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We are constantly improving m-Power to deliver the features that make it more useful to customers.
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July 2010
PopUp Dialog
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This enhancement gives developers yet another way to call secondary windows from their web applications. The most common use for this feature is to call this modal window to modify a given record. When completed, the developer has full control to decide if the original page should refresh or redirect elsewhere.
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m-Painter AJAX Helpers
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This very exciting enhancement allows you to easily add your own AJAX functionality into any web application. AJAX allows your end-user to interact with the database server without refreshing the page. This behavior allows for a much more seamless experience. Available AJAX helper are: AJAX Suggest, AJAX validation, and AJAX Drop-downs.
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Make Field Required & Hide Table Functionality
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This m-Painter enhancement allows m-Power developers direct control over two key web application objects (tables and forms) directly through the m-Painter WYSIWYG interface. Specifically, developers can now hide tables and require fields via new m-Painter options.
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May 2010
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End-User Menuing
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The m-Power interface has been enhanced to now provide numerous Look-Up windows for developers creating End-User menus. Developers now can simply query their own database to determine which End-User Roles, Applications, and Groups should be used for their Menus.
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Alter Table
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mrc is excited to announce the ability for developers to alter tables directly within the m-Power interface! Developers are authorized to modify any table that was created within m-Power. To access this feature, click Admin -> Registered Tables -> and click the "Alter Table" icon.
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OLAP Pivot Table Report Template
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mrc is thrilled to announce the latest m-Power template, the OLAP Pivot Report. Developers and users will love the ability to total columns and rows, all the while having the additional functionality to choose row and column dimensions on the fly and drilling down to explore more detail. Even graphing as turned ad-hoc as users can select their graph options at runtime!
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New Look for Generated Applications
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m-Power now ships with a new and improved look and feel for generated applications. The new look now ships with gradient backgrounds to make your web applications stand out even more. Additionally, standard images have been improved as has cross browser compatibility.
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April 2010
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SmartLinks in Reports
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mrc is excited to announce that developers are now able to SmartLink to and from Reports. This enhancement gives developers even more power and control of their application linking.
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Improved Record Selection Screen
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m-Power now ships with an improved Record Selection screen. Developers can now enter an unlimited number of items for "In the List" values, better handling of "Range" values, and overall improved design for controlling user input.
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Probe Analysis Tool
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m-Power now ships with a 3rd Party Analysis tool. This tool will help developers better understand memory usage, system performance, and give them easy access to log files.
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Register Tables
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This enhancement allows m-Power users to quickly see all tables of a given library when registering to the Data Dictionary. This feature now allows developers to sort through their tables to easily find necessary tables.
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Field Selection
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mrc is excited to unveil the latest enhancement -- Improved Field Selection. All Field Selection screens have been enhanced to now add fields to the application in the order they are selected.
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Managing Synonyms
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This feature significantly improves the Synonym creation process. Now developers can easily create numerous Synonym links quickly and easily. Developers can also now see which Tables their Synonyms will relate to when managing their synonyms from the Data Dictionary level.
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February 2010
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Interactive Report Template
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mrc is excited to announce the Interactive Report Template. This template is full of new features that will allow both you and your users greater flexibility in accessing your data. Of note, this template features: The ability to drill-down into lower layers of data, Smart record selections that may know your data better than you, and record selections and report data on a single page for simplified analysis. Please see the documentation for a full list of features and instructions.
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Create Calendar Helper in m-Painter
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This enhancement allows you to quickly and easily create calendar helpers through m-Painter on input capable fields.
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Create Lookup Window in m-Painter
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With this exciting enhancement, you can now create Lookup Windows through m-Painter. This new feature is useful for allowing users to pull up a list of records so they can choose one, which is returned into their original form.
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Create Dropdowns in m-Painter
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mrc is proud to announce the ability to create drop-down lists through m-Painter. This feature allows developers a much simpler approach to creating a variety of drop-down lists, including: Current Applications, External Table, Drop-drop lists, radio buttons, check box lists, and button lists.
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m-Painter AJAX Save
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This enhancement allows m-Painter to save via AJAX. This is a significant improvement over the previous method of "Pop-Up" window save. This method allows for less browser interruptions over potentially blocked "Pop-Up" windows.
