Release Notes
This page provides a list of changes for the LTS9 release. Changes from prior releases are not shown.
"Release Notes" document each new improvement in functionality in the Tulip product.
It exhaustively documents changes to:
- The Tulip product i.e.
your-instance.tulip.co
It provides partial documentation for:
- The Tulip Player
It does not include documentation on:
- Tulip IoT Gateway, EdgeMC or EdgeIO
Here's an explanation of each column below.
Unique ID: The ID provides a unique reference to the functionality that was merged into the product. The format was changed to ABC-1234 in LTS7 to directly link the numbering from the tickets used internally for development. The prior ID is maintained as a cross reference in LTS7 and will be removed in LTS8.
Release: The specific release of Tulip where this was launched. I.E. r199
Release Notes: A brief description of the change.
Type of Change: Chosen from one of three options-
Feature Enhancement: A new capability within an existing feature.
New Feature: An entirely new feature with functionality independent of all existing features.
Feature Deprecated: A feature that was removed and will no longer be supported.
Implemented By: The Product Specs where the changes are reflected. In many cases, Product Specs will not be updated due to bug fixes or small edge cases that are too specific and unique to document.
User Requirements: The URS IDs to which an change relates.
| Unique ID | Release | Release Notes | Type of Change | Implemented By |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLAT-12636 | 233 | Where used query is faster now. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12586 | 233 | Initialize the connector function page until the query for determining whether the function is being used is running. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12431 | 233 | Emails sent on completions errors now include the Tulip instance URL | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11523 | 233 | One can edit the connector config when the automatic config change feature is switched on. The changes will affect all the immutable connectors (Feature Flag) | New Feature | |
| PLAT-12538 | 233 | Updated Translations within the Product | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11798 | 233 | Adds a toggle button to Vision Camera page to enable offline mode. Users can edit regions and detectors for a camera configuration in offline mode, without having to physically connect a camera to Tulip Vision. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11452 | 233 | Factory: Adds slide out style two column/panel component | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11357 | 233 | Users can now click interactive table widget heads to change column sort order | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11111 | 233 | The machines type page will now have a vertical orientation with equally spaced sections for the machine properties and the triggers associated with those types. Users no longer have to make the page editable by clicking on a button and can perform their changes directly on the page. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-10294 | 233 | Users can now use fields like Date Created and Date Updated of Table Records to create conditions or read-only actions in Triggers. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-7255 | 233 | The station name is now included along with the device name in the app menu. This allows users to make easier changes and identify devices quicker on the shop floor. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12890 | 234 | Initial release of Alerting for Tulip Analytics. Added ability to configure email alerts for new insights identified by a Tulip Analytics layer once per hour to one or multiple Tulip users. This allows to be informed about new insights without having to visually monitor the analysis. Initially, alerting is available for the Control Chart layer and can send alerts for outliers and prominent shifts. | New Feature | |
| PLAT-12665 | 234 | Can now print from a custom widget | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12549 | 234 | Newsfeed wording has changed for Automatic publishing of connector configs. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12490 | 234 | Label text and input widgets are now explicitly linked to increase accessibility. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12073 | 234 | Added RealWear directives to enable number overlay to the following input widgets: NumberField, TextField, Checkbox, Toggle, and Date Picker. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11900 | 234 | Improve selection to make the current step more clear in the list of all steps. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11827 | 234 | Machine Triggers have been moved to the right side panel on the Machine Type page. This is only a change to the interface and does not affect functionality. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11611 | 234 | Improve discoverability of right click menu for app steps | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11355 | 234 | Customers can now authenticate their HTTP connectors with OAuth1.0(1-legged flow). This will enable customers to connect with services that support this authentication method and specifically leverage Netsuite's token based authentication which allows tulip to store longer lived access tokens. (Feature Flag) | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11143 | 234 | Added two date utility functions to the expression editor called ADD_TIME and SUBTRACT_TIME where users can provide a date and a unit of increment/decrement. Example: ADD_TIME(Datetime, 3, 'months'); SUBTRACT_TIME(Datetime, 1, 'week') | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-10483 | 234 | Users can now change the types of triggers (within a context) when editing. For example, when editing an 'on-step-open' trigger, users can change it to be a 'machine' or 'on-step-exit' trigger. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-9652 | 234 | Add step name and/or trigger name to the "1 trigger disabled" message when apps are published | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-9560 | 234 | Introducing support for rich text formatting to the Text Widget. Set specific portions of text to Bold, Italics, Underline, or another Color by highlighting desired text. | New Feature | |
| PLAT-1884 | 234 | Scrollbars on array variables in the app player should now always be visible, regardless of MacOS settings (if on a Mac). | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13254 | 235 | Where used for connectors is now behind a feature flag due to performance issues. Feature flag is enabled by default for all customers, if there are any performance concerns, FF can be disabled on specific instances. (Feature Flag) | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13239 | 235 | Update Type picker from erasing object properties when switching to an array of objects (and vice versa). This prevents having to recreate the properties of an object. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13236 | 235 | The connectors of imported apps do not break upon importing an app with an already existing function. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13184 | 235 | Add a new ISNULL() function to the expression editor (analytics & triggers). This is intended to reduce the need to use NULLIF() in order to do null checks. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13182 | 235 | Add duplicate action / condition button to trigger editor, making it faster to duplicate a section of a Trigger and make changes. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13003 | 235 | When the new 'authContext' feature flag is enabled, users can now choose between Username/Password and X.509 Public Key Authentication in the Authentication Context Section on the SAML settings page. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12970 | 235 | Disable the OAuth 1.0 authentication method if the selected Connector Host has no capability for it. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12911 | 235 | Improve the stability of Rich Text for translated apps | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12641 | 235 | Adds new Feature Flag which hides the ability to add new Form Steps so that Form Steps may be hidden by default for new instances. (Feature Flag) | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12307 | 235 | Changes forecast outlier markers color so that they match with markers on the control chart. (Feature Flag) | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11965 | 235 | Factory: Show Edge Devices as data sources in machines page (Feature Flag) | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-9902 | 235 | Support adding apps to the Internal Library. | New Feature | |
