These release notes are for PhixFlow 7.0.0.

This release is for Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

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Installation and Upgrade

To install a new PhixFlow instance, follow the standard installation instructions.

To upgrade

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This release has no special instructions.

Prerequisites

This PhixFlow release requires:

• Java 8
• Apache Tomcat 8.5

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your current version of PhixFlow (called CenterView before version 7.0) and to check any changing requirements for database verdsions etc., please refer to Compatibility Guide and Upgrade Planning.

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PhixFlow vs CenterView

At version 7.0 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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New Graphical User Interface

Built using Facebook's ReactJS

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-written in ReactJS within the new platform and the old flash-based interface will be retired.

New GUI Features

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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.

Features / Improvements

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• 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 / 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 can be controlled on per stream basis or via a In memory cache size default in system configuration. Warnings are reported when in memory stream has reached 90% of its size. If limits are enforced, then analysis will stop when the limit is reached, otherwise only warning messages are reported in the console logs.

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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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