Dynamic Forms: A Mendix Native Offline App for Dutch Water Quality

Description

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Ensuring water quality means measuring it first with a reliable and efficient tool. At the heart of this Mendix Native Offline App, developed for and with RIVM is the ability to manage and disperse dynamic questionnaires—fetched from the back end and stored locally for concurrent offline use by multiple water quality samplers, and then later sent back into the back end again.

This presents a unique challenge: how do you structure and store dynamic questionnaires without relying on typical patterns such as inheritance, all while ensuring compatibility with Mendix Native Offline functionality? How to prevent sync errors when multiple users are working on the same data?

At this event, we'll demo the app and dive deep into the app and the technical design choices that made it possible, showcasing how questionnaires are seamlessly retrieved from an Oracle back end via ORDS and integrated into Mendix via REST, then synced to a device, as well as the reverse.

Join us at the Sopra Steria office in Utrecht to learn how this innovative app is advancing Dutch water quality management for RIVM and its partners. After this session you will know a lot more about the challenges of building a truly offline-first Mendix native application.

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What You’ll Learn

• Dynamic questionnaires: Fetching and storing configurable forms without inheritance in a Mx Native Offline app.
• Building offline-first apps: Adapting a Mx domain models to handle offline functionality.
• Data synchronization patterns: Efficiently syncing offline data from an Oracle back end via ORDS and back.
• Accessibility solutions: Ensuring usability and inclusivity in Mendix Native, e.g. by scaling SVGs.
• Collaboration insights: How Sopra Steria and RIVM worked together to address these Dutch water quality challenges.

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Agenda

• 18:00 - 19:00: Dinner (for in-person attendees only—don’t forget to RSVP with your dietary requirements!)
• 19:00 - 20:00: Presentations by Wouter Penris and [Second Speaker TBD], followed by Q&A.
• 20:00 - 21:00: 🍻 Drinks & Networking.

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Speakers

• 🎤 Wouter Penris

Mendix MVP and Expert with a background in Education (Music and English). Wouter has been with Sopra Steria since November 2022.

• 🎤 [Second Speaker TBD]

Details will follow closer to the event.

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Additional Information

This is an in-person event at the Sopra Steria office in Utrecht.The event will be recorded and made available for those who can’t attend in person.Mendix Meetups are all about community, learning, and knowledge sharing—not sales, marketing, or recruitment. If you’d like to organize your own meetup, feel free to contact the Community Team at community@mendix.com.

Location and Time

Location: In person

Address: Ringwade 1, 3439 LM, Nieuwegein Netherlands

Start date: 22-01-2025 19:00

End date: 22-01-2025 22:00

Timezone (GMT+01:00) Amsterdam/Europe

General Information

Host: Sopra Steria

EventType: Meetup

Language: English

Nubmer of Seats: 120