Loading color scheme

Boston v6.5 - Release Notes

Boston Professional v6.5 Release Notes

Boston Professional v6.5 is a patch release to Boston Professional v6.4
Release Date: 9th October 2022

A summary of the main commits follows:

- Can now configure the URI of the Boston Server;
- Object-Type / Model Element names can now have- characters in them;
- The Virtual Analyst will now show Auto Complete suggestions for the first word (Model Element) after more than one character has been typed;
- Minor bug fixes;
- Bug fix- Refreshing Model Dictionary was crashing Boston in v6.4.9
- Improvements to the Keyword Extraction toolbox;
- Can now merge Models;
- URL/IP Address of Boston Server is now configurable (not only port number);
- Improvements to the Keyword Extraction toolbox;
- Made the port number for Boston Server configurable;
- Improvements to natural language FactEngine queries;
- Implemented ability to move a Model from one Project to another, when in Client/Server mode;
- Added Client/Server general broadcast dialog box;
- Added configuration item for default converstion type for General Concepts (Value Type or Entity Type);
- Improvements to natural language processing in FactEngine;
- Moving to new error reporting regime;
- Bug fixes, finding/setting Fact Type Reading Instance on a Fact Type Instance;
- Updated Model Fix where Primary Key Columns do not match Preferred Identifier Role count;
- Improved working with Objectifying Entity Types on a Page;
- Improved managing of Columns for Tables when an Entity Type is a subtype of a Fact Type in the ORM diagram view;
- Improved error reporting regime to provide finer detail to the error logging service;
- Improved error reporting regime to provide finer detail to the error logging service;
- Refinements to the Fact Engine Knowledge Language and handling by the Virtual Analyst in Boston;
- New Database location regime on startup. Can now hold down the [Shift] key when starting Boston to select the database;
- Can set default Object Type for General Concepts on Fact Type (for that General Concept) to Value Type. Otherwise defaults to Entity Type;
- Updates to NORMA .orm file export;

Known Issues:
--------------------
- FactEngine doesn't cater for unary fact types in all cases at this stage

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     End of Document
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------