Juletip #7 - My favorite news in Enterprise Guide 8.3

[OleSteen]

Enterprise Guide (EG) 8.3 is available and here is a list of my favorite news.

This list is not a complete, but just my favorites; have a look at the additional news in the on-line documentation.

• You can now work in EG without using a project
  • As a programmer it has been quite annoying to work with projects, but now you can just open a program or a table without adding these to a project.
  • You can still use projects if that’s what you prefer, but can in the same project open data or programs without “destroying” the process flow
  • Options
  
• No more restrictions for windows layout
  • Each window can now be layout exactly as you wish, floating or docked.
    Just drag an open window around to undock, or dock a window using this
    “helper”:
    
• Data unlocked automatic.
  • This error:
    

    ERROR: You cannot open WORK.FEMALE.DATA for output access with member-level control because WORK.FEMALE.DATA is in use by you
    

    can now be avoided
  • Options:
    
    
  • Or you can easy close all open items, either from the window Open Items:
    
    or right-click on the tab you want to keep and close all other:
    
    
    
• Tree remains opened after refresh.
  • If you have opened a tree in e.g. server window, you might have noticed that a refresh previous collapsed the tree.
  • In EG8 the tree remains opened:
    
    
    
• Drag/Drop enabled
  • You can now use drag and drop from e.g. server list, either table or column names can be draged:
    
    
  • You can even use drag and drop from output and log window