For more information, see the Deactivating and Deleting Apps section.)

You can filter the apps in the table. For details, see the Filtering Apps in the Tablesection.

When you select the apps via the checkboxes in the table, a context menu appears at the bottom of the screen with the option for activating and deleting apps. After you activate an app, the app will appear on the corresponding tab. For details about deleting apps, see Deactivating and Deleting Apps section.

You can export apps to an Excel file. For details, see the Exporting Apps to an Excel File section.

6 Filtering Apps in the Table

On each tab with an table of apps, you can find filters on the top, which allows you to filter apps using different criteria.

With the filter as shown below, you can search for string matches on any of the string fields in the table, for example, the app ID, app name, or environment name. Clicking the button on the left allows you to use comparisons and string operations, such as Contains, Starts with, and Greater than. (This filter is available on the Mendix Cloud, Mendix Free Cloud, and Other Apps tabs.)

With the filter as shown below, you can filter apps by the date of the last commit. Clicking the button on the left allows you to use comparisons and string operations, such as Between and Empty. (This filter is available on the Mendix Cloud, Mendix Free Cloud, Other Apps, and Deactivated Apps tabs.)

The filter shown as below allows you to filter apps by Deployed Status. (This filter is only available on the Mendix Cloud tab.)

7 Viewing App Details

If you click the name of an app in the overview table, a page opens and shows the details of this app.

The app details page has the following tabs:

• App Info – This tab has the Description and App ID fields, which are also available on the General Settings page for your app in the Developer Portal.
• Members – This tab presents the team members in the app development team.
  • You can directly deactivate a team member from the app by clicking their name and selecting Deactivate Member.
  • For other member management options, click Manage Members, which will open the Security > Team page. As a Mendix Admin, you can also add yourself to a team via this page.
• Environments – This tab shows all Mendix Cloud environments. For the free Mendix Cloud environment, you can delete the environment on this tab. Once the free environment is deleted, all data will be removed. However, the app team members can still access the associated app repository in the Developer Portal.
• App Roles – This tab presents the app team roles defined via the Default App Roles feature on the Roles & Permissions page.

If the app is not a licensed app, you can see the action menu () on the upper-right corner of the page. If the app is active, then you have the options to deactivate the app and delete the app; and if the app is deactivated, then you have the options to activate the app and delete the app.

8 Deactivating and Deleting Apps

You can delete or deactivate a single app, or deactive (or activate) mutilple apps in one go.

The consequences of deactivating and deleting an app are as below:

9 Exporting the Information About Apps to an Excel File

On each tab with an overview of apps, you can export information of apps to an Excel file. To do so, select the apps in the table, and click Selection Export below the table.

To export information about ALL the apps in the table, click Export All on the upper-top corner.

The Excel file covers the following columns: AppId, AppName, TechnicalContact, Environment, DeployedStatus, MendixVersionOnMainline, DeployedMendixVersion, LastCommit, Members, Production, AppCreatedDate, CloudLocation, Fallback, CloudResourcePack, AppRAM, DbRAM, DbStorage, DbStorageExtra, and FileStorage.