Known Issues

The following issues exist in this release of TIBCO MDM Studio.

General
Key Summary
CIMS-5116 Summary: An error occured when opened theHelp > Help Contents.

Workaround: Click the Dynamic Help > Contents to view online help.

CIMS-4448 When the compressed fileis extracted by using the Extract here drop-down option, the compressed .zip and executable files are saved in the same folder. When the executable files initiated from this folder, it duplicated the profile.
CIMS-1944 Summary: If the Enterprise name has multi byte characters, the deployment server creation fails.

Workaround: The Enterprise name must consist only American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) characters.

CIMS-1061 Summary: If the enterprise name is changed in the deployment server properties dialog, the connection with the earlier enterprise is not broken automatically.

Workaround: Change the server properties and then disconnect the server manually and reconnect.

Process Designer
Key Summary
CIMS-3377 Summary: When there is common activity in the main process and subprocess, we create activity on the subprocess lane. So this transition to and from that activity is missing in main-process.

Workaround: Avoid common activity.

CIMS-3375 Summary: While importing a workflow with two unconditional transitions in the same activity, an error "MDM 8.x : Activities/Gateways must be reachable from the start activity. (Mainwf5)" occurs.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2059 Summary: The CatalogItem array does not expand in Process Designer.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2407 Summary: Migration from the older version does not work for CIMServices.wsdl.

Workaround: Manually copy the latest Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and merge the custom parameters, if any.

CIMS-2331 Summary: The syntax for the source expression does not get validated if the Eval type is Lookup.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2306 Summary: When the data field is used to write Xpath in Source Expression, it does not automatically draw mapping from the data field to the input parameter.

Workaround: First, map the data field to the input parameter, and then edit the Xpath expression.

CIMS-2297 Summary: On Linux, the tool tip specified in the parameterdescriptions.properties file does not get displayed if you move the mouse pointer over the activity parameters.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2285 Summary: When the TIBCO MDM process having custom activity is imported through Import wizard, it does not add custom activity in WSDL.

Workaround: Manually edit and add custom activity in CIMServices.wsdl.

CIMS-2245 Summary: When trying to close the studio application while few processes are open in the editor, the studio application does not close.

Workaround: Try changing the JVM memory parameters by reducing the thread stack size and initial heap size and then increasing the heap size.

For example,

-Xss256k

-Xmx1024m

-Xms256m

CIMS-179

1-95EOMY

Summary: In a conditional sequence flow, if you select Java as the value for the Script Defined As drop-down list and do not select any class, no error message is displayed.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-195

1-9MHZGR

Summary: Uninstalling Process Designer may not delete all the files from the installed location and may display an error when attempting to reinstall in the same location.

Workaround: In some scenarios, the uninstall/reinstall into the same location does not work correctly. Use a different location if you face this problem.

CIMS-212

1-9N554Z

Summary: In the Deployment wizard Runtime Server parameters, if you click Connection without entering an enterprise name, user name, and password, the wizard displays a connection error but the Details show a java error (java.lang.throwable).

Workaround: None.

CIMS-235

1-9O4D0G

Summary: A validation error is not thrown for output parameters with minimum occurrence as 1 and no mapped values.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-244

1-9O6DUK

Summary: Clicking the Constraints tab after adding an element into WSDL and changing the type to a complex user defined type (such as StringType) results in a java.lang.NullPointerException.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-284 Summary: If the Service Descriptor folder name is changed, the workflow export fails with an error.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-287 Summary: If a constant value is mapped to a parameter which has enumeration and the data is not matching the values in the enumeration, no validation error is thrown.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-292 Summary: Mapping of a constant to a parameter of ArrayList and RecordList type does not throw the expected validation error.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-293 Summary: Content assist does not work in the case of conditional Xpaths.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-377 Summary: Invoking the CIM Process Samples results in multiple (BPMN 1.2) warnings in the problem section.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-423 Summary: If an imported workflow has a variable starting with a numeric value, it results in an error.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-481 Summary: The quick-fix does not work if the WSDL name is anything other than CIMServices.wsdl.

Workaround: None.

