Board 10.3 Release Notes

What's New in Board 10.3

Create Report: It is now possible to build your own Report from a Web Screen Page for printing or exporting. Read more...
Export Data: It is now possible to Export the Data of any Web Screen object in MS Excel. Read more...

Other changes

The Selector has been enriched with several features to empower its usability

As soon as you select an item a spinning icon prompts out on the top right corner of the Selector. There is a delay between the click and the application of the selection to the screen objects.

It is then possible to 'pause' the application of the selected items on the screen clicking on the icon.

Please notice that the icon switches from 'run' to 'pause'

You can then scroll the items and proceed with the selections you like; when done clicking again on the icon applies the select to the screen and refresh the data.

It is now possible, clicking on the property icon of the Selector, to edit some properties on the fly :

> Show Active Counter : it hides (or unhide) the item counter (e.g 7/7)

> Active Elements First : the active elements are on the top of the list. Vice-versa the Entity Order-By setup is kept

> Selection Type : it is possible to Select or Exclude the 'selected items'

> Display : it is possible to change the default display option of the entity

The Pager can now show all the elements of an entity regardless its cut-off.

When two Pagers are hierarchically related the active elements of the 'child' pager are not any more grouped on the top of the drop-down list but they are kept accordingly to the Order By setup of the Entity, with a white background.

It therefore possible to switch on a 'child' belonging to a different 'parent' without scrolling but simply searching it in the expected position given by the Order By setup of the Entity.

A new option is available in the Web User Menu, to automatically readapt the size of the Web Page (Screen) to your Browser Window Size. This of course helps the responsiveness of the Application versus different screen or window size.

Click on the 'Fit' Icon in the Web Client Toll Bar. You can choose among these three options :

> Actual Size : the Page is displayed as it has been developed. It's likely that vertical and horizontal scrollbars are visualized if the screen page size exceeds the browser page size of your device.

> Fit to Page : the Page is readjusted based on the minimum between the width and height of the browser page, so the entire screen page is always displayed in the browser page. Scrollbars are never visualized .

> Fit to Width : the Page width fits the web browser page width. The Page is stretched and it's likely that the vertical scrollbar is visualized

The setup is kept when the browser is closed and it is applied to all the screens (it is a web client setup not a screen setup) . It can be anyway changed during the web navigation. The Fit options give their best if you're using some tablet or mobile devices.

Annotations are now available in the Web Client
The Sliding toolbar of the Screen Data Visualization Objects has been restyled.

The System Administration Tools are now available in the Web Client Read more...
It is now possible to use the @variables as file name during Xtract info-cube and E/R or data-reader folder path. The available variables are: @Date, @Datetime, @DateMonth

It is now possible to Xtract Layout with Header with a Procedure Command. This option is not available if the Delimeter is 'Fixed Length'
The Board Win or Web Client, if inactive is disconnected after 60mins; this happens only if you put the setting <LicenseLevelCheck>Standard</LicenseLevelCheck> to 'Medium' or 'High' in the C:\Program Files\Board\Board Server\AdulaParams.xml file . It is not possible to setup a different time-elapse.
The Visibility, Enablement and Transparency, advanced properties, are now available for all the toolbox objects in the Board Win Client. Visibility only is available in the Board Web Client. Read more...

Fixes and Minor Changes included from 10.3.0.50803

The Data Entry on the web has been greatly improved. Data typing and cell scrolling is much faster.
A malfunction that prevented the utilization of a the data entry in pattern based on mode in combination with algorithm has been solved. Additionally if the 'Save' is performed with a procedure the validation rule is not ignored any more.
Drill Through: If the result has some text that starts with 'http' or 'https' it is recognized like an URL and you can click on it (Web Client)
A malfunction that caused the failure of an ATO Page if any filter is in the Dataview Object has been removed
Even small Dataviews now show scroll-bars
It is now possible to save data entry in drill down even if the sliding toolbar of the Dataview is hidden
A malfunction that prevented the execution of a triggered event after save data entry if a master layout is in the screen has been solved
A malfunction that ignored the restrictions on the visible entities during drill down if the drill down layout has been changed, has been fixed
Clicking a Button with a Go To an URL fails with IE or Edge; now it has been solved.
Wrap text format option is now kept in MS Excel worksheets with Board Layout
Malicious scripts in the Chat are now scrutinized and stopped
Drill and Master are now available on the Web Cockpit Object
The Chart Legend is now visible even if the Chart is located in the second Tab (or following) of a Folder Container
The Web Timebar object now keep the selected items even if a Refresh Screen is applied
The Web Timebar is now working even if there is no Day dimension in the Database
In the C:\BOARD\Dataset\Log\Users Login Log files, the public IP address, assigned to your Web provider, has been added
Wrapping Text now works properly using IE browser
The Russian translation of the User Interface of the Board Win and Web Client is now available
It has been improved the usability of the Dataview object : the sliding toolbox is now automatically hidden when the user perform interactions like data-entry, master, collapse etc
Copying and Pasting data from MS Excel cells without Borders now keeps the Data-view Cell Focus
When Data Entry is committed the possibility to interact with the Screen Objects, applying new selection or triggering actions and refresh, is now frozen. A rolling doughnut is displayed until data are safely saved.

