Studio Pro Overview

Last modified: February 11, 2025

Introduction

Mendix Studio Pro is a tool for creating, viewing, and editing your Mendix applications.

One Studio Pro instance can have only one app open at a time, but you can open two Studio Pro instances when necessary.

When Studio Pro is open, press F1 to open the relevant documentation.

This document describes the user interface of Mendix Studio Pro:

Diagram of the home page of Studio Pro, which labels each section of the home page layout.

Top Bar

The Studio Pro top bar contains the following items:

Menus
Buttons to run and view your app
Links to the Mendix Portal and Marketplace

Menus

In the Studio Pro top bar, you can see several menus, such as Edit, View, and Version Control. Each menu contains items that allow you to perform various actions, such as to create a deployment package, set preferences, or view the Errors pane.

For more information, see Menus.

Run and View App

Deploy your app by clicking the Publish or Run Locally () buttons. To view your deployed app, click View App.

For more information on deployment in Mendix, see Deploying Apps.

For more information on deploying and versioning your app, see the Versioning an App Deployed to the Cloud section in Using Version Control in Studio Pro.

Links and User Profile Menu

You can find links to the Mendix Portal and Marketplace in the upper-right corner of Studio Pro.

Your profile picture is displayed next to these links if you are signed in. When you click the profile picture, the drop-down menu is displays your full name and email, a link to your user profile, and the Sign Out option.

App Explorer

An app consists of individual files (also known as documents) and settings that are grouped in folders and modules. The complete structure of your app can be viewed in the App Explorer.

Working Area

A working area is a current document tab that you work in. The working area and its settings differs depending on the editor (for example, pages, microflows, domain model editors) and the type of document.

Document Tabs

This section describes documents in the working area, not panes that you can open and position around the working area. For more information on pane behavior, see the Layout of Panes section in View Menu.

The documents you view and edit are shown in tabs.

You can have multiple tabs open, similar to a modern web browser. These tabs can be closed, reordered, and shown side-by-side.

Each document has its own save state, history, and future, so undo and redo actions are unlimited.

Dockable Panes

Dockable panes can be positioned around the working area and contain various elements and settings.

For example, you can view the list of errors, run the Best Practice Recommender, configure properties of a specific document or an element, or view the toolbox. For more information on panes and their layout, see View Menu.

Status Bar

At the bottom of the Studio Pro main window pane is a status bar:

On the left is the current status of your app.

On the right are the version control buttons (branch status, incoming commits, outgoing commits). You can use these buttons to open the Branch Line Manager, as well as your commit history. For more information, see Version Control.

Next to version control is the currently selected language. If you have set up multiple languages in your app, you can use the drop-down to change the language you are currently using. For more information, see Language Menu.