OpenI 2.0 Alpha is Here

Hi Everyone

I am very happy to announce that we have the alpha version of OpenI 2.0 available for download. I want to thank our entire development team for all the hard work they have put in for this release.

There is also a demo available at http://demo.openi.org/openi (login is openi2/openi2)

We look forward to hearing your feedback on improving this release as we work on further testing of this version to get to beta. Here're some more details on the release:

Files (available at: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=142873&package_id=287874&release_id=619930/&abmode=1 ):

* openi-2.0-alpha.tomcat.zip contains binary build specific to Tomcat 6.0x
* openi-2.0-alpha.jboss.zip contains binary build specific to Jboss 4.2.2 (and can be used for other j2ee servers as well)
* openi-2.0-alpha.src.zip contains full source code to make your own custom builds

New features and enhancements :

* Completely re-written based on Spring, Java Server Faces and AJAX
* New enhanced UI layout, completely "ajaxified"
* New Drag and Drop Navigator UI to move attributes across rows, columns, and filters
* Enhanced repository system implemented. Now project contents can be deployed anywhere. No need to have project contents within the "webapps" folder of j2ee servers
* Application can be deployed into any JEE server
* QA feature added to validate the MDX statements for all analyses within a project with a single command
* Manage Feed feature enhancement - now contains split rows feature and better CSV file parser
* Default analysis for project - you can now specify default analysis for a project which is the first analysis displayed to a user immediately after user login
* Customizable chart series color (for non pie type chart only) - Now you can define custom color palettes for chart
* Excel export enhancement - OpenI now generates excel binary file which embeds chart in file itself (previously it contained a web link to the chart, which could result in broken image links)
* Dashboard UI enhancement - Better UI that enables displaying both table and chart view option
* Better File Manager - shows file in explorer style tree
* User/Role management (requires custom build from source) : now users/roles management can be done from OpenI

SF.Net Bug Fixes:

* 1730531 - new chart is generated for every request
* 1660871 - PDF exports after login timeout, but pdf is invalid
* 1658608 - Project-Root path does not work on mangled deploy folder
* 1446879 - manage files - create new folder

Missing/Replaced features :

* R Integration -> incomplete
* Configurable menu -> New UI does not need it at all
* User defined roles and configurable security -> Now implemented J2EE role based security

Please pass the word around. And as always, we look forward to hearing from you.

cheers,

Sandeep

Sandeep Giri
Project Lead, OpenI.Org