Releases

Release October 11th (2016-10-11)

Enhancements

added the possibility to create supported properties to hold thing types and collection of thing types
Added aggregation to M2MBridge bridges in a local area network, to achieve the configuration of this functionality, the following supported properties has been added to the amtechM2MBridge thing type
- m2mbridgeAgregationInstances The list of instances that will act as aggregators, only one aggregator by Thing type is allowed on a local area network.
- m2mbridgeAggregationTypes The list of things types that will act as source for aggregation.
Validation of M2MBridge instance
Validation of M2MBridge network
Enhancement in data representation for topics, and its navigation in UI
Enhancement in M2MBridge observation production configuration graphical navigation
Enhancement in Activity resources configuration graphical navigation
Bridge software can be downloaded by the creators from the platform (inside Sensor Network menu)

Changes

Resources with supported properties that were added or removed from their metadata appear as dirty (to be saved) in the editor and a message is shown
Security changes
- Actors in follower admin are automatically refreshed according to the services they are subscribed to. (requires only publication of the activity with new actors, and follower sign in)
Supported properties holding links to entities can now be forced to use current tenant constraint by setting to true the property forceTenantConstraint in its semantic
Add json schema as supported property validator
Observation production configuration was moved from Activity to M2MBridge
Activity configuration keep CRUD producer thing types configuration
Target topics for CRUD observations are defined by name convention (they can not be customized anymore )

Semantic changes

Removed thing types iBeacon and EddystoneBeacon, use BLEBeaconScanner instead
Changes to amtechM2mBridge thing type
- Added fields m2mbridgeAgregationInstances, m2mbridgeAggregationTypes to handle aggregations (see enhancements above).
- Added fields bridgestartedobservationconfig,bridgestoppedobservationconfig, bridgeerrorobservationconfig for bridge observation configuration
- Added fields observationproduction for observation production configuration (formerly a field of Activities)
Changes in Activities
- Remove field observationproductionconfig which is now on amtechM2mBridge
- Added field crudobservationproducers to hold the crud producer thing types.
Thing instances
- Removed field activityForObsProduction
Support for new Edge Thing Types
- ArduinoSerial
- BLEODB2Scanner
- LibeliumMeshlium
- OPCUADevice
- BLETISensorTagScanner

Bug fixes

Thing collections can not be deleted from the UI anymore
Followers have access control filter unchecked (and hidden) for thing collections in selection dialogs
Navigator breadcrumb lost root url when deleting a supported property from inside
Observation Guest tenants and guest users can now be added to thing instances inside the update actions

Core technology update

Enhancement

Validating an activity updates publish button without refreshing
Validation bridge observation configuration at follower UE
New Observation production configuration view at Activity Tree View
Activity graphical browser
Navigation will ask for confirmation regarding unsaved changes for observers, reasoners and tree editor.
Invited followers can not see the services anymore
<Enter> on pagesize input text send the refresh action
Click on access control filter will refresh the editor

Bug fixes

JsonLd button did not show from inside of thing and observation types
Issues in spatial closestResource constraint with rectangles
Fix update guest tenant for services in service screen
Change observation production configuration to validate that crud topics have no placeholders
Fix crud observations sent to new topics
Send observation from reasoners
Access control filter now works on selection dialogs

Troubleshooting

Changes

Multiple access control changes, enforcing actors in follower for validations of observation production
Changes in observation production configuration
- Multiple bridge instances allowed
- Things include the reference to the specific observation production configuration they use
Changes in access control for Topics. Topics are public and access control is enforced on observations

Semantic changes

Enhancements

An M2MBridge can be configured without the need of reasoners
Spatial fields on observer constraints activate now the “save” button on input
Access control filter is now on the editor bar for more visibility. Default value logic was improved for better user experience.
Invitations can be handled (deleted, resent) from Invite window.
The followers can see the actors assigned to them for the current tenant in their profile
Creators can edit their topics and create new ones.
The UI for followers is now similar to that for creators.
Followers can create and send observations from the simulator page
Actions on resources ( publish, delete, send, ... ) can be done now also from the resource itself
Added help link (to the related topic in AmTech wiki) to some selection windows
An activity can be published without reasoners when it has observation production configuration set
Floating menu is now at the top of the window

Bug fixes

Error in timeline when set fields to view but no field to group by
Aggregation fields work accept now several constraints on the same fields and constraints involving several aggregation fields
Issues on spatial constraints: intersect and closest resources
Changes on observer constraints were not taken into account in some cases
Use of IsRequired constraint on observation fields made observers impossible to save.
Simple search works now also on selection dialogs

Known issues

Observations sent by reasoners with action "Send Obsevation". Those observations not being delivered properly

Troubleshooting

In order to solve son compatibility issues, all creators must perform the following actions on their data :