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AreaDescriptionNotes
Triggers

New feature: the Triggers panel was completely redesigned to display a table-based representation of triggers.

See Viewing dependencies
 
Refresh

New feature: the refresh server button in the left hand side of the toolbar was turned into a more advanced widget providing better interaction to and more details of the refresh process of the selected server. The new interface comprises of the following components (from left to right):

  • refresh button
  • label with the server name
  • progress bar showing the countdown to the next automatic refresh. It also displays the total length of the current refresh period.
  • label showing the time of the last server refresh (hidden by default in automatic refresh mode)

The properties of this widget  (e.g. the visibility of the last refresh time) can be controlled from the dialogue in  Tools → Preferences → Appearance → Toolbar

 

 

 

Context menu

New feature: a menu mode was added to control what commands are actually shown in the node context menu. The menu mode has these three categories:

  • User (default)
  • Operator
  • Administrator

The Operator and Administrator modes allow suites to be begun, nodes to be removed and servers to be unlocked. Administrator mode additionally enables the Force and Order menus.

The current menu mode is displayed in the window title bar of ecFlowUI.

To change the menu mode use: Tools → Preferences → Menus → Toolbar                 

 

Suite filter

New feature: the Filter only this suite action was added to the Special menu of the node context menu in the Tree view. With this action we can quickly redefine the suite filter on the current server to filter only the suite of the selected node.

 
SearchNew feature: a new column called Status changed, showing the last status change of the nodes, was added to the search results view 
ZombiesNew feature: if we double click on an item or select the Look up in tree action from the context menu in the Zombies pane the node in question becomes selected in the tree view 
PreferencesNew feature: the Preferences dialogue was moved form the Edit menu to Tools. At the same time the Edit menu itself was removed. 
Node logNew feature: log entries can now be copied into the clipboard using the context menu 
Edit panelImprovement: the Submit as alias option in the Edit info panel was turned converted into a checkbox from a  (previously it was a push button)

WindowsFix: fixed issue when closing one multiple windows caused a crash 
Why panelFix: fixed issue when clicking on generated variables in the Why output panel did not make them selected in the Tree view 

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Installation date 2017-05-12 (version 4.6.1)

AreaDescriptionNotes
Info panelNew feature: all attributes of the selected node are now displayed in the 'Info' info panel 
StartupImprovement: when the server list file is ill-formatted a dialogue pops up with the list of errors on startup. When closing this dialogue ecFlowUI exits and users are asked to resolve the problems in the server list file manually then start ecFlowUI again. 
Startup

Fix: fixed issue where a crash happened during startup on ecgate

 
Tree viewFix: fixed issue where a crash happened when clicking on a server in the tree view 
Tree viewFix: fixed issue where multiline labels overlapped other attributes in tree view 

 

Updates for version 4.6.0

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