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New in 8.0.13

Designer Interface

• Added a "Revert" context menu item for project resource in the Designer's Project Browser.
• When exporting a project, there is a Send to Project button that allows you to directly send the project (or resources in a project) to another project on the same Gateway.
• Added a "local" option to the project export selection window. Selecting this option will select only local (non-inherited) project resources.
• Standardized "Export" context menu item across all Project Browser resources. Also added an "Export" option to top level resources that didn't have this option before.

Perspective - Updated Components

• Perspective - DateTime Input component has new properties formattedValue, minDate, maxDate, and modalStyle. 
• Perspective - DateTime Picker component has new properties formattedValue, dismissOnSelect, minDate, and maxDate. 
• Perspective - Radio Group component has new properties for the icon and for justifying and aligning
• Perspective - Checkbox component has new properties that set icons for checked, unchecked, or indeterminate states.
• Perspective - Progress component has new properties including a minimum value, and configuration options for the progress bar and track.
• Perspective - Tab Container has new contentStyle property, which applies style to the content frame.
• Theming in Perspective was updated, providing a new default look to all components, and added new properties to various components that determine their look. 

Designer and Vision Launchers

• The Designer Launcher and Vision Client Launcher now notify users if they detect that an updated version of the launcher is available.
• The Designer Launcher and Vision Client Launcher will now prompt users to trust Gateway security certificates on Designer and Vision client launch.

Gateway Network

• Renamed several status settings and gauges for Gateway network connections to improve clarity.

OPC UA Device Connections

• The port on Logix driver device connections can now be configured.
  

Email Alarm Acknowledgement

• Two new properties were added to email notification blocks of an Alarm Acknowledgement email:
  • 'Recipient Type' which allows you to choose  To , CC and BCC .
  • 'Send Ack Link' allows you to choose to  not  send an acknowledgement link on an email alarm notification.

Tag Properties

• The Tag property history > min time between samples is calculated off the value of the timestamp as of release 8.0.13. Previously it was calculated based on time of arrival to the local system.

Tag Security

• Tag Security has been significantly updated in release 8.0.13.  Tag  Security now used  security levels  for all Tags, not just in Perspective. Instead of Read/Write and Custom permissions, there are now just Read Permissions and Write Permissions, both of which use  security  levels. 

Scripting Functions

• The new function system.util.audit inserts a record into an audit profile.
• The scope for system.util.modifyTranslation has been expanded to include the Gateway as well as Perspective Sessions.

DNP3 Driver

• New feature for DNP3 devices enables the driver to process stored value changes after a re-connection.

New in 8.0.12

The  Ignition  8.0.12 version contains only bug fixes and no new features.

New in 8.0.11

Perspective

Perspective - New Components

• The Perspective - Signature Pad   has been added. This new component enables users to draw a signature and submit it. 

Perspective - Updated Components

• The Perspective Table, Alarm Status Table and Alarm Journal Table components now support multiple sort orders. The order is first determined by the Sort Order property on the table. Additional sorting defined on column configurations will then be applied.
• Map component - New component method onResize and scripting function .getSize() have been added to the Map component .
• An enhancement was made to the Perspective Time Series Chart  to provide timeFormatanddateFormat properties to the xtrace-- > infoBox config so that a user can precisely control the date/time format of the date shown in the xtrace.
• A fileUploadIcon property was added to the Perspective File Upload component. This property determines the icon used when the FileUpload component is small.
• Added a "format" property under the timeAxis --> tick --> label property structure for both the Perspective's  Chart Range Selector and the Time Series Chart components. The new property represents the preferred date/time format for the time axis.
• Improved the Carousel component's stability, performance and behavior. Updated the component handles drag transition ("swiping" across embedded views). Only common rotational angles are supported (90, 180, 270, 360) for drag transitions. If the Carousel's rotation doesn't match one of those angles, then drag transition is disabled.

