Ignition Release Notes
Fixes, changes and features In Ignition
Version 8.0.14
Released June 23, 2020Area
Change Type
Description
Ignition Platform
Alarm Gateway
Fixed
Fixed an issue where calculated rosters would use gateway-scoped system functions instead of project-scoped versions.
Alarm Voice
Fixed
Fixed: Voice Notification Module no longer drops subsequent calls for alarm when previous call exceeds lifespan.
Designer
Fixed
Reintroduced the "Update Mode" heading under Vision > General Project Properties.
Designer
Fixed
Fixed an issue where display scaling would cause some visual issues with the designer's login screen on Windows systems.
Designer
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the Multi-Instance Wizard would load parameters from the wrong provider.
EAM
Fixed
An expired Agent can now be licensed via EAM "Activate License" task or Managed License Keys "Assign". This only requires that the Agent be on the latest version of Ignition that contains this fix.
Gateway
Changed
Disabled unused JSP servlet
Gateway
Fixed
Restoring from a backup now correctly lays down third-party Perspective themes
Gateway
Feature
Added a new setting that allows ignition to ask an Identity Provider to re-authenticate users.
Gateway
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Email Notification Profiles not configured to use an SMTP profile would fail to send emails via TLS.
Misc
Fixed
Fixed an improperly encoded apostrophe character in the EULA
Project System
Fixed
Fixed an issue with OEM Locked project conversion on upgrade.
Scripting
Fixed
Fixed an issue where auditing context would not be automatically provided when using system.util.audit() from Perspective.
Scripting
Fixed
There is now validation that prevents the usage of system names during the creation or renaming of a script or package. If there is a clash of a script or package name with a system name, the gateway will now start/restart and throw an error in the logs.
Scripting
Fixed
Fixed an issue where tag reads from a 7.9 remote tag provider pointing at an 8.0 tag provider would fail if called from the gateway scope.
Tags
Fixed
A managed tag provider that has been shutdown will lead to issues if a new instance with the same name is retrieved later. [SDK]
Tags
Fixed
Fixed an issue where folders added implicitly through the system.tag.configure or system.tag.importTags scripting functions were not marked as "started", resulting in issues when trying to restart tags below them.
Tags
Fixed
Fixed an issue where making a change to a default legacy simulator programs would result in bad quality on existing subscriptions.
Tags
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Derived and Reference tags in UDTs were retrieving full tag paths to the UDT definition instead of relative tag paths when browsing for member in the same UDT.
Tags
Fixed
Fixed an issue where wildcard subscriptions wouldn't work with Remote Tag Providers.
Tags
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the "Max Time Between Records" setting on 7.9 tags did not upgrade properly to the 8.0 "Max Time Between Samples" setting.
Tags
Fixed
Fixed an issue where an incorrect overlay was used when a tag is set to read-only.
OPC-UA
Client
Fixed
Fixed an issue where OPC client connections would fail after a gateway restart in cases where the Discovery and Endpoint addresses were identical.
Gateway Web Interface
Feature
Added a Trust Certificate step to the OPC UA discovery wizard.
Perspective
Components
Feature
SignaturePad Component onSignatureSubmitted component event has a new event argument: signatureFile.signatureFile has properties for name, size, as well as functions for copyTo(filePath) and getBytes(). These new properties, and functions work exactly like the File Upload Component's onFileReceived component event's event.file.
Components
Fixed
Fixed an issue with the pagination controls on the Perspective Alarm Status Table when switching from the Shelved tab to the Active tab.
Components
Fixed
Perspective alarm table display path conditional filter should fallback to source path
Components
Fixed
Fixed an issue where row subviews would disappear when a row style object was added.
Components
Feature
New embedded view component: Accordion Component. The Accordion Component allows the embedding of expandable/collapsible views which can be toggled with a click or a tap of their headers. The headers may contain text, or be their own views for further customization.
Components
Fixed
Dropdown Component - the value displayed in a Dropdown Component with multiSelect equals false no longer has a different background color than the rest of the component. This was a regression in 8.0.13.
Components
Fixed
Fixed an issue where a File Upload component placed in a flex container was preventing other components from being placed added in the same flex container.
Components
Fixed
Fixed an issue where iOS devices would always format dates in tables and charts as "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSS", regardless of the configured format.
Components
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the perspective table component’s right-click “copy” option wouldn’t work.
Gateway
Feature
Perspective fonts, icons, and themes are now restored from backups
Reporting
Components
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the simple table component would not properly render when nested inside a table.
Components
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the crosstab component would not properly render when nested inside a table.
Vision
Client
Fixed
Fixed an issue where cached results from the Tag Historian min/max aggregation query would not include all data based on return size and values inside the aggregated window.
Client
Fixed
Prevents a silent error when launching a Vision Client with a menu bar containing no items, while the menu bar is set to be hidden.
Components
Fixed
Fixed typo in Duration Format tooltip for Alarm Status Table
Components
Fixed
Now when binding a tag to the "Fill Paint" property of a "Shape", it will no longer throw a "ClassCastException" error. Also, when a window is opened with the same shape and bound color, it will not throw the error either.
Components
Fixed
Fixed an issue where boolean columns in the Power Table's dataset would ignore the configureCell extension function.
Components
Fixed
Vision query bindings with an absolute polling rate of 0 will now execute a single time instead of as quickly as possible.
Components
Fixed
Prevents an issue that caused Sum and Diff Calculated Pens on the Easy Chart to incorrectly calculate their datapoints.
Components
Fixed
The Equipment Schedule component no longer throws an exception when the Items dataset is missing the Label column
Designer
Fixed
Fixed alignment for named query conversion dialog.