Fixes and minor changes included from 10.3.0.50924

Web selector and pager objects

Web: The selector overrode the Screen Exclude. It has been fixed.
Web: A malfunction of the Search function of the selector that it was showing the inactive members has been fixed.
Web: On the selector it is now prevented the possibility to untick all the available occurrences.
Web: The selector in 'exclude' mode overrode the database security profile. It has been fixed.
Web: The search function now looks for the string regardless its position in the item's code or description
Web: Screens with many collapsed selector objects are now faster.
Web: the behavior of the Interactive Selection is now coherent with the Selector's
Web: An unexpected behavior using the pager pressing the Enter key has been fixed. The scroll of the element with the arrow keys is not available. The arrow key will automatically select the highlighted entity member.
Web: It is now possible to untick many items using the shift key in the select pop-up window.

Web Print Feature

Web: It is now possible to use the web reporting feature even if the Server Configuration setting 'Allow Username and Password Authentication' has been disabled
Web: The web printing format the Board user's regional settings (i.e. User's Profile Language)
Web: It is now possible to export a printing area which Data-view Layout Title is larger than 32 characters.
Web: It is now possible to print cells with the 'hide zero' option active
Web: Sometimes Dataviews with text cubes were truncated; it has been fixed

Web General

Web: It is now possible to customize the Data Entry Totals background color.
Web: ATO configuration if into a Panel Container is ignored; it has been fixed.
Web: You can now use characters like “?” and “$” in your password
Web: a potential memory leak due to a malfunction on the invocation of graphical objects has been fixed.

Others

The Office Add-in ribbon bar is now available in multi-language.
A malfunction of the data-readers feeding BLOB cubes has been fixed.

Fixes and minor changes included from 10.3.0.51220

Web General

Web: A malfunction of the select feature of the Timebar object has been fixed.
Web: A graphical issue of the ATO pager using a hierarchy with several entities has been fixed.
Web: Chart objects with empty series are now correctly updated once you change the screen selection.
Web: A synchronization problem during the execution of trigger procedures during the opening of screens has been fixed.
Web: The screen name is now available in the capsule log (web users)
Web: If there is only the SSO authentication active , after the logout the user is no more automatically redirected to the login page.
Web: A graphical issue during the execution of the interactive selection (exclude mode) through a procedure command has been fixed.
Web: The display mode on the web selector can now be interactively changed.
Web: A graphical enhancement has been introduced in the horizontal web selector.
Web: Chinese characters are now handled in the Cognitive Space.
Web: A malfunction of text wrapping inside labels has been fixed.

Other Fixes

A malfunction on the datareader mechanism that was generating duplication on the entity member codes has been fixed.
BLOB cube export function can now extract the content files in a custom path.
A malfunction in the BLOB cube clear action has been fixed.

Enhancements

User Session Expire: it is now possible to enforce user sessions to expire after 60 minutes inactivity. Once enabled, the feature terminates inactive sessions in the BOARD web client. For BOARD Windows client sessions, 60 minutes of inactivity triggers a client closure command forcing a closure of the BOARD desktop client completely.

How to enable the session expire feature:

The feature can be enabled through the EnableSessionExpiration parameter in the AdulaParams.xml configuration file located in the BOARD Engine installation folder.

By default the parameter is set to false. Any change on this parameter require a BOARD Engine service restart.

HTTP datareader time-out: it is now possible to set up a time out for all the HTTP datareader actions: SAP datareaders and HTTP ASCII datareaders. This feature closes the communication channel when no data have been received after the timeout interval.

How to set-up the HTTP datareader time-out:

It is possible to set-up the time-out value through the WebRequestTimeOut parameter in the server_config_v2.xml configuration file located in the BOARD Engine installation folder.

The time-out is defined in milliseconds. By default the parameter is set to 600000. Any change on this parameter require a BOARD Engine service restart.

Upgrade instructions

The Major improvement of the Board 10.3 version is the capability of Creating and Printing Custom Reports. This features relies on a Windows process (Board.Web.Snapshotter.exe) that requires the installation of the .net Framework 4.7.1 . Please notice that this version of the .NET framework requires Windows Server 2012 or later.