Vision

• A Scripting option has been added to the right-click menu for Templates.

Scripting Functions

• Two new scripting functions have been added that general the name of project(s) currently running on the Gateway: system.project.getProjectName and system.project.getProjectNames.
• The new function system.user.addCompositeSchedule a llows two schedules to be combined into a composite schedule.
• Added a bypassCertVAlidation parameter to system.util.getGatewayStatus.

Database Connections

• Ignition Gateways can now create database connections to SQLite databases.

Gateway

• Added a Running Scripts page to the Status section of the Gateway Webpage. It shows all currently running Gateway scripts, as well as providing a way to terminate any running script. 

Transaction Groups

• Enabling the Set DB Values to Default setting will clear the latched value, setting it to a default value.

Audit Log

• Gateway configuration changes are now recorded into the Gateway Audit Profile. 

Omron  FINS Driver

• Omron FINS devices now have a user interface for importing tags via the Gateway. 
  
  

New in 8.0.10

Perspective

Perspective - New Components

• The new Barcode component enables you  to display text as a  barcode.  
• Introduced the Perspective Report Viewer component allowing Perspective sessions to render reports from the Reporting Module.

Perspective - Component Updates

• Added several formatting properties for the various labels on the Perspective Pie Chart component such as  'titleColor,' 'valueFormat.valueAsPercent,' 'valueFormat.showPercentSymbol,' 'labels.showName,' 'labels.showValue,' labels.align,' 'labels.color,' and 'labels.legendLabelColor.'
• Added a 'value' property to the xTrace configuration on the Times Series Chart. This new property represents the timestamp (as a Date object) of the active xTrace. Also added a searchable choice picker to the defaultStyles 'colorScheme' property.
• An Auto Range option was added to the 'plots.axes' property in the Time Series Chart. 
• The Perspective - Table component now has a property to specify whether multiple subviews can be displayed or only one subview at a time.

Events and Actions

• A new full screen mode action is available in Perspective.  

Other Updates

• Settings for margins have been added to the Style Editor. The Padding menu is now the Margin and Padding menu. The Style Reference has been updated accordingly.

Scripting Functions

• The a destination parameter has been added to system.perspective.print.

Designer

• Added the Concurrent Users Interface that allows users to see which resources are open in other Designer instances, as well as when a project update is available. The new UI is located in the lower right corner of the Designer.
• Both the Designer Launcher and Vision Client Launcher can now be installed as “all user” applications on Windows operating systems, providing launcher access to all users on the same machine from a single installation.

System Tags

• Each device connection on a Gateway is now represented with a new set of System Tags, located at System/Gateway/Devices/%DeviceName%, to provide a Tag-based means of verifying device connection status.

Vision

User Sources

• For User Sources, the Cache Validation Timeout property can now be turned off by setting the value to  -1.

Ignition Edge

• Ignition Edge has been significantly updated and expanded in release 8.0.10. 
• There are now five plugins for Ignition Edge: Panel, IIoT, Compute, Sync Services, and EAM.
• The installation process for Edge has been updated.
• New Edge Architecture examples are shown here.

Security

• Active Directory  User Sources now support SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer). SASL is a framework for authentication and data  security  in Internet protocols such as  LDAP . See Active Directory Authentication, AD Database Hybrid. and AD Internal Hybrid.

New in 8.0.8

Perspective

Perspective - New Components

• The Alarm Journal Table  displays the history of the  alarm  system. It can be configured to show active, cleared, and acknowledged events.  There is a new section on the Perspective Alarm Journal Table -  Common Tasks page. 

Perspective - Other Updates

• Updates were made to the Alarm Status Table to include new prefilters for priority, a toolbar, and responsive properties.
• The New View screen was updated to clarify the selection of container types. See View and Containers in Perspective.
  
