We upgraded our servers to 8.5 last week and I upgraded my designer too.
I am reviewing this new version, and by the way, studying to get my certification by scratch (I want to know this version in detail).
So, I need to start with the test 834 and I bought the training material from CertFX. One question in the test talk about a function to customize the Tools using Select → Add Tool. However, that do not appear in my 8.5 version. So, I was wondering if it was a mistake from the CerFX guys so I went to the Help and that feature also appear there, however it do not show at all in my designer.
Do I need to set something in preferences to make it appear? Is that missing from version 8.5?
the menu items Tools - Add Tool and Tools - Customize Tools, those menu items were intentionally removed from Designer 8.5. The help should have been updated, but apparently wasn’t.
The Add Tools menu (if it is the one I am thinking of that we added in release 6 that let you add context sensitive formula based menu items in Designer) was intentionally removed. Eclipse offers a far better and more extensible framework, and it did not make sense to support both. We also found that that feature was very infrequently used, so took the step to simplify the platform.
You can add menu items to Designer through Eclipse plugins in 8.5 today, but in the relatively near future there will also be APIs to expose some common helper functions (e.g., mapping Eclipse project functions to database info).