Release notes 3.2.1

Avola 3.2.1.20231221.2 was released on December 21st, 2023

Features

New pages have been developed for testing decisions.

• Test Collections
  
  • The landing page contains search filters to navigate to the proper decision table or decision service.
  • The corresponding overview page depicts test collections.
  • Functionality is available to add new test collections (manual or Excel-based) and to download the corresponding Excel-template.
    
• Test Scenarios – overview page
  
  • Opening a test collection shows a dialog window with an overview of the corresponding test scenarios.
  • Functionality is available to add new test scenarios and to run an execution for an individual test scenario or all test scenarios.
  • Highlights of Test Scenario are shown if available: Expectation, Conclusion, Result and last test date.
    
• Test Scenario – detail page
  
  • An overview of all input parameters are shown.
  • Scenario details can be adjusted: the name and expectation.
  • Changes to input can be saved and a (new) test can be executed.
  • The expectation, conclusion and result of the test execution will be shown in a dialog window and registered in the topright corner of the Test Scenario page.
  • Details of the Test can be viewed via button ‘View test result’ on the dialog window.
    
• Test Result
  
  • This page is similar to Execution Result, including the same full overview of inputs, conclusions and the result with all decision tables.
  • Test details provides additional information regarding the test execution.
  • Test Results can now be viewed via the unique execution key.
    
• Functionality for Projects has been included in the Business Domains page.
  
  • New projects can now be conveniently added by a simple wizard when you click on the ‘+’ icon next to Projects.
  • Projects (with the status ‘active’) can be set as working project by clicking on the button next to the corresponding project.
  • The working project can be closed/disabled by clicking on the ‘Disable working project’ button in the bottom right corner of the screen.
    
• Rebuilding all pages using the new Angular framework has now been completed. The user interface is now fully based on Angular (previously combined with the deprecated Angular JS).
  

Please note that the menu has several changes:

• The dashboard page has been removed, the new homepage for Avola is the Decision Services overview page.
• Domains is a separate menu-item, containing the Business Domains page.
• The Project menu-item has been removed. Functionality of Projects is now included in the Domains overview page.
• Elements is a new menu-item containing the Business Data, Value Lists, Value Pairs, Knowledge Sources and Regular Expressions pages.
• Decisions contains Decision Services and Decision Tables pages and the new Test page (mentioned earlier).

Please note that Import Decision functionality has been removed.

• Please send us a support ticket if you want to import a decision.

Enhancements and bugfixes

• Performance improvements have been implemented for the Execution Result page. By default, only the top decision table is collapsed instead of all decision tables, ensuring * that the Execution Result page loads and responds faster.
• It is possible to view Avola pages in a headless-style by adding the sting parameter headless=true.
• Fixed an issue where adding a new condition could lead to errors in the decision table.
• Fixed an issue regarding changing the sorting in decision tables.
• An issue has been solved where new conditions based on new business data with type list could not be added.
• The version number shown in the side panel is now correctly shown.
• The hit analysis page has been temporarily disabled. Extended functionality will be introduced in a future release.
• Email notifications for Avola users regarding the approval process for decision service versions now contain the URL to the corresponding decision service page in Avola.