SHOW MODULES, SHOW ENTITIES

The SHOW family of commands lists project elements by type. They are the fastest way to see what a project contains.

Listing modules

Every Mendix project is organized into modules. Start by listing them:

SHOW MODULES;

Example output:

MyFirstModule
Administration
Atlas_Core
System

By default, system and marketplace modules (like System and Atlas_Core) are included. The modules appear in the order they are defined in the project.

Listing entities

To see all entities across all modules:

SHOW ENTITIES;

Example output:

Administration.Account
MyFirstModule.Customer
MyFirstModule.Order
MyFirstModule.OrderLine

Each entity is shown as a qualified name – the module name and entity name separated by a dot.

Filtering by module

Most SHOW commands accept an IN clause to filter results to a single module:

SHOW ENTITIES IN MyFirstModule;

MyFirstModule.Customer
MyFirstModule.Order
MyFirstModule.OrderLine

This is typically what you want when working on a specific module.

Listing microflows

SHOW MICROFLOWS;

Administration.ChangeMyPassword
MyFirstModule.ACT_Customer_Save
MyFirstModule.ACT_Order_Process
MyFirstModule.DS_Customer_GetAll

Filter to a module:

SHOW MICROFLOWS IN MyFirstModule;

MyFirstModule.ACT_Customer_Save
MyFirstModule.ACT_Order_Process
MyFirstModule.DS_Customer_GetAll

Listing pages

SHOW PAGES;

Administration.Account_Overview
Administration.Login
MyFirstModule.Customer_Overview
MyFirstModule.Customer_Edit
MyFirstModule.Order_Detail

Filter to a module:

SHOW PAGES IN MyFirstModule;

MyFirstModule.Customer_Overview
MyFirstModule.Customer_Edit
MyFirstModule.Order_Detail

Other SHOW commands

The same pattern works for all major element types:

SHOW ENUMERATIONS;
SHOW ENUMERATIONS IN MyFirstModule;

SHOW ASSOCIATIONS;
SHOW ASSOCIATIONS IN MyFirstModule;

SHOW WORKFLOWS;
SHOW WORKFLOWS IN MyFirstModule;

SHOW NANOFLOWS;
SHOW NANOFLOWS IN MyFirstModule;

SHOW CONSTANTS;
SHOW CONSTANTS IN MyFirstModule;

SHOW SNIPPETS;
SHOW SNIPPETS IN MyFirstModule;

You can also list security-related elements:

SHOW MODULE ROLES;
SHOW MODULE ROLES IN MyFirstModule;

SHOW USER ROLES;

SHOW DEMO USERS;

And navigation:

SHOW NAVIGATION;

Using SHOW from the command line

Every SHOW command works as a CLI one-liner with -c:

mxcli -p app.mpr -c "SHOW ENTITIES"
mxcli -p app.mpr -c "SHOW MICROFLOWS IN MyFirstModule"
mxcli -p app.mpr -c "SHOW PAGES"

This is useful for quick lookups without entering the REPL, and for piping output to other tools:

# Count entities per module
mxcli -p app.mpr -c "SHOW ENTITIES" | cut -d. -f1 | sort | uniq -c

# Find all microflows with "Save" in the name
mxcli -p app.mpr -c "SHOW MICROFLOWS" | grep -i save

Summary of SHOW commands

Now that you can list elements, the next step is inspecting individual elements in detail with DESCRIBE and SEARCH.