DevonWay 2.59 Release
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Long-term support (LTS) version: 2.59.5
2.59.0
US Production: June 6, 2024
EU & Canada Production: June 19, 2024
- Highlights:
- Added the ability to re-assign user Assignments, Reports, and Dashboards from the Users search screen in Miramar.
- Added a User Profile flag to allow viewing Beta Feature throughout the Miramar user interface.
- Added support for moving object data with module definitions using the usual module import and export screens.
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Miramar User Interface:
- Resolved some issues around drilling down further in Trending results with hierarchical results.
- Updated the Import screen in Miramar to improve performance and fix an issue that prevented mapping values in the target area.
- Resolved an issue that prevented exporting saved searches to Excel in certain cases.
- Fixed the drilldown behavior when clicking on the blank or "No Results" section of a chart.
- Administrators / Module Developers:
- Improved Admin Audit Trail tracking for module creation to better indicate the new records that are added.
- Added support in Designer for specifying which report we will use to print mobile form data.
- Audited the Administrative screens and added tracking of some missing data in the Admin Audit Trail.
- Interfaces:
- When updating child records in RESTConnect with the dway-show-updates header, we now return the complete update information in multiple headers if the total value is larger than 2500 characters.
- Improved the error handling when calling the RESTConnect files endpoint when a file does not exist.
- Other:
- Improved the generation of database timestamps in certain cases to prevent errors and inaccurate data when saving records.
- Made some security improvements to back-end components.
- Build: 2.59.0.0-925 (b79325a25)
2.59.1
US Production: June 27, 2024
EU & Canada Production: July 10, 2024
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Miramar User Interface:
- Improved the behavior of reference fields that join to multiple modules.
- Improved the display of hierarchical data in certain cases where values are not selectable.
- Resolved an issue that could prevent options from being displayed on the Severity field when using the Standard Workflow Layout.
- Fixed an issue with the 'Include Team Items' toggle on the User's Profile screen.
- Added support for displaying certain system status messages to all logged in users.
- Administrators / Module Developers:
- Added support for signing on with encrypted SAML assertions when logging in via SAML SSO.
- Added tracking for some more administrative actions to the Admin Audit Trail that we weren't previously capturing.
- Cleaned up the Screen list in the Admin Audit Trail to better reflect the data being tracked there.
- Fixed an issue with selecting Categories on the Module Export screen.
- Interfaces:
- Resolved an issue that could prevent proper ETag creation in certain cases for RESTConnect.
- Other:
- Made several security improvements to back-end components.
- Build: 2.59.1.0-934 (a016e17bb)
2.59.2
US Production: July 18, 2024
EU & Canada Production: July 31, 2024
- Highlights:
- Added an enhanced breadcrumb navigation bar in Miramar, which allows customers to see the path taken to reach the currently open object. Items in the breadcrumb can be opened by clicking the corresponding link.
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Miramar User Interface:
- Updated the Beta Feature flag functionality to permanently store the flag's setting and add a visual indicator on the user's avatar when the flag is turned on.
- Fixed an issue with multi-module reference fields where the user's roles granted access to the modules at different reporting authorities.
- Improved the behavior of the pop-up message that allows for opening and printing exported search results.
- Made the behavior of child hierarchy reference fields more consistent with the behavior of header reference fields.
- Added support for setting an End Date for Search Notification e-mail schedules in the Miramar Search Notifications admin screen.
- Administrators / Module Developers:
- Fixed an issue that could cause module Warning messages to display as Errors in Miramar.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the "Create New (Save First)" child level behavior from working correctly.
- Interfaces:
- No changes in this release.
- Other:
- Made several security improvements to back-end components.
- Build: 2.59.2.0-941 (1098d2a97)
2.59.3
US Production: August 8, 2024
EU & Canada Production: August 21, 2024
- Highlights:
- Introduced a new search output called Single Metric, available under the Beta Feature flag. A single metric is based on either two date fields or one numeric field and is designed to be viewed as a component on a Miramar dashboard. For example, the report could display something like "89 days since the last lost-time accident" or "4 Severity A Condition Reports created this month". Single Metric reports are only available in Miramar.
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Miramar User Interface:
- Added a data indicator for tab panels which contain child data and updated child grid count indicator to have a consistent visual style.
- Added "Fiscal Quarter" and "Fiscal Year" options for custom visualizations when grouping on a date field in search/reporting.
