Version Information

OpenEdge 12.0 support!

We are please to announce that we are not aware of any issues using the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 12.0. We hereby declare OpenEdge 12.0 fully supported for the SmartComponent Library as of the release of May 1st 2019.

OpenEdge 11.7.4 support!

We are please to announce that we are not aware of any issues using the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 11.7.4. We hereby declare OpenEdge 11.7.4 fully supported for the SmartComponent Library as of the release of November 5th 2018.

OpenEdge 11.7.3 support!

The previously reported issues with the Progress Developer Studio Visual Designer (Visual Designer related OpenEdge 11.7.3 product alert!!!) has been resolved by Progress Software with Hotfix 007 of OpenEdge 11.7.3. We hereby announce full compatibility of the SmartComponent Library with OpenEdge 11.7.3.007. 

Besides the issue with the Visual Designer however, we have not been aware of any incompatibilities with OpenEdge 11.7.3. 

.NET Framework Version 4.7

.NET 4.7 is not supported with OpenEdge 11.x, see: Is .NET 4.7 certified and supported for OpenEdge? 

Progress has reported severy issues with OpenEdge GUI for .NET and .NET 4.7: GUI .Net Application crashes after .Net upgrade to 4.7

When using the .NET Framework 4.7, please make sure, you upgrade to OpenEdge 11.6.4 or OpenEdge 11.7.2 or later. Also, it may be required to recompile the application on a PC running .NET Framework 4.7 when applications are also executed on a PC with .NET Framework 4.7.

Introducing the SmartComponent Library developer forum

Got questions about using the SmartComponent Library? Wish to discuss feature requests with other users of the SmartComponent Library? To facilitate networking in the growing number of SmartComponent Library users and developers, we've added a developer forum on our new home-page. The developer forum can be found at: https://www.consultingwerk.com/support/forum 

A login is required to participate in the forum. Don't be shy - create your account today!

Announcing the SmartFramework ERD Designer

We are announcing the availability of the SmartFramework ERD Designer

Release Notes

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.

OpenEdge 11.7.3 compatibility

During our tests on OpenEdge 11.7.3 we have experienced the following issues: 

• [SCL-2216] - 11.7.3 Visual Designer disabling properties of ABL user controls

The issue has been resolved by Progress Software with hotfix 007 for OpenEdge 11.7.3.

OpenEdge 11.7.2 compatibility

During our tests on OpenEdge 11.7.2 we have experienced two issues: 

• [SCL-2007] - Correct support for WebHandler in CcsServiceManager
• [SCL-2008] - Closing SmartWindowForm causes crash on OpenEdge 11.7.2

We consider it mandatory for customers using OpenEdge 11.7.2 to use at least the release #44166@2017-11-27 of the SmartComponent Library. 

Due to an fix for

• [SCL-1924] - SmartViewerControl: copy mechanism cannot cope with clob datatype

from Progress Software for in OpenEdge 11.7.2.001 we further recommend all customers to apply this hotfix as well. 

New Versions of Proparse .NET Assemblies (30 December 2018)

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.

New Version of the Consultingwerk.SmartComponents Assemly (09 January 2019)

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:

<assembly name="Consultingwerk.SmartComponents, Version=2.2.0.49856, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=10603cb31df311b3"/>

Customers need to update this Assembly in order to compile the latest releases of the SmartComponent Library.

Hybrid Realm now using IAuthenticationService

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.:

 "DefaultAuthenticationDomain": "consultingwerk" 

This is required as the Hydrid Realm Interface from Progress does not provide the domain name to the authentication method. 

