R3: alter sets properties in create's ( Key: value ) list; colons only where R3 puts them (#751)

.claude/skills/mendix/bootstrap-app/SKILL.md

@@ -253,8 +253,9 @@ with these deltas:
   against the host name rather than the listen address:
 
   ```sql
-  alter settings configuration 'Default'
-    ApplicationRootUrl = 'http://backend.local:8080/';
+  alter settings configuration 'Default' (
+    ApplicationRootUrl: 'http://backend.local:8080/'
+  );
   ```
 
   `run --local` picks that up at boot and prints which configuration it came from.

.claude/skills/mendix/create-page/SKILL.md

@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ create [or replace] page Module.PageName
 page is opened in a pop-up. They are optional — omitting them uses the Mendix defaults
 (600 × 600, not resizable). Unlike the other header keywords, these property names are
 **case-sensitive** and must be written exactly as shown. They can also be changed later
-with `alter page … { set PopupWidth = …; }` (see the alter-page skill).
+with `alter page … { set (PopupWidth: …); }` (see the alter-page skill).
 
 **Page CSS class / style** (`Class` / `Style`) set the page's Appearance — a CSS class
 and inline style applied to the whole page (e.g. `Class: 'container-fluid bg-light'`).
-Both are optional and can be changed later with `alter page … { set Class = '…'; }`.
+Both are optional and can be changed later with `alter page … { set (Class: '…'); }`.
 
 **Page Variables**: Local variables at the page level for use in expressions (e.g., column visibility).
 - DataType: `boolean`, `string`, `integer`, `decimal`, `datetime`
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ To make targeted changes to an existing page (change a label, add a field, remov
 ```sql
 -- Change a button caption and add a field
 alter page Module.Customer_Edit {
-  set caption = 'Save & Close' on btnSave;
+  set (caption: 'Save & Close') on btnSave;
   insert after txtEmail {
     textbox txtPhone (label: 'Phone', attribute: Phone)
   }

.claude/skills/mendix/demo-data/SKILL.md

@@ -41,13 +41,14 @@ For full credentials (username, password):
 
 Example output:
 ```sql
-alter settings configuration 'Default'
-  DatabaseType = 'PostgreSql',
-  DatabaseUrl = 'localhost:5434',
-  DatabaseName = 'mxcli2-dev',
-  DatabaseUserName = 'mendix',
-  DatabasePassword = 'mendix',
-  HttpPortNumber = 8080;
+alter settings configuration 'Default' (
+  DatabaseType: 'PostgreSql',
+  DatabaseUrl: 'localhost:5434',
+  DatabaseName: 'mxcli2-dev',
+  DatabaseUserName: 'mendix',
+  DatabasePassword: 'mendix',
+  HttpPortNumber: 8080
+);
 ```
 
 ---

.claude/skills/mendix/migrate-design-prototype/SKILL.md

@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ Use `alter page` to attach a class without rewriting the page (see `alter-page`)
 
 ```sql
 alter page ResourceScheduling.Approvals {
-  set Class = 'ss-appr-card ss-appr-card--conflict' on queueCard;
+  set (Class: 'ss-appr-card ss-appr-card--conflict') on queueCard;
 }
 ```
 

.claude/skills/mendix/odata-data-sharing/SKILL.md

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Then re-import: `CREATE OR MODIFY EXTERNAL ENTITIES FROM F1Now.NowApi` maps the
 new entity sets. Do **not** `DROP CONSUMED ODATA SERVICE` and recreate it to force a
 refresh — that invalidates the client ID the existing external entities point at.
 
-Note that `ALTER CONSUMED ODATA SERVICE SET MetadataUrl = …` does *not* re-fetch. Use
+Note that `ALTER CONSUMED ODATA SERVICE … SET ( MetadataUrl: … )` does *not* re-fetch. Use
 `CREATE OR MODIFY` when the contract is what changed.
 
 **Use Cases for Local Metadata:**

.claude/skills/mendix/odata-data-sharing/reference/walkthroughs.md

@@ -309,8 +309,8 @@ from consumed odata service ShopClient.ShopApiClient
 );
 
 -- Toggle the flag without recreating the entity.
-alter entity ShopClient.Product set allow_create_change_locally = true;
-alter entity ShopClient.Product set allow_create_change_locally = false;
+alter entity ShopClient.Product set ( AllowCreateChangeLocally: true );
+alter entity ShopClient.Product set ( AllowCreateChangeLocally: false );
 ```
 ## Publishing a Non-Persistable Entity (no copy of the data)
 

