Release V21.4.0

Built on Windows Server 2019 Standard

MSBuild v16.0

MSI: Wix v1.14.2
Released on: 9/29/2021

Features

Axiom

• Addition of EventsTable control to display events
• Change 'StagedTime' and 'IsStagedTimeReadOnly' property to 'EntryTime' and 'IsEntryTimeReadOnly' for DataEntry control
• Apply asset filter to Uncertain quality values rather than removing those asset instances
• Add Asset Template tutorial filter examples

Installer

• Change default location of Canary data to ProgramData\Canary for new installs

Historian

• Views: Allow external tag properties to be utilized in Axiom and other clients in the same way as standard Historian tag properties
• Views Web API: Add getTagData2 which treats the maxSize parameter on a per tag basis with the default of zero meaning all requested data
• Calculations: Support the calculation of events in the Calculations service
• Calculations: Optional credential configuration when connecting to SQL server for Events
• Calculations: Optional "startTime" parameter for aggregate functions

Collectors

• CygNet Collector: Support multiple FAC services architecture

Administrator

• Migrate location and name of message log database file to Log\log.sqlite
• Historian: Notify different users for different DataSets when data is not received
• Historian: Multi-select offline files to put online in one step
• Publisher: Additional option to easily configure JSON publishing over Websockets

Bug Fixes

Installer

• Persist CanaryBasePath registry entry during uninstall
• Excel Add-In: After install and first load of Excel, the add-in is removed from Excel when it is closed

Axiom

• Fix use of StartBound and EndBound aggregates in Trends to always return values in the forward direction
• Timezone and Locale drop-down lists are bigger than the Preferences window
• Password Change shows error even when it is successful
• Asset Label navigation to another app with asset context does not load correctly
• Trend Statistics does not correctly display the Sum
• Chart fails to load when server time is set to UTC
• Double-clicking on a control does not load a new tab with the trended tag
• Can log many messages into the Message log when a chart is in Live mode and the Historian is shut down
• Refresh the min/max scales of a SparkChart when changing the source tag
• Nested AssetTemplates and Grids are not displaying the full path in their asset labels
• Controls with Begin and End value change functions firing every second even without a data change
• Line thickness value set to default causes error
• Asset template sorting doesn't show any results if a single value unable to be converted to double
• Open/Close editor button does not work on Android devices
• Open scripting documentation from desktop client not working

Historian

• Historian: Applications that continually get live data, such as Axiom and Calculations, can sometimes stop receiving live data when data is inserted
• Historian: Historian can sometimes crash when inserting a value into a hole between HDB files
• Historian: File recovery can sometimes fail with a partially corrupted file
• Historian: Longer date/time strings are not logged as in-line strings but as global strings
• Calculations: DurationSinceDateTime does not backfill correctly when passing a specific time such as '6:00 AM'
• Calculations: Sender session timeouts can occur when many calculations are backfilling at the same time
• Calculations: Removing old data on calculations that have running dependents sometimes fails
• Calculations: Importing pre-21.3 exported calculations fails
• Calculations: Start and End aggregates should not be available because they do not work for calculations
• Views: Handle invalid source views in models
• Views: Fix DeltaBound aggregate to follow OPC UA specification when data is requested in a backward direction
• Views: Local Historian view sometimes cannot be accessed by "localhost" or the DNS host name
• Publisher: Problem with referencing the same tag multiple times and mapping timestamp, value, and quality on 3 different JSON fields

Collectors

• Sender/Receiver: Proxies are not passing "No Data" values through
• Logger Admin: Paste does not work without including column headers
• CygNet Collector: CygNet long point id concatenation broken
• CygNet Collector: SiteServiceMapping table needs to be able to be configured by division

Administrator

• Canary File Recovery: There are overlapping labels that can't be read
• MQTT Collector: DataSet prefix with trailing space causes problems
• Calculations: Improve responsiveness of the status page
• Calculations: The right drag-bar in the Calculation expression page does not extend to the bottom of the page
• Calculations: Displays a warning message if you try to write calculations to a remote proxy server because it can't find the datasets