• New alignment tools for components used in a Coordinate container are available on the Perspective toolbar. 
• New zoom for components used in a Coordinate container are available on the Perspective toolbar. 
• The Style Editor now has a more robust user interface. This includes a new Applied Styles panel that displays the style names and settings as you add them to a component. The Style Reference has been updated accordingly.
• Perspective Sessions will now generate entries in an assigned Audit Profile for actions such as login, logout, tag writes from a component binding. 

Gateway HTTP Headers

• HTTP headers used by the Gateway now use more secure default values, and are configurable via the ignition.conf file in the Gateway's installation directory. In most cases there won't be a need to modify the new default values. However, if you're embedding a Perspective session inside of an iframe from another origin, and it stops working after upgrade, then take a look at this Knowledge Base Article for more details. 

Alarm Journal

• Ignition Gateways can now create an Internal Alarm Journal Profile that stores journal entries locally instead of an external SQL database.
  
• Added a “Gateway Auditing Profile” property under Gateway Settings, allowing an audit profile to record Gateway level changes.
  

Tag Browser

• A new Copy JSON option has been added to the right click menu in the Tag Browser. This option copies the JSON for the select Tags into the system clipboard. In addition, pasting the  JSON  into a different provider/designer will create or overwrite Tags.

Scripting Function and Expression Function Updates

• The scope for system.util.translate has been expanded to include the Gateway.
• The format argument on system.date.format is now optional. 
• The translate expression function now has a languageString parameter, representing the language/locale to use.
  
• New functions have been added that provide roster manipulation, including adding and remove users from a roster: system.roster.addUsers, system.roster.removeUsers, system.roster.createRoster, and system.roster.getRosters.
• Session objects now have a .info attribute and a .getInfo() method that can return session information from a script.
• For system.util.sendMessage, the string scope defaults to "CS" if the user name, role, or host name parameters are set, and to "CGS" if none of these parameters are set. 
• For system.util.retarget, the addresses argument can now be a list of strings. When using a list, the function will try each address in order, waiting for the timeout period between each address attempt. The function also can now use keyword invocation.

Simulator

• Introduced a new Device Simulator called Programmable Device Simulator. Combined the Dairy Demo, Generic, and SLC simulator device connections into a single driver. Also, added the ability to create custom instructions in the driver, providing an opportunity to create a custom simulator device connection. 

Ignition Edge

• The Edge project, Tag provider, and historian can now be renamed. See Edge Gateway.

Omron FINS Driver

• Omron FINS devices are now supported with both UDP and TCP transport protocols.

New in 8.0.7

Perspective

• Added a Session property  (device.preventSleep) that can prevent a device from entering sleep mode while the Perspective App is running.

Vision

• Vision Launching Properties - Reworded Vision’s “Hide From Launch Page” project property with “Hide From Launcher” in Project Properties In addition, this setting now prevents the project from being selected in Vision Client Launchers.
• Added support for Vision Client Tag overrides. Client Tags can be overridden within a folder. You can also pass client Tag overrides with spaces by using a '+' icon as an escape character. 

WebDev

• A new HTTP method, doPatch, has been added.
• For the WebDev parameter "data", as of 8.0.7  if the incoming request body was not text, it will be available as a byte array.
• The right click menu now has a Copy Mounted Path option for WebDev resources.
• WebDev resources are now stored as readable .json and .py files on the Gateway's file system. 
  
• Security Settings for Python resources can enabled individually and authenticated individually.

Reporting

• Renamed the Reporting Table component's "Column Count" property to "Table Repeat Count", to better distinguish the property from the Row "Column Count" property.

Scripting Function Updates

• Added a system.perspective.vibrateDevice function that causes the mobile device to vibrate.
• Added system.dataset.toExcel function as a replacement for system.dataset.dataSetToExcel.
• New function system.util.getVersion Returns the  Ignition  version number that is currently being run.
• The system.util.sendMessage function can now send message to Perspective browsers and to Perspective mobile sessions.

