Developing an idea with RuleEngine in XData, we could even refuse from editing full class and edit only valuable xml. Sometime ago I have already written an article(in russian) about such possibility, even more, in that article I wrote about compilable JavaScript to Caché. 

Opening File

This possible with %Studio.AbstractDocument. While extending this class, developer should add a Projection.

  Projection RegisterExtension %Projection.StudioDocument

Some days ago Alberto has written a very interesting article about the usefulness of ObjectGenerators available in Caché.

In this article, Alberto shows an example RuleEngine based on XData, and how it is possible to improve the process of filling such rules. Caché Studio has a Studio Asist for XData; you may have already seen examples of it if you use ZEN or %Installer.Manifest.

We can use the %XGEN.AbstractDocument class for our task. Unfortunately, InterSystems has marked these classes (all of classes in %XGEN, in fact) as for internal use only.

XData blocks in Caché classes has a MimeType property, and dcoumentation says

MimeType — The MIME type (more formally, the internet media type) of the contents of the XData block. The default is text/xml

But unfortunately I can't set any other values, such as text/html or application/javascript, because XData still expect only XML. 

So, question is, for what reasons this property was appeared?

It would be very usefull to set in this property anything other then text/xml, and Studio would highlighted it as developer expected.

Most of projects on Caché, obviously, written not only in Cache ObjectScript, and should contain sources in other languages. Such as js or css for web-projects or any others. And it would be pretty good, if I could see all of files in one project, and possible to edit all of them. How to be in this case ?

And I think it is not a good idea, to place all project's sources in one root folder. Our project contains over 3 thousands classes and routines, and it is too difficult to find anything in such folder. Is not a good for it to use Java-way, and place every package in subfolder ?

There are still so many syntax highlighting errors in Atelier, which still exists from first beta public release.

Database Blocks Explorer for InterSystems Caché

Key features

Tree explorer

• Shows tree of database blocks;
• Export tree as SVG or PNG image;
• Shows every node in the block;
• Open any block just by clicking on node in parent block;
• Reload block info by clicking at the same node second time;
• Zoom in and out, fit and navigator;
• Easy way to switch between view modes (tree/map);

Fragmentation map

• Shows every block with the same colour for every globals;
• Legend for globals;

Installation

Minimal supported version is 2015.3 or 2016.1.