Icon Fonts are incredibly versatile and allow the addition of graphical elements to web apps seamlessly. This article demonstrates how to create and maintain icons in OutSystems by using Icon Fonts.

In this article, we’ll explore what REST API Web Services are and why they are important. We will also explore why they are widely used on the OutSystems Platform, what precautions to take while using them, and some suggestions.

To show you how you can optimize your queries to fetch only the records you want or how to apply some logic to manage heavy tables, let’s go on a trip where we’ll visit our beloved aggregates and, the ones feared by many, SQL queries.

With proper multi-language support, you will be able to use several languages and translations in your applications. Thus, serving users from different countries and speaking various languages.

Have you ever wondered what could be that extra step to provide an easy on the eyes experience for your users and keep them coming back to your application? A well-placed animation may be just what you need!

Have you ever had to develop an application with a default layout, where there is a set of colors that will be reused to keep the look-and-feel consistent? Well, if you work with OutSystems, sooner or later you’ll have to, so let me introduce you to a cool feature that can save (a lot!) of time and keep your application organized, and easy to maintain.

Whenever we need to process a lot of data, a best practice is to have that done in the background with a Heavy Timer. As its name indicates, a Heavy Timer is a Timer used to process heavy, intensive operations.

The OutSystems platform has a node -Exception Handler- to create a flow branch that will handle the actions when an error is raised. This Exception Handler flow follows different behaviors that we will be exploring in this article.

One cool new functionality which is available in the OutSystems Platform is the Localized pictures.

Until now there were already a lot of elements that were translatable, such as Text, button labels, processes, process activities, links, static entities, the list goes on.

But finally, the images join the fun!