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2.1.0 Upgrade Planning and Checklist

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Written by Gary Ditsch
Updated this week

Summary:

The Thunder Gulch 2.1.0 release of VividCharts provides some new email notification features, allowing reports to be attached to those emails as PDF or PPTX files. The chart library was also enhanced by delivering two new chart types in the ReportFlow category that support reporting on resources within SPM.

Learning about the Rich Strike 2.0.0 release

Here is a list of steps we recommend you take to help learn about the latest version.

  • Read the release notes.

  • Watch the 2.1.0 release playlist, these videos on our YouTube channel highlight the biggest changes and enhancements.

  • Additional materials that support changes in the release can be found within the release notes, or within our knowledge base. We recommend that you review materials which discuss changes that could impact your reports.

  • If you have any questions, reach out to VividCharts.

Upgrading to the Thunder Gulch release

Here is a list of steps we recommend you take to help you plan for and upgrade to the 2.1.0 version.

  • Identify what environments you will test the upgrade to 2.1.0.

  • Verify that previous slide decks, dashboards, summaries and VividCharts reports have been backed up as is consistent with your development processes.

  • Identify who is responsible for testing and verifying that each of your Scaled reports, Slide Decks and Dashboards has transitioned as expected, within your chosen test environment.

  • Identify who is responsible for the upgrade of VividCharts to the 2.1.0 release, once it has been verified that the upgrade was successful in test environments.

Special Notes

The 2.1.0 release adds enhancements to the notification behavior, which also require some changes to relevant tables in our applications. To account for these changes, the release includes a pair of fix scripts to ensure currently scheduled recurring notifications are maintained. If you or your users currently use scheduled notifications, we recommend taking the following steps for a smooth transition:

  1. After upgrade, navigate to the x_vivid_vc_core_notification table

  2. Filter for notifications that have a “repeating” value of true

  3. If you see the notifications you expect there, verify they have the correct value in the “Next scheduled” field

  4. If you do not see the expected results at step 2, you may need to run the fix script named “2.1 - Schedule existing notifications”

  5. After running the fix script, repeat steps 2 and 3

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