| PLAT-9900 | 235 | App builders in any Workspace can create apps from the Internal Library. Add apps from a new tab within the Create App Modal. Requires the Internal Library feature flag enabled and content previously added to the Internal Library. (Feature Flag) | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-8508 | 235 | Added REGEX_REPLACE() expression for string manipulation in the expression editor. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-8474 | 235 | Added ISEMPTY() function to expressions to check if an array is empty. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-6440 | 235 | Users with account management privileges can now update a user's email address. In particular, this allows us to add email addresses to operators so that triggers can send emails to them. It also indirectly allows up to promote operators to viewers, admins, etc as now we have an email to send their welcome email too. Operators are still required to use the welcome email to create a password before they can log in to "Factory"; however, this does not prevent them from using the Player in any way. | New Feature | |
| PLAT-8504 | 236 | Added a new event to input components in the app editor that can fire triggers when the enter key is pressed. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13638 | 236 | Documents can now be stored in Tulip Tables This includes PDF, XLSX, DOCX, STEP and more. Files can be uploaded directly to a Table or from an App. In addition, a new File Widget can be used to view files directly in an app in many cases. In other cases, the file can be downloaded or opened in another program. This also removes the 'fileInTables' feature flag and this feature is now available to everyone. | New Feature | |
| PLAT-13275 | 236 | Cosmetic change to standard buttons on App Analytics page. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13010 | 236 | Adds support for over 20 new languages. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13008 | 236 | Updates and Improves Translations around the App Editor | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12613 | 236 | Users can capture Mitutoyo caliber measurements on EdgeMC devices. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12186 | 236 | Support files fields in analytics | New Feature | |
| PLAT-12056 | 236 | App Overview Page is updated to include the ability to add an app description. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11832 | 236 | Tulip Tables can now store files via the new 'File' data type. | New Feature | |
| PLAT-11821 | 236 | Added the ability to change the title font size in the analysis widget and the content font size if the widget is showing a table-style analysis. This allows to better adapt the analysis representation to the rest of the app. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-10374 | 236 | Added a menu to the variable modal that allows users to delete all unused variables in a single action. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-10115 | 236 | Display warnings on Machine Configuration tab for mapped Edge Device tags that are out of date (deleted or changed type since being mapped). | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-7447 | 236 | CELOS X: adds functionality to request side- or full- screen via app triggers. Behind CELOS X feature flag. (Feature Flag) | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13934 | 237 | Support picking a static file as a datasource in trigger. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13914 | 237 | Added support for displaying Online Record Numbers for Chinese instances as well as links to relevant government websites. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13782 | 237 | Deprecated App Analysis features "Show Target Cycle Time”, “Show X Axis Cycle Time” and “Show Y Axis Cycle Time” in the analytics editor. | Feature Deprecated | |
| PLAT-13710 | 237 | Users see a well proportioned app icon on Android phones. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13690 | 237 | Spaces are added between workspaces roles when creating a multi-workspace user. This brings better visual clarity. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13636 | 237 | Added minimum data set length for quality assessment for forecasting. (Feature Flag) | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12757 | 237 | Users can open the settings drawer in the mobile app from the menu in Player. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11592 | 237 | Full table descriptions are now shown on the tables page | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11575 | 237 | Make the "Link To" table dropdown searchable when creating a new linked record column in a table. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11241 | 237 | Allow users to edit the label & description of the ID field in Tables. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-10706 | 237 | Harmonize keyboard event based barcode scanner between browser and desktop players apps | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-14464 | 238 | Remove option to disable Edge Device autoupdates for non-enterprise and non-Tulip pricing plans | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-14054 | 238 | Users on iOS are greeted with an informational splash screen. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13927 | 238 | Electron: Allow opening folders in the open file trigger. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-13511 | 238 | Adds site settings for Edge Device auto updates and maintenance window. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12786 | 238 | Added an Export feature to the sysadmin-only Feature Flags page. | New Feature | |
| PLAT-12438 | 238 | The NetSuite authentication is enabled for all customers by default. | New Feature | |
| PLAT-12052 | 238 | The Development mode settings can be found under Connectors in the Accounts settings page | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-12014 | 238 | Default button widgets have better styling, specifically including bigger and bolder fonts, and a wider default width. This affects newly created button widgets, not existing ones. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11885 | 238 | Allows the user to insert new Tulip Table columns to the left or right of existing columns, instead of online on the right edge of the table. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11560 | 238 | Fix header row and first columns of tables so that they stay on screen when scrolling down / right the table. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11373 | 238 | Tulip Tables now support adding a column of type 'Station', which allows for any Station to be referenced in a Table. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-11285 | 238 | Factory: Show station status in station navigation row | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-10998 | 238 | The new machine page is switched on for all customers by default | New Feature | |
| PLAT-9369 | 238 | Add column counts to the table information panel. | Feature Enhancement | |
| PLAT-14566 | LTS9 | Enable "Complete App Then Change App By Name" app transition for instances in Validation Mode. This was not previously possible when the 'ValidationMode' feature flag was enabled. | Feature Enhancement |