
IP Designer Series – JSON Parser
Articles, Frontpage Article, NewsThis node is used to parse a JSON response from a file or a web service call. The input can be any JSON text, such as the result from a web service call or output from a file.
On the output tab, you can select a sample document that will…

AWS Lambda Environment Variables
Articles, Frontpage Article, NewsWhen setting up a lambda function there will most likely be secure information that you don’t want to put into your lambda functions. This is when you want to use environment variables. When declaring environment variables inside the code…

AWS SES Template Creation
Articles, Frontpage Article, NewsAWS has SES (Simple Email Service) which is used to help developers create notification emails. In order to use this feature, you must create a template for an email and then you can send emails. Currently, there is no way to create a template…

AWS Lambda and API Gateway
Articles, Frontpage Article, NewsThe following instructions are given that you have a lambda function created that works. AWS has API Gateway which enables developers to create RESTful API endpoints so people can call it and in turn run a lambda function. If you have never…

Private Variables in Javascript
Articles, Frontpage Article, NewsIf you are writing code and you want a user to manipulate data using methods you create but also don’t want the user to be able to manipulate data directly. One way you can go about this is through functional programming. Say you want to have…

Optimize Component Did Mount in React.js
Articles, Frontpage Article, NewsWhen using Reactjs, there are often times when you make a change to a database and need the updated data to be shown on the front-end. If you are taking advantage of the component did mount method to grab data once the page is mounted, you should…

AWS Lambda Sql Connection
Articles, Frontpage Article, NewsIf you are creating a web app that uses lambda and a mysql database, there will be many times where you need to have sql information passing to and from lambda functions. A way to connect a lambda functions to a mysql database is using npm mysql.…

Compiling Form Generates INVOKE Error
Articles, Frontpage Article, NewsIf you are compiling a form that generates an error “Program X Does Not Allow INVOKE”, that means that the invoked program needs to be set to allow invoke. To do that, from a LID session, go to the form in pgmdef (pgmdef <prodline>…

Append to XML Node in IP Designer
Articles, Frontpage Article, NewsTo append XML elements to a parent element in IPA, use the “Append output to” property on the XML node. First, create a root XML element in the start node. In your XML builder node, check the “Append output to” property, and set…

IP Designer Series – XML Node
Articles, Frontpage Article, NewsThe XML Node can be used to build or read XML in IPA.
For the Action tab, select Build or Parse depending on the function you are performing. You can Build the XML input if you have a schema to point to in the Build menu. The Evaluate…
