March 2010 Blog Posts


If you seen this post on the Agile Network Forums - Usability Tip (Ctrl+shift+click) - you already know a quick way to get some extra space between two elements in a flow.

From 5.0.2.9 up, there’s an even easier way: just drag the the element, and if there’s little space, the flow will be automatically arranged:

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In the previous post, I showed an accelerator to easily create a Query for an edit or show screen by dragging an Input Parameter of an Entity Identifier type to the Preparation. In 5.0.2, there’s an even easier way to do this.

Create the EditRecord or the ShowRecord and drag the Entity on top of it. Then, if there’s an Input Parameter of the correspondent Entity Identifier type, a suggestion will appear in the Source Record property:

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Service Studio 5.0 had a lot of improvements in the drag & drop department. Some of them are listed in this great video from Rodrigo Coutinho - New in 5.0 - Drag & Drop – but there are a lot more. Here are 3 of my favorites that aren’t included in that video:

  • If you drag an input parameter with an Entity Identifier type from the eSpace tree to a preparation or any other kind of action flow, a query to get the respective Entity will be created. This is very handy when creating edit or show screens



  • [New in 5.0.2] You can replace any terminal element with any other terminal element by dropping on top of it. This is especially useful when you want to replace the default end element of preparations or screen actions with a destination or a download element. What used to take three steps (remove the old element, drag the new one, and recreate the connector) can now be done with only one step!



  • [New in 5.0.2] You can drag variables on top of widgets to change their binding:

Remember, there are lot more behaviors like these ones, just try to drag things around to find them.

Happy drag & dropping!

 

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