Web Handler overview

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

defaultHandler=OpenEdge.Web.CompatibilityHandler
handler1=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CatalogWebHandler: /Catalog/{EntityName}
handler2=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CatalogsWebHandler: /Catalogs/{PackageName}
handler3=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CountWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/count
handler4=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.ResourceSubmitWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/SubmitData
handler5=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.InvokeMethodWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/{MethodName}
handler6=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.ResourceWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}
handler7=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.BusinessServicesWebHandler: /BusinessServices/{OutputFormat}/{PackageName}
handler8=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMenuWebHandler: /SmartMenu/{MenuStructureId}
handler9=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMenuStructureWebHandler: /SmartMenuStructure
handler10=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartRoutesWebHandler: /SmartRoutes
handler11=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{EntityName}/{ViewName}/{DetailTemplate}
handler12=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{EntityName}/{ViewName}
handler13=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{CustomViewName}
handler14=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartViewerWebHandler: /SmartViewer/Viewer/{EntityName}/{ViewName}
handler15=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartViewerWebHandler: /SmartViewer/Viewer/{ObjectName}
handler16=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartFormWebHandler: /SmartForm/{FormTemplate}/{EntityName}/{ViewName}
handler17=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartFormWebHandler: /SmartForm/{FormTemplate}/{ObjectName}
handler18=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMessageWebHandler: /SmartMessage/{MessageGroup}/{MessageNumber}
handler19=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.GetImageWebHandler: /Image/{FileName}
handler20=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartValueListWebHandler: /ValueList/{ValueList}
handler21=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartAttachmentsWebHandler: /Attachments/{Table}/{KeyValues}
handler22=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartAttachmentWebHandler: /Attachment/{Guid}
handler23=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SessionContextWebHandler: /SessionContext
handler24=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ContextPropertiesWebHandler: /ContextProperties/{PropertyName}
handler25=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ContextPropertiesWebHandler: /ContextProperties
handler26=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SessionInfoWebHandler: /SessionInfo
handler27=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.FileSearchWebHandler: /FileSearch/{FileName}
handler28=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ExecuteAblWebHandler: /ExecuteAbl
handler29=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartLanguagesWebHandler: /Languages
handler30=Consultingwerk.OERA.RestResource.RestEntitiesWebHandler: /Entities
handler31=Consultingwerk.OERA.Swagger.SwaggerWebHandler: /Swagger/{EntityName}
handler32=Consultingwerk.OERA.Swagger.SwaggerRestEntitiesWebHandler: /SwaggerEntities/{OutputType}
handler33=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTokenSecurityCheckWebHandler: /TokenSecurityCheck/{ObjectName}
handler34=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTokenSecurityCheckWebHandler: /TokenSecurityCheck
handler35=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartEntityTableMappingHandler: /EntityTableMapping/{EntityName}/{TableName}/{UiTypeCodes}
handler36=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTreeRootNodeWebHandler: /SmartViews/TreeRootNode/{rootnodeid}
handler37=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTreeChildNodesWebHandler: /SmartViews/TreeChildNodes/{parentnodeid}
handler38=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartSecurityCheckWebHandler: /IsRestricted/{SecurityRealmCode}/{SecurityItemGuid}
handler39=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartFieldSecurityCheckWebHandler: /RestrictedFields/{TableName}
handler40=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.GetImageNamesHandler: /ImageNames

UTF-8 based deployments available

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

New Feature Documentation

• 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)

Download Link

http://esd.consultingwerkcloud.com/

https://github.com/consultingwerk/SmartComponentLibrary

Overview of included tickets

Bug

SCL-2660 Fixed issue where a MetaViewer has been rendered at the wrong location

Description:

We have resolved an issue where a MetaViewer might have been rendered at the wrong position on a MetaForm.

Improvement

SCL-2653 Imported DataFields for all SmartFramework Business Entities

Description:

We have now imported the data fields for all SmartFramework Business Entities into the SmartFramework repository.

SCL-2655 Implement RESTful endpoint in UserGroupBusinessEntity to retrieve groups and possible assignments

Description:

We have implemented a RESTful endpoint that returns a users group assignments including the list of not assigned groups. Based on the user guid, the following call
http://localhost:8820/web/SmartFramework/Entities/GetUserGroupAssignments ?Value=ffcc4f24-af98-8187-e211-4714049f854c
returns

