Release Notes 2021-08-23

Version Information

OpenEdge Release

Version Information

11.7.9, 11.7.10, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4

Release 11.7 #67522@2021-08-23

OpenEdge 12.3 support!

We are pleased to announce that we are not aware of any issues using the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 12.3. We hereby declare OpenEdge 12.3 fully supported for the SmartComponent Library as of the release of  November 24th 2020.

OpenEdge 12.2 support!

We are pleased to announce that we are not aware of any issues using the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 12.2. We hereby declare OpenEdge 12.2 fully supported for the SmartComponent Library as of the release of April 09th 2020.

.NET Framework Version 4.7

.NET 4.7 is not supported with OpenEdge 11.x, see: Is .NET 4.7 certified and supported for OpenEdge? 

Progress has reported severy issues with OpenEdge GUI for .NET and .NET 4.7: GUI .Net Application crashes after .Net upgrade to 4.7

When using the .NET Framework 4.7, please make sure, you upgrade to OpenEdge 11.6.4 or OpenEdge 11.7.2 or later. Also, it may be required to recompile the application on a PC running .NET Framework 4.7 when applications are also executed on a PC with .NET Framework 4.7.

Introducing the SmartComponent Library developer forum

Got questions about using the SmartComponent Library? Wish to discuss feature requests with other users of the SmartComponent Library? To facilitate networking in the growing number of SmartComponent Library users and developers, we've added a developer forum on our new home-page. The developer forum can be found at: https://www.consultingwerk.com/support/forum 

A login is required to participate in the forum. Don't be shy - create your account today!

Release Notes

Following the release of the OpenEdge 11.7 Release we have completed our testing of the SmartComponent Library on this release of Progress and are proud to announce formal support for the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 11.7 with the 2017-04-24 release of the SmartComponent Library. Generally we recommend customers on OpenEdge 11 to upgrade to OpenEdge 11.7 quickly. Starting the 2017-07-14 release we are supporting OpenEdge 11.7 Service Pack 1 (11.7.1).

Starting the 2015-10-09 release the Business Entity Designer will feature a start page with links to most recent release note articles on this site.

With SCL-751 we have adopted native Enums for OpenEdge 11.6. To activate this feature customers must add a definition to products.i. SCL-751 provides details for this.

With SCL-1113 we have modified the templates for SmartWindowForms and SmartTabFolderPages generated from the Business Entity Designer. We have removed the initialization of the viewer controls SmartTableIOState property (value was set to "NoDataSource" within the InitializeComponent method). Customers using their own set of templates should adopt the same fix to their templates.

OpenEdge 11.7.3 compatibility

During our tests on OpenEdge 11.7.3 we have experienced the following issues: 

  • [SCL-2216] - 11.7.3 Visual Designer disabling properties of ABL user controls

The issue has been resolved by Progress Software with hotfix 007 for OpenEdge 11.7.3.

OpenEdge 11.7.2 compatibility

During our tests on OpenEdge 11.7.2 we have experienced two issues: 

  • [SCL-2007] - Correct support for WebHandler in CcsServiceManager
  • [SCL-2008] - Closing SmartWindowForm causes crash on OpenEdge 11.7.2

We consider it mandatory for customers using OpenEdge 11.7.2 to use at least the release #44166@2017-11-27 of the SmartComponent Library. 

Due to an fix for

  • [SCL-1924] - SmartViewerControl: copy mechanism cannot cope with clob datatype

from Progress Software for in OpenEdge 11.7.2.001 we further recommend all customers to apply this hotfix as well. 

New Versions of Proparse .NET Assemblies (30 December 2018)

We have updated proparse with further enhancements in this release (see https://github.com/consultingwerk/proparse/releases/tag/4.0.1.1177). Please download the .NET Assemblies ZIP file from our ESD and replace the proparse.net.dll in your environment with the latest one. The new assembly reference is:

<assembly name="proparse.net, Version=4.0.1.1177, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cda1b098b1034b24"/>

As proparse is used by our Business Entity Generator, this new version of the proparse.net Assembly is also relevant for customers not doing GUI for .NET development and require support for parsing new ABL language constructs.

This version of proparse provides additional debug information when errors are thrown from proparse.net.dll.

New Version of the Consultingwerk.SmartComponents Assemly (09 January 2019)

To support the new SmartFilterControl and the "Filter" link between the SmartFilterControl/SmartDynamciFilterControl and a SmartBusinessEntityAdapter or SmartDatasetChildAdapter we have updated the Consultingwerk.SmartComponents.dll. The new Assembly reference is:

<assembly name="Consultingwerk.SmartComponents, Version=2.2.0.49856, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=10603cb31df311b3"/>

Customers need to update this Assembly in order to compile the latest releases of the SmartComponent Library.

Hybrid Realm now using IAuthenticationService

We've updated the SmartHybridRealm class used for http authentication to leverage the IAuthenticationService. It is therefor required that for AppServers requiring http Authentication (e.g. REST or Web) the correct IAuthenticationService implementation is registered (using service.xml files).

