Flowlink Cipher 1.2
This section describes all changes made to the application in the 1.2 series of releases.
1.2.0
February 2022
Enhancements
Flowlink Cipher
Computed Datasets | |
| The function "Flow Conversion" has been renamed to "Data Points: Level to Flow". The function "Flow Area Conversion" has been renamed to "Data Points: Level to Area". |
| A Volume Conversion function has been added to the Computed Datasets screen. This function takes a Flow Rate dataset as input and computes a volume for each input data point. The output volume dataset can then be used in the Statistics function or in a Site Statistics report to produce total flow values at a user-specified interval.
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| The Computed Datasets screen now offers eight different functions for computing a new Flow Rate dataset.
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Dashboard | |
| A dashboard can now be shared with other users. Each dashboard now has a private / shared control. The Dashboard Configuration dialog box provides a list of Your Dashboards and Shared Dashboards. When a dashboard is shared, other users can select it from a list and create their own copy of the dashboard. This copy can then be modified for their purposes without affecting the original copy of the dashboard maintained by the owner.
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| The functions for adding gadgets to a dashboard as well as adding, deleting and renaming dashboards have been improved. Buttons for switching between existing dashboards now appear at the top of the dashboard screen. A new menu provides functions to add gadgets, add a new dashboard and rename a dashboard.
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Export | |
| Cipher now has a new Export tab on the Sites screen. This process allows the user to select one or more sites to export data points to a Cipher CSV file. Options are provided to select the datasets to export as well as units, precision, and the time range for the data to be exported. Each site is exported to its own CSV file. When multiple sites are exported, the CSV files are combined into a ZIP file.
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General Application | |
| The fields for filtering the table of events on the Alarms screen and the Events tab of the site information screen are now the same: Site, Event Type, Event State, Start Time, End Time. |
| The columns that appear in the table of events on the Alarms screen and the Events tab of the site information screen are now the same: Site, Event Type, Event State, Start Time, End Time, Details, Event Message. |
Graphs | |
| The toolbar of the main graph screen now has a "Save as graph" function for saving the existing graph as a new graph with a user defined name. The new graph will open in edit mode to allow the user to modify the graph as needed before completing the creation of the graph.
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| Error codes are now displayed in the tooltip when viewing a graph in the main graph screen, and in the tooltip in the graph and site gadgets on the dashboard. The error codes are also displayed in the table in the main graph screen.
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| Site and device names have been removed from the tooltips in the main graph screen as well as the tooltips in the graph and site gadgets on the dashboard. This improves the readability of the tooltip and reduces the clutter in the graph, especially on smaller screens.
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| When a scatterplot is in Edit mode, a new Select Outliers toolbar button is available. When a best fit curve has been added to a scatterplot, the Select Outliers function will select all of the points that fall outside of the curve's limit lines.
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| A new Manual Edit function has been added to the Edit toolbar on the main graph screen. To use this new function: - Enter edit mode. - Select a single point. - Click the Manual Edit button. - Using the mouse, click and drag the point up or down. As the point is dragged to a new value, the cursor tooltip and the Y-axis tooltip will display the value.
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Logging | |
| When a user account is assigned to a tenant, the entry in the System Log in the Settings screen has been updated to indicate which user account was changed and the account's new tenant. |
| A reports-log.log file is now available in the Logs tab of the Settings screen. This new log will contain messages relating to report generation by a user or from the scheduler system. |
| The System Log now contains an entry when a new user account is created and when the account setup was completed by the new user. |
| The entries in the System Log and the site Logs are now appended with the label (UTC) as a reminder to the users that the log entries are UTC and not the time zone of the user or the device. |
Reports | |
| The PDF output from the Site Statistics report and the Basic Health report now uses landscape orientation instead of portrait orientation. Both reports have several columns of information and are now more readable in landscape orientation. |
| The default time interval in step 4 of the Site Statistics Report has been changed to 1 Day. Previously the default was 15 minutes.
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| The Site Statistics report now includes the values "Minimum Value Time" and "Maximum Value Time" in the summary table at the bottom of the report. These represent the date and time of the minimum and maximum statistical values, for each statistic, included in the report's table. |
Scheduler | |
| The new Scheduler tool includes the option to generate a basic health report. The job does not require selecting any additional parameters. All sites that your account has access to will be included in the report.
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| Flowlink Cipher now provides a Scheduler tool that can be used to generate site statistics and health reports on recurring time intervals. The reports are sent by email to the user account that created the scheduled job, by default, and optionally to other user accounts in Cipher or external email addresses.
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| The new Scheduler tool includes the option to generate a site statistics report. The job requires selecting the site and a reports template that defines the preferred quantities, statistics and time period.
