Argos 5.2 Release Notes
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Argos Mapplet 5.2.0.1109 / Argos Client 5.2.0.1544 / Web Viewer 5.2.0.2 |
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MAPS Service 5.2.0.1375 / MAPS Configuration 5.2.0.664 / eLauncher 5.2.0.4 |
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Argos
Enhancements
| Area | Description | Issue number |
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| Banded reports | Added an option to sort the structure tree in the banded report editor according to the order that the objects are displayed on the page, in addition to alphabetical order and execution order. | AR-4312 |
| Banded reports | Added a Font Color button to the RTF editor used within banded reports. The existing "Color" button at the bottom of the editor has been renamed to "Background Color" and controls the background color for the entire RTF field. | AR-4279 |
| Charting | Charts in the Web Viewer now position the legend to the top, left, and bottom instead of just on the right side when a different position has been specified by the DataBlock Designer. | AR-1708 |
| Charting | For bar and area type charts in the Web Viewer, the options for changing the data view (grouped/stacked and stacked/stream/expanded) are now located in the chart's hover menu instead of at the top of the chart. | AR-4407 |
| Dashboards | When exporting from Argos, you now have the option to include saved dashboard settings and OLAP settings in the output file. If selected, the export will include all of the saved settings that the user performing the export has permission to view. | AR-2858 |
| Form design | Added a "Format Band" option to the Banded Report Wizard that allows you to specify the default font options for each band. | AR-3008 |
| LoO | Updated the icons in the Library of Objects to match the new Argos theme. | AR-3992 |
| LoO | When adding an object to a banded report from the Library of Objects, objects will no longer be inserted outside the visible area of the band based on their original positioning. | AR-4373 |
| PDFs | When generating a PDF of a report, the PDF Options dialog will now remember your last-used settings for items such as font embedding, author information, active hyperlinks, using images as resources, page processing, and opening after creation. | AR-2846 |
| Reports | When running a report from a dashboard in the Web Viewer, the icons in the dropdown list now indicate whether the report is public or private. | AR-4419 |
| Reports | Added an option to suppress printing of sequential duplicate records from CSV reports and fixed width and delimited extract reports. | AR-762 |
| User interface | Changed the color of the title bar and text for inactive windows so that the text is more legible. | AR-4087 |
| User interface | When creating a subquery in the visual designer, the radio buttons used to select an operation (EXISTS, IN, >, <, etc.) have been replaced by a dropdown. | AR-4263 |
| User interface | Updated the icons that indicate when a report is private to make them easier to read. | AR-4265 |
| User interface | The option to rename a system-created dashboard now appears grayed out in the menu, since the default dashboard of a DataBlock cannot be renamed. | AR-4261 |
| User interface | Added an option under the Tools -> Options menu that enables individual users to turn off the display of emoticons in the Notes field for Argos objects. | AR-4315 |
| Web Viewer | Report details and notes are now visible in the Web Viewer. | AR-4296 |
| Web Viewer | Added the Last Run Date to the DataBlock details shown in the Web Viewer, and rearranged the fields to match the layout of the details in the Argos client. | AR-4331 |
Resolved Issues
| Area | Description | Issue number |
|---|---|---|
| Banded reports | When editing an RTF field within a banded report, decreasing the size of the Edit Rich Text Field window beyond the width of the toolbar caused the rightmost toolbar buttons to disappear and the options at the bottom of the window to overlap the Save and Cancel buttons. | AR-4172 |
| Banded reports | When saving a banded report to a PDF file, using a period in the filename would truncate the portion of the name that followed the period. To resolve this issue, the file extension is now automatically included in the filename field. | AR-4293 |
| Banded reports | The default font selected in the banded report wizard was showing as "Engravers MT" even though the actual default font used is Tahoma. | AR-4311 |
| Banded reports | Attempting to validate a query that uses a dataset which contains a SQL variable inside a function call resulted in the error " ' ' is not a valid floating point value." | AR-4402 |
| Banded reports | Banded reports that used the "force new page" option on a child or group footer band would sometimes incorrectly omit certain records from the report. | AR-1912 |
| Dashboards | In Argos 5.0 and 5.1, the the background color of a radio button panel was always gray in the DataBlock designer regardless of the color specified by the panel's Color property. The color displayed correctly when running or testing the DataBlock. | AR-4217 |
| Dashboards | Setting the background of a radio button panel to certain specific colors caused the panel to appear to be outlined in a different color when editing the DataBlock. | AR-4298 |
