Release Notes

24.3

Features

  • Java & DFC Compatibility: Added support for Java 17 and DFC 24.x.

  • Enhanced Groups & Roles in Repository Navigator: New functionality includes filtered views, group membership management, group and role search, ability to add multiple groups to a group, and additional hints for ease of use.

  • User Management in Repository Navigator: Users can now be created, edited, deleted, activated/deactivated, assigned to groups, and added to multiple groups. Additional enhancements include filtered views, user search, and multiple hints for better usability.

Improvements, Changes

  • Improved Inline Documentation: Updates include tree options for users, status bar improvements, added hints, and new shortcuts.

  • Enhanced Compare Data Tool: Now includes options to save comparison matches and improved export functionality.

  • Field Editing with Lookup Dialog: Added a lookup dialog for functions and parameters in the edit field.

  • Object Navigator Filter: New filter functionality now available in Object Navigator.

  • DQL Execution Shortcut in Repository Navigator: Use Enter/Ctrl+Enter to add a DQL template query to the DQL window and execute it according to the selected execution option.

Fixes

  • Various issues identified during development have been resolved.

  • Improve auto-complete behavior

  • Improve performance of the query retrieving job reports

24.2.1

Fixes

  • Fixed expand more than two levels in Types not working

  • Fixed autoformat corrupts the name of the object type if contain in name a keyword

24.2

Features

  • Filtering data is now available in the Repository Navigator for Folders, Types, Groups, and Favorites.

Improvements, Changes

  • Redesign of the Favorites functionality

  • Grid improvements

  • Import/export CSV using RFC 4180 standard

Fixes

  • Fixed importing documents that contains spaces and other not-letter characters in Folder Navigator.

  • Various issues identified during development have been resolved.

24.1.1

Fixes

  • Fixed case sensitive data comparison when using mapping lists: compared cells from the column with a case-insensitive mapping list applied are reported wrongly as modified.

  • Fixed displaying the filter dialog in the results grid when using multiple screen configurations.

  • Fixed editing Types within the Repository Navigator.

24.1

Features

  • Utilization of mapping lists is now supported.

  • New comparison tool

    • Compare data from repository with data from external sources

    • Synchronize data after comparation

  • Users will receive notifications when a new version of dqMan becomes available.

Improvements, Changes

  • Enhanced comparison functionality using mapping lists.

  • A comparison summary feature has been introduced.

  • Users can now export differences to Excel for further analysis.

  • Hints for mapped values have been added to improve user experience.

  • Filtering in comparison data has been enhanced to easily identify differences.

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where users were unable to view registered tables when utilizing the describe command

  • Fixed issue where users couldn't utilize the "Insert datacolumn" option from the context menu after adding a second data source to the script generator.

  • Fixed issue where users experienced alterations to datetime formats when exporting results in .xls format

  • Fixed the issue where users encountered an error window when attempting to close a tab with multiple tabs open while using the Windows Theme.

23.2

Features

  • Allow DFC to reference external jar files

Improvements, Changes

  • Capitalize words AND/OR when using autoformat

  • Selection and autodetection of the format when importing data

Fixes

  • Fixed case-sensitive search on object dump

  • Fixed displaying data values with ampersands in the error messages.

  • Fixed sorting attributes in the context menu when generating scripts.

  • Fixed using Alt + F for autoformat queries

  • Small fix in the query syntax checker

23.1

Features

  • Java parameters

  • Use of colors for session tabs depending on the user@repository

  • Survey, renew & discount coupons pop-ups

Improvements, Changes

  • Allow_base_type_change parameter added to auto-complete value list

  • Mouse hint for Session tabs

  • Alphabetically ordered items in context menu of Script Generator

  • Update existing favorites by adding the possibility to edit a created one or to save a edited one with a new name

  • Alphabetically ordered items in context menu of Object Navigator, DQL Results list and Repository Navigator

  • Changed the name of dqMan to dqMan OpenText Documentum Edition

  • Session Alias used for Jobs Window

  • Specific icons for each child bar

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where when copying a query and paste it in a text box, the auto-format will be lost.

  • Fixed issue when the mouse pointer is placed on (%type%) and wrong variables values are displayed

  • Fixed issue when unlinking objects results in deleting them.

  • Fixed issue that when you dump and destroy an object using two different sessions will not notice you that you have destroyed it and dump will still work on that object.

  • Fixed issue when you try to dump using "ALT + D" and nothing happens.

  • Fixed issue where round brackets, ticks , etc. are set twice without checking. They can be now activated/deactivated from Options.

  • Fixed the issue when query cannot be executed after ";".

  • Fixed issue where translations are no longer shown in Object Navigator.

  • Fixed an issue where column width in Joblist do not save the custom width made by user.

  • Fixed issued when the context menus are missing for the inline editor for repeating attributes in DQL result grid and Object Navigator.

  • Fixed issue when autocomplete replace automatically "from" with "from_addr" which resulted into an error.

