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The following new and changed features are available in this stack:

• HTML Features

  The Form GL2 GUIBB offers a new display type, HTML, allowing for the output of HTML-formatted content. Additionally, you can decorate standard fields with HTML containers and add styles and scripts to them.

• Asynchronous Callback

  Asynchronous callback is now available in FPM applications, meaning, for example, that your application screens won't freeze whilst your application performs a large calculation in the background, or whilst they wait for servers to respond to requests.

• Multiple Dimension Values in Context-Based Adaptations (CBA)

  Context-based adaptations are adaptations of an application that are applied at runtime, based on specific runtime parameters such as the country in which the application is run, or the role of the person running the application. CBA define dimensions for an adaptable application and these are used as parameters for the application. It is now possible to apply multiple values to a dimension, such as Country equals United Kingdom AND Germany.

  For more information, see Creating and Editing an Adaptation of an Adaptable Application.

• Tagging in Configuration

  Tagging is a communication method between elements of an FPM application and those inside a CHIP (Collaborative Human Interface Parts). CHIPS are frequently used in side-panels to display data related to that shown in the main content area of the application.

  Previously, tags were defined solely in the feeder class. Now you can define and configure tags in the FPM configuration editor, FLUID, regardless of whether they are also defined in the feeder class.

  For more information on CHIPs, see the SAP NetWeaver Library under Function Oriented View   Application Server ABAP   UI Technologies   Creating Mashups with the Page Builder.

• FPM in Eclipse

  FPM is now integrated into the development tool, Eclipse.

• Quickviews in Repositories Panel

  Sometimes the list of items in the Repositories panel is very long. Some fields may be connected to others (for example, Price and Currency fields) but they don't appear next to each other in the list. The Repositories panel now contains Quickviews that allow you to hover over a field and see which other fields it is connected to. This may help you when you design the layout of those fields on the user interface.