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PhixFlow vs CenterView
At version 7.0 .0.
This release is for Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.
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we have changed the name of CenterView to PhixFlow. This is to reflect the fact that PhixFlow is now much more than an application enabling a "central view" of your data. PhixFlow fixes data and business workflows using data analytics for integration and data processing togther with forms and linked, context aware menus allowing entire applications to be built and hosted within the PhixFlow platform.
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Installation and Upgrade
To install a new PhixFlow instance, follow the standard installation instructions.
To upgrade an existing PhixFlow instance , follow (called CenterView before version 7.0):
- First review Compatibility Guide and Upgrade Planning to check any changing requirements for database versions etc.
- Follow the Standard Upgrade Instructions plus
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- any special instructions for all intermediate releases listed in Compatibility Guide and Upgrade Planning.
This release has no special instructions.
Prerequisites
This PhixFlow release requires:
- Java 8
- Apache Tomcat 8.5
One of:
- Oracle 12c or later
- SQL Server 2012 or later
- MariaDB (MySQL) 10.0.14 or later
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New Graphical User Interface
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This release is the first to feature the new graphical user interface that we have been working on for the past year. The new GUI is built using the React JavaScript library which underpins Facebook's own web and mobile presence. The new GUI is modern, faster, more secure and enables us to deliver PhixFlow applications to both PC and mobile devices. In this release . At versiojn 7.0 the new GUI supports all end-user "application" features e.g. applications, dashboards, menus, actions etc. At version 7.0, however, model design is still carried out in the previous, flash-based GUI, however, by . By the end of 2016, all design features will have been re-wrtten in ReactJS written within the new platform and the old flash-based interface will be retired.
New GUI Features
The new GUI
Features / Improvements
General
CenterView has changed its name to PhixFlow.
In this release, the "look and feel" of the new GUI is deliberately similar to the old interface so that applications made up of dashboards, forms and grids designed in the old GUI will work in the new GUI without needing to make changes. From version 7.1, new design features will be introduced based on Google's material design to enable rich form creation with modern components.
The most notable new features in the new GUI are in data grids:
- Users can quickly filter data by clicking on column headers.
- Users can sort data by clicking on column headers. Sorting operates on all filtered records, not just the records in the paged view
- The user can choose to fix the position of several columns on the left of a data grid. This keeps the columns visible when the the data grid is scrolled horizontally e.g. if there are many columns
- Columns will now automatically "flex" to make use of the avaialble width of the display if their width is set to null (i.e. no value).
- Changes made to the column widths by dragging the column edges are saved when in desgin mode.
- A second, merged header row can be confgiured to provide a visual grouping of related columns.
- Cells within the grids can all be formatted intependently based on their value. E.g. setting backgound and foreground colours, bold, borders etc.
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Features and Improvements
Streams
In-memory Streams
Analysis now applies limits on the number of items cached in in-memory streams in order to avoid grabbing too much memory (which causes excessive garbage collection and/or system failure). The Limits limits can be controlled on per stream basis or via a In memory cache size default in system configuration. Warnings are reported when in set from the System Configuration form. PhixFlow provides warnings when an in-memory stream has reached 90% of its size. If limits are set to enforced within the System Configuration, then analysis will stop when the limit is reached, otherwise only warning messages are reported in the console logs.
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previous this returned the attribute "abc", now it returns "Def"
Scripting
When using a Date/time function on an Attribute, if the date parameter is NULL, the function returns null instead of failing with the message that the date can not be null.
Export / Import
The built-in limit on the size of files that can be imported / uploaded has been increased to 1Gb to allow for larger exported configuration files.
Login
A message can now be set on the PhixFlow home screen which is displayed prior to log in when the application starts up. The location of a file containing the HTML message can be specified in the SystemConfiguration. If this file is set then the contents will be displayed on the home screen.
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Active directory logging nolonger fails if {instance} not set.
General
A System Task would hang if the number of days to keep statistics records was not configured. Now, if the number of days is blank, no statistics records are deleted.
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