Release Notes

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Items requiring attention
  • Chart
    8.0.0
    The font size of InfoSQL charts have changed, review the chart to make sure it looks good.
  • Control Descriptions
    8.0.0
    A control's description will now be shown beneath the label, instead of to the right of the control.
  • Control Descriptions
    8.0.0
    Some long control descriptions have been migrated to use the new extended description feature. Do review the layout of your most important NewEdit and parameter pages.
  • Guides
    8.0.0
    Various changes in the SoftadminGuide schema. If you have custom guides, they probably need to be modified.
    SoftadminGuide.ParseParameter_Table_QuotedFullTableName has been renamed to SoftadminGuide.QuotedFullTableName.
    SoftadminGuide.ReturnCode_NoLogging has been renamed to SoftadminGuide.ReturnCode_Abort.

    SoftadminGuide.ParseParameter_Table_ObjectId has been dropped, and needs no replacement. For example, the code:
    SELECT @TableObjectId = SoftadminGuide.ParseParameter_Table_ObjectId(@InputValue);

    can be replaced with:
    SELECT @TableObjectId = @InputValue;
  • SoftadminApi.User
    8.0.0
    The UserEmail column has been changed to nvarchar.
  • SoftadminUtil.Email_ValidateEmailAddresses
    8.0.0
    The EmailAddress column has been changed to nvarchar.
Changed functionality
  • Function Blocks
    8.0.0
    "System block name" and "function block name" are now nvarchar.
  • Multipart
    8.0.0
    Parts will now respect HasHeading even in SmallScreen.
New functionality
  • Control Headings
    8.0.0
    Heading, Heading with Checkbox, and Heading (Collapsible) all now support a description which is shown underneath the heading.
  • Controls
    8.0.0
    Both Field Info and Parameter Info has a new kind of description, the extended description.
  • Database Designer
    8.0.0
    A read-only beta version of "Database designer" can now be activated.
  • Grid
    8.0.0
    Grids may now use the column "Row_ExtraTextStartExpanded" to show it's ExtraText/ExtraHtml on load.
  • InfoSQL
    8.0.0
    InfoSQL top links may now use BadgeCount.
  • SQL Functions
    8.0.0
    The scalar function SoftadminUtil.Html_CodeTag and table-valued function SoftadminUtil.Html_CodeTags can now be used to format code as HTML.
  • Validation
    8.0.0
    The email validation has been split up into "Strict" and "International". Where "International" allows any character before the "@".
Bug fixes
  • Azure Service Bus
    7.38.0.7
    Deploy would fail when using Azure Service Bus listener extra message property filters.
  • Bankgiro FTP
    7.37.0.13
    It was not possible to specify a port number for Bankgiro FTP addresses.
  • Chart
    8.0.0.2
    Some parts of stacked bar charts would not be rendered if the series was not present for the first x-value.
  • Chart
    8.0.0.5
    XY charts would crash if XAxis was supplied but no XAxis values were supplied.
  • Chart
    8.0.0.5
    Y-axis value labels could overflow the label for the whole Y-axis when using a wide info box width and high aspect ratio.
  • Database designer
    8.0.0.4
    Import from database would fail if multiple tables in a schema had "MS_Description".
  • Deploy
    8.0.0.9
    Deploy could not be performed to SQL Server 2016.
  • Grid
    7.38.0.4
    Column headings with fixed width would now have less space for the text, it should be the same as before.
  • Grid
    7.38.0.6
    The heading row would be hidden by the aggregate row when the grid contained no results.
  • Grid
    7.38.0.12
    Grid rows would sometimes be partially hidden in grouped grids when the setting UseAccessibilityMode was toggled on.
  • Grid
    8.0.0.7
    System icons would be shown on their own lines when used together with cell links.
  • Grid
    8.0.0.12
    Column labels ending with a number would be layouted with the number before the rest of the label when the columns cell alignment was set to "right".
  • Guide
    8.0.0.9
    Some guides could not find tables in the table search.
  • HTML Editor
    7.38.0.1
    The browser would cache an old CSS for the HTML editor.
  • Icons
    7.38.0.4
    The "Shield" icon changed appearance.
  • Job
    7.38.0.5
    Jobs using inline SQL that did not start with EXEC or a procedure name would crash.
  • Map
    7.38.0.1
    The map would crash when attempting to create or alter fieldinformation during a sync.
  • Multi-listbox
    7.37.0.12
    Multi-listbox would only report its first selected value in dependencies, even when more than one was selected.
  • Multirow
    7.37.0.12
    Multirow column titles could overlap if they were very long.
  • Multirow
    7.37.0.13
    Non-admin users could right-click multirow column headers to edit, but since they lack permission to edit field info, an error dialog would appear.
  • Multirow
    8.0.0.10
    A multirow that was hidden could still show a few pixels from one of its controls.
  • Node Graph
    7.38.0.2
    BodyHtml would treat line breaks as column dividers.
  • Notifications
    7.38.0.10
    The "dismiss" button would sometimes overlap the notification text.
  • OpenID & SAML SSO
    7.38.0.10
    SSO could not be established if HTTPS-encryption of the client's connection was applied by a load balancer (and thus invisible to Softadmin).
  • Parameter Input
    7.38.0.9
    When a page used "to-the-right-of" to position a parameter, the right-side parameter got focus on load instead of the first.
  • Parameter page
    8.0.0.10
    Parameter headings using the collapsible heading type could not be submitted unless expanded.
  • Performance center
    7.38.0.1
    The job 'Archive aggregated performance log data' would crash.
  • Radio cards
    7.38.0.10
    Small and medium sized radio cards would wrap after only two cards.
  • Sidebar
    8.0.0.8
    A clickable but invisible logo would cover part of the menu item when the sidebar was minimized.
  • SoftadminUtil.P27_Camt_054_001_02_Parse
    7.38.0.11
    SoftadminUtil.P27_Camt_054_001_02_Parse would ignore information from the ultimate debtor.
  • System requirements
    7.38.0.2
    Deploy to SQL Server 2016 would fail.
  • Transfer bundles
    7.38.0.8
    Some field validations disappeared from target system when importing a transfer bundle.
  • Zip Archive
    7.37.0.14
    The zip archive component would crash when unzipping a file that was smaller in size than a previous file in the same batch.