Board Version 8.0.1 Release Notes
Upgrade instructions
Board Client version 8.0.1 can connect to a server running Board Server
8.0.1 only, it is therefore required to update all Board Client and Office
Add-in installations.
Capsules and databases created or modified with version 8.0.1 cannot
be re-opened with version 8.0.0 (or prior).
Board 8.0.1 contains improvement to dataview ergonomy (improved copy/paste
and checkboxes), supports Office 2013 and contain various fixes.
For further details check the following paragraph.
Fixes or minor changes
- WebClient. Procedure step "Apply selection to current
screen" is now available also for web procedures
- Dataview. When pasting a range of cells on a dataview with
data-entry, it is now possible set the cursor on one cell, when
pressing Crt-V the cells range is pasted starting from the cell
having the focus and then to the right and down. Previously, in
order to paste a range of cells copied from MS-Excel or from another
dataview, it was necessary to select a range of cells of the exact
same number of columns and rows.
- Entities. A malfunction of the entities transaction which was
preventing to decrease the MaxItemNumber of an entity has been
removed.
- Dataview Data-entry. A malfunction which was preventing to
edit the totals of Detaviews with data-entry has been removed.
- A malfunction occurring on some reports using Vertical Alignment
and having a formatted column with the option "symbol after"
has been fixed.
- Drill downs on master layouts is now allowing to drill a different
element from the one selected in master layout
- Sliding Panel. The Layout tab of the sliding panel is now correctly
translated in all available languages of the Board Client user
interface.
- WebClient. An error occurring in the webclient environment
and causing the loss of dynamic selections when using the drill-to-screen
function has been removed.
- Selector. The selector object can now be used in Summarized
mode also by users having a security profile where the property
"Deny selection editor" has been applied.
- Entity Format. The entity format definition window has been
adjusted in size in order to correctly accomodate the localization
of the interface.
- Date format. The date format used by the Board Client now depends
on the user's regional settings of the machine running the BoardClient.
Previously the date format used in the Board Client was following
the server's regional settings.
- Charts. Is now possible to define chart custom margins trough
numerical values other than the classical slider.
- Deny Print and Export. A new option in the security profile
definition allows to deny the use of the print and export functions.
To inhibit the Print and Export functions to some users, edit
their security profile and enable the checkbox "Disable print
and export"
- Dataentry. An error occurring when entering decimal while having
different decimal separator between Board Client and the Board
Server has been removed.
- Dataview. A malfunction on sorted alert columns has been removed.
The malfunction occurred on group total alerts when sorting the
alert column.
- Print options. An error causing the loss of the print options
occurring after saving the screen has now been removed.
- Metadata Extract. The database name has been added to the contents
of the files produced by the Extract Metadata function.
- Dataview. An error causing the client to crash and occurring
on dataviews having the AlertBy function combined with Vertical
Align has now been removed.
- ProcedureLauncher. Board's ProcedureLauncher utility program
now writes the returned errors to standard-error (the program's
return code is written to standard-output).
- ProcedureLauncher. An error of the ProcedureLauncher program
causing it in some cases to hang after the Board procedure encountered
an error has been resolved. Now whenever the Board procedure encounters
an error the, the procedure launcher writes an error return code
to stderror and writes the error description details to stderror.
- Folder container. An error of the Folder container object occurring
when the renaming the tab label has now been removed.
- Broadcasting. Attachments sent via broadcasting had always
the same name "attachment", now the attachment takes
the screen name instead.
- SAP Datareader. The Do and Log options are now available also
on SAP Datareaders in the Datareader transaction.
- Drag and drop layout. A malfunction using the drag and drop
layout on database with two or more entity groups with the same
name has been removed.
- Drag and drop layout. A malfunction occurring when applying
time functions to Drag and Drop layouts has been removed.
- MS-Office 2013. It is now possible to install Board for Microsoft
Office Add-ins on MS-Office 2013.
- Sitemap. When removing a capsule image used in the sitemap,
the sitemap was throwing an error. This malfunction has been removed
- Printing in WebClient. A malfunction occurring when printing
a report in Board Web client causing the printed report to ignore
the selection made by the end user on a Pager or on a Selector
object has now been removed.
- Web Dataview button procedure. An error of the Web Client occurring
when attempting to trigger a procedure from a Dataview button
has been removed.
- Drill down. When defining several drill down in a dataview
other than the main one (the one in the blue arrow), Board was
overwriting the dataview ones with the main one. Malfunction resolved.
- Export. Exporting in flattening mode was not keeping selections
done through master layouts. Issue resolved.
- Dataview check-box. In order to perform a dataentry on checkboxes
two clicks were needed instead of one. This error has been removed.
- Datareader to Oracle. An error potentially occurring on Datareaders
to Oracle database occurring in the WHERE clause has now been
removed.
- Dynamic select. Time entities dynamic select different from
based on ones were lost when closing the configuration window.
Malfunction removed.
- Drill-through. An error of the drill-through function which
was incorrectly ignoring some selections in the drill-through
statement has now been resolved.
- Excel Add-in. A malfunction of the Board Add-in for Excel causing
the Select object to display an incorrect selection, not corresponding
to the real data selection ans been removed. This malfunction
could affect worksheets created with prior version of Board Add-in
only.
- BoardClient. An error causing the Board client to hang in some
cases after refreshing a screen has now been removed.
- WebClient. Default name of miniscreen added to cart now contains
an incremental number when adding to cart. For example, when adding
a chart to the cart that already contains a chart, Board will
propose "Chart 2" as default name.
- WebClient. A malfuncion in search result tooltips has been
removed.
- Dataview. Insert row on empty dataviews was throwing an error,
this issue has been resolved.
- DataView. The font size and family of the dataview headers
is now correctly managed through the dataview property panel.
- Dynamic Select. An error in the configuration of the dynamic
Select function on non-time entities has now been fixed.
- Contanier objects. While in screen design mode, it is now possible
to remove an object from a Panel container by right-clicking the
object and selecting the menu option "Remove from container".
- Excel add-in. Two new Vba functions have been created to retrieve
entities codes and descriptions GetElementCodesAndDescriptions(),
GetElementCodes(), check the macro section for further details.