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.
