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This page contains new features and fixed issues for each QPR ProcessAnalyzer release. For information on the compatibility of different versions, see [[QPR ProcessAnalyzer Version Compatibility|Version Compatibility Information]].
This page lists all new features and fixed issues for each QPR ProcessAnalyzer release.


== Next Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.8 (planned release date 2020-11-10) ==
== Next Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.4 (planned release date 2024-05-14) ==
 
'''Features:'''
 
'''Fixed issues:'''
* D-14084: Filter rule for first/last event in case couldn't be edited if there were more than one event selected.
* D-14091: Duration multi-unit didn't work in big data chart.
* D-14085: Measure/dimension/column settings dialog didn't open for Event attribute when drop-down list values weren't selected.
* D-14095: Flowchart sometimes crashed with color mapping in use to an event type measure with null values.
* D-14094: Measure unit was incorrectly shown for textual values and the unit could not be changed.
* D-14096: Highcharts tooltip square icons were slightly misaliged.
* D-14100: In Workspace, project bread crumbs didn't update when moving the selected project.
* D-14099: There was a console warnings when opening the business calendar dialog.
* D-14097: In Workspace, added progress spinner to prevent starting a new operation while the previous is still in progress.
 
== Latest Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.3 (build 5801) (released 2024-04-04) ==
 
'''Features:'''
* B-08024: [[Design_Diagram|Design diagram]] has now swimlanes and BPMN expanded subprocesses. Also indirect flows can be included when calculating flow measures.
* B-08242: Script based [[Actions_to_Run_Script_in_Table|actions]] can be started from dashboard table context menu, extending dashboard functionality to e.g., create tickets, trigger automation, and fetch external information.
* B-08268: (1) In Overview flowchart preset, flow width visualizes now case volumes instead of flow duration. (2) When converting Snowflake expression into custom, the expression filter is preserved and not embedded into the custom expression.
* B-08288: Added expression language functions to [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Objects_in_Expression_Language#Start|start and stop]] scripts.
* B-08252: When Analyzed objects is cases, event attribute values are filtered with the native event attribute filter rules instead of expression based filter rules.
* B-07906: Implemented cross joins to SQL dataframes.
* B-08267: Simplified Task log additional parameters by moving query parameters to the root level.
* B-08221: Snowflake query performance has been improved by using cached filters to build new filters.
* B-08231: Snowflake performance improved by splitting object counts (shown in header) query into two, so that the filtered object count query uses eventlog caching.
* B-08250: Business calendar calculation also takes into account calendars with overlapping periods.
* B-03047: Removed support for dashboard panels.
* B-08214: Removed unused columns from the PA_VIEW table.
* B-08254: Frontend components have been updated.
* B-08255: Backend components have been updated.
* B-08233: Language translations have been updated to 2024.3.
 
'''Fixed issues:'''
* D-14048: Fixed issue where in-memory root causes analysis for case attributes didn't show attributes with ShortString data type.
* D-14035: In design diagram, BPMN event and gateway symbols are now circular.
* D-14049: Added some missing translations for table column filter and BPMN editor.
* D-14021: FindRootCauses function WeightingExpression was run in incorrect context for in-memory model.
* D-14020: Query which goes from EventTypes to Cases did not show the error when using GetValueFrom function.
* D-13976: Fixed issue where gateway-based imports were not synchronous.
* D-13689: Fixed JavaScript error in Highcharts polar chart with tooltips.
* D-12614: Highcharts gives "Maximum call stack size exceeded" error in bar chart with polar and data labels.
* D-14060: Highcharts custom layout translatable properties incorrectly changed chart configuration by translating the labels.
* D-14071: Business calendar button press caused error when user didn't have access to any model.
* D-14041: Manager Users dialog "Has password" field filter shows now Yes/No texts instead of true/false.
* D-11268: There were inconsistent button colors in Workspace.
* D-12264: Disabled stacked and polar charts for donut, packed bubble, sankey, dependency wheel, word cloud, and gantt charts.
* D-14066: Fixed issue when EventTypes, Events.IncomingFlowOccurrence fails because there is event type filtering in in-memory model.
* D-14081: Fixed null references error when logging null in expression script.
 
== Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.2 (build 5509) (released 2024-02-27) ==
 
'''Features:'''
 
* B-06280: User management dialog shows whether users have password defined and unnecessary passwords can be removed to improve security.
 
'''Fixed issues:'''
 
* D-14045: Fixed issue where users with Viewer or Analyzer role couldn't create filters in Snowflake models.
 
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.2 (build 5438) (released 2024-02-21) ==


'''Notes:'''
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The [[QPR ProcessAnalyzer Version Compatibility|database major version]] will change in QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.8, which means that earlier QPR ProcessAnalyzer releases are not compatible with the database that has been updated to QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.8. This needs to be taken into account in those environments where multiple versions of QPR ProcessAnalyzer server are run using the same database.
Known issue: Snowflake models and dashboards don't work with Viewer and Analyzer role permisions. The reason is that cache tables created to Snowflake incorrectly require the write permissions. Workaround is to give users the Designer role which will give the needed permissions. Note that the Designer role gives many permissions to the user for the project [[Roles_and_Permissions#Roles_and_Permissions|(more information)]]. This issue has been fixed in the next release (D-14045).
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The legacy User permissions report (analysis number 11) and Filters report (analysis number 30) used in SQL scripts have been removed. Use instead the expressions language to query filters and user permissions, e.g., [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Objects_in_Expression_Language#Filter|Models.Filters]] and [[Generic_Properties_in_Expression_Language#RoleAssignments|RoleAssignments]] property.
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New version of the Design diagram component has been improved with object-specific measures, and the previous common measures are not migrated into object-specific measures. Thus, the measures need to be configured again, or manually edit the chart json settings (if needed please ask instructions from QPR CustomerCare).
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'''Features:'''
'''Features:'''
* B-08022: Design diagram supports now BPMN notation, elbow style flows and object-specific measures.
* B-08232: Entire future eventlogs can be [[Create_Predicted_Eventlog|predicted]] based on generative AI models running in Snowflake.
* B-08166: Added expression language function [[Generic_Functions_in_QPR_ProcessAnalyzer#OpenAIChatCompletion|OpenAIChatCompletion]] to answer natural language prompts based on OpenAI ChatGPT API.
* B-08177: Snowflake query performance has been improved by introducing caching of filtered eventlogs using Snowflake tables.
* B-08196: Conditional formatting rules can be defined for [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Table#Textual_equal_rules_for_background_color|textual and boolean values]].
* B-08213: Big data chart expressions event type selections to be multi-select where applicable.
* B-08205: Expression language API is available for storing [[Storing_Secrets_for_Scripts|secrets]] for scripts.
* B-07780: Chart [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Chart#Variable_mappings|variable mappings]] has been removed - use the [[Chart_Linked_Settings|linked settings]] instead. Dashboards using variable mappings are automatically converted to use linked settings.
* B-08117: Added ToSqlDataFrame function to convert in-memory dataframe into SQL dataframes.
* B-08174: Only non-default parameters values are written to the operation log.
* B-08200: Timestamps in System reports are shown in user workstation local time.
* B-08171: Dashboard id has been added to queries, to track from which dashboard queries are originating.
* B-07144: Remove legacy User permissions report (analysis number 11) and Filters report (analysis number 30) in SQL scripts (see note above).
* B-08193: Added retry mechanism to QPR ScriptLauncher to recover if connection to server breaks.
* B-08202: Updated copyright for year 2024.
* B-08199: Frontend components have been updated.
* B-08203: Backend components have been updated.
* B-08209: Translations updated for release 2024.2.


'''Fixed issues:'''
'''Fixed issues:'''
* D-13972: Some measures/dimensions/columns in Big data chart didn't show the expressions level filtering.
* D-14015: Fixed business calendar incorrect calculation when business period covered entire day.
* D-14014: Fixed issue where Snowflake business calendar could not have end time as 00:00.
* D-13962: System variable values were interpreted incorrectly when used in linked settings.
* D-13971: HiddenInNavigation and SortOrder variables didn't work in navigation menu dashboards list.
* D-13959: Removed possibility to add datatable columns with the legacy "any" data type.
* D-13991: Improved drop-down selector component to handle empty strings as variable values.
* D-13965: Datatable column name length was validated incorrectly which may have caused error in saving with too long column names.
* D-13958: Project names showed unnecessary html escaping in the "Move to" menu.
* D-13964: Model attributes and notifications dialogs gave error when trying to use dashboard tags.
* D-13960: Added missing translations for list of permission list and 12-hour clock format.
* D-13966: Fixed issue were root causes chart tooltip sometimes didn't disappear.
* D-13969: Datatable column schema export sometimes showed empty for the key column.
* D-13862: Session token was not accepted when url path capitalization is different.
* D-13942: Datatable could not be dimensioned if it has column named "CaseId".
* D-13980: Business calendar dialog crashed when tried to open it for a model without access.
* D-13983: Notifications dialog didn't validate situation when same name was used in a measure and dimension.
* D-13981: Dashboard import set incorrect model id to dashboard if there was no access to any model.
* D-11276: Translations were missing for 12-hour clock dates (AM and PM) in dashboards.
* D-13977: Multi-select dropdown lists showed some special characters incorrectly.
* D-13945: Syncfusion toast message didn't work when text contains ${[]}.
* D-13930: Pivot table throws javascript error when certain clicks.
* D-13273: Duplicate datatable row count didn't shown correctly.
* D-13994: There was an error in the in-memory chart with some flow related measures about duplicate variable names when same measure was defined twice.
* D-13985: Models list dots menu had texts misaligned in narrow screens.
* D-13995: In Workspace, wrong datatable was selected after duplication when non-default sorting was applied.
* D-13997: Workspace tables column filtering search caused JavaScript errors.
* D-13978: In table Excel export, the last row representing other items appeared incorrectly for in-memory chart.
* D-14007: In System reports, model related selections are hidden from the Analyzed objects lists.
* D-14005: In big data chart, changing to custom expression caused crash with some expressions having case/event attribute.
* D-14003: When dimensioning was not used, pivot table values were incorrectly rounded in the server side.
* D-14004: Removed empty filters from queries to optimize them.
* D-13988: Fixed issue where data grid context menu rendered initially as too high.
* D-13979: BPMN model editor element settings use now Open Sans font.
* D-14013: Fixed incorrect expression "Duration between first and last occurrence" in big data chart event types.
* D-13984: Fixed the error of refusing to run the JavaScript URL.
* D-14031: ThrownObject property was not included to http error response when error came from the script.


== Latest Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.7 (build 12) (released 2020-09-29) ==
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.1 (build 4784) (released 2024-01-10) ==


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Known issue fixed in QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.2: In Big data chart, some measures, dimensions and columns have the filtering option missing. The issue concerns for example Duration between events, Path starting/until between specific events, and Cases where event occurs before other selections. Workaround is to set the filter in the chart json settings: the filter can be configured to another expression and copied to the correct expression.
Support for the legacy models is dropped in QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.7, and the models need to be converted to the new datatable-based models before updating to QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.7. You can check the model type as follows: Open QPR ProcessAnalyzer Web UI, open the models dropdown list in the header, find the model, open ''Properties'' for the model, and go to the ''Datasources'' tab. If the ''Load from Database'' is ''yes'', the model is a legacy model and requires conversion.
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QPR ProcessAnalyzer Server and QPR ScriptLauncher are now using .Net 8 (previous was .Net 6). When updating to this release, install the .Net 8 Runtime ([[Updating_QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Server|see more]]). The .Net 6 doesn't need to be uninstalled immediately because .Net 6 and .Net 8 work side-by-side, but due to security reasons, the unused .Net 6 should eventually be uninstalled.
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In this release, all filters that don't contain any filter rules, are removed. These are legacy filters which have not been visible in the UI.
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'''Features:'''
* B-08019: New component [[Design_Diagram|Design Diagram]] for showing user-created diagrams in dashboards where to visualize process mining metrics.
* B-08087: Generic [[Dropdown_List_Selector|dropdown list selector]] works with Snowflake models allowing to add selection lists for any values.
* B-08163: Linked settings support for binding to [[Chart_Linked_Settings#Binding_to_case_attribute_filters_with_attribute_name_and_attribute_values|case attribute filter values without defining case attribute name]].
* B-08170: Snowflake model filters can be [[Filtering_in_QPR_ProcessAnalyzer#Filter_actions|saved as new models]] which can be used to create snapshots of part of models.
* B-08093: Multiple dashboards can be exported to same file, and model can be set for imported dashboards.
* B-08161: Added [[Datatable_in_Expression_Language#Modify|Modify]] function to change datatable properties and improved [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Objects_in_Expression_Language#CreateDatatable|CreateDatatable]] function for creating datatables.
* B-08122: Added new system report to list dashboards.
* B-08173: Removed legacy filters that didn't have any filter rules.
* B-07961: In OperationLog, changed parameters to json format and added request id.
* B-08069: Added DashboardId property to [[Generic_Properties_in_Expression_Language#OperationLog|OperationLog]] in expression language.
* B-08139: Added [[Datatable_in_Expression_Language#UpdateRows|UpdateRows]] function to update existing rows in datatables with similar logic than SQL update.
* B-08115: Added [[Datatable_in_Expression_Language#DeleteRows|DeleteRows]] function to delete rows in datatables with similar logic than SQL delete.
* B-08149: QPR ProcessAnalyzer has been updated to .Net 8.
* B-08054: Changed Scripts property in generic context to return all scripts, instead of legacy system level scripts.
* B-08138: Changed Synchronize function to remove all columns when no Snowflake table exists.
* B-07689: For datatables, [[Datatable_in_Expression_Language#ForeignKeys|foreign keys]] to other datatables can be defined using expression language.
* B-08176: Translation updates for release 2024.1.
* B-08175: Workspace should show timestamps in user's local time.
 
'''Fixed issues:'''
* D-13913: Datatable properties dialog incorrectly showed linked models from other projects.
* D-13916: Chart filter could not be defined for some expressions in Big data chart.
* D-13933: Navigation menu selected item wasn't highlighted when used Snowflake models.
* D-13906: In Conformance Analysis, deviating flows were not translated.
* D-13907: Improved translation related to datatable properties dialog "Used by models" field.
* D-13904: There was an unclear error message in Snowflake, as exception code 1 was returned without AttributeName and ModelName properties when non-existing attribute was in filter.
* D-13911: Fixed small glitches in the opening and closing of drop-down lists.
* D-13918: Datatable could be configured incorrectly to use table for other datatable.
* D-13932: Duplicating datatable with custom table in datasource losed all data.
* D-11002: Removed legacy in-memory prediction preset.
* D-13912: Added check that array cannot be stored to dashboard Content property.
* D-13936: Query designer default query didn't work with Snowflake models.
* D-13938: There was an incorrect logging with some operations related to ScriptLauncher.
* D-13923: Snowflake expressions didn't work with Where function in root referring to case attribute.
* D-13939: ApplyFilter function gave null reference error for non-existing attribute name.
* D-13931: There were issues with AllowExternalDatasources and EnableFullFunctionality settings.


The conversion can be done as follows:
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.7 (build 4326) (released 2023-11-28) ==
# In QPR ProcessAnalyzer Web UI, export the model as a .pacm file by clicking ''Export Model'' in the ''Model Properties'' (in the ''Actions'' tab).
# Go to the ''Datasources'' tab, change the ''Load from Database'' from ''Yes'' to ''No'', and change the ''Cases'' ''Datasource'' to ''Datatable''. The ''Events'' ''Datasource'' is already correct.
# Import the .pacm file back to the same model using the ''Data Import'' in the navigation menu. In the import form, select ''Import to Existing'' model and choose the model. Checkbox ''Add to existing data'' can be in either position.


