Release v3.16.0

Markdown Property Type Handler

• DB Changes
  • Text field for property values.
  • Property value attachment list reference and retention of original file name.
• Markdown functionality
  • Edit/Preview Mode
  • Render markdown in dialog.
  • Markdown help dialog and placeholder text.
  • Ability to paste images into markdown text and upload/reference attachments.
  • Separate filesystem directory for uploads.
  • Application specific reference for attachments independent of application deployment configuration.

General

• Improved browser re-loading of resources such as css and js files by providing a unique version number. (No shift+refresh required)
• Utilize original filename storage for log attachments

Bug Fixes

• Resolve issue with editing connector ends on cable catalog details page.

Full Changelog: v3.15.9...v3.16.0

Patch Release v3.15.9

Deployment Procedure Improvements

• Remove dependency of python2.
  • Disable building of python2 for standard cdb deployment.
  • Update supporting scripts for deployment of cdb plugins.
  • Update supporting script for generating local password hash during the db creation.
  • "soft" deprecate the legacy python web service by removing it from the deployment instructions.
• Better documentation in Readme for dependencies, deployment and new documentation for troubleshooting, upgrading, etc.
• Update the scripts to use mariadb client binaries instead of mysql.
• Resolve db connection string to use the updated mariadb lib in the payara configuration script.

Other

• Resolve filtering of property values from machine design details page.
• Add additional MAARC fields to ensure MAARC item name uniqueness.

Patch Release v3.15.8

General Improvements

• Assembly element representing machine element now show appropriate membership to machine design.
  • Also get redirected to machine design when qr code of such inventory is scanned.
• Jump to qrid text box in menubar now supports jump to id as well as jump to QrId.
• Allow editing of "installed qrid" on the machine details page in addition to the current list page.

API Enhancements

• Add new MAARC API to support
  • Ability to search MAARC item by name and id.
  • Ability to create a new maarc parent/child item.
  • Ability to create a MAARC relationship.
• API to un-assign a machine from its template.

Bug Fixes.

• Use the relevant element name in the tooltip for promoted machine elements (Represented by part name: ..).
• Prevent promoted machine elements on multiple levels.

Other

• Improve the style to line up all fields on item details panel grid.
• Add support to populate additional columns in the preImport.py cable import script. @nda-anl

Patch Release v3.15.7

General

• Hide 'update installed qrid' button from machine list view when machine is representing assembly element.

Bug Fixes

• Resolve unable to fulfill machine elements from template multi-edit when list property column is enabled.
• Handle processing element representation for machines without assembly parents.
• Handle unlinking represented element from machine hierarchy import spreadsheet.

Patch Release v3.15.6

General

• Allow sort order for item category and item type.

Machine Design

• Provide a way to scan in new installed item directly in machine design hierarchy.
• Add ability to update represented item element from import spreadsheet.
• Redirect installed inventory directly to machine element when qr code scanned for installed inventory.
• Allow assignment of app items as installed items in machine design.
• Un-assign machine from template
  • Provide dialog that allows selection of which machines in a branch should be unassigned from machine template.

App Domain

• Add 'Browse by Apps'
  • Filter by app type and tag.
  • Also allow filtering by owner user.
• Rename category/type to app type + tag.
• Updated cdbcli set properties module to allow property deletion. @jpqatanl

Bug fixes

• Use item permission of parent item for item element delete on assembly item edit page instead of item element permission.
• Resolve possible null exception on browse by page when checking item type list.

Patch Release v3.15.5

General

• Added administrative page for fetching any import template. Thanks @craigmcchesney
• New link in menubar for applications.

Control Hierarchy

• Resolve issues with adding multilevel non-global control relationship with similar nodes in both variations.
  • Use parent relationship id instead of parent name to identify the relationship.
  • Update the import script to use the relationship id for entering new control relationships.
  • Update fetching children to provide relationship to parent id and use it for fetching children.
  • Resolve fetching parents from search results to follow parent relationship id if applicable.
  • Resolve API to support new way of fetching relationships for items as well as sort relationship lists by top level parent.
  • Resolve adding non-global control relationship to search result node.
• Support XLSX format for the control hierarchy import utility.

API

• Add ability to Delete Properties using API.
• Add ability to create apps using API.

CLI

• Added a few extra commands for adding, getting and setting properties. Thanks @jpqatanl

Bug fixes

• Resolve issue with conversion of wildcard to regex used by CDB.
• Resolve issue with searching item metadata field and the filter sometimes ignoring other filters.
• Resolve issue with importing users. Thanks @craigmcchesney
• Resolve issue with exporting name column for inventory elements list.
• Resolve issue with generating PDMLink json in the CDB API wrapper for PDMLink plugin.

Patch Release v3.15.4

Bug Fixes.

• Resolve issue with parsing results from PDMLink Plugin.
• Resolve circular reference check stored procedures giving false positives.

Other

• Update gson lib to latest version.

Patch Release v3.15.3

Catalog

• Provide a more complete list of item memberships from the catalog page including all inventory items.
  • With API support.

App Domain

• Support hierarchy (prevent hierarchy with deployments and vice versa)
• Only display apps without parents on list page to provide grouping by hierarchy.
• Resolve issue where only admin can update app domain.

Traveler Plugin

• Allow fetching the latest released version to compare to current draft version on the catalog template list.

Bug Fixes

• Resolve issue with machine design search where all entity types were searched instead of only machine designs.
• Resolve latin1 encoding issues with the python hosted API.
• Resolve the multiple relationship ids in the python hosted API database mapper.
• Resolve blank create page for app domain.

Patch Release v3.15.2

Bug Fixes

• Resolve issue with redirect to search on the CDB menubar search.

Patch Release v3.15.1

General Updates

• Remove the "Jump to QRID" from the top menu. Add a text box in the search for jumping to QRID.

Machine Domain

• Add mass fulfillment of machine templates using multi-edit.
  • multi-edit functinality to fulfill unfulfilled templates instances.
  • Auto-fill in the param based on the parent substitution reversal.
• Allow use of multi-edit to edit machine element's children.
• Update Machine Design redirect for qrids to navigate to list instead of details page.

New App Domain (Experimental)

• Domain for managing apps is nested under the control hierarchy page.
• Allow creation of apps with details, logbook and properties.
• Allow creation of app deployments as items derived from app (similarly as catalog & inventory items).
• Change default settings to display qrid and hide installed qrid.

Bug Fixes

• Resolve outdated item record in the multi-edit page. When an item is updated the selection list kept the old version causing misc issues.

Other

• Update the db connector to the mariadb one.
• Update development environment and instructions for Netbeans 16.