Nightly 8.0 Changelogs - 2020

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200624

Ignition Platform

16576: IllegalStateException when 64000 Date limit is exceeded using system.dataset.exportExcel()
Datasets with more than 64000 rows and contain a date field will now correctly export without error.

16674: 8.0.13 UDT Def Export causing collision errors on clean Gateway
Prevented a potential collision error on UDT definition import.

Perspective

16679: Barcode not updating on value change
Updated barcode to rerender whenever the value changes.

16673: Slider: rail color is being set to the track color
Added railColor property to Perspective slider.

16522: Schema: style property resize option ‘alwbothays’ should be 'both’
Resize style prop displays the ‘both’ option correctly now.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200625

Allen-Bradley Drivers

11649: Can’t write to Strings larger than CIP connection size
Updated ability to write strings larger than CIP connection size.

Ignition Platform

16401: MQTT tag configuration lost when upgrading to Ignition 8
MQTT tag configurations now persist when upgrading to Ignition 8.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200626

Ignition Platform

16653: Adjustments in the upgrader to prevent duplicate entries
Removed some duplicate wrapper parameters that were being added to the gateway configuration file on upgrade.

16590: Importing UDT Def throwing dependency errors on import
Prevents a dependency error that occurred during import when importing UDT definitions.

Perspective

16649: Fonts: browser unsupported page needs to use new noto-sans font and accommodate theming changes
Unsupported page displays as expected now.

16641: Websocket: NaN in payload cannot be handled by JSON.parse
NaN and Infinity encode as null to ensure JSON parses correctly.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200629

Build/Installation

16706: Mac ignition service is orphaned on initial start, fine on subsequent
Now the start command, when run during a service install on Mac, runs through the executeStartMac() method to ensure the gateway process doesn’t get orphaned.

Ignition Platform

16688: Upgrading via 8.0.14+ installer on Mac errors out
On MacOS, there are no longer upgrade issues with the presence of the Ignition symlink. We are no longer installing the ignition symlink on new installs and it will be uninstalled if Ignition is uninstalled. If already present, it is left in place.

16696: Quick Client Screen Is Missing Read and Write Options
Fixed read/write/subscribe links on OPC QuickClient config page.

Vision

16682: Popup - bidirectional UDT - can write nulls/wrong values to instance
Fixed issue with bidirectional UDT nulls/wrong values.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200630

Enterprise Administration

16678: Sending Resources to Edge Global project via EAM no longer works
Fixed an issue where the EAM Send Resource task targeting an Edge legacy “global” project would fail.

Ignition Platform

16503: ShadowPopup on Catalina prompt for screen recording
Removed the shadowing effect around pop ups in the Designer.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200701

Build/Installation

16711: Installer doesn’t remove and install new service on upgrade
The installer doesn’t remove and install a new windows service for the gateway when the user is performing an upgrade, unless they are opting to change the service name. They are also presented with a warning (non-blocking) in the GUI and Text interface telling them that the existing service will be removed and a new one installed with the new name.

Ignition Platform

15580: tag() function in Alarms doesn’t evaluate on gateway startup
Fixed issue with tag function in Alarms.

Tag Historian

16680: Browsing against tag history provider won’t return results for newly created realtime provider
Now when adding, editing or removing a tag provider, the cache is being cleared/updated.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200702

Ignition Platform

16471: JsonUtilities json2Java always converts numbers to double
Fixed issue of converting numbers to double.

16447: system.net.httpClient ignores Content-Type header on request
Fixed an issue where a Content-Type header was not being respected by system.net.httpClient() functions in certain edge cases.

16623: Copy/Paste of UDT Instances within a UDT Def can modify expected Parameters
Copy/Paste of UDT instances is now behaving correctly.

Perspective

11431: Binding preview needs more aggressive debounce and option to pause
Added pause preview option to the perspective component binding preview UI.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200706

Ignition Platform

16257: Update Gateway Network diagnostics
Improved Gateway Network diagnostics.

16087: Allow launchers to use a specific JSON configuration on the command line
Updated to allow launchers to use specific JSON config on the command line.

16562: Add context manager delegate object to system.serial namespace to encourage idiomatic Python use of resources
Added system.serial.port function, which returns a Python context manager, allowing serial port operations to take place inside a Python ‘with’ statement, for automatic resource management. Also added optional ‘encoding’ parameter to system.serial.readBytesAsString and system.serial.write.

16684: Remove ‘The selected backup is from a different Ignition platform edition and cannot be restored in this gateway’ warning
Gateway backups from any edition may now be restored to any edition gateway.

Omron Driver(s)

16721: Update Omron NJ Import Screen To Support New Date Time Options
Added support for NJ date/time DataTypes in TSV import.

Perspective

16034: Icons: Material icons sprite sheet is missing icons
Added some missing material icons.

16495: Invoking login action in mobile apps when already logged in fails and prevents subsequent actions until refresh
Fixed an issue where calling the Login Action on the mobile app while already logged in would cause other actions to fail.

