Well: A service returns a formatted collection of data, right. Appery.io has a nice interface to map that collection to eventually generate (for example) multiple rows in a grid. Now, a variable can just as well be a formatted collection of data. So why not provide a similar interface to map such th...

After a break to see the new king on his throne, I found another part of the answers to my own questions: http://docs.appery.io/tutorials/build... contains a section "Create generic service", which explained a lot (though I won't need either databases, hopefully). The key, this time, was t...

I think I found (part of) the solution myself. Here is how I created my Generic Service: 1) "Create New" / "Service" 2) choose "Generic (custom JavaScript implementation)" and click the blue button At first I was a bit confused by all the options there (you can skip ove...

Mapping the result from a service to a grid (etc) is implemented nicely. My app is going to be 100% off-line (exceptional huh!). The main things in there are going to be two variables (either arrays-of-similar-objects or objects-that-contain-several-similar-objects). Is there a way to use service li...