I am trying to see if I can use OQL in any place other than with the reporting widget in the modeler, for example is it possible to use it in an activity in a microflow? I would like to query a database using OQL because there is a particular operator (LIKE) that I would like to use to compare strings. Right now, I am trying to use some string functions calls such as ‘contain’ to compare strings to each other. I think there would be an advantage to using the LIKE operator because I can use it to compare a value to similar values using a wildcard operator. By using the contain function call, I am trying to determine whether a substring occurs in another string which is not exactly what I would like to do, I really would like to compare a string to see if it is similar to another string. Do I have to use the reporting widget in order to query a database or is there a function call in Mendix that serves the same function as the LIKE operator in OQL?
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