In today’s world of massive IBM i tables — think millions of rows in customer, order, inventory, or transaction files — it’s easy to unleash an ocean of data on your users (and your system) with just one unfiltered grid load. Developer feedback from the front lines of this phenomenon drove us to add a Required Filter...Read More

In a typical modern business environment, users working with data-heavy grid apps need to locate records quickly without scrolling through hundreds of rows. A single-field global search box placed prominently at the top of a grid can be an essential productivity tool, allowing end users to type a customer name, invoice number, product code, or any...Read More

In the web world, the data grid is arguably the most indispensable UI tool for presenting business data in a clear and meaningful way to users. When working with grid widgets in Nitro App Builder (NAB), customizing how data is presented at the summary level can help provide even more clarity. As described in a previous...Read More

If you’re a Valence developer with a fair amount of 5250 subfile programming under your belt, you certainly don’t miss the days of creatively abbreviating columns and “folding” rows in an effort to squeeze everything your users need into a 24×80 text screen.  By contrast, creating a Valence grid app through Nitro App Builder is so simple...Read More

Wrapping up 2017 with a simple but powerful tip for Nitro Query grid apps… Very often lists of business data include columns that can be classified as boolean, with text representing values of yes/no, true/false, 1/0, etc.  When you’re creating a Nitro Query grid app that includes such columns, you can make “truthy” values stand out...Read More

The Nitro Query app included with Valence is designed to quickly take large volumes of IBM i data and make it easily accessible to your users in the form of a dashboard or query.  Management and company executives in particular love the intuitive nature of being able to click through charts, graphs or grids, and optionally download the data to...Read More

By far the most popular UI component in the Valence modernization framework is the subfile-on-steroids known as the Ext JS grid. And for IBM i developers and super users alike, there is simply no faster way to roll out a web or mobile application exploiting this powerful functionality than through the grid widget in Valence’s Nitro Query tool. In recent...Read More