.claude/skills/mendix/project-settings/SKILL.md

@@ -30,22 +30,22 @@ describe settings;
 ### Modify Model Settings
 
 ```sql
-alter settings runtime AfterStartupMicroflow = 'Module.MF_Startup';  -- must return Boolean (CE0142)
-alter settings runtime BeforeShutdownMicroflow = 'Module.MF_Shutdown';
-alter settings runtime HealthCheckMicroflow = 'Module.MF_HealthCheck';
-alter settings runtime HashAlgorithm = 'BCrypt';
-alter settings runtime BcryptCost = 12;
-alter settings runtime JavaVersion = 'Java21';  -- or '21'; see note below
-alter settings runtime RoundingMode = 'HalfUp';
-alter settings runtime AllowUserMultipleSessions = true;
-alter settings runtime ScheduledEventTimeZoneCode = 'Etc/UTC';
-alter settings runtime DefaultTimeZoneCode = 'Europe/Amsterdam';
-alter settings runtime FirstDayOfWeek = 'Monday';       -- Default, Monday..Sunday
-alter settings runtime DecimalScale = 8;
-alter settings runtime EnableDataStorageOptimisticLocking = true;
-alter settings runtime UseDatabaseForeignKeyConstraints = true;
-alter settings runtime UseOQLVersion2 = true;
-alter settings runtime SslCertificateAlgorithm = 'PKIX';   -- PKIX or SunX509
+alter settings runtime ( AfterStartupMicroflow: 'Module.MF_Startup' );  -- must return Boolean (CE0142)
+alter settings runtime ( BeforeShutdownMicroflow: 'Module.MF_Shutdown' );
+alter settings runtime ( HealthCheckMicroflow: 'Module.MF_HealthCheck' );
+alter settings runtime ( HashAlgorithm: 'BCrypt' );
+alter settings runtime ( BcryptCost: 12 );
+alter settings runtime ( JavaVersion: 'Java21' );  -- or '21'; see note below
+alter settings runtime ( RoundingMode: 'HalfUp' );
+alter settings runtime ( AllowUserMultipleSessions: true );
+alter settings runtime ( ScheduledEventTimeZoneCode: 'Etc/UTC' );
+alter settings runtime ( DefaultTimeZoneCode: 'Europe/Amsterdam' );
+alter settings runtime ( FirstDayOfWeek: 'Monday' );       -- Default, Monday..Sunday
+alter settings runtime ( DecimalScale: 8 );
+alter settings runtime ( EnableDataStorageOptimisticLocking: true );
+alter settings runtime ( UseDatabaseForeignKeyConstraints: true );
+alter settings runtime ( UseOQLVersion2: true );
+alter settings runtime ( SslCertificateAlgorithm: 'PKIX' );   -- PKIX or SunX509
 ```
 
 **Not every project stores every setting.** Mendix adds model settings over time —
@@ -97,18 +97,20 @@ configuration, add `DatabasePassword = '…'` yourself.
 
 ```sql
 -- Full database configuration
-alter settings configuration 'Default'
-  DatabaseType = 'PostgreSql',
-  DatabaseUrl = 'localhost:5432',
-  DatabaseName = 'mydb',
-  DatabaseUserName = 'mendix',
-  DatabasePassword = 'mendix',
-  HttpPortNumber = 8080,
-  ServerPortNumber = 8090;
+alter settings configuration 'Default' (
+  DatabaseType: 'PostgreSql',
+  DatabaseUrl: 'localhost:5432',
+  DatabaseName: 'mydb',
+  DatabaseUserName: 'mendix',
+  DatabasePassword: 'mendix',
+  HttpPortNumber: 8080,
+  ServerPortNumber: 8090
+);
 
 -- Update a single field
-alter settings configuration 'Default'
-  DatabaseUrl = 'newhost:5432';
+alter settings configuration 'Default' (
+  DatabaseUrl: 'newhost:5432'
+);
 ```
 
 `HttpPortNumber`, `ServerPortNumber`, `BcryptCost`, `DefaultTaskParallelism` and
@@ -169,10 +171,11 @@ on shared values only:
 create configuration 'Staging';
 
 -- Create with properties
-create configuration 'Production'
-  DatabaseType = 'PostgreSql',
-  DatabaseUrl = 'prod-db:5432',
-  HttpPortNumber = 8080;
+create configuration 'Production' (
+  DatabaseType: 'PostgreSql',
+  DatabaseUrl: 'prod-db:5432',
+  HttpPortNumber: 8080
+);
 
 -- Drop a configuration
 drop configuration 'Staging';
@@ -197,7 +200,7 @@ alter settings LANGUAGE modify 'de_DE' (CheckCompleteness: true);
 alter settings LANGUAGE remove 'de_DE';
 
 -- the default must already be enabled
-alter settings LANGUAGE DefaultLanguageCode = 'en_US';
+alter settings LANGUAGE ( DefaultLanguageCode: 'en_US' );
 ```
 
 A language is identified by its **code** — "Arabic, Sudan" is derived from
@@ -213,7 +216,7 @@ A language is identified by its **code** — "Arabic, Sudan" is derived from
 
 **Set the default language BEFORE authoring content.** The default is not only a
 fallback — it is the language a new caption is stored under, because Mendix has no
-language-neutral text. `alter settings LANGUAGE DefaultLanguageCode = 'nl_NL'`
+language-neutral text. `alter settings LANGUAGE (DefaultLanguageCode: 'nl_NL')`
 *after* creating a page leaves that page's texts in the old language, and nothing
 reports it: `mx check` is 0 errors either way and the symptom shows up only in
 Studio Pro, as the empty-caption placeholder plus a "no translation" warning.
@@ -231,9 +234,10 @@ list.
 
