Hi,
I right now play around with Release 2023 and noticed that Aras changed a view things regarding "Federation" in this release. This version has an additional "Federated" flag in the ItemType properties. Not sure if this has a real technical impact or is just a way to "highlight" federated property in a better way.
In my I12 you still can set DataType to "Federated" and there is no additional flag. Technically using DataType "Federation" never had some real technical impact, despite the quick erase of the existing db values.
Not sure, I haven´t tested federation yet in Release 2023. But this is maybe an additional reason the mentioned project is not promoted by Aras anymore.
You said you used Federation for many tasks. Have you noticed differences regarding the used Method when using Innovator 12 vs. Innovator 14? Of course only when you already work on a newer release... :)
Best regards
Angela
hahha... oh no... we are still on 11 SP 12 :(
But we have looked at the latest release a bit and the new federated flags which I like a lot - I have properties that are federated Item Types for example and we have really had to hack that to make it work because we couldn't set the property type as "Item". If we set the data source in the DB (because you can't set it in the UI if it's federated) everything works beautifully - same things with lists. So I am a big fan of this change and am very much looking forward to when we can upgrade.
Yes, the new federated flag makes sense! I right now use 'Federated' as type for regular string/integer properties, but 'Item' for federated items. It works, but is confusing.
I think Aras added this one as first modification for their own upcoming federation service. But I don´t think we will see it this year. I expect they want to cover REST and SQL and probably plan to provide a lot UI to make it simple for users. Will take them some time to cover everything.
My federated dataset with above sample project currently looks like this.
Search bar works mostly like usual. Items are clickable. We can link the federated data to other items cause they have static id. But I still weren´t able to make all of the paging buttons work as normal. Especially the counter for amount of found pages and items is still missing. It´s not high priority, but it would be a nice addition.
