Stewart Rutledge2025-05-02

Developing H5 Apps is Faster Than You Think, Part 3

H5 Apps and Excel are a great combination.

When thinking about what to do with my next 30 minutes of dev time, it hit me, a simple Excel upload was the obvious next step.

Here’s what I added:

- Import per customer: reads a spreadsheet and adds all unique items for a specific customer

- Import for all customers: takes a large spreadsheet with customer/item combinations and creates the record in OIS005 (customer items).

- Feedback for the user if something goes wrong with the import.

One of the big advantages of building an H5 app is that you’re using Angular, a frontend framework based on TypeScript. That gives you access to an enormous ecosystem of libraries, so adding something like Excel support is surprisingly straightforward.

After about three hours of development, this is already shaping up to be a really capable app.

With a more specific use case, the functionality could be tailored even further, but even in this general form, it's already clearly demonstrating value.

One of the biggest strengths of building an H5 app like this is that once it’s built, it’s available to anyone with access to M3. No extra licensing. No extra infrastructure. No need for IT to manage additional systems.

Permissions are handled directly through Infor OS and M3, which keeps things simple and secure.

We'd love to hear other ideas for either this app, or a different app altogether, so if you have any send them our way!

And if you’re curious about how H5 development could solve similar problems in your org, feel free to reach out.

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