Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Java Edition

Release 8.0.0

Overview

This release introduces Tom Sawyer Business Process and Tom Sawyer Model-Based Engineering as part of the Tom Sawyer Perspectives product family.

Tom Sawyer Business Process is a new HTML5 web-based solution that enables enterprises to visually create processes that adhere to the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0 standards, and then execute those processes.

Tom Sawyer Model-Based Engineering is a new solution built in collaboration with our partner No Magic. We offer both desktop integration with MagicDraw and HTML5 web-based integration with Teamwork Cloud to automatically lay out and render SysML diagrams. The web-based integration extends usefulness to business users. With this introductory release, we provide built in support for automatic layout of eight out of the nine standard SysML diagram types: Activity, State Machine, Use Case, Block Definition, Internal Block, Parametric, Package, and Requirement.

Tom Sawyer Graph and Data Visualization has been extended with advanced swimlane support and a new node growth model that allows the routing system to create more complex schematics. This release also adds support for inheritance in schema definitions.

New

• New Tom Sawyer Business Process module
• New Tom Sawyer Model-Based Engineering module

Improvements

System

• Spring technology integration

Designer

• Added the ability to enable or disable integrators

Schema

• Inheritance relationships can be defined between schema element types

Data Integration

• Added caching of REST query results to avoid making duplicate calls during integration

Model

• Added $format function to break a string into multiple lines
• Added $lookupValueForEach function to return a list of elements that match a list of values

Views

• Improved view update performance by up to 25%
• Added support for toggle items in toolbars and context menus
• Drawings
  • Improved drawing element representation while dragging
  • Added $connectorAngle function to return the angle of a connector to the center of a node
  • Enhanced drawing view creation by automatically assigning a drawing template
  • Made it easier to define more complex tool rules without custom coding
• Maps
  • Enhanced view creation by automatically assigning a drawing template in Tom Sawyer Map view
  • Made it easier to define more complex tool rules without custom coding
  • Tom Sawyer Map view now supports the link navigation tool
• Charts
  • Added the ability to reverse the order of legend items
• Inspectors
  • Image fields now display a special icon for multiple selected drawing elements
• Trees
  • Added the ability to specify whether to initially expand a tree view node

Layout

• Added swimlane support
• Improved orthogonal layout reduces occasional label overlap
• Enabled connectors to grow automatically if more than one edge attaches to them
• Enabled slope-end routing for edges attached to connectors
• Enabled connector positioning on a specific node side, outside of the node, on the node border, or inside the node
• Enhanced connector labeling
• Improved node growth ability

System Requirements

• Added support for macOS High Sierra
• Added support for GWT 2.8.1
• Dropped support for GWT 2.7.0
• Added support for Neo4j 3.2
• Dropped support for JDK 7.0

Fixes

System

• The search cache now updates on model attribute changes

Views

• Resolved a possible exception when undoing an operation after a view has closed
• Fixed handling of unexpected event sequences to avoid a potential blank web canvas
• Resolved an exception when using the mouse wheel to zoom in the image map drawing view
• Drawings
  • Corrected the resize behavior of the overview window for desktop applications
  • Improved keyboard handling in the export, save as image, and print setup web forms
• Trees
  • Improved undo/redo behavior when tree view controls affect multiple elements
  • Tree view node now retains selection state after an action on the node
• Tables
  • Fixed table view sorting when columns have the same name
  • Removed flicker when rendering a dynamic table view column name
  • Corrected handling of escape characters when rendering table view column names
• Maps
  • Fixed selection of OpenLayers markers that intersect the background of another marker

Issues

• The printing feature is not yet supported in Tom Sawyer Map view.
• The overview window is not yet supported in Tom Sawyer Map view.
• The Map schema attribute type is temporarily unsupported.
• The Add Module From SQL Database feature has been temporarily removed from the Designer.
• The Tom Sawyer Perspectives Designer is slow to load.
• The Tom Sawyer Perspectives installation does not correctly populate the Microsoft Windows start menu. Use Windows Explorer to locate and run the Designer.