Blog: Posts from May, 2012

Code On Time release 6.0.0.28 introduces the following features, improvements, and bug fixes:

• Advanced two-level menus are now available in Premium and Unlimited editions.
   
• Data views now support "Roles" property to allow additional visibility control. The "Roles" are evaluated on the server and work together with VisibleWhen property.
   
• Property BusinessRules.UserEmail can be referenced as @BusinessRules_UserEmail in SQL and Email Business Rules.
   
• Method BusinessRules.AddMailAddresses has been enhanced to accept "loosely" specified list of email addresses separated with comma and semicolon with optional display names.
   
• jQuery 1.7.2 is now integrated in the client library. The future releases will add support for jQuery UI and JavaScript Business Rules.
   
• Application framework matches methods with RowBuilder attribute first as an exact controller name match to the requested controller and as a regex match thereafter.
   
• Page property Title is now optional. If the value is not specified, then the page name is used.
   
• DotNetNuke Factory will load the projet in correct version of Visual Studio when both VS 2008 and VS 2010 are installed on the same computer when a compilation error has occurred.
   
• Modal forms will retain scrolling when lookup fields are changed.
   
• It is possible to reference master views in the visibility expressions attached to all objects.
   
  The implicit master field can be referenced as
   Master.FieldName

The explicit alternative is
view1.FieldName

• It is now possible to create a soft filter by Null value using SQL Business Rules defined as follows:
   
  if @BusinessRules_Tags is null
  begin
     set @BusinessRules_Tags = 'Tagged'
    set @Region_Filter_Equals = 'null'
  end
  
  The rule will work with Customers controller in the Northwind sample.
   
• Method ControllerNodeSet.CreateBusinessRules now support "name" attribute to allow dynamic creation of "named" business rules.
   
• Removed incorrect reference to aspnet_User controller from the Membership Manager.
   
• Quick Find will work even if Query by Example is set to "False" on the first field in the data view.
   
• Fixed the issue with the "soft" filter being require to have a type of "array of objects".
  

These examples were created in minutes straight from Adventure Works database featuring 91 tables and views. Complex navigation hierarchy is effortlessly displayed in a configurable advanced two-level main menu.

A traditional multi-level menu is automatically configured in a generated web application by default.

Another presentation option offers a minimalistic rendering of the most complex navigation systems. The site menu is hidden in the screen shot and can be activated if a user moves a mouse over the application name in the page header.

Menu presentation style “Navigation Button” displays available site pages when a user “hovers” over the application name.

The navigation menu has multiple levels reflecting the relationships between database tables. Developers can change the automatically composed navigation hierarchy in Project Designer.

A single configuration option allows changing the menu presentation style to two-level advanced menu or navigation button menu.