Mendix is rapidly becoming more an more easy to use. Aligning activity boxes, the AI-assistant, “Set$xyz as return value” etc. Loving that. To add to that, here is a list of small Modeler-changes that would, even more, reduce the number of clicks needed to get jobs done:
- when adding a Loop: link the most likely candidate-list to the loop's iterator;
- when adding a microflow to a microflow-call activity, immediately add the most likely candidate to each of the microflow's parameters;
- when adding a page to an open-page activity, immediately add the most likely candidate to the page parameter;
- … and so on for every activity: add the most likely candidate to any of the parameters of the inserted activity;
Also:
- when adding an activity: immediately open the ‘Select type of action’ popup instead of making me hit Enter;
- when adding a ‘log message’ right after a ‘show message’, copy the text of the ‘show message’ to the text of the ‘log message’;
- when inserting an exclusive split in a flow, set the right arrow to 'true’ and an arrow going down having the value false and add an end event (or even better, open the dropdown with the next activity selection;

Hoping this will save us some clicks.