If you are deploying the Board Web Service using IIS, make sure to configure your instance as described below:

The 'Snapshotter' folder must be cut from the Bin Folder and copied in the IIS Board Website Root (like the App_Data folder).

For additional information please refer to the Boardville Community Wiki Document.

In the Application Pool of the IIS Board Website, go to advance settings, and set parameter “Load User Profile” to true.

No additional configuration are requested if you're deploying the Board Web Service suing its own http Server.

After upgrading the Board Server it is required to upgrade all Board Client and Office Add-in installations to the same version 10.3. A Capsule created or saved using version 10.3 can't be re-opened with an older version such as version 10.1.x or even older.

When you open Capsules created with prior versions of Board (version 9 or 8) a request of upgrade to Board 10 format prompts out. If you click Yes the Capsule is automatically updated in few secs and enabled to the Board Web Client. If you click 'No' you can still go on to use the Capsule but with the Board Win Client only

Snapshotter (Printing Service) Configuration

It is possible to change some settings of the Snapshotter Process editing the file C:\Program Files (x86)\Board\Board WebApi Server\App_Data\config\snapshotter.config (if you run IIS refer to IIS App_Data Folder location path).

<add key="host" value="http://localhost:8011/" />	It's the snapshotter process host address. Change the IP port if needed
<add key="applicationUrl" value="http://localhost/" />	As configured on your site bindings, for example: https://yourhostname.board.com/ If the web application port has been changed, you need to specify the port here in the applicationUrl definition
<add key="minPoolSize" value="1" />	It's the number of Web Client (Browsers) that can simultaneously generates reports. By default it is from 1 (min) to 5 (max)
<add key="maxPoolSize" value="5" />
<add key="workingFolderPath" value="..\reporting\" />	The temporary folder path where screenshots are saved while generating the report
<add key="logLevel" value="Error"/>	You can setup Error, Verbose, Debug. (Error by Default)
<add key="logPath" value="..\log\Snapshotter\{Date}.log" />	The folder Path where logs generated by the reporting jobs are saved.

Compatibility Check

From Board 10.3 the consistency check-up between the Board Win Client version and the Board Server Version is performed on the minor release ID only (10.3.xxxxx). This means that :

Any 10.3.x update of the BOARD's HTML5WebServer (Board Web Client) can be deployed without updating the BOARD Engine (Board Server)
Any 10.3.x update of the BOARD Engine (Board Server) can be deployed without updating the BOARD Win Client, or the BOARD MS Office Add-In or the BOARD's HTML5WebServer (Board Web Client)
And even if it's unlikely to happen, any 10.3.x update of the BOARD Win Client, or the BOARD MS Office Add-In can be deployed without updating the BOARD Engine (Board Server)

Anyway if any of the BOARD Win Client, or the BOARD MS Office Add-In or the BOARD's HTML5WebServer (Board Web Client) finds, during the execution of a Board Application (Capsule) any incompatibility with the BOARD Engine (Board Server) it stops the execution and asks for the Client upgrade.

User Encryption

Important Notice

The encryption method of the User Security Files and passwords, i.e. the files in the C:\BOARD\Users Folder (of the Board Server File System), has been changed. It is now adopting the SHA512 cryptographic hash function. The encryption is updated during the first run of the Board Server, occurring after the upgrade. It is not possible to utilize such Security files with older version of the Board Server. It is therefore recommended to backup such files before the Board Server upgrade, to eventually roll-back the system. Differently the Security User Files must be created from the scratch. It is anyway possible to de-activate this feature setting the parameter ForceSHA1 of the Board Server configuration file server_config_v2.xml, equal 'true'.

Upgrading Board Web from version 10.1.x to 10.3

In such situation the Log Tracking will be activated only and if only the log.config file is created in the proper folder (please refer to 10.1.4 release notes). Upgrading from 10.1.x to 10.3 doesn't create the file. Only new installation does. You can then download the file from here and copy it in the folder.

Upgrading Board Web from version 10.0 to 10.3

All custom configuration settings of Board Web 10.0 which were stored in the following two files

c:\Program Files (x86)\Board\BoardWeb Api Server\BoardWebApiEngine.config

c:\Program Files (x86)\Board\BoardWeb Api Server\Web.config

are now in multiple files, all stored in the following subfolder

c:\Program Files (x86)\Board\BoardWeb Api ServerApp_Data\config

If you have an installation of Board Web server 10.0 and you defined some custom configurations in the Web.config or BoardWebApiEngine.config files, you must re-type your configurations in the new files of version 10.1.X located in the folder mentioned above.

It is of course not necessary if you already run 10.1.0 or later.