16686: DateTime: Input and Picker no longer trigger onActionPerformed event in 8.0.13.
Fixed an issue where the DateTime Input and Picker components would not trigger their onActionPerformed events.

Vision

16599:Tag Binding on Color Property shows Uncertain_InitialValue and incorrect color
Fixed an issue where the tag bindings on color properties would show incorrect colors and “uncertain” overlays.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200707

Ignition Platform

16547: Add argument to system.util.invokeAsync in all scopes to set task description
Added a ‘description’ argument to system.util.invokeAsynchronous, which allows you to set the description of the asynchronous thread, to view on the script diagnostics pages for your current scope.

Vision

16729: Equipment Schedule: Unhelpful error if pctDone or leadTime columns in scheduled events dataset contains null values
Prevented a null pointer exception on the Equipment Schedule component if the pctDone or leadTime columns contained null values.

16700: InvocationTargetException in designer when collapsing Appearance section in Vision prop editor if animation is set up
An NPE is no longer thrown when a Style Customizer is set on a component property and that property is collapsed in the Designer’s Vision Property Editor.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200708

Ignition Platform

16702: 3rd party modules installed on master are quarantined on backup, can’t be accepted
Now allowing modules to be installed on redundant backup.

10037: Add an “Execute” Keyboard Shortcut to the Script Console
Added a “Ctrl/CMD + Enter” keyboard shortcut to the execute button in the Script Console.

16668: Remove irrelevant modules when Edge is selected during commissioning
Commissioning edge removes incompatible modules.

11897: intellihint info missing for system.group functions
Fixed an issue where the system.group functions were not appearing in the autocomplete scripting hints.

Vision

9348: Add a ‘Remove Binding’ item to right-click menu on properties
Added a “Remove Binding” context menu option to the property table in Vision.

16270: 2-State Toggle Button BeanInfo uses invalid component name
Fixed an issue where the 2-State Toggle Button would be created with an invalid component name.

14842: Vision checkbox mouseover text cannot be removed once added
Fixed an issue where the checkbox component’s tooltip text could not be cleared via the property editor.

8152: Update title on component palettes
Updated the menu item labels for the different Vision palettes to reduce confusion.

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200709

Ignition Platform

15765: Description on the project edit page invites user to rename the project, but they can’t
Removed the “Choose a name…” setting description when editing a project on the gateway.

OPC-UA

13887: OPCUA Server Diagnostics Status Page
Added a new OPC UA Server Diagnostics Status page to the gateway.

Perspective

16042: Pie Chart: showValueAsPercent missing tooltip
Tooltip is now showing correctly.

16735: App bar displays Edge icon even though gateway is Ignition
Correct icon now displays.

16611: Perspective Report Viewer is not usable after restarting the Reporting module
Fixed an issue with the Perspective Report Viewer component where restarting the reporting module would not reinitialize the component.

Vision

9015: Component bindings panel should start a bit larger
Gave the property binding dialog a little more height.

14284: Alarm journal priority filter dropdown text is not visible on hover because color matches background
Fixed an issue where the selected priority filter on Vision’s Alarm Journal dropdown was difficult to see.

14117: Allow font sizes up to 1000 in font editor
Fixed an issue where font sizes in Vision couldn’t exceed 100.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200710

Ignition Platform

16765: Update Gateway Network config page descriptions
Updated GAN settings record description.

Perspective

15665: Creating an Embedded View via drag-drop should name the component after the view
Updated to name the component after the view.

16042: Pie Chart: showValueAsPercent missing tooltip
Fixed pie chart “showValueAsPercent” tooltip.

Reporting

10247: Report Toolbar Missing Tooltip For Some Options
Add missing reporting toolbar tooltips.

Vision

8644: Have Comments Panel new note field get focus automatically
New note field now automatically gets focus.

15899: Binding Vision Barcode To Dataset Throws Null Pointer Exception
Fixed an issue where a null pointer exception would be thrown if the barcode component’s code property was set to a null value.

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200713

DNP3

8465: DNP3 Aliased Points Config Page Buttons
Fixed buttons on DNP3 Aliased Points Config Page.

Ignition Platform

16622: Default launch mode isn’t being stored within vision-client-launcher.json (window.mode)
Launcher window mode and icon UI now update from gateway proj props.

16753: Show enabled state on alarm journal page
Added a column showing the enabled state to the alarm journal page.

14372:Only last NameFilter within browseHistoricalTags is being applied
Updated to pass all name filters into the history provider query at once.

16343: Show button on Threads status page has hover styling even when not hovered
Thread Status page updated to be more consistent with the Log Status page.

16383: Changing an alarm property causes existing events to disappear from Alarm Status, triggers new event
Editing the properties of an alarm no longer triggers a new event. Existing events are preserved.

16609: Tag browser trait icon to indicate tag permissions exist is missing for UDT members
Fixed to provide an indicator when tag security permissions have been defined on UDT members.

14103: Tag editor role missing on the Edit Real time Tag provider page in 8.0
Added support for tag editor security level permissions.

