Release v3.17.0

General

• Property type metadata keys with allowed values now support sort order.
• Improved core metadata functionality with ability to support allowed values defined in the internal property type.
• Standardized check for allowed values when saving items with core metadata fields.

Machine design

• New icon for IOC type machine elements.
• Restricted editing of IOC items to only allow the ioc view and ioc API for editing.
  • Redirect to IOC view page for edit.

IOC Specific Functionality

• General
  • DB static data now includes a new IOC entity type.
  • Standard ioc metadata such as:
    • Machine Tag
    • Function Tag
    • Deployment Status
    • Preboot, postboot, powercycle, and addtional markdown instructions.
  • Ability to simply link and unlink a machine parent.
  • Simplified removal of IOC items without needing to detach from hierarchy as other machine items.
  • Ensure that IOC names are unique within the machine design.
  • Machine parent not required for an IOC item.
• Portal
  • Ability to search for IOCs and some metadata (machine, function, deployment status) from list page.
  • Specialized IOC create page with machine tags, function tags, deployment status and parent.
  • Ability to clone IOC items along with all the metadata by default.
  • Ability to save configured columns for IOC list.
  • Promoted owner user of the IOC on the IOC details section.
  • Specialized IOC instructions dialog
    • Static sections for preboot, post boot, and powercycle with relevant placeholder examples.
    • An addition markdown free entry section.
    • Uses standard text field part of markdown property type.
    • Uses a parser to appropriately split the data into seperate fields for UI and API.
    • Restricted to no uploads within ioc instructions.
    • Standardized way to creating customized markdown dialog extension with support for pasting URLs similarly as the standard markdown dialog.
• API
  • Ability to add and update IOC items and its metadata
  • Ability to fetch all IOC items
  • Ability to fetch allowed metadata values such as machine tags, function tags, and deployment statues.
  • Admin API to convert an existing machine IOC to an IOC type machine. Cleans up IOC item to ensure no special machine functionality exists.

Cable Design

• Add support for clone
  • Clones endpoints by default
  • Clones cable metadata by default.

App Domain

• Add support for clone

CLI

• Migration to click for prompting interactive choices. Removed inquirerpy dependency.

Bug fixes

• Clone properties now supports cloning markdown property

Patch Release v3.16.2

General

• Add a local Conda build of API/CLI and not rely on pypi deployed version.

API

• Ability to fetch item connectors.
• Ability to add/modify/delete cable endpoints in cable design.
• Ability to update primary cable endpoints in cable design.
• Ability to fetch machine design item with location.
• Ability to fetch cable design by id with connection locations.
• Ability to detach machine design from hierarchy.
• Improved cable design endpoint validation such as connector used only once, cable end needs matching, prevent delete primary endpoint, etc.
• Updated docs for new APIs
• Tests for all new APIs

Cable Design

• Cable designs now support qrids (column disabled by default).
• Improved Cable Design add wizard
  • Add functionality to set a default values for a new cable design per user.
  • Resolve stuck on cable type selection screen.
  • Remove links on cable type selection screen.
  • Resolve "cancel" on enter key press.
  • Improved defaults.

Bug fixes

• Resolve Item Membership bug showing invalid parent item when same catalog item is displayed more than once. #1704
• Resolve CDB CLI session key permission. #1711
• Resolve text attribute of property value not syncing from API. #1707

Full Changelog: v3.16.1...v3.16.2

Patch Release v3.16.1

API Enhancements

• Add ability to add a cable design item with endpoints defined.
• Add ability to modify a cable design item with endpoints.
• Ability to update cable design metadata.
• Ability to fetch all cable designs with optional flag to fetch connections.
  • Cable design by id and name return with connections.
• Cable catalog items (from cable catalog API) now returned connectors.
• Tests and documentation for new functionality.
• Improve Structure of python API tests.

Bug Fixes

• Resolve error 500 when accessing certain IOC machine details pages.

Release v3.16.0

Markdown Property Type Handler

• DB Changes
  • Text field for property values.
  • Property value attachment list reference and retention of original file name.
• Markdown functionality
  • Edit/Preview Mode
  • Render markdown in dialog.
  • Markdown help dialog and placeholder text.
  • Ability to paste images into markdown text and upload/reference attachments.
  • Separate filesystem directory for uploads.
  • Application specific reference for attachments independent of application deployment configuration.

