QPR ProcessAnalyzer Release Notes

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

Next Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.8 (planned release date 2024-12-10)

See the next release content.

Latest Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.7 (build 8234) (released 2024-10-29)

If using local datatables (stored in SQL Server), the SqlServerConnectionString setting is now mandatory. Starting from QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.7, local datatables cannot be created if the setting is not configured. It's recommended to have a separate database for the datatables data, but it's also possible to configure the same connection to the SqlServerConnectionString setting as for the configuration database (in appsettings.json). See System Architecture for more information about the data storage.

Check whether there are custom roles in the database (table PA_ROLE) which have the ROL_FLAGS field set to NULL. The NULL values don't work with this release, so set a correct value (either 1, 2, or 3). Following query can be run in the database showing roles which have an incorrect ROL_FLAGS field:

SELECT *
FROM [PA_ROLE]
WHERE [ROL_FLAGS] = NULL;

Snowflake user-defined functions (UDF) used by QPR ProcessAnalyzer have been updated to use Python 3.11. Old versions of the functions use Python 3.8 which has been deprecated by Snowflake. Although the old versions are not anymore used by QPR ProcessAnalyzer, they are not automatically deleted and thus Snowflake may send notifications emails about existing deprecated functions. It's recommended to remove the old functions which are following:

• QPRPA_UDF_BC_DURATION_BETWEEN_DATES
• QPRPA_UDF_BC_DURATION_BETWEEN_DATES_V2
• QPRPA_UDF_BC_DURATION_BETWEEN_DATES_V3
• QPRPA_UDF_BC_DURATION_BETWEEN_DATES_V4
• QPRPA_UDF_BC_DURATION_BETWEEN_DATES_V5
• QPRPA_UDTF_CLUSTER
• QPRPA_UDTF_CLUSTER_V2
• QPRPA_UDTF_CLUSTER_V3
• QPRPA_UDF_BPMN_IS_CONFORMANT
• QPRPA_UDF_BPMN_CONFORMANCE_VIOLATIONS_FLOWS

Features

• B-08458: Object-centric perspectives can be stored as filters and object-centric model can be selected for dashboard.
• B-08472: Snowflake filter cache tables are now created in background to improve performance.
• B-08452: Limited sampled cases to 10000 in Snowflake and in-memory clustering presets.
• B-08430: Improved Snowflake flowchart performance by calculating variations using sampling.
• B-08446: QPR ProcessAnalyzer can be deployed as Snowflake application package to publish it as a native app.
• B-08418: QPR ProcessAnalyzer has been integrated into Snowflake authentication for Snowpark Container Services.
• B-08420: Legacy "Local" datatables cannot be created anymore - only separate SQL Server database is supported (see release note above).
• B-08437: Snowflake cache is now bypassed for queries that have caching disabled.
• B-08443: Improved object-centric models performance by optimizing perspective generation.
• B-08450: Updated Snowflake UDF's python version from 3.8 to 3.11 (see release note above).
• B-08425: Migrated nine configuration data tables to use Entity Framework.
• B-08334: Removed legacy functionality related to models.
• B-08337: Removed legacy functionality related to roles.
• B-08456: Frontend components have been updated.
• B-08477: Backend components have been updated.
• B-08478: Updated translations for release 2024.7.

Fixed issues

• D-14263: Filtering with case id caused error when Snowflake model didn't have case attributes datatable.
• D-14256: Workspace showed progress spinner forever if trying to remove rows from table where there is no access.
• D-14250: "Show in Query Designer" button didn't show full query sent to server.
• D-14285: Non-breaking spaces didn't work in json fields.
• D-14278: Workspace models list showed linked cases/events datatable even though datatable didn't exist.
• D-14251: Aggregations list in Combined measure/dimension/column incorrectly showed aggregations for all data types.
• D-14257: Exporting datatable with no columns froze loading spinner.
• D-14188: Script incorrectly aborted after error occurring in the import phase of client-side import.
• D-14275: Several "Loop percentage" event measures caused flowchart error.
• D-14259: Removed malfunctioning undo/redo operations from Design diagram.
• D-14260: Design diagram toolbar incorrectly scrolled to left when diagram was zoomed.
• D-14262: Opening version information caused javascript error if backend communication failed.
• D-14271: None aggregation didn't work with some Statistical calculations.
• D-14283: BPMN editor toolbox has now correct font.
• D-14280: Dashboard component stacking order buttons didn't work if dashboard had z-indeces with gaps.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.6 (build 7414) (released 2024-09-18)

Features:

• B-08366: Frontend for OCPM model configuration and Snowflake charts using perspectives.
• B-08365: Added following visual settings for KPI Card: font size, text color, text styles, vertical and horizontal alignment.
• B-08382: Measures, dimensions and columns can be duplicated in chart settings.
• B-08381: Table vertical scrollbar is now hidden when table is not scrollable.
• B-08355: Expression language identifiers are primarily assumed as variables and secondarily as property names.
• B-08402: QPR ProcessAnalyzer can now connect to Snowflake when running in Snowpark Container Services.
• B-08389: Added support for making multiple Snowflake queries in same request for OCPM queries.
• B-08416: Improved backend functionality for partially configured OCEL models.
• B-08428: Improved Snowflake calculation performance by including to filter cache tables only the event table key (this behavior can be opt-in with a CacheOnlyPrimaryKeysForFilters setting).
• B-08448: Add configuration to disable event cache tables storing primary key only.
• B-08340: New users don't have a default model selected when login for the first time.
• B-08413: Frontend components have been updated.
• B-08397: Backend components have been updated.
• B-08398: Updated translations for release 2024.6.

