Difference between revisions of "Version 3.6 (WinX)"

New features

• Position and Orientation information of separate source systems (GPS, Compass, AR-Markers, etc.) are now combined based on their probabilistic error levels using an Extended Kalman Filter.
• UBIK^® is now able to remember the scroll position of a list view when browsing through the content hierarchy. Additional configuration is necessary in XAML customizings in order to activate this.
• The feature of remembering user credentials is redesigned.
• More UI parts are now fully customizable.
  • The status bar as UBIKGlobalStatusBar.xaml.
  • The bottom bar as UBIKGlobalBottomBar.xaml.
  • The login/start page as UBIKStartArea.xaml.
  • The child page as UBIKContentArea.xaml.
  • The details page as UBIKDetailsArea.xaml.
  • The document page as UBIKDocumentArea.xaml.
• It is now possible to use external Bluetooth RFID Readers to scan RFID Tags in UBIK.
• The not found offline query criteria are now ignored.
• It's now possible to use multi bindings in XAML for simple compound bindings. Note: This is not a replacement of the existing EvalExpression which is able to handle complex expression evaluations.
• A new property LinkedLevel on the PropertyListItemViewModel loads and delivers a full PageViewModel of the linked object of a Guid property.
• It is now possible to attach documents to the content creation wizard.
• Added the FileDetailsClassification to provide additional information about an uploaded file.
• An InvokeOnItemsCommand is now available to execute a specified command on list items.
• Added the Archive3DModelClassification to enable downloading 3D models including additional files like textures.
• By default, the selective items are now sorted alphabetically in the ascending order based on their display texts. However, one can customize the sorting as well.
• The AppStatus ViewModel now has a bindable LiveDateTime property, that delivers and refreshes the current date and time, every second.

Enhancements

• Simplified and improved the bindings to TemplateService and its templates. See Xaml Changes.
• Developer Mode related:
  • The shortcut key to activate the developer mode is changed from F12 to Ctrl+F12 (to reduce activations by accident and to avoid conflicts with other applications).
  • Improved ToString representations of collections to make finding data easier.
  • When switching between different stages, one can see different parts (area, item, etc.) highlighted. This now also supports custom named templates such as UBIKChildArea_WP.
  • When using the Edit XAML Template button, a copy of the default template can be deployed to the custom XAML folder. This now also supports custom named templates.
  • Added a member "InfrastructureObjects" to "AppStatus" which is available in every view model. This allows administrators to do quick checks whether the infrastructure objects they expect are actually delivered from the service.
  • Added an Edit UBIKThemes button for fast and easy access to the custom/default UBIKThemes.xaml file, see details here.
  • The developer mode stage information is now shown in the app's title instead of notifications.
• Improved the performance and responsiveness when loading large lists. As a result, removed the previous workaround which allowed setting a limit on the max number of displayed child items (e.g. <x:Int32 x:Key="MaxItemsInList">500</x:Int32> in UBIKThemes).
• Added a toggle setting to turn on a strict template loading policy to help customizers spot potentially missing templates.
• The Schedule (Gantt) control now allows to configure it's Date format through a new property DateTimeFormat, examples on valid format strings can be found e.g. here.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the app did not navigate when users click on the right half of zoomed out list items.
• Fixed an issue where OCR Definitions ("TAG_Chars.xml) generated through the experimental TagReader App could not be used by the client anymore.
• Fixed an issue where OCR letters with holes (e.g. O, B, 8 etc.) were misinterpreted.
• Fixed an issue where the app crashed when opening the guid editor using the property wizard.
• Fixed an issue where configured barcode formats were not read correctly from the profile, thus the app always used QR codes only after restart.
• Fixed an issue in the back navigation behavior in the type browser of the developer mode.
• Fixed a confusing filtering behavior in the type browser of the developer mode.
• Fixed an issue where branch download containing a large number of document files was extremely slow.
• Fixed an issue where some localized texts were not used.
• Fixed an issue where the Cancel button in the XAML overwrite dialog did not work.
• Fixed an issue where the app did not properly navigate to the object when a user clicked on items in a zoomed out list.
• Fixed an issue where the app always displayed the zoomed in list view even if a user switched to the zoomed out one in the same app session.

Known issues

• Project specific resources defined in UBIKThemes might not take effect immediately after switching profiles. Restarting the app solves the problem.
• If a device has multiple cameras of exactly the same model (e.g. Microsoft HD 3000), the wrong one might be used during remote support calls.
• The AR Marker related features are resource intense and can cause the app to slow down on weaker tablets.