OPC-UA

15900: Update Programmable Simulator Configuration Page To Show 25 rows
Updated Programmable Simulator Configuration Page To Show 25 rows.

Reporting

10540: NPE on pasting in reporting if the editable page is not 'active’
Fixed an issue where pasting a component after clicking outside of the page in the Report Designer would cause an error.

Vision

15739:Hex field is cut off when using gradient within paint property panel
Increase default size of PaintPropertyEditor.

9669: Add Vision component type tooltip in project browser
Added tooltips to indicate component type in the project browser inside the Vision workspace.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200714

Perspective

13751: Implement a user based Inactivity Timeout
New user based inactivity timeout is provided.

Vision

8108: Horizontal Alignment Cell Attribute dataset of Power Table is not sanitized
Fixed an issue where invalid values for horizontal or vertical alignment in the power table’s cell attributes dataset would throw uncaught errors.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200715

Ignition Platform

16783: Image management thumbnail text not antialiased
Text on items in Image Management now make use of anti-aliasing.

Perspective

16650: Add “Direct Select” feature to automatically deep select click-target’s parent
Added direct select feature to allow drilling and backing out to the direct selection.

15936: Remove Duplicate option for Root nodes when View node is selected
Removed Duplicate option.

Vision

14256:Table component sort icon is a weird green and red color in 8.0
Fixed classic table sort icon.

15720: Cannot Modify Template Master if it’s shared and you’ve upgraded from 7.9 to 8
Fixed an issue where template instances upgraded from 7.9 “Shared” global path couldn’t be quickly modified via double or right click in the designer.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200716

Ignition Platform

16113: Edge Compute: Update “Visualization Name” prop naming and description text
Updated name and description of Visualization Module setting for Edge.

SECS/GEM

16796: Custom response handlers not executing for SECS-1/serial
The SECS-1 (serial) protocol can now use custom message response handlers.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200717

Allen-Bradley Drivers

16141:Implement Write Priority in Logix Drivers
Prioritize Logix write requests.

Perspective

15587: Make the hover color on the Horizontal Menu component configurable/overridable
Horizontal Menu - Styles with the element state Hover will now correctly apply to menu items.

Reporting

16153: Exporting reports to Excel gets exponentially slower with more rows
Increase speed when exporting large reports to Excel.

Vision

9083: Tab strip mouse events give coordinates per tab instead of the overall component
Mouse events on the Vision Tab Strip component now report cursor coordinate based on the tab where the event triggered from.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200720

Perspective

16381: Illegal object of type map merge
Fixed issue that could cause “Illegal object of type map/merge” error messages.

14963: Perspective context menus should match in the Project Browser and View
Updated so the context menu matches Project Browser and View.

16652: Numeric Entry Field: supplying invalid characters results in loss of value
Numeric Entry Field - Supplying an invalid character to the Numeric Entry Field no longer results with the original value being cleared when the Focus is lost.

15587: Make the hover color on the Horizontal Menu component configurable/overridable
Horizontal Menu - Styles with the element state Hover will now correctly apply to menu items.

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200721

Ignition Platform

16524: Upgrade the bundled JRE to 11.0.7
Updated embedded JRE to 11.0.7.

15184: Tag editor prompt when changes are made
Now prompts the user to save tag changes when switching to a new tag to edit.

16681: Buttons on idp config page aren’t properly aligned on Chrome
Buttons in the Gateway have been restyled to have a more consistent size and position, particularly action buttons on tabular pages such as Config -> Identity Providers.

16628: Overridden DateTimes within UDT instances are reset on gateway restart
The overridden value is now not changed on Gateway restart.

Reporting

15603: SimpleTable will throw NoSuchMethodException when Style set to List 1 or 2
Fixed so that the error is no longer thrown.

7/23/2020

Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200723

Ignition Platform

16659: system.net.httpClient should catch Throwable when invoking callbacks
Added fallback logging to Promise chains returned from system.net.httpClient() asynchronous functions.

16745: Unchecked recursion causes deeply nested tags to load slowly
Fixed a bug that caused gateways with deeply nested tag structures to start slowly.

16763: XML control characters in tag event script aren’t escaped on export
Fixed escape scripts for XML exports.

Perspective

16229: Unable to remove Identity Provider from project
Allow removal of IDP in project settings.

16743: Phone with large fonts cannot get past maker edition speedbump
The Maker Edition disclaimer that displays on Perspective Pages more gracefully handles small screen sizes, and or large font sizes.

Vision

10513: Weekview inconsistent event display for overlapping events
Individual events on the same day are not overlapping each other and correctly displaying beside each event.

10427: KeyTyped extension function on a dropdown component
Fixed an issue where the keyTyped extension function on Vision dropdown components wouldn’t trigger.

16710: Power Table in Vision renders Cell Spans incorrectly
Fixed issue that caused Power Table cell spanning feature to render incorrectly

10067: Power Table’s Background Color property only works when rows are present
Background of the Power Table is now the same color as the rows.