Intelligence 2017 Update 1 (v3.1) Readme

Last revision: 11/22/2018

In This Document

About this ReadMe

Release Summary

System Requirements and Product Compatibility

Licensing

Resolved Issues

Known Issues

Software Documentation

About this ReadMe

This document contains important information about Intelligence 2017 Update 1 (v3.1). Review this document for Product enhancements and new features, system requirements and compatibility, resolved issues and known issues in this version and changes, if any, to the Intelligence software documentation included on this CD.

Release Summary

With the release of Intelligence 2017 Update 1 (v3.1), the following list of new features and enhancements are introduced.

Migration support: Possible to migrate from Intelligence 2014 R2, Intelligence 2014 R2 P01, Intelligence 2014 R3 and Intelligence 2017 to Intelligence 2017 U1.
Dashboard Concurrent Licensing: Any user except “server administrator" should be able to acquire a 'concurrent' license, irrelevant of the assigned Role.
Browser support: You can now access Intelligence using the Google Chrome and Firefox browsers. To access Intelligence Model Builder using the Firefox browser, you have to make some changes in the browser settings. For more information, refer to the Intelligence Install Guide or the Intelligence Install Online Help.
Data Adapters: Intelligence now supports the following additional data adapters:
- New Insight data adapter to connect to AVEVA Insight.
- OSI PI Oledb data adapter to connect to OSI PI Historian.
- eDNA data adapter to connect to AVEVA Enterprise Historian (eDNA).
- Oracle data adapter to connect to Oracle data source.
Intelligence Model Deployment mode (Deployment version) in Model Builder. User cannot create any objects in the Deployment version. In the Deployment version mode, user can modify connection details and data adapter details(in data source)
License enforcement: License is enforced for the Model Builder and Data Source count. If a Model Builder feature license is not acquired, the model builder will start in Deployment version mode. (see Intelligence Model Deployment mode above). When the data source count license limit is reached, the system will prevent deployment of additional data sources.
Licensing - In the unlikely event of the runtime licensing detecting a violation of deployed data source versus the licensed count, the system will pause the data load until data sources have been undeployed or the license updated.
NOTE: SMC Logger will contain messages indicating if the runtime is in the paused state in case of any license violation detection.
Import / Export:
- Option to import model from prior versions of intelligence (2014R2, 2014R2P01, and 2014R3).
- Option to set Auto backfill start date while importing model.

Limitations for this release:

Advanced Calculations on measure is not available.
Supports only the Chrome and Firefox browser.
No enforcement of multi-user editing (no check-out / check-in or locking of objects for editing), only a single user should be editing the model at a time.
The old look and feel of the Intelligence Model Builder appears when you open the Intelligence Model Builder after an upgrade from an existing version. To view the latest Intelligence Model Builder, you must clear your Browser cache.

System Requirements and Product Compatibility

For important information about Intelligence 2017 Update 1 product release, go to the Global Customer Support web site. Information on the AVEVA support web site includes product requirements, compatibility, system requirements to install the Intelligence software. You need to have a valid credentials to access the site. You can search for the information by product name and the release/version.

Licensing

Intelligence Licensing

This release of Intelligence enforces licensing through the Schneider Electric Licensing system for the Intelligence and concurrent Dashboard Server add-in.

For more information regarding Licensing, see the Schneider Electric License Server Guide available at the following location in the system where Schneider Electric Licensing is installed: All Programs -> Schneider Electric -> Schneider Electric License Manager User Guide.

NOTE: Make sure that you have a new license to install the Intelligence software. Licenses for prior versions of Intelligence will not work for Intelligence 2017 Update 1 (v3.1) release.

Tableau Components Licensing

The Analytics Client (Tableau Desktop) and Dashboard Server (Tableau Server) versions shipped with Intelligence are allowed to access data only from the Intelligence data store and data sources used in the Intelligence model (Drill-down scenario for example). Using the Analytics Client outside of those boundaries is a violation of the license agreement.