Notes regarding the conversion:
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* Exporting and importing operations might take long time for very large models.
Limitation for the maximum amount of data (B-07636) causes a behavior change in in-memory charts that have the Maximum rows settings empty and have the sorting defined. In certain cases, the order in which measures are evaluated changes (due to an internal performance optimization). If there are custom expressions that define variables, the variables may not be available in other measures anymore. As a resolution, either redefine the variables in those measure expressions or add those measures secondarily to the sorting.
* Model id's are not changed in the conversion.
* Original filters and their id's are preserved but new duplicate filters are created during the import (which can be deleted).
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[[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Version_Compatibility|Excel Client protocol version]] is changed which requires to update QPR ProcessAnalyzer Excel Client when updating to QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.7. See more how to [[Installing_QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Excel_Client#Installing_QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Excel_Client|update Excel Client]].
Default query timeout of 30 minutes has been added for --#ImportOdbcQuery, --#ImportSqlQuery and --#ImportOleDbQuery commands. If a query run is taking longer than the timeout, the query is stopped. The timeout can be adjusted using the '''QueryExecutionTimeout''' parameter. Previously, there has been no timeout, so queries that take more than 30 minutes require configuring a longer timeout.
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The version numbering of QPR ProcessAnalyzer has changed, and now releases are identified using a simple version number instead of the previous version format (e.g. 2020.6.0.42152). The version number can be seen in the ''User Settings'' in the main navigation menu.
Incorrectly configured [[Chart_Linked_Settings|linked settings]] in charts (available in the ''Advanced'' tab) give now an error message, if they are referring to non-existing measures, dimensions or columns. Previously, incorrect linked settings were ignored. To fix the error message, remove the incorrect linked settings.
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'''Features:'''
'''Features:'''
* 308003: Filter rules can be turned off.
* B-07511: Datatables have a [[Datatable_Properties_Dialog|dialog]] to view datatable properties, write description, set the Snowflake source table, add/modify/delete columns, and set the datatable key.
* 308021: Dimension specific maximum number of items can be defined.
* B-08150: Added setting [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Chart#Filtering_Settings|Apply chart filters first]] to determine whether chart filter rules or dashboard filter rules are applied first when chart queries are filtered.
* 308006: KPI card has customizable colors.
* B-08091: When filtering charts in Snowflake, case attribute filter is created instead of case id filter.
* 308009: Dimension values can be mapped to colors for visualization.
* B-08091: [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Chart#Filtering_Settings|New setting]] to define whether cases or events are filtered by default.
* 308008: Chart specific model selection.
* B-08091: New preset "Looping paths" to detect whether there are repeating patterns of events.
* 308017: Remove left and right axis synchronization in Chart.
* B-08091: Duration between events calculation ignores negative durations in Snowflake.
* 307995: Ending tasks in web UI.
* B-08091: Chart loading animation has been renewed.
* 307987: Navigation menu width is set based on dashboard names.
* B-07636: To prevent dashboards from jamming when querying too much data, added [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Chart#Available_Visualizations|limitations]] to the amount of data that charts can visualize. Note that the limitation concerns the aggregated data that is visualized, not the source event log data.
* 307993: Model size estimate is decreased by 20 %.
* B-08017: [[Dashboard_in_Expression_Language|Dashboards API]] has been added to expression language, allowing to create, modify and delete dashboards in scripts.
* 308018: Bottleneck identification and optimizations for models having lots of cases.
* B-08056: Following properties have been added to [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Objects_in_Expression_Language#User.2FGroup|user objects]] in expression language: IsLocked, LastLockedDate, LastLoginDate.
* 307994: Taken into use functions stdev, stdevp, var and varp in Chart.
* B-08053: [[Navigation_Menu#System_Reports|User rights report]] has been refactored to use [[Generic_Properties_in_Expression_Language#RoleAssignments|RoleAssignments]] property in the expression language. The change also simplifies the report as now it only shows the direct role assignments that are visible in the [[Manage_Users_and_Groups|User Management]].
* 308016: Migrate Chart pivot to Syncfusion JS2 PivotTable.
* B-08151: For Snowflake expressions support for following [[SQL_Expressions#Window_functions|windowing functions]]: sum, average, median, min, and max.
* 307805: Syncfusion JS2 migration - part 1.
* B-08050: When a model is created, the default filter is not created anymore (this is a refactoring that doesn't have any impact on user interface).
* 308025: Chart components migration to Syncfusion JS2 (part 1).
* B-08123: Translation updates for 2023.7.
* 307939: Remove manually updated version numbers.
* B-08092: Updated backend components.
* 308005: Remove "Dimensions/columns as calculated attributes" and "Chart settings (compacted)" from chart.
* 307999: Remove legacy model settings from model properties.
* 308020: Change default bpmn model to empty.
* 307758: Standard deviation, sample standard deviation, variance and sample variance to expression language.
* 307976: Angular migration finalization.
* 307992: In Conformance root causes view, replace datagrid with a chart.
* 307759: Add requirements and tests to mathematical functions from NCalc.
* 307879: Optimize preprocessing for model event log.
* 307916&308010: Drop support for legacy models.
* 308007: "On-screen settings follow flow selection" to work for all start and event event type selections.
* 308030: Change password changing to use /api/users/password.
* 307989: Expression language: Dictionary.Clone-function and improvement to generic ToDictionary and ToDataFrame functions.
* 308029: Revision number in UI.
* 308004: Expression designer results field should be editable.
* 307996&308012: Translation fixes.
* 307954: Web API for datatables.


'''Fixed issues:'''
'''Fixed issues:'''
* 219429: Chart case attribute dropdown list item count did not match with the chart presentation.
* D-13876: In CreateSnowflakeConnection function, ProjectId parameter is optional when OdbcConnectionStringKey is not specified.
* 219487: When moving and resizing, presentation objects should be aligned with each other and with the canvas.
* D-13898: Snowflake: Exclude case attribute filter didn't work when there was null values and was selecting at least two values.
* 219472: Improvements to model and data table loading slowness and memory usage.
* D-13890: Fixed XES file import to work.
* 219465: "Case/event attribute not found" error messages improved.
* D-13894: Business calendar based duration calculation was incorrect in some durations that spanned to several weeks (for Snowflake and in-memory models).
* 219474: Filter rule text said "undefined" for some expression based filters.
* D-13899: Using broken OdbcConnectionString in a datatable prevented the datatable from being deleted.
* 219462: User could not fix incorrect chart settings.
* D-13883: Script run stucked after running a script with error that uses client-side ODBC import.
* 219471: "All cases" option was not visible when changing between models that don't have filters.
* D-13879: SqlExpressionValue filter when excluding events didn't work with filter rule root expression only.
* 219488: Filter selection should be cancelled when changing dashboard.
* D-13896: Adding or removing columns to datatable didn't change the LastModifiedDate.
* 219494: Duration values in flowchart were sometimes rounded incorrectly.
* D-13882: User details weren't written to operation log when creating or modifying users.
* 219484: Alignment of dashboard objects was difficult.
* D-13771: User rights system report didn't give error when changing columns.
* 219502: When clicking same Case attribute/Event attribute preset again, loading animation staid for ever.
* D-13893: Some event filtering caused null pointer error when primary key had been defined.
* 219481: Stdev, stdevp, var and varp functions should return null when there are zero or one items in the array.
* D-13873: Fixed pivot table visual issues after component update.
* 219496: Series should be stacked bottom-to-top and from-left-to-right in charts.
* D-13900: When adding, renaming or removing columns for Snowflake table fails, operation is now rolled back without any changes.
* 219499: Chart colors were reset to default when resizing window.
* D-13866: Querying GET api/uielements was quite slow right after server start.
* 219480: Attribute+Variation filter resulted in zero cases.
* D-13864: Combinations of translatable and hardcoded strings didn't get translated in UI.
* 219479: SAML login redirection replaces contains http even if https is configured.


== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.6 (released 2020-08-18) ==  
== Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.6 (build 3933) (released 2023-10-24) ==
Build number: 2020.6.0.42152, Model compatibility version: 3, Database version: 74, PACM file version: 7, Protocol version: 33. ([[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Version_Compatibility|see more]])


'''Features:'''
'''Features:'''
* 307918: Localization for Russian, Spanish, German, Finnish and Swedish.
* B-08055: Error message for locked account has been replaced with generic error message, so that username enumeration is not possible.
* 307921: New dashboard Preview mode is separated from the Edit mode, to be able to temporarily change chart settings without saving them to the dashboard.
* 307982: Changes to showing model last imported date and additional information to Model Properties dialog.
* 307983: Editing calculated case and event attributes.
* 307980: Chart setting "On-screen Settings Follow Flow Selection" to freeze chart from reacting to flow selection.
* 307824: Expression language function improvements (IndexOf, LastIndexOf, ToString, ParseDateTime, First, Last).
* 307952: When loading model data, the order of events inside cases is primarily based on the timestamp and secondarily by event row number.
* 307953: Querying model-datatable linking in expression language.
* 307817: User management operations to Web API.
* 307900: Memory consumption improvement for getting number of unique attribute values.
* 307978: Performance improvement: Taken into use AttributeType.UniqueCount to replace Count(_.Values) in expression used by UI.
* 307781: ProjectId property is removed from dashboard export files.
* 307955: Dataframes are loaded in parallel.
* 307934: AsParallel function implementation has been finalized.


'''Fixed issues:'''
'''Fixed issues:'''
* 219388: Old data comes to dashboard when data imported to datatable.
* D-13884: Attributes dialog crashed with some older model configurations.
* 219412: No scrollbar for both error message and web UI window.
* D-13843: In charts, selected case and event attributes switched away when attribute data type was ShortString.
* 219414: Error message appears in Clustering Analysis for model with zero events and cases.
* D-13877: Some Snowflake expressions gave error "exceeds maximum length limit of 255 characters" when selecting lot of items.
* 219419: QueryIdentifier should be excluded from client side query cache.
* D-13878: Snowflake expression filters for case attribute values didn't accept other than string type of case attributes.
* 219426: Script editor cannot save changes in 2020.5 version.
* D-13871: Some statistical calculations with percentages didn't work with Last Row Aggregates Over-limit Rows setting.
* 219430: Filtering does not work in PAPO Cases and Event Types when using French.
* D-13875: Using some case level filters in a model without cases datatable didn't work.
* 219431: PAPO Events and Root Causes not working when using French.
* D-13861: Dashboard opens are now logged to the Task log (i.e., calling GET /api/dashboards/{dashboardid}).
* 219435: Dialogues have small layout issue.
* D-13870: Workspace projects hierarchy focused project showed light grey background making the project name not readable.
* 219441: Deletion does not work correctly in folders screen when selecting using shift+ctrl-click.
* D-13867: When starting datatable refresh and going to other tab, went back to Datatables tab when query completed.
* 219160: Hidden case attributes are visible in profiling case analysis, and in Influence Analysis for case attributes settings.
* D-13853: If chart Custom Layout settings had extra series defined, chart may have crashed.
* 219418: Missing translations for the Clustering analysis.
* D-13869: Export as CSV button didn't work in the datatable contents dialog when dialog was still loading.
* 219446: JavaScript error when closing dialog using the X button.
* D-13872: Main progress spinner had unnecessary small scrollbar on top right.
* 219444: Deselecting selected item by re-clicking it will not hide the selection buttons in Chart and generates an error in browser console
* D-13863: In the REST API method GET /api/users, password field (that has always been null) has been removed.
* 219449: Prediction fails with certain small models.
* 219450: Evaluation stack is not generated correctly if an exception occurs while inside a function having no parameters.
* 219456: Query cache is not cleared when model settings are changed.


== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.5 (released 2020-06-29) ==  
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.6 (build 3847) (released 2023-10-17) ==
Build number: 2020.5.0.41888, Model compatibility version: 3, Database version: 73, PACM file version: 7, Protocol version: 33. ([[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Version_Compatibility|see more]])


'''Notes:'''
<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
* Dashboards structure is simplified, as panels are removed and presentation objects are placed directly to the dashboard canvas. In addition, panel headers are not available anymore. Presentation objects have now background color, border color, border width and border corner radius, that were previously in the panel level. All existing dashboards are automatically migrated to the newer structure. Existing dashboards that have several presentation objects within a same panel, are positioned on top of the others, so in those cases presentation objects need to be repositioned manually after updating to QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.5.
Big data chart support of models with local datatables (i.e., SQL Server stored) is removed in this release. If there are big data charts using SQL Server calculation, either migrate data to Snowflake or switch to in-memory charts (requiring to load data in-memory).
* IP address verification of user sessions has been removed. Previously, each user session was only allowed from the same IP address. This kind of security feature won't work with IPv6 addresses which usually change more often than IPv4 addresses.
</div>


'''Features:'''
'''Features:'''
* 307938: Support for French language.
* B-07992: Added 10 new presets including Queue analysis, Four eyes principle, Self-looping events, and Path until selected event. There are also presets for Individual Cases Flow and Range of event type occurrences which use Gantt chart.
* 307868: New dashboard designer that doesn't have panels.
* B-08011: Added following date related operations for Snowflake: Day of year, Day of month, Day of week, Week of year, Half-year only, Quarter only, Month only, Hours only, Minutes only, Seconds only, and Milliseconds only. These are available when calculating with date type of data.
* 307947: Tables conditional formatting
* B-08016: [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Table#Table_actions|Table actions to set variables]] can also be opened to a new browser tab. Also improved user interface for table actions.
* 307948: Dashboard properties layout and terminology changes.
* B-08018: For Snowflake expressions, added Flows aggregations FromEventType and ToEventType to get starting/ending event type, and FlowOccurrences aggregations FromEvent and ToEvent to get starting/ending event.
* 307911: IP address verification has been removed.
* B-08001: Added [[Generic_Functions_in_QPR_ProcessAnalyzer#CallStoredProcedure|CallStoredProcedure]] function to call Snowflake stored procedures. This allows to start ETL transformation in Snowflake orchestrated by QPR ProcessAnalyzer script.
* 307931: Expression language and performance improvements (originated from Spark prototyping).
* B-08013: Added [[Generic_Properties_in_Expression_Language#RoleAssignments|RoleAssignments]] property to expression language to replace the legacy UserPermissions analysis (11).
* 307774: Web API operation /api/importfile for data import.
* B-07976: Snowflake [[Filtering_in_QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Queries#Expression|expression based filter rules]] support additional expression columns allowing more Big data chart expressions to be filterable.
* 307933: Default logging mode has been changed to ExclusiveLock for all components.
* B-08015: Big data chart doesn't anymore support calculation in SQL Server (using local datatables).
* 307904: Server side support for UI languages.
* B-06270: Improved error messages and made them translatable by taking into use exception codes provided by server.
* B-08021: Added possibility to store [[Diagram_in_Expression_Language|designed diagrams]] for models and expression language API for reading and modifying diagrams.
* B-08037: Dropped following unused tables database: PA_IDEA, PA_IDEA_VOTE, PA_REPORT, PA_REPORT_SETTING, PA_SESSION_SERVICE, PA_VIEW_FILTER_RULE, PA_VIEW_FILTER_RULE_PARAMETER.
* B-08052: Language translations have been updated to 2023.6.
* B-08051: Frontend side components have been updated.
* B-08034: Backend side components have been updated.


'''Fixed issues:'''
'''Fixed issues:'''
* 219372: Issue with simultaneous eventlog processing that caused "Value cannot be null" errors and sometimes calculation with incorrect eventlogs.
* D-13830: Object counts indicator in header showed incorrect counts when there was disabled filter rules in Snowflake models.
* 219375: --#CallWebService didn't work with Content-Type parameter.
* D-13833: In-memory charts didn't work with boolean type of dimensions when filtering with the false value.
* 219357: UI was stuck to IdP login page when SAML settings (e.g SAMLUserIdAttribute) were misconfigured.
* D-13858: Target value measures didn't update chart when controlled using an on-screen setting.
* 219391: After logout GetOperationProgress failed for validating session.
* D-13827: Calculated attributes data type was incorrectly set as Any by the Attributes dialog.
* 219408: Removed focus outline border from buttons and textboxes.
* D-13849: Multiselect list search didn't allow spaces.
* 219398: ETL Access denied CheckIsInProjectContext.
* D-13829: Multiselect dropdown lists height jumped couple of pixels when selecting values.
* 219373: Case.FlowOccurrences and Case.FlowOccurrencesByType have Variations preprocessing missing.
* D-13835: Deselecting a selected data point didn't remove chart filter rule.
* 219382: Query for open operations should not return "open" operations that were started before the server startup time.
* D-13702: Improved Snowflake query performance in situations when there are lot of filter rules (by decreasing number of CTE's).
* 219402: Model with LoadOnStartup=true doesn't work with case level permission with expressions referring to current user.
* D-13819: Model.CaseAttributes sometimes gave incorrectly Any datatype for all attributes.
* 219409: Filters containing event type and variation rules always filter out all cases.
* D-13820: Fixed incorrect manifest.json file to avoid "not found" errors when fetching web site icon.
* 219416: Error in model loading in startup can effect other model loading.
* D-13865: Break, continue, and return statements didn't work properly when called from inside a catch block.
* 219369: Change error message "Time out while waiting for server response.".
* D-13795: There was a Python error in clustering analysis with Snowflake model.
* 219387: Text filter options opened to left for ChartView making them partly hidden for first column.
* D-13823: Some tooltips in Workspace project hierarchy didn't work and caused a JavaScript error.
* 219395: Save button not always enabled when editing dashboard.
* D-13824: BPMN editor align context menu layout looked strange.
* 219396: Context change notification should not be called for closing dashboard charts.
* D-13813: QPR logo button in the top left was misaligned in Firefox.
* 219411: Right click menu issue in PA Flowchart analysis view.
* D-13797: Snowflake query may have given following error when using sampling: ambiguous column name '_EventType_NotNull_1'.
* D-13774: TakeSample function with certain columns caused SQL compilation error: ambiguous column name 'Case Name'.
* D-13782: Snowflake: Aggregating from variations didn't work when using sampling.
* D-13836: Some tooltips had a strange two-colored background.
* D-13834: Removed Model statistics column from clustering and root causes analysis.
* D-13860: Removed filter button from the custom expressions in Task log analyzed objects.
* D-13838: Removed Split data by filtering column from clustering analysis.
* D-13832: Script and model status updates incorrectly sent next update when previous was still pending.
* D-13839: Charts reset zoom button font size was too small.
* D-13817: Importing data to Snowflake datatable with Append=0 doesn't now drop the underlying Snowflake table.
* D-13825: Some models could not have been deleted from recycle bin.
* D-13852: Recycle bin Projects and Models tab didn't show correct content when Recycle bin only contained either models or projects.
* D-13841: In-memory chart Data type selection type has been corrected to string.
* D-13842: Second time and Third time selections has been hidden in in-memory chart measures.
* D-13850: In Chrome, there were console errors related in incorrect text field autocomplete type and text field without form.
* D-13847: Improved browser side performance by removing unnecessary operations.
* D-13859: Chart without dimensions showed an unnecessary Remove dimension button.
* D-12598: When script is stopped in server, ScriptLauncher could still incorrectly continue to import data.


== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.4 (released 2020-05-26) ==  
== Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.5 (build 3334) (released 2023-09-07) ==
Build number: 2020.4.0.41643, Model compatibility version: 3, Database version: 71, PACM file version: 7, Protocol version: 33. ([[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Version_Compatibility|see more]])


'''Notes:'''
'''Fixed issues:'''
* In QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.4, the deployment package dashboards come with the installation, so there is no deployment package anymore to be installed. The previous deployment package located in the ''QPR ProcessAnalyzer UI'' project can be deleted when 2020.4 is installed.
* D-13826: Measures or dimensions with case or event attribute and value selections incorrectly removed calculated attributes when dashboard was opened or chart settings were changed.
* To fix issue ''Datetimes are incorrect in files exported from data grids'' (219377), [[Data Grid Export Service|data grid export service]] needs to be updated from version V001 to V002.
* D-13821: Font size of some Highcharts tooltips was too small. Issue appeared when there were tooltips mappings in measures or dimensions.
* Issue workaround: After updating to QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.4, dashboards containing the root causes analysis give an error message about invalid chart configuration. The problem can be fixed as follows: from the JSON text that appears in the full screen text editor, make the following text replacements: "Case Attribute" --> "Case attribute" and "Attribute Value" --> "Attribute value". When the dashboard is saved, the error doesn't appear anymore.
* D-13810: Simplified help links: now all Help buttons go to the QPR ProcessAnalyzer wiki main page.
* To improve performance, for custom expressions in charts it's recommended to replace ''??_remove'' with the [[Generic_Functions_in_QPR_ProcessAnalyzer#RemoveNulls|RemoveNulls]] function. Example: Expression ''Average((_.Attribute("Cost") ??_remove)._)'' can be changed to ''Average(RemoveNulls(_.Attribute("Cost")))''.
* D-13822: Snowflake clustering analysis showed empty strings and nulls as case attribute values in an unclear way as just nothing.
* To improve performance, for custom expressions in charts it's recommended to change expressions that make duration aggregations to work in a way that the aggregation is made before converting TimeSpans to integers (e.g. to days). Example: expression ''Average(_.Duration.TotalDays)'' can be changed to ''Average(_.Duration).TotalDays''.
* Issue: In Firefox, when opening a dashboard, an error message "Error in chart settings" might appear (the dashboard is still opened correctly). If the issue appears, it's recommended to use Chrome, where the issue does not appear that often. There are no other workarounds available for the issue.
* Issue: FlowOccurrences and FlowOccurrencesByType properties don't work for Case objects when there are also filter rules applied. Some measures and dimensions use those properties. QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.5 will fix the issue, and for earlier versions there is no workaround.  


'''Features:'''
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.5 (build 3304) (released 2023-09-05) ==
* 307859: Deployment package dashboards are embedded to QPR ProcessAnalyzer release.
* 307899: RemoveNulls function to remove null values from arrays.
* 307915: Expression language improvements related to CSV file generation.
* 307809: When dashboard is opened, editing mode is disabled when no rights to edit the dashboard.
* 307829: Highcharts, Syncfusion, GoJS and some other components have been updated to their latest versions.
* 307848: Component updates for building QPR ProcessAnalyzer UI.
* 307882: JavaScript libraries are split into smaller files in release build.
* 307932: Some PAPO buttons are removed from the tool palette.
* 307912&307917: ChartView and main header improvements for 2020.4 (parts 1 and 2).


'''Fixed bugs:'''
<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
* 219365: Sometimes system stuck during the time models were being loaded into memory.
In Big Data Chart, the '''Case conformance''' measure and dimension has changed in a way that now it provides boolean values (true/false) instead of integer values (1/0). If [[Measure,_Dimension_and_Column_Settings#Other_settings|colorMappings]] are used for this measure or dimension to set specific colors to visualize conformant and nonconformant cases, the mapped values need to be changed as follows: '''1''' -> '''true''' and '''0''' -> '''false'''. Without the change, the mapped colors are not effective.
* 219326&219377: Datetimes are incorrect in files exported from data grids (time zone difference) (See also the notes above).
* 219378: ChartView resizing sometimes didn't work when using full screen.
* 219371: Error messages have been improved for session expired and unknown error.
* 219360: Some styles were defined twice in CSS.


== Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.3 (released 2020-04-23) ==
Exmaple: Old configuration:
Build number: 2020.3.0.41450, Model compatibility version: 3, Database version: 71, PACM file version: 7, Protocol version: 33.
<pre>
"colorMappings": {
  "1": "#36d475ff",
  "0": "#f5403bff"
}
</pre>
New configuration:
<pre>
"colorMappings": {
  "true": "#36d475ff",
  "false": "#f5403bff"
}
</pre>
</div>


'''Features''':
<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
* 307902 ChartView improvements for 2020.3 hotfix: Custom expressions have by default datatype "auto", added support for binding to multi-select lists in Variable bindings, bugfix: Custom sorting didn't work in presets, bugfix: Aggregation method for Pivot table was not selected correctly.
Big data chart support of models with local datatables (i.e., SQL Server stored) is deprecated. Big data chart has allowed to process data both in Snowflake and SQL Server. Now the support for SQL Server is deprecated and the Big data chart will only support calculation in Snowflake. If there are big data charts using SQL Server calculation, either migrate data to Snowflake or switch to in-memory charts (requiring to load data in-memory).
</div>


'''Fixed bugs:'''
<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
* 219370: Dashboards could not be edited by other than administrators.
Following legacy analyses have been removed: Operation log (analysis number: 12), Root causes (14), Correlations (15), Idea feed (16) and Duration influence (29). This functionality may be in use in SQL scripts (in [[SQL_Scripting_Commands#--.23GetAnalysis|--#GetAnalysis]] command), and thus needs to be changed to the [[SQL_Scripting_Commands#--.23RunQuery|--#RunQuery]] command (see the [[RunQuery_Script_Examples|examples page]] how each legacy analysis can be replaced). The OperationLog analysis is replaced by the [[Generic_Properties_in_Expression_Language#OperationLog|OperationLog function]] and the Infcluencers analysis is replaced by the [[FindRootCauses_Function|FindRootCauses function]].
* 219361: Flowchart sometimes crashed to ThrowKeyNotFoundException when pressing Root Causes button.


== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.3 (released 2020-04-16) ==
Following script can be run in the [[Navigation_Menu#Expression_Designer|Expression Designer]] to show whether there are scripts that use the removed analyses (and thus require migration):
Build number: 2020.3.0.41413, Model compatibility version: 3, Database version: 71, PACM file version: 7, Protocol version: 33.
<pre>
let removedAnalyses = [12, 14, 15, 16, 29];
OrderByDescending(Flatten(Projects.Scripts).Where({
  let scr = _;Sum(removedAnalyses.("'AnalysisType','" + _ + "')").{let num=_;(scr.code ?? "").Replace(" ", "").Replace("\t", "").Replace("\n", "").Replace("\r\n", "").Replace("\r", "").Contains(num)})>0;
}),LastRunStart).(Project.Name + ": " + name + " (id: " + id + ") (last run: " + (LastRunStart ?? "N/A") + ")");
</pre>
</div>


'''Notes:'''
<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
* Legacy Chart and Gauge presentation objects are removed from QPR ProcessAnalyzer (they are different than ChartView). If there are dashboards containing those types of presentation objects after updating to 2020.3, there will be a placeholder frame instead with an error message of a non-existing presentation object. To change the dashboard, remove those placeholders and replace with ChartViews. It's recommended to make the replacement to ChartViews before the update, because chart and gauge settings cannot be accessed anymore in 2020.3.
By default, Snowflake ODBC driver generates quite much logging to files which might unnecessarily fill up the disk space. It's recommended to set the LogLevel parameter to value 0. The path where the logs are created can be seen in Windows registry (key LogPath). More information about configuring Snowflake ODBC parameters: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/odbc/odbc-parameters.
* ChartView will change from an HTML presentation object to a native presentation object, which ensures that dashboards will work in future releases when the ChartView is evolving. ChartViews created with 2020.2 will be automatically migrated to the native ChartViews in 2020.3. ChartViews created with 2020.1 or earlier releases need to be updated manually by removing the ChartView from the dashboard and replacing it with a new ChartView.
</div>


'''Features:'''
'''Features:'''
* 307849: Securely stored strings for passwords.
* B-07971: Machine learning based [[Clustering_Analysis|Clustering analysis]] can be run in Snowflake.
* 307746: ChartView is now a native presentation object instead of an HTML presentation object. ChartView's made in 2020.2 are automatically converted to the native presentation objects.
* B-07989: In dashboard designer the stacking order of charts can be changed with buttons [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Dashboard_Designer#Viewing_and_Editing_Dashboards|Bring to front, Send to back, Bring forward and Send backward]].
* 307880: When a datatable model is moved to another project, the linked datatables should also be moved to the project.
* B-07977: For [[Sankey_Chart|sankey diagram]], added Start level and End level mappings to define custom start and end level for the sankey flows. Implemented also color mappings to define specific colors for specific values.
* 307556: Functions to expression language to improve usability and performance: CaseCount, EventCount, EventCountByType and Round.
* B-08010: To improve performance, charts are loaded and updated only when they are visible in the dashboard.
* 307895: SQL scripting command for database commit.
* B-07975: Added following [[SQL_Expressions#Date_functions|date related functions]] to Snowflake: DayOfYear, DayOfWeek, WeekOfYear, Quarter.
* 307850: Expression language performance improvement by a new way to calling functions and properties.
* B-07908: When [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Project_Workspace#Duplicating_Model|model is duplicated]], also filters in the model are also duplicated.
* 307858: Expression language: Support for array operators.
* B-07904: Filters and models API for expression language has been completed.
* 307845: Header buttons layout has been improved.
* B-07991: In [[Filter_Selectors|case and event type filter selectors]], threshold whether the dropdown list or search dialog is shown can be defined using the ''Maximum Rows'' setting. Also the search dialog filters search results by other filter rules in the dashboard.
* 307870: Preprocessings are determined automatically.
* B-07999: Filters report has been changed to use the [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Objects_in_Expression_Language#Filter|expression language API for filters]].
* 307761: Functionality that user doesn't have access is now disabled in the dashboard designer and workspace to avoid access denied errors.
* B-07540: Added [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Expressions#Throwing_objects|throw statement]] to expression language.
* 307839: Generic chart and gauge presentation objects are removed.
* B-07813: UI components are updated. There are small visual improvements, such as in flowchart flows are routed a bit differently and in charts the hidden series is shown as strike-through in the legend.
* 307863: Automatic redirection to SAML authentication.
* B-07963: Following legacy analysis types have been removed: Operation log (analysis number: 12), Root causes (14), Correlations (15), Idea feed (16) and Duration influence (29) (see more information in the note above).
* 307872: API support for querying if SAML is configured.
* 307846: Error message further improvements.
* 307888: Error message text changes for Dashboard not found and Multiple dashboards found.
* 307874 & 307887: ChartView and main header has been improved.


'''Fixed bugs:'''
'''Fixed issues:'''
* 219341: Analysis function unnecessarily required FilterId parameter.
* D-13777: Filters could not be created in charts when "Update Filter During Selection" setting was disabled.
* 219343: Root causes analysis gave access denied when using Analysis function.
* D-13767: Automation per Event Types preset in in-memory incorrectly showed only one event type.
* 219348: Query cancellation caused database connection leakage.
* D-13756: Changing background color in KPI card didn't have any effect.
* 219332: "Thread was being aborted" returned to client while loading model from datatable.
* D-13812: "Exclude events" was incorrectly translated to "Exclure les cas" in French.
* 219321: Removed unnecessary error log lines "Missing expected HttpRequest X-Forwarded-For" that appeared even if UseXForwardedForAsClientIp=false.
* D-13815: Dashboard designer background grid was not visible in entire area in edit mode. Improved also the grid to match to snapping in move and resize.
* 219335: [_remove ]._ or empty array is not handled correctly in a KPI dimension.
* D-13674: Business calendar dialog layout was incorrect when a model with a long name was selected to copy holidays.
* 219340: default.aspx does not work.
* D-13811: Table actions link to a new window didn't go to dashboard if there were other parameters in the link.
* 219330: EditDashboards permission should be needed for target project when moving dashboards between projects.
* D-13601: Fixed issue where some presets may have given error when attribute value selection and the automatically selected attribute conflicted by the data type.
* 219347: Queries done by the main header were cancelled when view is changed.
* D-13753: While Snowflake model was selected, in Filters and User Rights reports the Columns list could not be opened.
* 219355: Expression language: Was unable to use properties of the parent context in dictionary initialization.
* D-13720: Now table column filter and sorting are preserved when resizing or zooming page.
* 219346: PAPO flowchart should have by default median duration shown on flows and flow counts hidden.
* D-13785: In tables increased number of rows to 20000 that are inspected to get available items shown in Excel-style column filter.
* 219333: PAPO generated incorrect filter JSON and unnecessary query.
* D-13759: Some statistical calculations had bad performance with large number of rows.
* 219311: When opened a view by identifier, the view was fetched twice from the server.
* D-13787: Conformance statistics component didn't have scrollbars when text didn't fit to the visible area.
* 219329: Unnecessary information was stored in database for dashboard definitions.
* D-13788: In-memory "Nonconformance reason" selection caused error when two of them was selected in the same chart.
* 219362: Issues with session expiration checks.
* D-13783: When Analyzed objects was Generic analysis, column selection incorrectly caused "Analysis has not been selected" error.
* 219364: Session expiration with SAML authentication configured gives incorrect error message.
* D-13776: When measure name contained quotation mark, notification preview didn't work.
* 219344: Case count view in model manager header and Home view can cause unwanted model loading.
* D-13747: Filtering with integer type of case id with case attribute value filter caused error in Snowflake.
* 219242: Flowchart is not updated correctly after event type filtering.
* D-13791: In Firefox, model selection in chart settings didn't show models in the first open.
* D-11984: Recycle bin buttons didn't fit to the screen when screen width was small.
* D-13780: Using CaseId case attribute in clustering analysis did not work with Snowflake 106 cases standard model.
* D-13781: Clustering analysis produced Python error with a certain simple Snowflake model.
* D-13730: Snowflake: Case attribute filtering didn't work when there are cases without row in cases table.
* D-13803: There was chart configuration validation error in browser console when measures were moved into dimensions in Big data chart.
* D-13758: There was performance issue with the Recent tasks system preset.
* D-13793: Snowflake clustering failed when cluster count is larger than case count.
* D-13763: SQL expression based filter rule with Where function to filter events didn't filter anything in Snowflake.
* D-13804: Added missing Millisecond function to Snowflake.
* D-13772: Expression EventLog.Cases.Events caused error "Value cannot be null".
* D-13755: Model.CaseAttributes sometimes gave incorrectly Any datatype for all attributes.
* D-13739: When switching between System reports there was error: "Uncaught Error: 2nd dimension not found. at y.getExpressionConfiguration".
* D-12109: Sometimes flowcharts showed message "Error in querying event type measures. Input string was not in a correct format".
* D-12473: Cost Savings by Automation preset gave sometimes error "Unable to cast object of type 'System.Double' to type 'System.String'".
* D-13750: Snowflake model didn't work with the Case Duration vs. Manual Activities preset.
* D-13657: There was error converting data type nvarchar to bigint.
* D-13796: Some Snowflake operations didn't work with zero rows and columns.
* D-12494: Now when chart size changes, the table column filters and sorting are preserved.
* D-13736: In Performance benchmarking dialog, the Export result button exported wrong benchmark performance analysis result.
* D-13609: Improved conformance analysis related filter names.
* D-13594: Recycle bin buttons were not visible when opening recycle bin in a narrow screen.
* D-13226: Tooltips in the model properties dialog are now translated.
* D-12569: Table incorrectly showed ellipsis for narrow boolean type of columns showing checkboxes.
* D-13391: Emptying date or datetime picker value was not registered and it didn't trigger functionality.
* D-12621: Value search dialog didn't work with values containing backslashes.
* D-13796: Some Snowflake operation didn't work with zero rows/columns.


== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.2 (released 2020-03-09) ==  
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.4 (build 2628) (released 2023-06-14) ==
Build number: 2020.2.0.41129, Model compatibility version: 3, Database version: 67, PACM file version: 7, Protocol version: 33.


