Release Notes

Code On Time release 6.0.0.30 includes the following new features and enhancements:

• Developers can use designer to create “Code” business rules implemented in C#/Visual Basic. The application generator will create a file with the business rule implementation. The file will not be overwritten by subsequent code generation sessions. New application framework class RuleAttribute links the business rule to the code.
   
  
   
• Sophisticated JavaScript Business Rules can now be used to implement complex validation and just-in-time correction of user input.
   
• Project Explorer offers a new context menu option “Exclude From Menu” to hide the page from the navigation menu.
   
• Project Explorer offers a new context menu option “Include in Menu” to show the page in
  the navigation menu.
   
• New "View in Browser" action is available in Project Explorer in the context menu of pages.
  
• Mandatory "radio button list" will require user to make a selection of an option when inserting or editing a record.
   
• Read-Only fields are passed to the business rules when actions are executed in the views with the type other than the "form" view.
   
• Virtualization node set now features IsEmpty property. The property value is 'true' if the node set is empty.
   
• The chained calls to CreateAction will correctly create multiple actions.
   
• Clicking on the "View Details" arrow icon in the lookup window will not close the lookup window.
   
• Property AutoSelect when set to "true" for a lookup field will automatically activate the lookup on data entry if the field is blank.
   
• Enhancements to the "focus" processing with business rules in form views.
   
• Command Text is correctly saved in Designer.
   
• The client library will validate argument values before executing Report action. This will ensure that "read-only" values passed as arguments of business rule methods.
   
• DotNetNuke Factory uses cases-insensitive filter when publishing deployment files.
    
• Property AquarimExtenderBase.ServicePath is now virtual. Class DataViewExtender is declared as "partial", which allows global overriding of the application service path.
    
• "Confirmation" controllers are working correctly again. 
    
• New page name entered in a camel notation will result in "pretty" path and title.
   
• "Generate" and "Browse" actions will not crash if IIS Express is not install.
   
• Browsing a page with a non-blank "External Url" property will open the default page of the app instead of trying to open a non-existing page with the name of the page node.
   
• The issues with Auto Complete Anywhere is resolved.
   
• The Generate/Browse bug in Designer when a node is not selected is fixed.

Code On Time release 6.0.0.29 includes enhancements to both code generation library and application design environment.

Generated web applications now support JavaScript Business Rules and Automatic Tracking of Selected Record. The Project Designer has been enhanced with drag & drop and cut/copy/paste  capabilities and offers “Navigate To” window that allows quickly locating project configuration elements.

The following features, enhancements, and bug fixes are included in this release:

• Drag & drop and cut/copy/paste are support for pages, containers, data views, controls, user controls, controllers, and commands. Other project configuration elements will also be enhanced in the coming weeks.
   
• The entire data controller can now be cloned.
   
• Project Designer properties of menu configuration elements can be easily synchronized with Project Explorer.
   
• Navigate To window allows quickly finding project configuration elements.
    
• Code generator automatically combines all JavaScript files found in [Documents]\Code OnTime\Library\_Client\Scripts folder in a single _System.js file. The file is included in the generated web applications of all types.
   
• Automatic Tracking of Selected Record is supported by the client library. Developers can take advantage of selected record synchronization.
   
• New search option $autocompleteanywhere will cause the auto-complete to search anywhere in the field values. By default, the framework searches using "Begins With" operation, which generally performs better, but will not yield partial matches.
   
• Data field property "Search Options" supports $disableautocomplete, $disablesamples, and $disablemultiplevalues options.
   
• Modal form views now support dragging of the header.
   
• View Details shows a modal view that will refresh the original source if changes are made.
   
• "Hidden" fields will be displayed in summary if marked as "Show In Summary".
   
• Master data sheet views automatically set focus on the first cell of the first row.
   
• "Flat" actions will display the action description as a tooltip.
   
• Implemented a fix for Import Processor to ensure that field values that are missing in import file are created to simulate as if the values were entered in the user interface form. Previous implementation has passed the non-blank values only. This makes it possible to implement UPSERT when importing data records.
   
• Code On Time will now pre-process the designer logs before navigating to the data controller summary.
   
• Localizer now takes into account the name of the module/webpart when caching the resource strings.
   
• Project Explorer tab now feature "Home" button that shows List of Pages, List of Controllers, or List of User Controls.
   
• The issue with the left border in AjaxControlToolkit tabs is fixed in all themes.
   
• Sorting on fields with Format On Client = false will not cause a runtime exception.
   
• Method Controller.UserInInRole is now creating an instance of ControllerUtility class to verify the user identity. This allows implementing custom role validation against SharePoint or DotNetNuke user groups.
   
• ControllerDataSource will correctly perform Update/Insert/Delete operations when C#/VB business rules are associated with the data controller.
   
• Component ControllerDataSource will use "=" filter operation if FilterParameter instance has its DBType property set to any value other than Object or String.
   
• Aggregate fields are correctly formatted on the server when "Format On Client" property of a data field is set to "false".
   
• It is possible to specify "about:blank" as the URL of top level pages without breaking the rendering of Advanced Menus.
   
• Context Field Filters now support static filters in the both formats:
  FieldName = 12345 and FieldName='12345'
    
• Decimal parameters are automatically initialized as Decimal(38,10) in SQL Business Rules and SQL action.