Ignition Edge

• Added functionality Sync Reset functionality to reset synchronization state for internal historian providers.
• Renamed Edge Historian to Internal Historian on both Edge and Ignition.
• Entries collected by the Alarm Journal and Audit Log on Edge Gateways can now be forwarded to an Ignition Gateway for long-term storage via EAM sync.

UDTs

• UDTs parameters can now be access from Tag Event Scripts with tag['parameters'], providing a reliable way to reference parameter values without having to restart the UDT.

EAM

• The functionality of the Agent Settings screen in EAM Agent setup has been updated for version 8.0.7.

Alarm Journal Profile and Audit Logs

• Introduces Remote Alarm Journal and Remote Audit Log configurations, allowing records from both systems to be stored on a remote Gateway. This feature applies to both Ignition and Edge.

OPC UA Client Connections

• The OPC UA connection wizard now allows discovery URLs to be configured independently of host overrides.

New in 8.0.6

Perspective

Perspective - New Components

• The Video Player component enables you to embed video or a live feed in Perspective views.
• The View Canvas component can display multiple Perspective views, each positioned on a coordinate based system.

Perspective - Component Updates

• The Linear Scale component allows for floating point tick marks.
• On a mobile device, the user can now pinch-zoom on the Time Series Chart and move the tracker position via touch.
• On a mobile device, the user can now pinch-zoom the Chart Range Selector. Users can also draw brushes and move brushes via a single touch point.
• Added badge icons to the Project Browser for Perspective components.
• Added a Legend to the Time Series Chart.

• Added the "Add Before" and "Add After" Structure options in the Perspective Property Editor context menu. They are only visible when right-clicking on an element in either an Array or Object. 

• For components placed on coordinate containers, the meta.rotate property has been moved to position.rotate. See Working with Perspective Components for complete information on rotating components in coordinate containers.

Perspective - Tag Drop

• Dropping tags onto existing components can now create bindings on those components if the data type of the Tag matches a Tag Drop configuration in the project.

Perspective Session Props

Replaced the idpid   property with idp , which provides a string name of the identity provider. 

Perspective Project Properties

• A new option has been added to Perspective Project Properties, "Hide from Launch Page and Native Apps." When selected, the project to be hidden from the Session Launcher and mobile app project listing.

Identity Providers

• New naming conventions have been established for IdPs.
• The default Identity Providers for a project are now set in the Project Properties > General options. For users upgrading to 8.0.6, see also Perspective Project Properties and Security in Perspective.

Component Events and Actions

• Perspective Popup Actions can now be set to use Exact Positioning, or Relative Positioning.

Page Configuration

• The Content option for docked views now has an "auto" option. Auto acts like cover when the viewport is smaller than the Auto breakpoint, and push when the viewport is larger than the Auto breakpoint.

Vision

Vision - Component Updates

• Added "Show Loading" property to the Template Canvas to prevent the loading screen from appearing.
• Added labels to the Absolute Positioning properties of the Template Canvas Customizer: X, Y, Width, and Height. Also added a Z-index field indicating where a given Template Canvas instance should appear in the Z-order.

SMTP Profile Email Settings

• Added an SSL Protocols setting to SMTP Profiles , allowing users to specify which protocols will be allowed if connecting via SSL/TLS.

Scripting Function Updates

• system.gui.getScreenIndex returns an integer value representing the screen index from where the function was called.
• Added a new scripting function,  system.net.httpClient, which provides a general use object that can be used to send and receive  HTTP  requests.
  

Error Messages

• By default, error messages appear in front of any open Designer windows or Vision Client. Starting in 8.0.6 , this behavior can be set with Send to Front  and Send to Back  icons.

Gateway

• The Status tab on the Gateway Webpage now displays the number of Perspective Sessions currently running.

Modbus Driver

• The One-based Addressing property on Modbus device connections has been replaced with a Zero-based Address property.