Customers relying on the previous behavior should ensure that the Consultingwerk.SmartFramework.Authentication.AuthenticationService is regsitered as the IAuthenticationService. This implementation will auhtenticate users against the password stored in the SmartUser database table. 

When users with no Login Company set should be able to login using the SmartHybridRealm, it's required to set the Login Company Tennant Domain (similar to the field in the Login Company Maintenance) in the .restapplicationsettings / .applicationsettings, e.g.:


 "DefaultAuthenticationDomain": "consultingwerk" 

This is required as the Hydrid Realm Interface from Progress does not provide the domain name to the authentication method. 

Web Handler overview

This is an overview of the web handlers supported by this release

defaultHandler=OpenEdge.Web.CompatibilityHandler
handler1=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CatalogWebHandler: /Catalog/{EntityName}
handler2=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CatalogsWebHandler: /Catalogs/{PackageName}
handler3=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CountWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/count
handler4=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.ResourceSubmitWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/SubmitData
handler5=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.InvokeMethodWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/{MethodName}
handler6=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.ResourceWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}
handler7=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.BusinessServicesWebHandler: /BusinessServices/{OutputFormat}/{PackageName}
handler8=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMenuWebHandler: /SmartMenu/{MenuStructureId}
handler9=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMenuStructureWebHandler: /SmartMenuStructure
handler10=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartRoutesWebHandler: /SmartRoutes
handler11=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{EntityName}/{ViewName}/{DetailTemplate}
handler12=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{EntityName}/{ViewName}
handler13=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{CustomViewName}
handler14=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartViewerWebHandler: /SmartViewer/Viewer/{EntityName}/{ViewName}
handler15=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartViewerWebHandler: /SmartViewer/Viewer/{ObjectName}
handler16=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartFormWebHandler: /SmartForm/{FormTemplate}/{EntityName}/{ViewName}
handler17=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartFormWebHandler: /SmartForm/{FormTemplate}/{ObjectName}
handler18=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMessageWebHandler: /SmartMessage/{MessageGroup}/{MessageNumber}
handler19=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.GetImageWebHandler: /Image/{FileName}
handler20=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartValueListWebHandler: /ValueList/{ValueList}
handler21=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartAttachmentsWebHandler: /Attachments/{Table}/{KeyValues}
handler22=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartAttachmentWebHandler: /Attachment/{Guid}
handler23=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SessionContextWebHandler: /SessionContext
handler24=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ContextPropertiesWebHandler: /ContextProperties/{PropertyName}
handler25=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ContextPropertiesWebHandler: /ContextProperties
handler26=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SessionInfoWebHandler: /SessionInfo
handler27=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.FileSearchWebHandler: /FileSearch/{FileName}
handler28=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ExecuteAblWebHandler: /ExecuteAbl
handler29=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartLanguagesWebHandler: /Languages
handler30=Consultingwerk.OERA.RestResource.RestEntitiesWebHandler: /Entities
handler31=Consultingwerk.OERA.Swagger.SwaggerWebHandler: /Swagger/{EntityName}
handler32=Consultingwerk.OERA.Swagger.SwaggerRestEntitiesWebHandler: /SwaggerEntities/{OutputType}
handler33=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTokenSecurityCheckWebHandler: /TokenSecurityCheck/{ObjectName}
handler34=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTokenSecurityCheckWebHandler: /TokenSecurityCheck
handler35=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartEntityTableMappingHandler: /EntityTableMapping/{EntityName}/{TableName}/{UiTypeCodes}
handler36=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTreeRootNodeWebHandler: /SmartViews/TreeRootNode/{rootnodeid}
handler37=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTreeChildNodesWebHandler: /SmartViews/TreeChildNodes/{parentnodeid}
handler38=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartSecurityCheckWebHandler: /IsRestricted/{SecurityRealmCode}/{SecurityItemGuid}
handler39=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartFieldSecurityCheckWebHandler: /RestrictedFields/{TableName}
handler40=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.GetImageNamesHandler: /ImageNames
handler41=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ExecuteQueryWebHandler: /ExecuteQuery
handler42=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.TranslationProviderWebHandler: /GetTranslation

UTF-8 based deployments available

Starting August 14th 2016 we ship our source code also as UTF-8 encoded. The ZIP files ending with _utf8.zip contain the source code encoded with that code page. The source code in the remaining archives is still encoded in ISO8859-1. Also on Github there is a new branch containing the OpenEdge 11 based source code in UTF-8.

Related article (Progress K-Base): How to get Progress Developer Studio to save in UTF-8 encoding

New Feature Documentation

Download Link

http://esd.consultingwerkcloud.com/

https://github.com/consultingwerk/SmartComponentLibrary

Overview of included tickets

Bug

SCL-3447 Fixed: Web Sessions GUI application cannot lock individual session

Description:

We have resolved an issue in the web sessions GUI application that caused that locking an individual session form the list of sessions had no effect.
This issue is now resolved.

SCL-3451 Fixed incorrect lowercase parameter in code generated by the Business Entity Designer for validations

Description:

We have fixed the code-generation for some of the validation methods supported by the Business Entity Designer. Those generators now properly apply the selected casing of ABL keywords when generating the code in the ValidateData method of the Business Entity.

