harmony release overview 1.0 - 2.0

Harmony consolidated Release Notes

Last update: release 2.0 (2 August 2013)

Our release policy

• 10 releases per year – containing– new feature(s)

improving capabilities , increasing business benefits

– ImprovementsRevised or minor new features added to extend functionality

– Bug fixes– Sample implementation(s)

demonstrating “Harmony in action”

– More on our website: Agile product development.

FACT DEFINITIONS AND IMPROVED CONFIGS

2.0 Release Notes

Change log

• New– Fact definitions sheet – allows to specify how to

round numbers, decimals after the comma, initial values and more

– Configuration improvements – search/replace of a fact, dialog autofill, create new sheet

– Warnings web-part – identifies and helps with common configuration issues

– Google App Script library for all Harmony configurations, simplifies the release of new functionality in the configurations

• 19 issues and bugs solved

Fact definitions 1/3

• By default, DS shows a result of an expression like this:

• After configuring the order discount like this:

• The result is:

Fact definitions 2/3

• To round-up, configure like this:

• The result is:

Fact definitions 3/3

• “InitialValue” – sets an initial value for a fact– makes setting VAT.percentage to 21 in a rule

unnecessary– all facts set with an initial value will be added to

the case data when starting a new case

• “Don’t show in decision support” – for facts that are ‘internal’ to the process, users

might not be interested in them (set to true)

• “Don’t save in working memory”– for facts like “next.order” just set to true and

Harmony won’t add that fact into the case data

Config improvements 1/3

• Search and replace of a fact (concept attribute pair– helps when re-factoring configurations:

Config improvements 2/3

• Insert concept /attribute pair– The rules sheet can become quite large … so

we’ve made it easier to insert an existing c/a pair or create a new one

Config improvements 3/3

• Insert pre-formatted sheets

– theme sheet• Change the look of the UI. Sample• a new color for the <a> HTML tag:

– reference data sheet

– language sheet

[new] Warnings web-part

• The purpose is to discover difficult to find issues with the configuration– speeds up time to diagnose the problem

• Uses websockets to push to the user at the moment a warning occurs

• Visible to Admin users only

MULTI LANGUAGE1.9 Release Notes

Change log

• Progress on customizing of the UI – Multi-language support English & Dutch– Configurable UI texts

• (great for Decision Support !!!!!)

• New “one-time-access” function– Improved case sharing

• Error messages introduced– Rules that provide additional control

over UI behavior • 7 issues and bugs solved

Chrome “Dutch” browser settings

The same case [Qwy] – “English” settings

Chrome configuration

Firefox configuration

• Create your own preferred syntax

User customization enabled

New “one-time-invite”

• Inviting users to access their case only requires the “one-time-dialog” – Harmony configuration controls

authorization (tasks, queues, cases etc)

One rule to raise an error

INTEGRATION GOOGLE CALENDAR1.8 Release Notes

Change log

• 1st version of integrating Harmony with Google Calendar– (deadlines are turned into events in the

calendar)

• After login, the user is redirected to the originally requested page

• 18 issues and bugs solved• Progress on customizing of the UI – company specific colors

Show task deadlines in Google Calendar

• When application date is chosen, Harmony computes deadline:

• Dialog is submitted, an event is added to the calendar (end date of the event = deadline date):

Show task deadlines in Google Calendar

• On login, users are challenged to grant access to their calendar

How to set-up Google Calendar

• A standard deadline is defined:

• The user must be a member of the Desk queue:

Configuring Harmony for Google Calendar

• When a deadline is re-computed (dynamic deadlines):

• Changing the deadline (via a submit of an Extend approval period in this example) updates the event in the calendar – end date of the event changes

Real-time updates to Google Calendar

Calendar Integration … 6

• This is a basic implementation, based on feedback we will extend the functionality

• Good to know:– The user must explicitly be a member of a

group (Users belonging to Admin only won’t see events in the calendar)

– Dialog name used as event name, two OWIs of the same name aren’t supported in Calendar

UI ADDING DYNAMIC DIALOGS (CONTROLLABLE PER “ITEM / LINE”)

1.6 Release Notes

Change log 1.6:

