Aug 15, 2010
Release Notes for Build 3.2.1.7
1601 New (Website; Designer): KPI Trend Start And End Time Needed
1598 New (Website; Designer): Default range for sparklines, entered on Scorecard
1596 New (Designer): Need a way to disable an interface
1595 Fix (Website): Objects with Show = False are still causing cache errors
1576 Change (Website): Need to get rid of the underlines in ALL links everywhere
1446 Change (Designer): Total objects saved should accumulate on the way to the total
1380 Fix (Website): Color Names for Trends in Excel Editor are retrieved as numbers
1347 Change (Designer): KPI, SC, View "Open" dialogs should remember last selection criteria
1268 Change (Website): Sparklines need context, some way to show the duration
919 Change (Website): New license key structure with additional structure and info - 3.1 keys deprecated
June 27, 2010
Release Notes for Build 3.1.30.192
1583 Fix (Website): Subsecond time-series data caused erratic bevior of Trend.
June 19, 2010
Release Notes for Build 3.1.30.191
1579 Fix (Website): Trend Links Broken when "All Scorecard" page contains Trends
1577 Fix (Website): Managed Trends have invalid Min and Max y Axis Values
1575 Fix (Installation): Failure of default installation to clean website, missing attributes
1561 Change (Website): Not enough information in Event Log to debug and fix
June 10, 2010
Release Notes for Build 3.1.29.188
1567 New (Website): Prevent blank lookups from crashing interfaces
June 9, 2010
Release Notes for Build 3.1.29.187
1572 Change (Website): Large KPI Maps do not display properly on some Mobile Devices
1570 Fix (Excel Editor): New KPI requires double save or save and cache run to display
1569 Change(Excel Editor; Website): Character limit increased to 1000 for an expression in Attribute field
1554 New (Website): Event log should also include details of problems with Attributes and Orphans
1551 Fix (Excel Editor): Save progress should increment up as it goes for large KPI counts
1534 Fix (Website): New KPIs and Scorecard save causes temporary duplicates
May 27, 2010
Release Notes for Build 3.1.27.184
1490 Fix (Website): Double roll-ups happening frequently
1550 Fix (Website): String tags are not processed by the equation processor
1552 Fix (Website; Excel Editor): Format function not working on KPI Map
1538 New (Website): Add support for Windows Mobile 6.5
1546 Fix (Website): Race condition present after build 179
1549 New (Website): Add Support for iPad
1558 New (Website): Add support for Android devices
April 21, 2010 Release Notes for Build 3.1.26.176
759 Change (Website): Ad hoc trend now allows inclusion of Min and Max on the trend.
1530 Change (Server manager): SC Create by default uses Local System, should use Network Service
1482 Fix (Website): Odd spacing problem with new Y Axis handling
1536 Fix (Website): White Space in Tagnames
1473 Fix (All): Update copyright to 2010
1480 Fix (Excel Editor): Added Trend to existing Scorecard, but CURL is missing
1481 Fix (Website): Bad auto-range on Y Axis for small variance lookups
February 18, 2010
Release Notes for Build 3.1.25.162
1299 Fix (Website; Excel Editor): Corrupt logo in SQL causes Excel Editor to hang on Web Site Config read
1449 Fix (Website; Excel Editor): Missing Logo causes issue with web config page
1450 Fix (Website): iTrend issues at AEP with odd data range
January 28, 2010
Release Notes for Build 3.1.24.159
1382 Change (Website): Send Email Icon on KPI Detail page should send email to Responsible Party
1386 Change (Website): Remove No Views, Scorecards, KPI message
851 New (Website): Tag names and equations shown in tooltips on the icons below any trend.
1364 Change (Alert Server): Alert Server does not work when Cache is in Error state.
1379 Fix (Web Editor): Web Editor fails on Trends and Links pages
1381 Fix (Website): Issue with Site Links and Trends page not being accessable
1337 Fix (Excel Editor): Scorecard preview breaks on Vista x64
1391 Fix (Website): Trends do not have "Actual" pen in them
1394 Fix (Website): Multi scale breaks on UCSB data
1397 Fix (Website): Advanced retrieval for Trend causes exception
1408 Fix (Website): Missing * indicator in legend on iTrend multi-scale
1410 Fix (Website): iTrend does not respect hard-coded x-axis limits
1417 Fix (Website): Equation processing fails on certain tags
January 14, 2010
Release Notes for Build 3.1.24.157
1354 New (Website): Blackberry Hotspot browser support added
1364 Fix (Website): Alerter does not work when Cache is in Error state
1373 Fix (Website): Round trip with Adhoc trend fails if lookup has "\"
1379 Fix (Webeditor): Fails on Trends and Links pages
1382 New (Website): Send Email Icon on KPI Detail page sends email to Responsible Party
1417 Fix (Excel Editor;Website): Equation processor fails on certain tag types
November 16, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.24.150
1257 New (Website;Excel Editor; Web Editor): New "Links" collection allows creation of Compact URLs which are visible on Views, Scorecards and new Links page
1258 New (Website; Excel Editor; Web Editor): New "Trends" collection manages collections of real-time pens (Adhoc Trends) within Visual KPI. This makes our existing Ad Hoc trend a managed collection
1343 New (Website): Manual Data interface now supports write-backs from the any client device. Includes Active Directory enforcement
