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


== Next Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.1 (planned date 2024-01-09) ==
== Next Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.5 (planned release date 2024-06-24) ==


'''Features:'''
'''Features:'''
* B-08087: Generic [[Dropdown_List_Selector|dropdown list selector]] works with Snowflake. It allows to add a selection of any values to dashboard.
 
* B-08138: Change Synchronize function to remove all columns when no Snowflake table exist.
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* B-07961: In OperationLog change parameters to json and add request id.
 
* B-08122: Added new system report to show dashboards.
'''Fixed issues:'''
 
*
 
== Latest Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.4 (build 6246) (released 2024-05-14) ==
 
'''Features:'''
* B-08227: Dashboards have [[AI_Assistant_for_QPR_ProcessAnalyzer|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. ([[Snowflake_Connection_Configuration#Automatic_data_update_detection|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 [[Roles_and_Permissions#Project_Permissions|moving projects]].
* B-08310: Added Details property to [[Generic_Objects_in_Expression_Language#Exception|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.
 
== 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:'''
'''Fixed issues:'''
* D-13913: Datatable properties dialog incorrectly found linked models from other projects.
 
* D-13904: In Snowflake, exception code 1 was returned without AttributeName and ModelName properties when non-existing attribute was in filter.
* D-14045: Fixed issue where users with Viewer or Analyzer role couldn't create filters in Snowflake models.
* D-13911: Fixed small glitches in the opening and closing of drop-down lists.
 
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.2 (build 5438) (released 2024-02-21) ==
 
<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
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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<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
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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<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
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).
</div>
 
'''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:'''
* 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) ==
 
<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
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.
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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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<div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf;padding:0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;background-color:#E7EAEC;margin:10px 0px 0px 10px;">
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-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-13906: In Conformance Analysis, deviating flows were not translated.
* D-13907: Improved translation related to datatable properties dialog "Used by models" field.
* 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.


== Latest Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.7 (build 4326) (released 2023-11-28) ==
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2023.7 (build 4326) (released 2023-11-28) ==


