Upgrading to Version 8

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I just upgraded from version 7.9.10 to 8.0.1 a week ago.
I’m reasonably happy with the new version but there have been a few teething issues.

This is what I’ve encounter so far:

  1. Project Properties
    When you upgrade, some of the project properties are not specified.
    In the designer you need to go to Project Properties -> Project -> General and specify the Default Provider, Default Database, and User Source.

  2. Tag References
    Version 8.0 sometimes cannot find tags if the Tag Provider is not specified.
    E.g. I had tag references such as Packing/Maching1/Speed
    Once I added the tag provider it worked fine: [default]Packing/Maching1/Speed
    I mainly encountered this problem in Tag Events and Charts.

  3. Query and Expression Tags
    For Query and Expression Tags you now specify an Execution Mode. By default, they are all set to ‘Event Driven’. This will update the tag if a reference in the query or expression changes. The problem is when you use static text in the query or expression it wont update. You need to change the Execution Mode to ‘Fixed Rate’

  4. Buttons
    A lot off the button components changed format and after the upgrade didn’t look like buttons any more. They just looked like flat text. I had to go through every window and change the Background Color so they looked like buttons again.

  5. Font
    I used ‘Dialog’ font for a lot of labels, buttons, etc. This font changed size (Not sure about other fonts) and after upgrading didn’t fit correctly any more. It showed ‘…’ at the end of a lot of text. I had to go through every window to check and resize many components.

There are also a few issues/bugs that IA are still sorting out and are to be fixed soon. The main ones that trouble me are:

  1. On a page load, components all go red while they are loading.
    http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-13815-after-ignition-upgrade-to-8-0-windows-are-loaded-with-tags-in-error-state/25017

  2. The Save As dialog isn’t pre-populated with the file name.
    http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-13936-exportexcel-has-no-file-name/25211

  3. There is no separate Publish button. So as soon as you save it is pushed to clients.
    http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-mode-and-commit-messages-are-missing/22624

hope this helps.

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