The Harmony 2.0 release notes outline various features, improvements, and bug fixes aimed at enhancing functionality and user experience, including new fact definitions, configuration improvements, and integration with Google Calendar. Significant functionalities such as multi-language support, dynamic deadlines, and real-time updates through web-sockets have been introduced, addressing various user requirements. The document also includes detailed change logs from previous versions, showcasing ongoing enhancements and resolved issues.

1. Harmony consolidated
Release Notes
Last update: release 2.0 (2 August 2013)

2. Our release policy
• 10 releases per year – containing
– new feature(s)
improving capabilities , increasing
business benefits
– Improvements
Revised or minor new features added to
extend functionality
– Bug fixes
– Sample implementation(s)
demonstrating “Harmony in action”
– More on our website: Agile product development.

3. FACT DEFINITIONS AND
IMPROVED CONFIGS
2.0 Release Notes

4. Change log
• New
– Fact definitions sheet – allows to specify how to
round numbers, decimals after the comma, initial
values and more
– Configuration improvements – search/replace of a
fact, dialog autofill, create new sheet
– Warnings web-part – identifies and helps with
common configuration issues
– Google App Script library for all Harmony
configurations, simplifies the release of new
functionality in the configurations
• 19 issues and bugs solved

5. Fact definitions 1/3
• By default, DS shows a result of an
expression like this:
• After configuring the order discount like
this:
• The result is:

6. Fact definitions 2/3
• To round-up, configure like this:
• The result is:

7. Fact definitions 3/3
• “InitialValue” – sets an initial value for a fact
– makes setting VAT.percentage to 21 in a rule
unnecessary
– all facts set with an initial value will be added to the
case data when starting a new case
• “Don’t show in decision support”
– for facts that are ‘internal’ to the process, users
might not be interested in them (set to true)
• “Don’t save in working memory”
– for facts like “next.order” just set to true and
Harmony won’t add that fact into the case data

8. Config improvements 1/3
• Search and replace of a fact (concept
attribute pair
– helps when re-factoring configurations:

9. Config improvements 2/3
• Insert concept /attribute pair
– The rules sheet can become quite large … so
we’ve made it easier to insert an existing c/a
pair or create a new one

10. Config improvements 3/3
• Insert pre-formatted sheets
– theme sheet
• Change the look of the UI. Sample
• a new color for the <a> HTML tag:
– reference data sheet
– language sheet

11. [new] Warnings web-part
• The purpose is to discover difficult to find
issues with the configuration
– speeds up time to diagnose the problem
• Uses websockets to push to the user at the
moment a warning occurs
• Visible to Admin users only

12. MULTI LANGUAGE
1.9 Release Notes

13. Change log
• Progress on customizing of the UI
– Multi-language support English & Dutch
– Configurable UI texts
• (great for Decision Support !!!!!)
• New “one-time-access” function
– Improved case sharing
• Error messages introduced
– Rules that provide additional control
over UI behavior
• 7 issues and bugs solved

14. Chrome “Dutch” browser settings

15. The same case [Qwy] – “English” settings

16. Chrome configuration

17. Firefox configuration

18. • Create your own preferred syntax
User customization enabled

19. New “one-time-invite”
• Inviting users to access their case only
requires the “one-time-dialog”
– Harmony configuration controls
authorization (tasks, queues, cases etc)

20. One rule to raise an error

21. INTEGRATION GOOGLE CALENDAR
1.8 Release Notes

22. Change log
• 1st version of integrating Harmony with
Google Calendar
– (deadlines are turned into events in the
calendar)
• After login, the user is redirected to the
originally requested page
• 18 issues and bugs solved
• Progress on customizing of the UI
– company specific colors

23. Show task deadlines in Google Calendar
• When application date is chosen,
Harmony computes deadline:

24. • Dialog is submitted, an event is added
to the calendar (end date of the event
= deadline date):
Show task deadlines in Google Calendar

25. • On login, users are challenged to
grant access to their calendar
How to set-up Google Calendar

26. • A standard deadline is defined:
• The user must be a member of the
Desk queue:
Configuring Harmony for Google Calendar

27. • When a deadline is re-computed
(dynamic deadlines):
• Changing the deadline (via a submit
of an Extend approval period in this
example) updates the event in the
calendar – end date of the event
changes
Real-time updates to Google Calendar

28. Calendar Integration … 6
• This is a basic implementation, based
on feedback we will extend the
functionality
• Good to know:
– The user must explicitly be a member of
a group (Users belonging to Admin only
won’t see events in the calendar)
– Dialog name used as event name, two
OWIs of the same name aren’t
supported in Calendar

29. UI ADDING DYNAMIC DIALOGS
(CONTROLLABLE PER “ITEM / LINE”)
1.6 Release Notes

30. Change log 1.6:
• Websockets are better “fit”with an ESB in
the browser
• new messages are published via web-sockets
to the ESB, web-parts change HTML content
accordingly
• Show/hide of dialog items
• Customer requirement for dynamic forms
• Configurable application name
• set in spreadsheet, (was "Harmony App“_
• Radio button dialog item type added
• 16 bugs fixed, added another 3 validation
rules in the spreadsheet