'''Notes:'''
'''Features:'''
* Expression language has now a [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Expressions#Conditional_operator_.28if.29|conditional operator "if"]] and [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Expressions#Define_variables_.28let.29_and_assign_variable_values_.28.3D.29|variable declaration operator "let"]]. In earlier QPR ProcessAnalyzer versions, the expression language had functions [[Generic_Properties_and_Functions_in_QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Expressions#If|If]] and [[Generic_Properties_and_Functions_in_QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Expressions#Let|Let]] which earlier could also be written in lowercase (i.e. "if" and "let"). Starting from QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.2, the lowercase versions refer to the conditional and variable declaration operators, and the uppercase versions refer to the corresponding functions. If there are expressions containing "If" and "Let" functions written in lowercase, please change them starting with uppercase.
* B-07767: Added [[Gantt_Chart|Gantt chart]] to visualize timeline of cases and events divided into swimlanes.
* Issue workaround: The Root Causes analysis don't work (shows empty) in the right side chart (PAPO) of the ''Process Discovery'' view. The issue can be fixed as follows by an administrator: click the ''Edit'' toggle button, click the right side chart, click the ''Edit'' icon in the top right of the chart, click the chart again, click ''Properties'' icon in the top right of the chart, open ''Variables'' tab, find the ''InfluenceAttributeTypeId'' variable, and change its value to empty (instead of ''20''). Click ''Close'' twice to go back to the main level and click ''Save'' button. The issue will be fixed to 2020.3.
* B-06383: Added [[Sankey_Chart|Sankey chart]] to visualize flow from one set of values to another.
* Issue workaround: In ChartView, the ''Duration between events'' measure and dimension don't work when there are filters in use (the chart is empty). Workaround is to add the following ''Suffix expression'' to the measure or dimension settings (without quotes): "''//eventtypes''". The issue will be fixed to 2020.3.
* B-07941: Implemented many more presets running in Snowflake models for compliance and operational excellence use cases. There are also presets for the path analysis and process bottlenecks identification.
* B-07864: Snowflake conformance analysis shows now [[Conformance_Analysis#Top_Deviations_(in-memory)_/_Deviating_Flows_(Snowflake)|reasons for conformance deviations]], such as which event occurrences deviated from the design model.
* B-07909: Snowflake conformance analysis visualizes [[Conformance_Analysis#Undesired_Events_(Snowflake)|undesired event types]] in table and flowchart.
* B-07823: Flowchart Bottlenecks preset has been changed to show bottlenecks for event types. Also renewed the [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Logs#Task_Log|Tasks reports]] to use expression language based interface.
* B-07891: User interface has been [[Languages_and_Localization|translated into Portuguese]].
* B-07873: Improved [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Pivot_Table|pivot table]] visual layout to highlight totals and aggregated rows. Also the row titles are now visible in the top left.
* B-07905: Added [[SQL_Expressions#Rank_functions|Rank related functions]] to Snowflake for writing more versatile custom KPI's, e.g., FirstValue, LastValue, NthValue, Lead and Lag.
* B-07912: Added more SQL expression [[SQL_Expressions#Array_functions|array functions ArrayToString and ArrayOverlap]] to Snowflake.
* B-06449: Added SQL expression functions ToTimestamp and TryToTimestamp for parsing timestamps from strings using provided format.
* B-07959: Added new functions Base64Encode and Base64Decode to help using basic HTTP authentication when calling web services.
* B-07206: SQL expressions support data [[SqlDataFrame_in_Expression_Language#WithClusterColumn|clustering]] which is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to group data based on similarities.
* B-07848: Data can be extracted from SAP using the encrypted [[Importing_Data_from_SAP#SNC_encrypted_connection|SNC connection]].
* B-07903: Added expression language API to create and modify filters and models.
* B-03103: [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Logs#Task_Log|Task log]] (operation log) can be accessed in expression language.
* B-07872: List aggregation with Distinct=true orders now items by their value.
* B-07940: Removed "Count" aggregation from textual values in Big data chart (you can use the Case count, Event count, etc. selection instead).
* B-07757: Backend support for datatables linking to user-definable Snowflake database, schema and table.
* B-07825: Improved error message when trying to use non-existing attributes in Snowflake queries.
* B-03101: To expression language, added try-catch-finally statement to handle thrown exceptions.
* B-07861: Removed available and total virtual memory information from User settings dialog.
* B-07902: Optimized sequences of joins in Snowflake queries to improve performance.
* B-07837: Updated backend components.
 
'''Fixed issues:'''
* D-13709: If image width-to-height ratio was lower than container's ratio, image was incorrectly stretched to fit the container.
* D-13660: Disabling filter rules didn't work in Snowflake models.
* D-13526: Passing dataframes from SQL scripts to expression scripts didn't work.
* D-13661: Snowflake conformance analysis crashed when there was no access to conformance related Snowflake UDF's.
* D-13693: Resolved major Snowflake conformance analysis performance issues in the BPMN model handling.
* D-13716: Snowflake root causes analysis incorrectly bypassed Snowflake cache.
* D-13707: In SQL Scripting, the datatable analysis (number 18) didn't always copy the data table contents to the target table correctly.
* D-13653: Big data flowchart Root causes preset showed incorrect legend.
* D-13626: Flowchart froze when converting into big data flowchart and vice versa by modifying chart json settings.
* D-13656: Root causes for attribute gave error "Failed to compare two elements in the array" in some situations.
* D-11563: Pivot table had a minimum height of 300px, which caused bottom part of it to be out of view.
* D-13704: In CSV file import, parsing now allows spaces between column separator and text quotation mark.
* D-13598: Chart gave unclear error message when events datatable was not defined.
* D-13655: Improved error messages for BPMN editor and conformance statistics.
* D-13528: Error message for certain erroneous SQL expressions was unclear.
* D-13677: "Flow occurrences with specific case attribute value" selection didn't work for in-memory chart.
* D-13663: Pivot table border line was slightly broken in the header area.
* D-13608: There was incorrect alignment of items in the table paging controls.
* D-13703: Importing CSV file with some special characters to Snowflake failed (due to incorrect escaping in Snowflake staging files).
* D-13708: Duplicating datatable using user defined table, removed data the source table.
* D-13717: Dependency wheel crashed when there were zero weights and showing data labels.
* D-13348: There was an unclear error message when Snowflake query had a certain incorrect expression.
* D-13732: Pivot table Excel export contained headers formatted incorrectly.
* D-13729: There was a JavaScript error when limited user tried to access business calendar.
* D-13662: Percentile function didn't always work with timespan types.
* D-13646: Using incorrectly configured model without cases datatable caused null reference error.
* D-13629: When tried to use chart with a non-existing model, there is now a proper translated error message.
 
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.3 (build 1990) (released 2023-05-03) ==


'''Features:'''
'''Features:'''
* 307779: SAML 2.0 support for PA UI.
* B-07818: [[Conformance_Analysis|Conformance analysis]] is supported in Snowflake with following dashboard components: Big data chart, BPMN editor, Conformance statistics, and Design model selector.
* 307789: PAPO now supports ModelId variable and new filters.
* B-07833: [[Root_Causes#Root_causes_in_flowchart|Root causes analysis for flowchart]] is available for Snowflake showing how the event and flow occurrences explain selected phenomena.
* 307854: Filter selector for main header.
* B-07786: Big data chart has more [[Big_Data_Chart#Measure_aggregations|measure aggregations]], such as median, percentile, standard deviation and variance. Also for textual items, unique values can be listed.
* 307844: Improved main header (visible in view designer and workspace) (part 2).
* B-07795: [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Table#Conditional_formatting|Conditional formatting]] supports also columns with non-numerical contents.
* 307820: Improved main header (visible in view designer and workspace).
* B-07830: [[Big_Data_Chart#Measure_aggregations|None and Any aggregations]] for Snowflake and user-friendly formatting for conformance violations.
* 307840: Model loading script is now run in a security context allowing access to the project. Setting AllowExternalDatasources for disabling ODBC interfaces.
* B-06527: Error messages in [[Importing_Data_to_Datatable_from_CSV_File|CSV file import]] show also the column number to help working with CSV files with lot of columns.
* 307763: Root causes analysis supports multiple case attributes.
* B-07747: In-memory conformance checking accepts design models with multiple tasks having same name (same is followed by the Snowflake implementation).
* 307737: Datatable columns can be queried without loading entire datatable into memory.
* B-07659: In-memory flowchart preset Case Conformance to visualize conformance checking violations.
* 307780: When user logs in, last used model and default filter of the model is added to the session context.
* B-07571: Added function IsConformant to backend to check whether cases are conformant.
* 307547: Expression filter rule supports value conversion expression for better compatibility with e.g. date values.
* B-07863: Added function ConformanceViolationsFlows to backend to return nonconformance reasons for violating cases.
* 307841: Expression language has a new function [[Process_Mining_Objects_in_Expression_Language#Case|Case.DurationBetweenEvents]].
* B-07844: Support for "array" aggregation to return aggregated items as array.
* 307819: Expression language improvements for functions, variables and statements.
* B-07856: Support for creating and accessing arrays and objects in SQL expressions.
* 307827: New function EventsWindow (and expression optimization to take it into use automatically)
* B-07860: Array handling functions and Tasks property for DesignModel entity.
* 307794: [[ QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Objects_in_Expression_Language#Model | GenericWrite permission]] should see model object counts when case level permissions are in use.
* B-07847: Added throttling for QPR ScriptLauncher client-side imports to limit memory usage.
* 307776: [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Objects_in_Expression_Language#User.2FGroup|Effective permissions]] can be queried using expression language.
* B-07811: Snowflake query optimization to omit columns that are not used by the query.
* 307838: /api/projects returns effective permissions for each project.
* 307832: Browser side caching has been optimized for performance.
* 307787: Session data and permission are cached for improved performance.
* 307853: Memory management operations to expression language.
* 307803: Error message improvements (part 2).


'''Fixed bugs:'''
'''Fixed issues:'''
* 219198: In web.config, empty setting names are formatted as <value></value>.
* D-13632: Going from variations to event types led to very poor performance with certain models.
* 219199: In web.config, ResponsePollingInterval is 3600000.
* D-13628: Statistical calculations were incorrectly not applied in chart CSV export.
* 219200: Model.EstimatedMemory gave too large estimate for models with lot of event types.
* D-13575: SQL script may have given error "Operand type clash: nvarchar(max) was incompatible with sql_variant".
* 219222: AggregateOthers didn't work with MaximumRowCount when dimensions is null in expression analysis.
* D-13597: UI supports now datatable column type "ShortString" (previously datatable contents preview and CSV import didn't work).
* 219276: It should be possible to set filter to be model default filter when the filter is created.
* D-13536: Using business calendar sometimes gave error "System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified".
* 219280: It should be possible to delete model default filter.
* D-13477: Chart types without y-axis mapping caused an error when series mapping was used.
* 219275: Changing model default filter should only be possible for ManageViews permission.
* D-13453: _model variable was not available for Snowflake expression filter rules.
* 219297: Designer user can delete other people published filter from web UI but cannot delete it from PA Excel Client.
* D-13527: Checkbox height didn't increase when long label needed to span to multiple lines.
* 219285: Expression filter gives "Value was either too large or too small for an Int32".
* D-13363: Snowflake query with EvaluateAfterAggregations and IsHidden failed when dimensioning by case id column.
* 219304: Expression analysis returning DataFrame doesn't work in SQL script that prints to Excel sheet.
* D-13383: Snowflake query gave error "Invalid column name 'FromCase Name'".
* 219251: Sample files removed from \\Release\Files\OfficeAddIns\Excel\Example Data.
* D-13523: Request id was incorrectly shown as zeros in error messages.
* 219293: AnalyzeConformance function throws KeyNotFoundException - variation data missing.
* D-13541: In CSV import, error message for maximum number of columns exceeded is improved (maximum is 300 column for SQL Server).
* 219261: Restored model model could not be open.
* D-13583: Objects count in header didn't work for empty Snowflake model.
* 219271: Invalid security notification when using Excel client.
* D-13553: Larger pacm files can now be imported, as there isn't error "Request body too large. The max request body size is 30000000 bytes".
* 219298: X-Forwarded-For handled incorrectly in Functions.GetClientIpAddress.
* D-13306: Stack overflow error was given when using SqlDataFrames.
* 219305: Decimal datatype caused problems in the expression language.
* D-13487: When Flows root and there was filter in Values expression, some flows were lost.
* 219323: Delete operation deleted unexpected project, models and datatables.
* D-13540: SqlDataFrame query with 300 columns failed to error "WithExpressionColumn: No name given for the new column".
* 219337: EventTypes in ModelInformation in PA response should contain entire model data.
* D-13429: Ordering in List aggregation couldn't find columns in dataframe query.
* 219339: Expression language: If statement without false statement causes an exception if the condition is false.
* D-13406: Dataframe query with root FlowOccurrences and get value from cases caused error.
* 219172: Invalid filterId causes "Internal server error" and " Method Not allow" error.
* D-13538: There was incorrect handling of escaping characters in column names used in dimensions.
* 219258: Exception message is not shown properly in PA Web UI for FaultException.
* D-13633: Fixed ordering in List aggregation with null and empty values.
* 219281: Improving the error handling for invalid ModelId.
* D-13636: Query that dimensions by numeric case attribute with AggregateOthers true, caused error.
* 219284: Client side forces filterId=0 even if filter is not mentioned.
* D-13589: Creating Snowflake datatable did not connect to Snowflake.
* 219313: After adding the same existing panel twice, not possible to delete it from the view.
* D-13623: Value expressions without aggregation didn't work with AggregateOthers setting.
* 219320: Duplicate id on PanelDesigner field-properties.html template.
* D-13554: In in-memory chart, percentile function might have return both Int64 and Double type of objects which cannot be sorted.
* 219336: When PAPO is added from tool palette, InfluenceAttributeTypeId variable contains invalid value "20" (should be empty).
* D-13481: Improved error message when trying to use deleted model.
* D-13621: Dynamic value search dialog had incorrect font in lists.
* D-13610: Some invalid BPMN files crashed BPMN editor.
* D-13614: Checkbox label texts overflowed to right.
* D-13520: Removed excessive parameters from the Query Designer for generic context queries.
* D-12998: QPR icon was incorrectly positioned in header in Safari.
* D-13480: Import to duration data type is removed from Snowflake datatables, and for local datatables duration type maximum size is checked.
* D-13517: In Highcharts-based visualizationsm conditional formatting didn't work for other than the first y-axis mapping.
* D-13529: In some presets containing several on-screen settings, when chart showed in error message, on-screen settings showed invalid selection.
* D-13530: Opening dropdown list caused JavaScript error when the list contents should be empty after it previously contained items.
* D-13486: Removed unreachable error message in CSV import.
* D-13524: Fixed in-memory chart flow occurrences root measures "Event attribute (text)" and "Event attribute (number)" that caused error.


== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2020.1 (released 2020-01-21) ==  
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.2 (build 1478) (released 2023-03-22) ==
Build number: 2020.1.0.40909, Model compatibility version: 3, Database version: 65, PACM file version: 7, Protocol version: 32.


'''Features:'''
'''Features:'''
* 307749: Support for importing data to the datatable models.
* B-07755: [[Business_Calendar|Business calendar]] for duration calculation is available for Snowflake models.
* 307813: DataSourceType parameter to --#ImportEvents and --#ImportCaseAttributes ETL scripting commands.
* B-07719: In Snowflake dashboards, [[Big_Data_Chart#Using_measure_variables|measures can be assigned to variables]] and use the variables in other measures to create combined measures.
* 307743: Backend support for saving the new filters.
* B-07746: Changed in-memory conformance checking to not show invalid flow violations where starting or ending event type is invalid.
* 307775: Effective dashboard permissions are included to dashboard definition when fetched from the server.
* B-07743: [[PA_Configuration_database_table#General_Settings|Default datasource]] can be configured for datatables created by scripts, allowing to set Snowflake as default.
* 307772: Dashboard project path is added to dashboard definition when fetched from the server.
* B-07740: System memory indicator moved from the header to User settings Version information dialog.
* 307778: When saving a view, the view is not anymore reloaded unnecessary.
* B-07776: New SQL expressions functions Unicode, Char and Regexp, as a basis for future rule-based process mining.
* 307810: Expression language adjustments.
* B-07741: Backend support for aggregation operations Median, Percentile, Stdev, Stdevp, Var and Varp to Snowflake.
* 307818: Drop support for QPR ProcessAnalyzer Excel Client for Excel 2013.
* B-07742: Backend support for aggregation operation to list unique items in Snowflake.
* B-07770: Optimized Snowflake SQL generation by combining consecutive WithColumn function calls into one select.


