Perfion Web Client - Version 5.1
Version: 2022-R2-SR3 (5.1.4)
Release date: 14 February 2023
Highlights
Dashboards: Work with multiple and personalized dashboards. Choose between cached and real-time widgets, with an optimized presentation.
Translation Management: Perform one-click updates via Google Translate or the DeepL service. Perform fast multi-updates directly in grid.
Global Search: The new global search function will make it a lot easier for users to find relevant items.
Feature administration: With Perfion Web 2022-R1 (5.1.0) the first major step has been taken to bring administrator functions to the web client.
And much more…
See more info in the release notes.
Important info when using the installer: The "PerfionWebClient" part of the URL is no longer needed. The URL to the web client is http://ip-address:port when using the installer.
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Release Notes
2022-R2-SR3 (5.1.4)
Release note title | Release note |
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Translation updated for the 'Feature Data' menu item | The translation for the menu item 'Feature Data' has been updated to all languages available. |
Update left search functionality | The left search functionality has been updated to allow the use of type Date and Boolean as search criteria |
The functionality for creating items was updated to avoid throwing errors. | The functionality for adding items in the card layout has been updated to fix the error thrown. |
Filter items focus has been disabled when switching between grid layouts | The focus on filter items input functionality, when switching between grid layouts, has been disabled. |
Display grid value functionality for invalid data has been fixed | The functionality for displaying invalid data has been updated to avoid black screen |
Grid selector issues | It was not possible to click rows and select them depending on where you clicked on a grid cell. Also, is was possible to get out of edit mode on a cell without really exiting edit mode. This would get the client into an erroneous state. |
2022-R2-SR2 (5.1.3)
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Searches did not always work | Searches to find item data did not work as intended when changing from one search to another. |
2022-R2-SR2 (5.1.2)
Release note title | Release note |
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Context awareness for removing items from parent | When removing an item from its parent, the "context selectable" value is keeped on the item if it was inherited from its parent. "Context selectable" is the feature from the categorizor. |
Improvements to the Search Panel | The Search panel has been improved with new features! It is now possible to use the "Enter" key to submit the search. Selectable radio button control now has a "Any" option that allows to disable the selected value. Selectables can be opened with "F2" key. Some minor bug fixes around clearing values in search fields are also included. |
Rich text feature editor issue | When editing a rich text editor feature, the editor would tell the user that their domain was not white listed. This has been resolved. |
Read only multi selectable issue | A selectable multi value feature was not displayed corretly in the item editor if the value was read only due to eg inheritance. |
Item editor focused incorrectly | When opening an item editor and having a Swap relations grid in the view, the Item Edited scrolled to the Swap grid. This should not happen and has been resolved |
Selector order was disrupted | When clicking nodes in a selector grid, it could happen that the grid was sorted incorrectly. This has been resolved |
Dashboard view not found | Setting up a customized view that is a child of another view for a dashboard, the view was not applied in the Web Client. |
Fixed German translation | Fix a translation error in the german language in the item editor |
Login with Active Directory not possible | When having an add blocker installed in the browser, the "Login with Active Directory" button was not shown on the login screen. This has been resolved |
Having an item trigger fire when item is created could cause Web Client and API to fail | Creating a trigger firing when a new Item is created could often cause the API and hereby the Web Client to fail during the insertion of a new item. This issue has been fixed. |
2022-R2-SR1 (5.1.1)
Release note title | Release note |
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Changing values in grid sorted the grid incorrectly | If a value was changed in a grid, the grid would sort the grid incorrectly. This has been resolved |
Issues with releated sorting | In some grid contexts, the related sorting was not correct. |
Formula editor missing | The formula editor was missing from a Text Feature |
Top menu could break into multiple lines | It sometimes happened that the menu bar broke into multiple lines. This has been resolved |
Focus could not be moved after update | When updating a selectable value in grid, the selection got stuck and navigation with keyboard arrows did not work. |
Help text on columns in main grid | It is now possible to see the feature help text when hovering a column in the main grid of the Web Client. |
View group selection functionality update | View group functionality has been updated to load only its belonging features. The functionality for view group display has been updated to include the parent and child caption. |