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November 2009
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SQL Group By in Reports
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mrc is proud to announce the latest m-Power feature: the ability to enable a GROUP BY option to mrc Reports by default. This feature greatly improves the speed of running large reports.
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Sequence Keys as Parameters in Reports
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This feature greatly simplifies the process to hyperlink two reports together. Developers will now be able to create Drill-Down & Business Intelligence reports with even greater ease.
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September 2009
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m-Painter Improved Support for Field Substitutions
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This provides the developer greater flexibility when working with field substitutions within m-Painter's WYSIWYG mode. Developers can now add field substitutions to all inline styles enhancing the ability to conditionally style an application's HTML output. Please see the documentation for details.
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August 2009
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New m-Power Interface design
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mrc is proud to announce the release of our updated m-Power interface. The redesign of our m-Power tool will allow developers not only additional features and functionality but allows them to easily navigate within the interface. Please see the documentation provided for a more comprehensive list of new functionality.
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New Standard Numeric Formats with Parentheses
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Two new standard Numeric Format codes have been added to the m-Power interface. The new codes display parentheses around negative numbers, with either blanks or zeroes displayed for zero values. These new Numeric Formats have been added to all format code dropdown selections.
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July 2009
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Ranking Report with Graph Template
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This new reporting template is specialized for creating Business Intelligence Reporting. It provides a flexible structure for ranking the top and bottom dimensions based on a single measure. For example, a report can easily display the top 20 customers based on total sales volumes. Please see the template documentation for more information.
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Google Maps Feature
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Using m-Painter's new Insert Map icon, you can display any address data using the Google Maps Service. The Maps Panel walks you through setting the parameters (center point, zoom level, address field, hover data, etc.) This is useful in a variety of applications, including displaying a map of retail stores where your company's products can be purchased. Please see the feature documentation for more information.
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June 2009
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m-Painter support for Mozilla Firefox
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Users of the popular Firefox browser can now use m-Painter too. There are some differences in how m-Painter behaves in Firefox versus Internet Explorer. Please see the documentation for details.
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m-Painter Runtime Calculation Panel
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This simplifies the process of adding/editing calculated fields within the HTML screen painting. End users can position their cursor for the new calc, click the Runtime Calculation toolbar icon, and point-and-click their calculation attributes in place.
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m-Painter Application Import Panel
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This simplifies the process of adding/editing imported applications in the HTML screen painting. End users can position their cursor for the imported app, click the Import Panel toolbar icon, and point-and-click their import application info into a simple form.
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Grid Update Maintenance Template
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As it sounds, it allows maintenance directly on a grid of records with the ability to update/delete multiple records at once. It is a very powerful new template. It has all of the features of the Work-With Maintainer you'd expect (except the ability to insert records.) This template makes it a breeze to create powerful, user-friendly interfaces for maintaining data.
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Reorder Maintenance Template
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This new template allows end users to re-order/re-sequence records using the intuitive drag-and-drop technique. Please see the documentation for more information.
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February 2009
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Improved Calculations screen comes to m-Power interface
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mrc is excited to announce a significant improvement to the Calculation creation process. m-Power’s Calculation screen has been improved to include the following improvements:
· Improved On-screen fields and Calculator
· Cursor Sensitivity
· Improved Data Type selection
· Easier to add SQL functions
· Redesigned of Edit Codes
· Improved Error Messages
· SQL Edit Checks
· Sequence/Record Selection Availability
· System Values improvement
· External Objects improvements
· Application Parameters improvements
· Please see the documentation (accessible by clicking the binoculars) for more information.
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Numeric Pattern Design
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The Edit Code is replaced with more intuitive Numeric Pattern for the formatting of numeric fields. The drop-down list now shows an example of the field rendered. For an even more precise display, use the hover feature which displays an exact rendering of the current field using the accurate field length and decimal positions to see how the value will be displayed as a positive value, as a negative value, and as zero.
