If you weren’t able to make the SAN 3.5 Preview Webinar this morning - you really missed out on a terrific meeting!
Our CEO, Jan Aleman and our CTO, Jan Blok showed off the latest, fresh-from-the-lab 3.5 version of Servoy. There are TONS of new features - here’s the SHORT LIST:
Table events at the DB level (like DB triggers)
Column events - at the DB level
Form event templates
Ability to give fields “friendly” names for sort dialogs
Ability to store notes about fields
Ability to attach validators to fields - at the DB level
Ability to perform conversions on data into/out of fields - at DB level
Multiple windows (non-modal and modal)
Full AJAX web client - INCLUDING windows and data broadcasting!
MUCH, MUCH more!
CRITICAL NOTE:
DO NOT INSTALL IN PRODUCTION! BACKUP ALL YOUR DATABASES BEFORE USING. DO NOT INSTALL OVER YOUR EXISTING 3.X INSTALLATION - BUT INSTALL IN A NEW DIRECTORY.
Side Note: The version that is for download here does NOT include the ability to have a MODAL dialog in the Web Client. That feature was added after the pre-beta installer was built, but will show up in the next release.
THAT was cool… dude!!
Looks like WebClient is getting serious…
And “Prime Time” Bob was at his best with his international voice…
Looking forward to hear that voice live in Amsterdam, Hey guys: keep something to show us next fall!! We don’t want you to run out of cool features…
Especially the new windowing! The main servoy window will never cover the “child” window - so user’s can’t get lost - so it will be cool to have another window that will allow them to see nav or to-dos or ???
Also, is cool in those times where you need just two levels of dialogs - now it can happen.
Well, I love that AJAX functionality… It was so exciting to see the great new functionalities on the webclient side and the databroadcasting between a normal client into a webclient without having the browser to refresh te page… Very Very good work and I can only say; I LOVE IT!
Just downloaded the pre-beta version and according to Tony the Tiger: ‘It’s Ggrrreeeeaaaaatt’
Have found my way around the structure level events and validations/properties but am wondering if anyone could provide minor pointers on the multiple windows
Does multiple windows mean more than the current two (main and FID) and if so how do I open 3 or more windows ?
I see that there is a modal/non-modal switch for the FID so assume that this is linked somehow.
Noticed a new application level function ```
createNewFormInstance(designFormName , newInstanceScriptName)
Without having started Servoy 3.5 (out of my head):
To “clone” a form you call createNewFormInstance(designFormName , newInstanceScriptName). designFormName is the form you want to clone, newInstanceScriptName is a unique name you have to assign to the cloned form in order to be able to “communicate” with the form (maybe “myForm-1”).
To show a non-modal window, clone a form and call showFormInDialog using the non-modal switch. Voila. This way you can open one form in 25 different windows…
i am told this was a bug in the distribution which had a file missing. The wonder team have promissed an updated beta early this week, that will hopefully work and then we can really test the new features.