New Features and Enhancements for RACE

Group related fields in forms and expand and collapse them to view. You can now easily identify the key sections and capture data quickly.

For information, Create dynamic form.

The data is auto-saved locally until the form is saved or submitted. This feature reduces the risk of data loss when the app times out or crashes abruptly.

For information, Create dynamic form.

View, post, and validate embedded forms when in offline mode.

For information, Create dynamic form.

User can configure the result value of and color for the selection of a drop down or segment control value. Hence, the user can understand the impact and take necessary actions on the rounds.

All the error messages are made consistent in the UI5 application.

Operator Rounds - Support for demo data (iOS)

Support for signature and attachments in sub form (iOS)

For information, Configure form template for dynamic screens

Forms Builder - UI and UX improvements (UI5)

For information, View Recent RACE Dynamic Forms

Header level attachments - Embedded Forms (iOS)

For information, Embed reference documents in the form

User can deactivate the dynamic forms that are not required and activate them when needed. This ensures that only the active forms are readily available when working.

For information, Deactivate and Activate RACE Dynamic Forms

Work Instructions feature had the following productivity enhancements: These help you

• create the work instruction from scratch.
• edit or update work instruction and save it.
• add new sections and attach files to the work instruction.
• share work instruction for review and approval before publishing it.
• organize work instructions into categories.
• publish the work instructions.
• configure the Overview screen of work instructions.

You can categorize forms in RACE under different categories while creating them.

For information, Categorize RACE Dynamic Forms

You can keep a track of the form changes done due to updates in inspection norms and revert to previous form versions while safeguarding all submission data.

For information, Create New Versions, Edit and Publish RACE Dynamic Forms

You can fill the form through OCR technology which can decrease the manual intervention and the data would be more accurate.

You can retrieve forms History with 100 entries under 5 seconds so that you can quickly check the posted forms and take relevant actions.

RDF is now compatible with SMP 3.1 and SDK 5.0, so all the existing apps are able to work with SMP 3.1 and SDK 5.0.

RDF now supports iOS 14 and X Code 12.

As RACE admin you can define the sequence of tables while data fetching. So the Custom BADIs as product capabilities will decrease the PSO efforts and make the application more standardized.

With this feature, you can set offset configuration for label printing. So that the label will be printed as configured with the offset position.

With this feature, you can configure master data for operator rounds module, then the application shows the master data as configured in RACE.

When you start typing in the field, the application auto-suggests with last five values which is typed in that field.

You can add new modules in an offline mode.

You can package and distribute modules created using Add Module feature of RACE will enable faster and cheaper development of new features across the applications.

When you see the same field in the mobile application, the date value is automatically populated, if it is empty.

For information, Configure forms and form fields for dynamic screens

UI drop-down shows the Description along with the Key.

For information, Configure forms and form fields for dynamic screens

Add custom attributes to the form in RACE™ to filter the forms and add them to the business object.

For information, Configure forms and form fields for dynamic screens

Configure mathematical expressions in UI Validations to auto-populate or validate form fields.

Limitation:

This feature works only for numeric fields with Division, Multiplication, Subtraction and Addition (BODMAS) operations.

For information, Configure forms and form fields for dynamic screens

Field values are now validated as you enter the values are in the Form. Earlier, the validation was performed when you Submit the Form.

For information, Configure forms and form fields for dynamic screens

Enter numeric data in fractions, Forms convert the value into decimal format and post it to SAP.

For information, Configure forms and form fields for dynamic screens

Configure Default Value to populate Current Date (CD) and CurrentTime (CT) in Date field on Forms. You can also show the Current User (CU) in Text field.

Limitation: You can increase or decrease only the Day value. CU, CD and CT cannot be used in expressions.

For information, Configure forms and form fields for dynamic screens

Configure UI validations to hide (destination) fields depending on the value selected in the source field.

Note: By default, the destination field is not displayed on the screen.

Limitation: Form designer should understand the scenarios where the conditions conflict to hide fields.

For information, Configure forms and form fields for dynamic screens

Now, you can configure Forms to add images along with fields which helps the technicians to carry out field inspections without hassle.

Limitation: Images are not displayed when you use Print & Email form on Submit.

For information, Configure forms and form fields for dynamic screens

Back office executives are now notified of the actions on Forms. For example, you can enable notification on the form to receive an alert when the form is Submitted.

For information, Configure forms and form fields for dynamic screens