'''Fixed bugs:'''
'''Fixed issues:'''
* 219236: Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Core.dll and Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Core.xml files missing when installing QPR ScriptLauncher from the installation package.
* D-13491: QPR ProcessAnalyzer server crashed now and then when sorting was in progress and the query was cancelled.
* 219291: QPR ProcessAnalyzer didn't work in https only configuration.
* D-13380: Dimensioning integers in in-memory core calculation didn't work correctly as 0 and -1 were put to same bucket.
* 219264: DataFrameMode enabled for KPI analysis even if Values have been defined (but Dimensions is empty).
* D-13385: In Workspace Bin, Delete Forever and Restore from Bin buttons were misaligned.
* 219223: Variable function don't work with upper case variables.
* D-13332: Conformance checking didn't show in violations when there were multiple undesired events in same case.
* 219267: Viewing DataFrame contents in KPI analysis gives incorrect results.
* D-13405: Images take now always all available space in image component area.
* 219279: DataFrame columns by name is unavailable inside user defined functions in KPI analysis.
* D-13417: KPI card without title was slightly misaligned vertically.
* 219259: It should be possible to enable CORS from all origins.
* D-13438: Clicking selected event type or flow in flowchart didn't cancel the filter selection.
* 219274: "Inconsistent or unavailable ids" error when using all cases filter.
* D-13350: Task log and Script log default filter end date is now empty by default.
* 219290: Getting contents of a dashboard is slow in a customer environment.
* D-13381: Disabled browser auto-complete from flowchart variation stepper and Workspace create/rename object dialog.
* 219286: User could not open any models after using broken model.
* D-13347: Improved performance for in-memory business calendar calculation.
* 219227: Slowness in model creation when read data from datasource - event cost calculation improvements.
* D-13335: In in-memory chart, filtering didn't work in "Flow occurrences" root "Flow occurrences with specific event attribute value" dimension.
* 219250: Slowness in event creation when read data from datasource - group by event sorting.
* D-13367: Percentage value wasn't displayed properly with German or Spanish language when event types were shown in object counts indicator.
* 219292: Performance issue in /api/uielements as it unnecessarily fetched dashboard contents.
* D-13451: Exported filter file is now named based on selected filter name.
* 219295: Client side fix for 219292.
* D-13378: In Big data chart, prevented error "Unable to aggregate from level RootCauses to level Custom".
* 219269: Query results were handled incorrectly in the client side - datatype is cell specific, not column specific.
* D-13293: DataFrame query with root Flows and IncludeEvents and ExcludeEvents filter rules failed.
* D-13370: Fixed issue where on-screen settings that didn't have any selectable items, showed a strange selection.
* D-13392: Clustering analysis was incorrectly shown when originally in-memory chart was converted into big data chart by changing chart json settings.
* D-12784: Some Snowflake queries incorrectly bypassed Snowflake caching because they used unique object names.
* D-13456: Improved error messages for incorrectly configured on-screen settings.
* D-13445: Conformance violations related translated terms have been fine-tuned for better translations into different languages.
* D-13421: Improved error messages when trying to use model having some column mappings missing.
* D-13485: Snowflake business calendar gave error when calendar contained Sunday.
* D-13218: Windows event viewer incorrectly contained log entries that are not errors.
* D-12634: Multiline text boxes width is set to non-changeable.
* D-13034: Confirmation dialog to delete items permanently has been updated.
* D-13288: In dialogs, the Create button didn't show the disabled state correctly.
* D-13427: When dropdown lists didn't have any selectable items, the "N/A" text appeared and the list incorrectly took more space vertically.
* D-13483: In Workspace, the new items menu was too narrow for Spanish texts.


== Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2019.9 (released 2019-12-18) ==  
== Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.1 (build 1449) (released 2023-02-24) ==
Build number: 2019.9.0.40754, Model compatibility version: 2, Database version: 63, PACM file version: 7, Protocol version: 32.


'''Notes'''
'''Features:'''
* Starting from QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2019.9 the separately installed QPR UI is not needed anymore. Instead, the web UI is now part of QPR ProcessAnalyzer and does not require a separate installation. The new UI can be accessed in ''http(s)://SERVER/QPRPA/ui/'' (where SERVER is the hostname of your QPR ProcessAnalyzer server). Dashboards in the old QPR UI are not moved automatically to QPR ProcessAnalyzer, and also the QPR UI dashboard export files are not compatible with the new QPR ProcessAnalyzer UI.
* B-07690: System setting [[PA_Configuration_database_table#General_Settings|DatabaseId]] can be defined by administrator to get more simple table names in Snowflake.
* B-07737: In flowchart Bottlenecks preset, originally used flow colors has been recovered.
* B-07748: For Analyzed objects "Conformance checking findings" in charts, terminology has been revised and issue with the case count calculation fixed.
* B-07663: In [[Chart_On-screen_Settings|on-screen settings]], when case/event attribute is selected, related attribute values list are reset.
* B-07570: Backend support for [[Business_Calendar|business calendars]] in Snowflake.
* B-07660: Backend support for conformance checking to show also the last event index and event type in NotCompleted reason.
* B-07610: Memory counter related technical properties have been removed from expression language.


'''Features for QPR ProcessAnalyzer:'''
'''Fixed issues:'''
* 307785: Angular Migration: Migrate ProcessAnalyserService.
* D-13349: Opening dashboard containing Root causes preset with default settings jammed the system by generating lot of calculations (for more information, see previous release notes).
* 307786: Angular Migration: Migrate FieldPropertiesUtils.
* D-13277: Stacked charts with date type of data as series did incorrectly show gaps in columns/bars.
* D-13270: Flowchart conditional formatting didn't work with duration multi-unit format.
* D-13358: Calculation results caching works also across different user sessions.
* D-13250: Dashboard with two charts connected with linked settings using variables ended up to to a never ending loop.
* D-13230: SAP import did not automatically create columns to use the correct column types.
* D-12857: Deeply recursive functions caused a crash without any trace.
* D-12994: In Workspace, some buttons were not clickable due to breadcrumb covering them.
* D-13249: In Workspace, there was incorrect error message for duplicate datatable names when there were items with only letter capitalization was different.
* D-13232: In-memory chart Top variations preset is now sorted secondarily by average duration descending.
* D-13300: Setting DashboardFilter variable to empty value didn't have any effect in dashboard but old value was incorrectly used.
* D-12834: Limited the maximum number of dimensions to 20, to avoid too demanding queries for SQL Server.
* D-12917: Changed visual indication of missing items in dropdown lists (it's no longer showing "***").
* D-13111: In Root causes preset, there is now error message when trying to use weighting related columns when weighting isn't in use.
* D-13124: SQLDataFrame query containing filter rule EventTypes aggregating from cases failed.
* D-13207: Dataframe query with AggregateOthers, AggregationFunctionForOthersRow and EvaluateAfterAggregations failed.
* D-13292: Dataframe query with AggregateOthers, AggregationFunctionForOthersRow and EvaluateAfterAggregations failed (rev.2).
* D-12991: Dropdown list texts had some translations missing.


'''Fixed bugs for QPR ProcessAnalyzer:'''
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.1 (build 1433) (released 2023-02-07) ==
* 219262: Login to PA UI is not possible when there is + character in the password
<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
* 219263: Opening dashboard which definition is large
This release contains a potentially severe issue, where some dashboards completely jam the system by generating lot of calculations. The issue may appear in dashboards that have been created in earlier releases and containing the Root causes preset with default settings. The issue will be fixed by the next release. The issue can be worked around by exporting the affected dashboard, modifying the dashboard file manually and importing the dashboard back. The required modification is to remove line(s) containing <pre>"preset": "RootCauses"</pre> and the comma from the preceding line.
* 219257: It should be possible to get DataFrame cell value by column name in expression analysis
</div>
 
<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
Following legacy analyses have been removed: Cases (analysis number: 5), Events (6), and EventTypes (7). This functionality may be in use in SQL scripts (in [[SQL_Scripting_Commands#--.23GetAnalysis|--#GetAnalysis]] command), and thus needs to be changed to the [[SQL_Scripting_Commands#--.23RunQuery|--#RunQuery]] command (see the [[RunQuery_Script_Examples|examples page]] how each legacy analysis can be replaced). Note that the legacy analyses removal don't affect the dashboarding functionality.
 
Following script can be run in the [[Navigation_Menu#Expression_Designer|Expression Designer]] to show whether there are scripts that use the removed analyses (and thus require migration):
<pre>
let removedAnalyses = [5, 6, 7];
OrderByDescending(Flatten(Projects.Scripts).Where({
  let scr = _;Sum(removedAnalyses.("'AnalysisType','" + _ + "')").{let num=_;(scr.code ?? "").Replace(" ", "").Replace("\t", "").Replace("\n", "").Replace("\r\n", "").Replace("\r", "").Contains(num)})>0;
}),LastRunStart).(Project.Name + ": " + name + " (id: " + id + ") (last run: " + (LastRunStart ?? "N/A") + ")");
</pre>
</div>
 
<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
Starting from QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.1, the '''.NET Desktop Runtime''' is not needed anymore for QPR ProcessAnalyzer Server, so it can be uninstalled. Also for QPR ScriptLauncher, ''.NET Desktop Runtime'' is not needed, but instead install the '''.NET Runtime''' (which is more lightweight). ''.NET Desktop Runtime'' contains the ''.NET Runtime'', so the actions are not mandatory when updating to QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.1.
</div>
 
'''Features:'''
* B-06997: Expression-based filter rules for Snowflake dashboards to allow versatile filtering and filtering from custom expressions.
* B-07383: Improvements to linked settings to allow binding to variables, tags and filter rules [[Chart_Linked_Settings|(more information)]].
* B-07508: Flowchart preset colors have been renewed to be more intuitive.
* B-07184: Automation preset in flowchart has now options for selecting the Automation attribute and value.
* B-07512: Changed datatable metadata can be refreshed from Snowflake, and all rows in the datatable can be deleted easily in Workspace [[QPR_ProcessAnalyzer_Project_Workspace#Datatables|(more information)]].
* B-07440: Date when the release was made is now shown in User settings.
* B-07595: WeekOfYear property for DateTime objects in expression language to get the week number of a year (between 1 and 53).
* B-07623: In-memory expression language functions Random (to get random numbers) and Hash (to get hash value of string).
* B-07612: Breadcrumb in Workspace has now a Home button to quickly navigate to the top level of the projects hierarchy.
* B-07637: Language selector now shows the language options in local languages.
* B-07228: Remove following deprecated analyses: Cases, Events, and EventTypes (see the release note above).
* B-07538: Backend support: Snowflake root causes analysis can find event attribute related root causes.
* B-07706: Backend support: Snowflake expression-based filter rules support for roots containing Where function.
* B-07611: Removed following legacy filter rules: CaseAttributeTrend, EventAttributeTrend, EventTypeTrend, and Duration.
* B-07598: Refactored client-side import for SQL scripting to use generic client-side task mechanism.
* B-07716: ShortString columns are now properly detected in SQL Server queries.
* B-07652: Now it's possible to pipe multiline expression strings to QPR ScriptLauncher.
* B-07688: AddColumns function for Datatables to create multiple columns in one call.
 
'''Fixed issues:'''
* D-13092: Table conditional formatting didn't work when color code was fetched from other column.
* D-13105: Some charts created in earlier release referring to non-existing presets names appeared as empty after software update.
* D-13107: Flowcharts crashed and showed loading animation forever when setting color or flow thickness to non-numerical measure.
* D-13104: In BPMN model editor, context menus to edit elements didn't appear.
* D-12939: Script editor tabs Close buttons didn't work.
* D-13154: "Search by case ID" didn't work in in-memory chart.
* D-12933: CSV columns with only empty values were incorrectly auto-detected as integers.
* D-12929: In-memory chart Root causes for case duration and Root causes for case attributes (weighted) had Custom expression missing.
* D-12928: Pivot table headers were empty when there were two column levels and two values.
* D-12924: Pivot table columns with Count and Distinct Count aggregations are now numeric and aligned right.
* D-13033: Changing colors in chart settings Color palette caused "Item already exists" error and prevented changing colors.
* D-12996: Tags referring to dashboard variables didn't work in Additional root expression.
* D-12877: UI gave error in some situations: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'min').
* D-13071: Prevented selecting two or more of the Y-axis, X-axis and series mappings at the same time for the same measure or dimension.
* D-12895: Big data chart crashed when on-screen setting contained event type selector and there were no event type filter set.
* D-13231: Tooltips for dashboard name, model selector and filter selector in header show now the content text instead of generic instruction.
* D-13139: There was an error when tried to create filter for a custom expression where selected data type didn't match with the actual type of data.
* D-12988: Chart presets selection in chart settings showed unnecessary tooltip.
* D-12901: When set sampling over 1 million, Snowflake models gave error: parameter value out of range: size of fixed sample. Must be between 0 and 1,000,000.
* D-12904: Creating expression filter having lower/greater logic with root objects sampling failed.
* D-12923: Chart schema didn't accept pivotAggregation in dimensions/columns.
* D-12926: Root causes columns Selected weight, Compared weight and Total weight have now correct float data type.
* D-12880: In out-of-the box dashboards, chart titles and subtitles were not translated.
* D-12916: Improved filter rule description text in Filter rule editor dialog for expression filter rules.
* D-12889: No clear error message was given when user tried to export corrupted model from .pacm file.
* D-12869: Date selector in on-screen settings had inconsistent vertical alignment.
* D-12938: When creating a filter with lasso and selecting a single data point only, "equals" kind of filter rule is now created.
* D-12989: "Running tasks as specific time" system report may have ended up in loop causing following error: Maximum call stack size exceeded error.
* D-13010: Pivot table sometimes ended up to never-ending resizing loop when browser zoom was more than 100%.
* D-12790: Expression language: DataFrame.SetColumns: Initializing and using variables defined in closure of SetColumns function parameter didn't work
* D-12927: All on-screen settings were not be visible in narrow charts having several on-screen settings.
* D-12937: Added maximum value limitation to several number input fields in charts.
* D-12947: Message dialog didn't show line breaks correctly (e.g., in CSV file import).
* D-12948: Defining column setting caused error when Measure Expression was not defined.
* D-12946: Filter rule text couldn't be seen entirely from tooltip.
* D-12983: When range filtering using integer values in Highcharts chart, filter is now shown as integer value.
* D-12984: When range filtering in Highcharts charts and there is category axis, filter rule is now based on individual (category) values.
* D-12930: When creating filters from charts using date type of X-axis with lasso, "greater than or equal" and "less than or equal" filter rules are not created.
* D-12920: "Where" function in DataFrame lost column data types of the original DataFrame.
* D-13048: Model notifications failed with certain measures that define variables in root expression leading to error: Variable "sampleSize" already exists in this context.
* D-13116: BPMN editor had some translations missing.
* D-13019: Datatable and script selectors show now datatable/script name instead of id, when opening selector having existing selections.
* D-12951: Changing additional root expression in flowchart didn't refresh the flowchart.
* D-13147: Filter rule boxes in header had different widths, and Add filter rule button vertical alignment was incorrect.
* D-12907: Sometimes case attribute selection showed incorrect attribute name for empty model.
* D-13148: Filters and Datatables system reports loaded unnecessarily twice which could be seen as blinking.
* D-12844: In dataframe query, FlowOccurrences in root and GetValueFrom Cases with filter gave null reference exception
* D-12915: Repeating certain query twice with aggregations in Events root generated invalid SQL
* D-12728: Was huge amount logs in server during client side import (manual testing required as identification)
* D-13156: Persist function failed to snowflake: Invalid unicode escape sequence '\u0027ACCE'; should be at most '\u0010FFFF'.
* D-12876: Flows/FlowOccurrences in root didn't work with SqlExpressionValue filtering.


== Old Releases ==
== Old Releases ==

Latest revision as of 10:38, 15 April 2024

This page lists all new features and fixed issues for each QPR ProcessAnalyzer release.

Next Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.4 (planned release date 2024-05-14)

Features:

Fixed issues:

  • D-14084: Filter rule for first/last event in case couldn't be edited if there were more than one event selected.
  • D-14091: Duration multi-unit didn't work in big data chart.
  • D-14085: Measure/dimension/column settings dialog didn't open for Event attribute when drop-down list values weren't selected.
  • D-14095: Flowchart sometimes crashed with color mapping in use to an event type measure with null values.
  • D-14094: Measure unit was incorrectly shown for textual values and the unit could not be changed.
  • D-14096: Highcharts tooltip square icons were slightly misaliged.
  • D-14100: In Workspace, project bread crumbs didn't update when moving the selected project.
  • D-14099: There was a console warnings when opening the business calendar dialog.
  • D-14097: In Workspace, added progress spinner to prevent starting a new operation while the previous is still in progress.

Latest Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.3 (build 5801) (released 2024-04-04)

Features:

  • B-08024: Design diagram has now swimlanes and BPMN expanded subprocesses. Also indirect flows can be included when calculating flow measures.
  • B-08242: Script based actions can be started from dashboard table context menu, extending dashboard functionality to e.g., create tickets, trigger automation, and fetch external information.
  • B-08268: (1) In Overview flowchart preset, flow width visualizes now case volumes instead of flow duration. (2) When converting Snowflake expression into custom, the expression filter is preserved and not embedded into the custom expression.
  • B-08288: Added expression language functions to start and stop scripts.
  • B-08252: When Analyzed objects is cases, event attribute values are filtered with the native event attribute filter rules instead of expression based filter rules.
  • B-07906: Implemented cross joins to SQL dataframes.
  • B-08267: Simplified Task log additional parameters by moving query parameters to the root level.
  • B-08221: Snowflake query performance has been improved by using cached filters to build new filters.
  • B-08231: Snowflake performance improved by splitting object counts (shown in header) query into two, so that the filtered object count query uses eventlog caching.
  • B-08250: Business calendar calculation also takes into account calendars with overlapping periods.
  • B-03047: Removed support for dashboard panels.
  • B-08214: Removed unused columns from the PA_VIEW table.
  • B-08254: Frontend components have been updated.
  • B-08255: Backend components have been updated.
  • B-08233: Language translations have been updated to 2024.3.