• Websockets are better “fit”with an ESB in the browser• new messages are published via web-sockets

to the ESB, web-parts change HTML content accordingly

• Show/hide of dialog items• Customer requirement for dynamic forms

• Configurable application name• set in spreadsheet, (was "Harmony App“_

• Radio button dialog item type added• 16 bugs fixed, added another 3 validation

rules in the spreadsheet

Introducing web-sockets in Harmony

• Relevant information for each user is pushed from Harmony to the browser - doesn't require a browser refresh for example

• In this release the OWI web-part updates in real-time when rules fire (OWI amount increases) or when somebody submits a dialog (OWI amount decreases)

Show/hide of dialog items

• Every dialog item can be hidden by default (setting the InitiallyHidden column to yes)

• Dialog items can then be shown via a rule RHS using the "show.item" reserved word

• Dialog items can also be hidden using the "hide.item" reserved word

• NOTE: a "dialog exists" statement must be present in the rule LHS when using show/hide reserved words - rules on what to hide and what to show could be different per dialog

Show/hide of dialog items (example):

Radio button dialog item (example):

INTEGRATION GOOGLE MAPS1.5 Release Notes

• Bi-directional Maps integration– Enter address: display on map– From map, change location • Reflects address

– Entering coordinates• 12 bugs fixed, added 5 validation

rules in the spreadsheet

Change log 1.5:

Google Maps

Enter address – result is displayed on Map

Google Maps

Move map “locator” and drop on new location resulting address is displayed

Google Maps

(or) Enter coordinates:corresponding address is found & location is displayed on Map

How to do ?

Just specify “location” (for type )

UI DIALOG DYNAMIC “ITEM / (LINE)” SUPPORT

1.4 Release Notes

• New UI to allow easy customization– Developers request more control over UI– A brand new JavaScript library was built specifically to

help developers customize the Harmony UI and integrate web-parts from Harmony into their own applications

– Result from user demand• New UI framework: Bootstrap

– One library supporting desktop and mobile UI• [implemented] Extended UI archictecture

– Analysis from user “behavior”• We have noticed logic still being coded coded in UI layer

(JavaScript)

Change log 1.4:

(NEW USER INTERFACE) BOOTSTRAP

A brand new JavaScript library was built specifically to help developers customize the Harmony UI and integrate web-parts from Harmony into their own applications

Desktop browser & mobile support

business services / rules

JavaScript for presentation "logic"/dialogs

“standard”RPG / COBOL *pgm

Webservices to access AS/400

dev framework

New UI architectureHTML(5): content/stucture

CSS: structure/look and feel/layoutPresentationtier

(NEW FEATURE) INVENTORY FILE1.3 Release Notes

Inventory 2.0 (1/3)

• Define an Order object by creating REF_Object spreadsheet with 3 fields:

• And the following two rules:– Generate a unique order ID, in this example based on date & time

• can by any Harmony function such as unique_id(), concat(), etc

– Set the order confirmation date to the current system date:

• Creating an order [transaction] When the order.id is provided/calculated a new row in the REF_Object [table] is created.– The order is immediately visible in the Google

Spreadsheet

Inventory 2.0 (2/3)

• Updating: when the order confirmation date and order company are provided/calculated, the corresponding order is updated.– The order is immediately visible in the Google

Spreadsheet

Inventory 2.0 (3/3)

IMPROVEMENTSDeadlines, UI data validation, LinkedIn sign-on, UI time control

Improvements 1/4

• Introducing: Dynamic Deadlines– For example a deadline is defined like this:

“10 days before arrival.date”– If arrival.date doesn’t exist in the case data,

the calculation of the deadline will be postponed until arrival.date is provided

– The deadline is re-calculated always when the arrival.date changes

– If the result of the deadline calculation is in the past, a ‘deadline.expired’ fact is asserted in the case data automatically

Improvements 2/4

• Reference data keys can be presented in the UI as drop-downs

Improvements 3/4

• LinkedIn login– Main e-mail address in the LinkedIn profile

used to login

Improvements 4/4

• New dialog item type: datetime– When both date and time are needed,

define the dialog item type as ‘datetime’– The generated UI will allow to provide the

time as well:

INTEGRATION

integration with external systems via industry standard SOAP/XML web-services

(sample) EU VAT Service integration

• VAT Information Exchange System (VIES)– Checks VAT-registration (= validity of VAT-

numbers) of companies registered in EU

Clickable link

Harmony sample

• Bla bla

For more information

• Visit– www.liquidsequence.com

• Contact us– http://www.liquidsequence.com/contact

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– Documentation on how to integrate web services• Will be added later