Deprecated and discontinued features

Check for announcements that might affect future releases of the product or service. These changes can affect the way in which you configure or run the installed version of BMC Helix Innovation Suite.

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Deprecated features and components

Deprecated features are still available in the product but are no longer under active development and might be discontinued from the product in the future. We encourage you to plan and implement the recommended change.

Feature	Announcement and recommendations
Smart Reporting	BMC Helix Dashboards is the strategic direction for BMC's investment into innovative reporting and dashboarding capabilities for BMC’s Service and Operations Management solutions. Now that BMC Helix Dashboards is available for both on premises and SaaS deployments, BMC is starting the end-of-life process for Smart Reporting and its use with the BMC Service Management solutions. For more information, see Statement-of-direction-End-of-life-plan-for-Smart-Reporting-for-BMC-Helix-ITSM-and-BMC-Helix-Innovation-Suite-and-transition-to-BMC-Helix-Dashboards.

Feature

Announcement and recommendations

Smart Reporting

BMC Helix Dashboards is the strategic direction for BMC's investment into innovative reporting and dashboarding capabilities for BMC’s Service and Operations Management solutions. Now that BMC Helix Dashboards is available for both on premises and SaaS deployments, BMC is starting the end-of-life process for Smart Reporting and its use with the BMC Service Management solutions.

For more information, see Statement-of-direction-End-of-life-plan-for-Smart-Reporting-for-BMC-Helix-ITSM-and-BMC-Helix-Innovation-Suite-and-transition-to-BMC-Helix-Dashboards.

Discontinued features and components

Discontinued features are no longer available in the product or service.

Features	Announcements and recommendations
Froala editor replaces CKEditor for rich text content	Starting with version 26.1.00, BMC Helix will no longer support the use of CKEditor in BMC Helix Innovation Studio and SDK. Froala editor replaces CKEditor for rich text editing used in the rich text view component, rich text area field, and expression editor. Existing custom view components that use CKEditor stop working when CKEditor is removed from the product and the BMC Helix Innovation Studio SDK. For more information, see View definition components.
End of life for BIRT reports	Starting with version 25.4.00, you can no longer create, update, view, schedule, export, run, and publish web reports by using the AR System Report Console. To create new reports, you must use BMC Helix Dashboards. For more information, see Statement of direction: End of life for BIRT.

Features

Announcements and recommendations

Froala editor replaces CKEditor for rich text content

Starting with version 26.1.00, BMC Helix will no longer support the use of CKEditor in BMC Helix Innovation Studio and SDK.

Froala editor replaces CKEditor for rich text editing used in the rich text view component, rich text area field, and expression editor. Existing custom view components that use CKEditor stop working when CKEditor is removed from the product and the BMC Helix Innovation Studio SDK.

For more information, see View definition components.

End of life for BIRT reports

Starting with version 25.4.00, you can no longer create, update, view, schedule, export, run, and publish web reports by using the AR System Report Console. To create new reports, you must use BMC Helix Dashboards.

For more information, see Statement of direction: End of life for BIRT.

Deprecated and discontinued features

Deprecated features and components

Discontinued features and components

Related topics

BMC Helix Innovation Suite 26.1

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