Operations HubOperations Hub Release Notes
This topic provides a list of product changes in Operations Hub for this release.
Version: 2023
What's New
| Description | Tracking IDs |
|---|---|
| An integrated installer to install the latest version of Operations Hub and Common Components. | F64682 |
| New and improved Operations Hub user interface: | F63201, F63378, F63765, F63927, F64147, F63848, F65438 |
| Added a list of out-of-the-box high-performance HMI graphics, and an SVG graphics editor to create custom graphics. See About HMI Graphics. | F65222 |
| Enhanced preview of the real-time data within the page designer. | F64025 |
| Export partial model. | F56941 |
| Automatic binding of dynamic properties on plug-ins. Refer to Fetch Data Property. | F62070 |
| Ability to programmatically authenticate by 3rd-party software, as well as per-device pre-authentication. | US554920 |
Known Issues and Limitations
| Description | Tracking ID |
|---|---|
| Applies to the following plug-ins when importing applications from an older
version of Operations Hub Classic to Operations Hub 2023. Issue: When you import an App to the new system, the plug-in’s image
source settings are altered.
Workaround: Access the Image/Indicator plug-in in the imported App and change the altered Type back to its original type settings. The original source information (if exists) is retrieved. |
DE198548 |
| In a trend chart, if you add a tag that is identical to the one that is already plotted but the case of the tag name does not match the case of the tag name in Historian, a straight line appears in the trend chart. To resolve this issue, modify the tag name to match the case of the tag name in Historian. | DE123833 |
During Operations Hub installation, when
you provide the tenant user ID, the following conditions apply:
|
DE123770 |
| When you create a data source, you can provide a certificate only in the base-64-encoded format. A DER-encoded certificate is not supported. | DE116706 |
| Operations Hub uses Kafka, which generates a large number of logs in the following location: C:\tmp\kafka-logs\. To avoid consuming too much space for these logs, we recommend that you periodically delete the logs, especially if the system has low disk space. | N/A |
| If you encounter intermittent responsiveness issues with the Operations Hub runtime environment when using the Safari browser on your mobile device, it is recommended that you use the Chrome browser instead. | DE131011 |
| When adding environment variables to Windows System Variables, be aware that environment variables are case-sensitive. If your environment variables in Operations Hub do not match the case of the ones used by the target Historian Server, the data source will fail when tested. Be sure that you use the same case when configuring data sources in Operations Hub. A data source target in Operations Hub should match the case in the environment variables, as the variables are case-sensitive. | DE130896 |
| Historian REST response time increases exponentially when there are over 30 users logged into Operations Hub accessing an End app that utilizes Historian REST queries. | DE134904 |
| When using Safari 13+ on iOS, trend card functionality like adding tags to the trend, favorites, and annotations perform inconsistently. The workaround is to use the Chrome browser on the iPad. | DE136597, DE149433 |
| If a Historian data point being trended transitions to a bad quality (such is the case when a collector goes down or loses communications), the trend card displays a flatline for the last known good value. If you experience one or more flatlines in your trends, and all the various requests from the same source, you should check the communication chain for an issue with Historian, a collector, or a SCADA driver, for instance. | DE138128 |
| There are currently some page printing issues. For instance, if you have iframe that spills over to a second page, that can cause an issue. | DE146462 |
The uaa-provisioning.log file generates in a new folder if the
location path provided during Operations Hub installation contains a space in it.
For example, C:\Custom Logs. |
DE148827 |
As a workaround to address VC++ (x64) failure, follow these steps to install
Task Client on Operations Hub 2.1.
|
DE161643 |
| If the Data Distributor service started at a time when the datasource was offline, reload the end application. | DE158762 |
For REST connection, if you enter an IP address instead of the hostname in the
Auth URL field, it results in a 404 error. You must add the
IP address to the list of supported subdomains/zones. To do this:
|
DE153631 |
| When importing a model containing a second CIMPLICITY namespace table, it
overwrites the values in the first namespace table. Workaround: Combine the server and namespace information from the two namespace tables into one namespace table, and then import the model again. |
DE47669 |
The inline mimic write operations performed in Operations Hub are indicated as
successful even if the entries did not meet the criteria of these CIMPLICITY
attributes.
