11.210: Technical Changes

Mobile

The new waveware MOBILE 2 app has left the BETA development stage and is released for productive use as of this version. The app can be installed via the Google PlayStore or Apple AppStore. To operate the new app, at least one waveware server 11.200.6798 (LTS release April '24) is required. The waveware MOBILE 1 app used libraries from Xamarin, whose support was discontinued by Microsoft. The new waveware MOBILE 2 app is based on .NET MAUI and can be installed and used parallel to the waveware MOBILE 1 app.

If you are already using waveware MOBILE 1, we recommend upgrading to the new app as soon as possible. Due to the discontinued support for Xamarin by Microsoft, Loy & Hutz will also discontinue support of waveware MOBILE 1 with this LTS release - the last supported version of waveware MOBILE 1 is therefore 11.210.141.64 (or another version from this LTS series). The next release (expected November '24) will no longer contain a waveware MOBILE 1 client. Further information: 'Mobile: Version Change and Upgrade Information'.
waveware MOBILE 2 Documentation: 'waveware MOBILE 2'.

Since new waveware versions may be released at irregular intervals, updates have been included in the waveware notification system. When a new version is released, all users with the global right 'Receive update notifications for waveware' will receive a notification.

New versions are checked automatically in the background. If a new version is available, the waveware Service Center can be opened directly by double-clicking on the notification.
Using Supervisor Options (System / Additional Basic Functions (1861) / System / Update Notification) you can switch the notification on and off and specify whether the update check should be limited to LTS versions.

The mail building blocks OpenLocalMailClient, OpenLocalMailClientWithMultipleAdresses, OpenLocalOutlook and OpenLocalMailClientWithMailDraft enable emails to be sent using a local mail program.

If the locally installed Outlook client was used, it was previously necessary to have .net Framework 4.8 installed. This no longer works with newer versions of Outlook. The building blocks mentioned have therefore been changed so that they generate a temporary *.eml file. This file is then opened by the program that is associated with this file extension (normally Outlook). The eml file can be opened by both the new and the old Outlook.

The time periods for LTS releases have been adjusted. Previously, LTS releases appeared at intervals of 6 months and were provided with critical security updates every 12 months.

Starting with this release (October '24), LTS releases will be released at 12-month intervals and will be provided with critical security updates every 18 months. This means that major updates only need to be performed every one and a half years in order to be able to operate the version safely with smaller updates.

When inserting multiple documents into a card at the same time using drag & drop, it could happen that an inserted document was not linked to the correct record due to the stacking of the cards. This was visible on the relevant 'Document' object in the 'Assignment' transaction, as the field of the assigned ID ('Object ID' or 'Transaction No.') was empty.

To edit the content of a memo field better, the text can be opened in a separate window. The context menu of this separate window differed from that of a regular memo field, so that, for example, the phrase catalog could not be called up.

When displaying the mobile work step evaluation in waveware MOBILE 2, loading time may be longer than average. In tests, calling up a large work instruction with over 150 steps took about 1 minute (in MOBILE 1, loading was completed on average after 1-7 seconds).

The expandable transaction lists known from waveware MOBILE 1, which displayed additional fields of the record when expanded, are not available in waveware MOBILE 2. These will probably be replaced by a new function.