Dynamic Forms: An RIVM Mendix Native Offline App for Dutch Water Quality (BE)

Dynamic Forms: An RIVM Mendix Native Offline App for Dutch Water Quality (BE version)

Details
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) is an independent agency of the Dutch Ministry of Health, and it conducts all sorts of ongoing studies to ensure wellbeing in the Netherlands. One of these studies is one to ensure water quality.

Of course, this is done with efficient tool: a Mendix Native Offline App, developed for and with RIVM, which has the ability to manage and disperse dynamic questionnaires—fetched from the backend and stored locally for concurrent offline use by multiple water quality samplers, and then later sent back into the backend 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 Diegem 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

• How RIVM leverages Mendix to bolster its public services
• How Mendix Native apps can be automatically built with new pipelines, as Microsoft App Centre is being deprecated
• A showcase of the dynamic survey app: Fetching and storing configurable forms without inheritance in a Mx Native Offline app.
• Mendix Native Pains and Gains.
• Accessibility solutions: Ensuring usability and inclusivity in Mendix Native, e.g. by scaling SVGs.
• Collaboration insights: How Sopra Steria, Mendix 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 speakers, 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. Also representing RIVM as external consultant.
• 🎤 Jonathan Diehl
  Mendix Product Manager for mobile technologies and runtime at Mendix since May 2021.

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Additional Information
This is an in-person event at the Sopra Steria office in Diegem.
The event will be recorded and made available for those who can’t attend in person.

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