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Effectively it would be the view and behavior you experience when doing BIE development but without the checkboxes or context-specific fields.
Dev modeThere could be a pair of options on the View/Edit Core Components page:
Browser view
Edit view
Dev role
Option to turn on/off
Off by default
When on, CC editing is not possible
EU moderole
Always on
Enhancement 2: Sibling sort order
Specific problem statement
connectSpec users can be overwhelmed by the number of child components a component may have. As connectSpec has grown over the years, components are seemingly in random order (e.g., XParty CC, followed by a bunch of non-party related components, followed by YParty).
Enhancement request
The current order is preserved for XML Schema production.
New components are always added as the last among siblings with respect to XML Schema production.
Devs Users in a developer role can reorder siblings.
Note: The current component order only matters in the context of XML Schema production (as far as Jim knows).
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