Hi All,
The following issue I am about to highlight has already been reported to IBM Support, although so far we have not been told if this is a known issue or whether this will be addressed in v70
We recently carried out an upgrade on our internal development environment from v2067 to v2069 and found that the synchronisation was not working when a book was opened within an application. The same books work fine when opened outside of applications. At first we thought this may have been an upgrade issue or possibly something wrong with our books but we was able to reproduce this problem very quickly on the business partner cloud environment, which helped us to rule out an upgrade issue and because we used a different set of cubes for testing on the cloud server, we could rule out a book issue as well.
The first problem you notice when opening a book in an application (under v2069) is that the view will sometimes lose the dimensions.
If you then re-size the application menu a bit, the dimensions will come back. Following this issue, the main problem is that synchronisation no longer functions on the book. In this example below, changing the dimensions does not impact the view, even though everything is set to sync and this all works fine when the book is opened outside of applications
This is easily reproducible in v2069 with creating a simple book with a view and some synchronised dimensions. Then simply add the book into an application and you will see the difference between opening within an application and without.
I guess I am slightly surprised that this issue was never picked up but maybe not all customers work with applications in the way that we do as partners and developers. It's a very fundamental piece of functionality that has worked perfectly fine since the new experience was launched.
Also, before I forget to mention. We tested this issue in multiple browsers (Edge, Chrome) with different people testing and we saw the same results. I am 99.9% certain that this is a software defect and likely a result of changes that have been made to the application menus (which were not documented!)
Regards
Ian
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Ian Moy
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