Installation and Upgrade

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

To upgrade an existing PhixFlow instance (called CenterView before version 7.0):

1. First review Compatibility Guide and Upgrade Planning to check any changing requirements for database versions etc.
2. Follow the Standard Upgrade Instructions plus any special instructions for all intermediate releases listed in Compatibility Guide and Upgrade Planning.

Contents

Architectural Changes

New Form Components

A number of underlying architectural changes have been made to support the new drag and drop form and workflow design process that will be released in Q1 2017.  These changes will allow the user to build much richer and better looking forms by providing support for:

• New form elements such as tabbed areas, static text, iframes (to support displaying data from external URL's e.g google maps, pdf files, other web apps), data driven free-standing text, lines, boxes, images and more.
• New styling options allowing the user complete control over the look and feel of the configured forms including styles that change on user actions (e.g. mouse down, mouse over) allowing the design of much more dynamic forms.
• Combining basic form components (e.g. fields, boxes, text etc) user defined styles to create new composite components which can be saved as templates and used in turn to simplify the building of more complex forms with a common "house style".
• The creation of user defined palettes containing related sets of pre-defined and/or user configured template components that can be dragged onto forms during the design process.

Now that the underlying architectural changes are in place we are building a new Form Design GUI which can take advantage of them.  This new GUI will be released in Q1 2017.

Bug Fixes

Views

Pivot views now work correctly as driven views on dashboards.

Streams

In-memory stream size limits are now correctly applied, and hitting the limit is correctly reported.

Pipes

Directed pipes could cause analysis to hang on SQL Server if the driving key values differed only by case (upper/lower) or by trailing spaces.

Datasources / FTP Sites

Database Datasource Instances and FTP Sites now allow usernames up to 80 characters, in line with other stored usernames.

When configuring an Http Datasource, it is now possible to configure the SSL Protocols to be used. This allows you to override the default protocol settings which are set by the Java installation, and can cause 'no compatible protocol' messages when upgrading CenterViews' or the external web site's version of Java.

System Operation

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