Release V21.1.2

Built on WindowsServer 2019 Standard

MSBuild v16.0

MSI: Wix v1.14.2

Released on: 04/16/2021

Features

Administrator

• MQTT Collector: Added a configuration UI so it is no longer necessary to change SQLite database records
• Historian: Added the ability to copy tag names from the 'Tags' list
• Views: Added the ability to copy tag names from the 'Tags' list
• Views: Added a comment field to each modeling rule for any user comments
• Calculations: Expression fields now display the expression using syntax highlighting

Axiom

• Added optional column headers to the Grid control
• Added a simple line drawing tool with optional arrows
• Added a few additional shapes into the Symbol control folder "Basic Shapes"
• Added the ability to filter on tag quality in Asset Templates to include assets with Bad or NoData values
• Added a wait screen when an application is loaded while waiting for the first data values to be populated
• Added an undo feature in the designer using Control-Z and Control-Y
• New auto size feature automatically resizes newly added child controls to fit when placed within an existing parent control
• Improved control selection in tree view when the number of controls exceeds the tree view height
• Made TextBox control single line to prevent user confusion if they hit the enter key while in the TextBox
• Display the last raw value in TrendGraph legend and floating label when the quality is 'Uncertain'
• Improved error message logging
• Improved SAML support

Calculations

• Added 'PreviousValue' function to return the previous value of a tag
• Added 'DurationSinceDateTime' function to return the duration since or until a relative time string
• Added live mode evaluation timing information to the user interface
• Property pass-through will now check for property changes whenever the source view rebuilds
• New option for calculation import to replace an existing expression group
• Now stores "Last Modified Date" when an expression group is modified
• Improved the speed of starting and stopping groups of calculations
• Now logs a message when asset instances are removed

Collectors

• SQL Collector: Support the DataSet being encoded in the 'tagname' field for MS SQL databases

Historian

• Improved the efficiency of inserting multiple values for the same tag in a single StoreData call

Installer

• Now includes CSV Collector PDF file with configuration documentation

ODBC Server

• Added support for 4 part SQL naming

Views

• Added API methods to return asset models, asset types, asset instances, and asset type tags

Bug Fixes

Administrator

• Service was not updating firewall exception rule program path when upgrading from previous version
• Removed unsupported certificate Find options
• Receiver: Status Page row detail showing error message causing grid to scroll instead of wrapping text
• Historian: Dataset Rename function sometimes threw an error
• Views: Model editor showed asset type repeated on branch when model edited
• Calculations: Status menu did not update when you drill into a specific calculation group
• SQL Collector: Modified MS SQL credentials were not used until service was restarted
• MQTT Collector: Configuring a host name without configuring a port causes the configuration save to fail

Axiom

• Calculated trends were not working if there were any "NoData" values in the data stream
• Bad preference setting for TimeEnd property causes a new chart to throw an exception
• Resolved SAML compatibility issue with a non Microsoft AD Identity Provider
• Security improvements
• Grid control did not allow the number of columns to be changed in the designer
• Additional log messages for Report timeouts
• In certain instances SAML deployments failed to validate SAML users
• DateTimePicker control was sized too big and height could not be reduced
• Changes to a control name were not always persisting which may have affected scripting
• Changing a trends Display Name property was not being honored
• Spark Charts did not honor a 0 when used for either the min or max scale value
• An application loaded with a 'timeend' URL parameter would cause TrendGraph controls to not respond to any time range actions
• TextBox control moving and resizing with the mouse in designer was not working correctly
• Desktop application Print sometimes cut off the bottom of the graph area
• Control not updating when applying new AggregateStartTime if the SourceTag and Aggregate properties matched another control
• ValueBoxes and Gauges were not populating data within automated reports
• Removing a trend in TrendGraph that has other trends' scales/bands linked to it caused the linked trends to disappear
• Many errors written to Message log when there was an error in the expression syntax of a calculated trend
• Linked trend scales were not properly merging the scale ranges of all linked trends
• Trend scales could occasionally get into state of constantly auto-scaling between 2 different scale ranges
• Were not able to browse application or chart files when the user did not have permission to read a sub-folder
• Report database was not updating correctly for scheduled reports from a pre-20.2 version of Axiom resulting in the service not starting

Calculations

• The last calculation on status screen could be hidden when there was a scrollbar
• Error evaluating an expression when dividing by a tag with data type of "byte"
• Was occasionally not detecting new asset instances
• Asset based calculations could stop passing data to the Sender service even though the calculation was still evaluating
• Some calculation status information could be incorrect in the user interface
• Rollup function was very inefficient in live mode

Collectors

• Logger: Updates with a 'Bad' quality and value of 'VT_EMPTY' are now logged as 'NoData' instead of logging the bad quality

Historian

• Receiver and Administrator could not connect to Historian if the machine name exceeded 15 characters
• File recovery on files larger than 512MB failing

Installer

• SecurityHelper.dll was not properly installed for ODBC and Logger services

Receiver

• Prevent exceptions in message log related to logging a message in the message log

Sender

• Tags of sync error messages logged unnecessarily because of race condition when adding new tags and sending data
• Prevent exceptions in message log related to logging a message in the message log

Views

• Model rebuild time settings were not initialized correctly
• Web API Security improvements
• Modeling issue where specific rules would not finish processing due to conflicted asset types