- Fixed an issue that prevented selecting Years on the Date selector on the Users screen.
- Resolved an issue with date range searches on the Users search screen.
- Updated the icon for informational text to better distinguish those values from non-editable large character fields.
- Fixed an issue that prevented non-modifiable fields with a custom background color from appearing darker.
- Updated the Messages display so that it no longer cuts off longer system messages.
- Resolved an issue that broke the screen layout when the Summary region wasn't populated on modules using the Standard Workflow Layout.
- Updated the calculation of file size on the Attachments grid to accurately reflect the size of the file (and match the values in Classic).
- Administrators / Module Developers:
- No changes in this release.
- Interfaces:
- Added support for returning custom identifiers on RESTConnect requests in a 'dway-configured-identifier' header.
- Other:
- Made several security improvements to back-end components.
- Build: 2.59.3.0-1110 (de97e14a3)
2.59.4
US Production: August 29, 2024
EU & Canada Production: September 11, 2024
- Highlights:
- Added support for Messages on Miramar dashboards. These messages, created by administrators, can be used to display information on user's dashboards. Messages can be customized with different colors, icons, links to external web pages, and bolded text.
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Miramar User Interface:
- Updated the login behavior to no longer start users on the last screen they were looking at when their session times out.
- Increased the timeout of the message that allows you to download generated PDFs and also added an [Open] button in the Messages window for opening the file after the message disappears.
- Fixed an issue with updating roles in the Users screen when multiple Reporting Authorities are selected for a role.
- Corrected an issue with the calculation of the role count on the Users screen.
- Fixed an issue that caused Picklists to occasionally overlap and draw incorrectly.
- Updated the Login Acknowledgement message so that it also shows for Anonymous logins.
- Administrators / Module Developers:
- Provided a new option in Module Builder to include thumbnail images of a record's file attachments in custom module emails. You can now specify by email whether to attach full files or thumbnail images of those files or no files.
- Fixed an issue that caused Record Access Control to apply to disabled Teams.
- Updated the Generate/Push Attachment behavior to support modifying existing files instead of just creating new ones.
- Resolved an issue that could prevent Data Loader from working correctly when loading child data into an object that had existing child data.
- Changed the behavior when adding forms to an "Attachments: Designer" grid to not force integers to become strings, which could lead to errors downstream.
- Increased the allowed number of characters for Data Query and Identification strings when importing and exporting module groups.
- The GetBatchProcess() DXL function will now return the string "DataMover" if you're in the process of importing data with modules.
- Fixed an issue that caused DataMover to occasionally hang while importing data.
- Interfaces:
- Added a field-level ModuleBuilder flag for hiding certain data in RESTConnect, as well as a role-level flag that will override the field-level flag and allow viewing of that data.
- Other:
- Made several security improvements to back-end components.
- Improved audit logging to better track mobile requests to RESTConnect.
- Build: 2.59.4.0-1119 (11973a5dc)
2.59.5
US Production: September 19, 2024
EU & Canada Production: October 2, 2024
- Highlights:
- Updated the User Interface (including e-mails) to bring our branding more in line with the overall Ideagen standard. Click this link to read about the details of the new UI.
- Added a new Single Metric chart visualization to provide a concise summary of measurable data.
- Added a new Record Locator feature in Miramar, to allow users to quickly find any row in a Table report based on a search input and jump to that row to edit data.
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Miramar User Interface:
- Fixed custom date format handling on Search Notifications.
- Fixed a typo in the login page message that announces downtime start and end dates.
- Improved the behavior of adding multiple roles and reporting authorities for a given user in the Miramar Users screen.
- Fixed an issue that could cause errors when performing searches as an anonymous user.
- Removed the Share link from some Administrative screens that aren't shareable.
- Limited the length of Miramar message components to prevent the text from behaving incorrectly.
- Fixed breadcrumb behavior when drilling down on Charts or Trend Analyses and creating new instances from child records.
- Administrators / Module Developers:
- No changes in this release.
- Interfaces:
- Changed ETag generation for an object so that the ETag will change when an attachment changes or is annotated.
- Improved time zone handling for date fields that are saved via RESTConnect.
- Other:
- Fixed an issue that could cause unwanted screen behavior when a 'Complete Task' rule fired and triggered a task with 'Return on Complete' enabled.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent child grids from sorting correctly when exported to PDF.
- Made several security improvements to back-end components.
- Build: 2.59.5.0-1134 (13ba10a10)