The Intelligence software enforces licensing for the Analytics Client through license keys provided by AVEVA, on your license certificate. When you first start the Analytics Client, a software activation window prompts you to enter the license key. The same applies for the Dashboard Server.

NOTE: If you already have permanent activation codes for Tableau software, the same activation codes can be used with Tableau 2018.2 shipped with Intelligence 2017 Update 1 as long as you have a valid Customer First subscription for Intelligence.

Important: Make sure you are using a proper version of Intelligence such as Intelligence 2014 R3 or later when you are using Tableau 2018.1 or above. With 2018.1, Tableau deprecated some of the functions the Concurrent Licensing add-in was using prior to Intelligence 2014 R3.

Resolved Issues

This section describes the resolved issues.

Issue Number	Description
L00147894	User can deploy the undeploy Dimensions without any issues.
L00149698	Error encountered while communicating with the Data Adapter Service on [localhost]\r\n[The socket connection has been disposed.] is resolved and it is possible to deploy Intelligence Model with large amount of data.
L00149832	Some of the Dimension tables were not populated even after you deploy the Intelligence Model successfully and an error is logged in the SMC logger. This issue is now fixed and data is getting inserted in the Dimension tables properly.
L00148721, L00151399	Intelligence Reports was repeatedly encountering timeout issue because the MERGE statement was processing the entire table for each refresh even though the update period is configured This issue is now resolved by processing only the required period and not the entire table (Dimension table) for each refresh.
L00150937	Measure does not retain the context relationship that is saved because the get latest Dimension Alias is failing when you add same Dimension more than once in Dimension Alias. This issue is resolved now by modifying the logic to get the latest Dimension Alias to make it unique when the same Dimension is added more than once in Dimension Alias.
L00151053	Performance issue is encountered because of a typo in the query. This issue is now fixed.
L00150919	Historian crashes when you create multiple connections of Historian with Intelligence. This issue is now resolved by limiting the user to make only a single connection of Historian with Intelligence.
L00151400	Data source will have duplicate custom queries with same name.
L00151140	Measure data updates are not processed properly based on the modification field. This issue is now resolved.

Known Issues

The following table lists the known issues, listed by their change request number.

Issue Number

Description

L00136275

If you connect to an incorrect Wonderware Historian in the Data Source and then try to connect to the correct Wonderware Historian, the logger continuously logs warning messages that it is still unable to connect to the incorrect Historian.

Workaround: You must restart the Intelligence Data Adapter service to stop the warning messages in the SMC logger.

L00136325

If a measure is undeployed while it is busy processing calculation, the following errors/warnings will be returned in the SMC logger: "ExecuteMeasureBackfill() failed unexpectedly. Retry measure backfill Measure [name of measure]." You can ignore these messages.

Software Documentation

The Intelligence software documentation set includes the following:

Intelligence Software Installation Guide - Provides information about installing and configuring the Intelligence software features.
Intelligence Web Configuration Guide - Provides information about configuring and mapping of various data sources; managing Intelligence objects such as dimensions, measures, datasources, and their deployment; and security.
Intelligence Event API Getting Started Guide - Provides information about using the Intelligence Event API.
Intelligence Analytics Client Data Source Generator Help - Provides information about using the Analytics Client Data Source Generator to generate Analytics Client Data Source files that are compatible with Intelligence Analytics Client. These files are also known as Tableau Data Source (.tds) files.
ReadMe (This document) - Provides information about software and hardware requirements, known issues, licensing, and documentation.

The Intelligence product library consists of a set of Portable Document Files (PDF) located in the UserDocs folder of the Intelligence software installation media. You need Adobe Reader installed on your computer to view the Intelligence software documentation. You can download the latest version of Adobe Reader from the Adobe Corporation web site:

http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html

After installing Adobe Reader, double-click on a PDF file to view the book with Adobe Reader. You can also open a book with the Adobe Reader Open command from the File menu.

The Intelligence software installation instructions are located in the root folder of the Intelligence software installation media as an online Help file. You can view these instructions by clicking Help as you start the Intelligence software installation procedure.