Fixed issues:

  • D-14048: Fixed issue where in-memory root causes analysis for case attributes didn't show attributes with ShortString data type.
  • D-14035: In design diagram, BPMN event and gateway symbols are now circular.
  • D-14049: Added some missing translations for table column filter and BPMN editor.
  • D-14021: FindRootCauses function WeightingExpression was run in incorrect context for in-memory model.
  • D-14020: Query which goes from EventTypes to Cases did not show the error when using GetValueFrom function.
  • D-13976: Fixed issue where gateway-based imports were not synchronous.
  • D-13689: Fixed JavaScript error in Highcharts polar chart with tooltips.
  • D-12614: Highcharts gives "Maximum call stack size exceeded" error in bar chart with polar and data labels.
  • D-14060: Highcharts custom layout translatable properties incorrectly changed chart configuration by translating the labels.
  • D-14071: Business calendar button press caused error when user didn't have access to any model.
  • D-14041: Manager Users dialog "Has password" field filter shows now Yes/No texts instead of true/false.
  • D-11268: There were inconsistent button colors in Workspace.
  • D-12264: Disabled stacked and polar charts for donut, packed bubble, sankey, dependency wheel, word cloud, and gantt charts.
  • D-14066: Fixed issue when EventTypes, Events.IncomingFlowOccurrence fails because there is event type filtering in in-memory model.
  • D-14081: Fixed null references error when logging null in expression script.

Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.2 (build 5509) (released 2024-02-27)

Features:

  • B-06280: User management dialog shows whether users have password defined and unnecessary passwords can be removed to improve security.

Fixed issues:

  • D-14045: Fixed issue where users with Viewer or Analyzer role couldn't create filters in Snowflake models.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.2 (build 5438) (released 2024-02-21)

Known issue: Snowflake models and dashboards don't work with Viewer and Analyzer role permisions. The reason is that cache tables created to Snowflake incorrectly require the write permissions. Workaround is to give users the Designer role which will give the needed permissions. Note that the Designer role gives many permissions to the user for the project (more information). This issue has been fixed in the next release (D-14045).

The legacy User permissions report (analysis number 11) and Filters report (analysis number 30) used in SQL scripts have been removed. Use instead the expressions language to query filters and user permissions, e.g., Models.Filters and RoleAssignments property.

New version of the Design diagram component has been improved with object-specific measures, and the previous common measures are not migrated into object-specific measures. Thus, the measures need to be configured again, or manually edit the chart json settings (if needed please ask instructions from QPR CustomerCare).

Features:

  • B-08022: Design diagram supports now BPMN notation, elbow style flows and object-specific measures.
  • B-08232: Entire future eventlogs can be predicted based on generative AI models running in Snowflake.
  • B-08166: Added expression language function OpenAIChatCompletion to answer natural language prompts based on OpenAI ChatGPT API.
  • B-08177: Snowflake query performance has been improved by introducing caching of filtered eventlogs using Snowflake tables.
  • B-08196: Conditional formatting rules can be defined for textual and boolean values.
  • B-08213: Big data chart expressions event type selections to be multi-select where applicable.
  • B-08205: Expression language API is available for storing secrets for scripts.
  • B-07780: Chart variable mappings has been removed - use the linked settings instead. Dashboards using variable mappings are automatically converted to use linked settings.
  • B-08117: Added ToSqlDataFrame function to convert in-memory dataframe into SQL dataframes.
  • B-08174: Only non-default parameters values are written to the operation log.
  • B-08200: Timestamps in System reports are shown in user workstation local time.
  • B-08171: Dashboard id has been added to queries, to track from which dashboard queries are originating.
  • B-07144: Remove legacy User permissions report (analysis number 11) and Filters report (analysis number 30) in SQL scripts (see note above).
  • B-08193: Added retry mechanism to QPR ScriptLauncher to recover if connection to server breaks.
  • B-08202: Updated copyright for year 2024.
  • B-08199: Frontend components have been updated.
  • B-08203: Backend components have been updated.
  • B-08209: Translations updated for release 2024.2.

Fixed issues:

  • D-13972: Some measures/dimensions/columns in Big data chart didn't show the expressions level filtering.
  • D-14015: Fixed business calendar incorrect calculation when business period covered entire day.
  • D-14014: Fixed issue where Snowflake business calendar could not have end time as 00:00.
  • D-13962: System variable values were interpreted incorrectly when used in linked settings.
  • D-13971: HiddenInNavigation and SortOrder variables didn't work in navigation menu dashboards list.
  • D-13959: Removed possibility to add datatable columns with the legacy "any" data type.
  • D-13991: Improved drop-down selector component to handle empty strings as variable values.
  • D-13965: Datatable column name length was validated incorrectly which may have caused error in saving with too long column names.
  • D-13958: Project names showed unnecessary html escaping in the "Move to" menu.
  • D-13964: Model attributes and notifications dialogs gave error when trying to use dashboard tags.
  • D-13960: Added missing translations for list of permission list and 12-hour clock format.
  • D-13966: Fixed issue were root causes chart tooltip sometimes didn't disappear.
  • D-13969: Datatable column schema export sometimes showed empty for the key column.
  • D-13862: Session token was not accepted when url path capitalization is different.
  • D-13942: Datatable could not be dimensioned if it has column named "CaseId".
  • D-13980: Business calendar dialog crashed when tried to open it for a model without access.
  • D-13983: Notifications dialog didn't validate situation when same name was used in a measure and dimension.
  • D-13981: Dashboard import set incorrect model id to dashboard if there was no access to any model.
  • D-11276: Translations were missing for 12-hour clock dates (AM and PM) in dashboards.
  • D-13977: Multi-select dropdown lists showed some special characters incorrectly.
  • D-13945: Syncfusion toast message didn't work when text contains ${[]}.
  • D-13930: Pivot table throws javascript error when certain clicks.
  • D-13273: Duplicate datatable row count didn't shown correctly.
  • D-13994: There was an error in the in-memory chart with some flow related measures about duplicate variable names when same measure was defined twice.
  • D-13985: Models list dots menu had texts misaligned in narrow screens.
  • D-13995: In Workspace, wrong datatable was selected after duplication when non-default sorting was applied.
  • D-13997: Workspace tables column filtering search caused JavaScript errors.
  • D-13978: In table Excel export, the last row representing other items appeared incorrectly for in-memory chart.
  • D-14007: In System reports, model related selections are hidden from the Analyzed objects lists.
  • D-14005: In big data chart, changing to custom expression caused crash with some expressions having case/event attribute.
  • D-14003: When dimensioning was not used, pivot table values were incorrectly rounded in the server side.
  • D-14004: Removed empty filters from queries to optimize them.
  • D-13988: Fixed issue where data grid context menu rendered initially as too high.
  • D-13979: BPMN model editor element settings use now Open Sans font.
  • D-14013: Fixed incorrect expression "Duration between first and last occurrence" in big data chart event types.
  • D-13984: Fixed the error of refusing to run the JavaScript URL.
  • D-14031: ThrownObject property was not included to http error response when error came from the script.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.1 (build 4784) (released 2024-01-10)

Known issue fixed in QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.2: In Big data chart, some measures, dimensions and columns have the filtering option missing. The issue concerns for example Duration between events, Path starting/until between specific events, and Cases where event occurs before other selections. Workaround is to set the filter in the chart json settings: the filter can be configured to another expression and copied to the correct expression.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer Server and QPR ScriptLauncher are now using .Net 8 (previous was .Net 6). When updating to this release, install the .Net 8 Runtime (see more). The .Net 6 doesn't need to be uninstalled immediately because .Net 6 and .Net 8 work side-by-side, but due to security reasons, the unused .Net 6 should eventually be uninstalled.

In this release, all filters that don't contain any filter rules, are removed. These are legacy filters which have not been visible in the UI.

Features:

  • B-08019: New component Design Diagram for showing user-created diagrams in dashboards where to visualize process mining metrics.
  • B-08087: Generic dropdown list selector works with Snowflake models allowing to add selection lists for any values.
  • B-08163: Linked settings support for binding to case attribute filter values without defining case attribute name.
  • B-08170: Snowflake model filters can be saved as new models which can be used to create snapshots of part of models.
  • B-08093: Multiple dashboards can be exported to same file, and model can be set for imported dashboards.
  • B-08161: Added Modify function to change datatable properties and improved CreateDatatable function for creating datatables.
  • B-08122: Added new system report to list dashboards.
  • B-08173: Removed legacy filters that didn't have any filter rules.
  • B-07961: In OperationLog, changed parameters to json format and added request id.
  • B-08069: Added DashboardId property to OperationLog in expression language.
  • B-08139: Added UpdateRows function to update existing rows in datatables with similar logic than SQL update.
  • B-08115: Added DeleteRows function to delete rows in datatables with similar logic than SQL delete.
  • B-08149: QPR ProcessAnalyzer has been updated to .Net 8.
  • B-08054: Changed Scripts property in generic context to return all scripts, instead of legacy system level scripts.
  • B-08138: Changed Synchronize function to remove all columns when no Snowflake table exists.
  • B-07689: For datatables, foreign keys to other datatables can be defined using expression language.
  • B-08176: Translation updates for release 2024.1.
  • B-08175: Workspace should show timestamps in user's local time.

Fixed issues:

  • D-13913: Datatable properties dialog incorrectly showed linked models from other projects.
  • D-13916: Chart filter could not be defined for some expressions in Big data chart.
  • D-13933: Navigation menu selected item wasn't highlighted when used Snowflake models.
  • D-13906: In Conformance Analysis, deviating flows were not translated.
  • D-13907: Improved translation related to datatable properties dialog "Used by models" field.
  • D-13904: There was an unclear error message in Snowflake, as exception code 1 was returned without AttributeName and ModelName properties when non-existing attribute was in filter.
  • D-13911: Fixed small glitches in the opening and closing of drop-down lists.
  • D-13918: Datatable could be configured incorrectly to use table for other datatable.
  • D-13932: Duplicating datatable with custom table in datasource losed all data.
  • D-11002: Removed legacy in-memory prediction preset.
  • D-13912: Added check that array cannot be stored to dashboard Content property.
  • D-13936: Query designer default query didn't work with Snowflake models.
  • D-13938: There was an incorrect logging with some operations related to ScriptLauncher.
  • D-13923: Snowflake expressions didn't work with Where function in root referring to case attribute.
  • D-13939: ApplyFilter function gave null reference error for non-existing attribute name.
  • D-13931: There were issues with AllowExternalDatasources and EnableFullFunctionality settings.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.7 (build 4326) (released 2023-11-28)

Limitation for the maximum amount of data (B-07636) causes a behavior change in in-memory charts that have the Maximum rows settings empty and have the sorting defined. In certain cases, the order in which measures are evaluated changes (due to an internal performance optimization). If there are custom expressions that define variables, the variables may not be available in other measures anymore. As a resolution, either redefine the variables in those measure expressions or add those measures secondarily to the sorting.

Default query timeout of 30 minutes has been added for --#ImportOdbcQuery, --#ImportSqlQuery and --#ImportOleDbQuery commands. If a query run is taking longer than the timeout, the query is stopped. The timeout can be adjusted using the QueryExecutionTimeout parameter. Previously, there has been no timeout, so queries that take more than 30 minutes require configuring a longer timeout.

Incorrectly configured linked settings in charts (available in the Advanced tab) give now an error message, if they are referring to non-existing measures, dimensions or columns. Previously, incorrect linked settings were ignored. To fix the error message, remove the incorrect linked settings.

Features:

  • B-07511: Datatables have a dialog to view datatable properties, write description, set the Snowflake source table, add/modify/delete columns, and set the datatable key.
  • B-08150: Added setting Apply chart filters first to determine whether chart filter rules or dashboard filter rules are applied first when chart queries are filtered.
  • B-08091: When filtering charts in Snowflake, case attribute filter is created instead of case id filter.
  • B-08091: New setting to define whether cases or events are filtered by default.
  • B-08091: New preset "Looping paths" to detect whether there are repeating patterns of events.
  • B-08091: Duration between events calculation ignores negative durations in Snowflake.
  • B-08091: Chart loading animation has been renewed.
  • B-07636: To prevent dashboards from jamming when querying too much data, added limitations to the amount of data that charts can visualize. Note that the limitation concerns the aggregated data that is visualized, not the source event log data.
  • B-08017: Dashboards API has been added to expression language, allowing to create, modify and delete dashboards in scripts.
  • B-08056: Following properties have been added to user objects in expression language: IsLocked, LastLockedDate, LastLoginDate.
  • B-08053: User rights report has been refactored to use RoleAssignments property in the expression language. The change also simplifies the report as now it only shows the direct role assignments that are visible in the User Management.
  • B-08151: For Snowflake expressions support for following windowing functions: sum, average, median, min, and max.
  • B-08050: When a model is created, the default filter is not created anymore (this is a refactoring that doesn't have any impact on user interface).
  • B-08123: Translation updates for 2023.7.
  • B-08092: Updated backend components.

Fixed issues:

  • D-13876: In CreateSnowflakeConnection function, ProjectId parameter is optional when OdbcConnectionStringKey is not specified.
  • D-13898: Snowflake: Exclude case attribute filter didn't work when there was null values and was selecting at least two values.
  • D-13890: Fixed XES file import to work.
  • D-13894: Business calendar based duration calculation was incorrect in some durations that spanned to several weeks (for Snowflake and in-memory models).
  • D-13899: Using broken OdbcConnectionString in a datatable prevented the datatable from being deleted.
  • D-13883: Script run stucked after running a script with error that uses client-side ODBC import.
  • D-13879: SqlExpressionValue filter when excluding events didn't work with filter rule root expression only.
  • D-13896: Adding or removing columns to datatable didn't change the LastModifiedDate.
  • D-13882: User details weren't written to operation log when creating or modifying users.
  • D-13771: User rights system report didn't give error when changing columns.
  • D-13893: Some event filtering caused null pointer error when primary key had been defined.
  • D-13873: Fixed pivot table visual issues after component update.
  • D-13900: When adding, renaming or removing columns for Snowflake table fails, operation is now rolled back without any changes.
  • D-13866: Querying GET api/uielements was quite slow right after server start.
  • D-13864: Combinations of translatable and hardcoded strings didn't get translated in UI.

Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.6 (build 3933) (released 2023-10-24)

Features:

  • B-08055: Error message for locked account has been replaced with generic error message, so that username enumeration is not possible.

Fixed issues:

  • D-13884: Attributes dialog crashed with some older model configurations.
  • D-13843: In charts, selected case and event attributes switched away when attribute data type was ShortString.
  • D-13877: Some Snowflake expressions gave error "exceeds maximum length limit of 255 characters" when selecting lot of items.
  • D-13878: Snowflake expression filters for case attribute values didn't accept other than string type of case attributes.
  • D-13871: Some statistical calculations with percentages didn't work with Last Row Aggregates Over-limit Rows setting.
  • D-13875: Using some case level filters in a model without cases datatable didn't work.
  • D-13861: Dashboard opens are now logged to the Task log (i.e., calling GET /api/dashboards/{dashboardid}).
  • D-13870: Workspace projects hierarchy focused project showed light grey background making the project name not readable.
  • D-13867: When starting datatable refresh and going to other tab, went back to Datatables tab when query completed.
  • D-13853: If chart Custom Layout settings had extra series defined, chart may have crashed.
  • D-13869: Export as CSV button didn't work in the datatable contents dialog when dialog was still loading.
  • D-13872: Main progress spinner had unnecessary small scrollbar on top right.
  • D-13863: In the REST API method GET /api/users, password field (that has always been null) has been removed.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.6 (build 3847) (released 2023-10-17)

Big data chart support of models with local datatables (i.e., SQL Server stored) is removed in this release. If there are big data charts using SQL Server calculation, either migrate data to Snowflake or switch to in-memory charts (requiring to load data in-memory).

Features:

  • B-07992: Added 10 new presets including Queue analysis, Four eyes principle, Self-looping events, and Path until selected event. There are also presets for Individual Cases Flow and Range of event type occurrences which use Gantt chart.
  • B-08011: Added following date related operations for Snowflake: Day of year, Day of month, Day of week, Week of year, Half-year only, Quarter only, Month only, Hours only, Minutes only, Seconds only, and Milliseconds only. These are available when calculating with date type of data.
  • B-08016: Table actions to set variables can also be opened to a new browser tab. Also improved user interface for table actions.
  • B-08018: For Snowflake expressions, added Flows aggregations FromEventType and ToEventType to get starting/ending event type, and FlowOccurrences aggregations FromEvent and ToEvent to get starting/ending event.
  • B-08001: Added CallStoredProcedure function to call Snowflake stored procedures. This allows to start ETL transformation in Snowflake orchestrated by QPR ProcessAnalyzer script.
  • B-08013: Added RoleAssignments property to expression language to replace the legacy UserPermissions analysis (11).
  • B-07976: Snowflake expression based filter rules support additional expression columns allowing more Big data chart expressions to be filterable.
  • B-08015: Big data chart doesn't anymore support calculation in SQL Server (using local datatables).
  • B-06270: Improved error messages and made them translatable by taking into use exception codes provided by server.
  • B-08021: Added possibility to store designed diagrams for models and expression language API for reading and modifying diagrams.
  • B-08037: Dropped following unused tables database: PA_IDEA, PA_IDEA_VOTE, PA_REPORT, PA_REPORT_SETTING, PA_SESSION_SERVICE, PA_VIEW_FILTER_RULE, PA_VIEW_FILTER_RULE_PARAMETER.
  • B-08052: Language translations have been updated to 2023.6.
  • B-08051: Frontend side components have been updated.
  • B-08034: Backend side components have been updated.

