The Panel Editor has numerous enhancements to let you work with more legacy business objects and to create dynamic data that has new properties and validations for the behaviors you need.
New property types
When you create new business objects using the Panel Editor, you can select these property types in addition to the existing text, numeric, date, and other types:
■ Email property –The Email property creates a live “mailto:” link, which launches the user's default mail application when selected.
■ URL property – The URL property creates a live hyperlink, which launches a new instance of the browser to open the link when selected. This hyperlinked property lets you integrate social media demographics into your custom pages, such as links to Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, and LinkedIn profiles.
Business object support
■ Access BOs by ID property – You can now display data from business objects that have a ContactKey or ID property, which allows Panel Editor to work with legacy contact-based data tables. Previously, only business objects with a ContactKey property could be accessed.
■ Panel Collection Editor can now display panels with multi-instance data. A new configuration option also accommodates wider panels.
Text property features
In addition to free-form text entry, Text type properties have several powerful options for selecting and displaying values:
■ Explicit value lists – Text properties support explicit value list type properties. You can create an explicit data and display value list when creating a business object property via Panel Editor.
■ Query-based validation – Text properties support validation-type properties. You can select a query and specify which data and display values to use.
■ Multi-line text fields – Text properties support multi-line text fields.
■ Editable properties – You can edit certain settings of text properties after you save them: multi-line/single-line, and pre-defined values settings.