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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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

• 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)

http://esd.consultingwerkcloud.com/

https://github.com/consultingwerk/SmartComponentLibrary

The behavioural difference between IsPluginActive and GetPluginReference has now been resolved so that they both use the abstract type 'Progress.Lang.Class:IsA' to determine if the object is valid.

SmartAttributes now contain a "Concatenated" property, which when set to true, now concatenates the child attributes to the parent's attributes in a comma delimited list. The process also removes any duplications.

The entity ObjectMaster now contains an RESTful endpoint for retreiving an ObjectMaster record by GUID or Name

The entities Products and Modules now contain @RestAddress RESTful endpoints, exposing 'record' and 'collection' operations.

Fixed the typo value in the MetaDataSourceBusinessEntity and MetaDataSourcerDatasetController

In addition to the "Static DataAccess Queries for unique keys in DB Tables", the Business Entity Generation has been further enhanced to facilitate Static DataAccess Queries for mulitple indices with the same field data type. The Business Entity generator now creates two new additional Index Fields "AdditionalQueryGeneration", "Virtual" both set with an initial false of false. Validation is in place ensuring that both "DefaultSearchCodeGeneration" and "AdditionalQueryGenerationboth" fields cannot be set to true, in addition the generation of temp-tables will only include indexes that have a value of eIndex.Virtual = FALSE, thus keeping the number of temp-table indexes low but still addressing the multiple ways to query data from the DB.

If IsStaticDataAccessQueryActive is set to FALSE then no code for static queries shall be generated. If AdditionalQueryGeneration is set to TRUE, then static data access query parameter classes are generated, based on a New<field><field>Filter method with a parameter per field.

The MCP Server Tools now supports the Import/Export of Repository Data. The Import process imports a SmartRepo file into the respository. The Export process, exports a Repository Object to a SmartRepo file \(object name, base path - the alternative base path is configured in .restapplicationsettings\).

The SmartTable database table and TableBusinessEntity has been updated with two new fields, "MaintenanceBusinessEntity" and "QueryBusinessEntity".
In addition to the TableBusinessEntity containing the aforementioned fields, it also contains validation for both fields when populated \(uses the ClassHelper:ClassNameToClass to ensure that the Class is valid\).

The new fields "MaintenanceBusinessEntity" and "QueryBusinessEntity" on the TableBusinessEntity have been set for all SmartDB, icfbf and sports2000 DB tables.

The MCP DB table service has been updated to support the new fields "MaintenanceBusinessEntity" and "QueryBusinessEntity" added to the TableBusinessEntity.

The MCP server resources for DB schema's has been updated to provide a more simplified DB Schema \(based on https://claude.ai/share/06e984ed-05da-44a6-881a-56a920991648)..){: data-inline-card='' } \).

The MCP server resources for Business Entity schema's has been updated to provide a more simplified Business Entity Schema \(based on https://claude.ai/share/06e984ed-05da-44a6-881a-56a920991648 .) \).

The Services Interface for Swagger has now been enhanced to support multiple Swagger pages per ABL application, e.g.:

• /web/SwaggerEntities/SmartFramework/html

• /web/SwaggerEntities/Sports2000/html

• /web/SwaggerEntities/Demo/html

When using VSCode, annotations are now only generated when the file is saved.

The MenuBusinessEntity now supports "@RestAddress" RESTful annotations to expose collection and record operations for SmartMenu and SmartFunction.

The ServiceContainer has been modified to indicate whether a service has been registered and if there’s a current active \(ie VALID-OBJECT\) instance.

The SmartViewer rendering of MetaButton type has been enhanced to support buttonIcon attribute value. If both the buttonImage and buttonIcon attribute values are provided, then the buttonImage attribute shall be ignored.

The GUI version of the DataSource Maintenance Form has been fixed when using the Entity Name and DatasetController type lookup buttons when retrieving repository data.

The Consultingwerk.Framework.Exceptions classes ServiceAlreadyRegisteredException and ServiceNotRegisteredException have been modified to be serializable, and in both instances, the Property ServiceClass has been changed to ServiceClassName.

The Scheduler Job Status Grid has been enhanced to now show date and time values.

The ObjectTypeBusiness has been modified to allow for Static Data Access queries where joins to same DB table now use different Buffer Names.

The SecurityObjectBusinessEntity has been modified to allow for Static Data Access queries where joins to same DB table now use different Buffer Names.

The following entities have now been updated to provide @RestAddress RESTful endpoints, exposing 'record' and 'collection' operations.

• LanguageBusinessEntity

• ObjectTypeBusinessEntity filtered on "ObjectTypeGuid".

• ObjectMasterBusinessEntity filtered on

  • "ObjectMasterGuid, ObjectMasterGuid/Links,

  • ContainerObjectMasterGuid/Pages,

  • ContainerObjectMasterGuid/Instances,

  • ContainerObjectMasterGuid/Links and

  • ContainerObjectMasterGuid/Links/LinkGuid