In the previous post, I showed an accelerator to easily create a Query for an edit or show screen by dragging an Input Parameter of an Entity Identifier type to the Preparation. In 5.0.2, there’s an even easier way to do this. Create the EditRecord or the ShowRecord and drag the Entity on top of it. Then, if there’s an Input Parameter of the correspondent Entity Identifier type, a suggestion will appear in the Source Record property:

  Service Studio 5.0 had a lot of improvements in the drag & drop department. Some of them are listed in this great video from Rodrigo Coutinho - New in 5.0 - Drag & Drop – but there are a lot more. Here are 3 of my favorites that aren’t included in that video: If you drag an input parameter with an Entity Identifier type from the eSpace tree to a preparation or any other kind of action flow, a query to get the respective Entity will be created. This is very handy when creating edit or show screen[...]

Expression Editor had a lot of improvements in Service Studio 5.0. You’ve probably already found most of them, but just in case you haven’t, here’s a list of some of them: - The window is no longer modal so you can open several of them for comparison and copy/paste. - Besides dragging from the scope tree, you can now also drag variables & actions set as functions from the eSpace tree. - As you’re typing, the border of the text editor turns red when the expression is invalid, giving you immediate fe[...]