New in 8.0.5

Perspective

Perspective - New Components

• The Dashboard component exposes widgets to end users in a Perspective Session allowing users to select pre-configured widgets to add on their dashboards in a Perspective Session. End users have the flexibility  to add, remove, resize, move around, and even configure widgets in the dashboard of their Perspective Session without having access to the Designer. Also, refer to Configuring a Dashboard page.

Perspective - Component Updates

• The Menu Tree component has a new component event: onItemClicked. The Menu Tree component also has new properties enabling you to set styles for each item on the tree.
• The Horizontal Menu component has a new component event: onItemClicked. The Horizontal Menu component also has new properties enabling you to set styles for each item on the menu.
• The Time Series Chart now has an enablePanZoom property that determines whether the chart can be panned or zoomed.
• The Chart Range Selector now has an enablePanZoom property that determines whether the component can be panned or zoomed.
• The Pie Chart component has three new properties for configuring labels: bent, wrap, and maxWidth.
• The Table component now has a visible property for columns. When disabled, the column will become hidden, but the underlying data is still accessible via view parameters and scripting.
• Added a Session property (togglePosition) to the App Bar that can be used to set the app bar positions to left, right, or hidden.
• Dataset properties now have an D ataset  Viewer and Editor in Perspective's Property Editor .
• Added the ability to restrict access to properties from the browser: Public, Private, Protected and System.
  
• Added a search.searchParam property to the Dropdown component.

Project Properties

• Tag Drop interface enables the bidirectional setting by default when adding Input Components.

Component Methods

• Added a session.getPages() function which returns a list of page objects.
• Added a session.getPage(stringID) function which returns the page associated with the given page ID if it exists.

Component Events and Actions

• Script Actions on Component Events show information about the event such as built-in objects and descriptions.

Vision

• Cloud Templates have been migrated to the new Ignition Exchange.

Ignition Exchange

• The  Ignition Exchange contains a library of resources, templates, and tools that you can use in your own Ignition projects.

Security

• User Sources now have lockout settings to set the number of times a failed authentication attempt can occur before the user is locked out. The duration of the lockout window time can also be set.

• With the  Ignition Identity Provider  in Perspective, users can be now be allowed to login with a badge instead of just a password.

• When authenticating with Ignition IdP, there is now an 'amr' attribute that's returned by the IdP which states how the user authenticated. See Test Login and Logout for information.

Scripting Function Updates

• The project parameter is now optional for the session scope for: system.report.executeAndDistribute, system.report.executeReport, system.report.getReportNamesAsDataset, and system.report.getReportNamesAsList.
• Perspective session is now available in the Project scope for system.db.clearNamedQueryCache.
  
• Functionality of system.nav.openWindowInstance has been updated when the function is called in the Designer.

Session Events

• Add a new Bluetooth Data Received event. It is only used when a session is running in a native application and it received bluetooth advertising data.

Gateway Event Scripts

• A new Gateway Event Script has been added. The Update Script event runs after a project is saved or updated on the Gateway. This enables you to insert a script that will run every time a project is saved.
• Wildcards can now be used at the end of configured Tag paths in Tag Change Scripts. For example, [provider]folder/*.

UDT Definitions

• A new icon indicates if a UDT has been configured in error with a circular inheritance.

OPC Connections

• OPC UA has a new property, Browse Origin. Options are OBJECTS_FOLDER or ROOT_FOLDER.

SECS/GEM Module

• Added support to the SECS/GEM Module for the Oracle database.

New in 8.0.4

Perspective 

Perspective - Component Updates

• Button component  -  The Button component was updated to be more flexible, allowing for direct text styling of both the button and the image, and control over the button's alignItems, and justifyContent flex properties.
• Cylindrical Tank - Added a warningThreshold property to show when the contents of the tank exceeded its value. An 'enabled' property was added under valueDisplay to hide the percent full on the tank if desired. Also, added Style properties to the valueDisplay property to set font size and color properties.
• Map component - New component methods and scripting functions have been added to the  Map component .
• Touch Screen Keyboard - Updated the Touch Screen Keyboard Width property to include the numeric keypad.
• File Upload component - A new component method onUploadsCleared was added.
  