Fixed issues:

• D-14209: Fixed issue where moving projects in Workspace was not possible.
• D-14186: Highcharts visualizations datalabel texts were incorrectly shown over tooltips.
• D-14210: Fixes for issue with incorrectly shown pending tasks in System Reports.
• D-14242: SqlDataFrame Persist function now keeps the original column types even if they are changed.
• D-14147: Snowflake queries gave "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error with MaximumRowCount higher than 2 billion.
• D-14189: Dropdown list component gave following error when clicking Add button for "List items": Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'axisLabel').
• D-14192: Datagrid paging settings are now preserved when resizing or zooming window.
• D-14214: In System reports, dropdown list showing dashboards didn't open if there were more than 1000 dashboards.
• D-14218: CSV file import didn't detect existing column correctly when there was difference only in letter case.
• D-14184: Giving ScriptText or ScriptFileName as parameter for QPR ScriptLauncher created a broken script.
• D-14220: AI assistant gave strange error message when trying to explain chart showing error.
• D-14135: Expression based Snowflake filter rule caused error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object".
• D-14229: In Snowflake, disabled filter rules didn't affect header object counts when there were several filter rules.
• D-14228: In Models and Model statistics reports, columns showing case and event attributes didn't work.
• D-14213: In User Settings dialog, Effective Permissions settings are now preserved while dialog is open.
• D-14227: Fixed issue where applying chart settings in System reports made settings pane empty.
• D-14185: Stack traces were incorrectly returned even if IncludeExceptionDetailsInErrors was false.
• D-14226: Fixed several OCPM calculation related issues in backend.
• D-13943: Added error message to Case attribute selector when model doesn't have selected case attribute.
• D-14162: Expression "0.()" gave null reference error.
• D-14246: Chart setting dialog may have been partly out of screen when activating other chart while in dashboard is scrolled.
• D-14238: Snowflake chart measure aggregation is incorrectly affected by statistical calculations.
• D-14133: In Snowflake chart, events Aggregate settings caused JaveScript error and UI messed up.
• D-14172: Fixed issue where validation error appeared when copying and moving elements in Design Diagram.
• D-14253: Table didn't show column filter icon when column name was empty.

Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.5 (build 6814) (released 2024-07-01)

Known issue: It's not possible to move projects that existed before updating to this release. The issue will be fixed in the next release. There is a following workaround available: Administrator user can go to the Expression Designer and run the following expression: Projects.Modify(#{}).

Fixed issues:

• D-14191: Running script by id failed on data import when parameters contained ScriptId.
• D-14183: Fixed issue where flowchart SVG export only exported the visible part of flowchart.

Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.5 (build 6769) (released 2024-06-27)

Features:

• B-08388: Added backend support for OCPM model perspectives to convert object-centric eventlogs into case-centric.

Fixed issues:

• D-14187: Creating local datatables was not possible in Workspace if datatables were stored to the configuration database (i.e., SqlServerConnectionString setting is not used).

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.5 (build 6746) (released 2024-06-25)

Features:

• B-08338: Added reports to monitor dashboards usage: Popular dashboards, Dashboards by users and by time, and specific dashboard usage.
• B-08314: Snowflake connection string can be specified for each project to allow projects connecting to different Snowflake accounts, databases or schemas.
• B-08341: Added GetRelatedValueFrom and AggregateRelatedValueFrom SQL expression functions to extend models data with additional tables.
• B-08301: In chart settings, selecting another measure/dimension/column now doesn't reset settings.
• B-08317: Added Snowflake presets for Root Causes for Attributes in table and detailed table format.
• B-08318: Improved Snowflake Events preset performance by adding a filter that picks a subset of cases.
• B-08385: Open AI default large language model has been changed to "gpt-4o".
• B-08342: Added DashboardName and DashboardProjectName properties to OperationLog in expression language.
• B-08320: Added RenameAllColumns function to dataframes to easily rename all columns.
• B-08321: Added DataSourceConnection property to dataframes in expression language.
• B-08307: Finetuned Workspace functionality for models that don't have datasource defined.
• B-08329: Optimized metadata queries to Snowflake to improve performance.
• B-08311: Changed QPR ScriptLauncher interaction with the server by changing long polling to short calls to improve robustness.
• B-08368: Implemented backend support for configuring and importing OCPM models.
• B-08352: Frontend components have been updated.
• B-08348: Backend components have been updated.
• B-08349: Updated translations for release 2024.5.

