Improvements in Configurable Web Services & Responsive Forms in Aras Innovator 32
In Aras Innovator® Release 32, we’ve made some important changes to two of our newest features. Responsive Forms and Configurable Web Services have seen enhancements that improve usability and reliability. Responsive Forms As one of the newest additions to Aras Innovator, we’re continuously working on improving Responsive Forms. With our newest release, we’ve added low-code logic that allows you to color the background, element, or text of your fields. This had to be managed with code in the past, but now you can use our simple rule editor, which I described in a previous blog. In addition, you can now add Boolean Operators when using multiple rules. This allows for finer control over your forms based directly on the data. This allows us to do things like the following: Responsive Forms can now be used in the Add, View, and Edit view types. This allows you to have different views based on how your users interact with your form. Configurable Web Services (CWS) There are a number of new features in CWS that will make it much easier to use for different use cases. One of the biggest ones is an easier File Upload. A new Upload Endpoint allows you to upload files with a single request, as opposed to the multi-step process from before. In addition, we’ve enabled developers to execute transactions in batches for both the REST API and CWS. This will reduce the number of server calls while improving transaction rollback if a request fails. Finally, for CWS, we’ve added the ability to allow specific API Keys to overwrite system properties. This needs to be handled very carefully but allows for powerful connections to external systems. It will be very useful when pulling items from other systems to federate them in Aras since you can do things like overwrite when an Item is created to match the value in the external system. This can be configured under the API Keys relationship in your CWS: These changes to two of our newest features are just the beginning. We’ve got some really exciting things coming in the pipeline. Please try out some of these new features and let us know how you like them on the forums. We’d love to hear some feedback and what we could do to better meet your needs.
