Introduction
This document contains the release notes for Izenda Reports version 5.6. The following sections describe the release in detail and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements the main documentation.
This is an early access release for wide evaluation and usage. Your feedback is important to us; please help us make this the best product possible. Keep in mind that we are continuing to work on Izenda Reports and things may change in the future.
What's New?
- Advanced Pivots Capabilities, please review this article on how to set up and create pivot reports.
- Dynamic Field Names
- Improved Performance
- Nearly 75 Product Improvements
- Compatibility with Fire Fox 3.0
- Improved Summary Deltas
- Improved Pagination Performance
- Improved Multi-Year Date Grouping
- Improved handling of timeouts
- New Sum Distinct Function
- Improved Font Support for PDF
- Per Page Visual Grouping for PDF
Installation and Upgrade Notes
Installation
See the installation instructions for full details. Please note that in this release, ...
IMPORTANT: You must obtain a new key for this version to function.
Manifest
This release consists of the following items:
Installation instructions / Quick start guide
Version Compatibility
Reports built in version 5.4 and above on this product may be used with this version. However, due to major changes in the product this will require a new key in order for them to function. Please contact sales to get a new key for the product.
Recent Changes
- Advanced Pivot Capabilities
- Dynamic changing of fields
- Improved Performance
- New Sum Distinct Function
Known Issues and Workarounds
ISSUE 1961. Index out of range. This error occurs when creating a report and selecting one
Chart type then changing to another then saving report.
WORKAROUND: Fixed
ISSUE 1941: ORA-00972: identifier is too long. This exception will happen when trying to create a pivot table in oracle and the data set is loner than 30 characters.
WORKAROUND: Have database truncate data through view.
ISSUE 1969. ORA-01843: not a valid month. This exception will happen when trying to filter on a date field while using a pivot table
WORKAROUND: Fixed
ISSUE 1975. Justification Function. When using the “ShowJustification” settings the report viewer will display the report correctly. However if printing the report to PDF or RTF the justification of the cells are not carried over in the report.
WORKAROUND: Currently being looked at for a future enhancement.
ISSUE 1980. MinPDF Function: When using the “MinPDF” function and settings it to a font that is below 10px, your report font will vary from cell to cell depending on the range that you inserted. Example: if you set your MinPDF to 6px, your report cells will vary from 6-10 depending on the data with in the cell.
WORKAROUND: Currently being looked at for a future enhancement.
ISSUE 2047. CurrentReportSet.SQL: If you set “DIM CurAdHocSQL as String = CurrentReportSet>SQL” you will get the following error “Unable to cast object of type System.DBNull to type System.String”
WORKAROUND: Currently being worked on.
ISSUE 2058. ExportFont: Currently setting the ExportFont function is not functioning properly. Function will not set the font properly, therefore should not be used in this current version.
WORKAROUND: Currently being worked on.
ISSUE 2061. Summary Invert Function: If you use all the settings from the summary tab of Grand Total, Add Deltas and Invert, you will receive this error “A column named '-' already belongs to this DataTable”.
WORKAROUND: Use Pivot function in place of invert.
ISSUE 2065. ReportViewerRefreshInterval: If you set this setting to refresh the ReportViewer faster than 20000 milliseconds the browser will refresh and the grid/chart data will disappear
WORKAROUND: Currently in development. Set refresh interval higher than 20000 milliseconds.