Centro 7.11.0 Release Notes

Overview

Centro 7.11.0 enables users to configure individual permissions on resources plus a number of useful enhancements,

Centro 7.11.0 Changes

• Individual permissions for Catalog resources.

  • Resource permissions page.
  • Resource permission activities.

• Link added to Centro Catalog for each Job with a Catalog Part in Jobs Explorer.

• Add version number in Resource Versions History window.
• Make Applications page the default home page for new users.
• Archive pipelines.
• Download Assembly Improvements
  • Allow Download Assembly modal to work on different resources.
  • Allow Download Assembly modal to be launched from the Assembly Revisions tab.
  • Add a second version column in the Download Assembly modal which always shows the most recent version number.

• Importer Updates:

  Importer	Supported Versions
  ACIS	Up to 2020
  Autodesk AutoCAD	2.5 to 2020 (2D and 3D)
  Autodesk Inventor	Up to 2021 (3D)
  CATIA V5	R10 to V5-6R2020 (R30 (2D), Up to V5-6R2020 (R30) (3D)
  CATIA V6	R2010x to R2020x (2D), Up to 2018x (3D)
  IGES	Up to 5.3 (2D), 5.1-5.3 (3D)
  JT	Up to 10.3
  Pro/Engineer & Creo Parametric	2000i to Creo 7.0 (2D), Pro/Engineer 19.0 to Creo 7.0 (3D)
  Siemens PLM Software's NX	NX to NX 1926 Series (2D), V11.0 to NX 1926 Series (3D)

Minor Changes

• Add type-ahead to projects page text filters.
• Add tooltips to search results to account for long part names.
• Label the attribute filters button "Manage Filters" and add a caret, to improve visibility.

• Warn user when uploading the same file twice under a different Resource name

• Add list of existing part links to the CatalogPart delete warning

• Return a useful error message when the resolved location does not exists in a Pipeline action.

• Show a more obvious warning when a job has been detected as having no geometry.

• Add Prefix and Regex settings to GeneratePartAction.

• Implement busy file detection in PollingDirectoryWatcher.

• When disabling users show a prompt to suggest re-assigning pipelines to a different user.
• In the admin area, store the current filter options for both Users and Projects tabs.
• The installer should select "Application Under Existing Site" by default.

• Control access to RunProcessAction behind a feature flag, disabled by default on new installs.

• Pipeline actions will now throw an exception when disabled by the current Centro license

• Add a message to the EventViewer when the web application cannot create or access its log file
• Replace the Actify logos in the installers.

• Provide support for SSL remote ArangoDB hosts in the database deploy script.

• Ensure SystemPipeline JobRequests can be triggered and queried from the Catalog without any PipelineManager access

• Centro displays a Location error when ArangoDB is not running.

Fixes

• Admin Area
  • 'Creation of new tags has been disabled by the Admin.' tooltip is shown for Admin in the Quick Publisher / the CAD to Catalog configuration.
  • Permissions listed in the Roles tab of the admin area cannot be selected and copied.
  • User role is not updated if the administrator doesn't press 'Clear filters' button and selects another user in the filter.

  • Existing linked users in the LDAP Import modal are not filtered by current instance

• Browser Issues
  • Filter values remain in the filter fields after their removing (Edge).
  • Firefox: Time Range cannot be set for Time filter on Jobs Explorer page.
• Catalog
  • An error message occurs when checking out an assembly in the Assembly Resource Manager.

  • AutoCAD .dwg files uploaded as resources are added to the Images tab.

  • Comparison page is not refreshed when the user removes a part and compares the parts again.

  • Checking in a derived resource does not refresh the "lock" symbol.

  • New parts added to project does not increment the parts count.

  • Check System Pipeline status when submitting a Catalog Request from the Part View page

  • Ensure System Pipeline JobRequests can be triggered and queried from the Catalog without any PipelineManager access

  • A resource's name can be renamed to a duplicate

• Login Page
  • An error in the browser console prevents the page for disabled forgotten password to display properly.

  • Navigating to the login page while authenticated gives an authorization error

• Pipeline Manager

  • Deploying a Pipeline with inaccessible watched directory does not display the reason.

  • Generate Catalog Part action does not generate Part Key dynamic property needed for 3D Indexing Action

  • Refreshing a job in Jobs Explorer does not refresh whether the job has errors

  • Fix replacing imported Location for Cad2CadAction

  • Update GeneratePartAction to lowercase the resulting CatalogID (NB - may create duplicate CatalogParts if old jobs are rerun after upgrading)

  • Fixed PipelineHostService not exiting when ArangoDB is unreachable

• Search
  • Concurrent 3D searches can crash the webapp.
• SpinFire Web
  • Make comments auto scroll to newly added entries.
  • SFW comments: submitting or replying does not handle errors.
  • Add to Catalog button doesn't work on the fullscreen mode.
• Translations

  • Error messages are not translated on the login, registration and forgot password pages.

  • SpinFire Web Attributes: New attribute filter window is not translated.

  • Error message is not translated on page showed when reset password is disabled.

Installation Notes

• It is strongly recommended to upgrade to ArangoDB 3.6.x, and change the storage engine to the RocksDB engine if you are currently using the MMFiles engine. See Upgrading MMFiles to RocksDB in ArangoDB. Support for ArangoDB 3.5.x and lower will be dropped in upcoming versions, and upgrading from MMFiles to RocksDB can greatly improve database stability and performance.
• The "full" user will have the super user permission automatically added after running the deployment script.

Supported Environments

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

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

Prerequisite Installations

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2
  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4054530/microsoft-net-framework-4-7-2-offline-installer-for-windows 
• Internet Information Services (iis)
• Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)