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Default query timeout of 30 minutes has been added for --#ImportOleDbQuery,--#ImportSapQuery and --#ImportOdbcQuery 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.
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.
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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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* D-13898: Snowflake: Exclude case attribute filter didn't work when there was null values and was selecting at least two values.
* 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-13890: Fixed XES file import to work.
* D-13894: Business calendar based duration calculation was incorrect in events list for Snowflake.
* 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-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-13883: Script run stucked after running a script with error that uses client-side ODBC import.
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* D-13156: Persist function failed to snowflake: Invalid unicode escape sequence '\u0027ACCE'; should be at most '\u0010FFFF'.
* 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.
* D-12876: Flows/FlowOccurrences in root didn't work with SqlExpressionValue filtering.
== Additional release for QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2022.8 (build 1397) (released 2023-01-11) ==
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This release fixes an issue where extracting large datasets from SAP increases memory consumption considerably and may lead to out-of-memory error. This release contains packages for both QPR ScriptLauncher and QPR ProcessAnalyzer Server. If SAP extractions are done using QPR ScriptLauncher in client side mode (ExecuteInClientSide=1), it's enough to update QPR ScriptLauncher to fix this issue.
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'''Fixed issues:'''
* D-12941: Extracting data from SAP consumed unnecessary lot of memory and may have led to out-of-memory error (both when running using QPR ScriptLauncher and in server side).
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2022.8 (build 1396) (released 2022-12-30) ==
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Creating datatables with duplicate names in the same project is prevented, and possible existing duplicate names are automatically changed to unique names with a random suffix. If there are duplicate names, they can be renamed either before updating QPR ProcessAnalyzer (to avoid automatic renaming) or after the update (by changing suffixed names). If the renamed datatables are used by models, the linkage will break because it's based on the datatable name. Creating duplicate datatables has already been prevented in the UI, but the improved method works also in the API level.
Following SQL query can be used to list datatables (and project id) having duplicate names:
SELECT ITA_NAME, ITA_PROJECT_ID
FROM PA_INTEGRATION_TABLE
GROUP BY ITA_NAME, ITA_PROJECT_ID
HAVING Count(*) > 1
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If trying to use business calendar for a model that doesn't have the business calendar defined, there will now be an error message instead of showing the chart. Either unselect the business calendar checkbox for the measure or dimension, or define a business calendar to the model. In this situation in earlier releases the business calendar was ignored and full time calculation used.
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'''Features:'''
* B-07498: Automation and Operational Excellence presets and Root causes analysis (for Snowflake), Weighted root causes analysis and Event scattering preset (for Snowflake and in-memory), Root causes for case duration (in-memory).
* B-07177: Flexible mappings, user selectable aggregations and conditional formatting for Pivot table, and flexible mappings for KPI Card.
* B-07518: New function named Query to run call /api/expression/query.
* B-07294: In Workspace, the left side projects hierarchy can be collapsed and expanded to make more space to project contents.
* B-06814: In SQL expressions, new function DurationBetweenDates to calculate duration between timestamps precisely.
* B-07519: Replaced DateDiff function with the new DurationBetweenDates function in big data chart.
* B-07531: In SQL expressions, new mathematical functions Abs, Log, Mod, Power, Rand, Sign and Sqrt.
* B-07297: To optimize performance, Snowflake queries are automatically cancelled if they are not needed by UI.
* B-07569: To optimize performance, TakeSample function implementation is improved for Snowflake.
* B-07198: Several performance improvements to DataFrame queries (used in Snowflake).
* B-07464: Added Lead and Lag functions to SqlDataFrames to support getting previous and next event.
* B-07470: New ExtractSap function to fetch data from SAP using expression language.
* B-07536: New Pivot function to SqlDataFrames to enable root causes analysis.
* B-07488: Primary keys can be set to datatables to improve calculation performance (UI will follow later).
* B-07515: Added RootCauseAnalysis function to SqlDataFrames.
* B-07546: RootCauseAnalysis function support for complex weighting expressions.
* B-03052: Support for user-defined variables in /api/expression/query.
* B-07565: Support for NumberPrecision, DatetimeTruncation and TimespanPrecision properties for Values section in in-memory query.
* B-07513: For product activation file handling, replaced mutex based implementation with exclusive file lock.
* B-07480: Expression language support for DataFlows for data extraction.
* B-07613: Removed support for SQL Server based R scripting.
* B-07567: Take datatable primary keys into use in expression builder to improve performance (part 2).
