Version 8.5 has been released!

aware_support

Dear Aware IM customers,

we are proud to announce the release of version 8.5.

You can see the complete list of features in the Release Notes and a complete list of all changes in the change log for build 2815.

Thanks to everyone who helped testing the version.

hpl123

Holy crap, Christmas comes early this year 😃. Can you share the release notes here please? Thanks

hpl123

hpl123 wrote
Holy crap, Christmas comes early this year 😃. Can you share the release notes here please? Thanks

https://www.awareim.com/changelog/Readme2815.txt

customaware

Well Done Awaresoft.
It is a terrific Version Release.
So many really really great improvements.

hpl123

Awesome update as always, a LOT of the small things I have wanted for years is implemented now so kudos on listening and actually implementing all of the small useful improvements in this update.

UnionSystems

Vlad's a legend 😃

tford

Continued to be amazed at Vladimir estimates the delivery time months in advance with major updates like this, then delivers ON SCHEDULE!

Breaking with tradition and listing the updates here as well so they can be found in forum searches:

NEW FEATURES:

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

Improvements:

Business object group shows attributes common to all members
Session object:
a) Checkbox when specifying memory persistence
b) Singleton
c) Created when user logs in
d) Always available in Context
"Use query" option for Add Reference operation to specify query to be used as filter and presentation for Add Reference
New operations for references represented as combo-boxes - Add Reference, Clear, Edit, Run Script
Ability to represent single references as "HTML box" that shows HTML values and allows to perform operations
Double-clicking on a log record brings up a dialog
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, '')
CLEAR CONTEXT action (clears all and the specified object)
END PROCESS action - ends a process without any error or message
10.Ability to specify display format of pictures 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 Aware IM services can now contain tags.
25."Delete Object" operation on items can be "delete instance" or "delete reference"
When pasting objects/notifications it is now possible to paste all rules as well
Forms can be stretched to the bottom of the screen
Grids/custom lists can be stretched to the bottom of the enclosing form
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
"Every few minutes" option in Scheduling rules. NEXT_SEQUENCE_TIME function.
It is now possible to turn off ":" symbol for labels on forms
Copy/Paste presentation rules
Rule syntax color highlighting in rule editor
Monaca-friendly native mobile build
It is now possible to specify login via LDAP and also allow standard logins for the specified access levels
"Expand button" for entering custom HTML of a Panel Header
Ability to specify names of Continue and Cancel buttons in a process
Chart series visibility support - ability for the end user to control visibility of individual series.Ability to specify whether series is hidden initially.
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")
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
Ability to specify a custom HTML template that can refer to attributes of the record when mouse hovers over a record in a grid
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
Temporary images are generated in a temporary directory with the correct extension.
An option to embed images in HTML, rather than generate temporary files
Unsent email improvements:
Add Unsent Email Object menu command
If this object has been added, unsent email is recorded in this object (nothing gets stored in the UNSENT_EMAIL folder)
If not defined handles as before
Improvements in drag and drop of form cells in the Form Designer
NFORMAT function that formats the number differently depending on whether it's positive number, zero or negative number
Ability to specify a delimiter for attributes represented as checkboxes
Ability to specify id of an HTML element as output of an operation or a menu item
Ability to create a "button/link" element cell in the Form Designer

Bugs:

F4 for function prompts didn't work after = sign
Slider widget sometimes dispayed "Unsaved changes" method unnecessarily
Search version command didn't search query text
Wizard form sections could not be resized graphically
Postgre SQL does not throw exception if a table to be dropped does not exist
Changing length of the text attribute in PostGreSQL caused a crash
It was not possible to format numbers in documents and reports using the current culture
Shortcuts to numbers on forms didn't respect the number format
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
Invalid format error message for attribute was not written into XML
Deletion rules were not exported into XML
Deleting a document stored in a file system could cause an unnecessary exception
If checkbox list was on a tab that wasn't displayed it lost selection after save
urlencoded content type for exposed REST services didn't work, as a result some types of OAuth2 protection didn't work either
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
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
REST calls returning HTTP response codes 3xx were unnecessarily interpreted as errors
GET_CHANGES function didn't consider shortcuts. Now it does
After resizing a pie chart could change colors
Custom icon in new tab settings didn't work
Slider widget could cause "Changes unsaved" message unnecessarily
Sometimes CLOSE TAB action didn't work

joben

Very impressive!

Syntax highlighting is a really nice feature!

himanshu

Awesome!

All improvements are good... I am just get excited with below few and about to give a hand on it.

Double-clicking on a log record brings up a dialog
CLEAR CONTEXT action (clears all and the specified object)
END PROCESS action - ends a process without any error or message
12.Ability to apply access level changes to multiple elements in the Access Levels editor in the Config. Tool

Thank you AwareIM Team. 8-)

BLOMASKY

So, is it too early to ask about 8.6 or 9.0 ???????

Only kidding!

Sort of......

Bruce

rob_h7

Lovely stuff - nice work Vlad.

aware_support

Thanks for your kind words, everyone!