Release Notes

2.0.0 - 2023-11-28

ATTENTION

Due to breaking changes in this release, the abapGit repository abap-search-tools needs to be updated to version 2.0.0 in the targeting ABAP system.

ABAP Object Search

Features

• Redesign of search dialog
  

• New search type View

• New search type Method

• New search type Message

• New Filters in CDS View Search:

  • changedby - Last Changed By
  • changed - Last Changed Date
  • comp - Software component
  • appl - Application Component
  • basefield - Base Field Usage (i.e. matnr as Product -> matnr is the base field)

• New Filters in Database Table Search:

  • changedby - Last Changed By
  • changed - Last Changed Date
  • comp - Software component
  • appl - Application Component
  • enhcat - Enhancement Category
  • maintflag - Maintenance Flag
  • storetype - Storage Type
  • buffering - Buffering Status
  • buffertype - Buffering Type
  • dataclass - Data Class
  • sizecat - Size Category
  • include - Usage of Include Structure

• New Filters in Class/Interface Search:

  • changedby - Last Changed By
  • changed - Last Changed Date
  • comp - Software component
  • appl - Application Component

• New unified Search Favorites
  

• Text Filter possibility for Search Result View
  

• New option to paste clibpoard rows as values in name or filter fields
  
  

CDS Analysis

General Updates

• New option to rename your CDS Analyzer View
• Restrict the available analysis types in your CDS Analyzer and create specific view instances in your workspace that handle specific analysis types only
  
• Easy analysis type switching for the current input
  
• Show overlay icon for deprecation API state of CDS Views

Top-Down Analysis

• New filter option to show only certain sub tree of the analysis
  
• Enable display of CDS View Entities that contain Except or Intersect

Where-Used Analysis

• New Recursive Loading option for Where-Used-in-CDS Analysis
• New Filter Option to show only certain sub tree of the analysis
• New Text Filter Option
  

Used Entities Analysis

• New metrics
• New Text Filter Option
  

1.10.0 - 2023-05-27

ABAP Object Search

Features

• CDS entities of type Projection are now overlayed with a custom icon
  
• CDS entities of type Hierarchy are now overlayed with a custom icon
  

1.9.0 - 2023-03-27

ABAP Object Search

Features

• Added new context menu actions to result nodes like Run as..., Coverage as...

1.7.0 - 2022-08-29

CDS Analyzer

Features

• View settings can now be changed in eclipse preferences
• Settings state is stored together with each analysis result

1.6.0 - 2022-08-28

CDS Analyzer

Features

• New command in view toolbar () to run a CDS analysis for a given object
• New command in main toolbar () to run a CDS analysis for a given object
• Added Pin to View action to toolbar
• Added option to open Analysis in new View from the history dialog
• Added option to open Analysis from history dropdown via CTRL+LMouse

1.5.0 - 2022-03-05

Technical changes

• Minimum execution environment changed to JavaSE-11

Updates for all plugins

Features

• The Preferences and Views are now grouped under the name DevEpos

1.4.0 - 2021-04-21

Updates for all plugins

Features

• Added DevEpos branding in eclipse About dialog.

ABAP Object Search

Features

• Add search parameter Delivery class () in search type Database Table/View

CDS Analyzer

Features

• Enable Show In context (ALT+SHIFT+W)

1.2.0 - 2019-12-05

ABAP Object Search

Features

• New preference to set the input control which get's the initial focus in the search dialog
• New preference to take the current text selection as Object name in the search dialog

Fixes

• Allow negation for parameters param and desc

1.1.0 - 2019-12-01

ABAP Object Search

Features

• Added new search type Class/Interface

Fixes

• Adds missing search filter validation after project changed

CDS Analyzer - Where-Used In Analysis

Features

• New Setting to control whether all association usages are shown or only those where the association is defined locally

CDS Analyzer - Top-Down Analysis

Features

• Show custom tooltip with the name, description and alias of the current entity under the cursor

CDS Analyzer - Field Analysis

Features

• Add view layout toggle (automatic, horizontal, vertial)

1.0.0 - 2019-11-26

Initial release with following included features

ABAP Object Search +

Extended ABAP Object search integrated into eclipse Search Dialog.
It currently supports the following object types

• CDS View
• Database Table/View

CDS Analyzer

View for analyzing CDS View.
The following analyses are possible at the moment

• Top-Down Analysis for CDS Views
• Used-Entities analysis of a CDS View
• Where-Used in CDS View for a CDS View/Database table/Database view
• Field Analysis for a CDS View/Database table/Database view