Ignition Release Notes for Version 8.1.4

AB Suite

Connectivity

Fixed a bug that could lead to the Logix driver being stuck in "Idle" state.

Connectivity

Fixed a bug that lead to many "opc-ua-executor" threads trying to schedule processor status requests in legacy ControlLogix and CompactLogix drivers.

Connectivity

Updated all Logix driver descriptions to make compatible firmware versions more clear.

Connectivity

Fixed a bug in Logix driver metrics that prevented read requests for arrays from being counted in throughput measurement.

Alarm Notification

Data Model

Alarm Pipeline script blocks now execute in the context of the project the pipeline belongs to, not the Gateway Scripting Project.

Data Model

Shelved alarms were becoming unshelved when an alarm event transitions to "finished", such as when acked and cleared, or when the live event limit is exceeded. The path will now only be removed from the shelf when the alarm is deleted (or it expires naturally).

BACNet

Connectivity

Allow discovery timeout to be configured.

Connectivity

Fixed a bug decoding BACnet DateTime values with an unspecified month.

Connectivity

Fixed a bug when using COV that resulted in the Present_Value property of LargeAnalogValue objects to report a value of 0.

Connectivity

Support reading and writing BACnet Null values.

Deployment

Infrastructure

Docker Image now responds properly to container stop commands (i.e. `docker stop <container_name>`) and performs gateway shutdown.

Infrastructure

Docker Image now uses a healthcheck that doesn't conflict with use of gwcmd.sh

EAM

Enterprise

8.x EAM controller did not upgrade all modules when upgrading a 7.9 gateway to a later 7.9 version.

Enterprise

The EAM Send Project task can now be configured to combine inherited project resources into a single project on target agents.

OPC-Classic

Connectivity

Added additional logging for OPC-DCOM value change events under DataChangeDispatcher.

OPC-UA

Connectivity

Fixed a regression which prevented nodes from being listed under the OPC UA client subscription diagnostics page.

Perspective

Visualization - Web

Time Series component will no longer continuously resize when placed in a Flex Container.

Visualization - Web

Reselecting components only if they were previously selected when their qualities change.

Visualization - Web

Radio Group Component - a new prop for radioStyle has been added, allowing for CSS styling including padding, and margins of radios within the Radio Group component. In addition, the align prop now works correctly when orientation is set to 'row'.

Visualization - Web

Radio Group bound property values remain intact while reopening views.

Visualization - Web

Popup title now translates correctly based on session locale

Visualization - Web

Perspective Radio Group component: write the actual radio value following user interaction and not the event target value which is always a string. The value of the `value` property no longer changes twice as the result of a single change initiated by user interaction. This will now trigger a property change script to execute only once.

Visualization - Web

Perspective Designer - Component Selection highlighting correctly updates when switching between Column Breakpoints.

Visualization - Web

Perspective Dashboard component: provide a `pack` property that disables the widget packing algorithm

Visualization - Web

Perspective Checkbox Component: onClick event will now fire once per click instead of twice.

Visualization - Web

One Shot Button now works with primitive values - string, boolean, number, and null for value and setValue props

Visualization - Web

Numeric Entry Field component now correctly removes invalidStyles when its value goes from invalid to valid

Visualization - Web

New view setting to control whether object parameters are merged in with or replace default values.

Visualization - Web

Map component Marker Tooltips will now only show on mobile devices if the permanent property is enabled, compared to how they were previously incorrectly showing when the Marker was interacted with.

Visualization - Web

Added system.perspective.getProjectInfo() scripting method. Also available on the session object.

Visualization - Web

In the property editor, added menus to assist with synchronizing template instance parameters and schema property suggestions.

Visualization - Web

Added new property to the Alarm Status Table called "selection". This property allows the user to configure how many table rows can be selected at a time on both the active and shelved tabs of the alarms displayed on the table, as well as creating a read-only list of the currently selected alarms and its details for active and shelved respectively.

Visualization - Web

Added support for the On Screen Keyboard in Perspective Workstation

Visualization - Web

Checkbox Component and other uses of Perspective's internal Icon Renderer should no longer display the wrong icon (such as unchecked when a Checkbox is checked) in rare situations.

Visualization - Web

Date and Dataset values are now encoded correctly when specified as view parameters using dock, navigate, and popup actions.

Visualization - Web

Dates and Datasets can now be passed as parameters using system.perspective.openPopup(), togglePopup(), dock() and navigate() when specifying a view.

