New Features

Enable/Disable channels (Disabled = cannot start channel).
Channels that are disabled are indicated with a strike-through font and cannot be started by a user. This removes any ambiguity for a service user as to whether the channel is meant to be running, or not.
Channel Tags

Channel tags provide a way of "tagging", or classifying channels with common attributes similar to the way articles can be tagged within a blog. For instance, a set of channels in the system may have tags such as "FFT", or "VIP".
1. Create Tags
2. Add Tags to all Channels in a Tab (right-click on Tab)
3. Add Tags to selected channels using Manage Channels window
4. Search by tags in the Manage Channels window
5. Display Tag abbreviations in channel
6. Search by tags in Channel Search (use the syntax ~TAGABBR or ~TAGNAME (example: ~FFT). You can still search without the tilde, but you'll get results from all non-tag matches as well.
7. Filter by tags in the Dashboard
8. ** Remove channel tags - 'production channel' will need to be re-implemented as a tag **
Tab Markers
Add colorization to a Tab to give a visual indication of its purpose, or importance.
Multi-Map Tables
System Globals
System Globals allow users to define properties, passwords, tables, Custom Code, and connection strings at a global level that are available to a subset of channels within the system. With exception of Global Code, global elements are defined at the Tab, Group, or System level and are available to any channel that falls under the hierarchy. So a Tab setting is available to any Channel under that Tab, and a Group setting is available to any Channel that lives under the Group. System settings are available to any Channel in the system.
1. Global Properties
  In most text-based controls, type '{system.' or '{group.' or '{tab.' to trigger the globals insertion routine.
  
  Use the down arrow to choose the global you wish to use. The global will highlight grey and when hovered display details. Click the magnifying glass icon on the popup to edit the global value.
  
