This publication includes information about new features and changes in existing
functionality.
Important: This page covers only those new features
introduced with the Genero Studio version specified in the page title. Check prior new features
pages if you migrate from an earlier version. Make sure to also read the upgrade guide corresponding
to this version.
Corresponding upgrade guide: GST 3.20 upgrade guide.
Table 1. General
Overview |
Reference |
Genero Studio Help provides a filtering mechanism for search results. |
See Genero Studio Help. |
Genero Studio provides a Dark Theme. |
See Setting the interface theme |
The menu option provides quick access to location of GSTSETUPDIR (the Genero Studio setup and
customization directory). |
See GSTSETUPDIR. |
Table 4. Business Application Modeler
Overview |
Reference |
New BAM templates include enhanced data modeling for reporting data with the addition of
aggregates, and the ability to enter custom SQL.
|
Not yet documented. |
A new events mechanism (as an alternative to defining custom code inline of the source code
by <BLOCK> and <POINT> ) isolate the custom source code in a
separate file, making it less dependent on the generated code and more readable. |
Not yet documented. |
Data control assistant allows custom SQL for advanced queries. |
See Edit the query for a business record. |
Features have been added to Business Records that impact BAM. |
See Table 8. |
TEXT & BYTE are supported in BAM generated code. |
No additional reference. |
Table 6. Genero Report Writer
Overview |
Reference |
Excelâ„¢ output has been improved to
provide a better WYSIWYG rendering of the document. |
No additional reference. |
A new "Calendar" class has been added to the RTL expression
language. |
See The Calendar Class. |
A new "Util" class, which helps determine if files and URLs can be
read, has been added to the RTL expression language. |
See The Util Class. |
Two functions (fromString and toString) have been added to the "Date"
class. |
See The Date Class. |
The gsreport command line tool is now included in the gsserver
package, and is available on all platforms supported by Genero Studio server. |
No additional reference. |
Support of "Private characters" added to a custom font. |
See Adding private characters to a font. |
GRE distributed mode can be activated using an environment
variable. |
Not yet documented. |
GRV for HTML5 is pre-set for use with Genero Application Server
(GAS) |
No additional reference. |
Table 7. Genero Report Designer
Overview |
Reference |
The Toolbox elements "Paragraph" and "Text" have been added. |
See Paragraph and Text. |
The Toolbox includes a new Break element to facilitate page breaks. |
See Break. |
The Toolbox includes a new Rich Text element to display PXML, HTML, and XHTML files. |
See Rich Text Box. |
The Toolbox includes a new Date Format element to display dates. |
See Date Format Box. |
Repetitive display of a value can be suppressed, so that only the first occurence on a page
or in the report is displayed. |
See Hide repeated values. |
When using drag-and-drop into a report, you can now only drop into a container. |
See Drag-and-drop objects. |
Containers are now shown in the Design view. |
No additional reference. |
Sizing handles for report objects have simplified. No longer are there two modes; an object
now directly provide handles to resize either by keeping the aspect ratio or not. |
No additional reference. |
A new table control selects the table and shows its properties. It allows the insertion of
headers and footers directly from the design view. |
See Add headers and footers to a table. |
Only one header and one footer displays in the Design view at any one time for a report
header and footer, or for a table header and footer in a report. Use a combobox to choose which
header and/or footer to display. |
See Add headers and footers to a report and Add headers and footers to a table. |
The Data View includes a new column,
Description. If a description is added for a
data item, it displays as a tooltip for the field name in both the Data
View and the Edit RTL Expression dialog. |
See Adding report data (Data view). |
The Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) bar code type is
supported. |
See OMR. |