| Dashboards | When using an OnClick event to reset an object whose initial value was auto-selected, the reset event was clearing the variable instead of setting it back to its initial auto-selected value. | AR-1861 |
| Dashboards | In Argos 5.0 and 5.1, the the font color of text within a list box was always black in the Argos client regardless of the color specified by the list box's Font.Color property. | AR-4241 |
| Extract reports | When testing an extract report for a DataBlock that had no default connection specified, attempting to cancel out of the "Choose a Connection" dialog resulted in the error "TMapsSession::OpenConnection():'AConnection' is NULL". | AR-4245 |
| Folders | When pasting or importing a folder, the folder description was not retained. | AR-4321 |
| Notes | The character sequence ":/" no longer converts to an emoticon when used in the Notes field. This resolves an issue where hyperlinks were breaking due to the ":/" string in "http://". | AR-4345 |
| OLAP | When editing an OLAP cube, the text of some of the property descriptions in the General section was being truncated. | AR-4243 |
| Queries | When adding tables in the visual designer, if a table name required quotes or bracket notation due to spaces or special characters in the name, the automatically-assigned alias for the table would omit the delimiter from the query, resulting in a syntax error when validating if the report query was later changed to free type. | AR-4153 |
| Reports | When printing a dashboard, the icon for the Print button was missing. | AR-4101 |
| Reports | When saving a file from within Argos using a filename that already exists in the specified location, attempting to X out of the prompt that asks whether you wish to overwrite the existing file resulted in the file being overwritten as though you had clicked "Yes". | AR-4302 |
| Reports | Reports using multiple datasets were producing the error "Field [fieldname] does not exist" instead of letting the user know when no records were returned in cases where the master dataset did not have any fields. | AR-2017 |
| Reports | When saving a report on a Windows 10 system, if the proposed filename already existed in the specified location, then the dialog asking whether you wish to overwrite the file was only displaying a small portion of the dialog, preventing you from selecting Yes or No. | AR-4209 |
| Reports | Clicking the disk icon to save an Argos report when the report name included a forward slash or colon resulted in nothing happening, preventing the user from saving the report. To resolve this issue, invalid characters in the report name are now converted to underscores when saving. | AR-4211 |
| Stability | In Argos 5.1, DataBlocks that used the Visual Designer for the report query and had a very large number of fields on any of the tabs were throwing a series of errors and exceptions relating to running out of system resources immediately upon opening the DataBlock for editing. | AR-4376 |
| User interface | Entering large amounts of text into a report description would cause Argos to slow down significantly whenever that item was selected in the process tree. | AR-4280 |
| User interface | When clicking on the description of a DataBlock, dashboard, or report to expand it, users who did not have permission to edit the object were unable to see its full description. The description dialog is now visible to all users, but only editable to users who have the appropriate permissions. | AR-4193 |
| User interface | When exporting from Argos on a Windows 10 machine, the warning dialog that appears when attempting to overwrite an existing file was cut off, preventing users from clicking any buttons. | AR-4391 |
| User interface | In the style browser for the banded report editor, folders did not have a + icon next to them to indicate when they contained other items. | AR-4446 |
| User interface | When logging in to Argos on a Windows 10 machine, if a system message notification was present the dialog was being cut off, preventing the user from viewing the message or clicking the OK button. | AR-4336 |
| User interface | When opening the Argos client on a Windows 10 system, the dialog notifying administrators of available updates was only displaying the upper left corner of the dialog. | AR-4287 |
| User interface | When Windows is configured to use the "Windows Classic" theme, the Argos client will no longer use themed styling. This resolves several display issues that were occurring when theming was not enabled in Windows. | AR-4248 |
| Web Viewer | DataBlock descriptions are once again displaying in the Web Viewer. | AR-3212 |
| Web Viewer | Users who have only "View/List Children" and "Execute" permission for a dashboard were receiving the error "J0 Cannot read the property 'length' of undefined" when navigating to the DataBlock in the Web Viewer via a direct URL. | AR-4374 |
MAPS
Enhancements
| Area | Description | Issue number |
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| CAS | CAS IDs are now required to be unique for each user. When importing users into MAPS, any duplicate CAS IDs will result in an error message for those records. When copying an individual user, the CAS ID field is blanked out and you will be prompted to enter a new CAS ID (if desired) for the new user. | MAPS-1277 |
