May 21, 2008

Version 4.0 Release Notes.

General

• The installer now supports Unix Installations.
• The Repository is now supported in Oracle version 11.1.0.6.0
• A new Frequently Asked Questions class is now available.
• A new Tip of the Day feature is now available.
• A new Getting Started Portal is now the default home page for new users.
• A new Administrative Tasks portal replaces the Administrative tasks static page – it is now the default home page for EE on new installs.
• A new What’s in this Repository portal is now available.
• The Hyperlink Attribute File upload is now available for new elements
• A new Demo package and contents is now available
• A new Gauge type is available called Threat Level Indicator.
• A new Horizontal Thermometer gauge is now available.
• A new 180 degree Metal gauge is now available.
• A new meta column type has been added called PSEUDO.PERCENT which will decorate as an inline bar graph in filter results.
• Single Sign On style connection pooling is now available.
• Oracle Proxy Connection types are now supported.
• The local Java version available for download has been upgraded to Java 1.6
• When logging in through a remote URL (such as from within an email) the user will no longer get an exception before seeing the target page.

Log In / Accounts

• Users now receive a better message if they include an illegal space character in the requested user name.
• The user experience when failing to enter a valid user name and password has been improved.
• Login error messages are now displayed on the log in form.
• The user will no longer see the error message complaining that the log in period has expired, instead the log in attempt will be retried silently.

Portals and Navigation

• There are now two tabs used for basic navigation.  The traditional Folder hierarchy and a new Package Hierarchy.  The Package Hierarchy allows you to navigate and select classes directly.
• Package detail reports have been created and are available when clicking on any package in the hierarchy.
• The Class Detail reports have been re-organized and simplified.
• Two standard parameterized filters are now available for displaying hierarchy based on the selected element_id.  These are Element Hierarchy (Parent) and Element Hierarchy (Child)
• A new filter is available: My Oracle Privileges which shows all granted privileges.
• Ampersand characters are now properly escaped in User Markup through multiple edit cycles.
• The Management Desktop Portals have been re-organized.
• Super huge result sets can now be paged for viewing – this is a non-read-consistent view.
• If the user runs a PARAMETERIZED filter, they are now prompted to fill in values for the parameters if those values were not otherwise passed to the URL.
• Page refresh now persists the users Open/Close status of the navigation frame.
• Users can now override the query driving the related elements section in an Element Detail Report by tupling a named text id to the relationship tuple. This is independent of template related elements work, and allows the default template to be used with customized filters.
• New HTML TAGs are available to allow attributes to be rendered individually.  This helps in customized form and detail report rendering.
• New HTML TAGs are available for the related elements. Each related class can now be rendered separately.
• Element Detail Report performance has been improved, especially for classes that contain many SqlPickList attributes.
• An Optional filter renderer has been added to improve the user experience with filters returning large resultsets.
• Column sorting and sub filtering have been improved in the HTML Grid Editor.
• New Element hyperlinks in the related elements section of the element detail report, now respect user privileges on related classes.
• A new user interface has been provided to set Templates for classes, and folders. A new interface has also been developed to edit the template files online.
• A subset of portal display parameters can now be set from the "Edit" folder page.

Import / Export

• Import progress meters now contain more information about the actual progress.
• Oracle data can now be imported directly via a wizard in the Class Manager.
• Users now have the option to run the Oracle ANALYZE command as the last step of an import.

Disaster Recovery

• The logs should give a better indication of failure if any issues occur.

Class Management

• When an attribute is deleted, the delete now cascades more gracefully to related information
• Many new symbols are made available, and some older ones have been improved.
• There is now a wizard to step through conversion from a String attribute to a State Machine.
• There is now a wizard to step through conversion from a Number attribute to a Boolean.
• When a class is found to have an attribute that is declared as a FK to another attribute also within that class, then a filter for the connect by hierarchy is autogenerated.
• The filters that are created upon class insert are now data driven and can be extended or modified after install.
• Syntax highlighting and code completion are now available on the LABEL definition field.  Also, this field can be expanded for full screen editing by double clicking.
• Items in the Relation list are now sortable
• When adding a new Status to a state machine, you will now be presented with a complete properties dialog for that status.
• The Delete Package action has been added to the Edit Menu.
• A new tab is available which allows grid style editing of all data in the class.
• You can now paste from a spreadsheet directly in to the grid editors.

Explorer

• When viewing chart parameters, the switching chart types, the original parameter settings are now preserved.
• User context such as column ordering and sorting are now preserved across refresh.
• A new filter wizard option has been added to help generate Hierarchy Queries.
• Drag and Drop and other linking activities now prompt the user for specific link creation information when needed.
• While editing a SQL statement, you can now select a portion of the text in the editor and Run that portion as a command, as opposed to the entire editor contents.
• Filter privileges now display INSERT privilege as disabled because that is undefined for Filters.
• Folder privileges are now editable in the common Privileges tab
• The Subfilter mode may now show different editors depending on the density of values in the columns.

Link Manager

• You can now select a package which will subset the classes available in the toolbar combo box

Database

• A bug was fixed where when a class table (ELEMENT_ATTR_C) existed but there was no entry for it in the CLASS table, the Federation job could hang.
• When adjusting the length of a String, the physical column is now also modified correctly.
• The default GET_ELEMENT_DESC logic has been simplified. This should improve bulk load performance somewhat.
• The FEDERATION_PROCESS procedure now takes into account grants given to users via roles (or roles granted to roles) and not just directly granted privileges.
• A bug was fixed where certain users could delete certain elements without delete privilege: this is no longer possible.
• Query performance has been improved by the addition of an index on NAMED_TEXT.TEXT_ID.
• Database level error message text has been externalized for ease of internationalization.
• Policies related to the Recycle Bin have been tuned to improve performance on systems with large amounts of deleted information.
• The policy on element security checking has been tuned to force the Cost Based Optimizer to use indexes appropriately.