Whats new 8.2

Developer

Web Package Manager now supports Servoy Modules installation (Like svyUtils)

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Logical Forms (forms with no ui) can be extended now to become a absolute or a responsive form, so now you can have shared code between an absolute or responsive form.

Runtime:

In Memory datasources have an onload event (in the table events tab) where you can attach a method (entity or global) that is called when the in mem is touched so that you can fill the datasource
so it is now more a pull stuff then a push that you needed to do at some point (like on solution load)

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The "this" object inside a caclulation now points to the record.

Server:

The server does have a REST api for uploading solutions: https://wiki.servoy.com/display/DOCS/Deploying+using+external+tools and https://wiki.servoy.com/display/DOCS/Exporting+a+Solution+from+Servoy+Developer

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