Visual Composer Features (New) 

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Following are the new features in Visual Composer for CE:

●      Find references to fields or view elements

Visual Composer now provides a tool that enables you to search for references before you rename or delete a field or a view element, so that you can modify the reference accordingly and ensure that your application runs as expected. For example, when you rename or delete a field, or delete a view element (table or form), any references to the field or view element are broken, and may cause errors or unexpected model behavior.

More information: Finding and Modifying References

●      Use the Melting Group control to group multiple controls

The new Melting Group control enables you to group multiple controls in a form view, enabling more layout flexibility. For example, you can use a Melting Group control to group controls with related functionality, such as Start Date and End Date Date Picker controls, or a Search Input Field control with a Search Button control.

More information: Adding Controls in a Melting Group

●      Customize column widths in form views

In form views, you can now define the width of the columns in the form layout, when there are multiple columns.

More information: Defining Layout Options

●      View configured runtime providers

You can display the read-only View Runtime Configuration dialog box, which shows the runtime that is used to compile each model type, according to the currently-selected default runtime provider.

More information: View Runtime Configuration Dialog Box

●      Model service components using a wizard

The new Service Component wizard enables you to model a service component and add static data and input ports to it. This may be useful if you are modeling an application and the services you need to use do not yet exist in the back-end system.

More information: Creating a Service Using the Service Component Wizard

●      Define static data for a service component

The new Static Data connector enables you to store static flat data for use by a service component. When using the Service Component wizard, this connector is created automatically, to hold data that you add when creating the service.

More information: Connectors

●      Pass data between Visual Composer and Guided Procedures

The new Data Bridge connector enables you to pass a dataset from a Visual Composer component to a Guided Procedures process and vice versa.

More information: Transferring Data Using a Data Bridge

●      Export a software component

The new Export Software Component option in the Manage Models dialog box enables you to export a software component and its contents from the shared repository to the local file system. You can then build the models in the exported software component using the offline-build plug-in.

More information: Managing Models

●      Create an error report

You can now generate a zip file containing a comprehensive report of system errors, which you can attach when reporting a product error or customer message to SAP Support.

The information saved in the error report depends on the settings specified in the Embedded Support group of the Options pane.

More information: Creating an Error Report and Options Pane - Embedded Support Group