  Note that globals have locks.
2. Global Code
  1. A single custom code assembly that can be used in other Custom Code based devices.
  2. Add a reference to the global code by clicking on the globe icon (in the center toolbar) and selecting the 'Include global reference'.
  3. Access this from any Custom Code based device
3. Global Passwords
  1. Access global passwords within devices
4. Global Tables
5. Global Database Connection Strings
  1. Create Connection strings that can be used devices in the system
  2. Add within Devices that support the standard Database Edit Control
6. Globals can be imported and exported.
Execution Groups
Queue Device Improvements
1. Support for MSH-4 (Sending Facility) in the Queue
2. New Error Queue Workflow
  1. Error count shows up regardless of age
  2. Messages can be "Shelved" which moves them out of the Error queue
  3. "Shelved messages" can be queried
3. Errors for all time ('Error Total') show under a new item: E_T. This only shows when E and E_T are different. So E = Errors Today, and E_T = Error Total (all time). E_T only shows up when E != E_T.
Improved HL7 Inbound Device
1. Performance improvements
2. Reduced memory footprint
3. Ipv6 support
4. Diagnostics tab to display available network adapters
User Management Dashboard
1. Display Connection time, Idle time, and connected IP address
2. Ability to force unlock channels
3. Ability to send messages to other users
4. Ability to force logoff other users UIs.
Improved Manage Custom Plugins Window
File Reader Device - Support for reading Compressed files
Improved server screen
1. Turn the server screen into a tree to allow grouping. Also use grouping in the server drop-down and display more server information to make it more obvious who each server is. Show the currently connected server in green.
2. Import / export servers list
Auto-logout of Connexion / RIM
After period of inactivity both Connexion Client and the Gateway Management UI will log out for security purposes.
Message viewer obfuscation.
Hides message data that potentially contains PHI displayed on the screen
Custom Code Device - C# 7.0 and Roslyn compiler support
1. Reimplemented the underlying internal compiler class to take advantage of the Rosyln compiler
2. Support for .NET 4.7.1
Message watermarking
1. Provide a mechanism to 'stamp' a message at its origin / ingestion point and then validate that stamp at the ultimate destination. For example, in the integrator framework it may make sense to stamp all ingestion channels with a customer ID / constant. Then immediately before ingestion into the datacenter systems, validate the expected customer ID / constant is present.
2. Step one is to create the watermark. This is done on the first queue in the message flow by navigating to the settings / watermark tab and then setting the action to 'set'. At this point you can choose to append a constant value (like a customer id) to the existing sending facility, or provide a brand new sending facility value. By default, we preserve the sending facility field so that it can be queried in the queue worklist.
3. Step two is to navigate to the final queue in the final channel of the workflow, navigate to the settings / watermark tab, and select the 'Verify' option. You then enter one or more values that you'll accept. There are two syntaxes which are supported. To check for a fixed value, simply enter it into the 'match list'. To accept any sending facility value followed by a constant, use the syntax -{WhateverYouEntered}.
4. Messages which fail verification are moved to the error queue.
5. If you require more advanced functionality, we've provided two event hooks:
IMessageContext.UserStorage
1. Provide persistent (and transient) user storage that belongs to the message
2. Persistent objects are serialized as JSON and stored as part of the message attachments
3. Unlike the UserContext, persisted objects survive across Queue boundaries
User Storage / File Writer
1. An improved 'user context' storage area which has the ability to persist values of any (serializable) type. The user context is now deprecated in favor of 'Context.UserStorage'. Add your object to the user storage using the following syntax. Please note the parameter to specify whether or not this will be persisted. Also note that your object must be serializable. We recommend the use of the DataContract and DataMember attributes in the System.Runtime.Serialization namespace.
2. View the user storage objects in the Attachments pane within the queue:
3. Consume your user storage objects within a custom code device using the UserStorage.Get<targettype>(Key). We are also investigating exposing the user storage within built-in devices which currently expose the user context. The File Writer now allows the use of UserStorage where UserContext is supported. We've also expanded upon the UserContext to allow the direct access of object values using JPath syntax:
Quick Navigation
1. Use ctrl + tab key combination to bring up a window showing recently visited channels, as well as system pages. While holding down the control key, use the tab key, arrow keys, or mouse to navigate to a different view. After using the quick view window, the results are stored so that the list is available on subsequent UI restarts.
Queue Device Caching
- The standard sql-based queue now implements an input cache. Where possible, the queue will now cache received messages in memory instead of retrieving the message(s) from the database. If the queue is in a sleep state, it will wake up upon receiving a message and immediately push this message down the channel. This has two benefits:
  1. Fewer queries to the database and potentially lower network traffic.
  2. Less time waiting for a message to process on low volume queues (or during periods of infrequent messages).
- This feature does not work with branched messages or message arriving from a secure sender device (the previous default behavior applies).
- This feature can be disabled in the queue configuration ("Disable Message Caching").
Copy / Paste device - the ability to copy an entire device and paste into other channels
Miscellaneous
1. Upgrade all dependant libraries
2. Add Edifact libarary EDI messages types
3. Re-implement all installers so we can better handle .NET Standard libaries and to fix issues with interdependent libaries
4. Support for Mongo Queue Db statistics within Connexion
5. Update all projects except Connexion.Core and Connexion.Share to .NET 4.6.1
6. Improve locking and thread usage during Connexion channel startup
7. Fixed thread contention issue when stopping many devices at the same time
8. Move Connexion.ErrorNumberManager to Visual Studio 2017
9. Various updates to better handle readonly access to UI elements that have been disabled as a result of user access permissions
10. Include channel lock information in the channel dashboard
11. Save/restore channel running state (admin-mode, should it be exposed?)
12. Client startup loading / speed.
13. Improve loading of the HL7 transform v2.
14. Dashboard can now be 'popped' so it can be displayed outside of the standard window.
15. Addition of StartAsync / StopAsync methods.
16. Ability for version 15 client connecting to a 14.5 server to attempt to launch the correct version of the client app (v15), and visa-versa.
17. Add 'oldest queued message' to the dashboard.