SCL-3452 Fixed issues with rendering Lookups in Dynamic Repository based browsers

Description:

We have resolved various issues with rendering of Lookups in SmartFramework repository based browsers.
The biggest limitation was that MetaGrid instances referencing lookups for grid columns could only be rendered once per client session requiring a session restart for rendering it a second time.
Another issue was related to rendering of linked columns in the grid.

SCL-3457 Some DatasetModels failed with FillAllChildTables

Description:

We have experienced some issues with DatasetModels failing when calling the FillAllChildTables() method before invoking a FetchData method.
The issue was caused by joined data-sources for child temp-tables. In those cases it's advised to set the
        /* Allows to force applying the Source Default Query to child tables
           even when no filter expression was provided by the consumer */
        THIS-OBJECT:ForceApplyQueryOnChildTables = TRUE .

in the constructor of a Data Access class.
Since this is a better default than FALSE, we have changed the default for this property setting in our templates of the DataAccess classes.
Customers are advised to update their templates accordingly.

Improvement

SCL-3385 JSON filter support in business entity tester

Description:

The Business Entity Tester of the Business Entity Designer now allows the developer to edit the JSON filter which can be sent along with the FetchDataRequest to the Business Entity and Data Access class.

SCL-3442 Added option to Business Entity Designer to NOT set Serialize-Name for fields

Description:

We have added a new option in the Business Entity designer to NOT assign the SERIALIZE-NAME for temp-table fields when adding those fields from the database schema.

SCL-3445 SmartWebHandler now has events for LogRequestDetail and LogRequestEnd

Description:

The SmartWebHandler base class for the web handlers provided with the SmartComponent Library now exposes two new events
- BeginRequest
- EndRequest
that can be used for custom logging of information about web requests begin made. The BeginRequest event is providing the reference to the I HttpRequest to subscribers and the EndRequest event is providing the reference to both the I HttpRequest and I HttpResponse to event subscribers.

SCL-3446 Implemented backend support for the Angular menu function maintenance

Description:

Implemented the following REST endpoint to obtain the list of available function call types.
https://sfrbo.consultingwerkcloud.com:8821/web/Entities/SmartFramework/MenuFunctionMaintenance/GetFunctionCallParameterTypes
Implemented the following REST endpoint to obtain an new/template instance of a given function call type, based on the type name as the Value parameter
https://sfrbo.consultingwerkcloud.com:8821/web/Entities/SmartFramework/MenuFunctionMaintenance/GetNewFunctionCallParameter ?Value=Consultingwerk.SmartFramework.InvokeServiceMethodCallParameter

SCL-3450 Resolved limitation with Proparse's JPNode.toStringSourceText() returning an Exception when encountering conditional compliation

Description:

We have resolved an initially intended functional restriction in the Proparse's JPNode.toStringSourceText() method. This limitation was throwing an exception when encountering conditional compilation with source code in the active (TRUE) and inactive (FALSE) branch of the &IF statement.

SCL-3459 Improved code-structure in DataAccess:FetchDataInternal

Description:

We have performed significant code-refactoring of the DataAccess:FetchDataInternal() method. The method has been split up into ~ 10 methods right now to make the code more maintainable.

New Feature

SCL-3367 Implemented new tool to translate menu items

Description:

Menu items are localized using the SmartFramework translation using the original string as the source for translation.
A setting MenuTranslationScope in .applicationsettings or .restapplicationsettings controls the scope (empty scope is used as fallback) for menu translation.
A new GUI application has been implemented to translate the menu structure - similar to the assignment of menu authorization in a tool that was already present since a while.

Story

SCL-3460 Replaced calls to Progress.Lang.Class:GetClass ("") with GET-CLASS

Description:

We have replaced most of the references in our code to Progress.Lang.Class:GetClass with references to the GET-CLASS function.

Task

SCL-3454 Added support for *.fieldname in the QueryExpression:HasExpressionForField and GetExpressionForField methods

Description:

The QueryExpression:HasExpressionForField and GetExpressionForField methods now support the table specified as an asterisk like "*.fieldname".
This will simplify to generalize query manipulation code.

SCL-3456 Business Entity generator now generates a map between temp-tables and source db tables

Description:

The Business Entity generator now generates code in the Data access class which assigns values to these two properties (defined in the Data Access base class):
    /**
     * Purpose: Returns the list of Source Buffer Names
     * Notes:   Assigned in AttachDataSource and can be used for code that automates
     *          creation of Data-Sources; semi colon delimited list of comma delimited
     *          entries per temp-table
     */
    DEFINE PROTECTED PROPERTY SourceBufferNames AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO
    GET.
    SET.

    /**
     * Purpose: Returns the list of Source Table Names
     * Notes:   Assigned in AttachDataSource and can be used for code that automates
     *          creation of Data-Sources
     */
    DEFINE PROTECTED PROPERTY SourceTableNames AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO
    GET.
    SET.

Those properties can be used to generalize code setting up the Data Sources used by a Data Access class further.