Category: Feature

April 18, 2025

Introducing SmartClient Answer Engine: The Future of Enterprise Data Exploration

In today’s data-driven business environment, the ability to quickly extract meaningful insights from enterprise data is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Yet for most organizations, the process remains frustratingly complex: data analysis typically requires specialized skills, custom report development, or reliance on pre-built dashboards that may not answer your specific questions. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce our...

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February 12, 2024

Build a React Excel-like Grid with SmartClient

Most React projects use a third-party component when they require a responsive and dynamic data grid. Sadly, most third-party libraries can’t quite offer the extensive feature set that enterprise applications need to manage millions of rows of data. If this is your situation, the SmartClient React component is your best choice. SmartClient provides a comprehensive suite of UI components for...

Categories UI/Feature/SmartClient/Technology/Tools/Tutorials/Uncategorized

January 3, 2022

The Best Just got Better! V13.0 is here

We are proud and pleased to announce that V13.0 of SmartClient and SmartGWT is officially here, with tons of fantastic new features. We’re sure you’ll agree it was worth the wait. Some of the great features we have added to V13.0 are: OpenAPI Support Auto-hiding, Minimalist Scrollbars CSS Editors Client-side Authentication & Roles Simulator for Prototyping Custom Event Widgets for...

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July 9, 2020

Amazing new Features for V13.0 (Part 2)

Following on from our last feature post for V13.0, welcome to our second installment of even more fantastic capabilities that will be available in the next release of SmartClient and SmartGWT. Persistent Hovers Sometimes, a hover is so useful you want it to stick around!  Now, you can just use the focusHoverKey setting to provide a keyboard shortcut for a...

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June 23, 2020

Coming Soon in Release 13.0

We are excited to share with you some of our upcoming features due to be launched in V13.0 of SmartClient and SmartGWT. Open API Support Integrating with other technologies just got a lot simpler!!! We’ve always made it pretty simple. If you’re using our technology, whenever you define a DataSource, we automatically provide a REST-based interface to it.  This means...

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July 10, 2018

Feature Spotlight: CubeGrid

Huge amounts of complex data can be overwhelming: Where should you start? How can you focus in on what’s important without missing the big picture? Could there be correlations between seemingly unrelated aspects of the data? You need the right tools to explore and interrogate the data, then the ability to display it in the most appropriate ways to draw...

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May 14, 2018

Feature Spotlight: Grid HILITING

What’s HILITING? The ‘hiliting’ system in SmartClient allows data highlighting rules to be defined to automatically surface important information in grids.  Here is an example of a grid with various hilting rules defined. How Does Hiliting Work? When data matches the conditions of a hiliting rule, the format can be changed to be make the information highly visible. For example,...

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March 30, 2018

Bonus Stuff in Release 12: SVG support for images, calendar event selection, and more

OK, so there are a few extra things in Release 12 we didn’t get around to telling you about. SVG support for images With Release 12, SVG may be specified as the source file for an Img or ImgButton. For example, the three Img widgets below are defined by SVG using common external CSS. By changing the Color Scheme from...

Categories Feature/Mobile/Release 12/SVG/Tools/UI

March 27, 2018

Release 12 is Now Available. Go Get it!

What’s New in 12? You can find loads of details about new features in these blogs: Next Release Numbering New Skin: Obsidian (welcome to the dark side) 5 More New Features New Skin: Stratus (~5 Shades of Grey) SASS, Surface, Show/Hide Icons and more Bonus Features: SVG Support for images, calendar event selection, and more Here’s how to get it: New...

Categories Feature/HTML5/Mobile/Release 12/Roadmap/Tools/UI

March 8, 2018

Release 12 Preview Part IV: SASS, Surface, Show/Hide Icons and more

We are putting the final touches on Release 12. Here are the related blog posts so far: We’re Working on ’12’ Obsidian skin TypeScript support, Selenium 3.0 support, and more Stratus skin Bonus Features: SVG Support for images, calendar event selection, and more On top of all this, there are a bunch more features we’re really excited to tell you about:...

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