There are many changes in the new version, and most noticable and heavily impacted change that all the developers feel is the new Developer Studio (a.k.a. Admin Tool). The new IDE has replaced the old Admin tool which has new and improved look. The way we develop applications over remedy for years will change with this new tool, though the logic and behaviour stayed the same, the way we operate or create new fields to new workflow has to be changed.
It took some time for me to understand the controls and various functionalities, but exposure to VB and other tools made it easy for me to get used used with the new interface. The use perspective bar is important and one should try to utilize it to the utmost(we can live with out it too, but it makes things easy with differenet views)
I like the new features like editing multiple field properties and Undo most of all.
Here are the few things that are new or improved in Remedy 7.5.00 version
I have made a list of new/updated features on 7.5 that I like most, here is the list:
1. Usability Features
Adobe Flash Integration – Only useful if you use BMC Flashboards
My Reports – I think people will love BMC for this feature, most useful
Field Effects – This is some what visual delight to users seeing transitional effects in Remedy, pretty soon we will have emoticons also.
Panels (a.k.a. Tabs, a.k.a. page holders) – The thing with Tabs is I never liked them because of several reasons, but this new version gave me some reasons to not hate them anymore. The features like display types, colors, images, text and url display are a few of them.
Drop-down character field changes – users are allowed to enter partial values for character fields.
Tooltips on Hoover and AL actions – This is also great addition to usability of remedy
The Web interface or usabilities are better than even. Application perform and look better on web than User tool. I think the reason for that is age old User tool.
2. Administration- Developer Studio changes
Un-Do last changes untill save
Multiple Field Property Changes
Work-Flow Objects view
IDE view and look
Prespectives
Outline, Properties and Reltionship tabs
3. AR Server and Enterprise Level Changes
New Java API – havent used it yet
AL firing condition – Table Refresh
New Auditing mechanics for fields
Run Prodcess command length increment – This is very useful for frequent run process command users.
New Improved AR Import tool
64 bit server support
Filter and Escalation work-flow debugger
Performing seraches on Internal and External Databases simultaneously – This feature became possible after the Join with View forms.
4. Misc Changes
New Logging mechanism
New Licensing System
Time out clocks on browsers
Failback Mid-tier support
New Keywords
New Execute on conditions
and many more……..
I haven’t got access to new version for the first 2 months, when i got my hands on it, even a patch was released
Environment Details:
Used VMWare for all the scenarios, with host server running on Windows 2003.
VM1 :
OS – Windows 2003 x64
DB – MS SQL Server 2005
Webserver – IIS
VM2:
OS – RHEL 5.1
DB – Oracle 10g
Webserver – Tomcat/Apache
Still there are many things and areas that need explorartion, will update very soon
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