Version Information

Retirement of OpenEdge 11.7

OpenEdge 11.7 has been retired by Progress Software on April 1st 2025. In consequence we urge all customers still using OpenEdge 11 to upgrade to OpenEdge 12.2 or 12.8 as soon as possible.

We are intending to drop the official support of the SmartComponent Library for OpenEdge 11.7 during the second half of the year 2025. We will then no longer ensure that new features of the framework will be usable with OpenEdge 11.7

Customers that are concerned by this intention, should reach out to us as soon as possible, so that we can discuss about a solution.

OpenEdge 12.8 support!

We are pleased to announce that we are not aware of any issues using the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 12.8. We hereby declare OpenEdge 12.8 fully supported for the SmartComponent Library as of the release of  January 15th 2024.

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.

PASOE / OEMANAGER VS Code Extension

Our first VS Code extension is available in the VS Code marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ConsultingwerkApplicationModernizationSolutionsLtd.oemanager

The extension supports developers with PASOE related routine tasks during development:

• checking agent or session status

• trimming the PASOE agents

• restarting a new agent vai the ping request

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!

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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.

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:

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:

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.:

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

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

• Support for RESTful invocation of Business Task and Business Entity Methods

• Invalid Proparse code-page setting corrupts temp-table field labels during "Refresh from Include"

• Generic Factory Service

• Using Invokable Business Entity Methods with Dataset Model Classes

• Using the Business Entity method FetchDataByKeyTable

• PASOE management scripts

• Business Entity Designer Launcher

• Searching data using ROWID's within the SmartBusinessEntityAdapter

• Business Entity Count Method

• SmartFramework ERD Designer

• Changes to the SmartDB and SmartDB upgrade and migration utility

• How to implement dynamic initial values

• How do I control the amount of details provided for error messages caused by our web handler

• Using custom log entry types

• Strong-typed Query Support

• Swagger REST API Documentation for RESTful Services

• Swagger REST API Documention for JSDO Generic Service

• Scaffolding utility for common helper classes

• RESTful services

• JSON Configuration File Format

• Common Component Specification (CCS)

Download Link

http://esd.consultingwerkcloud.com/

https://github.com/consultingwerk/SmartComponentLibrary

Overview of included tickets

Bug

SCL-4807 Object Master Designer: resolved error when filtering instances by object name

Description:

We have resolved an issue in the query preparation in the ObjectMasterDataAccess class that was causing issues when filtering object instances by the object master name.

SCL-4856 PASOE Agent Telemetry - sample time now formatted as ISO date

Description:

The sample time value of the PASOE Agent Telemetry data is now formatted as a proper ISO date value.

SCL-4866 Resolved JsonContextDatasetStore restore context issue

Description:

When one ABL session is still writing back the context dataset at the end of the request while another ABL session is reading the context dataset from the SmartContextStore.ContextDataset it may happen that the context dataset was emptied. This behavior is described in this Progress K-Base article:

https://progress.my.site.com/s/article/Clob-field-value-is-not-available-after-updating-in-a-separate-session

We’re now ensuring that when an empty value is retrieved for the ContextDataset CLOB field that we’re attempting to read the context dataset a few times (configured through the

{{"RereadSmartContextStoreOnInitialization": "20"}}

value in the .restapplicationsettings file. When the context dataset cannot be restored we’re now raising an error.

Improvement

SCL-4717 Implemented Scheduler Pro/Post job execution events

Description:

We have implemented two new static events to be raised by the SchedulerRuntime before and after the scheduler starts executing a job:

* PreJobExecution
* PostJobExecution

The PreJobExecutionEventArgs event argument to the ProJobExecution event allows to cancel or reschedule a job.

SCL-4821 Telemetry data now contains catchable stop conditions

Description:

The service interfaces of the SmartComponent Library have been enhanced to track data about catchable stop conditions.

SCL-4848 Support rendering additional/custom properties for Angular custom components

Description:

The rendering of custom components for Angular now supports rendering of additional properties.

Then the WebRenderAdditionalProperties is set for the component instance, those properties will be added to the componentOptions structure in the JSON markup. This allows component developers to add custom properties by sub-typing the CustomComponent type in the repository.

SCL-4851 Avoid runtime errors when reflecting error details for JSON error details

Description:

The AVM was creating runtime errors when reflecting properties of error instances when returned as a JSON error for HTTP clients.

Dynamic access to certain built-in methods and properties is not permitted (17008)

We’re now handling the non-reflectable attributes of the errors so that this error is avoided.