Fixed issues:

  • D-13830: Object counts indicator in header showed incorrect counts when there was disabled filter rules in Snowflake models.
  • D-13833: In-memory charts didn't work with boolean type of dimensions when filtering with the false value.
  • D-13858: Target value measures didn't update chart when controlled using an on-screen setting.
  • D-13827: Calculated attributes data type was incorrectly set as Any by the Attributes dialog.
  • D-13849: Multiselect list search didn't allow spaces.
  • D-13829: Multiselect dropdown lists height jumped couple of pixels when selecting values.
  • D-13835: Deselecting a selected data point didn't remove chart filter rule.
  • D-13702: Improved Snowflake query performance in situations when there are lot of filter rules (by decreasing number of CTE's).
  • D-13819: Model.CaseAttributes sometimes gave incorrectly Any datatype for all attributes.
  • D-13820: Fixed incorrect manifest.json file to avoid "not found" errors when fetching web site icon.
  • D-13865: Break, continue, and return statements didn't work properly when called from inside a catch block.
  • D-13795: There was a Python error in clustering analysis with Snowflake model.
  • D-13823: Some tooltips in Workspace project hierarchy didn't work and caused a JavaScript error.
  • D-13824: BPMN editor align context menu layout looked strange.
  • D-13813: QPR logo button in the top left was misaligned in Firefox.
  • D-13797: Snowflake query may have given following error when using sampling: ambiguous column name '_EventType_NotNull_1'.
  • D-13774: TakeSample function with certain columns caused SQL compilation error: ambiguous column name 'Case Name'.
  • D-13782: Snowflake: Aggregating from variations didn't work when using sampling.
  • D-13836: Some tooltips had a strange two-colored background.
  • D-13834: Removed Model statistics column from clustering and root causes analysis.
  • D-13860: Removed filter button from the custom expressions in Task log analyzed objects.
  • D-13838: Removed Split data by filtering column from clustering analysis.
  • D-13832: Script and model status updates incorrectly sent next update when previous was still pending.
  • D-13839: Charts reset zoom button font size was too small.
  • D-13817: Importing data to Snowflake datatable with Append=0 doesn't now drop the underlying Snowflake table.
  • D-13825: Some models could not have been deleted from recycle bin.
  • D-13852: Recycle bin Projects and Models tab didn't show correct content when Recycle bin only contained either models or projects.
  • D-13841: In-memory chart Data type selection type has been corrected to string.
  • D-13842: Second time and Third time selections has been hidden in in-memory chart measures.
  • D-13850: In Chrome, there were console errors related in incorrect text field autocomplete type and text field without form.
  • D-13847: Improved browser side performance by removing unnecessary operations.
  • D-13859: Chart without dimensions showed an unnecessary Remove dimension button.
  • D-12598: When script is stopped in server, ScriptLauncher could still incorrectly continue to import data.

Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.5 (build 3334) (released 2023-09-07)

Fixed issues:

  • D-13826: Measures or dimensions with case or event attribute and value selections incorrectly removed calculated attributes when dashboard was opened or chart settings were changed.
  • D-13821: Font size of some Highcharts tooltips was too small. Issue appeared when there were tooltips mappings in measures or dimensions.
  • D-13810: Simplified help links: now all Help buttons go to the QPR ProcessAnalyzer wiki main page.
  • D-13822: Snowflake clustering analysis showed empty strings and nulls as case attribute values in an unclear way as just nothing.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.5 (build 3304) (released 2023-09-05)

In Big Data Chart, the Case conformance measure and dimension has changed in a way that now it provides boolean values (true/false) instead of integer values (1/0). If colorMappings are used for this measure or dimension to set specific colors to visualize conformant and nonconformant cases, the mapped values need to be changed as follows: 1 -> true and 0 -> false. Without the change, the mapped colors are not effective.

Exmaple: Old configuration:

"colorMappings": {
  "1": "#36d475ff",
  "0": "#f5403bff"
}

New configuration:

"colorMappings": {
  "true": "#36d475ff",
  "false": "#f5403bff"
}

Big data chart support of models with local datatables (i.e., SQL Server stored) is deprecated. Big data chart has allowed to process data both in Snowflake and SQL Server. Now the support for SQL Server is deprecated and the Big data chart will only support calculation in Snowflake. If there are big data charts using SQL Server calculation, either migrate data to Snowflake or switch to in-memory charts (requiring to load data in-memory).

Following legacy analyses have been removed: Operation log (analysis number: 12), Root causes (14), Correlations (15), Idea feed (16) and Duration influence (29). This functionality may be in use in SQL scripts (in --#GetAnalysis command), and thus needs to be changed to the --#RunQuery command (see the examples page how each legacy analysis can be replaced). The OperationLog analysis is replaced by the OperationLog function and the Infcluencers analysis is replaced by the FindRootCauses function.

Following script can be run in the Expression Designer to show whether there are scripts that use the removed analyses (and thus require migration):

let removedAnalyses = [12, 14, 15, 16, 29];
OrderByDescending(Flatten(Projects.Scripts).Where({
  let scr = _;Sum(removedAnalyses.("'AnalysisType','" + _ + "')").{let num=_;(scr.code ?? "").Replace(" ", "").Replace("\t", "").Replace("\n", "").Replace("\r\n", "").Replace("\r", "").Contains(num)})>0;
}),LastRunStart).(Project.Name + ": " + name + " (id: " + id + ") (last run: " + (LastRunStart ?? "N/A") + ")");

By default, Snowflake ODBC driver generates quite much logging to files which might unnecessarily fill up the disk space. It's recommended to set the LogLevel parameter to value 0. The path where the logs are created can be seen in Windows registry (key LogPath). More information about configuring Snowflake ODBC parameters: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/odbc/odbc-parameters.

Features:

  • B-07971: Machine learning based Clustering analysis can be run in Snowflake.
  • B-07989: In dashboard designer the stacking order of charts can be changed with buttons Bring to front, Send to back, Bring forward and Send backward.
  • B-07977: For sankey diagram, added Start level and End level mappings to define custom start and end level for the sankey flows. Implemented also color mappings to define specific colors for specific values.
  • B-08010: To improve performance, charts are loaded and updated only when they are visible in the dashboard.
  • B-07975: Added following date related functions to Snowflake: DayOfYear, DayOfWeek, WeekOfYear, Quarter.
  • B-07908: When model is duplicated, also filters in the model are also duplicated.
  • B-07904: Filters and models API for expression language has been completed.
  • B-07991: In case and event type filter selectors, threshold whether the dropdown list or search dialog is shown can be defined using the Maximum Rows setting. Also the search dialog filters search results by other filter rules in the dashboard.
  • B-07999: Filters report has been changed to use the expression language API for filters.
  • B-07540: Added throw statement to expression language.
  • B-07813: UI components are updated. There are small visual improvements, such as in flowchart flows are routed a bit differently and in charts the hidden series is shown as strike-through in the legend.
  • B-07963: Following legacy analysis types have been removed: Operation log (analysis number: 12), Root causes (14), Correlations (15), Idea feed (16) and Duration influence (29) (see more information in the note above).

Fixed issues:

  • D-13777: Filters could not be created in charts when "Update Filter During Selection" setting was disabled.
  • D-13767: Automation per Event Types preset in in-memory incorrectly showed only one event type.
  • D-13756: Changing background color in KPI card didn't have any effect.
  • D-13812: "Exclude events" was incorrectly translated to "Exclure les cas" in French.
  • D-13815: Dashboard designer background grid was not visible in entire area in edit mode. Improved also the grid to match to snapping in move and resize.
  • D-13674: Business calendar dialog layout was incorrect when a model with a long name was selected to copy holidays.
  • D-13811: Table actions link to a new window didn't go to dashboard if there were other parameters in the link.
  • D-13601: Fixed issue where some presets may have given error when attribute value selection and the automatically selected attribute conflicted by the data type.
  • D-13753: While Snowflake model was selected, in Filters and User Rights reports the Columns list could not be opened.
  • D-13720: Now table column filter and sorting are preserved when resizing or zooming page.
  • D-13785: In tables increased number of rows to 20000 that are inspected to get available items shown in Excel-style column filter.
  • D-13759: Some statistical calculations had bad performance with large number of rows.
  • D-13787: Conformance statistics component didn't have scrollbars when text didn't fit to the visible area.
  • D-13788: In-memory "Nonconformance reason" selection caused error when two of them was selected in the same chart.
  • D-13783: When Analyzed objects was Generic analysis, column selection incorrectly caused "Analysis has not been selected" error.
  • D-13776: When measure name contained quotation mark, notification preview didn't work.
  • D-13747: Filtering with integer type of case id with case attribute value filter caused error in Snowflake.
  • D-13791: In Firefox, model selection in chart settings didn't show models in the first open.
  • D-11984: Recycle bin buttons didn't fit to the screen when screen width was small.
  • D-13780: Using CaseId case attribute in clustering analysis did not work with Snowflake 106 cases standard model.
  • D-13781: Clustering analysis produced Python error with a certain simple Snowflake model.
  • D-13730: Snowflake: Case attribute filtering didn't work when there are cases without row in cases table.
  • D-13803: There was chart configuration validation error in browser console when measures were moved into dimensions in Big data chart.
  • D-13758: There was performance issue with the Recent tasks system preset.
  • D-13793: Snowflake clustering failed when cluster count is larger than case count.
  • D-13763: SQL expression based filter rule with Where function to filter events didn't filter anything in Snowflake.
  • D-13804: Added missing Millisecond function to Snowflake.
  • D-13772: Expression EventLog.Cases.Events caused error "Value cannot be null".
  • D-13755: Model.CaseAttributes sometimes gave incorrectly Any datatype for all attributes.
  • D-13739: When switching between System reports there was error: "Uncaught Error: 2nd dimension not found. at y.getExpressionConfiguration".
  • D-12109: Sometimes flowcharts showed message "Error in querying event type measures. Input string was not in a correct format".
  • D-12473: Cost Savings by Automation preset gave sometimes error "Unable to cast object of type 'System.Double' to type 'System.String'".
  • D-13750: Snowflake model didn't work with the Case Duration vs. Manual Activities preset.
  • D-13657: There was error converting data type nvarchar to bigint.
  • D-13796: Some Snowflake operations didn't work with zero rows and columns.
  • D-12494: Now when chart size changes, the table column filters and sorting are preserved.
  • D-13736: In Performance benchmarking dialog, the Export result button exported wrong benchmark performance analysis result.
  • D-13609: Improved conformance analysis related filter names.
  • D-13594: Recycle bin buttons were not visible when opening recycle bin in a narrow screen.
  • D-13226: Tooltips in the model properties dialog are now translated.
  • D-12569: Table incorrectly showed ellipsis for narrow boolean type of columns showing checkboxes.
  • D-13391: Emptying date or datetime picker value was not registered and it didn't trigger functionality.
  • D-12621: Value search dialog didn't work with values containing backslashes.
  • D-13796: Some Snowflake operation didn't work with zero rows/columns.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.4 (build 2628) (released 2023-06-14)

Features:

  • B-07767: Added Gantt chart to visualize timeline of cases and events divided into swimlanes.
  • B-06383: Added Sankey chart to visualize flow from one set of values to another.
  • B-07941: Implemented many more presets running in Snowflake models for compliance and operational excellence use cases. There are also presets for the path analysis and process bottlenecks identification.
  • B-07864: Snowflake conformance analysis shows now reasons for conformance deviations, such as which event occurrences deviated from the design model.
  • B-07909: Snowflake conformance analysis visualizes undesired event types in table and flowchart.
  • B-07823: Flowchart Bottlenecks preset has been changed to show bottlenecks for event types. Also renewed the Tasks reports to use expression language based interface.
  • B-07891: User interface has been translated into Portuguese.
  • B-07873: Improved pivot table visual layout to highlight totals and aggregated rows. Also the row titles are now visible in the top left.
  • B-07905: Added Rank related functions to Snowflake for writing more versatile custom KPI's, e.g., FirstValue, LastValue, NthValue, Lead and Lag.
  • B-07912: Added more SQL expression array functions ArrayToString and ArrayOverlap to Snowflake.
  • B-06449: Added SQL expression functions ToTimestamp and TryToTimestamp for parsing timestamps from strings using provided format.
  • B-07959: Added new functions Base64Encode and Base64Decode to help using basic HTTP authentication when calling web services.
  • B-07206: SQL expressions support data clustering which is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to group data based on similarities.
  • B-07848: Data can be extracted from SAP using the encrypted SNC connection.
  • B-07903: Added expression language API to create and modify filters and models.
  • B-03103: Task log (operation log) can be accessed in expression language.
  • B-07872: List aggregation with Distinct=true orders now items by their value.
  • B-07940: Removed "Count" aggregation from textual values in Big data chart (you can use the Case count, Event count, etc. selection instead).
  • B-07757: Backend support for datatables linking to user-definable Snowflake database, schema and table.
  • B-07825: Improved error message when trying to use non-existing attributes in Snowflake queries.
  • B-03101: To expression language, added try-catch-finally statement to handle thrown exceptions.
  • B-07861: Removed available and total virtual memory information from User settings dialog.
  • B-07902: Optimized sequences of joins in Snowflake queries to improve performance.
  • B-07837: Updated backend components.

Fixed issues:

  • D-13709: If image width-to-height ratio was lower than container's ratio, image was incorrectly stretched to fit the container.
  • D-13660: Disabling filter rules didn't work in Snowflake models.
  • D-13526: Passing dataframes from SQL scripts to expression scripts didn't work.
  • D-13661: Snowflake conformance analysis crashed when there was no access to conformance related Snowflake UDF's.
  • D-13693: Resolved major Snowflake conformance analysis performance issues in the BPMN model handling.
  • D-13716: Snowflake root causes analysis incorrectly bypassed Snowflake cache.
  • D-13707: In SQL Scripting, the datatable analysis (number 18) didn't always copy the data table contents to the target table correctly.
  • D-13653: Big data flowchart Root causes preset showed incorrect legend.
  • D-13626: Flowchart froze when converting into big data flowchart and vice versa by modifying chart json settings.
  • D-13656: Root causes for attribute gave error "Failed to compare two elements in the array" in some situations.
  • D-11563: Pivot table had a minimum height of 300px, which caused bottom part of it to be out of view.
  • D-13704: In CSV file import, parsing now allows spaces between column separator and text quotation mark.
  • D-13598: Chart gave unclear error message when events datatable was not defined.
  • D-13655: Improved error messages for BPMN editor and conformance statistics.
  • D-13528: Error message for certain erroneous SQL expressions was unclear.
  • D-13677: "Flow occurrences with specific case attribute value" selection didn't work for in-memory chart.
  • D-13663: Pivot table border line was slightly broken in the header area.
  • D-13608: There was incorrect alignment of items in the table paging controls.
  • D-13703: Importing CSV file with some special characters to Snowflake failed (due to incorrect escaping in Snowflake staging files).
  • D-13708: Duplicating datatable using user defined table, removed data the source table.
  • D-13717: Dependency wheel crashed when there were zero weights and showing data labels.
  • D-13348: There was an unclear error message when Snowflake query had a certain incorrect expression.
  • D-13732: Pivot table Excel export contained headers formatted incorrectly.
  • D-13729: There was a JavaScript error when limited user tried to access business calendar.
  • D-13662: Percentile function didn't always work with timespan types.
  • D-13646: Using incorrectly configured model without cases datatable caused null reference error.
  • D-13629: When tried to use chart with a non-existing model, there is now a proper translated error message.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.3 (build 1990) (released 2023-05-03)

Features:

  • B-07818: Conformance analysis is supported in Snowflake with following dashboard components: Big data chart, BPMN editor, Conformance statistics, and Design model selector.
  • B-07833: Root causes analysis for flowchart is available for Snowflake showing how the event and flow occurrences explain selected phenomena.
  • B-07786: Big data chart has more measure aggregations, such as median, percentile, standard deviation and variance. Also for textual items, unique values can be listed.
  • B-07795: Conditional formatting supports also columns with non-numerical contents.
  • B-07830: None and Any aggregations for Snowflake and user-friendly formatting for conformance violations.
  • B-06527: Error messages in CSV file import show also the column number to help working with CSV files with lot of columns.
  • B-07747: In-memory conformance checking accepts design models with multiple tasks having same name (same is followed by the Snowflake implementation).
  • B-07659: In-memory flowchart preset Case Conformance to visualize conformance checking violations.
  • B-07571: Added function IsConformant to backend to check whether cases are conformant.
  • B-07863: Added function ConformanceViolationsFlows to backend to return nonconformance reasons for violating cases.
  • B-07844: Support for "array" aggregation to return aggregated items as array.
  • B-07856: Support for creating and accessing arrays and objects in SQL expressions.
  • B-07860: Array handling functions and Tasks property for DesignModel entity.
  • B-07847: Added throttling for QPR ScriptLauncher client-side imports to limit memory usage.
  • B-07811: Snowflake query optimization to omit columns that are not used by the query.

