unipaas V1.5 Service Pack 2 Release Notes

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1 Release Notes We are proud to introduce. is an improved and updated version of the unipaas V1.5 release. Read the information in this document to find out more about this latest unipaas version. For more information about previous unipaas releases, see the PastReleaseNotes.pdf file provided with this installation.

2 General Information General Information Introducing Magic Software s unipaas V1.5 We are delighted to announce the launch of a new release of Magic Software s unipaas SaaS-Enabled Application Platform (SEAP). unipaas allows organizations to quickly and cost effectively enjoy all the benefits of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, whether onpremise, or on-demand. Based upon a unique, unitary development paradigm, unipaas gives the power to quickly develop, enhance, and deploy business applications under multiple deployment models and at a fraction of the cost and time compared to conventional.net or Java environments. RIA Full Deployment Is Now Available With this release of unipaas V1.5 and the introduction of the new.net based RIA client module you can immediately take your RIA applications to full production. Contact your local Magic Software Representative for more information on how to purchase your RIA deployment licenses. Further Enhancing the Platform Check out the fixes and new features added to the product. These new features enable you to accelerate application development and to produce more sophisticated and manageable business applications. This long list is added to the continuous effort of optimizing and proofing the product by addressing and fixing customer and internal reported problems. With unipaas, you enjoy: Business-driven application development A unitary development paradigm Preservation of investment and skills Significantly faster time-to-market and ROI Better performance and responsiveness Considerably lower cost of operation and ownership Much lower development risks Superior application productivity Fast and simple implementation of the SaaS model Future growth opportunities Better competitive edge, leading to higher revenues and profitability 2

3 General Information unipaas Licensing In addition to the new unitary development and deployment paradigm for RIA and SaaS, unipaas also supports any previous Magic Software editions and forms of development and deployment. However, in order to maintain your former development and deployment capabilities, you need to obtain new unipaas licenses that reflect your current edeveloper V10 licenses. To obtain unipaas licenses, please contact your local Magic Software representative. Installing a Minor Version When you install this service pack using the installation wizard s Upgrade option, the wizard automatically replaces the files that were modified since your previously-installed version. unipaas Web Page Make sure to visit our unipaas Web page, where you can view and download various documents. Migrating from edeveloper V10.1 to unipaas Migrating an edeveloper V10.1 application to unipaas is quite straightforward and no explicit migration procedure is required. You can directly access and open edeveloper V10 applications from the unipaas Studio and Runtime engines. Migrating from edeveloper V9.4 to unipaas Migrating an edeveloper V9.4 application to unipaas is fast and easy. unipaas provides a collection of wizards to easily migrate your application, INI settings, and interface builder data. In the Migration subfolder of the product, located in the Start menu of your desktop, you will find a shortcut to each of the available conversion wizards. We recommend reading the Migration chapter in the unipaas Help before migrating your edeveloper V9.4 applications. From Record Main Based to Event Driven Applications Turn your applications into fully event driven by utilizing the new Record Main Converter utility. The Record Main Converter utility locates all of the Record Main based logic of a unipaas application and automatically and fully converts it to event based logic while keeping the entire functionality of the application intact. Making your applications completely event driven enables you to utilize new features, such as Subforms and Explicit Tabbing order of controls that are not available in tasks that have the Record Main Compatible logic unit. 3

4 General Information But most importantly, this conversion brings your application one big leap forward towards turning the application into a Rich Internet Application (RIA), allowing you to start and benefit from the great values of RIA sooner than ever before. Note that the Record Main Converter utility might not handle specific complex logic segments. In such cases, the complex logic segment will be kept as-is to maintain the application functionality and to allow for manual intervention to complete the conversion. Bundled Products unipaas V1.5 comes with the following bundled products: Limited version of DB2 Express limited to 3 months Version Control o CVSNT VC server o Jalindi Igloo VC client The Magic Optimizer The Record Main Converter The Magic Optimizer Magic Software is happy to introduce Ocean Solutions s complementary utility the Magic Optimizer. The Magic Optimizer provides extended query and analysis capabilities for any unipaas application. This version of the Magic Optimizer provides a fully operational documentation feature, and a limited evaluation version of the remaining features. To obtain a fully operational license of the Magic Optimizer, please contact Ocean Solutions at info@magic-optimizer.com. Downloadable Databases You can connect your unipaas V1.5 application to various databases, including all of the previous edeveloper V10 database gateways. Below are some links to downloadable express version databases. Make sure that the corresponding unipaas V1.5 database gateway is included as part of the unipaas V1.5 installation. Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition MySQL 5.0 4

5 General Information Certification For information about the various platforms on which unipaas V1.5 has been certified for operation by Magic Software Enterprises, refer to the Certification.pdf file provided with this installation. Rich Internet Application on Apache Web Server To run a RIA application on an Apache Web Server, the following lines should be added to the httpd.conf file: AddType application/x-ms-application.application AddType application/x-ms-application.manifest AddType application/x-msdownload.dll AddType application/octet-stream deploy AddHandler default-handler.jpg.gif.js.txt.bat.msi 5

