ER/Studio Enterprise Portal 1.1.1 ReadMe

Welcome to ER/Studio® Enterprise Portal 1.1.1

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Thank you for using Embarcadero's ER/Studio Enterprise Portal. This tool allows you to communicate your ER/Studio Repository metadata across the Enterprise in a browser-based reporting tool. This solution allows organizations to search, browse, and report on the information contained in the ER/Studio Repository. This Web interface:

Has enterprise-wide distribution of the repository metadata to developers, database administrators, business analysts, and data analysts.
Has an easy-to-use console to manage user connections and maintain end-user access to portal actions and controls.
Is easy to use and navigate with extensive search capabilities.
Eliminates spreadsheets and other stand-alone documents.
Has standardized HTML reporting of repository metadata.
Has structured browsing and navigation of repository hierarchy.
Allows for increased compliance with standards and regulations.

What's New

Release Notes

Important Advisory Notes

Upgrade Notes

Known Issues

Bug Fixes

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What's New

New Search Engine:The Enterprise Portal now incorporates the Apache Lucene search engine, which provides high-performance, full-text search abilities.
Email and Favorites for Searches and Reports: You can now email the results of searches and reports. You can also save searches and reports, which will then appear on the home page in the Favorite Searches and Favorite Reports areas, respectively. From the home page you can email, delete, share, and run favorite reports and searches.
Configuration Manager: Now you can change configuration parameters of the application server without needing to reinstall the application. The Tomcat Configuration utility can be used to start, stop, and restart the application server and to change configuration parameters such as the amount of memory assigned to Tomcat for the application server.
Enhanced ETL Interface: The enhanced Synchronization (ETL) interface gives administrators more control over what is synchronized and when the synchronization should occur. From this page, administrators can view the status of synchronization processes and initiate synchronization of all projects and diagrams, or choose to synchronize only select diagrams and projects. The administrator can also choose to update, ignore, or delete information about each diagram or project when differences are detected between the Repository and Reporting databases.

Release Notes

Important Advisory Notes

The Enterprise Portal supports the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (32-bit only) operating system.
The minimum recommended hardware requirements include a Pentium Class 4-CPU or higher, and a minimum of 3 GB of RAM.
The supported platforms for the reporting and solution databases are IBM DB2 UDB 8.x and 9.x Server, Oracle 9i and 10g, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005.

Upgrade Notes

When a new version of ER/Studio Enterprise Portal becomes available, you should upgrade to take advantage of the latest features and fixes. Also, when the ER/Studio Repository software is upgraded, you must upgrade the Portal. The Repository and Portal software releases are synchronized to ensure Portal users can take advantage of any Repository updates.

Upgrading the Portal requires a reinstallation of the Portal application and you should follow the installation instructions in the Install Guide to accomplish this.

Once the Portal application is upgraded, you must resynchronize the Portal with the Repository. ER/Studio upgrades usually require the diagrams to be updated to the latest version. Once the Repository diagrams have been updated, you’ll need to synchronize the Portal Repository to ensure that it is up to date. For information on synchronizing the Portal, see the "Administrative Tasks" section of the User Guide.

Known Issues
RWP-210	Errors and warnings related to parsing style sheets may appear in the browser error console (on Firefox), or the status bar (on Internet Explorer), when hovering over or traversing links in the portal.
RWP-412	The Enterprise Portal does not currently work properly with Microsoft SQL Server databases that have been configured to be case sensitive.
RWP-426	Clicking links in the Enterprise Portal a second time, before a response from the first click has been received by the browser, results in an error message.
RWP-431	In Internet Explorer 7, text and layout in the Enterprise Portal may become distorted if the text size is increased or decreased in the browser, either via the Page menu or by using the CTRL key in conjunction with the mouse wheel.
RWP-472	The icons at the top left and top right of the online help window may not show up correctly. This is typically due to a user preference setting in the Web browser.
RWP-502	The item selected from the “Available Items” list cannot be changed after pressing the ‘Back’ button in the custom report builder.
RWP-700	In Internet Explorer 6, the vertical scroll bar in the Groups section of the custom report builder is no longer accessible after an element is added to a level.
RWP-716	The sort order is incorrect when Custom reports are sorted by sequence.
RWP-730	There will be a noticeable delay after the ‘Run a Shared Report’ or ‘Shared Reports’ link in the solution browser is clicked for the first time.

Bug Fixes

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Bugs Fixed in ER/Studio Enterprise Portal 1.1.1

Bugs Fixed in ER/Studio Enterprise Portal 1.1

Bugs Fixed in ER/Studio Enterprise Portal 1.1.1
RWP-483	SQL Server named instances are now supported for the Repository, Solution, and Reporting databases.
RWP-1057	The installer no longer requires the existence of an empty 'ERSREPORPT' schema when initializing an exsiting, empty Reporting database on Oracle.
RWP-1076	Subtrees of the Search Base DN are now considered when authenticating users via LDAP.
RWP-1078	Synchronization errors no longer occur for diagrams that have a default bound to a domain.

Bugs Fixed in ER/Studio Enterprise Portal 1.1
RWP-317	Project, Model, and Diagram information is now included in the entity drill-down report.
RWP-401	The columns in the search results view can now be customized.
RWP-402	Options that were chosen for a report instance can now be saved and listed as a favorite.
RWP-438	The Advanced search results can now be filtered for specific properties (and their values).
RWP-439	Advanced and simple searches now support boolean (AND and OR) keywords.
RWP-440	Attachment values and security property values can now be searched.
RWP-484	The Home dashboard is now displayed at the root URL instead of being displayed on the Apache Tomcat home page.
RWP-504	The search results now include full context (path) information for obects that are found.
RWP-577	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication is now supported.
RWP-591	Configuration information can now be modified without reinstalling the application server.
RWP-625	Specific projects and diagrams can now be selectively loaded during the Extraction Transport and Load (ETL) process.
RWP-666	The installer can now upgrade an existing Portal installation without first having to uninstall.
RWP-678	Wildcards can now be used to filter diagrams via the RepoRpt.xml file.
RWP-681	More descriptive error messages and detailed logs are now provided when synchronization fails.
RWP-695	The user description is now shown in addition to the user name in login activity detail reports.
RWP-710	The documentation now explains why permissions for new repository users do not take effect until a synchronization is performed.
RWP-733	The advanced search results no longer list redundant and duplicate objects.
RWP-889	Enterprise data dictionaries can now be correctly synchronized on Oracle.

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