  

Perspective - Other Updates

• The Persistent  icon for indicating whether properties persist with Perspective views has been updated. Some additional information on persistence is now included on the Session properties and Perspective Component Properties pages.

• The Perspective Project Properties now includes and option under General for adding a Page Closed message, which will be displayed if system.perspective.closePage is invoked.

Vision

• Power Table - Added onMousePressed, onMouseReleased and onMouseClick extension functions to the Power Table component.

Designer

• Image Management Tool - SVGs can be added into the Image Management Tool via drag and drop, and import functions. SVGs can be dragged and dropped onto a Perspective View or Window.
• Script Console - Added the ability to interrupt a running script in the Script Console by pressing the Interrupt button.
• Tag Editor - Updated the UI for the Tag Editor. Functionality remains unchanged.

Page URL / Browser Tab Display

• By default, the browser tab displays the project title (or the project name if the title is blank). Multiple tabs would all show the same name. A page.props.title  property has now been added. You can also use the pages.props.title in a script to set a different title for the page URL. You can also create bindings to the page title by selecting it as a Property Binding under the page properties on the Edit Binding screen.

Tag History Providers

• The Edge Historian, an internal history provider, is now available on standard Ignition Gateways.

System Client Tags

• Added a new System Client Tag, LastProjectUpdate, which shows the date of the last received update notification.

Scripting Function Updates

• Added a system.perspective.print function that sends messages to the console.
• Added a system.perspective.closePage function. Displays a message and closes the page with the given page id or the current page if no page id is provided.

Expression Function Updates

• hasChanged  now has a pollRate argument. It is also no longer restricted to just Transaction Group Expression Items and Expression Tags.
• Added a  property() expression function to Perspective that allows dynamic, indirect property lookup. It takes a single string as an argument, and attempts to lookup the property value at the specified path. Only available in Perspective.

Reporting

• String Data Sources can be given unique names using the Name field. 

New in 8.0.3

Perspective

Perspective - New Components

• A new Horizontal Menu component on the Navigation Palette was added that enables you to build a menu structure by configuring multiple links to different page URLs from the component. The Horizontal Menu occupies a large amount of horizontal space and a comparatively small amount of vertical

• The new  Time Series Chart component provides a efficient way to visualize data from a variety of different data sources as chart data. Time series charts, where the X-axis of the chart represents the passage of time, are of crucial importance in industrial applications like the kind built in Perspective..

• A new Alarm Status Table component was added in the Display category of the Component Palette. A new Perspective Alarm Status Table section was created for Common Tasks.
• Added a  Chart Range Selector component which complements the  Time Series Chart component.

Perspective - Component Updates

• The Perspective Sparkline chart has been enhanced with new features including support for datasets, and an option to add a visual display of a desired operating range.
• The File Upload component has a new method for the object from the onFileReceived component event: event.file.getString.
• The Perspective Table component has several new component events.
• The Text Field and Text Area components have some new properties.
• Added the option of saving an image as a link or embedding the image in a Perspective view.
• Style Classes can now be organized in folders within the Styles folder on the Project Browser.
• Perspective Flex Container has a new UI that enables you to set the container's properties. Functionality is similar to that of the properties in the Props Tree, but you may find the visual interface easier or quicker to use.
• Perspective Flex Repeater has a new UI that enables you to set the component's layout properties. Additional properties have been added for styles and style classes as well.
  
• The Perspective PDF Viewer component now has a .reload() method.
• Containers now have a .getChildren() method in scripting that returns all children in the container.

