Searching for a range of dates

Author: Dave Cassel  |  Category: Software Development

I learned something interesting today, so I thought I’d share. A colleague of mine wanted to figure out how to express a range of dates as a query string for an Application Builder app. These applications use the Search API, so a lot of the search magic is in the options that get passed into the [...]

Experimenting with AppBuilder’s rewriter

Author: Dave Cassel  |  Category: Software Development

In a recent post, I wrote a tutorial showing how to add a view to an Application Builder-based application. As one step, I made a copy of the rewrite.xqy module under the custom directory so that I had an easy way to add my new view. There was one thing about the approach that I [...]

Adding a view to an App Builder application

Author: Dave Cassel  |  Category: Software Development

In my last post, I showed how to add maps to the front page of a MarkLogic Server Application Builder-based application. But what if you want to add a whole new view? I’ll show you how in this tutorial. The Application I’m going to use my pin collection app, as I did in the previous [...]

Adding maps to AppBuilder applications

Author: Dave Cassel  |  Category: Software Development

Using MarkLogic’s Application Builder makes it a snap to put together an application quickly. Whenever I build an app this way, I feel like I’ve gotten 80% of what I need. This post shows how to take the next step and add a common feature: maps. To illustrate these steps, I’m going to use an [...]