New in ARS 7.5 – Auto-completion
Wow, there are sure a lot of new options in ARS 7.5, a lot of improvements in the GUI, Scalability and other fun stuff. Since I could spend a few months detailing all the new functionality I urge everyone to look at the ‘What’s new in ARS 7.5′ documentation on the BMC site.
I will go through some of the (I think) best new options in AR System 7.5 in a few posts, starting off with some GUI stuff and going on to the CMDB (which has a complete new user interface!). Unfortunately I have a few projects lined up at the moment at work so posting will be a bit light over the next few weeks.
One of the coolest (and easiest for developers) GUI enhancement is the Auto-completion. Where in Remedy we used to have to create workflow where a user would press enter in a field and search the database this is now automatically done by the Midtier. Here’s an example of how it looks:
Here I just typed an a into the field, the midtier gave me back all the menu items that have an a in the value. This is great news for all the users who want to use the keyboard only and not be bothered with mouseclick on menu items.
The option is simply enabled by attaching a menu to a field and setting the following option in the field properties:
It is under the Display Options in the Developer Studio (which I’ll look at in another post). Unfortunately this option only seems to work in the Midtier at the moment.
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