Release Notes

Release Notes for Build 3.1.10.73

Jan 22, 2009 | Release Notes

  • 165 New (Website): Titles of Scorecard separator in KPI Maps is now auto-generated.
  • 362 Fix (Excel Editor): Preview on Scorecards with large amounts of data takes a long time.
  • 383 New (Blackberry): Custom colors now work on Blackberry OS build 4.2.0 and later.
  • 526 Fix (Web Editor): Added X and Delete to attribute.
  • 538 Fix (Excel Editor): Cannot see Verification Results without scrolling out of context.
  • 561 New (Documentation): KPI Names can be up to 200 characters long.
  • 606 Fix (Excel Editor): Cannot save KPI if Interface fields contain errors.
  • 630 New (Website): Info button is context sensitive. At the top level, it shows website details. At every other level it shows details of that level (View, Scorecard, KPI Detail).
  • 636 Change (Excel Editor): Min, Max, StatText added to Scorecard Preview.
  • 639 New (Website): Bar Charts now have mouse over text on desktop browsers.
  • 660 New (Website): Added ability to create and store “ad hoc” trends. Ad hoc trends support up to 10 independent variables, and can be sent in e-mail as URLs or stored for later use as a browser favorite.
  • 664 Fix (Blackberry): Model 8700G has far too much white space on RHS of Trend.
  • 670 New (Website, Excel Editor): Trends now have an optional legend.
  • 733 New (Server Manager): Cache and Alert server stopped prior to upgrade, avoiding errors while database is modified.
  • 742 Fix (Excel Editor): KPI Save times out if KPIs contain multiple PI sever interfaces.
    750 New (Excel Editor): Added –All– selection above –Orphaned– in Scorecard and KPI section drop-downs.
  • 757 Fix (Server Manager): Installation on 64-bit Windows 2003 and 2008 Server now fully supported.
  • 759 Change (Website): Ad hoc trend now allows inclusion of Min and Max on the trend.
  • 760 Fix (Website): Initial grouping display issues on KPI Map.
  • 762 New (Alert Server): Only send alerts only when the both the Show field and the InService field resolve to True.
  • 767 Change (Server Manager): When creating a new SQL database, we now set Backup Option = Simple.
  • 770 Fix (Excel Editor): Auto-selection of Interfaces after Interface delete poses threat.
  • 771 Change (Website): No way to determine next debugging step on error. Added vastly improved error logging to server-based Event Journal.
  • 783 Change (Website): KPI Map Type is now selectable at run-time. This overrides the default setting determined when the Scorecard or View was saved.
  • 789 Fix (Website, Excel Editor): (fixed) Using <[Actual]> in Bottom Text yields “Unexpected Symbol” message. Now all fields that support data from other systems also support indirect data from <[Keyword]> values.
  • 791 New (Website): Any text that has a URL form is treated as a link.
  • 792 New (Website, Excel Editor): Added new Info field to Scorecards and Views. A non-blank field Info Description will be displayed in place of the actual data in Info. This allows long URLs from string tags in Info to show a friendly link instead.
  • 797 Change (Website, Excel Editor): Blank suppression in KPI Detail and Scorecards is now controlled separately.
  • 811 Fix (Server Manager): Interface install ignores Virtual Directory Properties entry.
  • 818 New (Server Manager): Leaves services in pre-upgrade state. If they were running then the new services are started. If they were stopped then the new services remain stopped.
  • 826 Fix (Excel Editor): Will not save URL if selected KPIs are in the middle of a group.
  • 835 Change (Documentation): Clarified that Server Manager may only be run from local machine.
  • 838 Change (Documentation): User must uninstall / reinstall Excel Editor to allow future installations to operate correctly.
  • 840 Fix (Website): Fixed formatting issue with time range entry.
  • 845 Change (Cache Server): Now installed with ErrorsOnly logging.
  • 850 Fix (Website): Negative sign in wrong place on small numbers.
  • 851 New (Website): Tag names and equations shown in tooltips on the icons below any trend.
  • 852 New (Website, Excel Editor): User can now have desktop web pages auto-start the refresh function.
  • 853 Change (Excel Editor): Drop-down list of recent web sites in the Excel Editor now auto-sets the URL upon drop-down selection, eliminating the extra set step when changing web sites.
  • 856 New (Excel Editor): A new “Open Website” allows the user to invoke the browser view of the web site selected in the drop-down list.
  • 862 Fix (Website): ASP.net treats our equation processor as script injector malware.
  • 875 Fix (Webservice): If VKPI is installed on same server as AF Server from OSIsoft, a namespace collision for a stored procedure occurs.
  • 903 Fix (Website): Show field on Views does not appear to work.
  • 921 New (Website): All desktop displays auto-size content to match the browser width and height.
  • 951 New (Blackberry Documentation): Some handsets exhibit difficulty displaying KPI Maps when the Browser Option “Terminate Slow Running Scripts” is selected. This check box should NOT be selected for Visual KPI to run correctly.
  • 1034 Fix (Website): Export to Excel not working as expected in 3.1.8.61.
  • 1039 Change (Excel Editor): Incremental saves should show cumulative saved, batched every 2500 KPIs.
  • 1041 New (Interfaces): Support for OLAP / MDX queries in a standardized interface. KPI values can now come from Data Warehouses or BI Cubes.
  • 1045 Fix (Alert Server): SMS Alerts using Phone Number instead of expected Email Address.
  • 1051 Fix (Website): E-mail icon sends e-mail to the wrong place.
  • 1055 New (Website): Scorecard shows Actual as sparkline. KPI Detail now shows sparklines for all trendable values. Google “Edward Tufte” to learn about the value of sparklines.
  • 1074 New (Website, Excel Editor): New support for complex attribute functions and expressions, including IF-THEN-ELSE and date-based functions. See new documentation for details.1075 New (Website, Excel Editor): Send alert to System Admin when interface or Cache server fails.