The following are upgrade considerations and product changes for HTML Composer:

• The Save as Thin-Client option, found in the HTML Composer File menu, which was used to create thin-client Visual Discovery pages, has been removed in favor of the new Visual Discovery AE product.
• By default, form controls are shown in the template previews, shown in the Template selector dialog box. These form controls will not display when the template is opened in HTML Composer unless they are being used. For example, the form controls will display when you have variables that use them.
• In order to use a theme but not use a template, you must select No, Thanks in the Template selector dialog box. You can then select the theme you want using the Theme property. The Theme property is a property of the DOCUMENT object.
• For a Tab control, the default values for Edge color and Selected color are no longer displayed in the Properties window inline. Instead, they come from an external cascading style sheet file.
• When a graph is generated from an active report, using the Generate Graph right-click option, that graph is not shown as an active report in the Properties and Settings dialog box.
• When using maps, the marker image will change to the selected marker image when that marker is clicked. When you click another marker, the previously selected marker will be unselected. You can press the Ctrl or Shift key while right-clicking your mouse to select multiple markers.
• The Generate Graph and Add Filter right-click options are unavailable when using a guided report.
• When using a Calendar, the Disable property disables both the edit box and the icon. To disable only the edit box, use the Read only property.
• The Google™ InfoWindow, used in prior releases with Google Maps™, has been replaced by a WebFOCUS generated InfoWindow.
• When opening a Visual Discovery page created in a prior release, you will receive the following warning message:

  The file was created prior to release 8 and contains Visual Discovery controls. They will not be migrated. You may exit Composer without saving, and the page will continue to run.

• When pages that contain BW SAP data are migrated, a folder is created with the same name as the domain folder from previous versions. For example, if in WebFOCUS 7.7.x your domain folder was called user_domain, then in WebFOCUS 8 your folder name will still be user_domain, even though WebFOCUS 8 does not use domains. In order to run these migrated pages, you must set the Reporting Server for the newly created folder. In this example, you would have to set the Reporting Server for the user_domain folder.
• The Tools menu has been removed. Options previously found in the Tools menu can be found in the HTML Page tab, found in the Developer Studio Options dialog box. To apply settings to the current layout, only use the Settings option in the File menu.
• Any pages that have maps, that were created in previous versions, and are opened in HTML Composer, will undergo a migration process. The migration will occur in memory. You may execute the page in the tool to verify execution. If you save the page, the migrated code will be saved. If you exit the tool without saving, the migrated code will not be saved.