Version Information

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 habe not been aware of any incompatibilities with OpenEdge 11.7.3. 

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 (08 April 2018)

We have updated proparse with further enhancements in this release (see https://github.com/consultingwerk/proparse/releases/tag/4.0.1.1176). 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 methods for refactoring purposes. The most recent code in the Consultingwerk.Studio package relies on those methods. It's therefore mandatory to update proparse to this version.

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}

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-2395 Issue fixed in Repository Maintenance: Toggling checkbox properties in the Instance-Properties Grid should set Update State

Description:

SCL-2400 Resolved an issue when opening source code from ProparseTreeViewForm

Description:

SCL-2402 Fixed an issue in the Business Entity Tester

Description:

SCL-2403 .smartrepo files: Field PageKey has been exported as XML element instead of XML attribute

Description:

SCL-2407 Filtering on ObjectMasterBusinessEntity by ObjectTypeName failed

Description:

SCL-2421 RepositoryManager no longer using UseDedicatedBusinessEntity on DatasetModels when executed on Frontend

Description:

SCL-2422 Object Master Maintenance errored on "Save As" when using AppServer

Description:

SCL-2423 Fixed System.ArgumentException when launching the SmartFramework Menu

Description:

SCL-2427 Fixed on issue with CharacterType:IsNotNullOrEmpty

Description:

SCL-2428 Fixed issues with UTF8 Character decoding in the JSDO Generic Service

Description:

Improvement

SCL-2396 Grid Designer Control new refreshes the design view when switching from the Instances tab

Description:

SCL-2397 Further performance optimization in the ObjectTypeBusinessEntity

Description:

SCL-2398 Enhanced the Proparse NodeWalker so that the INodeAction implementation can cancel processing

Description:

    /**
     * Purpose: Processes a JPNode
     * Notes:
     * @param poNode The JPNode to process
     * @return Logical value indicating if the process should be cancelled
     */
    METHOD PUBLIC LOGICAL ProcessNode (poNode AS JPNode).

SCL-2430 Improved error message when SmartAttribute.LookupValues is not CHR(3) delimited

Description:

New Feature

SCL-2142 Rendering of custom (repository defined) grids

Description:

SCL-2258 Rendering support for combo-boxes in Web Viewers

Description:

SCL-2387 Application PROPATH in the JSON config file

Description:

    "environment": {
        "ensureAbsolutelPropath": true,
        "applicationPropath": [
            "../UnitTests"
        ]
    }

SCL-2399 Implemented a Cache for the ISmartRepositoryService:FetchRepositoryObject method

Description:

SCL-2404 New ProparseHelper API

Description:

    /**
     * Purpose: Returns the full text of the Node
     * Notes:   Similar to the JPNode:toStringFullText() implementation, 
     *          but without the leading comments
     * @param poNode The node to return the full text of
     * @return The full text of the node
     */
    METHOD PUBLIC STATIC CHARACTER GetFullNodeText (poNode AS JPNode):

SCL-2412 Business Entity Tester: Including INDEX-INFORMATION for Data-Source Query into DataSource Query info output

Description:

SCL-2424 Added new API to the repository Manager to locate Object Masters based on Attribute values

Description:

/**
 * Purpose: Returns a list of objects with the given attribute values
 * Notes: Useful to locate DataSource's for a given Business Entity etc.
 * @param poAttributes The DictionaryAttributeValue with the attribute values
 * @return The CharacterList with hte attribute values
 */
 METHOD PUBLIC CharacterList GetObjectsWithAttributeValues (poAttributes AS DictionaryAttributeValue).

SCL-2429 JSON Config file now provides option to translate relative PROPATH entries to absolute

Description:

SCL-2432 Created a Repository Manager API to return a single Attribute Value of an Object Master

Description:

    /**
     * Purpose: Returns a single Attribute Value assigned to an
     *          Object Master
     * Notes:
     * @param pcObjectMaster The Object Master GUID or Name
     * @param pcAttributeLabel The Attribute Label to return
     * @return The AttributeValue instance
     */
    METHOD PUBLIC AttributeValue GetObjectMasterAttributeValue (pcObjectMaster AS CHARACTER,
                                                                pcAttributeLabel AS CHARACTER).