Release Date: June 3rd, 2024

[Interaction] Simplified formatting and display of data in Applications and Modules

Simplifier 8 EHP 2 brings our new Visual Binding Editor, simplifying formatting and display of data in Applications and Modules in a way everybody can use it without knowledge of UI5 bindings. Concatenate texts or format date/time values or numbers in just a few seconds.

For more complex formattings there is still an expert mode, containing also ready to use formatting functions to speed up Application creation. (Read more)

[Integration] New experimental feature to debug Server-Side Business Objects

To speed up and simplify debugging of Server-Side Business Objects we have implemented an experimental feature that allows you to debug your Business Objects while being processed in tools like Debugger in Chrome DevTools.

Check out our documentation to learn how to use this feature and bring Business Object development to a new level. (Read more)

[Integration] Dynamic Execution of Server-Side Business Objects

Simplifier enables the dynamic execution of Business Objects for big integration scenarios  (Read more).

[Interaction] Add your favorite apps to homescreen

You are always using the same bunch of Simplifier Applications within Simplifier Mobile Client and sick of always having to login and search for the respective Application first? Now you can just add all Applications you need to your homescreen and open them directly in Simplifier Mobile Client. (Read more)

[Interaction] Added zoom feature to scale the UI of your applications

There are certain cases in which zooming within Applications in Simplifier Mobile Client is necessary and the default responsive behavior of the UI does not match the use case. To support those cases, Simplifier Mobile Client now comes with a Zoom-Mode which can be activated in Settings. (Read more)

[Governance] Improved governance and performance of Transports

Get familiar with our new Transport features to increase governance and performance on transporting Simplifier artifacts.

Now you can also use your configured Identity Management Services on Remote Transports. Thus you no longer have to create local users just for transporting or to manually transport your Transport files via down-/upload. (Read more)

Furthermore, we have massively increased transport performance by allowing you to remove System Libraries from Transport Packages as well as introducing our new import strategies ‘Skip existing’ (replaced ‘Do not overwrite’) and ‘Skip unchanged’. Using the import strategy ‘Skip unchanged’ already saves up to 66% of current import time. (Read more)

Finally with Simplifier 8 EHP 2 import behavior is changed. Connector Endpoints cannot be deleted by transports anymore and are kept, even if they are not configured in an imported version of a Connector. Now our Standard Content and Application Wizards will still work on custom Instance setups after updating. (Read more)

[Governance] Increased Statistics performance

We optimized our statistics feature leading to a substantial boost in performance. Loading times have been reduced by up to 98%. This also enables long-term analysis within Simplifier. (Read more)

[Integration] Redesigned OPC UA Connector

To increase support of IoT cases we are completely redesigning our OPC UA Connector. Simplifier 8 EHP2 simplifies creation of connector calls by reducing required data that has to be provided. In addition, you can now also use EVENT operations. (Read more)

[Automation] Enhanced Workflow API

We have extended Simplifier Workflow API to allow building your own custom Business Workflow Monitoring and custom Workflow Inboxes. (Read more)

Also, Workflow API documentation is now available within Simplifier API Explorer (menu item ‘Client’). Use provided OpenAPI documentation to save time and easily create your REST Workflow Connector with REST Connector Wizard. (Read more)

[Automation] Custom ordering of Workflow Outcomes

Simplifier Workflows now enables you to set a custom order of Workflow Outcomes when using multiple Outcomes on a User Task. Our Standard Workflow Module displays Outcomes in specified order helping you to guide your users even more on processing their Workflow Tasks. (Read more)

[Governance]  User notification before token expiry on SAML and OAuth accounts

Our existing ‘Notify user before logout’ feature now is also available for SAML and OAuth authentication to avoid confusion among your Application users caused by errors due to expired user sessions. (Read more)

You also want to handle expired sessions in case the upfront notification got ignored? Check out our Knowledge Base article on ‘How to check token validity and handle expired tokens‘. (Read more)

[Integration] All Plugins are now published as open source

Simplifier has published all plugins as open source under MIT license giving you the opportunity to enhance them with even more features. Feel free to contribute to our plugins. Find our plugins on Github.

