ASAP 2.8 Client Manual

What’s New in This Manual
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New and Changed Information
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Sort View columns are now auto-sized to the maximum heading and/or context
size. For more details, see new section Sizing Sort View Columns on page 4-14
preceding the Browse Window Popup menus section.
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Sort View is now persistent from one update to the next, automatically sorting data
after each host update. For more details, see Sort View Toolbar Button on
page 4-12 and the View... Sort-Grid View menu item described in Sizing Sort View
Columns on page 4-14.
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A new State Filter Toolbar allows single-click object state filtering and viewing. For
more details, seeSelecting Minimum State on page 4-7.
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A new Copy Special report window function allows copying the window text,
without header, trailer, carriage-return, or line-feed characters. For more details,
see Report Window on page 4-31.
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The Show Removed Objects check box and the Delete Removed Objects drop-
down on the General property tab allow you to configure how removed objects
should be handled. Removed objects can now be retained indefinitely or alternately
can be automatically deleted after a user configured number of minutes or hours.
For more details, see Show Removed Objects Check Box on page 5-11.
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A new OEM Context drop-down on the OEM property tab allows you to control
whether standard OEM context is passed to the OEM, or whether full XML or CSV
OEM context is passed to the OEM. For more details, seeOEM Property Sheet on
page 5-15.
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The X1 toolbar button now provides dual functions for ease of use. Clicking X1 the
first time sets the samples count to 1, subsequent clicks increment samples+10
until Max Rows/Object is reached, and then clicking X1 sets the samples count
back to 1. For more details, see Selecting a Sample on page 4-6.
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The EDL language has been enhanced to allow relationships to be defined
between ASAP entities. Two new RELATION and MAP statements have been
added to the EDL language. This aspect of the ASAP EDL language is called the
relation definition language or RDL for short. For more details, see table for Entity
Definition Language (EDL) on page 6-1 and the EDL-Relation Statement on
page 6-33.
The ASAP 2.5 version of the client contains these changes:
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A new Notify control panel allows you to configure sending of automatic alerts and
reports. Notifications can be sent automatically via e-mail, wireless phone, pager,
or Internet browser. For more detail, see Notify Control Panel on page 5-24.
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Notifications can be configured to be sent in either color-coded HTML format for
use with e-mail or Internet servers and browsers or as plain text messages for use
with wireless phones or pagers. See Notify Control Panel on page 5-24.
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Notifications can be configured to occur when objects change state, scheduled to
report at various times of the day, or can be automatically stored on disk for use as