IoT Value Plan Subscribers, MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers and MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

NOTE

The following Release Notes are valid only for region China 1.

Asset Manager

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in the data center Shanghai, China.

Known issues

  • Currently it is possible to use a variable name equal to the aspect name which leads to errors for example in the Fleet Manager. The input of such a value will be soon be prevented.

  • It's not possible to input name of city in Chinese when creating an asset in Asset Manager, only alphanumeric characters are accepted.

  • When creating or updating aspects on an asset, it might take some time (up to 30 minutes) until this aspect or respective changes are available on the Time Series Service. The service returns a 404 (Not Found) as long as the changes are not completely propagated.

Currently not available in China 1:

  • Asset Type of BasicAgent.MindConnectFB1500/ BasicAgent.MindConnect Integration/ BasicApplication/ Basic Edge Data Asset

  • Aspect Type of core.edgeanalyticsapplicationstatus/ core.edgeanalyticsdatastatus/ core.opcuadatamodelaspect

  • Modbus protocol for MindConnect Nano/ IoT2040 data source configuration

  • Static aspect configuration

  • Fleet Manager navigation

  • Time-Series Status

  • New Validation of same variable names and aspect names

  • Plugin-Header Styling adaptions

  • Image Browser

Fleet Manager

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in the data center Shanghai, China.

  • Geo map service is provided by Amap in China.

Currently not available in China 1:

  • Overseas map (Outside China) displays with zoom-in to country-district-street information

  • Fleet Manager plugin support

  • Fleet Manager plugin SDK

  • Asset Manager navigation

  • Variables of type BIG_STRING are shown in data table

  • Quick range for "last hour" within time picker (in this time range raw data will be shown in the chart)

  • User settings save the last used hierarchy level

  • Search supports asset ID

  • Asset status - user can detect assets with issues in the past

  • Support for automatic refresh in time picker

  • Support to receive instant agent diagnostic within info extension (currently limited to 5 concurrently activated agent diagnostics)

Fleet Manager Rules

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in the data center Shanghai, China.

Currently not available in China 1:

  • Integration of In-Platform Purchase (IPP)

    – Easily upgrade your rules quota by buying the "Rules Quota Upgrade". Trigger provisioning and purchase directly within Fleet Manager Rules Extension.

  • The asset status automatically corresponds to the event severity.

Identity and Access Management

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in data center Shanghai, China.

Known issues

  • After modifying the authorization of a user via Identity Management Service, the change is not immediately visible. The user must then close the browser and login again.

  • In the current version the logout with Internet Explorer 11 might not work. In this case please close the browser directly.

Launchpad

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in the data center Shanghai, China.

Known issues

  • If a user has only app roles but no standard role, the user will see no apps on the Launchpad and gets an information about missing roles.

MindConnect API

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in the data center Shanghai, China.

Currently not available in China 1:

  • Diagnostic API

  • Record Recovery API

MindSphere Gateway

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in the data center Shanghai, China.

MindSphere OS Bar

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in the data center Shanghai, China.

Currently not available in China 1:

  • Currently, the customer tenant name is not visible in the Launchpad. In case you need to know your tenant name please contact your tenant administrator.

    Three additional drop-down menus provide information for:

    – The current tenant (e.g. company name, logo, custom links)

    – The currently opened app (e.g. info from app developer and app operator)

    – MindSphere as a platform (e.g. support links, status page, MindSphere Store, third party info)

  • Logout button in MindSphere applications

  • The support form can be used by any user who has not the role "mdsp:core:SubTenantUser".

  • OS Bar shows MindSphere maintenance notifications.

Settings

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in the data center Shanghai, China.

Currently not available in China 1:

  • New assignment component for user assignment for subtenants

    User Groups:

    1. Assign roles to a group of user:

    – Create a user group

    – Assign multiple users to a user group

    – Add roles to the user group

    2. User groups management:

    – Update a user group

    – Delete a user group

    – Assign roles and users to user groups (in any direction)

  • Live preview of company name in MindSphere OS Bar.

  • New section "Basic information" in the Provider information menu with the following functions:

– Upload of a company logo

– Update possibility of the company name to display it accordingly in the OS Bar.

Subtenant Functionality

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in the data center Shanghai, China.

Known Issues

  • Applications can use the subtenant functionality via the provided APIs. Tenant administrators should pay attention when assigning such apps to subtenant users as subtenant isolation cannot be ensured by the platform. The app might expose data to the user that is not intended to be seen.

  • When moving an asset from a parent tenant to a subtenant, there might be a delay of up to 30 minutes until a subtenant user will be able to see data related to that asset.

  • Please be aware, if you provide a user (even subtenant user) the role "mdsp:core:TenantAdmin", this user is then able to get access to all kinds of tenant data.

Usage Transparency Service

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in the data center Shanghai, China.

  • Information note on UTS UI, to tell user that only UTC time zone is being used for UTS data storage and display.

Known Issues

  • Time used for usage information storage and display on UTS UI is only using UTC time zone, not depending on the time zone of the region.

  • All usages generated within a Cloud Foundry Environment cannot be collected by Usage Transparency Services. All usages from and to a Cloud Foundry Environment e.g. requests to APIs still will be collected.

  • Usage Transparency Service reports are only made available after a 1-hour delay for developers.

Currently not available in China 1:

  • Two data points (columns) under the resource tab "Assets":

– Asset ID Unique identification ID of the asset.

– Asset Name Unique name of the asset. This column value is empty if "Asset Name" is not mentioned for an associated "Asset ID" in the Entity Master Data Service (EMDS).

Visual Analyzer

What's new?

  • MindSphere is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1 hosted by infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud in the data center Shanghai, China.

Known Issues

  • If you receive an empty white page while loading, please refresh the browser with F5. For better experience use Google Chrome.

Currently not available in China 1:

  • Variables of type BIG_STRING are shown in data table.