SCL-4852 Server-side event handler now support controlling the Table IO state

Description:

Server-side event handlers now support returning instances of the TableIoUiAction. This UI Action allows to change the table IO State through an /Consultingwerk.CommonUi.TableIoActionEnum value:

* Add
* Cancel
* Copy
* Delete
* Save
* Update
* SetModifyingState

SCL-4853 Support for new annotations in SmartUnit

Description:

To support the same annotations that ABL unit supports, we have added support for the following annotations:

* BeforeAll
* BeforeEach
* AfterEach
* AfterAll

Those annotations are alternatives to the previously supported annotations

* Setup
* Before
* After
* TearDown

SCL-4855 Updated CefSharp to v137.0.100

Description:

We have updated the base for our CefSharp browser to v137.0.100. Please see the CefSharp release notes for details:

https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/releases/tag/v137.0.100

SCL-4864 Added new attributes to the PASOE Agent Telemetry data

Description:

The PASOE Agent Telemetry Data now includes data for the MemAtRestHighWater and MemActiveHighWater values returned from the JMX query.

SCL-4865 Support for ToolClick as a server-side event handler

Description:

GUI for .NET rendering now supports rendering the ToolClick event as a server-side event handler. The name of the button that was clicked will be send in the ItemKey property of the event argument instance.

A new UI Action has been implemented: EnableToolbarButtonUiAction. This allows to enable and disable buttons in a toolbar (either named or the TableIO source of the viewer or grid raising the server-side event handler).

SCL-4869 Added support for providing JSON startup file via -param to GuiClientStartupManager

Description:

The new startup procedure Consultingwerk/Windows/Framework/Reference/start-param.p supports launching a GUI client session by specifying the -param configFile=… parameter. This allows to reuse this startup procedure and does not require implementing a new startup procedure just because of a different JSON configuration file being used.

SCL-4874 Implemented new UI Action ActivateTabFolderPageUiAction

Description:

We have implemented a new UI Action to be returned by a server-side event handler: ActivateTabFolderPageUiAction. This UI Action supports switching the active tab page by page sequence or page key in either the first tab folder in a form of the tab folder referenced by the instance name.

SCL-4876 SplitContainer now be shown as dedicated component type in instances grid

Description:

The repository object designer now uses a dedicated image to represent the type of SplitContainer instances.

SCL-4880 Improved logging when errors during JSON parsing in JSON Context Store appear

Description:

We have improved the logging of issues when parsing the stored session session in the JsonContextDatasetStore service.

SCL-4884 JSON Rendering of primaryDataTarget

Description:

The JSON rendering of Angular forms now exposes the primaryDataTarget instance names of the Form as a JSON Array.

SCL-4885 SecurityAssignmentIntegrityCheckTask now provides proper Business Entity Catalog Data

Description:

The SecurityAssignmentIntegrityCheckTask now provides proper JSDO Catalog data.

SCL-4889 Exposing "Consultingwerk.Windows.Framework.Repository.Object.ViewerDesignerPaletteProvider" service as a REST service

Description:

The Consultingwerk.Windows.Framework.Repository.Object.ViewerDesignerPaletteProvider service is now exposed as a REST service, so that if can also be used by the Angular version of the Viewer Designer.

SCL-4890 EventDispatcherService now to supports arrays for tables

Description:

In order to support sending multiple tables to server-side event handlers, the EventDispacterService now supports handling multiple tables in the JSON input.

SCL-4891 Toolbar Button Selector now supports opening the JSON document

Description:

The Toolbar Button Selector dialog in the object master designers property sheet now provides a new button new to the JSON file drop down. This button allows to open the selected JSON file in the default system editor.

SCL-4894 BeforeEnableFields server-side event handler now sends eventcontext

Description:

The BeforeEnableFields server-side event handler now sends the status “add”, “copy” or “update” as the EventContext property of the event argument instance.

New Feature

SCL-4857 Implemented support for rendering of new field type iconpicker

Description:

We have implemented Angular rendering support for the new MetaIconPicker type and added a new default instance IconPicker to the repository.

Story

SCL-4879 LLApi new methods DefineVariable2 and DefineVariableExt2 with default value

Description:

To avoid issues with passing unknown values to the List & Label API, we have added two new methods to the LLApi class. Those class replace unknown vlaues for the value with an empty string.

Task

SCL-4895 Added GetDatasetNames and ImportDatasetTables methods of the TableBuisinessEntity to the JSDO catalog

Description:

To support the implementation of the Angular variant of the Database Table Maintenance, we have added the GetDatasetNames and ImportDatasetTables methods of the TableBuisinessEntity to the JSDO catalog.