  • Fixed issue when generating a Group Script from Repository Navigator does not work.

  • Fixed issue with function when trying to export content from dqMan does not work.

  • Fixed issue with the Script Editor where dragging and dropping a script file would throw an error unless the Script Navigator had been opened previously.

  • Fixed issue when Script Generator stops after 187.245 lines and returns Chinese characters.

  • Fixed issue in API script when a fixed scrollbar remains stuck after resizing API Script.

  • Fixed issue of toolbar when font scaling is over 175%.

  • Fixed issue when trying to minimize/maximize the sub-window of dqMan.

22.2

Features

  • Command line tools dqDQL and dqAPI for executing DQL and API Scripts called from shell scripts/batch files

  • Code folding/collapsing/outlining in DQL Editor

  • Refactored DQL code parser (improved syntax highlighter, auto-complete)

  • Copying code from dqMan preserves syntax highlight colors when pasted into applications supporting HTML text (Microsoft Office, webapps in webbrowser, etc.) - useful for emailing or documenting code while maintaining easy readability due to syntax coloring

  • Custom tab colors for highlighting/marking individual tabs

  • Session functions for flushing the various cache types (main menu Functions/Flush Caches)

  • Edit Java and DFC paths directly in the UI in case the auto-detect algorithm fails to detect some of the required prerequisites' locations on first start

Improvements, Changes

  • Improved Script Editor to automatically jump to where the script got paused during execution (having been manually being paused, hitting an error or reaching a breakpoint)

  • Improved Script Editor to detect the script type (DQL/API) when scripts are dropped into the editor (prevously this only worked for scripts opened directly from Script Navigator)

  • Improved column auto-spacing for Connections Panel in Object Navigator

  • Improved performance when saving/loading (very large) queries to session user history

  • Improved/changed navigation in History Panel to be consistent with currently active history item and History Back/Next buttons in the main toolbar

  • Improved Favorites and Session/Object Functions lists to display an additional column stating the source of the respective item (Default, User or Shared configuration file)

  • Improved Favorites and Session/Object Functions lists to also be able to export Shared items when using Export to File

  • improvements to auto-complete of dqMan user defined API variables when the cursor is between %...% characters in API Script Editor, Generate Script (API mode), API code in Object/Session Functions

  • Improved UI light/dark themes' consistency across various user interface elements where theme specific colors did not exist previously or were not always applied correctly (certain texts, scrollbars, grids, highlight colors etc.)

  • Improved DFC auto-detection when dqMan is deployed directly on a Content Server machine

  • Improved description and organisation of Result Grid/Data Grid context menu item Mark Lines and its submenu items to make the intended purpose and usage of these commands less ambiguous

  • Consolidated dqMan translation and identifier definitions to dedicated configuration files dqManTranslations.xml and dqManIdentifiers.xml. Previously these elements could be defined in multiple existing configuration files, often containing redundant information. User editable templates of these files are also provided in the %appdata%\dqMan\config folder

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where the Jobs window would behave inconsistently when refreshing, sometimes resetting the state of all the controls to default

  • Fixed issue with slow refresh (several seconds) of Jobs window

  • Fixed issue with scripts using *nix/LF type line endings

  • Fixed CSV export from Results Grid failing to export non-latin characters correctly to the resulting file

  • Fixed issue with script files opened from Script Navigator displaying only the first line immediately after having been loaded

  • Fixed issue where dumping another object from an already opened dump window threw an error saying the object was not accessible, despite the dump being performed and the data being displayed correctly

  • Fixed some scaling issues when using multiple monitors having different scaling settings and moving dqMan dialogs between them

  • Fixed issue where copying and pasting a value from the Result Grid into the DQL Editor inserted a new line after the value

  • Fixed an issue where changes to a license on the server were not registered by dqMan

  • Fixed an issue where dqMan was unable to save the session query history files if the Documentum user name contained characters which Windows did not allow to be used in filenames

  • Fixed an issue where searching in the History Panel would automatically add unwanted partial search terms to the search history as the user was typing the search terms

  • Fixed issue where the History Panel list/scrollbar could get "stuck" to the mouse cursor following and reacting to the cursor's movements even though the cursor was elsewhere in the application

  • Fixed issue where trying to Search in the Compare Objects window threw an access violation error

  • Fixed issue with the Script Editor where dragging and dropping a script file would throw an error unless the Script Navigator had been opened previously

  • Fixed DQL Editor throwing "Missing right parenthesis for statement Options" error in some cases when running queries containing template fields

  • Fixed non-working Go To dialog opened from Result Grid header row context menu item "..."

  • Fixed issue where the Favorites tree in the Repository Navigator would get populated with the same Favorites items more than once

  • Fixed 2 crashes that could occur while the dqMan process was loaded in memory at addresses above the 4GB range (triggered by right-click action in Script Log window and spinner control in Import from File/Clipboard dialog)

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