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Thursday, January 15, 2015Print Subscribe

Brand New Advanced Search, Deep Search, Right-Click to Filter

Code On Time release 8.0.12.0 introduces a collection of new features designed to improve productivity of end users.

The highlights of this release are:

Brand New Advanced Search implementation in Touch UI. Users can search for data by entering groups of conditions. Each group uses one of the four matching methods – “Match All”, “Match Any”, “Do Not Match All”, “Do Not Match Any”. Unlimited number of groups can be created. Data views will keep track of up to 30 recent searches. End users can execute and edit previous searches.
Deep Search is a new capability available in Touch UI. It is now possible to find master records via the content of the details. For example, users can find customers that have orders placed by employee Fuller and shipped to London. Application automatically detects master-detail relationships on the pages and allows specifying detail fields in advanced search groups or in the scope of quick find.
Right-Click to Filter is now supported in lists and grids of Touch UI applications. Users can right-click any visible value and immediately apply “Equal”, “Does Not Equal” and several other filtering options. This feature is supported by Touch UI applications on desktop computers equipped with a mouse.
Empty/Not Empty and dedicated Less/Greater Than and Less/Greater Than Or Equal are now supported in Desktop UI and Touch UI. The first two new filters allow located records that match the corresponding criteria. Previous implementations supported only the last variation of typical comparisons.
Data Pivoting is now integrated in the application framework. The new implementation includes support for a high performance universal server-side data pivoting driven by tags. This feature is the foundation of the upcoming brand new charting support that will be introduced first in Touch UI. The same pivoting capability will also be used for sidebar filtering options similar to those found on popular shopping web sites. This pivoting capability will also be used in the Calendar view style that will become available first in the Touch UI.

Take a look at the screen shots of the new user interface features.

The search button on the toolbar now activates either Quick Find search box or Advanced Search screen. The default option is Quick Find. If a data view is configured to “Search on Start” than Advanced Search is always engaged when a data page is loaded.

The new Quick Find box has a drop down arrow next to the search icon on the left and advanced search button on the right.

The drop down arrow activates a list of child data views on the page that are directly connected to the data view in focus. User has expanded the scope of search to include master data view Customers and child data views Orders and Order Details. Inclusion of child data views will engage deep search capability.

If a user clicks on the button on the right side of the Quick Find search box on the toolbar than advanced search screen slides down from the top of the browser window.

Four data matching methods are supported.

Groups can be deleted and duplicated as needed.

Right-click on the data values will display a context menu.

An example of “deep search” conditions.

The result of the “deep search”.

The history of searches on Advanced Search screen.

Searching from recent history on Advanced Search page.

The complete list of enhancements and bug fixes is presented below:

A new implementation of advanced search for Touch UI with multiple matching groups, history of recent searches and favorite searches.
Deep search is supported in Touch UI.
Right-click to filter is now available in Touch UI.
Data Pivoting is supported in GetPage method.
Ensured that SQL Server database with one custom schema and the rest of the tables in "dbo" will generate a correct initial menu.
Renamed __resultset to resultset__ to ensure wider compatibility with database engines.
Fixed DateTime UTC formatting issue when printing reports.
Method $app.find first tries to find a data view by ID and then tries to find it by controller name.
User-level properties are now application and user-specific in Touch UI apps.
Implemented InitBusinessRules to enable IDataEninge.ExecuteReader to work with business rules.
Data type TimeStamp will not break applications.

We are finally ready to publish various new tutorials that were in work for the past few months. This year you will see tutorials demonstrating development of single page apps with jQuery Mobile and Bootstrap. A new tutorial will explain how to build the Order Form sample with Touch UI.

In about two weeks we will release another with supported for data visualization in Touch UI and numerous other enhancements including BLOB uploading in Touch UI.

Labels: Application Builder, Release Notes, User Interface, Web Application Generator

Thursday, December 4, 2014Print Subscribe

Calculated Fields, Visible When, Read Only When in Touch UI

Code On Time release 80.11.0 further narrows the gap between the features of Desktop and Touch UI. The key features frequently requested by developers are ability to calculate field values with business rules and conditional visibility of fields and categories. Fields also need to be marked as read-only when certain conditions are met.

Touch UI now introduces an enhanced implementation of these features. We have also increased performance of core features in Desktop UI.

Both Desktop and Touch applications can now take advantage of simplified configuration for calculated fields. Developers can now set Causes Calculate property of a data field to true to trigger Calculate command whenever the field value has changed.

Both Desktop and Touch UI now implement and enhanced processing of dates to ensure that dates are correctly displayed across time zones. Dates are now passed in JSON format with additional processing of time zones both on the server and on the client.

Azure SDK 2.5 is supported in this release.

jQuery Mobile 1.4.5 is supported in this release.

Touch UI applications support multiple columns of input fields in forms with tabs.

Touch UI applications have new options in application settings.

Initial List Mode can be set to be displayed Summary Views on all pages instead of See All mode. This view displays a traditional action bar above the subset of rows visible to the user.

Button Shapes option allows to turn off the outline of buttons for a cleaner look.

A thin outline is the default option for buttons in forms.

We have removed icons from the form buttons for a cleaner look.

Lists and grids now promote an action in See All mode. Promoted action is the first “positive” action available to the user.

Summary views now display view selectors on the left side of the action bar buttons. Button “…” located right next to a view selector provides access to the context menu of a data view.

Summary view also display aggregates. We are working on displaying aggregates in See All mode.

Here is the same view of Products display in “List” style with aggregates listed below it.

Next release is expected to go out before the end of the year with the following features in Touch UI:

Blob Uploading.
Enhanced Advanced Search.
Support for many-to-many fields in search screens.
Hyperlink fields will be displayed in context menus.

Labels: Application Builder, Release Notes, Touch UI, Web 2.0, Web Application Generator, Web Form Builder

Monday, October 27, 2014Print Subscribe

Prerequisite Verification and Report Viewer Publishing

Code On Time release 8.0.10.0 includes a new feature and two enhancements.

Publishing of Mobile Factory, Web App Factory, and Web Site Factory will also include all required DLLs from Microsoft Report Viewer if reporting has been enabled in a project. Previously this capability has been available only in Azure Factory projects. There is no need to install Report Viewer on the server machines anymore.
The new update implements enhancements to the process of prerequisite verification that was introduced in the last update. The app generator detects if IIS Express or Report Viewer are missing on the computer and suggest to download them. The enhancements were made to address issues related to this feature that were reported by several users.
We have also enhanced the process of inclusion of combined script file. This feature is available only in Unlimited edition and significantly speeds up the initial download of application pages. All required scripts are combined into one file and compressed. The downloaded file is cached by web browsers for a year. The name of the combined script changes with every release of the app generator and with every instance of publishing. There were several reports indicating that the file name includes incorrect “culture” component in some configurations. We believe we were able to address the issues. If the new release does not correct the issue, then please open a support ticket and we will arrange for a troubleshooting session as soon as possible.

ATTENTION: DotNetNuke and SharePoint developers must request a hot fix that will correct the compilation error present in both 8.0.9.0 and 8.0.10.0 releases. The fix incudes two files:

PageBase.codedom.xslt – copy the file to [Documents]\Code OnTime\Library\Data Aquarium\_App_Code\Web folder.
DataControllerService.codedom.xml – copy the file to [Documents]\CodeOnTime\Library\Data Aquarium\_App_Code\Services folder.

See complete release notes for version 8.0.9.0 to learn about the features that have become available over the weekend.

Labels: Release Notes, Reports, Web Application Generator