Argos 6.0 Release Notes

Argos

Enhancements

Area	Description	Issue number
API	Scheduled API calls will now return a 200 OK response status code when the API call was successful.	AR-5244
Accessibility	Some areas of the Web Viewer now support keyboard navigation, including the top menu bar and the lists of DataBlocks and shortcuts.	AR-5070
Banded reports	The banded report editor now includes an option to encode and print data as Code 128 or USPS Intelligent Mail barcodes.	AR-3361
Charting	Standard chart titles can now be left or right justified in addition to centered.	AR-5288
Charting	Standard charts now allow you to specify a color for each series in a bar, point, area, or line chart.	AR-5289
Charting	Labels for standard charts can now be formatted as currency (USD or unspecified currency).	AR-5290
Dashboards	Date edit boxes are now able to handle NULL values without resulting in an error. When a date is NULL, the field will be blank.	AR-1761
Database	Fields in the Data Warehouse that stored both date and time values have been changed from type DATE to DATETIME to reflect the fact that they contain both a date and a time component.	AR-5286
Data Warehouse	Added the Schedule.EnableTimeRange, Schedule.EndTime, and Schedule.StartTime fields to the Data Warehouse. These fields were added to the Argos database in version 5.3.	AR-4847
Reports	Added several new format masks for use in banded and extract reports: - #,##0, (#,##0) - #,##0 - $#,##0 - $#,##0, ($#,##0) - 0E+00 - #E-0	AR-2658
Shortcuts	When creating a shortcut in the Web Viewer, the privacy now defaults to "My Shortcut" instead of "Shared Shortcut", matching the Argos client.	AR-5009

Resolved Issues

Area	Description	Issue number
API	In Argos 5.1, report API calls were failing unless MAPS was configured to use HTTPS. This issue was thought to have been fixed in version 5.2 but was found to still be occurring in some situations.	AR-4367
Accessibility	The Edit Format Mask dialog used to configure the format (numeric, date, currency, etc.) of various fields did not allow users to select a format using the keyboard.	AR-5281
Charting	In the Windows client, standard charts that were configured to use a different cursor (such as the HandPoint cursor used for clickable objects) were continuing to display the default cursor instead of the one that was specified.	AR-5236
Charting	Standard charts in the Argos client were appearing as a slightly lighter shade than standard charts in the Web Viewer.	AR-4820
Charting	In the Web Viewer, the vertical axes of line charts whose datasets referenced a dropdown, list box, button, or required edit box were scaling incorrectly from negative infinity to infinity, resulting in a flat line.	AR-5220
Charting	Labels on standard charts in the Argos client are now black instead of various light colors, significantly improving the contrast ratio.	AR-4776
Dashboards	Forms with their "Is Tab" property set to "Yes" that contained a standard chart were causing an access violation when attempting to use the Test button in the DataBlock Designer.	AR-5299
Dashboards	In the Argos client, when a dashboard control was set to be enabled or disabled depending on the value of a variable, and the control's displayed value was dependent on another variable, the value did not display when the control became disabled. This issue did not occur when viewing the dashboard in the Web Viewer.	AR-5089
DataBlocks	After upgrading to Argos version 5.4.x, some DataBlocks that had not been updated since 2008 would throw an access violation when attempting to run the DataBlock, or the error "TParamFormsFrame::GetActiveForm" when attempting to edit it.	AR-5255
Database	When querying the Argos database from within a DataBlock or report query, the Schedule.StartTime and Schedule.EndTime fields were displaying 12:00 AM instead of the correct time.	AR-5263
Data Dictionary	When adding a join or alias to a data dictionary, selecting the Delete Dictionary button without having a dictionary selected was resulting in an access violation.	AR-5210
Form design	In Argos 5.1 and higher, dashboards run in the Argos client opened in full screen regardless of the width and height values specified for the form. These properties once again function as intended.	AR-4358
OLAP	In the Web Viewer, attempting to run an OLAP cube that had calculated measures and was set to auto expand columns or rows resulted in an error.	AR-3423
OLAP	When exporting object contents from a DataBlock, the output did not include results for any search terms found within OLAP cubes.	AR-2022
OLAP	Calculated measures for OLAP cubes were sometimes displaying in an incorrect column order in the Web Viewer.	AR-2840
Scheduling	Schedules were not running at their scheduled times when the next run time was set to be the same time as both "Only run between" times.	AR-5272
Security	When the Everyone group was set to Deny Full at the root level and a specific group was granted Allow Full at the root level, and then set to Deny for everything except View/List Children on a given sub-folder, the members of this group would incorrectly have full access to any objects one level below the sub-folder.	AR-5139
User interface	In the Security dialog, if the name of the selected user or group was too long it would overlap the labels for the "Allow" and "Deny" columns.	AR-5138
Web Viewer	Blocking popups prevented reports from executing in the Web Viewer.	AR-5208
Web Viewer	In the Web Viewer, the Reset Variable on-click event was clearing the variable instead of resetting it to its default value.	AR-4394
Web Viewer	In the Web Viewer, selecting a folder from a dropdown in the breadcrumb trail was resulting in an error.	AR-5434

MAPS

Enhancements

Area	Description	Issue number
Database	Unsent emails and their attachments are now stored in the MAPS database instead of in an Emails folder on the server.	MAPS-1665
Database	Added an ApplicationEdition table to the MAPS database to support future 64-bit versions of the MAPS applications. The existing ApplicationVersion table has been renamed to ApplicationEditionVersion.	MAPS-1634
Data Warehouse	The ActivityDate fields in the Audit and AuditSummary tables of the Data Warehouse have been updated from type DATE to DATETIME to reflect the fact that they contain both a date and a time component.	MAPS-1672
Data connections	Added a Cloud Connector option to data connections, which can be used to import data from 3rd-party web applications. Refer to the Argos Connect documentation or Argos 6.0 Release Guide for more information.	MAPS-1594
eLauncher	Increased the contrast of the text in the eLauncher that prompts users to download and install the Evisions Application Launcher.	MAPS-1677
eLauncher	The Java launcher, which began deprecation in 2015 due to security issues with the underlying technology, has now been removed as an option in MAPS. Users who have not yet logged in using the Evisions Application Launcher will be prompted to install it the first time they attempt to launch a MAPS application after the upgrade.	MAPS-1120
Security	Updated the OpenSSL .dll files packaged with MAPS to version 1.0.2l.	MAPS-1627
Server	Added Windows Server 2016 to the list of supported operating systems.	MAPS-1483

Resolved Issues

Area	Description	Issue number
Config	Navigating to the Inspector section of MAPS Config was resulting in the error "Invalid floating point operation" in cases where the MAPS server and the local machine where the client was running were using different regional number symbols.	MAPS-1645
Diagnostics	Under the Web Server section of the MAPS Diagnostics screen, "Use HTTPS" was showing the value for HTTP instead of HTTPS.	MAPS-1662
eLauncher	After changing your password in the eLauncher, the title of the Change Password dialog was showing as "[object Object]".	MAPS-1514
FTP	Applied the latest updates from SecureBlackBox to provide support for a wider number of encryption ciphers. This resolves an issue some clients were having when attempting to connect to BrickFTP and some other SFTP servers.	MAPS-1785