Jira - Feature Requests

Ticket	Feature
CNXN-3096	Supply a way to search changes across all channels
CNXN-3097	Supply a way to get items in User Storage using jPath within File Writer
CNXN-2873	End to end data validation (Message Watermarking)
CNXN-3089	Add ability to import/export a message (Message entity record)
CNXN-3039	Improve startup performance
CNXN-3038	Make version 15 map tables more compatible with version 14.5
CNXN-3032	When using Edit & Requeue Selected Message the Keywords should be copied to the new message
CNXN-3028	Secure Sender Device - Add Connection and Send timeout configuration options
CNXN-3026	Add Network Interface info to System Information text
CNXN-3021	Add Diagnostic Tab to HL7 Inbound Device
CNXN-3015	Option to not require typing 'yes' into yes dialog
CNXN-3011	Remove the cap on returned results in the advanced search UI
CNXN-3010	Add the site name to the server drop-down list
CNXN-3009	Allow the expand/collapse operation of treeviews on auto-disabled UIs.
CNXN-3006	Ability to use {usercontext.X} in FileWriter Destination field
CNXN-3005	Grouping Connexion Servers under "Server Connections" screen
CNXN-3000	Export/Import Connections list
CNXN-2999	Filter by Tags in the Dashboard/Channel Mgr/Relevant UIs
CNXN-2998	Add Total Row Count or Row Numbers to Dashboard
CNXN-2997	Copy Device Key
CNXN-2996	Need a way to moving in error messages to a different status
CNXN-2993	Add menu item to copy device/channel key
CNXN-2991	Connexion User Management Dashboard
CNXN-2990	Authorization setting to close Connexion UI after configurable inactivity
CNXN-2987	Enable/Disable Channels Feature
CNXN-2981	Channel Import and Disabled Devices
CNXN-2979	Add Device filter option in Manage Channels
CNXN-2970	HL7 transform v2 function may not resolve properly when using an external type as a parameter
CNXN-2967	Mechanism to save / apply channel running state across a system
CNXN-2966	Channel - Log start/stop time of a channel
CNXN-2964	Make GetDevices<T> more flexible with type matching
CNXN-2962	Add option to explicitly disable message diffing
CNXN-2961	add "Run Diagnostics" to File Writer Devices
CNXN-2953	Remove filtering from file purge provider (too complicated / unnecessary)
CNXN-2951	Add 'move to' and purging to FTP reader device
CNXN-2947	Make the advanced search better by not making the channel name a link
CNXN-2946	HL7 Core - Add a method to replace all repeating OBX-5(s) in the message with a full OBX segment
CNXN-2945	Allow an extra digit in the queue alert timespans
CNXN-2942	HL7 Core - Support for splitting/recombining segments using ADD segments
CNXN-2938	Add events to Integrator Outbound (and Integrator Inbound?)
CNXN-2936	Support reading from archives (file reader / ftp reader)
CNXN-2931	Pretty print JSON message objects in queue preview window
CNXN-2928	Import Configuration from Currently Loaded Channel
CNXN-2921	Create Variable for Computer Name
CNXN-2910	Queue column to show the sending facility (MSH-4)
CNXN-2908	More flexibility around alerts generated by recoverable errors
CNXN-2853	HL7DateTime.ToDTM - Add an overload that adds/removes the Timezone offset in the string
CNXN-2846	Add option to remove empty lines created by razor engine (in Template device)
CNXN-2831	Create Folder and Folder Icon for all manually entered paths
CNXN-2803	Upgrade Connexion to support/use SQL Server 2016 Express LocalDB
CNXN-2757	Upgrade connexion compiler to 'roslyn' to enable new language features
CNXN-2739	Upgrade .NET library to .NET 4.6.2 to take advantage of new database and Xml support
CNXN-2622	Multi-column map tables
CNXN-2615	Implement Globals
CNXN-2521	In rare cases where a device requires more than 60s to start/stop

