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Build 2815

New Features

  1. Responsive Layout Designer allowing end users to edit dashboards created with responsive layouts - see new video tutorial
  2. Offline mode overhaul

This video tutorial describes how to support working offline with automatic server synchronization

 

Improvements

  1. Business object group shows attributes common to all members
  2. Session object:
    1. Checkbox when specifying memory persistence
    2. Singleton
    3. Created when user logs in
    4. Always available in Context
  3. “Use query” option for Add Reference operation to specify query to be used as filter and presentation for Add Reference
  4. New operations for references represented as combo-boxes - Add Reference, Clear, Edit, Run Script
  5. Ability to represent single references as “HTML box” that shows HTML values and allows to perform operations
  6. Double-clicking on a log record brings up a dialog
  7. EVAL_STRING function supports extra 2 parameters which indicate which expression to use if the string evaluates to Yes or No, for example 
    Company.Address = Company.Address1 + EVAL_STRING('Company.Address2 IS DEFINED', CR() + Company.Address2, '')
  8. CLEAR CONTEXT action (clears all and the specified object)
  9. END PROCESS action - ends a process without any error or message
  10. Ability to specify display format of pitcures in queries (Display Format property of a column in a query allows scaling and displaying as circle for pictures).
  11. TIMESTAMP function can receive two parameters - date and timestamp. Only time is taken from the timestamp.
  12. Ability to apply access level changes to multiple elements in the Access Levels editor in the Config. Tool
  13. Clicking on a column header selects/deselects all in the Command Settings dialog of a visual perspective (Import, Start Proces, Run Query commands)
  14. GET_CHANGES function uses attribute labels if defined, rather than attribute names
  15. Labels can now be used in presentation rules for attributes
  16. Visibility, “read-only” status and “required” flag for attribute can now be set in presentation rules, thus making it possible to control it for individual forms
  17. Ability to specify Yes/No strings for YesNo attributes
  18. New element can be created from a category
  19. Undefined value for drop downs is added first rather than last
  20. Ability to specify row height for standard grids
  21. Support for undo/redo in form designer
  22. Integrity message displays form name when an attribute has been deleted
  23. Search Rule command shows where found rules are used
  24. “URL Must contain String” when defining AwareIM services can now contain tags.
  25. “Delete Object” operation on items can be “delete instance” or “delete reference”
  26. When pasting objects/notifications it is now possible to paste all rules as well
  27. Forms can be stretched to the bottom of the screen
  28. Grids/custom lists can be stretched to the bottom of the enclosing form
  29. DISPLAY MESSAGE (also ASYNCH) can be used in rules of the object - only when the rule is dynamic and not executed on the server
    This can be used to display dynamic warnings
  30. “Every few minutes” option in Scheduling rules. NEXT_SEQUENCE_TIME function.
  31. It is now possible to turn off “:” symbol for labels on forms
  32. Copy/Paste presentation rules
  33. Rule syntax color highlighting in rule editor
  34. Monaca-friendly native mobile build
  35. It is now possible to specify login via LDAP and also allow standard logins for the specified access levels
  36. “Expand button” for entering custom HTML of a Panel Header
  37. Ability to specify names of Continue and Cancel buttons in a process
  38. Chart series visibility support - ability for the end user to control visibility of individual series.Ability to specify whether series is hidden initially.
  39. Support for drag-and-drop between grids (the process that implements drag and drop will be given an instance being dragged. It is supposed to set the value of some attribute(s) of this instance, so that it is displayed by the query where the element is dragged into. For example, if an issue is dragged into the “Open Issues” grid, the process should set the issue status to “Open”)
  40. Kanban board supports re-ordering within the same column. To implement attributes that store new and old indices must be defined. Also the process, that adjusts indices of other items based on the old and new index of the dragged item. The dragged item is given to the process. The process can have the following rules:
    IF Issue.SeqNo < Issue.OldSeqNo THEN
  FIND Issue WHERE Issue.SeqNo<ThisIssue.OldSeqNo AND Issue.SeqNo>=ThisIssue.SeqNo
  INCREASE OtherIssue.SeqNo BY 1
    IF Issue.SeqNo > Issue.OldSeqNo THEN
  FIND Issue WHERE Issue.SeqNo<=ThisIssue.SeqNo AND Issue.SeqNo>ThisIssue.OldSeqNo
  REDUCE OtherIssue.SeqNo BY 1
  41. “Search” and “Select All (Ctrl/A)” functionality support for Text and HTML dialogs
  42. Ability to specify a custom HTML template that can refer to attributes of the record when mouse hovers over a record in a grid
  43. Gantt is now optionally editable - move, resize tasks, edit Percent Done, create dependencies dragging from start to end node, change task parent by drag-and-drop in the list of tasks
  44. Temporary images are generated in a temporary directory with the correct extension.
  45. An option to embed images in HTML, rather than generate temporary files
  46. Unsent email improvements:
    1. Add Unsent Email Object menu command
    2. If this object has been added, unsent email is recorded in this object (nothing gets stored in the UNSENT_EMAIL folder)
    3. If not defined handles as before
  47. Improvements in drag and drop of form cells in the Form Designer
  48. NFORMAT function that formats the number differently depending on whether it's positive number, zero or negative number
  49. Ability to specify a delimiter for attributes represented as checkboxes
  50. Ability to specify id of an HTML element as output of an operation or a menu item
  51. Ability to create a “button/link” element cell in the Form Designer

Bugs

  1. F4 for function prompts didn't work after = sign
  2. Slider widget sometimes dispayed “Unsaved changes” method unnecessarily
  3. Search version command didn't search query text
  4. Wizard form sections could not be resized graphically
  5. Postgre SQL does not throw exception if a table to be dropped does not exist
  6. Changing length of the text attribute in PostGreSQL caused a crash
  7. It was not possible to format numbers in documents and reports using the current culture
  8. Shortcuts to numbers on forms didn't respect the number format
  9. Inserting a blank row into a form with multiple columns didn't work properly
  10. In presentation rules you couldn't compare the object itself, for example 
    IF Owner.Ref = LoggedInRegularUser

    Had to use ID's 

    IF Owner.Ref.ID = LoggedInRegularUser.ID
  11. Invalid format error message for attribute was not written into XML
  12. Deletion rules were not exported into XML
  13. Deleting a document stored in a file system could cause an unnecessary exception
  14. If checkbox list was on a tab that wasn't displayed it lost selection after save
  15. urlencoded content type for exposed REST services didn't work, as a result some types of OAuth2 protection didn't work either
  16. If a process that handles forgotten password was implemented as “single tab mode” cancelling such process in FF used to log into the admin perspective
  17. Long forms didn't scroll properly on mobile devices and could cause a problem when the screen was pushed up and couldn't be pushed back
  18. REST calls returning HTTP response codes 3xx were unnecessarily interpreted as errors
  19. GET_CHANGES function didn't consider shortcuts. Now it does
  20. After resizing a pie chart could change colors
  21. Custom icon in new tab settings didn't work
  22. Slider widget could cause “Changes unsaved” message unnecessarily
  23. Sometimes CLOSE TAB action didn't work