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ThingWorx 8.5 Composer and Mashup Builder Enhancement Highlights

Modified: 26-Mar-2020   


Applies To

  • ThingWorx Platform 8.5

Description

  • Composer Enhancement:
    • Improved workflow support
    • NG Composer challenging to navigate -> Usability challenges with editing and viewing data
  • Feature:
    • Tab style editing support
    • Horizontal tabs
    • New Grids with Resizing
    • Resizing in Entity Grids
    • Schedule Editor
    • New Webcomponent widgets
    • Responsive layout now GA
    • Theming now GA
    • Key messaging
    • New ability to build responsive modern web applications
  • Theming and Theme Editor:
    • Centralized style management
    • Easily apply to all Mashups of an applications
    • Bindable, can be changed dynamically
    • Set Colors Typography, Lines, Borders, States
    • Set globally or by group of elements (buttons, grids, inputs)
    • Mashup Preview can be set
  • New Widgets:
    • Breadcrumb
    • Dynamic panel
    • Icon
    • Image
    • List Shuttle
    • Property Display
    • Slider
    • Value Display
    • Advanced Grid now part of platform
  • New Functions:
    • Confirmation
    • Event Router
    • Logout
    • Navigation
    • Status Message
  • Responsive Layout:
    • New responsive layout editor, based on Flex
    • Content lays out according to rules, adapts to the screen size and settings
    • Static and size range support
  • Migration:
    • When opening a mashup containing legacy widgets for which there are web component replacements available
    • Opening a mashup containing legacy layouts, a banner appears at the top of the design page
    • Clicking Yes will migrate to new widgets and new flex layout
    • Bindings in the mashup are retained
    • Recommended to review widgets sizes
    • Static layous are migrated to a responsive flex container
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