TVC 2015.1.0 Release Information

30 April 2015

1. General

1.1. Support for 3DEXPERIENCE 2015x

TVC has been validated with 3DEXPERIENCE platform V6R2015X and a new matching theme has been added. This new theme will be automatically applied when using this version of ENOVIA.

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1.2. Support for IE-11

Support for Internet Explorer 11 has been added when using the 2015X platform.

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1.3. Java 6 phase out

This release will be the last release of TVC that is compiled with the Java 6 compiler.

Starting from the next release, TVC will be compiled with Java 7.

Note that since February 2013, Oracle does not provide any public updates to Java 6.

2. Core

2.1. Tabbed Pages

2.1.1. Pre-Load and Cached

To improve perceived performance and raise acceptance when working with tabs the tab content can be cached and even pre-loaded. This way the tab content is instantly shown when tab is clicked. To reload a cached tab simple click the tab once more when already active.

To enable single tab cache behaviour use the cacheBehavior setting

<Command>
    ...
    <Setting name="cacheBehavior">disabled | cache | preload </Setting>
</Command>

To control global tab cache behaviour use the tvc.core.gui.tabPage.cacheBehavior init-param

<init-param>
    <param-name>tvc.core.gui.tabPage.cacheBehavior</param-name>
    <param-value> disabled | cache | preload </param-value>
</init-param>
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2.1.2. Fixed Tab(s)

A new setting has been added to a command, which can be used to prevent it from being hidden when used on a tabbed page.

To disable the possibility to close a tab

<Command>
    ...
    <Fixed>true</Fixed>
</Command>

To disable the possibility to personalize the order/visibility of a tab-page, this can be done globally:

<init-param>
    <param-name>tvc.core.gui.tabPage.enableTabCfg</param-name>
    <param-value>true | false</param-value>
</init-param>
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2.1.3. Initial Visibility

The initial visibility on a tab can be configured via the command. The user may then use the tab-configurator tool to add the tabs needed.

To enable single tab initially hidden behaviour use the visible setting

<Command>
    ...
    <Setting name="visible"> true | false </Setting>
</Command>

To control global tab initially hidden behaviour use the tvc.core.gui.tabPage.visible init-param.

<init-param>
    <param-name>tvc.core.gui.tabpage.visible</param-name>
    <param-value> true | false </param-value>
</init-param>
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3. Structure Browser

3.1. Performance Enhancements

The rendering performance of the Structure Browser has been enhanced as of this release. For some combinations of configurations and browser choice, the rendering time has been improved with up to 50% (note that this is only measuring the rendering time and not for example network traffic and server side processing).

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3.2. Input Type – Checkbox

A new input type for Boolean columns has been added, which is called "checkbox".

When used, this will render a checkbox representing the true/false value instead of using a drop-down list.

<Column>
    ...
    <InputType>checkbox</InputType>
</Column>
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3.3. Search – Paste Area for Name Field

The name field within the search dialog supports having a paste area into which values from another application can be pasted easily. The newline character is replaced with a comma character.

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3.4. Side Panel Object List – Pagination Size

The object list feature used to show items in the side panel can have its pagination size configurable per form and a global setting as fall-back.

List config form

<ListConfig>
    ...
    <PaginationSize>20</PaginationSize>
</ListConfig>

Init param

<init-param>
    <param-name>tvc.structurebrowser.list.pagination.size</param-name>
    <param-value>20</param-value>
</init-param>
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3.5. Data Grouping – Sort of Groups

A possibility to sort the data-groups using a custom comparator has been added in order to support specialized sorting behaviour.

Either take full control by pointing out a custom group node comparator

<PageConfig>
    ...
    <Parameters>
        <Parameter name="dataGroupComparator" value="com.acme.MyGroupComparator"/>
    </Parameters>
</PageConfig>

Or by pointing out a custom column comparator (note that group.sortByName have to be true)

<Column>
    <SortComparator>com.technia.tvx.StateComparator</SortComparator>
    <SortType>comparator_cellvalue</SortType>
</Column>

Column comparator example

public class StateComparator implements Comparator<CellValue> {

    private static final List<String> ORDER = Arrays.asList("Exists", "Create", "Peer Review",
        "Complete", "Preliminary", "Review", "Approved",  Released", "Obsolete");

    @Override
    public int compare(CellValue v1, CellValue v2) {
        return ORDER.indexOf(v1.getDisplayValue()) - ORDER.indexOf(v2.getDisplayValue());
    }
}
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The more link can be configured to be dynamic depending on how the column is being resized by the end user.