Fixed issues:

• D-14150: Charts temporarily showed as too large when resized with non-zero chart margin values.
• D-14058: Login page is not anymore shown when SAML authentication is configured and user is directed to the identity provider.
• D-11579: Column filter menu in tables can now appear outside the table area which is useful in small tables.
• D-14144: Fixed issue where Snowflake clustering failed if there were date type of case attribute with null values.
• D-14163: Non-breaking spaces appeared strangely as " " in Highcharts charts.
• D-14132: Snowflake model object counts were not shown when opening dashboard while model metadata was still loading.
• D-14142: CreateDataTable function incorrectly deleted all source datatable content if connection included source datatable name.
• D-14161: Fixed issue where Append function in SqlDataFrame broke source data.
• D-14157: AI Assistant didn't show detailed error message when OpenAI query failed.
• D-14137: AI Assistant incorrectly appeared on top of chart in the fullscreen mode.
• D-14170: Toolbar dropdown lists didn't work when dashboard contained more than one Design Diagram.
• D-14146: Fixed error "Unable to get on-premise gateway named..." when running script from SQL script using QPR ScriptLauncher.
• D-14106: Having only a template string in the #expr{...} block didn't work.
• D-14008: "Root Causes contribution" and "Comparison eventlog cases percentage" columns didn't work (in-memory).
• D-14010: Occurrences of specific flow measure didn't work with the Root causes analysis weighting expression (in-memory).
• D-14148: Root causes for case duration preset didn't support Multi-unit time settings.
• D-14139: Added info message when successfully exporting model to pacm file.
• D-14153: Fixed in-memory measures for "Flow duration" and "Occurrences of specific flow" which failed when selected flow didn't exist.
• D-14167: Fixed issue where ScriptLauncher sometimes terminated prematurely on exceptions occurring in on-premise import.
• D-14165: Flowchart export file name was incorrect and exported flowchart background was always transparent.
• D-14160: Fixed issue where DashboardId wasn't recorded to operation log when opening dashboard by identifier (DashboardsController.GetByIdentifierPath).
• D-14159: IsHidden property didn't work in in-memory Value expressions.
• D-14131: Some popup messages had incorrect html escaping.
• D-14151: Fixed issue where flowchart might have given browser console error when clicking event types or flows while still loading data.
• D-14022: In System reports, numeric aggregations which don't work in SQL Server are now hidden.
• D-14129: Imported model name was incorrectly cut if it contained dots.

QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.4 (build 6246) (released 2024-05-14)

Features:

• B-08227: Dashboards have AI Assistant (powered by ChatGPT) helping users in process analysis. AI Assistant can answer general questions about the process, create filters based on user prompt, and explain charts and analyses.
• B-08277: QPR ProcessAnalyzer now detects automatically when cases or events data in Snowflake updates. Check is done every 5 minutes which is the maximum delay of detecting new data. (more information)
• B-08322: OpenAI model name can be configured by administrator. The model is used by the AI Assistant and (by default) the OpenAIChatCompletion function.
• B-08264: Workspace is now showing child projects in the top level when there is no access to parent project.
• B-08276: Adjusted permissions for moving projects.
• B-08310: Added Details property to Exception object in expression language.
• B-08328: Language translations have been updated to 2024.4.
• B-08312: Frontend components have been updated.
• B-08308: Backend components have been updated.

Fixed issues:

• D-14084: Filter rule for first and 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-14095: Flowchart sometimes crashed with color mapping in use to an event type measure with null values.
• D-14105: Snowflake root causes analysis showed incorrect row count when Contribution was Contributing or Impeding.
• D-14107: Snowflake model that has earlier been an in-memory model showed case count and estimated memory incorrectly.
• D-14074: Fixed issue in QPR ScriptLauncher when calling the script from other script.
• D-14104: Fixed expression language parsing issue with in-memory DataFrame and filter using "In" function.
• D-14121: Datatable UpdateRows function now supports column names given as expressions.
• D-14085: Measure/dimension/column settings dialog didn't open for Event attribute when drop-down list values weren't selected.
• D-14123: There was an error of unable to get on-premise gateway when using ExtractSap function in expression language script from SQL script called from expression language script.
• D-14128: Table without title was incorrectly exported as .txt file.
• D-14112: Convert to custom expression button didn't work in design diagram.
• D-14100: In Workspace, project bread crumbs didn't update when moving the selected project.
• D-14094: Measure unit was incorrectly shown for textual values and the unit could not be changed in chart settings.
• D-14097: In Workspace, added progress spinner to prevent starting a new operation while the previous is still in progress.
• D-14096: Highcharts tooltip square icons were slightly misaligned.
• D-14099: There was a console warning when opening the business calendar dialog.
• D-14118: Design diagram sometimes gave following JavaScript error: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'parentNode').
• D-14024: If quickly logging out after changing model, the model change might not be been saved.
• D-14120: User.getAttribute function returned values from incorrect context.
• D-14102: Pivot table cannot read properties of undefined.
• D-14161: SqlDataFrame.Append breaks the used source SqlDataFrames

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)

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)

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.

Old Releases

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