Obsolete Technical Tools: How to avoid?

Kinetic ERP
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When doing development in BPMs and App Studio you will occasionally get warnings (debug for app studio and compile for BPMs) stating that you are using a deprecated/obsolete feature. I am fine with Epicor obsoleting components however the way it is being done is quite frustrating to me.

For instance, in 2025.2 the dataview-clear widget in App Studio is deprecated, and you are supposed to use data-clear instead. If I don’t see the debug warning (or don’t use debug when testing) I will miss the warning stating that the widget is obsoleted. Is there any way for me to see if a widget is obsolete before I use it?

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Now what fun would that be?!?

/s

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I’ve seen a couple properties (like the below Where Clause in a reusable combo) add an “obsolete” tag in the hover text.

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Agreed it would be nice if they could implement this type of warning a little more! But even that is pretty easy to miss if you’re not mousing over it.

Could be some legacy controls that have settings there, so I kinda get why they don’t necessarily want to HIDE the property… but, not sure why they don’t disable it.

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Yes, it’d be helpful to see a tooltip at design time.

These are the obsolete warnings seen as of 2025.2.14:

OLD NEW inToolbox
dataview-clear data-clear both
value-set search-value-set search-value-set only
dialog-show erp-message-handler both
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