Frontend Development: Skills you need 14 July 2018 Andre-Speek Tips & Tricks Previously we posted about the stuff you need to get started as a Frontend Developer. So once you have that, where to go next? What skills do you need to acquire and how to go about to get them? Here's a lot of tips on that topic to get you started. [More]
Frontend Development: Stuff you need 14 July 2018 Andre-Speek Tips & Tricks To start doing some Frontend Development used to be quite expensive. With all the tools needed to do just the basics. Fortunately that has changed. Nowadays all the tools you need are absolutely free and easily available. In this post we will explain which tools you need to get started doing Frontend Development using the Essence Framework. [More]
Scrollable Table with fixed Header using CSS 11 July 2018 Andre-Speek CodeSnippets, Tips & Tricks Here's one a lot of you will have encountered and that has been the cause for some major headaches. The case? So, you have a list of data that you present in a table. But there are quite a lot of rows, so the user will have to scroll the page. But there is more on the page so the table should only take a specific height. Hence the rows should be scrollable but with a fixed header. Sounds familiar? Given you some headaches too? Well, here is a different approach with is easier and will give you the desired effect in no time! [More]
Using CSS Grid for an Image Gallery 04 July 2018 Andre-Speek Tips & Tricks So today a customer asked if it was possible to do something like a gallery. This gallery should show the images from a number of users that most recently entered a workflow item. Something like Google Image Search or a Facebook Album, with the photos all layed out evenly as squares, some bigger than the other. Well, providing that there are enough users that have uploaded their photo, I decided that it should be possible. [More]
Drag & Drop with Code-behind 17 June 2018 Andre-Speek CodeSnippets, Tips & Tricks After the last video with the Javascript and Code-behind, I got (as to be expected) several questions if it was possible to do it also with a drag & drop interface. And since drag & drop is something you can do with Javascript, the answer is yes. So here's an example of an interface doing just that. [More]
Javascript and Code-behind 09 June 2018 Andre-Speek CodeSnippets, HowTo's, Tips & Tricks Javascript gives you endless posibilities to create beautiful visual effects in web-pages. But Javascript is executed client-side. While updating data on the Essence framework is done server-side. There is a simpe way though to do something server-side when a Javascript is executed. Here's how you could do this. [More]
Using CSS Grid 03 June 2018 Andre-Speek CodeSnippets, HowTo's, Tips & Tricks When designing Startpages or new Pages and Controls, one of the most challenging things is the layout of the design and make it as responsive as possible. A great way to this is using CSS Grids. [More]
Configurating Essence for GDPR 25 May 2018 Andre-Speek Tips & Tricks The GDPR gives people specific rights about their personal data. Essence gives you the possibilities to be compliant with these rules and regulations. This post will give you some tips & tricks on what you can do to make your Essence Portal GDPR compliant. [More]
Open Image in New Tab 25 May 2018 Andre-Speek Tips & Tricks We got some questions about the images on our Productblog sometimes being a bit small and therefor hard to read. Here's what you can do to view the full size image. [More]
Keep in touch, Keep a grip. With Google Keep 17 November 2017 Andre-Speek Tips & Tricks Google Keep is a great tool to make notes and set reminders for webpages. Since Essence is a web application, you can do all the Google Keep stuff with Essence as well. And because we always use Parameters in the URL, this can make keeping track of things a lot easier. [More]