{
  "dsUserGroup": {
    "ePossibleAssignments": [
      {
        "UserGroupGuid": "a9c4c540-2241-2dbb-5414-1474a042361f",
        "GroupGuid": "9f0b8fc7-b7ce-19a1-e211-b55f47246bff",
        "UserGuid": "ffcc4f24-af98-8187-e211-4714049f854c",
        "UserName": "",
        "GroupName": "Admin"
      },
      {
        "UserGroupGuid": "a9c4c540-2241-2dbb-5414-1474a142361f",
        "GroupGuid": "9f0b8fc7-b7ce-19a1-e211-b65fd249a841",
        "UserGuid": "ffcc4f24-af98-8187-e211-4714049f854c",
        "UserName": "",
        "GroupName": "Translation"
      }
    ],
    "eSmartUserGroup": [
      {
        "UserGroupGuid": "b1ec906f-df55-aca4-e211-e05f8d10946a",
        "GroupGuid": "9f0b8fc7-b7ce-19a1-e211-b65f48370f36",
        "UserGuid": "ffcc4f24-af98-8187-e211-4714049f854c",
        "UserName": "mikefe",
        "GroupName": "Consultingwerk Admin",
        "ParentGroupGuid": "9f0b8fc7-b7ce-19a1-e211-b55f47246bff"
      },
      {
        "UserGroupGuid": "c9a39b58-71f9-f3be-e211-38f6c49cab8b",
        "GroupGuid": "9f0b8fc7-b7ce-19a1-e211-b65f78dd0345",
        "UserGuid": "ffcc4f24-af98-8187-e211-4714049f854c",
        "UserName": "mikefe",
        "GroupName": "User",
        "ParentGroupGuid": ""
      }
    ]
  }
}

New Feature

SCL-2654 SmartDB setup script now imports all .smartrepo files provided

Description:

The SmartDB upgrade and migration script now imports the .smartrepo files provided by Consultingwerk as part of the SmartComponent Library releases.

SCL-2657 JSDO Catalog now contains Object/Token Security for CRUD Tokens

Description:

The JSDO Catalog does now contain the information about the Service Interface security tokens for the requested business entity. We have added the smartRestrictions section to the resource data.

SCL-2658 Added method GetInitialValues to the DataMaintenanceBusinessTask

Description:

We have implemented the method GetInitialValues to the DataMaintenanceBusinessTask to support this in the same was as expected by Business Entities.

SCL-2659 Implemented rendering of custom toolbar buttons

Description:

We have implemented the rendering of custom (non Table IO or Navigation buttons) in the Ribbon on Dynamic Forms. The rendering is based on the ToolbarButtons property of the DefaultToolbar instance. When this property is non blank, this property defines the buttons which should be rendered on the Toolbar, e.g.:

first,previous,next,last,rule,add,copy,save,update,cancel,delete,rule,country-combo,rule,customer-orders,customer-credithold

The buttons themselves will be defined in JSON files together with the Ribbon Bands and Groups.
The .applicationsettings file is used to define the JSON files defining the toolbar buttons:

    "WindowsToolbarButtonDefinitions": {
        "tableio": "Consultingwerk/Windows/Framework/Repository/Rendering/default-buttons.json",
        "windowsdemo": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponentsDemo/Windows/windowsdemo-buttons.json"
    }    

The default-buttons.json file defines the standard Navigation and TableIO Buttons.
The file has three sections: tabs, groups and tools. Groups reference their parent tab and tools reference their parent group. Those groups and tabs will be created only when buttons are rendered referencing them.