31. Introducing web-sockets in Harmony
• Relevant information for each user is pushed
from Harmony to the browser - doesn't require
a browser refresh for example
• In this release the OWI web-part updates in
real-time when rules fire (OWI amount
increases) or when somebody submits a dialog
(OWI amount decreases)

32. Show/hide of dialog items
• Every dialog item can be hidden by default
(setting the InitiallyHidden column to yes)
• Dialog items can then be shown via a rule RHS
using the "show.item" reserved word
• Dialog items can also be hidden using the
"hide.item" reserved word
• NOTE: a "dialog exists" statement must be
present in the rule LHS when using show/hide
reserved words - rules on what to hide and
what to show could be different per dialog

33. Show/hide of dialog items (example):

34. Radio button dialog item (example):

35. INTEGRATION GOOGLE MAPS
1.5 Release Notes

36. • Bi-directional Maps integration
– Enter address: display on map
– From map, change location
• Reflects address
– Entering coordinates
• 12 bugs fixed, added 5 validation
rules in the spreadsheet
Change log 1.5:

37. Google Maps
Enter address – result is displayed on Map

38. Google Maps
Move map “locator” and drop on new location
resulting address is displayed

39. Google Maps
(or) Enter coordinates:
corresponding address is found & location is displayed on Map

40. How to do ?
Just specify “location” (for type )

41. UI DIALOG DYNAMIC “ITEM /
(LINE)” SUPPORT
1.4 Release Notes

42. • New UI to allow easy customization
– Developers request more control over UI
– A brand new JavaScript library was built
specifically to help developers customize the
Harmony UI and integrate web-parts from
Harmony into their own applications
– Result from user demand
• New UI framework: Bootstrap
– One library supporting desktop and mobile UI
• [implemented] Extended UI archictecture
– Analysis from user “behavior”
• We have noticed logic still being coded coded in UI
layer (JavaScript)
Change log 1.4:

43. (NEW USER INTERFACE) BOOTSTRAP
A brand new JavaScript library was built specifically to help
developers customize the Harmony UI and integrate web-parts
from Harmony into their own applications

44. Desktop browser & mobile support

45. business services / rules
JavaScript for presentation
"logic"/dialogs
“standard”
RPG / COBOL *pgm
Webservices to access AS/400
dev framework
New UI architecture
HTML(5): content/stucture
CSS: structure/look and feel/layout
Presentation
tier

46. (NEW FEATURE) INVENTORY FILE
1.3 Release Notes

47. Inventory 2.0 (1/3)
• Define an Order object by creating
REF_Object spreadsheet with 3 fields:
• And the following two rules:
– Generate a unique order ID, in this example based on date & time
• can by any Harmony function such as unique_id(), concat(), etc
– Set the order confirmation date to the current system date:

48. • Creating an order [transaction]
When the order.id is provided/calculated a new
row in the REF_Object [table] is created.
– The order is immediately visible in the Google
Spreadsheet
Inventory 2.0 (2/3)

49. • Updating: when the order confirmation date and
order company are provided/calculated, the
corresponding order is updated.
– The order is immediately visible in the Google
Spreadsheet
Inventory 2.0 (3/3)

50. IMPROVEMENTS
Deadlines, UI data validation, LinkedIn sign-on, UI time control

51. Improvements 1/4
• Introducing: Dynamic Deadlines
– For example a deadline is defined like this:
“10 days before arrival.date”
– If arrival.date doesn’t exist in the case data,
the calculation of the deadline will be
postponed until arrival.date is provided
– The deadline is re-calculated always when the
arrival.date changes
– If the result of the deadline calculation is in
the past, a ‘deadline.expired’ fact is asserted
in the case data automatically

52. Improvements 2/4
• Reference data keys can be presented in
the UI as drop-downs

53. Improvements 3/4
• LinkedIn login
– Main e-mail address in the LinkedIn profile
used to login

54. Improvements 4/4
• New dialog item type: datetime
– When both date and time are needed,
define the dialog item type as ‘datetime’
– The generated UI will allow to provide the
time as well:

55. INTEGRATION
integration with external systems via industry standard
SOAP/XML web-services

56. (sample) EU VAT Service integration
• VAT Information Exchange System (VIES)
– Checks VAT-registration (= validity of VAT-
numbers) of companies registered in EU
Clickable link

57. Harmony sample
• Bla bla

58. For more information
• Visit
– www.liquidsequence.com
• Contact us
– http://www.liquidsequence.com/contact
• Follow us
– www.linkedin.com/company/liquid-sequence/
– www.twitter.com/NannovanderLaan
– Documentation on how to integrate web services
• Will be added later