<Column>
    ...
    <AllowShowMore>TRUE</AllowShowMore>
    <TextLength>0</TextLength>
</Column>
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3.7. Promote Bottom Up

The promote function within the Structure Browser UI will promote the items in reverse order in order to prevent common errors due to wrong status of child items.

<init-param>
    <param-name>tvc.structurebrowser.lifecycle.changestate.enableSmartSorting</param-name>
    <param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
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4. Grid Browser

4.1. "Rel-to-Rel" or "Rel-to-Object" Connections

This release contains enhanced support for "Rel-to-Rel" and/or "Rel-to-Object" connections within the Grid Browser.

The enhancements supports traversing from a relationship to either another relationship or object at the other end. In previous releases, you were able to traverse these kind of connections only by starting from an object and ending on another object.

Note also that the "Connect" and "Disconnect" inside the Grid Browser will detect if the intersection starts or ends on a relationship.

The images below illustrates the supported intersection types.

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Figure 1. Rel to Object
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Figure 2. Rel to Rel

4.2. Confirm Message – Disconnect / Connect

A possibility to define a confirm message, which is displayed when the user connects or disconnects intersections within the Grid Browser.

<ElementActions>
    ...
    <Disconnect order="6">
        ...
        <ConfirmMessage>Are you sure you want to disconnect?</ConfirmMessage>
    </Disconnect>
</ElementActions>
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5. Collaboration

Collaboration is now considered to be production ready.

5.1. Profile picture refresh

Only profile picture is now refreshed on upload instead of entire page.

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5.2. Read/Unread icons for inbox

The inbox notifications now show different icons for read and unread status

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5.3. Date format

Date format is now configurable

5.4. Keyboard navigation

The inbox now supports keyboard navigation

5.5. Reset filter

The side panel top bar now has an action for "resetting the filter". This will reset the filter to its default state.

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5.6. Important flag behaviour

The important flag feature is now aligned to have the same behaviour for both the inbox and the side panel. It is also configurable to have the important status picked from either the first message or the last message.

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5.7. Exalead indexing separators

It is now possible to select what separators to use when indexing data

5.8. Exalead indexing excluded tags

It is now possible to configure one or more tags to be excluded from indexing

5.9. Atmosphere configuration

A couple of init parameters has been added that can control the behaviour of the Atmosphere framework.

5.9.1. General improvements

There are also many small usability improvements and bug fixes to existing functionality.

6. Other

The table below shows a summary of other enhancements and issues included within this release.

Issue Description

3037

Structure Browser - Performance issue related to export of data when table-filter was applied.

3139

Autocomplete not enabled by default for columns having the "columntype" setting set to "RelatedObject".

3208

Evaluation of access to relationships in tables, grid browser etc has been changed to support relationships starting from a relationship and/or ending on another relationship.

3204

Prevent BusinessObjectUtils.exists from logging error when object does not exist.

3137

Font Awesome Upgrade from 4.0.3 to 4.3.0.

3145

TVC Wiki handles pages containing words that are reserved in ENOVIA.

3046, 3094

Upgrade Selectize.js to version from v0.9.1 to v0.12.0.

3095

Structure Browser Forms – Possibility to override the default auto-complete handler with a custom handler.

3033

Personal Browser can be configured to include all versions of the files included.

3206

Structure Browser Forms – Templates able to save fields containing related object information

3192

Structure Browser Forms – Ability to save multiple values in "Person Fields"

3128, 3161, 3041, 3048, 3123, 3053, 3042, 3156, 3132, 3223

Autocomplete issues – Context path, popup window. Type and RDO fields in search-forms misbehaved.

Top-panel type field.

Multiple types in search forms.

Forms – Fire change-event

3209

Grid Browser – Look of exported data harmonized with web-ui

3091

File Manager – Issue with ENOVIA 2014X.

3134

Structure Browser – Distribute collection

3044, 3045

Structure Browser – IE 8 issues related to view/table/filter chooser

3083

Core – Tab content frame sizing issue on IE-9 compatibility mode.

3051

Structure Browser Forms – Library loader issue

3103

File Manager – Title of object when dropping files not correctly set in some cases