1344 Change (Website; Excel Editor; Web Editor): Added a toggle "Enable BlackBerry Native Resolution" for modern BlackBerrys. This is turned off by default
1355 Fix (Website): KPIMap Links Broken on Blackberry 8310 (caused by new AltText behavior)
1356 Change (Website): Newer model BlackBerrys (os 4.7 and greater) have AltText/Tooltip capability. We now display the correct data
September 24, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.18.132
1261 New (Website): Multiple Y-Axis Scales - maximize resolution for selected trend pen
1265 Change (Website): Y-axis minimum should never be negative with non-negative data sets
1270 Fix (Website): Non-string Lookup Values to ODBC Interfaces cause incorrect rendering in Trend
1287 Fix (Website): Ad hoc trend support for Multi-scale Y Axis
1291 New (Website): Browser Title Bar & Tab displays "Alt Text" for site logo. Allows for more differentiation among sites and support for older BlackBerries
1298 Fix (Excel Editor): Schema change broke ability to create new KPIs
August 19, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.17.126
1262 Fix (Excel Editor): Excel hangs on KPI or Scorecard preview, caused by changes made in case 1240
1264 Fix (Interfaces): PI Points of type Timestamp are not handled by PI Interface
August 05, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.16.124
1239 Fix (Website): Ad Hoc trend failed if Group Filter not null. This was introduced with feature 1177 schema changes.
1240 New (Excel Editor; Website): Responsible Party, E-mail and Phone have an Interface field so they may be determined dynamically
1244 Fix (Interfaces): Global Assembly Cache must always be master of PI SDK file location
July 11, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.16.117
1177 Change (Website; Excel Editor): Default KPI Map/List/Chart sort now specified on each View and Scorecard
1184 Change (Installation): Default KPI Map type is changed to Break+Name and Default Attribute Group is Scorecard
1203 New (Website; Excel Editor): Ability to insert "MailTo:" commands in Info URLs
1205 New (Website): Support for Windows Mobile 6.5 Operating system and new IE Browser
1213 Fix (Website): Large numbers do not trend properly, specifically any number in Scientific Notation
1218 Fix (Website): X-Axis not displaying correctly on iTrend
1219 Change (Web Editor; Excel Editor): Ability to enable or disable the Interactive Trend
1221 New (Interfaces): Support for 64 bit PI-SDK from OSIsoft
June 08, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.15.110
944 New (Website, Excel Editor): Date support for KPI in Excel Editor, evaluated Attributes and Expressions
1190 Fix (Website): English-Australia locale corrupts Export to Excel
1196 Fix (Website): X-axis does not display correctly when zoomed
1197 Fix (Website): Blank iTrend where there should be visible data
1201 Fix (Server Manager): (German) Locale setting does not cause default drop-down in Server Manager to match
May 29, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.15.104
940 Change (Website): Interactive trend on desktops
1103 New (Interfaces): Generic ODBC allows multiple, user-defined parameters
May 26, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.14.98
1173 New (Website): Support for Australian, German and Spanish Numbers, Dates and Times by setting Locale
April 30, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.14.92
1148 New (Website): Export button on mobile trend displays tabular time, value pairs.
April 28, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.14.91
1135 Fix (Server Manager): Upgrade of instance fails to update version number in SQL database.
1143 Fix (Alert Server): Alert links cause Web Site Exception for first invocation on Blackberry.
April 20, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.14.90
1070 Fix (Alert Server): Removed URL link from SMS Alerts.
1137 Fix (Alert Server): Alert Server should default to NetBeui name if no Host headers are present.
April 02, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.14.88
994 New (Website): Time Offset for Trend Lines.
1123 Fix (Website): Blackberry fails to render Scorecard Roll Ups.
1126 Fix (Website): License warning screen offset.
March 18, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.14.85
1109 New (Website): Target column now included on Bar Chart display.
1114 Fix (Website): New Mobile IE appears as large screen size instead of fit to window.
February 06, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.14.82
1042 New (Website, Excel Editor): Manual Data interface type automatically keeps history for manually-entered data. No outside configuration necessary.
1091 Fix (Website): Sparklines missing on Search Results page
January 22, 2009
Release Notes for Build 3.1.10.73
165 New (Website): Titles of Scorecard separator in KPI Maps is now auto-generated.
362 Fix (Excel Editor): Preview on Scorecards with large amounts of data takes a long time.
383 New (Blackberry): Custom colors now work on Blackberry OS build 4.2.0 and later.
526 Fix (Web Editor): Added X and Delete to attribute.
538 Fix (Excel Editor): Cannot see Verification Results without scrolling out of context.
561 New (Documentation): KPI Names can be up to 200 characters long.
606 Fix (Excel Editor): Cannot save KPI if Interface fields contain errors.
630 New (Website): Info button is context sensitive. At the top level, it shows website details. At every other level it shows details of that level (View, Scorecard, KPI Detail).
