🚀 Ninext 3.1.0 beta is available!

Hello everyone,

A beta version of Ninext 3.1.0 is now online. It brings several major new features and a solid round of fixes compared to 3.0.5. Your feedback on this beta is very welcome before the official release.

⚙️ Installation: to use this plugin, you first need to uninstall Ninext v3 and then install Ninext v3 Beta.

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What's new

An interactive console to run Ninox code

A new "Console" tab lets you write Ninox code and run it on the fly, like an interpreter. The execution context is configurable:

• Live ⚡ — automatically uses the record currently open in Ninox (follows you as you switch records)
• Record — you pick the record yourself
• Formula — the context is defined by a formula you write
• None

The editor offers syntax highlighting, auto-completion, input help, error markers, a history of the last 50 commands (Alt + ↑/↓), and results displayed as raw value, expandable tree, or record table (with direct opening of records).

 

 

Visual and interactive dependency tree

 

The dependency tree has been completely rebuilt. You can now explore dependencies downstream (as before: which formulas depend on a field) but also upstream (which fields feed a formula). It's available as a hover preview on a field and as a full tab inside Fields & Fx:

• Cells sharing the same parents are grouped into clusters you can drag with the mouse
• Memorization of positions, hidden cells and pagination
• Colored level bands (-2, -1, 0, +1, +2…), chain highlighting on hover, secondary branches dimmed
• Fullscreen mode, image copy (PNG, SVG, or clipboard)

Information badge on field hover

 

In admin mode, a badge appears when hovering a field and gives 4 shortcuts — no need to pre-select the field to edit it:

• Returned type of the field (or declared type)
• Full formula in a tooltip (syntax-highlighted, with a Copy button) — click to open the Ninox formula editor directly
• Key button to open the Ninox field editor window directly
• Dependency counter (color = criticality level) — hover for the graphical preview, click to select the field in Fields & Fx

The Finder now explores reports too

Search and the dependency tree now analyze the content of Ninox print reports: text templates with formulas in braces, formula-generated HTML blocks, revision columns, image fields with formula, and Carbone data sources.

Note about Carbone: only the data source formula is analyzed. The names of fields inserted in the Word file are not yet accessible to Ninext.

Field navigation history
 

 

An icon in the Ninext panel header opens the list of fields you have already visited through Ninext:

• Up to 50 entries kept throughout the day
• List with timestamps and breadcrumbs, plus a button to clear history
• Also tracks reports, global functions and the After Open trigger

Heads-up: fields opened directly from Ninox (without going through Ninext) are not yet recorded in the history.

Code Finder: search history and saved preferences

• Last 20 searches in a dropdown
• Per-database memorization of search preferences (regex, case sensitivity, whole words, filters)
• Result pagination in batches of 100

Support for external databases

When your database uses fields or tables from other databases of the same team, they now appear in the Fields & Fx list and in the dependency graph, marked with a dedicated icon.

New onNinextLoaded hook in the After Open trigger

If you define an onNinextLoaded(event) function in the After Open trigger of your database, Ninext automatically calls it once it is truly loaded and operational. The current Ninext version is passed via event.version.

Why it matters: when Ninox starts up, the After Open trigger runs before Ninext is installed. As a result, NativeJS is not yet operational at that point, and any JavaScript code depending on it silently fails if you try to run it directly from After Open.

With onNinextLoaded, you finally have a reliable entry point to:

• run JavaScript code through NativeJS at startup, knowing for sure that Ninext is ready
• adapt your database's behavior based on the detected Ninext version (event.version)
• trigger initializations that depend on Ninext features (badges, console, history, etc.)

Minimal example:

function onNinextLoaded(event : any) do
   alert("Ninext " + event.version + " is ready");
   " … your JavaScript / NativeJS code here";
end;

 

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This is a beta — we'd love your feedback!

If you give this version a try, please report any unexpected behavior, improvement suggestion or new idea:

• Directly in this forum thread
• info@umangenius.com

Many thanks to everyone who takes the time to test it.

Happy testing!