Program
BIOVIA Foundation
Operating System
All supported operating systems
Description
We are providing this Technical Note to inform you about the release of BIOVIA Foundation 2021 HF8 which includes the following enhancements and fixed defects:
Enhancements
There are no new Enhancements for this release.
Fixed Defects
This release of BIOVIA Foundation includes the following fixed defects.
| Defect | Description |
|---|---|
| SEC-9115 | Improved the coordination between Hub and Pipeline Pilot when switching collaborative spaces. Now, when switching spaces, Pipeline Pilot will remove the invalid Hub access token from its cache which will force retrieval of a new token when the next protocol is run. This will enable protocols to run in the context of the newly selected collaborative space. |
| DAT-12301 | USCup, tbsp, tsp & ptIMP units imported from CISPro have an incorrect conversion divisor. The CISPro base unit for volume is Liter while Hub's base unit for volume is cubic meter. |
| DAT-13027 | A new task plan cannot be created when attempting to assign a certificate to a Receipt Lot. |
| DAT-13710 | Crawler job definition records are not archived by the message archiver. |
| DAT-14448 | Collection amounts entered for child samples are not correctly deducted from their Parent sample amounts if the Source is a Container that uses “eachAmount” units, but the Parent and Child samples instead use “Fill” units. |
| DAT-15199 | Sample Split dialog should prompt for storage requirement and not the storage condition. |
| DAT-15241 | If child samples are created and edited before samples are collected, the property values of the parent sample overwrite the edited property values of the child samples. |
| DAT-15901 | When you configure Foundation you can specify an alias to use for a server. However, if you later edit the configuration, Foundation changes the rooturl and sslrooturl to the servername instead of using the alias name. A workaround is to edit the app-config.groovy file by changing the rooturl and sslrooturl to point to the alias name, and then restart the HUB service. |
| DAT-15924 | In a load-balanced environment, the Host name in the Configuration page and corresponding entry in the HUB_NODE database table must use the same upper/lower case convention, or the Foundation service will fail to start and may display the following error: 'ORA-00001: unique constraint (HUBUSER.HUB_NODE_UK) violated'. |
| DAT-16101 | The AutoComplete dropdown field for EquipmentClass\Type on the Foundation Activity page does not always apply the value clicked by the user. The workaround is to type the entire value. |
| DAT-16451 | Task Planner does not display results for procedure tasks that contain more than one input sample parameter. |
| DAT-17476 | In the BIOVIA test lab, Hub performance slows when 20 or more users in the system are simultaneously and continuously sending task requests with $expand=$policy (typically task widgets) to a single server. |
| DAT-18063 | The Create Task from Activity and the Create Task from Activity Plan windows display a double set of scroll bars if the browser window is not large enough to display the full height of the window. |
| DAT-19731 | The view event page within the History window does not correctly display the print window in some situations. |
| DAT-20683 | System incorrectly displays special characters in Admin and Settings Locations page and Equipment. |
| DAT-20754 | When a Retest Task is unassigned, the system should also remove the Analyst Task Plan value. |
| DAT-20822 | Task Plan's Activity Plan tab incorrectly pivots on Attribute columns. |
| DAT-20996 | Changes to the Sample Source field in the Edit Sample dialog box are not reflected in the Master Sample property. |
| DAT-21031 | The system incorrectly populates a task's Method Version field with the version of the Activity. |
| DAT-21051 | When an activity parameter's unit is changed independently of setting the limit, the task parameter may be created with the wrong unit. |
| DAT-21074 | The description of cloning a Hub configuration in the Hub Installation Guide is partially incorrect. Please contact BIOVIA Support before cloning a Hub configuration. |
| DAT-21165 | The system incorrectly prevents the Activity author from setting Sample Size and Sample Size Unit for Procedure Activities. |
| DAT-21193 | Hub incorrectly assigns a new ID for each Activity Plan version. The Activity Plan ID should remain constant across versions. |
| DAT-21236 | Hub Activity page incorrectly blocks the removal of Activity Cost entries for Data Acquisition and Protocol Activities. |
