Release 6.7

ADVIZOR Analyst 6.7 Release Notes

February 28, 2016

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This file contains product information for ADVIZOR Analyst 6.7 products. These release notes are available in the User Guide available from ADVIZOR Analyst under "Help".

Index

• Instructional videos are available online.

• Product use is described in the "User Guide" available from within ADVIZOR Analyst from "Help".

• Implementation scenarios and supported hardware and software configurations are described in the "ADVIZOR Implementation Guide" that is located in the directory where ADVIZOR Analyst is installed (typically c:/Program Files/ADVIZOR Soutions/{Product Name}/ADVIZOR Implementation Guide.pdf") or here.

• New in this Release

• Known Problems and Hints

• Technical Support

New in this Release

ADVIZOR Server Client in HTML in All Browsers

The ADVIZOR Server web client is now implemented in HTML/Javascript in all browsers. It provides all capabilities available in previous versions.

As part of this update, the icons used in the browser client have been updated with a new look. These new icons are not yet used in our desktop products. If you have your own training materials that include tool icons, we have provided a document containing the new icons that you can use to update your own materials.

Please review any Navigation Panes that you have created for icon images that are no longer current. Some Navigation Panes have included overviews of the major icons as hints for users. This iniformation is now available on the first page of the Help, so we suggest that it be removed from Navigation Panes. The client Help now also references an improved "Getting Started" guide for users.

Other New Features

• Expression Builder Help: The left pane in the Expression Builder dialog now has a second tab that shows help. This may be consulted while creating and testing expressions.

• Data Sheet and Summary Sheet Search: The Data Sheet and Summary Sheet search dialog now provides a "Select All" button that may be used to re-select all rows. Use this to return to the initial state if your search did not find what you expected.

• Selection Toolbar Button Order: The order of selection toolbar buttons has been changed to match in all clients. Previously, different orders were used in the desktop and web clients.

• Adv2Advm returns error code: Adv2Advm now returns an error code indicating whether it completed without errors. This may be checked in a script used to run this command.

• Reverse label sort: An order option to sort in reverse label order is now available in the Line, Bar, and Pie chart.

Defects

29 defects have been repaired.

Known Problems and Hints

• On Windows 10 with a scaled display, the ADVIZOR Analyst window may be corrupted when the window is resized. This can be remedied using "Compatibility Mode". The the "Troubleshooting" section of the Implementation Guide (referenced above) for a procedure to use to fix this problem.

• Projects must be re-published to ADVIZOR Server to see horizontal zoom bars on Data Sheets or Summary Sheets.

• Models built with versions of ADVIZOR AnalystX before R6.4 are not supported. Please note the configuration of your model and re-create it.

• All projects must be be re-published to ADVIZOR Server for versions predating R6.1.

• See the ADVIZOR Implementation Guide (referenced above) if you are using adv2advm.

• Only install ADVIZOR Server to the default location on the "C" drive. Installing to another location will cause publishing to the server to not work.

• Existing Navigation Panes must be migrated from HTML format to RTF. If you originally created the Navigation Panes in Microsoft Word (or another text editor that will also write RTF files), you can re-write the files and then go to the Page Properties dialog in ADVIZOR Analyst and load the new file. If you do not have the source files, you can create them like this:

  • Go to each Navigation Pane in ADVIZOR Analyst.

  • Right click in the Navigation Pane and select "Select All" from the popup menu. Right click again and select "Copy" from the popup menu. This copies the current pane contents to the system clipboard.

  • Open a text editor such as Microsoft Word and paste from the clipboard.

  • Save the pane contents to a file of type "RTF".

  • Go to the Page Properties in ADVIZOR Analyst for each page with Navigation Panes and load the new files.

  • If you are using Microsoft Word, make sure that the Paragraph format has 0 points of space before and after paragraphs; other specifications are not followed when the text is displayed in ADVIZOR Analyst.

  • Only insert images that are in standard image formats such as PNG, GIF, or JPEG. Other formats may not appear if the Navigation Pane is published to ADVIZOR Server.

• Existing projects with [Heat Map charts]( should be reviewed. In prior versions, in some cases, Heat Maps could become misconfigured. For each Heat Map in existing projects:

  • Use the [Property Explorer]( to inspect the Heat Map's Middle Value property.

  • If the Middle Value property contains a value that you did not explicitly configure, clear the property value.

Technical Support

When submitting a problem to Technical Support, email is the preferred mechanism ([e-mail]). In the email, please provide as many of the following as possible:

• Your name & contact information including phone number

• The name of the product you are using and its version number

• Your license key used to install the product

• A detailed explanation of what you were doing that led up to the problem.

• Screen shot(s) and/or exact text of any error information

• Errors are logged to a file at this location; include a copy of this file:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\ADVIZOR Solutions\<product name>\error.log

Or

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\ADVIZOR Solutions\error.log on Windows XP

Replace <product name> with Analyst or AnalystX, etc. as applicable to your product.

• Machine's System Information file created from the "System Information" saved as type ".nfo"

  Operating system's Application event log in .evt format so that we get the detailed event descriptions

• If you're having a database access problem, submit all relevant DB information, including DB vendor, DB version, whether the DB is local or remote, whether or not you are able to access the DB using vendor or third party supplied query tools, etc

If you encounter an error/exception and are offered the opportunity to forward diagnostic information, please do so. However, note that you can help reduce the time to resolution by also including details of the actions that led to the event. Our ability to rapidly understand the problem is significantly increased when we know all the details.

If you cannot find answers to your questions using the online help "Table of Contents", "Index" or "Find" tabs, or in this release notes file, have your application license number handy and contact us:

Call the ADVIZOR Solutions, Inc Technical Support line during business hours (8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Central time, Monday - Friday) at +1.630.971.5250

Acknowledgements

This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.