636 Change (Excel Editor): Min, Max, StatText added to Scorecard Preview.
639 New (Website): Bar Charts now have mouse over text on desktop browsers.
660 New (Website): Added ability to create and store "ad hoc" trends. Ad hoc trends support up to 10 independent variables, and can be sent in e-mail as URLs or stored for later use as a browser favorite.
664 Fix (Blackberry): Model 8700G has far too much white space on RHS of Trend.
670 New (Website, Excel Editor): Trends now have an optional legend.
733 New (Server Manager): Cache and Alert server stopped prior to upgrade, avoiding errors while database is modified.
742 Fix (Excel Editor): KPI Save times out if KPIs contain multiple PI sever interfaces.
750 New (Excel Editor): Added --All-- selection above --Orphaned-- in Scorecard and KPI section drop-downs.
757 Fix (Server Manager): Installation on 64-bit Windows 2003 and 2008 Server now fully supported.
759 Change (Website): Ad hoc trend now allows inclusion of Min and Max on the trend.
760 Fix (Website): Initial grouping display issues on KPI Map.
762 New (Alert Server): Only send alerts only when the both the Show field and the InService field resolve to True.
767 Change (Server Manager): When creating a new SQL database, we now set Backup Option = Simple.
770 Fix (Excel Editor): Auto-selection of Interfaces after Interface delete poses threat.
771 Change (Website): No way to determine next debugging step on error. Added vastly improved error logging to server-based Event Journal.
783 Change (Website): KPI Map Type is now selectable at run-time. This overrides the default setting determined when the Scorecard or View was saved.
789 Fix (Website, Excel Editor): (fixed) Using <[Actual]> in Bottom Text yields "Unexpected Symbol" message. Now all fields that support data from other systems also support indirect data from <[Keyword]> values.
791 New (Website): Any text that has a URL form is treated as a link.
792 New (Website, Excel Editor): Added new Info field to Scorecards and Views. A non-blank field Info Description will be displayed in place of the actual data in Info. This allows long URLs from string tags in Info to show a friendly link instead.
797 Change (Website, Excel Editor): Blank suppression in KPI Detail and Scorecards is now controlled separately.
811 Fix (Server Manager): Interface install ignores Virtual Directory Properties entry.
818 New (Server Manager): Leaves services in pre-upgrade state. If they were running then the new services are started. If they were stopped then the new services remain stopped.
826 Fix (Excel Editor): Will not save URL if selected KPIs are in the middle of a group.
835 Change (Documentation): Clarified that Server Manager may only be run from local machine.
838 Change (Documentation): User must uninstall / reinstall Excel Editor to allow future installations to operate correctly.
840 Fix (Website): Fixed formatting issue with time range entry.
845 Change (Cache Server): Now installed with ErrorsOnly logging.
850 Fix (Website): Negative sign in wrong place on small numbers.
851 New (Website): Tag names and equations shown in tooltips on the icons below any trend.
852 New (Website, Excel Editor): User can now have desktop web pages auto-start the refresh function.
853 Change (Excel Editor): Drop-down list of recent web sites in the Excel Editor now auto-sets the URL upon drop-down selection, eliminating the extra set step when changing web sites.
856 New (Excel Editor): A new "Open Website" allows the user to invoke the browser view of the web site selected in the drop-down list.
862 Fix (Website): ASP.net treats our equation processor as script injector malware.
875 Fix (Webservice): If VKPI is installed on same server as AF Server from OSIsoft, a namespace collision for a stored procedure occurs.
903 Fix (Website): Show field on Views does not appear to work.
921 New (Website): All desktop displays auto-size content to match the browser width and height.
951 New (Blackberry Documentation): Some handsets exhibit difficulty displaying KPI Maps when the Browser Option "Terminate Slow Running Scripts" is selected. This check box should NOT be selected for Visual KPI to run correctly.
1034 Fix (Website): Export to Excel not working as expected in 3.1.8.61.
1039 Change (Excel Editor): Incremental saves should show cumulative saved, batched every 2500 KPIs.
1041 New (Interfaces): Support for OLAP / MDX queries in a standardized interface. KPI values can now come from Data Warehouses or BI Cubes.
1045 Fix (Alert Server): SMS Alerts using Phone Number instead of expected Email Address.
1051 Fix (Website): E-mail icon sends e-mail to the wrong place.
1055 New (Website): Scorecard shows Actual as sparkline. KPI Detail now shows sparklines for all trendable values. Google "Edward Tufte" to learn about the value of sparklines.
1074 New (Website, Excel Editor): New support for complex attribute functions and expressions, including IF-THEN-ELSE and date-based functions. See new documentation for details.
1075 New (Website, Excel Editor): Send alert to System Admin when interface or Cache server fails.