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Sites | |
| The Data Import Utility in the Sites screen now supports the DDP file format. |
User Accounts | |
| The Data Error Handling option for graphs will now be set to Interpolate by default for new user accounts added to Cipher. This option can be found in the Preferences tab of the user profile screen. |
| A new user who has received an email with the invitation to register their account now has one week to respond. Previously the registration needed to be completed within 24 hours. |
Maintenance
Flowlink Cipher
Alarms | |
| The site gadget now correctly displays the count of Active + Acknowledged data alarms for the site. When the sum of Active + Acknowledged data alarms is zero the site gadget will not be outlined with red color. |
Computed Datasets | |
| The DryFlow function panel will no longer remember some of the parameters that were defined after the function panel is closed and opened again. |
| The Math Expression function will now hide the Delete buttons for the terms when there are only two terms in the equation because the equation requires at least two terms. If the user needs to replace a quantity in a term, a different quantity can be dragged into the term field. |
Dashboard | |
| In some cases the count of Active + Acknowledged alarms displayed on the site gadget on the dashboard and on the site card in the Sites screen would not match. This has been fixed. |
| The count of Data type alarms displayed in the blue badge on the dashboard site gadget will now update automatically when the site gadget updates on its preset regular interval. Previously the graph in the site gadget would update on the regular interval but not the alarm count. |
| Previously there were cases where the gadgets on the dashboard would not populate due to a large volume of unresolved alarms in the database. This has been fixed. |
| The function Acknowledge All Alarms on the site gadget on the dashboard is now correctly changing the Active event status for all Data events to Acknowledged. This function is accessed from the "Site has alarms" icon located in the lower-right corner of the gadget. |
| A site gadget on the dashboard can now be changed to display a different site. Previously, the site gadget would not draw the data for the new site if a different site was applied in the gadget. |
| The gadgets on the dashboard will now redraw when the scale of the dashboard changes causing all of the gadgets to resize. |
Events | |
| When changing the Event Status of an event in the Alarms screen table, the filter and pagination no longer reset when the change is completed. |
General Application | |
| The left sidebar menu items will now remain highlighted in blue when the sidebar is collapsed or when changing the tab or screen displayed for the currently selected menu item. |
| Several screens throughout Cipher provide a drop-down list of available sites, listed alphabetically. Site names that begin with a lowercase letter were being displayed at the bottom of these lists. To ensure correct sort order, site lists are no longer case sensitive. |
Graphs | |
| The Sort by Name function for graph tiles on the Analysis screen will now sort the tiles as expected for graphs that have their titles changed. Previously, when graphs had their titles updated, the Sort by Name function would still use the original name for sorting. Existing graphs with title changes will need to have their titles updated again fort the sorting to work as expected. |
| The Export graph to PDF function can now be executed with only the graph table open and the graph view turned off. Previously, the function would only run if the graph view was enabled. |
| The computation of the best fit curve for a scatterplot in edit mode is now working as expected. Previously, when stepping through the data in a scatterplot using the navigation controls sometimes the best fit curve would not compute and would display as flat lines along the X-axis. This has been fixed. |
| In the main graph screen, the Go Home function will now return the graph to the same start-end time frame that was defined by the Set Home function. Previously, the Go Home function was incorrectly applying a UTC offset to the local time zone. This has been fixed. |
Map | |
| The Zoom In / Zoom Out buttons in the upper-left corner of the Map screen are now working as expected. |
Reports | |
| In the Site Statistics Report, the Sum statistic for Flow Rate type datasets has been replaced with a Volume statistic. When the Volume statistic is selected, the function offers metric and imperial volume units. |
Sites | |
| Frequent updates were being sent to site cards on the Sites screen when Cipher was ingesting data. If a user had the drop panel expanded for a card at the time that an update was received, the panel would automatically retract. This has been fixed by reducing the frequency of site card updating during data ingestion. |
Tenants | |
| The tenant site count limit can no longer be exceeded by changing the tenant of a site on the site card or in the site information screen. |
| The Site Count Limit setting when combined for all tenants in an instance can now exceed the license limit of the instance. This allows a new tenant to be created and a Site Count Limit set for that tenant, even if the active site count limit for the license has been reached. Previously, setting the Site Count Limit on a new tenant when the license limit had been reached would have generated an error message. The combined number of active sites in all tenants in the instance is still restricted to the license limit. For example, an instance with a license limit of 30 sites could contain 4 tenants, each with a Site Count Limit of 10, but those tenants could not all contain 10 active sites because their combined total would exceed the license limit. |
User Accounts | |
| A user can no longer disable the control for receiving email notifications in their account profile before they have confirmed the subscription to the notifications. Previously, if the user attempted to turn off the email notification option before confirming the subscription with the confirmation message from Amazon Web Services, an error message would appear. |
| The Mobile number field in the user profile screen now includes a list of countries which sets the country code required for the correct formatting of the mobile number. When the country code is set and the mobile number entered, the Text notifications option becomes available and can be enabled for the user to receive text notifications.
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| The sysadmin account is now required to modify the sysadmin account information. |