| DAT-21262 | An Admin with "Manage Any Taskplan" permission does not have access to the dialog box required to update released task plans. Consequently, if a task plan with no collaborator group is released and its Owner/Creator becomes unavailable, the only way to update the task plan is through the API. |
| SEC-5450 | It is possible to get duplicate equipment reading mappings in a data acquisition activity by mapping two Activity Parameters to the same Equipment Reading Mapping. If this is done, only the results for the first parameter are retrieved. |
| SEC-6186 | If a field in a data packet is named "instrument sample id" (case insensitive), the Data Preview page cannot open the measurement because of a conflict with a default field name. |
| SEC-6293 | It is not possible to upload a file attachment when performing an ad hoc metrology event. |
| SEC-6319 | The activity version is not displayed when assigning an activity to an equipment event type, which makes it difficult to assign the correct activity version. |
| SEC-6474 | Task-level parameter values are duplicated in the Activity Results tab when a data acquisition task is executed and a CSV file is uploaded from the data preview page. |
| SEC-6631 | Account credentials must be entered during installation of the Empower or Chromeleon Add-In. The password is displayed in plain text when the Test button is clicked in the installer and when the Add-In registers with Hub. |
| SEC-6681 | Capture Hub incorrectly passes the Container ID into the first process result parameter defined on the Task. As a result, the Task Plan Results tab displays the Container ID for the first process results parameter and not the value entered in Capture Hub. |
| SEC-6746 | The client IP address may contain extra addresses when traffic between the client computer and the server passes through proxy servers. The client IP address will be the first IP address in the list. |
| SEC-6794 | The Collect Sample action incorrectly decrements the CISPro container's net quantity if the sample and container have mismatched units (for example, Box, Cases, Each) for the Each unit type. |
| SEC-6921 | Measurements with > 10,000 rows can take several minutes to display in the measurement viewer. |
| SEC-7063 | If the lifecycle policy assignment is removed for an equipment record, the record can no longer be transitioned from the Active state to the Upgrading state. |
| SEC-7071 | Hub landing page and navigation bar are not fully functional for an account that has only Foundation/Logon permission. Workaround: Clicking on the BIOVIA icon to reload the Landing Page allows the user to expand the Navigation bar and use the first-level menu icons. |
| SEC-7093 | Deleting a user directory that has synchronization with Microsoft Active Directory throws a generic error. |
| SEC-7099 | In some situations, the keystore information may not be present on the Hub Configuration page in Admin & Settings following an upgrade to 2021 HF3. Hub will still be functional but the keystore settings will not be displayed on the page. After upgrading, review the Hub Configuration page and re-apply the keystore settings if they are missing. |
| SEC-7100 | Configuring an Active Directory user directory with "username" bound to "cn" prevents login. |
| SEC-7186 | If a user switches collaborative spaces and then runs a protocol such as the pivoted results protocol, the protocol does not recognize the change to the collaborative space. The user must sign out and sign back in to run the protocol. |
| DAT-12352 | The Hub Configuration page allows you to restart the server without prompting you to save any changes you have made. |
| DAT-13347 | In Edit mode, the Vocabularies page displays only the first 200 entries. Workaround: To edit vocabularies with more than 200 entries, use the Admin & Settings Vocabulary Entries page at (replace <server> and <port> with the values for your deployment): https://<server>:<port>/foundation/hub/admin#/setting/Vocabulary%20Entries. |
| DAT-14249 | The "Text Name" field of a Unit is limited to 50 characters. |
| DAT-14260 | When some Foundation Hub grids are filtered the item count is not adjusted. Additionally, if the original list was large (for example more than 200 items), but the result of applying the filter is small, empty pages are displayed when the user clicks the Next or Last buttons to page through the results. |
| DAT-14470 | The Task tab's Correction Needed button is always disabled for Procedure tasks, but is enabled for Data Acquisition tasks. Users can, however, request corrections for Procedure tasks by choosing that option from the Review page. |
| DAT-14519 | When you sort a Task Planner grid based on a column that includes a value and units, such as hrs and days, the units are disregarded. |
