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Git Hooks for IFS Development: Automated Quality Gates
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Git Hooks for IFS Development: Automated Quality Gates

Using Git hooks to enforce code quality in IFS development — pre-commit/pre-push validation, Husky configuration, PL/SQL linting, and preventing CI failures before they happen.

In IFS development environments, code quality issues that slip through to CI/CD pipelines create bottlenecks, frustrate developers, and delay deployments. By the time a failed build appears in your pipeline, it's already too late — you've burned CI/CD resources, blocked…

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IFS and AI Coding Assistants: A Practical Guide for Developers
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IFS and AI Coding Assistants: A Practical Guide for Developers

How to use ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and Claude effectively for IFS development — prompt patterns for Marble and PL/SQL, quality checks, and where AI falls short.

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Writing Testable PL/SQL in IFS: Unit Testing Custom Packages
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Writing Testable PL/SQL in IFS: Unit Testing Custom Packages

IFS custom PL/SQL is notoriously hard to test. A practical guide to unit testing with utPLSQL, mock data strategies, and isolating your logic from IFS framework dependencies.

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Debugging PL/SQL in IFS: Tools and Techniques
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Debugging PL/SQL in IFS: Tools and Techniques

Practical debugging workflows for IFS custom PL/SQL — from dbms_output and IFS tracing to SQL Developer's debugger and reading error logs like a pro.

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Migrating Custom PL/SQL to IFS Cloud: Rearchitecting for the Cloud
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Migrating Custom PL/SQL to IFS Cloud: Rearchitecting for the Cloud

Strategies for migrating custom PL/SQL packages from Apps 10 to Cloud — what's supported, what needs rearchitecting, and cloud-native alternatives using Marble and APIs.

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Override vs Overtake: When to Use Each in IFS Cloud
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Override vs Overtake: When to Use Each in IFS Cloud

Understanding the critical difference between @Override and @Overtake in IFS Cloud customisations — with real examples and why getting it wrong creates upgrade headaches.

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IFS Business Logic in Practice: A Worked Example Across Apps 10 and IFS Cloud
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IFS Business Logic in Practice: A Worked Example Across Apps 10 and IFS Cloud

A fictional but realistic walkthrough of implementing a purchase-order release rule in IFS Apps 10 and IFS Cloud — step by step, side by side.

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Adding Business Logic in IFS: Apps 10 vs IFS Cloud
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Adding Business Logic in IFS: Apps 10 vs IFS Cloud

A deep dive into the differences between extending IFS Applications 10 and IFS Cloud — from custom events and fields to source customisations and the formal configuration/customisation distinction.

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IFS Projection Security: Locking Down What You Expose
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IFS Projection Security: Locking Down What You Expose

How IFS Cloud's projection-level security works — permission sets, action grants, entity restrictions, and how it compares to the old Enterprise Explorer presentation object model.

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Designing Custom Entities in IFS Cloud: Getting It Right First Time
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Designing Custom Entities in IFS Cloud: Getting It Right First Time

Best practices for designing custom entities in IFS Cloud — naming conventions, key patterns, relationship design, Marble integration, and future-proofing against upgrades.

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Custom Enumerations in IFS Cloud: Using Them Safely
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Custom Enumerations in IFS Cloud: Using Them Safely

How custom enumerations work in IFS Cloud and IFS Applications, when to use them for custom attributes, and when a custom reference or modelled enumeration is the better design.

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IFS Lobby Design: Creating Useful Dashboards in Aurena
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IFS Lobby Design: Creating Useful Dashboards in Aurena

How to design useful IFS Cloud lobbies with focused KPIs, filtered lists, quick navigation, and governed Configuration Context variants.

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Custom Commands in IFS Aurena: Adding Buttons That Actually Do Things
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Custom Commands in IFS Aurena: Adding Buttons That Actually Do Things

How to add custom command buttons to Aurena pages via Configuration or Developer Studio — including PL/SQL actions, confirmation dialogs, and parameter passing.

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Building a Custom IFS Aurena Page from Zero
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Building a Custom IFS Aurena Page from Zero

A complete walkthrough of building a new page in IFS Cloud — entity model, projection, Aurena client file, navigation entry, and command buttons — from first file to live in Aurena.

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IFS Marble Language: A Practical Field Guide
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IFS Marble Language: A Practical Field Guide

A grounded reference for IFS Cloud's Marble modelling language: projection files, client files, layers, overrides, overtakes, and the limits of what belongs in Marble.

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Writing Your First IFS Cloud Projection from Scratch
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Writing Your First IFS Cloud Projection from Scratch

A step-by-step guide to modeling a new entity in IFS Developer Studio, writing the projection, and surfacing it in Aurena — covering Marble syntax, entity keys, and deployment.

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Stream Deck for IFS Professionals
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Stream Deck for IFS Professionals

How to utilise Elgato Stream Deck in an IFS environment.

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VS Code and Marble: A Practical IFS Development Setup
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VS Code and Marble: A Practical IFS Development Setup

How to use VS Code alongside IFS Developer Studio for Marble, PL/SQL, Git, and API work without pretending it replaces the official tooling.

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Setting Up an IFS SQL Developer Environment for Efficient Development
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Setting Up an IFS SQL Developer Environment for Efficient Development

Complete guide to configuring Oracle SQL Developer for IFS development — connections, code templates, debugging, and productivity workflows.

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Automatically Document IALs
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Automatically Document IALs

Automatically document all IALs in your IFS instance with Node.js.

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Automating Word Document Generation
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Automating Word Document Generation

Automate creating batches of documents using just Node.js.

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Quickly & Easily Output Debugging Data in IFS
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Quickly & Easily Output Debugging Data in IFS

Get debugging information from your custom events with one simple package.

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