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This feature makes use of a new privilege, Add and Delete Users from a User Group, which should be added to existing Admintrator groups. See User Group Access Permissions for details.

Attribute-level Access

It is possible to restrict access to individual stream attributes based on user group membership (like the current stream-level access based on user-groups).

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The basic set of expression functions can now be calculated on the client-side. It This causes actions which require expression processing (i.e. running a Stream Action, refreshing a dashboard etc.) to be much faster and more responsive.

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Layout caching is switchable: dropdown Fields have now the "Cache Data" checkbox, which allows the system to cache the dropdown's data after the first load. The cache is cleared if you switch apps or log out. Layout data is not cached if you are in Design Mode.

Various minor performance improvements.

Localisation

Date/Time and Number Formats

Added Date and Number Format objects. They Formats can be used to define display format of change how numbers and dates are displayed in grids and forms data.

They Formats can be applied on the System Configuration, Application and the Component on Components (Stream View Attribute for Grids, Layout Component for form elements).

Connectivity

Database Collector

Field "Query String" on ), Applications and the System (in System Configuration). Formats on Components override those on Applications, which in turn override System formats.

Date and DateTime formats may be linked via Date Styles to the current Locale, allowing the effective date format to be determined by the Locale.

Connectivity

Database Collector

Field "Query String" on Database Collector has been renamed to "Statement Expression"

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Confidential fields (passwords, security questions etc.) can are now be either encrypted in or omitted from configuration export files.

When the user exports configuration data, he is prompted to supply a password; if he does so, all confidential data fields associated with the exported objects is are encrypted using the supplied password; if not, confidential fields are not written to the export file. On import, if the user provides the same password, the confidential fields are written to the database; if not, the confidential fields in the import file are ignored and the non-confidential configuration data is imported (the confidential fields will be unchanged or blank). Providing an incorrect password is an error.

Compressed Exports

Configuration exports can now be automatically compressed. This can give a significant improvement in download/upload times.

Duplicate renaming

Duplicate objects are renamed on copy / import. All name changes are reported to the console.

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Emails sent by Task Plans or for Password Reset are now queued and sent later if they cannot be sent straight away. This means a)

  1. that emails are not lost if the email server is down at the time when the emails are generated, and

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  1. the emails can include attachments generated by processes outside PhixFlow.

The list of emails is visible in the Console and serves as both an operational interface and as an audit log of emails sent.

The System Task will delete old emails according to the retention period set in System Configuration.

Logging

Various minor changes to improve server-side logging.

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