Repository Designer
Key Summary
CIMS-5147 Summary: When an attribute with output map is recreated after deletion, the mapping is not shown in the repository designer. But the mapping is shown when the attribute is deployed.

Workaround: Recreate the mapping to the same attribute, delete the mapping, and deploy it on MDM server.

CIMS-4963 Summary: While creating a datasource, the columns in the Attributes section remains collapsed in the Data Source Definition.

Workaround: Close the datasource editor and reopen it.

CIMS-4958 Summary: On Linux, NullPointerException error occurs while creating TIBCO MDM Studio project with Organization Model option.

Workaround: Do not select Organization Model.

CIMS-4757 Summary: If a column is missing in any of the sections of the Excel file in the Excel2RepoModel wizard, no validation error is displayed.

Workaround: None

CIMS-4755 Summary: The group connectors of relationship attributes are not displayed after importing repository model.

Workaround: Refresh the Repository Model.

CIMS-4553 Summary: When repository model files are copied manually in studio workspace, the deployment of such model files fails with exception.

Workaround: Do not copy and paste the project to the workspace folder. Use the Eclipse Import wizard, to import the new or modified project into Eclipse.

CIMS-4403 Summary: Generated Find Webservices returns unexpected results in some cases if the repository models contain Date or Time stamp attributes.

Workaround: None

CIMS-4269 Summary: When repository model is added to Resource Model Bundle editor, resource keys are not generated for relationship attributes.

Workaround: Use the Add Key text box to manually add the resource key for relationship attributes.

CIMS-4171 Summary: Compilation error occurred while generating WSDL for repository having URL data type attribute.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-4000 Summary: Unable to deploy metadata models through MDM Studio when MDM server is configured to use Single Sign-on authentication.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3976 Summary: Repository Image is not displayed properly on Repository Report.
Workaround: If we export repository model and repository image is not displayed properly, perform the following:
  • Open the repository model in the editor.
  • Right-click the data domain editor and select 'Arrange All' option.
  • It arranges all repositories and relationship attribute groups.
  • Export the model to the repository report. Repository images gets created properly.
CIMS-1926 Summary: If the Input Map is deployed incrementally, the new datasource file does not get uploaded with the Input Map.

Workaround: Deploy the data source separately.

CIMS-1896 Summary: The import of the incomplete exported models through the standalone wizards into the server does not succeed. However, if the complete repository model is exported, the server-side import works fine.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-1758 Summary: Input map editor displays incorrect search results when searching for a data source attribute.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-1539 Summary: In the output map filter criteria, adding search criteria shows the relevant mapped counterparts, but also the other mapped attributes on the other side.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-1236 Summary: The network deployment wizard does not display validation error in the case of duplicate reverse relationship names between repositories.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-1171 Summary: If the data source definition is not present in the CIM project, and the repository model with input maps is imported without the data source definition, an unexpected mapping screen is displayed.

Workaround: Ensure that the data source definitions are available.

CIMS-1154 Summary: Repository internal artifacts (Attribute Groups and Attributes) appear outside the boundary region of the repository in particular, after shrinking the repository boundary.

Workaround: Resize the repository to reset the rendering.

CIMS-1121 Summary: While using expressions for input mappings (for example, quoted literals or SQL expressions), neither syntactic validations nor semantic validations are performed.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-1080 Summary: The rendering of the data source preview table is not consistent (header column is discontinued) when the number of columns exceed several hundred entries.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-1079 Summary: The WSDL generation has only rudimentary logging available during the generation. This is not easy to debug when the generation fails (for example due to incorrect or missing MQ_HOME).

Workaround: None.

CIMS-1029 Summary: Import of a metadata file in the jar format is not supported.

Workaround: Unjar the file and import the metadata xml file.

Rulebase Designer
Key Summary
CIMS-5164 Summary: An Import wizard stops responding while importing multiple rulebase files at a time.

Workaround: Import a limited number of rulebase file at a time.

CIMS-5014 Summary: The quickfix to migrate the rulebase model to latest version is not available when old workspace is opened in MDM Studio 5.1.

Workaround: Clean and build the project. The migration error and quick fix is displayed in the Problems tab.

