NorfelloCMMS OS Release Notes

These Release Notes cover the version 1.0.0-rc10 of NorfelloCMMS OS.

Downloading

NorfelloCMMS OS 1.0.0-rc10 is available in three formats:

Manual for the NorfelloCMMS OS 1.0.0-rc10 is available as pdf:

For other NorfelloCMMS OS releases, see http://cmms.norfello.com/cmms

Requirements

The following software is required in order to run NorfelloCMMS OS:

  • Ruby 1.8.2 or later
  • Ruby on Rails 1.2.3 or later
  • RedCloth 3.0.0 or later
  • RMagick 1.15.0 or later
  • Gettext (ruby) 1.9.0 or later
  • libxml-ruby 0.3.8.4
  • Database

NorfelloCMMS OS supports the following databases:

  • MySQL version 4.1 or later
  • PostgreSQL version 8.0 or later
  • SQLite version 3.0.0 or later

Notes on using PostgreSQL

We don't receommend that you use the postgreSQL as the database for NorfelloCMMS OS because problems with the foreign keys were discovered recently. The problems prevented us from running the tests using the postgreSQL database.

Compatibility

Database from the 1.0.0-rc9 release can be used with the 1.0.0-rc10 by running the 'rake migrate' command. This updates the database to the most recent version. You should make a backup of the database before migrating. See the documentation of the database of your choice for reference on backing up the database.

We highly recommend that you don't put NorfelloCMMS to production use before the first stable version is released.

Known Bugs and Issues

  • There are links to actions that the current user is unauthorized to access in many places (#188).
  • Uploading type specific attachments doesn't generate timeline events (#179).
  • Automatic fields can not be added to form templates when changing the template. (#320)
  • Timeline doesn't show changes made to the assets (#153)
  • Modifications to the work order are not visible in the change history (#271)
  • Form type wizard is too hard to use.
  • The manual is not complete.
  • Tests can't be run using the postgreSQL database.

Changes

  • Translation fixes.
  • Keys are now listed in alphabetical order when adding new keys to keyring.
  • Users are now listed in alphabetical order when adding users to keyrings.
  • Both the key adding form and the user adding form were moved to the top of the page.
  • The 'Remove' header was removed from the list views. It was replaced by a checkbox and a button. The checkbox selects all the list items when checked and unselects all when unchecked. The button is used to invert the selection.
  • Added migration that resizes the session data column in MySQL. The new limit is 5MB.
  • Changed some invalid text= calls to content= calls in the XML processing. This caused application errors when viewing forms with conditional texts (#359).
  • Two types of condition strings are now recognized in the conditional text processing. First is 'some_var == "some string value"' and the other is 'some_var == 1.2' or 'some_var == 1' (#389).
  • Names of the asset fields no longer wrap to multiple lines (#346).
  • Move and clone asset actions are now hidden if the user is not authorized to clone/move the asset to at least one place. This prevents the situation where user enters the cloning/moving action, but can't select a the parent asset because all the radio buttons are disabled (#365 and #372).
  • Fixed the the owners view of the keyrings which was generating invalid HTML (#388).
  • config/boot.rb no longer uses the deprecated require_gem (#358).
  • Name of the user field is no longer used when naming instance variables for a form creation view (#331).
  • User fields with no name are ignored when creating a new form type.
  • Fixed invalid HTML in the list views.
  • Removed the 'Asset tree' text from the asset tree pager image (#348).
  • The 'rake makemo' now moves the generated rails.mo from locale/fi_FI/LC_MESSAGES to locale/fi_FI. This is needed because the translations for the messages from rails are not found otherwise.
  • Fix automatic field handling in development mode (#391).

The following resources contain useful information about Norfello CMMS OS:

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