Neptune DXP 23.10.0007 Changelog

The tool "Apps With Deleted Controls" will list all apps that include deprecated/deleted UI5 controls. Some of the applications might have been originally delivered by Neptune. Some of the old Neptune apps were included in the installation, some might have been downloaded from the Neptune DXP Marketplace. Some of the apps in the Neptune namespace will now be filtered out so that the list is not polluted by these apps.

In the system settings in the Cockpit, the "Disable Frontend Client Application Cache" setting was not being taken into account.

Some improvements have been implemented to prevent the license from being cleared unintentionally. The "SAVE" button is now disabled until a license is introduced in the text area, and a confirmation pop-up is now displayed before saving the license.

When setting a default value for a property in a custom UI5 control in the Custom UI5 Controls tool, the values could get duplicated.

When the Cockpit is opened in debug mode, the views for individual tiles will now also be loaded in debug mode.

With Neptune DXP - SAP Edition version 23.10.0005 there was a bug introduced (AppSync Dialog Translations (21287)) that led to a JavaScript error when a Neptune DXP - SAP Edition app was opened in a Neptune DXP - Open Edition launchpad.

The neptune.Shell.getAppsObject function would throw an error in rare cases where an app ID was not found.

When you use a Microsoft Azure application proxy, and you have a mobile client that uses the "Azure" authentication mechanism, a pin-code-initiated re-authentication might have failed, leading to a splash screen that would not get hidden. The users would need to restart the app.

The Javascript function replaceAll was introduced in Chrome 85 (2020), causing old Android devices to crash. The replaceAll function calls have been exchanged with the replace function and some regular expressions are now taking care of the replace all functionality.

You can now access the full structure of /NEPTUNE/SYNC_H within /NEPTUNE/IF_NAD_SERVER~HANDLE_ON_SYNC_IN by using our Environment and Context Framework.

  data: lo_context_sync type ref to /neptune/if_nad_context_sync,
        ls_sync_h       type /neptune/sync_h.`
        `
  lo_context_sync ?= /neptune/cl_nad_environment=>instance->get_context( ).
  ls_sync_h = lo_context_sync->get_context_data( ).

The Neptune DXP Integration Card framework will serialize the final manifest JSON with a COMPRESS flag set to true. Due to this, the target JSON will not include fields that are evaluated positively with the ABAP statement IS INITIAL. For boolean fields, this means that abap_true ('X') will end up as true inside the JSON. Additionally, abap_false ('') will NOT end up as false in the target JSON, but it will be omitted because it IS INITIAL.

As part of our ongoing efforts to minimize operations and to automate DevOps, Neptune has now improved and automated the licensee recovery mechanism. Licenses will now be automatically recovered after 4 months of being unused. This streamlines the process and makes it simpler for customers to manage end user licenses.

When a user was doing a re-authentication (entering PIN Code) of a PWA-enabled launchpad or mobile client that uses the OAuth authentication mechanism and the flow failed, due to expired or deleted refresh token. The splash screen was idling for a full minute, leading to a bad user experience. If the re-authentication fails the splash screen will now be hidden immediately.

A PWA-enabled launchpad or mobile client that is using the OAuth authentication mechanism had untranslated texts in dialogs and message toasts. These messages are now all translated.

Using the Timeout property in Ajax calls within the App Designer would not be properly considered, when running the application in an iOS mobile client. Now, the timeout after 1 minute is no longer applied.

With Neptune DXP 23 we introduced the new Monaco Editor in the SAP GUI App Designer. There have been some issues with this new code editor that we addressed:

The behavior of sap.m.PDFViewer has been enhanced by adding the property isTrustedSource. With this patch, the property has been added to the App Designer to set the desired display behavior for the PDFViewer:

A few issues with the reference to data element binding were addressed:

When an extension app has performed a syntax check and the base app was using Rest APIs or OData elements in the application hierarchy, you would have gotten invalid syntax error messages. The issue was related to the fact that no additional binding origins other than the application class itself was considered in the extension app and also not shown in the binding browser.

The RFC Mapping was not considered in all places when you were working in the App Designer.

When working inside the SAP GUI App Designer in very huge apps you might get issues due to high session memory. This is related to the "Undo" functionality that saves the whole state of the app after a change. To avoid the Undo Stack growing too big, we introduced a personal setting in the SAP GUI App Designer that allows you to define the Undo Stack size.

"The RFC Dest Exit Class" syntax check was not implemented like in the SAP GUI App Designer.

The sap.uxap.ObjectPageHeaderLayoutData UI5 control now has the correct name in the App Designer.

The sap.m.upload.UploadSetToolbarPlaceholder has been added to the App Designer control list.

Empty apps with no UI5 controls in the control tree are now supported.

Bindings of smart controls like sap.ui.comp.smarttable.SmartTable or sap.ui.comp.smartfilterbar.SmartFilterBar was not selectable in the binding pop-up (both SAP GUI Designer and Web App Designer).

Cordova Android 13 has been released and is now an option in the Cockpit. The option can be found in Mobile Client > Device > Preferences > Android > Cordova engine version. For more details about this release, refer to the Cordova blog: https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2024/05/23/cordova-android-13.0.0.html

The Cockpit has been prepared for exporting sap.ndc to mobile clients provided that this library is available for the selected UI5 version. The sap.ndc library is currently not included in the UI5 transports provided by Neptune but is planned to be included in the next patches. This means that you will need a patch number that is higher than these: 1.71.68, 1.84.45, 1.96.32 and 1.108.31 to use sap.ndc.

When clicking on a tile that has Action Type "Transaction" in a Launchpad that is started with SAP GUI Transaction /NEPTUNE/LAUNCHPAD, the transaction could not be opened in SAP GUI 8.0 using the new EdgeControl HTML Viewer.

The list that shows logged-on users on mobile clients and PWAs was not scrollable.