CIMS-3660 Summary: Renaming of repository attribute is not supported in the expression editor/where clause editor of the rulebases.

Workaround: Manually change the attribute name in the property section of the expression/where clause editor in the rulebase.

CIMS-3658 Summary: Renaming of relationship attributes does not change the references in the rulebases.

Workaround: Manually change the relationship attribute name if it is renamed from the repository model.

CIMS-3457 Summary: Included Rulebase name does not support Non-ASCII characters.

Workaround: None

CIMS-2902 Summary: When an older version of the studio project is migrated to the latest, it does not migrate artifacts in Rulebase Data View.

Workaround: Manually copy latest artifacts.xml to <workspace>/<project_name>/.metadata folder.

CIMS-2277 Summary: The selection of "Use for variables" in constraint properties is lost, when the selected attribute is renamed through the repository diagram.

Workaround: Rename the repository attribute through the Attribute Properties tab.

CIMS-1413 Summary: On renaming the relationship attribute, the relationship attribute name is not updated in the Decision Table.

Workaround: Ensure that a correct name for a relationship attribute is defined before using the Decision Table.

CIMS-1373 Summary: In the Decision Table editor, for numbers ending with 'I' or 'd' or 'f' representing valid java numbers, no validation error is thrown.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-1189 Summary: If double quotation marks are used as string delimiters in <condition> or <action> part of the rulebase, empty constructs are created for these parts in the rulebase xml.

Workaround: Use a single quotation mark as the string delimiter.

CIMS-675 Summary: In the rulebase designer, in an included rulebase, you are not able to refer to the declared variables from the parent rulebase.

Workaround: In the included rulebase, define a variable with the same name as the one in the parent rulebase.

CIMS-696 Summary: The rulebase designer does not validate the number and type of parameters passed to functions.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-712 Summary: While importing online users and roles, role filtering does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-713 Summary: Import of rulebases is dependent on the import of repository, users, roles, and data source metadata.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-929 Summary: When repository-specific rulebases (Validation, Search, and Initialization types) are deployed on a "standard" enterprise, they do not appear in the Deployment Server View.

Workaround: Do not deploy the repository-specific rulebase on a "standard" enterprise.

UI Builder
Key Summary
CIMS-5298 Summary: A few custom inbox pages loose the .js file, when multiple custom inbox pages are deployed at a time.

Workaround: Deploy one page at a time.

CIMS-5239 Summary: The system fails to deploy multiple custom pages with the same component name.

Workaround: Give a different component name for each custom page.

CIMS-5131 Summary: Undeployment of custom pages do not work when same page deployed in multiple projects.

Workaround: Deploy the pages with different name.

CIMS-4962 Summary: The Custom UI page is not linked to the Delete Record action.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-4937 Summary: While creating Custom UI page, if the Custom UI page has multibyte characters, the TIBCO MDM Studio project is not deployed on the server.

Workaround: Create Custom UI pages without the multi byte characters.

CIMS-4930 Summary: Unsupported files get uploaded in the File Type attributes causing error while deploying the Custom UI page.

Workaround: Do not upload unsupported file in File type attributes.

CIMS-4846 Summary: The related records does not get hidden in the datagrid based on user permissions or roles.

Workaround: Create a custom data filter in the datagrid.

CIMS-4527 Summary: In UI Builder, autocomplete widget does not work if the filter data contains single or double quotes.

Workaround: Manually remove single or double quotes.

CIMS-4512 Summary: Search does not work for the second level of relationship.

Workaround: None

CIMS-4506 Summary: Search based on URL data type does not work in the search widget.

Workaround: None

CIMS-4479 Summary: Search based on relationship attributes does not work.

Workaround: None

CIMS-4478 Summary: Search based on timestamp attribute does not work.

Workaround: None

CIMS-4240 Summary: In Custom UI page, sequence assignment and drop-down list populated from the relationship record does not work if the configurator propertycom.tibco.cim.catalog.rulebase.logflag is set to true.

Workaround: None

CIMS-4133 Summary:When the association map is used for ID and Ext, the initial value set in a rulebase based on the record action or value of the reference attribute is not assigned.

