Dealing with misplaced or forgotten passwords is a staple of user management. In another post, I described how to send a temporary password to a user when they cannot log in. Either a temporary password or link to a password reset URL is delivered in an email message.
In other articles on user management, we have discussed changing a user’s password as the administrator or via API (if the user can log in). There is also a scenario where a user needs to change their password, but they can’t log in because they forgot their password. In this case, Backendless provides a simple…
When a user registers for your app, it is quite common to make sure they provided a valid email address. Typically this is done by sending a URL to the user’s email address and asking them to follow the link. Once the link is opened in a browser, it serves as a confirmation of a…
Backendless supports multiple ways to perform a geopoint search. You can search in radius, a rectangular area, or with an SQL query. Additionally, there is a way to search based on a partial metadata match. This type of search can be combined with all other aforementioned search types.
The user accounts of a Backendless application are managed by the User Service, part of our user management feature. However, the data for the accounts is stored in the Data Service storage. As a result, you can use the Data Service API to load the user objects for an application. Moreover, any search queries, paging,…
Sometimes (or in some cases, every time) when you invoke a custom API Service, you may need additional information about the context from which the HTTP request was sent/received, such as user or device information. To collect that information, we provide a class called InvocationContext.
In a previous article (Developing a Custom Skill for an Alexa Game), we showed you how to build a custom Alexa skill using Backendless and our Amazon Alexa Skill SDK. Now, we are going to show how to make the same game using our Codeless feature – in other words – without any coding!
In this article, we will show you how to write a service that will backup your application data with a time interval you specify. To do this, we will be using Cloud Code, a JavaScript timer, and the console SDK.
Today we are going to demonstrate how to create and save new data objects using the very convenient REST Console in Backendless. The console lets you easily test your REST APIs prior to deployment.