| CAS | MAPS now removes any blank spaces entered before or after a user's CAS identifier. | MAPS-1282 |
| CAS | Added support for connecting to CAS servers using TLS versions 1.1 and 1.2. Previously, only version 1.0 was supported. | MAPS-1267 |
| eLauncher | Increased the resolution of the product logos in the eLauncher. | MAPS-1214 |
| FTP | Added support for using public/private key authentication when transmitting files via SFTP. | MAPS-1298 |
| FTP | Added an option to the FTP Properties dialog that controls whether or not MAPS will verify the public key for an SFTP server when using key authentication. This resolves an issue where MAPS was not prompting to accept the key when connecting to a server for the first time or when the key changed. | MAPS-556 |
| Users | On the Users screen, the Delete button is now disabled when the system Administrator user is selected. | MAPS-1254 |
| Users | When importing or exporting users from/to a file, MAPS now supports an XML format that allows you to include specific role and group information for each user. | MAPS-1158 |
Resolved Issues
| Area | Description | Issue number |
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| Connections | When adding queuing rules to a data connection, if you did not specify which days the rule should be active then the rule would not save after clicking OK. To resolve this, the OK button is now disabled until you choose the day(s) that you wish the rule to be in effect. | MAPS-1230 |
| Connections | Removed repetitive warning messages that appeared when an ADO connection string contained duplicate properties. | MAPS-1231 |
| Connections | When using the native SQL Server database driver, the functions of the !> (not greater than) and !< (not less than) operators were reversed. | MAPS-1226 |
| Connections | When using the native Oracle database driver, the Service Name property was not picking up the list of configured Oracle databases from the tnsnames.ora file. | MAPS-1229 |
| Connections | When modifying an existing queuing rule for a data connection, you were able to set the Max SQL value higher than the maximum of 1024. | MAPS-1269 |
| Connections | When using the native Oracle database driver, Unicode characters were being converted to their ANSI equivalents when executing queries. This resulted in the query returning data with missing characters, such as those required for Latin, French, Arabic, Chinese, etc. | MAPS-1240 |
| Connections | When using the native SQL Server database driver, using certain reserved characters ('!', '&', ':', '?', '{', and '}') in a query would cause the SQL to be interpreted incorrectly. | MAPS-1308 |
| Connections | When entering the password for a native database connection on the Driver Properties screen, the password characters were not being obscured on the screen. | MAPS-1257 |
| eLauncher | The product logos were not being centered when bypassing the eLauncher to link directly to an individual product's launch page. | MAPS-1191 |
| Groups | Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete to lock the computer from the Groups screen while focus was on a group would delete the group without prompting. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete no longer triggers a delete operation, and you are always prompted to confirm when deleting a group. | MAPS-1180 |
| LDAP | When adding an LDAP group to MAPS, the description field was not being populated. | MAPS-1222 |
| Security | When updating a license with a new institution key (for purposes of updating the name of the institution in MAPS after a name change), users were unable to log in to the MAPS applications unless their passwords were changed in MAPS immediately after applying the new license. | MAPS-1235 |
| Stability | Under certain conditions involving simultaneous database queries run by multiple users, MAPS would produce an access violation or a "timeout waiting for write lock" error message. | MAPS-1300 |
| Stability | Clicking the Undo button after making edits to the list of enabled SSL versions on the Server -> HTTP File Server -> Advanced Settings screen resulted in the error "An exception has occurred: SslVersionLB". | MAPS-1181 |
| Users | When importing LDAP users from a CSV file, the email address was not being imported as it should have been when LDAPAddressOverride was set to 'Yes'. | MAPS-1239 |
| Users | When importing or exporting users, MAPS would insert double quotes around filenames that contained spaces, preventing the file from being imported/exported. | MAPS-1218 |
| User interface | When changing servers on the login dialog, it was possible to select no server by clicking in the white space area. The current server will now be retained unless a different server is selected. | MAPS-1245 |
| User interface | When adding a queuing rule to a data connection, the slider for the maximum number of concurrent queries would appear offest to the right on systems with multiple monitors when the dialog appeared on a non-primary monitor. | MAPS-1227 |
| User interface | When changing the maximum number of concurrent queries for an existing data connection queuing rule, if you enter a negative number it will now be automatically set to 0. | MAPS-1228 |
| User interface | On the Auditing Configuration screen, the number of audit archive files to keep can no longer be set to negative numbers. | MAPS-1233 |