Blog: Posts from July, 2017

Code On Time release 8.6.5.0 introduces the second collection of July hotfixes described below:

• Added support for ReportViewer 2016.
• Trust Origin URI specified for Report Viewer 2016 to ensure reporting DLLs loading correctly after being copied to another machine.
• Windows Live OAuth Handler wrong redirect URI fixed.
• App generator “User Interface” option now has "Touch UI + Classic" option. When "Touch UI" is set, no Desktop themes will be generated.
• URL Hashing in HTML implementation is now fixed.
  
• New projects will not permit “space” characters in the name.
• Reports Viewer version is now a variable stored in the project file.
• Fixed issues with Report Viewer version not detecting when generating from Project Designer.
• Home page of the app generator displays the descending order of projects
• Older ReportViewer references are removed from the VS project file.
• ReportViewer DLL files are copied to the “bin” folder only when v14 is used.
• Added MSGraphOAuthHandler implementation.
  
• "Login with Microsoft" button appears on login page when MSGraph config entry is present in the site content.
• Fixed exception in BusinessRules.UserId implementation raised when user is not logged in.
• Added "IsEmpty" and "IsNotEmpty" to row filter operations. New options can be used in “soft” filters set on the server.
• Fixed DotNetNuke Factory project compilation issues.
• Touch UI: Fixed. Multi-select checkboxes are not cleared after Batch Edit.
• Touch UI: New “Select All” option is displayed when more than one option is available for selection in a basket.
• Touch UI: Keyboard navigation in the list scrolls the page when item is not visible.
• Touch UI: Key “Right” goes to the lookup page after selecting “See All”.
• Touch UI: Last focused field is recorded in the touch.lookup() method to correctly restore input focus when the lookup view is canceled.
• Touch UI: Blank lookup field shows a popup when scrolled into view.
• Touch UI: Removed excessive blank space in front of Add Item in empty basket.
• Touch UI: Calendar is opened in correct position if the date input field has been scrolled into view in IE.
• Updated app generator to use correct version of MSBuild for VS 2017, 2015, 2013, with MSBuild4.0 as fallback.
• Touch UI: Command separator is displayed in popup with items for AutoComplete/Lookup.
  
• Action with command name Select works correctly after command Update.
• Fixed issue with Active Directory loading ASP.NET membership provider with no connection string.
• Dropping/pasting controller view onto page will set the view as well.
• Ensure "standalone database" checkbox is checked when membership dialog is loaded.
• Fix for "asp_CheckSchema" exception with custom membership.
  

The flowing fixes are implemente in release 8.6.4.0.

• New Feature: Property CausesCalculate of dataview fields is triggering Calculate event with the trigger set to the field name after any command executed on the rows of the child data view. Learn to create DataView fields in Episode 5 and Episode 7 of To-Do App tutorial.
• Fixed. Error "$ not defined” is raised when activating project models and settings in the app generator on some machines.
• Fixed. Specifying $quickfind or $quickfinddisabled in Search Options of a data field will break advanced search. This properties are designed for server-side optimazation of quick find feature but were causing incorrect behavior of Advanced Search screens.
• Fixed. Clicking on thumbnail for non-image BLOBs will not open file in the new window
  
• Fixed. Check boxes do not render in read-only mode in forms.
• Changed custom JS loading to read only from "~/js/custom". Release 8.6.3.0 has linked any files in the ~/js folder to the main combined script.
• Fixed. Collapse/Expand tooltips are not displayed on chevrons in categories.
• Fixed. Map of suppliers crashes with a system alert when address has not been resolved correctly.
• Fixed. Advanced Search / Filter controls will correctly display a filter applied by sidebar calendar.
• Fixed. Mouse selection of dates in the calendar will set up the cursor at the end of date input field.
• Fixed issue with Calendar and Mini Calendar corrupting advanced search.
• Fixed. It is now possible to create models for Oracle and other database engine when only one data schema is present.
• Fixed. Removed unncessary parameters created IsNotNullFilterFunction and IsNullFilterFunction that were causing an exception in Oracle-based projects.
• Removes all role providers for Oracle projects in Web.Config.
• Fixed. MySQL Membership/Role providers are cleared.
• Fixed. Theme selector correctly previews themes in Free edition.
• Membership connection string handling is fixed.
• Fxied. Correct membership connection string is selected when membership is Custom.

We expect to release one more maintenance update this month. It will introduce a few features that are missing in Advanced Search 3.0 – “deep” search and history. History is expected to be displayed in both Search box and Adavanced Search forms.

Another feature of the upcoming maintenance update is enhanced RTF editor. 

Maintenance update will also introduce a new folder structure and naming for JavaScript and CSS files. We are moving things into ~/js and ~/css folders. Old folders ~/touch and ~/scripts will be removed. This is being done in a preparation for the native client generation. This is also the reason why we will replace XML format of data controller files with JSON. This is a big change that will not affect anything in the app. Application will perform internal transformation of JSON files into XML, so no behavior of the apps will be changed. JSON format of data controllers is core of offline feature and is the foundation of the upcoming CoT v9.

We expect the update to go out in a couple of weeks.

It will be followed by release 8.7.0.0 that will bring to life the native apps. Expected release date is the last week of July or early August.