* B-07588: Remove total memory information from log writing and DateDiff function for in-memory.
'''Fixed issues:'''
* D-12715: Snowflake calculated imprecisely some operations containing division and aggregation.
* D-12761: Progress bar of the CSV import dialog didn't show any progress.
* D-12799: Opening datatable contents dialog settings was slow when there were lot of rows in the datatable.
* D-12089: Include conforming/nonconforming cases made BPMN editor no responding.
* D-12496: Datagrid filter search keyword didn't work for rounded values, so the search was hidden for other than textual data.
* D-12704: Durations as quarters was calculated incorrectly in charts.
* D-12662: Fixed issue where some special literals in custom expressions didn't work.
* D-12403: Setting Notifications on a model had some visual issues.
* D-12859: Dependency wheel visualization crashed with nulls values in From and To mappings.
* D-12660: Removed unnecessary float conversions in SQL expressions.
* D-12653: In-memory datafram OrderByColumns function with mixed values failed.
* D-12657: When trying to use milliseconds period in some presets, frontend frozed.
* D-12706: Line breaks in data were shown in many places where it's undesired.
* D-12719: Syncfusion dialog headers showed backslaces incorrectly.
* D-12372: Refused to run the JavaScript URL because it violated the Content Security Policy directive.
* D-12730: Logging out when filter selection is in progress, gave javascript error.
* D-12705: Header object counts tooltip was sometimes messed after logout.
* D-12384: Selected project was not highlighted for whole project name string.
* D-12581: Prevented creating duplicate datatable names in same project in parallel execution.
* D-12722: There was incorrect syntax near '<' when running SqlDataFrame expressions.
* D-12736: Swedish and Finnish translation improvements for object counter tooltips.
* D-12702: For BPMN Editor component "Something went wrong" error was given when switching from in-memory to Snowflake model.
* D-12712: UI gave error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'id').
* D-12738: Business calendar showed total business time when calendar configuration was invalid.
* D-12776: Special character filter caused JavaScript SyntaxError.
* D-12785: Unnecessary vertical scrollbar displayed for main header toolbar.
* D-12164: There was unnecessary UnauthorizedAccess errors in logs.
* D-12580: Case duration was not same when comparing Big data chart with in-memory chart for same data.
* D-12768: Data grid links and variable change actions didn't work when grouping was used.
* D-12735: FindRootCauses (in-memory) function filtered out cases with zero contribution.
* D-12763: --#CallWebService didn't work from ScriptLauncher.
* D-12789: There was timeout in SQL queries to scripting sandbox.
== QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2022.7 (build 1331) (released 2022-11-15) ==
<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 2022.7, to improve security expression language operations that modify data or connect to external datasources are prevented in dashboard custom expressions. The limitation is required, because when a dashboard is opened, its expressions are run with the user's permissions, and the user need to trust the expressions don't perform any unexpected operations, such as delete data. The full functionality of the expression language is available in the scripts and in the Expression Designer.
The following functions and operations are prevented in dashboards: SendEmail(), CallWebService(), ImportOdbc(), ImportOdbcSecure(), Model.DeletePermanently(), Model.Restore(), Model.TriggerNotifications(), Project.DeletePermanently(), Project.Restore(), Project.CreateDatatable(), Datatable.AddColumn(), Datatable.DeletePermanently(), Datatable.Import(), Datatable.Merge(), Datatable.RemoveColumns(), Datatable.RenameColumns(), Datatable.Truncate(), RecycleBin.DeletePermanently(), and call SQL script. Calling expression scripts is allowed, but in the script all previously mentioned operations are prevented.
Following SQL query can be executed in the QPR ProcessAnalyzer metadata database to reveal dashboards that potentially have prevented expressions:
SELECT * FROM [PA_UI_ELEMENT] WHERE [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%SendEmail(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%CallWebService(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%ImportOdbc(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%ImportOdbcSecure(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%DeletePermanently(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%Restore(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%TriggerNotifications(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%CreateDatatable(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%AddColumn(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%DeletePermanently(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%Import(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%Merge(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%RemoveColumns(%' OR [UIE_PROPERTIES] LIKE '%RenameColumns(%'
</div>
'''Features:'''
* B-07287: Process Discovery and most important presets for Snowflake.
* B-07271: "Last Row Aggregates Over-limit Rows" setting for big data chart.
* B-06431: Snowflake datatables support for database views in the datasource.
* B-07266: Security: "limited mode" to prevent data modifications and external calls from dashboard expressions.
* B-07097: Improved flowchart root causes color scales.
* B-07363: SQL LIKE function support for escape character.
* B-06877: Improved variation queries performance in Snowflake, part 1.