{
    "tabs": {
        "start": {
            "key": "start",
            "caption": "Start"
        }
    },
    "groups": {
        "navigation": {
            "key": "navigation",
            "caption": "Navigation",
            "tab": "start"
        },
        "tableio": {
            "key": "tableio",
            "caption": "Maintenance",
            "tab": "start"
        }
    },
    "tools": {
        "rule": {
            "buttonType": "separator"
        },
        "separator": {
            "buttonType": "separator"
        },
        "add": {
            "buttonType": "button",
            "buttonName": "TableIOAdd",
            "buttonLabel": "Add",
            "buttonImageSmall": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/add.png",
            "buttonImageLarge": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/add_32.png",
            "group": "tableio"
        },
        "copy": {
            "buttonType": "button",
            "buttonName": "TableIOCopy",
            "buttonLabel": "Copy",
            "buttonImageSmall": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/copyrec.png",
            "buttonImageLarge": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/copyrec_32.png",
            "group": "tableio"
        },
        "update": {
            "buttonType": "button",
            "buttonName": "TableIOUpdate",
            "buttonLabel": "Update",
            "buttonImageSmall": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/update.png",
            "buttonImageLarge": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/update_32.png",
            "group": "tableio"
        },
        "save": {
            "buttonType": "button",
            "buttonName": "TableIOSave",
            "buttonLabel": "Save",
            "buttonImageSmall": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/saverec.png",
            "buttonImageLarge": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/saverec_32.png",
            "group": "tableio"
        },
        "cancel": {
            "buttonType": "button",
            "buttonName": "TableIOCancel",
            "buttonLabel": "Cancel",
            "buttonImageSmall": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/cancel.png",
            "buttonImageLarge": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/cancel_32.png",
            "group": "tableio"
        },
        "delete": {
            "buttonType": "button",
            "buttonName": "TableIODelete",
            "buttonLabel": "Delete",
            "buttonImageSmall": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/deleterec.png",
            "buttonImageLarge": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/deleterec_32.png",
            "group": "tableio"
        },
        "first": {
            "buttonType": "button",
            "buttonName": "NavigationFirst",
            "buttonLabel": "First",
            "buttonImageSmall": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/first.png",
            "buttonImageLarge": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/first_32.png",
            "group": "navigation"
        },
        "prev": {
            "buttonType": "button",
            "buttonName": "NavigationPrev",
            "buttonLabel": "Previous",
            "buttonImageSmall": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/prev.png",
            "buttonImageLarge": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/prev_32.png",
            "group": "navigation"
        },
        "previous": {
            "buttonType": "button",
            "buttonName": "NavigationPrev",
            "buttonLabel": "Previous",
            "buttonImageSmall": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/prev.png",
            "buttonImageLarge": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/prev_32.png",
            "group": "navigation"
        },
        "next": {
            "buttonType": "button",
            "buttonName": "NavigationNext",
            "buttonLabel": "Next",
            "buttonImageSmall": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/next.png",
            "buttonImageLarge": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/next_32.png",
            "group": "navigation"
        },        
        "last": {
            "buttonType": "button",
            "buttonName": "NavigationLast",
            "buttonLabel": "Last",
            "buttonImageSmall": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/last.png",
            "buttonImageLarge": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponents/Images/last_32.png",
            "group": "navigation"
        }        
    }
}

A sample file with custom buttons is the file windowsdemo-buttons.json:

{
    "tabs": {
        "start": {
            "key": "start",
            "caption": "Start"
        }
    },
    "groups": {
        "customer": {
            "key": "customer",
            "caption": "Customer",
            "tab": "start"
        },
        "filter": {
            "key": "filter",
            "caption": "Filter",
            "tab": "start"
        }
    },
    "tools": {
        "country-combo": {
            "buttonType": "combo",
            "buttonName": "country-combo",
            "listItems": [
                {
                    "value": "AT",
                    "text": "Austria"
                },
                {
                    "value": "AU",
                    "text": "Australia"
                },
                {
                    "value": "BE",
                    "text": "Belgium"
                },
                {
                    "value": "CH",
                    "text": "Switzerland"
                },
                {
                    "value": "DE",
                    "text": "Germany"
                },
                {
                    "value": "DK",
                    "text": "Denmark"
                },
                {
                    "value": "ES",
                    "text": "Spain"
                },
                {
                    "value": "FI",
                    "text": "Finland"
                },
                {
                    "value": "FR",
                    "text": "France"
                },
                {
                    "value": "GB",
                    "text": "Great Britan"
                },
                {
                    "value": "IT",
                    "text": "Italia"
                },
                {
                    "value": "NL",
                    "text": "The Netherlands"
                },
                {
                    "value": "NO",
                    "text": "Norway"
                },
                {
                    "value": "SE",
                    "text": "Sweden"
                },
                {
                    "value": "USA",
                    "text": "United States of America"
                }
            ],
            "group": "filter"
        },
        "customer-credithold": {
            "buttonType": "command",
            "buttonAction": "PutCustomerOnHoldHandler",
            "buttonName": "customer-credithold",
            "buttonLabel": "Credit hold",
            "buttonTooltip": "Puts the customer on credit hold",
            "buttonImage": "Consultingwerk/SmartComponentsDemo/Web2/Images/sign_stop.png",
            "group": "customer"
        }
    }
}

This file defines a combo-box tool in the Ribbon and a custom button. When the custom button is clicked, the method referenced by the "buttonAction" attribute is executed in the Form's logic class. The method is expected to be PUBLIC and provides the two input parameters of the ToolClick event of the UltraToolbarsManager class: sender AS System.Object, e AS ToolClickEventArgs.
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