Release Notes 2.5.29

Weave 2.5.29 includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements.

The enhancements increase the flexibility and usability of some of Weave’s standard tools. The main enhancements are related to Bookmarks, how they are managed and used. These enhancements increase the flexibility and use of Bookmarks through the Weave client. 

A full list of changes can be found at the Weave What's New page. 

The main enhancements in 2.5.29 are:

 Bookmarks

The new functions available for Bookmarks are described below. 

• Bookmark Manager (this isn't new but has been expanded)
  • This is a separate Published Bookmark management tool (weave.bookmark.manage) which can be provided to specific users (controlled via ACLs) allowing them to open and delete shared bookmarks and open, edit and delete published bookmarks.
  • This tool also provides information about when a bookmark was created, when it was last executed and how many times it's been executed.
    
  • This tool provides access to all published and shared bookmarks, not just those associated with the current user (as the other Bookmark tools do).

• The Bookmark tool, weave.bookmark, and the Published Bookmark tool, weave.publishedbookmark, have been updated
  • To allow for administrator defined groups to be used to create sub-menus rather than just using the user id of the person that created the bookmark.

• The Bookmark tool, weave.bookmark, has been updated to provide:
  • A direct Publish and Share option
    • Rather than having to create a private bookmark then publish or share that a published or shared bookmark can be created directly.
  • Additional management options
    • The management window can also manage shared and published bookmarks and show the information about when a bookmark was created, when it was last executed last executed and how many times it's been executed.

• OSGi bookmark commands
  • New commands are available at the OSGi console, bm, to perform administrative actions on bookmarks, including:
    • listing bookmarks that reference a particular ToC entry (based on the ToC model entry id)
    • list bookmarks
    • dump bookmarks to provide text output on the entire contents of the bookmark
    • list users
    • remove users bookmarks

• Shared Bookmarks
  • This is a new concept for the Weave client. A user can "share" a Bookmark using the Share Bookmark tool. 
  • This creates a URL which can be copied or sent as an email. 
  • When used, this URL will open Weave, and zoom to, display layer, display Redlines, set the Active Layer and/or include a selection as specified when the Bookmark was created. It will apply ACLs if they have been set up. 
    
    
• Active Layers
  • It is now possible to include selection in a Bookmark. 
  • The ids of the features selected will be included so if the data changes after a Bookmark has been created, the Bookmark may refer to different features if the ids (as set by the <key> tag for the entity) change. 
    
    

 Spatial Editing

• Previously the Import tool in the Spatial Editing panel only imported geometry, it has now been extended to offer the option of importing the attributes.
• The ability copy geometry from anything remains as is. 
• The additional functionality will allow geometry and attributes to be copied from the currently selected entity if and only if it is the same type as the entity being edited and there is only one entity selected.
  
  

Report Designer

• Previously the BIRT report designer was included as part of the main Weave server installer, and an optional extra, it has now been moved to into its own separate installer which can be downloaded from the same location as the other components.