Centro 7.7.0 Release Notes

Overview

Centro 7.7.0 makes improvements in the following areas.

• New catalog project view page
• Cascading update improvements
• Schedule Trigger
• Logging of admin area activities
• Minimum password length control
• Hide the Forgot Password link on the login page
• Additional permissions,
  • Delete resources
  • Change catalog part's projects
  • Create button for creating a catalog part
• Configure the maximum jobs in the pipeline host
• Manually resync out-of-sync LDAP users and roles
• Allow Started jobs to be cancelled
• Locally remembering the state of categories in the part view
• Indicate the Category when uploading resources
• Select properties via dynamic properties in pipelines

Note: Do not update the ArangoDb instance beyond ArangoDB v3.3.11. This may cause search feature to stop functioning.

Changes

Fixes were issued for:

• Admin

  • The roles section of Project permissions modal makes usage difficult with lot of roles

  • The Admin page throws exception (using Internet Explorer)

• API

  • Possible to create the Project Custom Properties/Property Sets with an empty name field via API.

  • Possible to create a project with an empty name via API

  • Endpoint GET /api/catalog/part/unique does not work

• BOM Manager

  • BOM Manager: selecting checkbox of attribute section does not select all sub attributes

  • BOM Compare inconsistencies

• Catalog

  • Catalog Parts created with the "Create" button or web API have a modified date that is earlier than creation date

  • Errors in console on PartView page when Resource does not have generate options

  • The renamed Catalog Part Name with <> shows in assembly tree only after reloading page

  • Centro Control status information is not updated in Assembly Resource Manager

  • User is able to edit Catalog Part name despite having only Read access to the part

  • User with Read only permissions can add and remove a Catalog part from a project.

  • The caret of the Tags filter in Part View is displayed on a new line with Firefox

• Check In/Check Out

  • It's impossible to check in a file with % in name.

  • CheckOut errors in Centro Catalog and in Pipelines

  • No activity recorded when a Resource is restored through an upload/check-in operation

• Installation

  • SMTP settings are re-writing after upgrading versions.

• Jobs Explorer

  • Job report modal does not display all the jobs selected by the filter in Jobs Explorer

  • Error thrown in JobsExplorer breaks UI

• Pipelines

  • When a Trigger fails to deploy, the Pipeline deployment should fail

  • Pipeline with polling directory watcher on inaccessible network drive cannot be unstaged

  • Unique constraint violated for "CatalogId" in "Cad to Catalog" Action

  • Jobs Explorer's Pipeline selection displays the list of all available Pipelines

• Projects

  • Exception in console when the Project Custom Properties description value contains percentage

  • Project permission setting button highlighting incorrect

  • The Edit Project button in the AdminArea is disabled erroneously

  • Percentage in the custom property name doesn't allow showing label on the Edit Project window

  • Location panels in Project page expands/collapses only when clicking on the name

  • The count of a Project's Catalog Parts should be singular when it is 1

  • Datepicker windows overlap each other on Projects page

• Resources

  • A part first detected as 'with-geometry' cannot not be set as 'no-geometry' in the future

  • 'Derived from an older version of CAD file' icon overlaps the filter field

  • The resource generation with a special Catalog ID throws exception

• Search

  • Deleting a 3D search removes the last item in Current Searches

  • 3DSearch: Resources are removed from ShapeSearch when deleted causing problems if they are restored

  • Missing translation of alert message for deleting 3D search

  • Advanced Search tile result display breaks when the time wraps

• SpinFire Web

  • SpinFire Web Assembly Tree does not reflect proper part hidden state when first opening a model

  • Scroll at the bottom of tree is overlapped with some element and can't be selected

  • A CATProduct assemblies that reference JT files do not show the JT model in SFW.

• Upload

  • Web app does not log error when uploading Resource fail unexpectedly

  • The '+' character is removed from the filename when uploading a resource or checking in a resource.

  • It's impossible to upload a NX type parts

• Users

  • Updating an LDAP role will remove it's external link and properties.

  • FullUser email is shown for all canned search results

  • Locked user unable to log in after lock time has expired

Installation Notes

If you have picked up the previously issued 7.6.3 and/or have had your instance manually patched by Actify support or engineering, it is unnecessary to install 7.7.0.

Important Notes

• Organizations using LDAP and upgrading to Centro 7.7.0 may run into an issue where the LDAP.ActiveDirectory.rootURL key may be duplicated in the appSettings.config file.
  
  • This may cause issues and confusion when trying to run the WebApp and when importing LDAP users.
  • Work Around:
    1. Edit C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Centro\Configuration\appSettings.config.
    2. Find and remove the duplicate LDAP.ActiveDirectory.rootURL value.
    3. Save.
    4. Restart the web app.
       
       
• Centro 7.7.0 has new permissions that govern deleting resources, changing a catalog part's project, and allowing users to manually create a catalog part.
  • In previous versions, catalog users could perform these functions.
  • In Centro 7.7.0, these permissions are defaulted as disabled; in other words, users who used these related features will not be able to use them unless their permissions have been changed accordingly.
  • Please review your organization's permissions policy surround Centro and set these accordingly.
  • See Centro 7.7.0: Additional Permissions.

Known Issues

• For more information see here

Supported Environments

It's recommended to have n+1 core processors where n is the number of total concurrent jobs running.

^† The amount of available free space is dependent on the amount and size of files and revisions uploaded as resources to the Catalog.

Prerequisite Installations

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653 
  (Note - Already included in Windows Server 2012 )
• Internet Information Services (iis)
• Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)