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December 2008
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New Search Options in Web 2.0 Templates
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mrc is proud to release two new search relationships for the Web 2.0 Multiple Record Inquiry and Work-with Maintenance templates. These two options are Contains All and Contains Or. This functionality allows end-users to search for non-adjoining keywords.
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Improved Batch Options for Summaries & Reports Job Streams
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This enhancement allows developers greater flexibility to schedule summaries & reports. The jobs can be run on demand or scheduled with the built-in scheduler or third-party scheduler. The reports can be sent to a directory for Web serving/archiving or emailed to recipients in various Web formats. Additionally, this enhancement allows you to specify the run order of applications.
Note: This feature requires JDK 1.6
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October 2008
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Converting mrc-Productivity Series Dictionaries to m-Power Dictionaries
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This enhancement allows mrc-Productivity Series customers to copy an existing Data Dictionary to m-Power. They can choose to copy just table, field, and synonym information, or, if they elect, they can copy Application Specifications along with table/field/synonym information.
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m-Power Enables Database User Defined Functions
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This enhancement allows m-Power users to create and utilize User Defined Functions (UDFs). UDFs are a powerful yet simple way to perform routine data transformations like date conversions, calculations, and complex SQL logic. For DB2/AS400 users, m-Power is even shipped with a few UDFs to get you up and running and harnessing the fantastic possibilities of UDFs.
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September 2008
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Upgrade your Application Server to Tomcat 6!
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mrc is proud to announce the use of Tomcat 6 for m-Power users. Tomcat 6 will provide an Application Server that is quicker and more stable than previous versions. Click the binoculars to learn how to upgrade to Tomcat 6.
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August 2008
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Interface Upgrade: See your Template Before you Choose
It!
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This enhancement now allows developers to see templates before they choose them. Developers can also customize the images that are displayed. Additionally, developers can now pick their template from the onset of their application design, rather than at the end.
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July 2008
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Upload Files to Server via Maintenance Applications
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This enhancement allows your users the ability to automatically upload files to a pre-determined location on your server.
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Interface Upgrade: Watch your Build Process Live!
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This enhancement allows you to see, step by step, how the code generator is creating your Java Web Application.
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June 2008
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Improved Data Dictionary Reports
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The Data Dictionary Report section has been enhanced to provide you detailed information about your applications. Reports include finding where certain fields, files, and external objects are utilized.
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Faster Summaries
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Web 2.0 Summaries have been enhanced to batch the writing of records. This means that a summary with many records to write will complete much faster.
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May 2008
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Application Level Security
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This enhancement allows you to specify which users can see which specific applications based on a role basis. This feature can be used in conjunction with the mrc Menuing and is able to be activated and deactivated at the click of a button. Use this feature if you need to control which users can see which applications.
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Tomcat Stability on Windows Platforms
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New parameters are available within Tomcat to prevent common memory leak errors. Follow this document to learn how to improve your Windows' Tomcat service.
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April 2008
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Run Summaries from Batch
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This enhancement allows you to call summaries created with m-Power from a command line, allowing for true batch processing and fully autonomous scheduling.
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Built-In Menu System
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This enhancement allows you to implement a Menuing System for your Generated applications. Simply specify a list of users and applications, and a dynamic menu is created for users of generated applications.
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March 2008
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mrc Documentation
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mrc Documentation enhanced to now show appropriate categories. Atop each piece of documentation you will find labels that specifically point out what each piece of documentation refers to in terms of Product (i.e. m-Power, mrc-Productivity Series, or both) and Template Type (i.e. Classic Web Servlets, Web 2.0 Servlets, or both).
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New Template Web 2.0 Summary
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This new Java template retains all of the features of 5250 summaries, including the ability to handle millions of records adeptly and to be scheduled to run on a regular basis in a batch server process. This template is especially useful for creating a data warehouse for streamlined reporting purposes.
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February 2008
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Copy Calculations
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Web Interface is improved to allow users to copy calculations within an individual application. This feature greatly reduces the time it taken to build an application with multiple, similar calculations.
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Copy Applications to Different Data Dictionaries
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This highly anticipated feature allows users to copy their application to different data dictionaries for even quicker application development.
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Generating RSS content with mrc Reports
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Learn how to generate .XML files for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) using mrc Reports.
