Reporting Engine Release Notes

This page is split into a Features Section and a Fixes Section for each version of Windward Reports released. This information can also be found in the readme.rtf file that is included with the program.

Features

10.2.12.0

Deprecated Features

None.

New Features

12596 - If a PDF file import is the very first thing in a template, will not have a blank first page.

10.2.11.0

Deprecated Features

Removed support for stateful beans

New Features

Function tags converted to out tag with macro
Added support for layoutInCell for bitmaps in DOCX
Clean templates writes metadata to WordML and RTF template output.
Bookmark tag implemented
Build tree node bitmaps program added
Runs on Java 1.7.
Implemented new event handler (except for passing it to custom functions)
Added ProcessReport.abort() call
Japanese language update
Log font substitution under java 1.7 also

10.2.10.0

Deprecated Features

None.

New Features

None.

10.2.9.0

Deprecated Features

12283 - Added support to carry across more chart settings for Office charts.
Added REST support in RunReport for xml datasource
Added support for XLSX custom palettes.

New Features

None.

10.2.8.0

Deprecated Features

None.

New Features

New mode for html output, headers and footers: Will grab first header and footer the engine finds and add them to the beggining and end of the document, default off.
New mode for html output, use template page width: Sets fixed margins the same size as the template documents width.
Template's background color now carry through.
12319 – now handle KeepWithNext form paragraph to table.
Clean template will convert all selects from version 9 & earlier to forced select mode.
Added break=*inline options for import tag.

10.2.7.0

Deprecated Features

None.

New Features

${dataset.column} use is now cached on first use of any element and that result set is re-used for all additional queries.
Html output now supports roman numerals and letter numbering for lists.

10.2.6.0

Deprecated Features

None.

New Features

RunReport lists version number when run with no parameters.

10.2.4.0

Deprecated Features

None.

New Features

None.

10.2.3.0

Deprecated Features

None.

New Features

None.

10.2.2.0

Deprecated Features

None.

Features

Added -launch to RunReport.
Better -launch for java app if Java 1.6 or later.

10.2.1.0

Deprecated Features

None.

Features

Xpath sort changed to xquery syntax in select, .net xpath uses parameters for variables.
Move xpath sort to "order by" using XPath 2.0 syntax.
More info provided on an exception when applying a datasource.

10.2.0.0 (beta)

Deprecated Features

None.

Features

Can now turn on/off recalculate on load for DOCX (fields).
No recalc on opening XLSX file can be set.

Fixes

10.2.12.0

Incorrectly handling non-hourly date intervals in PDF/HTML charts - fixed.
Tags adjacent to block foreach tags (in a table) not evaluated correctly - fixed.
WindwardCustomFunctions requires JRE 1.6 instead of 1.4 - fixed.
First row of a block foreach can have incorrect positioning on PDF output - fixed.
12531 - did not set left edge correctly for inner tables when the outer table crossed multiple pages and the inner table had left padding - fixed.\
12512 - A content control directly followed by a page break could throw an exception when creating a DOCX report - fixed.
12547 - Negative numbers under some formatting settings would display as .-1 instead of -0.1 - fixed.
12520 - Vertically merged cells, in very unuysual circumstances, could repeat their text part way down in PDF reports - fixed.
In a row/column foreach in Excel templates, cell types were not always set correctly - fixed.
In an Excel template, a tag followed by text would not always pull across the text - fixed.

10.2.11.0

1188 - If DOCX chart had no border settings we created a white border. Corrected to be black (what Word does).
1199 - Was not using axis min/max when specified for bitmap chart rendering - fixed.
12421 - xpath sort did not work if sort element(s) had a namespace in .NET engine - fixed.
12451 - if a field contained paragraph breaks it could cause an exception writing a DOCX report - fixed.
12458 - converted a date format of m to M even if inside a 'm' - fixed
12481 - did not work if OpenXML templates used non-standard prefixes for namespaces - fixed.
Chart output to PDF not using min/max - fixed.
Chart output to PDF axis interval not set correctly - fixed.
Legend in PDF charts cut off - fixed.
Data label formatting in PDF charts sometimes not correctly applied - fixed.

10.2.10.0

12170 - Was ordering pie charts from smallest to largest. Changed to displaying in returned data order.
12353 - Word now wants a tab in RTF output for bulleted lists on the first line - added.
12406 - Could throw an exception for an if that is false outside a table and an else inside the table - fixed.
12396 - If an RTF template had a table style set with a trwWidth property, would throw an exception - fixed.
12379 - XLSX -> CSV added a blank row at the end of the end of the template was an end ForEach - fixed.
1188 - incorrectly set border color and width in charts on PDF output - fixed.

10.2.9.0

12261 - Was not converting a .NET primitive type to the Java equivilent in the .NET XML datasource for some selects - fixed.
1188 - Office charts -> bitmap charts read no border setting as no border. Now reads no border setting as 0.75pt black (the Office default).
COUNT function in equations only counted numbers - now counts everything.
PPTX->PDF: fixed bug with numberic bullets where periods or parenthesis would not should up
Bug in html output where table heights were not correct - fixed
More on converting old chart tag properties to new ones.
Page break in foreach loop for PPTX->PPTX - fixed
Changed wrddp: to wddp:/ and now set a tooltip for the hyperlink
PDF layout of text after a tab with leading characters fixed (was previously off slightly in some cases)
Re-run for post tab text positioning.
HTML output image alignment - fixed

10.2.8.0

Character styles work now.
Style borders and backgrounds work now.
12318 - For numbers less that 1.0E-6, when substituted into XPath selects, went in exponential format which XPath does not understand - fixed.
!!!!! - 12318 - VERSION 9 & 10. In ver 9 fixed in Java ONLY.
1187 - Single column ForEach in Excel throws an exception when switched to Column mode - fixed.
Pptx hyperlinks work now.
Chart gap width appoximation very off in certain cases - now much closer to template.
Chart leader line setting displays as {l} in data labels - fixed.
Chart data point formatting not applied - fixed.
Fixed incorrect xml encoding used for imports using xml datasources in .net engine.

10.2.7.0

Html fixes/changes:

Fixed header themes in html output.
Fixed color text themes in html output.

12280 - did not set themeTint for borders for DOCX -> DOCX - fixed.
12261 - converting old evaluate= ignored quotes when determining what to put in data("...") - now checks for quotes.
Java xml datasource - In one place returned null for xpath if it returned a value instead of a node - now handles the value case.

10.2.6.0

Html fixes/changes:

Rearranges elements in document object before outputting so things with absolute positioning are in the right place
Fixed bug where using same image twice in a document would cause a bad image reference
Borders can no longer be between 0-1px, gray area for browsers

Was not re-ordering objects in PPTX slide to displayed order in some cases - fixed.
Fixed PPTX bug where a page break would occur with a textbox near the bottom where it shouldn't have broken
Fixed some problems with running the .net engine tests.

10.2.4.0

Threw exception on PPTX files that had no metadata but did have a tag - fixed.
Fixed-PPTX Parser threw exception when no master shape was present.
1181 - Word 2007 ignored date1904 and assumed it was always 0 - duplicate that behavior.

10.2.3.0

None.

10.2.2.0

Correctly handle dat comparisons for .NET XML datasources.
Would not execute xpath out statements using a variable in the .net engine - fixed.