Visualization - Web

Docked flex-based views in browser session now appropriately scale based on viewport dimensions

Visualization - Web

Docked Panels are now able to expand to 100% of the viewport device

Visualization - Web

Docked views should now scroll properly when viewport reaches appropriate size

Visualization - Web

Fixed deadlock in Perspective theme manager

Visualization - Web

Fixed issue where property paths given to Popup, Dock, and Navigation actions were erroring out and not completing specified action

Visualization - Web

Fixed issues with Perspective property change scripts. Change scripts on arrays could be invoked once per item and did not handle flood control: added 'missedEvents' flag.

Visualization - Web

Fixed minor rendering issue in Page selection tree which rendered empty directories as views

Platform - Alarms

Data Model

Fixed an issue that would cause the Internal Alarm Journal to truncate all logged data upon gateway restart.

Platform - Designer

Visualization - Swing

Column headers in the designer's tag browser no longer scroll with the tree/table: they remain visible at the top

Platform - Expressions

Platform

New expression: typeOf(value) reveals the datatype of the argument value

Platform - Gateway Network

Enterprise

Remote History Providers and Remote Alarms now work in Maker

Enterprise

Use of Remote Tag Providers are now allowed in Make Edition.

Platform - IdP + User Sources

Security

Added 'unsupported browser' page for vision designer/client IDP logins

Platform - Licensing

Security

"Unrecognized edition 'null' for tag historian module license" message no longer shows on the `TagHistoryLicense` logger on a properly licensed Maker edition Gateway. Also, history provider for a database will have no longer show a status of `Demo Expired` on a properly licensed Maker edition Gateway.

Platform - Scripting

Platform

system.alarm.* functions now work without Vision module being installed.

Platform

Fixed an issue where scripts inside packages could not be given the same name as other scripts at the root level.

Platform - Security Model

Security

Designer and Vision Clients now perform the same SSL / TLS security checks as the launchers, and are now bootstrapped with the same trusted SSL / TLS certificates as the launchers.

Security

JX browser instances now trust the same SSL / TLS certificates as the runtime in which they are encapsulated (includes Perspective Workstation, Perspective Designer View Workspace, and the Web Browser module) in addition to the OS trusted certificates

Platform - Tags

Data Model

UDT Instance are no longer sorted separately from other tags.

Data Model

Unsupported calls to store annotations on remote providers are handled more gracefully. Instead of throwing an NPE, the result for each path pointing to a remote provider will be a QualifiedValue with Bad/Unsupported Quality Code and diagnostic message "Remote tag history providers do not support annotation storage"

Data Model

Status tags on redundant backups do not have the latest values available on them when backup is not active. This prevents the monitoring of such tags through OPC-UA while gateway is not active.

Data Model

Set correct UDT Parameter data types when upgrading from 7.9 to 8.1.

Data Model

Fixed an issue where tags defined with the "Default Historical" Historical Scanclass in 7.9 were incorrectly converted to use the "On Change" Sample Mode instead of "Tag Group" after upgrading to 8.x.

Data Model

Fixed a bug which would sometimes cause an error to be thrown when tags are loaded on gateway startup.

Data Model

Fix a bug that caused un-leased OPC tags belonging to a leased tag group with a slow rate of 0 to run as fast as the server allowed instead. Only reproducible on redundant systems.

Data Model

Changes to a tag's alarm configuration aren't always evaluated immediately upon save- the value must change by more than the deadband before the correct state will be established. This has been changed so that the current state is evaluated immediately.

Data Model

Browse results across remote tag providers have incorrect provider name in the node description's fullPath property.

Data Model

Better support for changing TagType through scripting and prevent modifying TagType of UDT Definitions and inherited nodes.

Platform - Web Interface

Visualization - Web

Added an Exit Login button to the Login page to give users a way to cancel the login process if needed

Reporting

Visualization - Swing

Fixed issue that caused the "Reverse Sort" option on a Row Selector Tree filter to not serialize

Tag Historian

Data Model

Added support for querying and storing tag history annotations using remote providers.

Data Model

Added support for remote syncing annotations that are stored to the local historian.

Data Model

Added support for tag retirement within the local historian. In addition, any tags that are now retired locally will be synced properly to a remote historian if using data sync.

Data Model

Error when executing a query against the DB Table Historian with multiple pens that have various keycolumn/keyvalue values defined.

Vision

Visualization - Swing

Classic login panel and IDP login panel in Vision client are now translatable.

Visualization - Swing

Datasets with java.sql.Timestamp columns now can be used in Vision charts

Web Dev

Data Model

Designer export of webdev resources now displays the full path of each resource.

Data Model

Fixed issue that prevented manual editing of a WebDev mounted folder resource's target path

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