General

• Improved browser re-loading of resources such as css and js files by providing a unique version number. (No shift+refresh required)
• Utilize original filename storage for log attachments

Bug Fixes

• Resolve issue with editing connector ends on cable catalog details page.

Full Changelog: v3.15.9...v3.16.0

Patch Release v3.15.9

Deployment Procedure Improvements

• Remove dependency of python2.
  • Disable building of python2 for standard cdb deployment.
  • Update supporting scripts for deployment of cdb plugins.
  • Update supporting script for generating local password hash during the db creation.
  • "soft" deprecate the legacy python web service by removing it from the deployment instructions.
• Better documentation in Readme for dependencies, deployment and new documentation for troubleshooting, upgrading, etc.
• Update the scripts to use mariadb client binaries instead of mysql.
• Resolve db connection string to use the updated mariadb lib in the payara configuration script.

Other

• Resolve filtering of property values from machine design details page.
• Add additional MAARC fields to ensure MAARC item name uniqueness.

Patch Release v3.15.8

General Improvements

• Assembly element representing machine element now show appropriate membership to machine design.
  • Also get redirected to machine design when qr code of such inventory is scanned.
• Jump to qrid text box in menubar now supports jump to id as well as jump to QrId.
• Allow editing of "installed qrid" on the machine details page in addition to the current list page.

API Enhancements

• Add new MAARC API to support
  • Ability to search MAARC item by name and id.
  • Ability to create a new maarc parent/child item.
  • Ability to create a MAARC relationship.
• API to un-assign a machine from its template.

Bug Fixes.

• Use the relevant element name in the tooltip for promoted machine elements (Represented by part name: ..).
• Prevent promoted machine elements on multiple levels.

Other

• Improve the style to line up all fields on item details panel grid.
• Add support to populate additional columns in the preImport.py cable import script. @nda-anl

Patch Release v3.15.7

General

• Hide 'update installed qrid' button from machine list view when machine is representing assembly element.

Bug Fixes

• Resolve unable to fulfill machine elements from template multi-edit when list property column is enabled.
• Handle processing element representation for machines without assembly parents.
• Handle unlinking represented element from machine hierarchy import spreadsheet.

Patch Release v3.15.6

General

• Allow sort order for item category and item type.

Machine Design

• Provide a way to scan in new installed item directly in machine design hierarchy.
• Add ability to update represented item element from import spreadsheet.
• Redirect installed inventory directly to machine element when qr code scanned for installed inventory.
• Allow assignment of app items as installed items in machine design.
• Un-assign machine from template
  • Provide dialog that allows selection of which machines in a branch should be unassigned from machine template.

App Domain

• Add 'Browse by Apps'
  • Filter by app type and tag.
  • Also allow filtering by owner user.
• Rename category/type to app type + tag.
• Updated cdbcli set properties module to allow property deletion. @jpqatanl

Bug fixes

• Use item permission of parent item for item element delete on assembly item edit page instead of item element permission.
• Resolve possible null exception on browse by page when checking item type list.

Patch Release v3.15.5

General

• Added administrative page for fetching any import template. Thanks @craigmcchesney
• New link in menubar for applications.

Control Hierarchy

• Resolve issues with adding multilevel non-global control relationship with similar nodes in both variations.
  • Use parent relationship id instead of parent name to identify the relationship.
  • Update the import script to use the relationship id for entering new control relationships.
  • Update fetching children to provide relationship to parent id and use it for fetching children.
  • Resolve fetching parents from search results to follow parent relationship id if applicable.
  • Resolve API to support new way of fetching relationships for items as well as sort relationship lists by top level parent.
  • Resolve adding non-global control relationship to search result node.
• Support XLSX format for the control hierarchy import utility.

API

• Add ability to Delete Properties using API.
• Add ability to create apps using API.

CLI

• Added a few extra commands for adding, getting and setting properties. Thanks @jpqatanl

Bug fixes

• Resolve issue with conversion of wildcard to regex used by CDB.
• Resolve issue with searching item metadata field and the filter sometimes ignoring other filters.
• Resolve issue with importing users. Thanks @craigmcchesney
• Resolve issue with exporting name column for inventory elements list.
• Resolve issue with generating PDMLink json in the CDB API wrapper for PDMLink plugin.

Patch Release v3.15.4

Bug Fixes.

• Resolve issue with parsing results from PDMLink Plugin.
• Resolve circular reference check stored procedures giving false positives.

Other

• Update gson lib to latest version.