6 New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes Image Style Push Button Enhancements Push button controls with an Image or Text on Image style, now support the following two additional images: Hot Track displayed when the mouse is hovering over the push button. Default Button displayed when the push button is set as the form s default button. The default number of images is now 6. For existing applications, you can either update your images to benefit from this enhancement or set the Number of images in the push button image list property value in the Settings -> Preferences tab to 4. Terminal Server License Count Change Terminal server based installations can now run multiple instances of the unipaas client engine for every remote station. This means that one license count is checked for every connected remote station only and not for every unipaas client engine instance. LDAP Additional User and Group Functions A new set of functions was added to enable the creation and update of users and groups in the operating system directory using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). The functions are: LDAPConnect Creates another session with LDAP, so other LDAP functionalities can be done in this session. LDAPDisconnect Closes an LDAP session. LDAPUserAdd Adds a user to LDAP. LDAPUserDel Deletes a user from LDAP. LDAPUserModify Updates the user details on LDAP. LDAPGroupAdd Adds a group to LDAP. LDAPGroupDel Deletes a group from LDAP. LDAPUserGroupAssign Adds a user to a group on LDAP. LDAPUserGroupRemove Removes a user from a group on LDAP. New RQContexts() Function A new function was added to show the current status of the broker in terms of active contexts. 6

7 New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes RIA Installation Changes The RIA Projects alias was replaced with the RIA Published Applications alias in order to differentiate between the project folder (where the source might exist) and the exposed RIA deployment files. RIA RC Deployment Builder Changes The Server Information screen design was changed to better explain the dependencies between the properties and result file locations. RIA Load Balancer Support Each RIA request now contains a new header named unircglobaluniquesessionid. This header keeps the same unique value in each HTTP request of a given end-user session. This header will contain a different unique value for each client instance. External HTTP load balancers can use this to ensure stickiness the ability of the load balancer to direct requests from each client to the Web server in which the initial request was created. 7

8 Fixed Problems Fixed Problems Functions Mail (QCR # ) unipaas crashed in some scenarios when using the Mail functions. Text Output Hebrew Version (QCR # ) The wrong text was outputted to a Text form when using a field with H in its picture and the field size on the form was less than the actual field size. Testing Environment Hebrew Version (QCR # ) When working with AllowTesting = Y in the INI file of a Hebrew version, fields with brackets were wrongly displayed when not parked on. Flow Properties Operation Movement (QCR # ) The Flow properties of an operation were changed when the operation was moved from one logic unit to another in some scenarios. Rich Client Allow Create (QCR # ) An error was displayed if the initial mode of the task was set to Create and the Allow Create property had a condition that was based on the value returned by the task called in the Task Prefix. Builders WSDL (QCR # ) An error was displayed on the status bar when specifying a universal path (UNC) in the Client Module field in the Web Service Properties dialog box. Error Handler Form Width (QCR # ) The form s Width expression property was not calculated correctly when the program was called from an Error handler event. Browser Client CtrlGoto() Function (QCR # ) The CtrlGoTo function returned True, even though the control specified in the expression was set with a False expression for its Enable and Visible properties. Tree Control Drag & Drop (QCR # ) While executing a Drop event on a Tree control, the focus showed the path of all nodes travelled with the mouse while deciding the target node for the Drop operation. 8

9 Fixed Problems Create Mode Stat() Function (QCR # ) Evaluating Stat (0,'C'mode) returned an incorrect result after the task ended, when the task was in Create mode and was defined with an End task condition. Form Editor Deployment Builder (QCR # ) The form name was changed when the program name was changed, even when the form name was not the same as the program name. Browser Client No Records (QCR # ) The window of a called program remained minimized when the program had an empty table attached to it and its Allow Create property was set No. Placement Hebrew Version (QCR # ) The control location calculation had an error in the Hebrew version when using expressions in the Navigation properties of controls in Class > 0 forms. Rich Client User Rights (QCR # ) Pressing F7 on a Rich Client program failed when the project contained more than 279 user rights and the user logged on had some rights assigned. Conversion Builder Data Converter (QCR # ) The unipaas Interface Builder showed components in the Available Components screen for the last converted component project and did not show the components for the first converted component. This occurred when the builder data included multiple component projects and it was converted from edeveloper V9 using the Builder Data Converter. Menus Rights (QCR # & QCR # ) Pulldown menu entries assigned with rights from a component became invisible when running a parallel program. Rich Client Scroll Bars (QCR # ) Horizontal scroll bars did not display properly after resizing the columns of a Table control when running on Windows with a Windows Classic theme. 9

10 Fixed Problems Form Editor Format and Attribute Properties (QCR # ) The values of the Format property and Attribute property were set to default when entering and leaving the Expression Editor without making any changes. Rich Client Variable Update (QCR # ) The wrong record was updated when the variable value was updated by sending the variable as a parameter to a called program. Rich Client Blb2File() Function (QCR # ) The previous record value was written to the file when using the Blb2File() function and scrolling through the records. Record Main Converter Zoom Event and Missing Lines (QCR # ) A new Zoom logic unit was created in the Main program even though the application already had this logic unit, when converting a range of programs and making the changes in the source project. In addition, some operations were not converted properly. Form Output Images (QCR # ) unipaas crashed when printing a form that had an image with an empty name. Rich Client CndRange() Function (QCR # ) A Range operation on an Alpha field was not done correctly when using the CndRange() function with the * (asterisk) wildcard character in a Rich Client task. Magic Software Enterprises Ltd provides the information in this document as is and without any warranties, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will Magic Software Enterprises Ltd be liable for any loss of profit, business, use, or data or for indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages of any kind whether based in contract, negligence, or other tort. Magic Software Enterprises Ltd may make changes to this document and the product information at any time without notice and without obligation to update the materials contained in this document. Magic is a trademark of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. Copyright Magic Software Enterprises, February,