TIF 2017.1.0 Release Information 2017-04-07

General

The documentation now includes a search tool making it easier to find information from the documentation.

Separation of Classes for JMS Destinations

In order to separate classes used by different JMS destinations, one can now separate these from each other. Please read more link:../core/destinations.html#

New Features

Below are the new features as of this release.

Create/Update Integration

The create/update integration has been improved regarding handling of revision but also simplified processing of ZIP files containing referenced files.

Simple Revisioning Support

Support for revising an existing object has been added.

This support is enabled by specifying the <IfNotFound> strategy to revise.

Please read more here

Advanced Revisioning Mode

The advanced revisioning mode allows creating a complete revision sequence. This might be useful in cases where you have no control over the order of objects being processed. E.g. you are importing object of revision B before A. Hence you want to know when processing revision B that this object is a revision of A and then you can create those as a part of the import of rev B. Note that we only create the placeholder, once revision A gets imported, it will complete the meta-data for it.

Please read more here

Importing File Packages

The import of files along the meta-data using the create/update integration has been improved.

When you upload a ZIP file, you do not need to have a reference from within the payload data to the files in the package. Instead, you can dynamically map files from the package to the object(s) being processed.

See the example below:

<CreateConfiguration
    txType="update"
    runPrivileged="true"
    historyOff="true"
    triggerOff="true">

    <InputFormats>
        <Zip>
            <InputFiles>payload.xml</InputFiles>
        </Zip>
    </InputFormats>

    <EntryPoint select="/Specs/Spec" />

    <Config match="Spec">
        <IfFound>Update</IfFound>

        <IdentityMatch>
            <Type select="@type" />
            <Name select="@name" />
            <Revision select="@rev"/>
        </IdentityMatch>
        <CreateValues>
            <Policy fallbackValue="CAD Drawing"/>
            <Vault fallbackValue="vault_eServiceProduction" />
        </CreateValues>
        <EmbeddedFiles> (1)
            <File reuseVersion="true"
                  formatFallback="generic"
                  useFileMapper="true"> (2)
                <FileMapper> (3)
                    <PathItem value="files" />
                    <PathItem select="@name" />
                    <PathItem mapsToFormat="true" />
                </FileMapper>
                <FileFilter excludedFormats="JT" />
            </File>
        </EmbeddedFiles>
    </Config>
</CreateConfiguration>
1 The embedded files element contains as earlier the file information
2 The new attribute here is the useFileMapper which then requires a nested <FileMapper> to be configured
3 The <FileMapper> element specifies how to resolve files. The path’s can contain static or dynamic names, which can be resolved from the current object being processed. Moreover, the path may be used to control what format to be used for the files.

Please read more here

File Package Creation

In TIF 2015.3.0 we added support for running so called File Package creations, in case you have a license for TVC File Manager.

This support has been improved in order to make it simple to produce both payload content and include files.

Below is an example how a so called FilePackage can be defined.

<Job>
    <Name>Example File Package Creation</Name>
    <FilePackage>
        <Content>
            <Files dataSet="tvc:dataset/PartSpecifications.xml"
                   saveIn="specifications/${id}/${format}">
                <FileFilter>
                    <Exclude>
                        <Name>*.exe</Name>
                        <Name>*.sh</Name>
                        <Name>*.abc</Name>
                        <Format>format_JT</Format>
                        <Format>format_Secret</Format>
                    </Exclude>
                </FileFilter>
            </Files>
            <Files dataSet="tvc:dataset/RefDocs.xml"
                   saveIn="refdocs/${id}/${format}">
                <FileFilter>
                    <Include>
                        <Name>*.docx</Name>
                        <Name>*.xlsx</Name>
                        <Name>*.doc</Name>
                        <Name>*.xls</Name>
                        <Name>*.pdf</Name>
                    </Include>
                </FileFilter>
            </Files>

            <Payload config="tvc:payload/BOM.xml" saveIn="data" saveAs="bom.xml" />
            <Payload config="tvc:payload/Specs.xml" saveIn="data" saveAs="specs.xml" />
            <Payload config="tvc:payload/RefDocs.xml" saveIn="data" saveAs="ref-docs.xml" />
        </Content>
        <Destinations>
            <File id="file-dest-3"/>
        </Destinations>
    </FilePackage>
</Job>

Please read more here

Admin UI - Payload Display and Download

The admin UI will now only display payload having certain content-types. Moreover, payloads having a size larger than a certain threshold should never be displayed in the admin UI.

In addition, you can now also download the payload data from the TIF admin UI to your local computer.

These settings are defined within the ${TIF_HOME}/modules/enovia/etc/module.properties file and the particular settings controlling these behaviors are:

adminui.payload.sizeThresholdForDisplay=5KB
adminui.payload.displayableContentTypes=application/xml,text/xml,text/plain,text/csv,application/json
adminui.payload.allowDownload=true

In the admin UI the payload information might be shown like this in case the size is too big for display:

payload display download

Mark Incompleted Job as Failed

If the TIF server for some reason goes down while it is processing jobs, those jobs were previously stuck in a state even after restarting the TIF instance. Now such job is marked as failed upon startup automatically.

Admin UI - Resend Multiple Jobs

It is now possible to resend multiple jobs from ENOVIA/3DEXPERIENCE service view when jobs with errors are listed.

The feature is available in "Actions" menu.

Admin UI - Export Table Contents

You can export and download contents of Admin UI tables that are displaying job information.

The are own buttons for CSV, Excel and PDF format.

adminui export

Fixed Bugs

Below is the list of fixed bugs as of this release.

Issue No Description

306

Very large payloads could not be persisted correctly

305

Binary payloads were displayed in the Admin UI