Jira Bug Fixes

Ticket	Feature
CNXN-3069	Include/Exclude Channel Tags - Menu item opens to the left
CNXN-3067	Should prevent v15 from connecting to a v14 server
CNXN-3065	Gateway Management UI - Should need to lock RA to delete its channels
CNXN-3062	Should prevent v14 from connecting to a v15 server
CNXN-3061	Importing .ri from v14.5.x into v15.0.x throws FaultException
CNXN-3060	HL7 Transform Device V2 - Channel loads in v14, but not v15
CNXN-3059	Users with limited privlages can create tabs but not access them
CNXN-3055	HL7 to Xml Device - does not generate correct xml for version 2.6/2.7 of the standard
CNXN-3053	Cannot delete tags in tag manager
CNXN-3051	Running Diagnostic from FileWriter when using {usercontext.X} in the Destination field causes it to be created
CNXN-3049	InboundHL7Device - Ipv6 not working correctly
CNXN-3048	Unable to delete RA channels in Gateway Manager UI
CNXN-3047	Pause option doesn't display when adding a second mongo queue to existing channel
CNXN-3045	Queue statistics calculated incorrectly when RA Branch device sends data to it
CNXN-3040	UpdaterB incorrectly writes logs to Integrator.Updater.txt
CNXN-3036	Integrator tags duplicate when UI times out and user logs back in
CNXN-3035	Gateway Install - took 12+ minutes to install. Issue with NGen'ing of the assemblies
CNXN-3033	Remote agent target gateway(s) may not update when upgrading from older 14.5 to 15
CNXN-3031	Remove SSN from Keywords - Due to Privacy Issues
CNXN-3029	FTP reader may not download files when scheduling is turned on
CNXN-3025	Error starting server xx.xx.xx.xx:11001. [SocketException] The requested address is not valid in its context.
CNXN-3024	Entity Framework exception when importing devices into Connexion 14.5 R11
CNXN-3019	FileReaderDevice - Impersonation not functioning for non-domain accounts. Stopped working after changes made between R7 and R10
CNXN-3017	DatabaseConnectionParameters - Encrypted properties appear to not be encrypted
CNXN-3016	Queue Device - [InvalidOperationException] Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.
CNXN-3012	Channels are out of order after an Import, until the UI is closed and reopened
CNXN-3003	Can't look at multiple attachments without channel lock
CNXN-3002	Can't View Tables without Locking Channel
CNXN-2995	Connexion Logging not reflecting new channel name
CNXN-2994	Detecting Changes Running Multiple Connexion Clients
CNXN-2992	Device Information Screen Incorrectly shows Tab Key as Group Key
CNXN-2985	Show historical counts not implemented v15 RA/CXN
CNXN-2982	When creating new groups cannot select the repository
CNXN-2977	Move to Tab - improvements
CNXN-2976	Exceptions thrown by Connexion via a callback from the gateway fault the Connexion-to-gateway connection
CNXN-2974	Connexion Assembly Resolving - Closest Matching Assemby by version should take into account PublicTokenKey
CNXN-2973	HL7Client - Issue if the End of Frame markers are sent in a separate network packet
CNXN-2972	Integrator - SQL Server Alert System: 'Deadlock Alert' occurred on \\ATLPRWITGDBS00
CNXN-2971	RTF viewer is always top-most
CNXN-2963	Scheduling hour/day broken
CNXN-2958	Multiple devices being created when channel is reverted causes unwanted save behavior
CNXN-2957	HL7 Control Character Escape Sequences not properly handled by ToString
CNXN-2956	Dashboard doesn't resort list when statistics are updated
CNXN-2954	Sorting of the dashboard breaks if you re-order columns
CNXN-2952	File purging doesn't work if . is used as the only filter
CNXN-2950	Generic branch device fails when querying an xDocument (or string) and an XPath that points to an attribute
CNXN-2940	Continuation messages are not working properly
CNXN-2939	Re-keying a RA whose data folder has been moved bricks the RA
CNXN-2937	Ispaused remains set when converting from Custom Code Device to HL7 Transform
CNXN-2935	Past Errorred Messages not being shown
CNXN-2933	Advance Search Feature is returning channels with deleted devices
CNXN-2926	Bring Back the ability to Create and Manage Custom Execution Groups
CNXN-2923	Monitor group shouldn't run if an exception is thrown in its start method
CNXN-2863	Attachments not updated in database
CNXN-2851	Saving a package to a remote agent throws an exception during save
CNXN-2833	Channel's showing up in random order
CNXN-2829	Remote Connexion users having issues with getting the token to sync up
CNXN-2804	Packages cannot be deleted if they are referenced by deleted RAs
CNXN-2660	Channel Lock not Holding
CNXN-2616	Unauthorized remote agents can spam the log file

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