This document covers the following topics:
This section describes new features and enhancements in NaturalONE's basic functionality for Natural application development. It covers the following topics:
The support for right-to-left (RTL) languages has been enhanced. In particular, the bidirectional settings such as layout orientation, visual order and Arabic shaping are now maintained on a per-project basis. As such, they can be exported to a Natural project file (.natural) together with the other project properties and persisted in a user's source repository. In addition, these settings are initialized from the current server settings if possible, in order to reduce the time and effort required for configuration.
This is reflected in modified options when setting NaturalONE preferences and/or changing the properties of Natural projects in local mode. Refer to Regional Settings in Setting the Preferences and Regional Settings in section Changing the Project Properties of Managing Natural Projects for further details.
It is now possible to establish SSL-secured connections to Natural Development (NDV) servers (running on version 9.1.2 or above).
This is reflected in modified options when setting NaturalONE preferences and/or changing the properties of Natural projects in local or server mode. Refer to Using SSL for further details.
Note:
The following only applies when Natural on Linux and Cloud
Version 9.1.2 and above or Natural for Windows Version 9.1.2 and above are
being used as a development server.
During upload or update to the server, all types of data area sources (local, parameter and global) will no longer be converted into the old internal data format but will be saved as defined with the NaturalONE Source Editor. Therefore the option Support old internal data area format will be ignored. For details refer to Options in section Natural under Setting the Preferences for details.
It is now possible to customize the colors of specific syntax elements displayed in the map editor. Refer to Map Editor under Setting the Preferences for details.
The list of Natural tools and utilities now also comprises the following:
| Tool | Platform |
|---|---|
| Adabas Event Replicator | Mainframe |
| Adabas Online System | Mainframe |
| Adabas Review | Mainframe |
| Adabas Statistics Facility | Mainframe |
| Natural Ajax Demos | Windows |
| Natural Security | All |
| Predict Application Audit | Mainframe |
| Predict Application Control | Mainframe |
| zIIP Statistics | Mainframe |
A tool is only shown if the corresponding application is installed.
If an entry in the list of Natural tools and utilities derives
from an XML member delivered by Software AG (which are named
SAG-*.XML), it will only be displayed in the list of tools if
Natural Security (if used) allows you to log on to the given library and
execute the given command.
If you add your own tools to the list of the Natural tools and utilities, you may specify filters so that the tool is only listed if certain conditions are met.
For further information, see Extend the List of Tools and Utilities.
This section describes new features and enhancements in Natural for Ajax and Ajax Developer. It covers the following topics:
AUTOCOMPLETE supports limiting the results shown in a drop-down box
Grouping of Objects Supported for Ajax Enabled Natural Projects
You can now adapt the third party geocoder URL in the Ajax configuration file if needed.
The AUTOCOMPLETE control now enables you to limit the results shown in the
drop-down box. The AUTOCOMPLETE control now also has a new property maxresults. The FIELD control now has a
new property autocompleteresultsref.
DATEINPUT2 now supports the properties
stylevariant and displayprop
in the same way as the FIELD control.
The REPORT2 control supports PDF report generation in responsive and non-responsive design. In difference to the REPORT control, it does not require to additionally render the data in the HTML pages.
Automatic cleanup of ServerLog*.log files is now supported. You can configure the maximum storage age of ServerLog*.log files in days in the Ajax configuration file.
BMOBILE:SIMPLEGRID now fully supports editable columns also on small devices.
In ROWTABLEAREA2, all or just the selected items can now be copied to the clipboard or exported to a file. See Export to Clipboard and File in the description of the ROWTABLEAREA2 control grid for further details.
ROWTABLEAREA2 supports the new controls ICONBAR, ICONBARLINE, TOCLIPBOARDICON, TOFILEICON and BLOCKSCROLLINGBAR. See Icon Bars in the description of the ROWTABLEAREA2 control grid for further details.
Performance of Layout generation has been improved. Also the analysis of generation
errors has been simplified. See the new attribute htmlgeneratorlog in the Ajax
Configuration section.
You can now switch off writing log information to the server log. See loglevel in the Ajax Configuration
section.
BMOBILE:SIMPLEGRID now supports icon columns. See BMOBILE:ICONCOL for details.
A set of responsive modal controls has been added:
BMOBILE:INTMODAL,
BMOBILE:INTMODALHEADER,
BMOBILE:INTMODALBODY,
BMOBILE:INTMODALFOOTER.
Many responsive controls now support icons as values for
name/nameprop or as value for other text based
properties. For examples see the Natural for Ajax Demos.
On double-click in the Problems view now not only the control but also the erroneous property is selected in Layout Painter.
Ajax functionality is now supported in the Natural Navigator View.
The grouping of objects by object type is now also supported for Ajax enabled projects.