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Introduction

PhixFlow version 7.4.0 introduces exporting to multiple tabs in excel, along with performance improvements in the design component on the new GUI.

At this version of PhixFlow, the old flash-based GUI is still available.

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Installation and Upgrade

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

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Excel File Collectors that specify the worksheet to read in the Excel Data Range Expression must now quote the worksheet name if it contains spaces and/or single quotes. This is not handled automatically by the upgrade process. See here for details.

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Oracle

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- edit phixflow-datasource.xml

If you are using Oracle 12c, configuration imports can sometimes fail with this error:

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	<bean id="hibernateProperties" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
	 	<property name="properties">
			<props>
				<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</prop>
				<prop key="hibernate.order_updates">true</prop>
				<prop key="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size">1</prop>			
			</props>
	 	</property>
	</bean>

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Deprecated Features

Graphical User Interface

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We recommend that users do not use these features for new work, and plan to replace them in existing configurations.

Database

The following database versions will not be supported after 31st March 2018:We are planning not to support the following old database versions in releases after 31st March 2018. Please contact the support desk if you are currently using any of these versions and are not planning to change by then. We'll plan continued support if needed with your input.

Oracle 11g

SQL Server 2012

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In addition to the introduction of quick configuration for CRUD forms, a number of changes have been made to make creation of applications quicker and easier:

Stream view styling

You can now specify styles which will be used for displaying data grids. Those styles can be set on:

• System Configuration
• Application
• Stream View

Styles available:

• Grid Header Style
• Grid Header Button Style (applies to action buttons)
• Grid Header Icon Style (applies to standard PhixFlow buttons, e.g. filter, sort order
• Grid Header Dropdown Button Style (buttons that open menu lists)
• Grid Header Dropdown Pane Style (menu lists)
• Grid Paging Style (the paging bar)
• Grid Row Style
• Grid Column Header Style

Drag column headers onto buttons to create a context parameters

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In most cases you do not want to see the superceded records - generally, they represent the audit trail of old versions of records. These records will now be excluded by default unless you tick the Include Audit History Records flag.

In analysis models this tick box is found on the pipe. For stream views, the tick box is found on the stream view itself, but can be overridden on dashboards by:

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An error was generated while deleting a stream view created on a dashboard by dragging a stream onto the dashboard. This has been fixed.

Actions with no context variables defined no longer have a context

At a recent version, a change was introduced which always defined a context for an action - even when the action had no context variables defined. This has been fixed.

Can now refactor with dangling input pipe

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