Feature Configuration Copy checkbox | The checkbox for selecting if a feature should be copied in the feature configuration will no longer be shown on unique features. |
Read only features did not work in a filter search | Using features set up as Read Only, did not allow the user to use them correctly when used in a filter search. (Left search panel). This has been resolved |
Output from grid issues with language | When outputting data from the grid, it was possible to deselect all languages and clicking ok giving an error. This has been resolved. |
Formulas was not resolved correctly for child values | An inheritable formular was not correctly shown on child items when set on a parent. This has been resolved |
Download image options | The download image format options has been changed. JPEG was removed. |
Channel change did not reset correctly | When changing the selected channel the Releated Item workmode did not reset correctly. This has been resolved |
Grid Convert item | It was possible to convert an item in grid to a virtual even though the feature did not allow hierarchy. |
Feature Data section caption | The Feature Data section Caption was incorrectly translated |
Dashboard was sometimes empty | When loading dashboards for the first time, it could happen that no dashboard was found and the view was left empty. |
Improved performance when loading Factbox | The factbox loaded more data than it needed. This has been changed to improve performance. |
Text control supports formula | Text feature data type control functionality has been updated to correctly save formula |
Filter grid by date type value | The filter by value functionality has been updated to support filter by date |
Generate reports with multiple languages | The generate reports functionality has been updated to support multi-language selection. |
Show Boolean controls | The functionality has been updated to show the Boolean controls |
Better error handling when remotes fail | When a remote features fails to load its data, the Web Client handled this in a poor way. Both Grid, Item Editor and Factbox was dragged down and stopped working completly. This has been resolved so that a remote that fails will do it gracefully and report back in eg grid with a red X and an error message that it failed. |
Scene selector was not shown | If a user does not have access to a section that is used by a scene selector, the scene selector was not shown, This has been resolved |
2022-R2 (5.1.0)
Release note title | Release note |
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Paging size decreased | The default page size has been reduced from 3000 to 500 in the main grids and from 10000 to 3000 in selectors |
Customer defined logo did not work | When defining a custom logo in the config.json file, it did not work and the logo was not loaded. |
Search item name textarea control changed to an input control for single values | Search item name control was shown as `textarea` control for single values. Changed to an `input` element. |
It was not possible to filter using an advanced filter | When selecting a filter in the main grid, it was not possible to select an advanced filter. |
Dashboard widgets |
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Data language bug when switching between datasets | Switching between datasets with different languages could cause an error where the previously used data language wasn't available. |
Dashboards page was empty on initial load | Loading the dashboards page for the first time would resolve in an empty page |
Min max search fields did not work correctly | When searching for items, a min max search field did not work as it should. |
Search filters now work with multi selectors | The search filter panel has issues with features being set up as multi selectors. |
DevExpress components has been updated | The Perfion software uses the DevExpress component library. This library has been updated to latest version, 22.1. |
Executing actions was not possible | If an action has more than one action appearance, the Web Client fails to load the actions when trying to execute one of them. |
Resized table columns are saved across views and sessions | When a table column is resized it is saved and used across views and sessions on that particular machine. |
Feature selectores did not show all selectable features | Feature selectors like the one on the left side in Feature Data, did not show all selectable features. |
Settings for Active Directory are now loaded before login | When setting up Active Directory in an existing Perfion installation it was not possible to log in with Active Directory in the Web Client without clearing the browser cache. Now the settings for Active Directory are loaded before login. |
Global search in web client | It is now possible when configuered by an admin, to search globally for items within a section. |
Test connection to database | It is now possible to test the connection to database during installation of the web client using the web installer. |
Multi Factor Authentication | It is now possible to use Multi Factor Authentication at the login process |
New version of the installer | We have upgraded the installer so it only installs as an IIS site and not as a program. |
Dashboards refactoring | The dashboard is restructured to present multiple dashboards where widgets now can be structured in sections. |
Translations from grid a more editors | Translations has been improved to now support Google and DeepL. |
Resizable columns | Grid columns are now resizable horizontally by dragging the small icon found in the lower right corner of a table header cell. |