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

Improvement

SCL-4899 IMessageProvider GetMessage...() methods now provides 3rd parameter of type CHARACTER EXTENT

Description:

We have implemented alternative variants of the IMessageProvider API’s to retrieve messages with substitution parameters. The new variants are based on a CHARACTER EXTENT parameter to provide the substitution parameters.

SCL-4900 Implemented tool to update ObjectMasterGuid consistently across repository tables

Description:

The repository diff tool now provides a tool that supports to update the GUID of an object master in a developers repository based on the GUID in a .smartrepo file on disk.

This is useful in scenarios where two developers have created repository objects with the same name independently in two different repository databases and those changes are merged via SCM.

SCL-4902 ToolbarButtonsDialog now supports JSON files with schema reference

Description:

The ToolbarButtonsDialog in the repository property grid of a meta toolbar master or instance now supports listing buttons of JSON files that provide a JSON schema reference.

SCL-4903 Improved error-handling invalid for buffer names in RestEntitiesWebHandler

Description:

We have improved the error handling in the REST Entities Web Handler when buffer names are misconfigured in the annotations. This will now raise a clear message indicating which buffer name is invalid and the name of the ProDataset.

SCL-4905 Various usability improvements to the repository diff tool

Description:

The repository diff tool now supports multi-selection for file import/export and delete operations. After opening a folder the first leafs node will be focused.

Story

SCL-4907 Added a StatusBar to the Repository Diff Tool

Description:

We have added a status bar to the repository diff tool, indicating the progress loading the selected folder.

Task

SCL-4896 Provided backend API's to support the implementation of the Customization Type Maintenance in the Angular UI

Description:

Implemented the two required endpoints:

* one to support the "Test Service" toolbar Button
* one to provide that data for the "Method Name" dropdown Field

SCL-4898 Implemented backend support for the Angular version of the Route Maintenance Form

Description:

We have provided an backend API that supports retrieving and updating route translations as a foundation for the Angular route maintenance form.