Perspective - Other Updates

• Bindings in Perspective - Map Transforms now have style classes as an output type.
• Perspective Sessions can now cache assets (our CSS, JS, fonts, and images) to reduce load times after the first time opening a project.
• The Perspective Project Properties now includes and option under General for adding a Session Closed message, which will be displayed if system.perspective.closeSession is invoked.

Vision - Component Updates

• The Report Viewer component has a new Fit Panel component, which enables it to ignore the Zoom setting and fit the report to the component.
• Added a new Duration Format property to the Alarm Status Table allowing users to format the time units on the Active Duration column.

Designer

• Updated the Open/Create Project user interface. Added the following capabilities: search projects, import projects, expanded the project list view to accommodate display of project information, and a new column for project inheritance.
• Added additional support for stronger ciphers on Native Launchers (Vision Client Launcher and Designer Launcher).

UDT Definitions

• Added Trait Badges to show the presence of various configurations such as alarms and Tag History so they appear the UDT Editor, and in the Data Types folder of the Tag Browser under the Traits column.
• Improved mathematical operator support for UDT parameters.

Scripting Function Updates

• system.perspective.closeSession closes the Perspective Session with the given session ID or the current session if no ID is provided.
• system.user.addUser adds a new user to a user source.
• system.user.editUser alters a specific user in a user source, replacing the previous data with the new data passed in.
• system.user.removeUser removes a specific user from the a user source based on username.
• system.user.getNewUser creates a new user object .
• system.user.createScheduleAdjustment creates a schedule adjustment.
• The scope for system.util.queryAuditLog has been expanded to include the Gateway as well as Vision Clients.
• system.db.beginNamedQueryTransaction can begin a database transaction using named queries. 
• system.db.runNamedQuery has a new optional setting getKey, used with Update Query types.
  

Expression Function Updates

• urlEncode enables users to create a HTTP binding's URL on the fly. It will be possible to freely bind different URL path parameters to different component properties on a view or window.

Gateway

• Added Gateway Command-line Utility options:
• Added Public HTTP group to the Gateway Web Server settings.
• Added a Web Server page in the configure section where there is a simple interface for adding an SSL Certificate.

OPC UA Connections and Settings

• OPC UA has two new settings: Connect Timeout and Acknowledge Timeout. See OPC UA Client Connection Settings.

Security

• Updated the Audit Log information to include changes made directly to the Tags in the Tag Browser, as well as with scripting functions.
• Service Security has a new field, Impersonation Role Name, that allows you to specify a role name to use when writing to a Tag from an incoming Gateway Network connection (from the selected Zone). 

New in 8.0.2

Perspective

• Added a new session property session.gateway.connected.
• The translations set up in the Translation Manager now work within Perspective.
• Many Perspective components received an actionPerformed event.
• The Table component got a few updates. The enableFiltering property was replaced by the more robust filter property, and a new rowData property was added which facilitates passing the values of an entire row into a cell view as parameters.
• The current object that has been deeply selected now has an icon displayed next to it in the Project Browser.

User Interface

• Certain icons have been updated such as the property icon, so some UI may look a bit different.

Voice Notifications

• Removing the text from any part of the Call Script for voice notification will cause that prompt to be skipped.

Scripting

• A new scripting function system.perspective.isAuthorized has been added to check if a user is authorized against a collection of security levels.

Expressions

• A new expression function isAuthorized has been added that matches its script counterpart.

Platform

• The embedded JRE was updated to 11.0.3. This could affect users who have a certificate issued by Symantec, which is no longer a trusted certificate authority.

New in 8.0.1

Perspective

• A right-click menu has been added to the Resource Tabs in the Perspective Workspace.
• A new File Upload component has been added, allowing files to be uploaded via a Perspective Session. 
• A "host" property has been added to session properties, showing the connecting system's IP address/hostname. 
• Both system.perspective.openDock and system.perspective.openPopup recieved a "params" parameter, allowing values to be passed to the view while also opening the view.