While we have not released version 4.1.0, we are installing ecFlow with ecFlowUI from time to time at ECMWF on the workstations and on ecgate (see Getting Started with ecFlowUI). On this page we will document the main features and improvements with each installation. Note that this page was only started in December 2016 and so does not contain updates from the previous months.
Installation date 2016-01-19
Area | Description | Notes |
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Expand/collapse nodes in tree | New feature: the node context menu in the tree view now contains the "Expand all children" and "Collapse all children" actions to expand/collapse the sub-tree below the given node. | |
Abort text | New feature: ecflow allows an abort to pass a string (possibly containing instructions on how to fix the abort etc.). This string is displayed now next to an aborted node in the tree view using the same text colour as the aborted status. The abort string might be clipped if it is too long, but the node tooltip always shows the whole string. | |
Copy node path | New feature: the node context menu now has an action to copy the node path (or a list of paths for multiple selection) to the clipboard. | |
Icons | New feature: Some of the icon names and icon pixmaps were changed. Changes in the node icons:
Changes in the Info panel tab icons:
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Node tooltip | Improvement: the node tooltip in the tree view now contains the description of the icons of the node. The tooltip also shows the abort text if it is available. | |
Manual | Fix: fixed issue where the manual was not shown. | |
Info panel | Fix: fixed issue where the info panel dialogue always stayed on top of the main window and could not be be properly minimised. | |
Server log | Fix: fixed issue where the server log crashed for local log files. | |
Context menu | Fix: fixed issue where certain menu options depending on the server state did not work. |
Installation date 2015-12-09
Area | Description | Notes |
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Text search | New feature: all found occurrences of the search term can be highlighted. This option is OFF by default as it can be expensive with very large log files. Activate from the search options control, or press ALT-A to toggle. | |
Output logs | Improvement: logs served by a log server are now transferred asynchronously, allowing the user interface to respond during that time. Note that there can still be a delay in displaying large log files (say > 30MB) - solutions to this are being evaluated, but some improvement has already been made. | |
Windows | Improvement: the current configuration of tabs and windows, along with their loaded servers, is now saved whenever the set of loaded servers is modified. | |
Node search | Fix: fixed issue where constructing a search with both a node name and a node path caused a crash. | |
Info Panel | Fix: fixed issue where the info panel could not be reduced to a small horizontal size due to the length of the file info panel at the top. |
Installation date 2015-12-03
Area | Description | Notes |
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Font | New feature: fonts are now customisable for the tree view, the table view and for the text browsers/editors in the Info Panel tabs.The font family and size can be changed through the Edit -> Preferences -> Fonts dialogue. For the text browsers/editors in the Info panel tabs the text size can be changed directly by either using Ctrl+wheel or the Increase/Decrease font size buttons in the tabs. | |
Tree and table view background | New feature: These background colours can now be customised via Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance ->Tree view and Table View. | |
List of attributes shown in a tree view. | New feature: By default all the attributes except the variables and generated variables are shown in a newly created tree view. This default list can be changed in Edit -> Preferences -> Tree view. |
Installation date 2015-11-27
Area | Description | Notes |
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Node search | New feature: click the magnifying glass icon in the toolbar, or choose "Search" from the node context menu, to bring up the node search dialogue. The found nodes can be directly interacted with from the results table. | See Searching for nodes. |
Text search | New feature: The search facility within the text of output logs, jobs and scripts has been enhanced with the addition of regular expression and wildcard matches. | |
Tree View | Improvement: Created separate panel header buttons to filter nodes by status and to control the display of attributes | |
Zombies | Fix: Fixed issue where deleting a zombie did not work |