 ```sql
 
-alter settings workflows
-  UserEntity = 'System.User',
-  DefaultTaskParallelism = 3;
+alter settings workflows (
+  UserEntity: 'System.User',
+  DefaultTaskParallelism: 3
+);
 ```
 
 ### Workflow Groups (Mendix 11.2+)
@@ -281,24 +285,26 @@ Four things worth knowing:
 
 ### PostgreSQL Configuration
 ```sql
-alter settings configuration 'Default'
-  DatabaseType = 'PostgreSql',
-  DatabaseUrl = 'localhost:5432',
-  DatabaseName = 'myapp',
-  DatabaseUserName = 'mendix',
-  DatabasePassword = 'mendix',
-  HttpPortNumber = 8080;
+alter settings configuration 'Default' (
+  DatabaseType: 'PostgreSql',
+  DatabaseUrl: 'localhost:5432',
+  DatabaseName: 'myapp',
+  DatabaseUserName: 'mendix',
+  DatabasePassword: 'mendix',
+  HttpPortNumber: 8080
+);
 ```
 
 ### SQL Server Configuration
 ```sql
-alter settings configuration 'Default'
-  DatabaseType = 'SqlServer',
-  DatabaseUrl = 'localhost:1433',
-  DatabaseName = 'myapp',
-  DatabaseUserName = 'sa',
-  DatabasePassword = 'MyPassword',
-  HttpPortNumber = 8080;
+alter settings configuration 'Default' (
+  DatabaseType: 'SqlServer',
+  DatabaseUrl: 'localhost:1433',
+  DatabaseName: 'myapp',
+  DatabaseUserName: 'sa',
+  DatabasePassword: 'MyPassword',
+  HttpPortNumber: 8080
+);
 ```
 
 ## Checklist

.claude/skills/mendix/regular-expressions/SKILL.md

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ create entity Val.Person (
   Code:  String(20)  unique error message 'Code must be unique'
 );
 
-alter entity Val.Person modify attribute Email String(200)
+alter entity Val.Person modify attribute Email: String(200)
   not null error message 'Email is required';
 ```
 

.claude/skills/mendix/write-layouts/SKILL.md

@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ survive. Same operations as `ALTER PAGE`:
 ```sql
 alter layout MyModule.App_Default {
   insert into layoutContainer.top { snippetcall bar (snippet: MyModule.SNIPPET_ThemeBar) };
-  set Content = 'My App' on brandText;
-  drop widget oldBanner;
+  set (Content: 'My App') on brandText;
+  drop oldBanner;
 };
 ```
 

cmd/mxcli/cmd_new.go

@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ Examples:
 		if lowered, err := alignJavaVersion(mprPath, os.Stdout); err != nil {
 			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "  Warning: could not align the project's Java version: %v\n", err)
 			fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "  If the first build fails with 'release version NN not supported',")
-			fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "  run: mxcli -p <project>.mpr -c \"alter settings runtime JavaVersion = '21'\"")
+			fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "  run: mxcli -p <project>.mpr -c \"alter settings runtime ( JavaVersion: '21' )\"")
 		} else if lowered {
 			fmt.Println()
 		}

cmd/mxcli/cmd_new_java.go

@@ -56,13 +56,13 @@ func alignJavaVersion(projectPath string, out io.Writer) (bool, error) {
 		return false, nil
 	}
 
-	script := fmt.Sprintf("alter settings runtime JavaVersion = '%d';\n", fallback)
+	script := fmt.Sprintf("alter settings runtime ( JavaVersion: '%d' );\n", fallback)
 	if err := runMDL(projectPath, script, io.Discard); err != nil {
 		return false, fmt.Errorf("lowering JavaVersion from %d to %d: %w", major, fallback, err)
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "  Java %d → %d: no JDK %d on this machine, and the project would not build.\n",
 		major, fallback, major)
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "  Install a JDK %d and set JavaVersion back to %d to build for it:\n", major, major)
-	fmt.Fprintf(out, "    mxcli -p <project>.mpr -c \"alter settings runtime JavaVersion = '%d'\"\n", major)
+	fmt.Fprintf(out, "    mxcli -p <project>.mpr -c \"alter settings runtime ( JavaVersion: '%d' )\"\n", major)
 	return true, nil
 }

cmd/mxcli/docker/detect.go

@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ func resolveJDK(major int) (string, error) {
 	// be noise.
 	if major != DefaultJavaMajor {
 		msg += fmt.Sprintf("\n  This is the project's own Settings > Model > JavaVersion. To build for a"+
-			"\n  release you already have instead: mxcli -p <project>.mpr -c \"alter settings runtime JavaVersion = '%d'\"", DefaultJavaMajor)
+			"\n  release you already have instead: mxcli -p <project>.mpr -c \"alter settings runtime ( JavaVersion: '%d' )\"", DefaultJavaMajor)
 	}
 	return "", fmt.Errorf("%s", msg)
 }