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Updates for version 5.2.0-develop

Note that on ECMWF machines, you need to load the 'dev' module of ecflow to get the 5.2.0 test version:

module swap ecflow/5.2.0-develop
ecflow_ui

This version of ecFlow should only be used for testing!

Installation date 2019-12-16

AreaDescriptionNotes
Job status panelNew feature: a new tab called Job status was added to the Info panel to run and display the output of the --status command on a given node.

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ShortcutsNew feature: A number of tree navigation and node context menu shortcuts were added to ecFlowUI. To get a full overview of the available shortcuts use: Help → Keyboard shortcuts ...

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Popup dialogs

New feature: The list of visible context menu actions to open a given tab of the info panel in a popup dialog is now customisable from:

Tools → Preferences → Menus → Info panel

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Label styling

New feature: styling is available to labels using four predefined categories: Default, Error, Warning and Info. Each non-Default category is identified by regexp pattern matching on the full contents of the label (name + text). The label style can be fully customised via:

Tools → Preferences → Appearance → Node Labels.

By default the Default style is used (the other ones are disabled).

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Icons/flags

New feature: new icons representing server log and checkpoint file error flags were added to the tree/table views. At the same time the meaning of the 'slow disk write' icon changed. The table below gives details about all these icons (available on servers only) :

IconDescriptionAssociated flagHow to clear flag from context menu?
Image AddedError in opening/writing to logLOG_ERRORSpecial → Clear log error flag
Image AddedError in opening/writing to checkpoint fileCHECKPT_ERRORSpecial → Clear checkpoint error flag
Image AddedSlow checkpoint file writingLATESpecial → Clear late (=slow) checkpoint flag



Output panelNew feature: added button to show/hide the line numbers in the Output info panel.

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Context menu

Improvement: renamed the Sort submenu in the node context menu as Sort peers to indicate that the sorting takes place on the level of the node (and not within its children).

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Node searchNew feature:  added KILLCMD_FAILED and STATUSCMD_FAILED flags to search options


Node searchFix: fixed issue when server variables did not appear the in the node search results.


Updates for version 4.17.0

AreaDescriptionNotes
Date/Time attributesNew feature: date and time attributes which are holding the given node are decorated with an icon and rendered with dark red colour. This colour can be changed via: Tools → Preferences → Appearance → Attributes → Times and Dates.

Limits

New feature: added button to kill tasks consuming a given limit from the edit limit dialogue.

Table viewNew feature: added toggle button to table view to control if the view should automatically scroll to the current selection when it is resorted after a server refresh. The default option is to automatically scroll to the selection.

Table viewNew feature: the sort order and the sort column in the table view is now saved on exit and restored on startup.

Timeline viewNew feature: the timeline view can now read compressed (.gz, .Z) server logs in archive mode .

RepeatsFix: fixed issue when repeat date with only one date  started with ... in the tree view.
Table viewFix: fixed issue when sorting was not correctly performed in the table view after server refresh.

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