[User Experience] Optimized Simplifier Admin UI Dashboard

Simplifier 8 EHP 2 brings an optimized version of known Admin UI Dashboard to simplify access to our content helping you to build Applications and Workflows and to integrate your data. Now you find all Awesome Moments and Tutorials as well as the download link to Simplifier Mobile Client directly in a own card.

And even more enhancements

• [Interaction] App Launchpad is now linked in Admin UI menu to simplify access
• [Governance] On Admin-UI-Login whitespaces at the beginning and end of username and password are now trimmed to avoid copy&paste-related errors
• [Automation] Workflows used in Applications cannot be deleted anymore
• [Governance]  SAP SSO via RFC now supports SNC connections
• [Integration] SOAP Connectors now support binding style ‘rpc’
• [Integration] MSSQL data type DATETIMEOFFSET is now supported
• [Governance] Setting “Disable warnings for illegal domain names for CSRF-Tokens” removed.
• [Interaction] Extended error messages on removing Widgets from Widget Group
• [Interaction] Extended error messages on errors related to SNC credentials

[Deprecated] Support of old OPC UA connector

Our old OPC UA connector is going be removed with next Major Release. Please migrate your OPC UA connectors to new version before updating to next Major Release. For more details see Simplifier 8 EHP 2 Migration Notes.

[Deprecated] Support for Internet Explorer 11

Compatibility Mode for Applications is going be removed with next Major Release. 

[Deprecated] SQLite Offline Connectors

The current implementation of our SQLite Offline Connectors is outdated and going to be removed with next Major Release.

For basic implementations, there is a standard Client-Side Business Object ‘SF_OfflineDatabase’ to handle offline SQLite databases in our Standard Content.

[Deprecated] Simplifier Mobile Client for Android on Windows

Unfortunately Microsoft has announced the end of support for Windows Subsystem for Android on March 5th 2025. With end of support our Simplifier Mobile Client for Android won’t work on Windows anymore. If you have already installed Simplifier Mobile Client in Windows Subsystem for Android before March 5th 2024 you will continue to have access to Simplifier Mobile Client until end of support. (Read more on microsoft.com)

[Deprecated] Outdated Standard Content

The following Standard Content is outdated and will be removed with next Major Release (Read more):

• Widget Table_withAdd
• Widget Table_withSearch
• SBO Function SF_PDF / generateWithConfig

Changes of supported databases for Logs and Monitoring

For new Logs and Monitoring support of Oracle is dropped. The new database requires a MySQL database. (Read more)

For details see manual changes below.

Upgrade from 8/8 EHP 1 to 8 EHP 2

Please upgrade directly to Simplifier 8 EHP 4.

Configure new database for Monitoring and Statistics

With release 8 EHP 2, monitoring data is moved to a separate database. This database must be a MySQL database and it may be on the same MySQL server as the main simplifier database, but also may reside on a different MySQL server. In either case, the connection has to be configured separately. (For more details see upgrade instructions for your version above).

Note: Monitoring-Details of successful executions won’t be migrated

Add new CORS Headers for OData

To fully support our OData Connector, there are additional CORS Headers required. Please add them to your Reverse Proxy configuration. (For more details see upgrade instructions for your version above)

Migrate OPC UA Connectors

If you are using our legacy OPC UA Connectors provided with Simplifier 8 (EHP 1) and before, you have to manually migrate the configured Connectors.

Keep in mind to activate the legacy OPC UA Connector first. (Read more)

Update Standard Content

Update Standard Content to ensure you have all current fixes and features available on your instances. (Download here)

If used: Replace Server-Side Business Object Function SF_PDF / generateWithConfig with SF_PDF / generate.