| DAT-15938 | In Foundation Hub, you can set up an Equipment Type with a Reading whose Parse Method is Regular Expression, but the Chrome browser does not always parse certain blank characters (like CR, LF) correctly. The workaround is to use a different browser such as Internet Explorer to set up such readings. |
| DAT-17537 | The Tasks widget provides a second horizontal scroll bar when the Filter panel is expanded. For some browser window sizes, this scroll bar is not always visible, which makes it difficult to scroll horizontally. Workaround: minimize the task filter to remove the extra scroll bar. |
| DAT-19606 | When invalid sample IDs are added while editing a task, the error message is displayed only after clicking submit twice. The first click does not cause an error message to display. |
| DAT-20442 | Activity plan grid incorrectly allows non-integer characters in the upper limit and lower limit fields on a condition of type integer. |
| SEC-4398 | BadAccessToken messages are logged at the WARN level in Foundation Hub. These messages do not cause any issues, but do make it more difficult to find important error information in the log files. |
| SEC-4844 | If Kerberos authentication is enabled, users get an "Unauthorized" error message after they sign out of the application. |
| SEC-4884 | On Chinese Windows Server 2012, selecting "Foundation" authentication in Pipeline Pilot Admin causes Kerberos authentication fields to be displayed. |
| SEC-5067 | Foundation cannot register third-party Pipeline Pilot packages that do not specify a version number. Consequently, those packages cannot use Foundation for authentication. |
| SEC-5894 | Modifying user directory attribute mappings in a load balanced deployment requires a restart of all nodes to ensure that the new mappings are propagated properly. |
| SEC-5923 | It should be possible to change the role (Relationship Type field) of a group's Related User by editing the group, but the role can be changed only by editing the user. |
| SEC-6004 | The BIOVIA\Foundation\webapps\embedded\WEB-INF\classes\resources\data folder should not contain a file titled 'IDS_Equipment_Types_18_1_0_bug.zip'. |
| SEC-6374 | Empower: Sending more than 85 results fails if a report is selected and the "Consolidate All Results into Single Report" option is not selected. The request fails because the length is too long. Workaround: always select the Consolidate Results option when sending more than 85 results. |
| SEC-6605 | Empower: Importing samples and sending results fails when the Empower user account has only one role defined in Empower. In this situation the logs will show error code 292. Workaround: assign a second Empower role to the user account. |
| SEC-6614 | The Chromeleon Add-In sends results for sequences with components. If a sequence that has no components is sent, the empty results file causes a parser error for the equipment work item. This issue can be verified by viewing the CSV file attached to the equipment work item. Workaround: ensure that the Chromeleon sequence has defined components before sending results. |
| SEC-6638 | Due to security requirements of the BIOVIA Foundation Hub service, the Empower and Chromeleon Add-Ins are required to use TLS 1.2 to connect to Hub. If you run the Empower Add-In with an Empower client installation on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, or Microsoft Windows 7, you must enable TLS 1.2 support in the operating system. However, if you use Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or later, or Microsoft Windows 8 or later, TLS 1.2 is enabled by default. For more information about enabling TLS 1.2 on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2, see Microsoft knowledge base article KB4019276. |
| SEC-6755 | The Empower Add-In 2020 SP1 HF2 installer Test button always fails and should not be used. Workaround: Entering credentials and clicking Next to register with the Hub server succeeds if the address and credentials are correct. |
| SEC-6792 | The Sample Import page shows all Empower custom fields that match output parameters in the task plan. However, it imports only sample-level custom fields. |
| DAT-14302 | Using the mouse scroll wheel to move through a list of entries can cause the list to close. |
| SEC-6680 | The domain setting in the User Directory administration page cannot be edited after the domain is created. |
Resolution
BIOVIA Foundation 2021 HF8 was released in 28 April 2023 and is a controlled availability release. To get access to this release, please contact BIOVIA Support.
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