Flowfactory 2.14.0 - Technical Release Notes

FF-8215 - Custom Controls

FF-8404 Image Control - Possibility to show image in larger window

Solution

Implement image preview feature in both backend and frontend

FF-4529 - Dev :: Customer Success

FF-8434 Button to disable UI Settings in reports due to false positives in UI Settings

Description

Unexpected behaviour in search reports regarding ui settings when properties are not used in the search report. A request to ignore the ui settings to mitigate the unexpected behaviour was submitted.

Solution

A configuration option in the search report control in Flowfactory Studio to ignore UI settings has been added.

FF-5366 - Dev :: CUS Top10

FF-7933 Search report: populated by default

Description

Not possible to have a search report populated when the view containing it is opened/used.

Solution

Implemented PerformInitialSearch option for search report

FF-4537 - Dev :: Product Success

FF-8347 [WebClient] Duplication of ApplicationInformation Request

Description

Fetching Application Information Request is duplicated

Solution

• Cache ApplicationInformation in DataService after first network request
• Reuse cached ApplicationInformation for subsequent requests from any componen

FF-5847 - SM :: Incident Management

FF-8457 [Almi + all others that use it] Cache Calculated is broken!

Solution

This feature does not make sense for Web Client apps so the feature was removed from Studio and setting disabled for apps that had activated it.

FF-5847 - SM :: Incident Management

FF-8188 [GO] Passwords are logged in plain text if user registration fails

Description

User details are included in logs when user fails to register.

Solution

Added specific logic for user details to be logged without sensitive data.

FF-5847 - SM :: Incident Management

FF-8335 Custom startup workflow can lock application

Description

Custom startup workflow has issue with lock.

Solution

Disable lock for workflows that doesnt have related view

FF-5847 - SM :: Incident Management

FF-7780 GO - Upgrade applications not working properly

Description

It is not always possible to upgrade an application from GO.

Solution

Created a fix to handle missing foreign keys and references when upgrading an app in GO.

FF-5847 - SM :: Incident Management

FF-8533 Grid error - server side exception

Description

In some cases a red line would show instead of grid rows.

Solution

The issue was with NULL values in grid data that in some cases would cause sorting to fail. A fix was implemented that makes it more stable.

FF-5847 - SM :: Incident Management

FF-6298 Grid page size resets on updated data in grid

Description

Grid were missing logic to keep page size

Solution

Added grid logic to keep page size

FF-5847 - SM :: Incident Management

FF-8529 Missing DbSchemaChanges after exception in studio

Description

Can’t add property to an entity with length set to 5000

Solution

It is not possible to have strings longer than 4000 in database so the field Data length was limited to this value. Previously it was valid to have strings of up to 8000 characters but the limit was decreased to 4000 after we switched to having unicode strings which takes 2 bytes per character.

FF-5847 - SM :: Incident Management

FF-8613 Object XMLHttpRequest message for grids

Description

Filtering grids could in some cases generate an error that causes a red line to show instead of grid data, especially in grids with several columns.

Solution

This issue was a caused by a browser limit with GET request length. Grid data retrieval request was changed to use POST to avoid this limit.

FF-5847 - SM :: Incident Management

FF-8650 Problem with view reading the wrong root entity

Description

An error is shown when opening a view with a repeater contains a custom control.

Solution

Added handling of the case when a view contains a repeater with a custom control.

FF-5847 - SM :: Incident Management

FF-8412 Order does not disappear from the start page

Description

If you deleted an entity from one view it would not disappear if being shown in a list on another page.

Solution

A fix was implemented to update entities being shown in other views so that deleted entities are no longer shown.

FF-5847 - SM :: Incident Management

FF-8380 Validation fails on field when clicking on OK

Description

When typing values to required fields in dialogs and then pressing ok without first changing focus lead to unexpected behavior. The validation was happening before the value was registered making the validation give false negatives. It means that even though you have entered correct information, the program thought something was missing.

Solution

The solution was to delay the validation and saving of the data until the value in the field has been registered.

FF-8617 Exception when closing view

Description

In some cases an error message could be shown after closing a dialog if doing an edit just before closing it.

Solution

A fix was implemented to ensure that dialogs have correct data supplied to avoid errors when updating data.