Release 2.2

ENHANCEMENTS in Release 2.2

1. Improved User Experience -- The Getting Started page makes it easier to dive right in. The Quick Create wizard guides users to rapid success in making new apps. The user has more streamlined access to launching tasks, videos, and other materials. The layout of Platform screens is more readable, and buttons are clearly distinguished. Existing Platform users need to update their Platform application from the Application Directory to expose the new home page.
2. New Metadata APIs -- Platform now offers AJAX, REST, and SOAP methods for creating, modifying, accessing, and deleting applications and their components
3. More Platform Mobile Capabilities -- There are now two styles of mobile apps. The features available for development of mobile apps depend on the developer's license. Mobile-Web - The former "Mobile Edition" is now "Mobile-Web". It is enabled per-application. Specified application views are exposed to users, but you cannot change the look and feel of the mobile app. User login to a known URL with a mobile device redirects to the corresponding Mobile-Web application. Platform Mobile – This style supports multiple mobile apps per Platform application. Apps are created through the Mobile App Builder's drag-n-drop tools. Platform Mobile separates data access from business logic, so you can add functionality beyond the Platform application. These apps can be deployed as both native and browser-based apps.
4. Documentation Enhancements -- Platform's online documentation is now organized by categories that lead the reader through the development process. The Reference section also presents the API by categories. Access to this online documentation is located at https://documentation.infiniteblue.com/.

CHANGES in Release 2.2

Some changes in Platform behavior might require changes to existing applications:

1. Change to JSON Date Format -- The getDataField, selectQuery, and selectValue REST methods now return dates in the correct JSON format. A new parameter, useLegacyDateFormat, has been added to these methods to control the data format. This URL parameter is optional and only applies to JSON output of DATE fields. When set to false or not specified, dates are returned in the normal JSON format, such as: "Wed Mar 05 17:52:38 IST 2014". When set to true, dates are returned in a format like this example: new Date("Wed Mar 05 2014 17:52:38 (IST)").
2. Change to Portal CSS -- Platform includes a new Pacific portal CSS. New portals created in the 2.2 release use this CSS by default. You can update earlier applications by adding the body tag "class=pacific-bootstrap" to a portal's Header and Footer: Header HTML section.
3. Fix to Triggers might Change Application Behavior -- The resolution of PSC00279507 enables the checkCondition parameter of the rbf_runTrigger method. If your applications depend on the former behavior(where the condition was not tested), you might need to change the logic that invokes this method.

FIXED in Release 2.2

KNOWN ISSUES in Release 2.2

1. There is an issue with the update_2.2.0.sql script when running on the OpenEdge database. To correct it, edit the script as follows:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS RB_HELP

to be

DROP TABLE RB_HELP;

2. There are three options for deployment of Platform Mobile app – Web App, iOS App and Android app. All these three options have been documented in Platform mobile documentation. However for this release, only native deployments are available (iOS and Android). The option to deploy Platform mobile as a Web application is not available for the current release. [FIXED - May 2014]
3. Cannot use the Mozilla browser to develop mobile applications using the Platform Mobile App Builder because the login to session-enable app from Mozilla is prevented. Instead, use IE, Chrome, or Safari browsers.
4. Cannot use Refresh button in Test window to view latest data: the Refresh operation in Mobile Emulator does not update data from Platform. Instead, refresh the browser and re-login.
5. When opening a mobile app in a new tab, it opens the Mobile App Builder home page instead of an actual application's designer
6. When performing a backup of a Platform project, it does not backup Platform Mobile App Builder specific content. So, manually backup your Mobile projects from the Mobile App Builder.
7. The footer bar hangs somewhere in the middle of the screen, after the on-screen keyboard appears and disappears again when entering an input field.
8. Because of an issue with our use of JQM 1.3.2, a Popup cannot be closed when a YouTube component has been added
9. Data transfer using scp hangs part way through the process. This can result in an .ipa build never completing. If so, try again or use a local Mac machine. Meanwhile, we are currently working the issue with Apple.
10. When using an OpenEdge service or DataDirect Cloud object, you cannot update, delete, or use any filter operations against an object's data in the Platform Mobile App Builder. So, you must replicate the same objects in the Platform environment.
11. When you create, update, or delete a record and use triggers to validate the record data in After Create or Before/After Update/Delete, a failure is not reported back to the Mobile App if the validation fails.
12. For this release, avoid using the Quick Create Wizard if you plan to use mobile functionality. Mobile applications derived from an application created with the Quick Create Wizard may report an error when retrieving the application catalog.
13. Objects added to an existing application created using the Quick Create wizard may cause previous object definitions to be shown as dependent versus core objects. As a work around when viewing the overall Application definition, move the objects as appropriate using the 'Attach Object' functionality of the core and dependent objects view. Meanwhile, this will be addressed in the next release.
14. Quick Create wizard error messages might be truncated. For example, the error message, "object name is required" might appear as just "object name is ".
15. Misleading UI Shows 1:M for Hierarchical relation when using the Quick Create App Wizard: By definition Platform creates a Hierarchical relationship within the object. But when using the Quick Create App wizard to create an application, an icon depicting a hierarchical relationship is not seen in the relationship screen, instead it shows a one-to-many relationship icon.
16. New create Mobile Application option: The "Create Application" dialog includes a new option: "a New Mobile application" . This option allows you to create an application definition and launch the new Platform Mobile App builder quickly. However, the resulting mobile application will not be associated with any Platform object data unless you explicitly add objects to the application using the Platform interface. To create a mobile app that is associated with an existing Platform application, do not use this option. Instead, navigate to the "Applications Setup >Applications" page and click the name of the application for which you want to create a mobile app. Scroll down to the "Mobile Apps" section and click "New Mobile App".