Thursday, December 4, 2014
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.

Multi-column tabbed form in a Touch UI app created with Code On Time.

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.

Standalone summary view of customers with action bar in a Touch UI app created with Code On Time.

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

Form buttons without outlines (button shapes are 'off') in a Touch UI app created with Code On Time.

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

Form buttons with outlines (button shapes are 'on') in a Touch UI app created with Code On Time.

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.

Promoted "New" action displayed at the bottom of the screen on the border of sidebar and responsive grid of customers in a Touch UI app created with Code On Time.

Promoted "New" action displayed at the bottom of the screen on the right side of the responsive grid of customers in a Touch UI app created with Code On Time.

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.

View selector shows avaialble views view styles in popup menu in a Touch UI app created with Code On Time.

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

Aggregates displayed at the bottom of the product responsive grid in a Touch UI app created with Code On Time.

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

Aggregates displayed at the bottom of the product list in a Touch UI app created with Code On Time.

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.