The values do not get updated to the CIMPLICITY point control panel. |
DE156030 |
| Error message does not appear when you perform a write operation on a CIMPLICITY tag value that is outside of a given range. | DE157698 |
| If you select Acknowledge All in Operations Hub to acknowledge 5000 iFIX alarms, an internal error occurs in the iFIX application. | DE161742 |
| Only a single instance of the CIMPLICITY HMI Webspace widget per app is supported. If using multiple instances of webspace widgets across multiple pages, you may encounter access error messages when navigating between pages that contain webspace instances. After confirming the message, the widget loads as expected. | |
The typeName parameter in the custom widget’s
manifest.json file does not support special characters. |
DE162893 |
| For Operations Hub 2022 release, Proficy Authentication server validation fails while installing Workflow Task Client. As a workaround to fix this issue, please refer to Resolving Proficy Authentication Issue During Workflow Task Client Install. | DE174960 |
| In Operations Hub 2022.4.1, line chart legend is not updating based on the updated parameters for the chart. The line chart always shows only the initially fetched data for a query. | |
| If an App uses multiple nested containers and a large number of queries, it impacts the page load performance. | DE170644 |
| While using the trend card on iOS 15 Safari browser, the tags in a drop-down menu are not displaying properly. This occurs when there is more than one page in an App. | DE184797 |
The following issues are noticed in Operations Hub on Android device:
|
DE184895, DE184901 |
| If you create a display condition for a widget (or container), the widget (or container) is hidden regardless of the condition not being met. Condition always defaults to true at runtime. | DE184491 |
| In Histogram, when X-axis range is provided manually, the bins towards the left and right end of the chart get truncated. | DE186605 |
| Unable to publish iFIX / CIMPLICITY screens to Operations Hub using a remote Proficy Authentication (UAA) instance. | DE197305, DE197304 |
| Unable to publish model from CIMPLICITY project to Operations Hub using a remote Proficy Authentication (UAA) instance. | DE197366 |
| Currently in Operations Hub page designer, every undo and redo action causes a redraw of all the elements on the page. | DE196399 |
Fixed Defects
| Description | Tracking ID |
|---|---|
| Previously, the logged-in user was able to delete the currently logged-in account in Operations Hub. This option has been disabled now. | DE161913 |
| Previously, lengthy comments for an application were cut off and not viewable. This issue has been resolved. | SF00988397 |
| UAA Tomcat, IQP Tomcat, and WebHMI Tomcat default logging level is DEBUG or INFO. As a result, the logs occupied a large space on the disk. To fix this issue, option has been provided to customize logging. | SF01020127 |
| Previously, the Image widget was not displaying a picture when using "Data" type source with the global variable pointing to the graphic file. This issue has been resolved. | SF01014509 |
| Previously, MQTT slow response impacted page load performance. It has been advised to make use of a time series database, which is optimized to respond to a huge volume of entries. | SF01005733 |
| Previously, when the Alarm Card and the DatePicker were on the same page, alarms did not function properly at runtime. This issue has been resolved. | SF01025355 |
| Previously in Datagrid, clearing the check boxes of multiple records did not clear the global values. This issue has been resolved. | SF01026826 |
| On evaluating a customer's Operations Hub database after migrating from v2.1 SIM 1 to v2022.6, a script has been shared as a utility to be downloaded from a GE site. This fix is not shared with the ISO. | DE187417 |
| Previously, favorites were not displayed if the logged in username and the userid associated to the favorites did not match. This issue has been resolved. | DE187418 |
| Previously, favorites associated to the Historian data source did not load if the data source was renamed. This issue has been resolved. | SF01034617 |
| Previously after export/import operations, the interactive map image and marker images were replaced with other images. This issue has been resolved. | SF01038767 |
| Previously, the Dropdown plug-in values did not update properly in a cascading query setup. This issue has been resolved. | SF01036385 |
| Previously, performance issues were found when using the TrendCard and Analysis App. This issue has been resolved. | SF01041427 |
