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Introduction

PhixFlow is pleased to announce the release of PhixFlow Version 11.1.1. This page describes the improvements and fixes in this version.

Installing or Upgrading PhixFlow

To install a new PhixFlow instance:

1. Check System Requirements and Compatibility for details of the PhixFlow system requirements and update any dependencies. 
   1. Please email support@phixflow.com if you are planning to run PhixFlow 11 on an unsupported database version.
2. Follow the instructions in Installing PhixFlow.

To upgrade an existing PhixFlow instance: 

1. PhixFlow must be at version 8.3.18 or later in order to be upgraded to this version. If this is not the case please first upgrade to 8.3.18.
2. Check System Requirements and Compatibility for changes to the system requirements or supported database versions. For example, you may need to upgrade your database or Java version.
   1. Please email support@phixflow.com if you are planning to run PhixFlow 11 on an unsupported database version.
3. Ensure you have a backup of the database before upgrading PhixFlow.

4. Follow the Upgrading PhixFlow steps. It is important to complete any Special Upgrade Instructions for all the intermediate releases between your current version and the version to which you are upgrading.

Template Package

A new version of the Template Package Serene Grey is available as part of this release. To get the best from your PhixFlow system we recommend downloading and installing this version:

• Download: Serene_Grey.zip
• Instructions: Installing Template Packages

Improvements and New Features

DEV-16698 - It is now possible to set custom tooltips on grid cells aka table cells, such as displaying details of the action that will be run on-click.

DEV-17013 - Improved configuration export performance.

DEV-17075 - Added the ability to throttle the rate at which requests to external systems are made for a HTTP Action within an actionflows.

DEV-17302 - A new Private Secrets section has been added to the full repository that enables the management of Private Secret Keys.

DEV-17352 - It is now possible to not specify the size of a Screen, when unset it will adjust its size to the content automatically.

DEV-17507 - Images fetched by File Display components on a screen will now be cached, improving performance.

DEV-17526 - Added options to enable/disable grid lines independently of the axis line.

DEV-17527 - It is now possible to fire button actions or change true/false fields values when a Screen is unlocked by using alt+click.

DEV-17641 - Added default value expressions to Actionflow attributes. When set: , if no mapping is made to that attribute , or if that value provided is null or unavailable (for example if the initiating user did not have permission to see it) then the default value expression will be evaluated and the value set to its result. Default value expressions do not use sequence and are automatically resolved in the appropriate order based upon other attributes they reference.

DEV-17706 - For performance reasons, grids in the system console will no longer show the row count by default. Clicking the ... will display the count.

DEV-17729 - Actionflows can now have custom icons assigned.

DEV-17811 - Disabling vertical axis on charts now correctly hides all the labels.

DEV-17877 - Added options to enable/disable grid lines independently of the axis line.
Horizontal grid lines do not overlap when displaying right axis.DEV-17888 - New transpose method () Function added.

DEV-17433 - It is now possible to create multi-layers hierarchical graphs by setting Background Filter Rules using chart selection.
Line charts can now indicate which data point is selected.

DEV-17438 - Cumulative sum and cumulative percent are now available as aggregate functions. This allows Pareto graphs to now be generated.

DEV-17445 - In Actionflows, it is now possible to share settings between different HTTP Actions using the HTTP Configuration setting.

DEV-17452 - API actions are now a separate type of Actionflow called API Endpoints. API actions Endpoints have fixed input attributes (body, headers, contentType and url), and fixed output attributes (body, headers, contentType and statusCode).

DEV-17456 - It is now possible to create Custom Series on charts, which include fixed values, percentile, and other statistical functions and including expressions.

DEV-17496 - Native support to easily create JSON documents within expressions is available. Additionally new functions have been added to allow the conversion of these into XML documents. See help, toJSON, toXML and JSON Support.

DEV-17579 - Added an option to run an Actionflow directly from the property editor, Actionflow toolbar, and right-click menu of the repository. This option will show a prompt form to enter any input parameters and will open a grid to display any output records.

Bug Fixes

DEV-16708 - The headers returned by HTTP action Actions are now normalized to follow standard header naming rules (e.g. Content-Type).

DEV-17255 - The Data Points are now correctly displays displayed on Line Charts when the option is selected.

DEV-17319 - Improved performance of when adding new components to a screen.

DEV-17501 - Line charts Charts and combined bar and line charts now work for x-axis attributes of type String.

DEV-17503 - Sorting by x-axis now works for charts when the x-axis attribute is of type String.

DEV-17551 - Sorting graphs with horizontal axis attributes of number types now works correctly.

DEV-17650 - Bulk delete Actionflow nodes now pass through record attributes.

DEV-17697 - Formatting rules Rules can now refer to the _user internal variable.

DEV-17708 - Improved performance of when displaying the audit summary on the Console screen.