Fixed issues:

  • D-13632: Going from variations to event types led to very poor performance with certain models.
  • D-13628: Statistical calculations were incorrectly not applied in chart CSV export.
  • D-13575: SQL script may have given error "Operand type clash: nvarchar(max) was incompatible with sql_variant".
  • D-13597: UI supports now datatable column type "ShortString" (previously datatable contents preview and CSV import didn't work).
  • D-13536: Using business calendar sometimes gave error "System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified".
  • D-13477: Chart types without y-axis mapping caused an error when series mapping was used.
  • D-13453: _model variable was not available for Snowflake expression filter rules.
  • D-13527: Checkbox height didn't increase when long label needed to span to multiple lines.
  • D-13363: Snowflake query with EvaluateAfterAggregations and IsHidden failed when dimensioning by case id column.
  • D-13383: Snowflake query gave error "Invalid column name 'FromCase Name'".
  • D-13523: Request id was incorrectly shown as zeros in error messages.
  • D-13541: In CSV import, error message for maximum number of columns exceeded is improved (maximum is 300 column for SQL Server).
  • D-13583: Objects count in header didn't work for empty Snowflake model.
  • D-13553: Larger pacm files can now be imported, as there isn't error "Request body too large. The max request body size is 30000000 bytes".
  • D-13306: Stack overflow error was given when using SqlDataFrames.
  • D-13487: When Flows root and there was filter in Values expression, some flows were lost.
  • D-13540: SqlDataFrame query with 300 columns failed to error "WithExpressionColumn: No name given for the new column".
  • D-13429: Ordering in List aggregation couldn't find columns in dataframe query.
  • D-13406: Dataframe query with root FlowOccurrences and get value from cases caused error.
  • D-13538: There was incorrect handling of escaping characters in column names used in dimensions.
  • D-13633: Fixed ordering in List aggregation with null and empty values.
  • D-13636: Query that dimensions by numeric case attribute with AggregateOthers true, caused error.
  • D-13589: Creating Snowflake datatable did not connect to Snowflake.
  • D-13623: Value expressions without aggregation didn't work with AggregateOthers setting.
  • D-13554: In in-memory chart, percentile function might have return both Int64 and Double type of objects which cannot be sorted.
  • D-13481: Improved error message when trying to use deleted model.
  • D-13621: Dynamic value search dialog had incorrect font in lists.
  • D-13610: Some invalid BPMN files crashed BPMN editor.
  • D-13614: Checkbox label texts overflowed to right.
  • D-13520: Removed excessive parameters from the Query Designer for generic context queries.
  • D-12998: QPR icon was incorrectly positioned in header in Safari.
  • D-13480: Import to duration data type is removed from Snowflake datatables, and for local datatables duration type maximum size is checked.
  • D-13517: In Highcharts-based visualizationsm conditional formatting didn't work for other than the first y-axis mapping.
  • D-13529: In some presets containing several on-screen settings, when chart showed in error message, on-screen settings showed invalid selection.
  • D-13530: Opening dropdown list caused JavaScript error when the list contents should be empty after it previously contained items.
  • D-13486: Removed unreachable error message in CSV import.
  • D-13524: Fixed in-memory chart flow occurrences root measures "Event attribute (text)" and "Event attribute (number)" that caused error.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.2 (build 1478) (released 2023-03-22)

Features:

  • B-07755: Business calendar for duration calculation is available for Snowflake models.
  • B-07719: In Snowflake dashboards, measures can be assigned to variables and use the variables in other measures to create combined measures.
  • B-07746: Changed in-memory conformance checking to not show invalid flow violations where starting or ending event type is invalid.
  • B-07743: Default datasource can be configured for datatables created by scripts, allowing to set Snowflake as default.
  • B-07740: System memory indicator moved from the header to User settings Version information dialog.
  • B-07776: New SQL expressions functions Unicode, Char and Regexp, as a basis for future rule-based process mining.
  • B-07741: Backend support for aggregation operations Median, Percentile, Stdev, Stdevp, Var and Varp to Snowflake.
  • B-07742: Backend support for aggregation operation to list unique items in Snowflake.
  • B-07770: Optimized Snowflake SQL generation by combining consecutive WithColumn function calls into one select.

Fixed issues:

  • D-13491: QPR ProcessAnalyzer server crashed now and then when sorting was in progress and the query was cancelled.
  • D-13380: Dimensioning integers in in-memory core calculation didn't work correctly as 0 and -1 were put to same bucket.
  • D-13385: In Workspace Bin, Delete Forever and Restore from Bin buttons were misaligned.
  • D-13332: Conformance checking didn't show in violations when there were multiple undesired events in same case.
  • D-13405: Images take now always all available space in image component area.
  • D-13417: KPI card without title was slightly misaligned vertically.
  • D-13438: Clicking selected event type or flow in flowchart didn't cancel the filter selection.
  • D-13350: Task log and Script log default filter end date is now empty by default.
  • D-13381: Disabled browser auto-complete from flowchart variation stepper and Workspace create/rename object dialog.
  • D-13347: Improved performance for in-memory business calendar calculation.
  • D-13335: In in-memory chart, filtering didn't work in "Flow occurrences" root "Flow occurrences with specific event attribute value" dimension.
  • D-13367: Percentage value wasn't displayed properly with German or Spanish language when event types were shown in object counts indicator.
  • D-13451: Exported filter file is now named based on selected filter name.
  • D-13378: In Big data chart, prevented error "Unable to aggregate from level RootCauses to level Custom".
  • D-13293: DataFrame query with root Flows and IncludeEvents and ExcludeEvents filter rules failed.
  • D-13370: Fixed issue where on-screen settings that didn't have any selectable items, showed a strange selection.
  • D-13392: Clustering analysis was incorrectly shown when originally in-memory chart was converted into big data chart by changing chart json settings.
  • D-12784: Some Snowflake queries incorrectly bypassed Snowflake caching because they used unique object names.
  • D-13456: Improved error messages for incorrectly configured on-screen settings.
  • D-13445: Conformance violations related translated terms have been fine-tuned for better translations into different languages.
  • D-13421: Improved error messages when trying to use model having some column mappings missing.
  • D-13485: Snowflake business calendar gave error when calendar contained Sunday.
  • D-13218: Windows event viewer incorrectly contained log entries that are not errors.
  • D-12634: Multiline text boxes width is set to non-changeable.
  • D-13034: Confirmation dialog to delete items permanently has been updated.
  • D-13288: In dialogs, the Create button didn't show the disabled state correctly.
  • D-13427: When dropdown lists didn't have any selectable items, the "N/A" text appeared and the list incorrectly took more space vertically.
  • D-13483: In Workspace, the new items menu was too narrow for Spanish texts.

Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.1 (build 1449) (released 2023-02-24)

Features:

  • B-07690: System setting DatabaseId can be defined by administrator to get more simple table names in Snowflake.
  • B-07737: In flowchart Bottlenecks preset, originally used flow colors has been recovered.
  • B-07748: For Analyzed objects "Conformance checking findings" in charts, terminology has been revised and issue with the case count calculation fixed.
  • B-07663: In on-screen settings, when case/event attribute is selected, related attribute values list are reset.
  • B-07570: Backend support for business calendars in Snowflake.
  • B-07660: Backend support for conformance checking to show also the last event index and event type in NotCompleted reason.
  • B-07610: Memory counter related technical properties have been removed from expression language.

Fixed issues:

  • D-13349: Opening dashboard containing Root causes preset with default settings jammed the system by generating lot of calculations (for more information, see previous release notes).
  • D-13277: Stacked charts with date type of data as series did incorrectly show gaps in columns/bars.
  • D-13270: Flowchart conditional formatting didn't work with duration multi-unit format.
  • D-13358: Calculation results caching works also across different user sessions.
  • D-13250: Dashboard with two charts connected with linked settings using variables ended up to to a never ending loop.
  • D-13230: SAP import did not automatically create columns to use the correct column types.
  • D-12857: Deeply recursive functions caused a crash without any trace.
  • D-12994: In Workspace, some buttons were not clickable due to breadcrumb covering them.
  • D-13249: In Workspace, there was incorrect error message for duplicate datatable names when there were items with only letter capitalization was different.
  • D-13232: In-memory chart Top variations preset is now sorted secondarily by average duration descending.
  • D-13300: Setting DashboardFilter variable to empty value didn't have any effect in dashboard but old value was incorrectly used.
  • D-12834: Limited the maximum number of dimensions to 20, to avoid too demanding queries for SQL Server.
  • D-12917: Changed visual indication of missing items in dropdown lists (it's no longer showing "***").
  • D-13111: In Root causes preset, there is now error message when trying to use weighting related columns when weighting isn't in use.
  • D-13124: SQLDataFrame query containing filter rule EventTypes aggregating from cases failed.
  • D-13207: Dataframe query with AggregateOthers, AggregationFunctionForOthersRow and EvaluateAfterAggregations failed.
  • D-13292: Dataframe query with AggregateOthers, AggregationFunctionForOthersRow and EvaluateAfterAggregations failed (rev.2).
  • D-12991: Dropdown list texts had some translations missing.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.1 (build 1433) (released 2023-02-07)

This release contains a potentially severe issue, where some dashboards completely jam the system by generating lot of calculations. The issue may appear in dashboards that have been created in earlier releases and containing the Root causes preset with default settings. The issue will be fixed by the next release. The issue can be worked around by exporting the affected dashboard, modifying the dashboard file manually and importing the dashboard back. The required modification is to remove line(s) containing
"preset": "RootCauses"
and the comma from the preceding line.

Following legacy analyses have been removed: Cases (analysis number: 5), Events (6), and EventTypes (7). This functionality may be in use in SQL scripts (in --#GetAnalysis command), and thus needs to be changed to the --#RunQuery command (see the examples page how each legacy analysis can be replaced). Note that the legacy analyses removal don't affect the dashboarding functionality.

Following script can be run in the Expression Designer to show whether there are scripts that use the removed analyses (and thus require migration):

let removedAnalyses = [5, 6, 7];
OrderByDescending(Flatten(Projects.Scripts).Where({
  let scr = _;Sum(removedAnalyses.("'AnalysisType','" + _ + "')").{let num=_;(scr.code ?? "").Replace(" ", "").Replace("\t", "").Replace("\n", "").Replace("\r\n", "").Replace("\r", "").Contains(num)})>0;
}),LastRunStart).(Project.Name + ": " + name + " (id: " + id + ") (last run: " + (LastRunStart ?? "N/A") + ")");

Starting from QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.1, the .NET Desktop Runtime is not needed anymore for QPR ProcessAnalyzer Server, so it can be uninstalled. Also for QPR ScriptLauncher, .NET Desktop Runtime is not needed, but instead install the .NET Runtime (which is more lightweight). .NET Desktop Runtime contains the .NET Runtime, so the actions are not mandatory when updating to QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.1.

Features:

  • B-06997: Expression-based filter rules for Snowflake dashboards to allow versatile filtering and filtering from custom expressions.
  • B-07383: Improvements to linked settings to allow binding to variables, tags and filter rules (more information).
  • B-07508: Flowchart preset colors have been renewed to be more intuitive.
  • B-07184: Automation preset in flowchart has now options for selecting the Automation attribute and value.
  • B-07512: Changed datatable metadata can be refreshed from Snowflake, and all rows in the datatable can be deleted easily in Workspace (more information).
  • B-07440: Date when the release was made is now shown in User settings.
  • B-07595: WeekOfYear property for DateTime objects in expression language to get the week number of a year (between 1 and 53).
  • B-07623: In-memory expression language functions Random (to get random numbers) and Hash (to get hash value of string).
  • B-07612: Breadcrumb in Workspace has now a Home button to quickly navigate to the top level of the projects hierarchy.
  • B-07637: Language selector now shows the language options in local languages.
  • B-07228: Remove following deprecated analyses: Cases, Events, and EventTypes (see the release note above).
  • B-07538: Backend support: Snowflake root causes analysis can find event attribute related root causes.
  • B-07706: Backend support: Snowflake expression-based filter rules support for roots containing Where function.
  • B-07611: Removed following legacy filter rules: CaseAttributeTrend, EventAttributeTrend, EventTypeTrend, and Duration.
  • B-07598: Refactored client-side import for SQL scripting to use generic client-side task mechanism.
  • B-07716: ShortString columns are now properly detected in SQL Server queries.
  • B-07652: Now it's possible to pipe multiline expression strings to QPR ScriptLauncher.
  • B-07688: AddColumns function for Datatables to create multiple columns in one call.

Fixed issues:

  • D-13092: Table conditional formatting didn't work when color code was fetched from other column.
  • D-13105: Some charts created in earlier release referring to non-existing presets names appeared as empty after software update.
  • D-13107: Flowcharts crashed and showed loading animation forever when setting color or flow thickness to non-numerical measure.
  • D-13104: In BPMN model editor, context menus to edit elements didn't appear.
  • D-12939: Script editor tabs Close buttons didn't work.
  • D-13154: "Search by case ID" didn't work in in-memory chart.
  • D-12933: CSV columns with only empty values were incorrectly auto-detected as integers.
  • D-12929: In-memory chart Root causes for case duration and Root causes for case attributes (weighted) had Custom expression missing.
  • D-12928: Pivot table headers were empty when there were two column levels and two values.
  • D-12924: Pivot table columns with Count and Distinct Count aggregations are now numeric and aligned right.
  • D-13033: Changing colors in chart settings Color palette caused "Item already exists" error and prevented changing colors.
  • D-12996: Tags referring to dashboard variables didn't work in Additional root expression.
  • D-12877: UI gave error in some situations: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'min').
  • D-13071: Prevented selecting two or more of the Y-axis, X-axis and series mappings at the same time for the same measure or dimension.
  • D-12895: Big data chart crashed when on-screen setting contained event type selector and there were no event type filter set.
  • D-13231: Tooltips for dashboard name, model selector and filter selector in header show now the content text instead of generic instruction.
  • D-13139: There was an error when tried to create filter for a custom expression where selected data type didn't match with the actual type of data.
  • D-12988: Chart presets selection in chart settings showed unnecessary tooltip.
  • D-12901: When set sampling over 1 million, Snowflake models gave error: parameter value out of range: size of fixed sample. Must be between 0 and 1,000,000.
  • D-12904: Creating expression filter having lower/greater logic with root objects sampling failed.
  • D-12923: Chart schema didn't accept pivotAggregation in dimensions/columns.
  • D-12926: Root causes columns Selected weight, Compared weight and Total weight have now correct float data type.
  • D-12880: In out-of-the box dashboards, chart titles and subtitles were not translated.
  • D-12916: Improved filter rule description text in Filter rule editor dialog for expression filter rules.
  • D-12889: No clear error message was given when user tried to export corrupted model from .pacm file.
  • D-12869: Date selector in on-screen settings had inconsistent vertical alignment.
  • D-12938: When creating a filter with lasso and selecting a single data point only, "equals" kind of filter rule is now created.
  • D-12989: "Running tasks as specific time" system report may have ended up in loop causing following error: Maximum call stack size exceeded error.
  • D-13010: Pivot table sometimes ended up to never-ending resizing loop when browser zoom was more than 100%.
  • D-12790: Expression language: DataFrame.SetColumns: Initializing and using variables defined in closure of SetColumns function parameter didn't work
  • D-12927: All on-screen settings were not be visible in narrow charts having several on-screen settings.
  • D-12937: Added maximum value limitation to several number input fields in charts.
  • D-12947: Message dialog didn't show line breaks correctly (e.g., in CSV file import).
  • D-12948: Defining column setting caused error when Measure Expression was not defined.
  • D-12946: Filter rule text couldn't be seen entirely from tooltip.
  • D-12983: When range filtering using integer values in Highcharts chart, filter is now shown as integer value.
  • D-12984: When range filtering in Highcharts charts and there is category axis, filter rule is now based on individual (category) values.
  • D-12930: When creating filters from charts using date type of X-axis with lasso, "greater than or equal" and "less than or equal" filter rules are not created.
  • D-12920: "Where" function in DataFrame lost column data types of the original DataFrame.
  • D-13048: Model notifications failed with certain measures that define variables in root expression leading to error: Variable "sampleSize" already exists in this context.
  • D-13116: BPMN editor had some translations missing.
  • D-13019: Datatable and script selectors show now datatable/script name instead of id, when opening selector having existing selections.
  • D-12951: Changing additional root expression in flowchart didn't refresh the flowchart.
  • D-13147: Filter rule boxes in header had different widths, and Add filter rule button vertical alignment was incorrect.
  • D-12907: Sometimes case attribute selection showed incorrect attribute name for empty model.
  • D-13148: Filters and Datatables system reports loaded unnecessarily twice which could be seen as blinking.
  • D-12844: In dataframe query, FlowOccurrences in root and GetValueFrom Cases with filter gave null reference exception
  • D-12915: Repeating certain query twice with aggregations in Events root generated invalid SQL
  • D-12728: Was huge amount logs in server during client side import (manual testing required as identification)
  • D-13156: Persist function failed to snowflake: Invalid unicode escape sequence '\u0027ACCE'; should be at most '\u0010FFFF'.
  • D-12876: Flows/FlowOccurrences in root didn't work with SqlExpressionValue filtering.

Old Releases

See older releases in QPR ProcessAnalyzer Release Archive