| Previously, applications with Graph and Grid had display issues on importing to an upgraded version of Operations Hub. This issue has been resolved. | SF01039456 |
| Previously, if the Button and TrendCard were added to a page, the button’s background color did not appear at runtime. This issue has been resolved. | DE190017 |
| Previously, duplicate entries were added to the favorites dropdown list. This issue has been resolved. | SF01040011 |
| Previously, it was not possible to login to Operations Hub as the login page did not appear. This issue has been resolved. | SF01043266 |
| Previously, the database backup was failing due to open connections to the database. This issue has been resolved. | SF01044295 |
| Previously in graph/chart, decimals could not be rounded off for axis values. This issue has been resolved. | SF01047164 |
| The 'GE Operations Hub WebHMI Tomcat Web Server' service was not properly working. This issue has been resolved with a recommendation to uninstall and reinstall Operations Hub. | SF01045505 |
| Previously, the date and time range picker formats were not applied as per the selection in the page designer. This issue has been resolved. | SF01036329 |
| Previously, if object names in an asset model had Norwegian letters, then the app using the model failed to open. This issue has been resolved. | SF01008446 |
| Previously, events did not trigger after they worked properly for a while. The web services had to be restarted to get them to work. This issue has been resolved. | SF01012500 |
| Previously, only the events that had device conditions were not getting triggered. This issue has been resolved. | SF01015339 |
| Previously in Interactive Map, two sets of Marker Type property appeared for one marker. This occurred whenever 'add URL' action was set as the first action for the marker. This issue has been resolved. | DE191933 |
Previously in the UAA localhost_access_log, a user's password
from the Rest API data source appeared in plain text. It was not encoded. This issue
has been resolved. |
SF01050499 |
| Previously, error occurred on entering a lengthy comment in the text box. This issue has been fixed by adding a 500 character maximum length to the text area box. | DE189751 |
| Previously, adding an output parameter to a query led to errors. This issue has been resolved. | SF01039294 |
| Previously, container border did not appear on selecting container based height check box. This issue has been resolved. | SF01057076 |
| Previously, removing any part of the LDAP configuration in the Security application, disabled the Submit button. This issue has been resolved. | DE191928 |
| Previously on the solid gauge, the dynamic range property added alert limits to the gauge instead of ranges. This has been fixed with proper labelling of the property. | DE195436 |
Previously on the Trend Card, tag descriptions were not being displayed even if
the Trend Configuration Display Mode was set to tagDesc in the JSON
input. Instead, only the tag names were being displayed, regardless of the input.
This issue has been resolved. |
DE195435 |
| Previously, the end-user could not configure the time axis on the Trend Card to display in a 24-hour time format. This issue has been resolved. | DE197530 |
Previously, the asset import failed with the definition of
#AssetInstanceEntityMetadata while importing a large file. This
issue has been resolved. |
DE197533 |
| Previously, performance issues were encountered with the Analysis App when switching from the live mode to historic mode. This issue has been resolved. | DE197537 |
Compatibility Matrix
| Product | Required Version |
|---|---|
| Proficy Historian |
Note: Historian REST APIs are required for REST integration between Operations Hub and Historian.
Historian REST APIs are installed automatically when you install
Historian web-based clients. |
| Proficy Plant Applications | For feature-specific compatibility, refer to the table below.
|
| Configuration Hub | Configuration Hub 2023 |
| Proficy Authentication (UAA) | Proficy Authentication 2023 |
| Proficy iFIX |
|
| Proficy CIMPLICITY | CIMPLICITY 2022 |
| Industrial Gateway Server | IGS OPC Server 7.68 and later |
| Proficy Workflow | Workflow Task Client 2.6 SP1 SIM5 |
| GE Common Licensing | Version 20.4.2182 and later |
The following table lists feature-specific compatibility for Plant Applications version.
| Operations Hub 2023 Features | Plant Applications 8.2 | Plant Applications 2022 | Plant Applications 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
Classic Designer Layout:
|
Yes | Yes | Yes |
Classic Designer Layout:
|
Yes | Yes | Yes |
New Designer Layout:
|
No | No | No |
New Designer Layout:
|
Yes | Yes | Yes |