How to get started with Mongoose?

I'm interested in opinions on how to get started with Mongoose.

My company went live with Infor EAM about 8 months ago. The development team that supports EAM has built a few production apps with App Builder. I work on the development that supports Accounting & Finance. We are evaluating Infor FSM. I've evaluated App Builder and like it. But I think that App Builder doesn't have all of the functionality we need. Mongoose appears to be a better choice for my team. We think that we are still going to have some forms that can't be replaced with FSM. So we need a tool for building forms.

My understanding is the that the Mongoose training is currently for the windows IDE only. We are using the web designer. I don't want to take the Mongoose training until the training covers the web designer. I've been able to play around with Mongoose and have gotten a feel for it. I can definitely envision Mongoose replacing our current tool we use for building forms.

A lot of my questions are around where/how to store data entered into a form. Currently, we have on-premise SQL server to store form data. Ideally, I want to point Mongoose to our current on-premise database. I see Mongoose has Outrigger Profiles. But I don't understand if the Outrigger Profiles are just for on-premise Mongoose, or if they can be used for cloud Mongoose. I also tried to use ION API's that we used with App Builder in Mongoose. I see there is a way to do that, but I was unsuccessful when I tried to do that. I like how Mongoose automatically creates the CRUD functions for a table. Ideally, we would let Mongoose create the CRUD methods and not create an ION API for every CRUD method.

Does Infor have anyone who can discuss getting started with Mongoose with us?

Does anyone who uses Mongoose have any suggestions for me on how to get started with Mongoose? And any lessons learned?

Thank you for any suggestions you have to help me.

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Caitlin Porter

Hi Terry - I actually recently created an 8-part training series that gets you started developing in Mongoose, and specifically using only the web designer. Here is a link to part 1 of 8: https://youtu.be/Zc0QSWv04Lk

The rest of the Hello World videos as well as other tutorials such as how to use ION APIs can all be found on the same channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/InforAppliedInnovation/featured

This should be enough to get you started.

tdickens

I watched your hello world training series. And even downloaded the WORD documents for it on the Mongoose Portal. You did a really good job with those. I was able to take what I learned from your videos and create my own app in our training Mongoose environment. So I probably should have asked what the next steps are instead of getting starting with Mongoose.

Do you have any suggestions on how I learn if I can use an on-premise SQL server database with cloud-based Mongoose? At this point, I don't really know how to proceed. Do you have a roadmap of how other companies have started using Mongoose?

Legacy Contributor

I will have to check out the training series as well. I do most of my Mongoose development using the desktop app because I could find all the tools I needed using the desktop app which I could not find in the web version.

Caitlin Porter

I do not have any roadmap of how other companies have started using mongoose, however you can check out the mongoose portal mongoose.infor.com where you can find more resources, and a guide on development best practices.

We also have classes on Infor Campus that are very thorough and can extend your knowledge even further. You can get started over there with a course called:

Mongoose: Developing Applications Foundation Part 1

Course ID: 01_0202012_IEN0129_MGF

Yao Jiang

Mongoose can be provisioned on-prem or on the cloud. Not sure if you're asking about connecting your on-prem db to Mongoose.

tdickens

Our Mongoose is provisioned on the cloud. I want to know if it is possible for our Mongoose that is provisioned on the cloud to use an on-premise SQL server database for storing data that people enter into a form.

My understanding is that Mongoose saves form definitions into an internal Mongoose database. I am not wanting that database to be on-premise. I am wanting the information that an end-user types into a form to be saved to an on-premise database.

We currently use a product named K2 BlackPearl to develop forms. Our version of K2 is old and we are looking to replace it with Mongoose. I would like to use the same on-premise SQL server database that our K2 forms save data to. And replace the K2 form with a Mongoose form. Our SQL Server tables all have an IDENTITY column as the unique id of the table.

I want to know if it is possible to point Mongoose to our on-premise database. Have Mongoose generate the CRUD (Create,Read,Update,Delete) methods for a table when the IDO for each table is created. Is that possible?

tdickens

My understanding is that the class you listed is for the Windows development environment of Mongoose. Not the web designer of Mongoose.

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