Enhancements – Collection Capabilities

Data Roll up/summarization capability in TDL Collection – Group by/ Roll up

New collection attributes

Collection re-use, extraction and chaining support in TDL Collection

Another important enhancement is that a collection can now extract information from other col- lections including its sub-objects with the choice of method(s), filter(s) and sort-order.

Indexed or Searchable Collection on TDL defined keys

Integration Capabilities with HTTP-XML collection and Action-HTTP POST

Collection capability has been enhanced to gather live data from HTTP/web-service delivering XML. The entire XML is automatically now converted to TDL objects and is available in TDL reports as $ based methods. There is no need to access the data via specialized functions like $$XMLValue. Reports can be shown live from an HTTP server. Coupled with the new [OBJECT:] extensions and POST action you can also submit data back to the server almost operating Tally as a client to HTTP- XML web-services.

Collection Capabilities – Usage As Tables

A collection in TDL as we all understand can populate the data from a wide range of sources which are available as objects in the collection.

Dynamic Object support for HTTP-XML Information Interchange

Enhancements-Method Formula and Key Actions

Enhanced Method Formula Syntax

Enhancements in Key Actions

Multi-Line Selection Capability

New Action – Modify Object

New Action – Browse URL

Enhanced Actions – Print/Mail/Export/Upload Report

Enhancements -Attributes and Modifiers

New Attribute-Switch

New Field Attribute-Set By Condition

New Field Attribute-ToolTip

Behavioral Change-Set as / Info Attributes

Behavioral Change-Use Modifier

Behavioral Change- Add/Delete/Replace Modifier

Behavioral Change- Local Modifier

Change in usage of ‘BLANK’ Keyword in Menu Items

Partial Attribute Support

Other Enhancements

Bracket Support

Multi- line commenting in TDL source code using /* and */

Extension of modifying definitions using #

Unlimited Namespace support

‘*’ (Reinitialize) Description operator introduced

In coming days I will try and post further details on this.