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November 2007
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Variable Data Source
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Web 2.0 templates are improved to allow the end user to select from a list of choices that correspond to a JDBC DB connection. This is helpful if you must support multiple backend companies and allow users to work in one company at once, for example.
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October 2007
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Report to PDF based on HTML Presentation
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Web 2.0 reports now include the option to output to PDF. The painting for the PDF comes directly from the HTML presentation layer. This means that m-Painter is the WYSIWYG editor for all of these output types: HTML, Formatted Excel, and PDF.
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September 2007
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Ajax Hover SmartLink
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Hover SmartLinks is the newest feature added to servlet applications which help to deliver a rich Web 2.0 experience to application users. When a user moves her mouse over a screen element like text or an image, a box appears to hover over the existing Web page to run an independent application. Users can also drill to view more information by repeatedly executing Hover SmartLinks. This technique makes it easier for the user to view more information without losing her browser original context. This feature employs AJAX and the popular Prototype JavaScript Framework for minimal logic and a bug-free experience, but, as always, those details are hidden from the mrc user.
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August 2007
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Cascading Dropdown Lists for Report Prompting
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Web 2.0 Reports allow your dropdown lists to be reliant on one another. Lets say you have a report where your end-user picks State, County, and City. At run time this will allow your users to select a state from a dropdown list. When they do, the dropdown list for counties and cities will refresh to show only the valid counties and cities for that state. Choosing a county will list all of the applicable cities for that particular county.
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July 2007
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Email Reports
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Web 2.0 Reports are enabled to allow to allow emailing reports via batch and include the report as an email attachment or inside the email body.
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Top-Ten-Style Reporting
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Web 2.0 Reports offer you the ability to create fully functional Top-Ten-Style lists which will restrict the output to a specified number of records and sort by a sequence field. This is perfect for creating simple reports where you only wish to show a certain set of records, for instance, the top highest sales regions. This feature works for both detail and subtotal reports.
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Customizable Splash Page
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This new feature for Web 2.0 Reports allows report designers to create a simple, customizable splash page for long running reports.
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Subtotal Headers
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Subtotal lines have long been a feature of mrc reports. Now, with Web 2.0 reports, you can also include subtotal heading lines and show values from the detail, subtotal, or grand total levels.
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June 2007
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Right Justify Fields
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This enhancement greatly simplifies the effort required when building applications over right-justified alphanumeric data.
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Januay 2007
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Create Table from Spreadsheet Data
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A feature is added to the Web interface that allows users to create a new table from spreadsheet data or simply by specifying the table attributes.
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December 2006
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Web 2.0 Templates
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These new Java servlet templates are architectural gems employing the most advanced Object Oriented Programming techniques, the best features of the well-respected Springs Framework, Java code that is J2EE-compliant, HTML code that approaches XHMTL standards, and an open-source JSP-style syntax that supplants the original proprietary TPL. All of these architectural improvements result in generated programs that execute significantly faster than first-generation apps, scale elegantly to handle a multitude of simultaneous users, and enable some truly powerful new features.
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Override Default SQL
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Web 2.0 retrievals and reports allow the application designer total control over the defaulted SQL statement, enabling more sophisticated SQL logic such as UNION, GROUP BY, and table JOIN control.
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Improved Importing Technique
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Web 2.0 applications include improved importing logic. Specifying an imported application is far simpler and this technique is much faster to execute. Dashboard-style applications are now simple to make and blazingly fast.
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September 2006
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Java Copy File Command
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This new feature allows batch copy of data from one DB to another.
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April 2006
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Web Retrieval Calculation Sorting and Selecting
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Retrievals are improved to allow sorting and selecting with most calculations.
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March 2006
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m-Painter
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The Web interface is improved to include m-Painter, the WYSIWYG editor for the HTML presentation layer of generated Java servlet applications.
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February 2006
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Maintain Validation Lists via Interface
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The Web interface is improved to allow users to maintain users in a validation list.
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December 2005
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Built-in Ajax Suggest
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Web 2.0 Retrievals now automatically suggest matching values for filter input fields using the popular Ajax technique to retrieve matching values on the fly.
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