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

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 prevented soon.

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

Currently not available in China 1

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

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

  • Static aspect configuration

  • Fleet Manager navigation

  • Time-Series Status

  • New Validation of same name for variable and aspect

  • Plugin-Header Styling adaptions - The possibility to move back to Asset Manager is located to the right in the plugin header and renamed to "Close"

  • Image Browser

Fleet Manager

Currently not available in China 1

  • Fleet Manager plugin support

  • Fleet Manager plugin SDK

  • Asset Manager navigation

Launchpad

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?

  • Record Recovery API is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1.

Known Issues

  • Agents with type "core.mciot2040" or "core.mcnano" can't be seen in Diagnostic UI.

MindConnect IoT Extension

Known Issues

  • Launchpad button is not working in MindConnect IoT Extension. It is not possible to return to the Launchpad via the OS bar.

MindConnect Integration

Known Issues

  • Launchpad button is not working in MindConnect Integration. It is not possible to return to the Launchpad via the OS bar.

Currently not available in China 1

  • Single Sign On for MindConnect Integration.

Settings

What's new?

  • The role assignment for subtenants is updated and no other platform core roles except those related to Subtenant can be assigned to Subtenant users.

Currently not available in China 1

  • New assignment component for user assignment for subtenants

  • User Groups:

1. Assign roles to a group of user(s):

– 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)

Subtenant Functionality

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.

Visual Explorer

What's new

  • As an entirely new offering, Visual Explorer is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1.

  • Visual Explorer is a browser-based solution that utilizes Tableau® to create customized, advanced data visualizations and dashboards from data sets.

  • Highlight features:

    • Easy access to your data stored in MindSphere

    • Powerful Tableau® engine to prepare and enrich your data for visualization

    • State-of-the-art editor to create visualizations

Known issues

  • Any request within Visual Explorer is limited to an execution time of 60s

  • The "share via link" functionality works unreliable

  • Some statements in calculated fields may be rejected in MindGate (formulas containing "ELSE" and "CASE")

Visual Flow Creator

What's new?

  • As an entirely new offering, Visual Flow Creator is now available in Simplified Chinese in region China 1.

  • Visual Flow Creator is the software based on the rather popular open source project Node-RED, which was written by IBM and given to community.

  • Highlight features:

    • Create workflows for data processing easily via drag & drop

    • Automate calculation processes

    • Provide possibility for own node creation

    • Create fast prototyping with dashboard nodes

    • Create sub-flow to reduce some visual complexity of a flow and the sub-flow would be added to the palette of available nodes