Release Notes for system:inmation 1.46

Fixed issue where the Apply and Cancel buttons in the property panel would remain enabled even after applying/cancelling changes (TFS ID 6422).

Fixed issue where flags in the property panel would not be correctly indicated after applying changes (TFS ID 7714).

Fixed Issue where DataStudio would need to wait for a Core response when expanding trees in the Model panels, causing slowdown (TFS ID 7482).

Issue fixed where deleting items in IO model could affect open RealTime trend display content (TFS ID 7918).

Issue fixed that could prevent children of selected objects being added to the RealTimeGrid display via the context menu or by drag and drop. Also, issues with the initial values of added items not being visible in the RealTimeGrid and loading of multiple RealTimeGrid displays in one workspace (TFS ID 7922, 7924, 7939 and 7943).

The image backup options have been expanded to create a simultaneous persistence database backup.

The parsing of timestamp strings by the Lua API inmation.gettime and gettimepartstable() functions have been improved.

Fixes made to OPC A&E event stream filtering that was preventing the condition filter from working correctly (TFS ID 6204).

Fixes to improve refreshing of volatile properties of selected objects in the property panel of DataStudio. (TFS ID 7851)

Improvements made to dialog information when changes are made to an object configuration in the property panel or by Lua and changes are not applied. (TFS ID 7861).

Fixed issue where profile assignment would not work when the Access model is floating. (TFS ID 7862)

Fixed issue where the installation of system:inmation using the setup file would not copy all necessary dll files to the directory. (TFS ID 7478)

The MongoDB backup Lua functionality for specific objects has been improved to accept object paths. General improvements have also been made to simplify usage.

inmation UA client connection to WinCC OPC UA Server has been fixed (TFS ID 7563)

The Column Options setting in the Dropzone Datasource have been fixed and are working correctly. (TFS ID 7581)

Changes made to the LuaSQL library usage to limit the number of ODBC environments created and prevent memory leaks. (TFS ID 7630)

The lua-rapidjson library has been modified to correctly manage error exceptions and prevent crashes. (TFS ID 7697)

Improvements have been made to prevent update failures on 32-bit Connector components on Windows XP systems. (TFS ID 7749)

Improvements made to setup when updating to latest WebAPI version. Problem fixed where update would fail to happen due to "Handshake timeout". (TFS ID 7763)

Improvements made to DataStudio to prevent slow down when changing some IO item configurations. Also problems when adding items and reloading Dashboard displays (TFS ID 7778, 7789)

New Lua support to create back-ups of the system image files and the MongoDB repository. Full restoration of system and historical data is possible from back ups generated. See the Backup and Restoration documentation for more details.

Web API now supports gzip and Deflate HTTP compression. The compression can be selected in the request header with the 'Accept-Encoding' field. The choice of 'deflate' or 'gzip' can be entered here, an empty field indicates that no compression should be used.

Web API users can now use authentication against an Active Directory which makes use of SAM-Account Types

DataStudio now displays messages in the status bar to indicate if the UI is frozen and what process is causing it to freeze

A configurable timeout can now be set in the General Settings/Logging settings. This helps to avoid the situation where calls to the log would make the display unresponsive. Default value is set to 600 seconds.

Improvements in the time series historian have removed size restrictions to allow larger amounts of millisecond data to be stored per hour. Any restrictions that are encountered are reported.

Installation of the Web API service from the command line has been improved. Please read the Web API installation guide for details.

General improvements to the WebAPI handshake process to prevent the need for service restart.

The Node setup can now be used to install services on a host that already has the full Core setup installed. This is useful when you wish to connect two separate Core hosts via a Server-Connector relationship.

When reloading displays in DataStudio, unresolved objects can now be searched for by path as well as ObjectId. This means that objects that were deleted but then recreated with the same path can be reloaded into displays.

The Log Display now has a Simple View preconfigured set of columns with 4 columns (Time, Severity, Message and Detail).