Comparison of Express Mode, HCM Experience Design Studio, and Page Composer
Here’s a comparison between Express mode in VB Studio, the HCM Experience Design Studio, and Page Composer.
Our goal is to empower you to make informed decisions and embrace the new possibilities that the HCM Redwood application unlocks for your business.
With the new Express mode in VB Studio, you can apply the same changes previously made in HCM Experience Design Studio and Page Composer, while also introducing a set of new features that improve your productivity. Here are the features available in Express mode.
| Category | Extensibility Feature | Express Mode | HCM Experience Design Studio and Page Composer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control Display | |||
| Build rule conditions |
Build advanced conditions using operators between criterion or a grouping of criterion |
Build simple conditions using the AND operator between criterion |
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| Make a field read-only or editable |
Yes New |
No |
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| Make a field required and hidden |
Yes New This can be utilized for all employment flows, for example, where values are copied from the previous assignment to the new one and aren't required to be shown to users. |
No |
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| Make a field required or optional |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Hide or show a field |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Hide or show DFFs and EFFs |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Hide or show UI elements (action button, message, and so on) |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Configure guided journeys |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Evaluate rules |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Rename a region |
Yes User Interface Text |
Yes |
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| Reorder regions |
Yes Available in Advanced mode If the capability is enabled in the page using page properties or dynamic container. |
Yes Page Composer |
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| Reorder fields |
Yes Partially Reordering flexfields for all pages is supported from the setup tasks. Reordering flexfields for only a specific page isn’t currently supported. |
Yes Page Composer |
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| Hide or show KFFs | Not currently supported |
Yes |
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| Default field values | Yes Page-specific |
Yes | |
| Validate field values with warning and error | Yes Page-specific |
Yes | |
| Usability | |||
| Activate or deactivate all rules |
Yes New |
No |
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| Identify overridden regions (blue dot) |
Yes New |
No |
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| Identify overridden attributes (blue dot) |
Yes |
Yes |
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| Filter rule, region, and field names |
Yes New |
No |
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| Filter rules by region and field with overrides |
Yes New |
No |
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| Filter region and field in a rule |
Yes New |
No |
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| Only display regions and attributes with overrides |
Yes New |
No |
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| Identify number of overrides per region |
Yes New |
No |
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| Identify all rules applying to a field or a region |
Yes New |
No |
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| Prevent customers to override factory settings |
Yes |
Yes |