New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixes 

Download your Feature Pack 1 here.

Download your Service Release 3 here.

Download our Studio 7 Demo version to experience the new features.

Note that you need a Support and Upgrade Agreement (SUA) to be able to use features introduced in Feature Pack 1.

New features

• Scatter Graph control: A Scatter Graph displays the relationship between two variables in a two-dimensional graph.
• Sort and prioritization functions: PRIORITYALLOC, PRIORITYALLOCDISCRETE, SORT, and SORTINDEX.
• Interpolation functions: INTERPOLATE and INTERPOLATEINV.
• Statistical functions: SLIDINGMAX and SLIDINGMIN.
• History functions: SOURCESERIES and SOURCESERIESTIMES.
• More functions: SAMPLEIMM and WEEKDAY.
• Time-independent data for SAP BI Dataset: The SAP BI Dataset now supports time-independent data in addition to time-dependent data.
• Time-independent data for Studio Dataset: The Studio Dataset now supports time-independent data in addition to time-dependent data.
• Force new Excel instances: When connecting to Excel through Spreadsheet Datasets, it is now possible to force a new instance of Excel to be started for the project (previously, existing Excel applications were always reused).
• Connection to hidden Excel: When connecting to Excel through Spreadsheet Datasets, it is now possible to let the Excel application start hidden.

Improvements

• The third parameter of the IF function has become optional, defaulting to zero or FALSE with the same dimensionality and unit as the second parameter.
• Studio now checks the availability of new versions of the software, either automatically or as an explicit user action.
• Now handles versions with more than 1000 possible choices in the SAP BI Dataset.
• The problematic part of a variable expression can now be highlighted by clicking in the status field of the Variable Definition property page.
• The possible range for the run count of a risk analysis is now 2 to 100000, rather than 10 to 10000.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues regarding editing of labels in controls where the edit field sometimes would appear empty or in the wrong position.
• Fixed issue regarding Studio sometimes reporting a script error " ')' expected " upon startup or when opening a project.
• Fixed issues regarding display of dates and times with infinite values in a diagram.
• Fixed issue regarding missing satellite line after pasting a model variable symbol together with an included child variable symbol.
• Fixed issues regarding clipping of graphs at the right and bottom edges of the graph area in the Time Graph and Chart controls.
• Fixed problem that occurred when Apply was pressed after changes of mutually dependent properties in the Definition and Advanced property pages of a variable (e.g., a rate expression and integration order of controlled flows).
• Fixed problems experienced when browsing for planning structures objects in the SAP BI Dataset Connection Wizard.