* B-07444: Improved variation queries performance in Snowflake, part 2.
* B-07382: Support for empty strings and nulls in event type names in dataframe processing.
* B-07273: WithRowNumberColumn, WithRankColumn, WithDenseRankColumn support for descending sorting.
* B-07303: FindRootCauses function support for weighting expression.
* B-07327: Unpivot function for SqlDataFrames (for root cause analysis).
* B-07385: Align token lifetime with SESSION_MAXIMUM_DURATION setting.
* B-07500: ColumnMappings property for IDataFrame and DataTables.
* B-07499: IDataFrame.ApplyFilter function to filter events data using a JSON-based filter.
* B-07469: Translation updates for release 2022.7.
'''Fixed issues:'''
* D-11630: Drag and drop from chart settings to main header was working incorrectly for filter and root cause rules.
* D-12455: Moving a chart filter from one chart to another created a root cause analysis filter.
* D-12266: Root causes analysis showed incorrect results when certain combination of filters.
* D-12525: Numerical values in Excel export in data grid was formatted incorrectly.
* D-12534: Restoring item from recycle bin changed project from Bin to previous project.
* D-12529: Measure specific datalabel mapping did not work correctly when also mapped to Y-axis.
* D-12532: Multi-selection options caused layout issue for Chart setting.
* D-12541: Layout issue for Polish in multiselect list search dialog.
* D-11277: Increase/decrease Icons were missing in the dimension sorting for Mac.
* D-12552: Uncaught Error: Diagram.selectCollection given something that is not a Part: null.
* D-12567: Tooltip incorrectly showed for label component containing only spaces.
* D-12438: Operation was cancelled because it was replaced by a new operation.
* D-12551: Some expressions didn't work as calculated case/event attributes.
* D-11720: Chart buttons were not visible in Apple Safari and iPad.
* D-12544: On-screen settings "options" parameter did not work.
* D-12528: Multi-unit time unit selection appeared where it's not applicable.
* D-12583: Error message should be provided for invalid settings input  than just  display JS errors.
* D-12599: Tooltips didn't show correct measures/dimensions when "Show in tooltip" mappings are used.
* D-12561: Chart settings content was incorrectly drawn outside of the chart dialog.
* D-12568: Reload UI sometimes crashed chart having multiselect on-screen settings.
* D-12572: Main header toolbar lost when refresh maximized PA chart.
* D-12612: Drop Unused Filters After setting incorrectly allowed zero seconds.
* D-12533: Error message keeped blinking in Analysis view.
* D-12608: User could not select or add new case attribute when current select attribute doesn't exist.
* D-12451: Prevented deleting running script.
* D-12516: Windows event viewer warning: Failed to gracefully shutdown application.
* D-12523: Business calendar performance - part 2.
* D-12538: Column with same name could be added multiple times to datatable using expression language.
* D-12582: Improved EMS mutex code to support multiple PA service in one server.
* D-12624: Synchronize new (empty) data table generated failed queries in Snowflake.
* D-12622: Advanced setting page reserved room for the expression editor frame that did not exist.
* D-11295: In on-screen settings, some UI controls were vertically misaligned.
* D-11625: The heights of the parameter option menu in the clustering tab was not well aligned.
* D-12103: Small dropdown list layout issue.
* D-12633: Align issue for Column related Advanced settings.
* D-12505: Search dialog didn't escape % and _ characters correctly in dataframe processing.
* D-12645: Tabs in expression settings dialog were partly hidden when dialog is narrow.
* D-11382: Moving of flowchart was sometimes shaky.
* D-12655: Filter rule tooltips in header were styled incorrectly.
* D-12656: Large integer values in filter jsons were incorrectly presented as small integers.
* D-12661: Some exported filters contained unnecessary "invert" property.
* D-12500: Model with numeric case id's and filtering with the attribute mapped as case id: ERROR [22018] Numeric value <nowiki>''</nowiki> is not recognized.
* D-12509: Filtering null values didn't work in boolean attributes in Snowflake.
* D-12571: In dataframe processing in SQL Server, dividing two integers should not make rounding to integer.
* D-12610: Setting for global DropUnusedFiltersAfter was missing.
* D-12613: Filtering with case/event attributes with null values didn't match in Snowflake models.
* D-12617: Model didn't work when DropUnusedFiltersAfter is 00:00:00.
* D-12618: If model ConfigurationJson is null, Configuration property didn't work.
* D-12620: Filtering didn't work when there are backslaces in attribute names in Snowflake models.
* D-12643: AttributeFunctionCallExpression did not always work properly in array context.
* D-12647: SqlDataFrame with SQL Server: Comparing literals to variant column values failed.
* D-12648: Models that have DropUnusedModelsAfter setting caused "The sliding expiration value must be positive" error.
* D-11526: It was unable to translate Unicode character \uD83D at index 176 to specified code page.
* D-12637: In application startup arised FATAL Application startup exception System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'Global\MutexQPRPAActivation' is denied.


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

Revision as of 14:45, 14 May 2024

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

Next Release: QPR ProcessAnalyzer 2024.5 (planned release date 2024-06-24)

Features:

Fixed issues:

Latest Release: 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.

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

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