Releases/Spring 2023

Warning

Work in progress! We are in the process of updating the information on this page. Subject to change.

The Spring 2023 release (16.0) is planned for March 2023.

Design Size button removed from view editor

We have removed the Design Size button from Woodford's view editor. This button was used to define the size of a view row. However, the pre-defined sizes are obsolete. Use Width and Height if you need to specify custom view proportions.

Report Designer: image size

When designing reports, you now have more control over image dimensions. Report Designer used to allow to specify the width of the column and the height of the row where the image is placed. With this release, you can switch to custom size and specify Width and Height directly in the image properties. Plus, the actual image has its own dimensions. How do these settings interact?

• The golden rule is: lower value applies. Essentially, treat the dimensions as upper limits.
• Aspect ratio is always preserved.
• Images are never upscaled.

Form localization improvements

Several improvements and fixes are coming when localizing various form components.

• When localizing form tabs or buttons, spaces in the names no longer cause localization problems.
• The Change Localization button now uses localization cache and is much faster.
• When localizing buttons, Woodford now asks whether you want to localize the click text or the label. Remember that labels are generally not used with buttons (they are hidden in styles). Therefore, in most scenarios, you probably want to choose and localize the click text.

Sync download performance tips

The download phase of synchronization is now summarized in the sync log in more detail. When you enable Diagnostic Sync Logs, the log includes information about the download of each entity. More importantly, it contains hints about configuration changes that can increase performance. These configuration changes should be performed in Advanced sync setup (sync config). We have also prepared a new wiki article explaining how to understand the new log entries and, more importantly, how to update the sync config and increase sync performance. See Deep dive: Sync download optimization.

<Downloader CacheSize=250MB UsedCache=251MB PausedFor=40%/>
  14:56:16 businessunit: 611 recs, 422ms
  14:56:16 systemuser: 18371 recs, 10984ms, 296ms/270K/page | Increase page (now 500)
  14:56:31 xxx_registrationgroup: 328500 recs, 293422ms + pause 83812ms, 446ms/504K/page | Increase page (now 500)    <<<< SAVING
  15:00:09 xxx_document: 14500 recs, 18124ms + pause 142329ms, 614ms/633K/page | Increase page (now 500) | Aborting
...

At the same time, we have increased the default download cache sizes.

• In the case of the Windows application, the default cache was doubled from 250 to 500MB.
• For the store apps (iOS/Android/UWP), the default is 200MB (up from 10-50MB, depending on device parameters).

This change should increase sync download performance even for users who do not want to finetune the sync config.

Guides

Statistics dashboard

Last release, we have added the collection of guide usage statistics to the app. In this release, we are adding a dashboard that visualizes collected data. You can learn:

• TBD

Add comments to steps

Users can now comment on every single step in the guides. Guide editors can review the comments in the library.

Multiselect

Managing guides is now easier than ever. Select multiple guides and perform actions in one click. For example, export multiple guides to one zip file.

Resco Cloud

OneDrive storage for Resco Cloud blobs

Blob storage for Resco Cloud - OneDrive

Azure Cosmos DB storage for server audit data

Audit data can grow large. In order not to overwhelm your organization's database, it is now possible to store audit data in the Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB. You can either use the Cosmos database provided by Resco or your own. See Server auditing for more information.

Dynamics

Permissions change

Microsoft is retiring Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Graph in favor of Microsoft Graph. This impacts the permissions required to run Resco mobile apps. Users might be required to relog or re-grant consent. Tenant administrators can proactively grant consent on behalf of mobile users. See Deprecations for more information.

FileType and ImageType support

TBD, maybe...

Reports on backend

You can now generate mobile reports from Dynamics.

Virtual entities

TBD