Workaround: Use the reference attribute name instead of PRODUCTID or PRODUCTIDEXT.

CIMS-4090 Summary:The UI Builder search widget does not support case sensitivity.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-4053 Summary:The Between and IN operators are not supported for numeric attributes in the Search widget.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-4047 Summary: In UI Builder, search widget is getting created under another search widget.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3983/CIMS-3354 Summary: In UI Builder, HTML ID in the panel does not support Multibyte characters, whereas the Label Text supports.

Workaround: Use only ASCII characters in the HTML ID of the panel and Multibyte characters in the Label Text.

CIMS-3847 Summary: In the Text Search widget, the Add All link in the column selector does not work in the Firefox and Internet Explorer web browsers.

Workaround: Select one link at a time.

CIMS-3771 Summary: In the custom UI page, the Softlink, Connect, and Disconnect action do not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3740 Summary: The UI Builder does not support relationship attribute rulebase validation.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3738 Summary: In the custom UI page, the Hide Record action does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3737 Summary: In UI Builder, records with View_Record access mode can be modified in a datagrid, without any validation error.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3732 Summary: Conditional access modifier on a Custom form does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3719 Summary: The UI Builder does not support File type relationship attributes.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3673 Summary: The Record List is not displayed if the "Display Attributes" did not match the attribute name on deploying the UI page with Text Search.

Workaround: Use the "Display Attribute" name as defined in the metadata model.

CIMS-3662 Summary: On adding a duplicate record with relationship, an error is displayed. However, on adding a new record with relationship, all the duplicate related records tried earlier get added as relationship.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3635 Summary: On Linux, the selection of text fields in tab panels from the canvas does not select the tree viewer element, nor does it refresh the properties.

Workaround: Select the text fields from the tree viewer instead of the canvas.

CIMS-3408 Summary: In the custom UI page, resource security for a relationship does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3331 Summary: Using a fieldset component for first level relations does not create the second level relationship.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3289 Summary: Undeploying the same custom page from multiple enterprises does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3286 Summary: In UI Builder, while sorting on one column, if you click on another column the sorting is not restricted and it displays the "Loading" message.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3259 Summary: On the View and Modify page, incorrect values and format is shown for Timestamp attributes.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3273 Summary: Custom form with many records takes more time to display the data grid.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3222 Summary: Filter is applied only to the first column when a multicolumn drop-down is configured for an attribute.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3220 Summary: In UI Builder, column header cannot be aligned in a datagrid.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3218 Summary: Keyboard navigation on multivalue attributes does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3203 Summary: In the custom UI page, custom theme is not applied to add relationship in a datagrid.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3202 Summary: In the custom UI page, custom property created for a combo box does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3201 Summary: In the custom UI page, custom property created for a panel does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3191 Summary: In the custom UI page, added custom theme for a Browse button for a file type attribute does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3187 Summary: Multiple Rulebase selection on a custom page is not possible.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3183 Summary: In TIBCO MDM server, show hide column does not work in datagrid.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3137 Summary: In the custom UI page, the text box property does not work if the value is defined in pixels.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3136 Summary: The custom.properties file is not updated, if the custom UI page is deployed with link to all the metadata operation and the same UI page is redeployed with link to only Add metadata operation.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3122 Summary: On deploying custom UI pages in the TIBCO MDM sever, the browser side field validations are missing for TIBCO MDM data types.

Workaround: Use custom event handler to provide the validation code.

CIMS-3115 Summary: The link from the Subset screen to the deployed custom record pages is not working correctly.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3095 Summary: Field set widget with three or more columns are not rendered correctly.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3092 Summary: UI Builder supports only record level resource security and not any other resources like the attribute groups and relationships.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3033 Summary: In custom UI page, style property does not work for multivalue attributes in a panel.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3031 Summary: In custom UI page, manual override of date time property with Timestamp property does not work for a multivalue attribute.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3024 Summary: In custom UI pages, the image style property for Image widget does not work in Internet Explorer 8.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3015 Summary: In custom UI pages, the multivalue text field and button are not aligned.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3014 Summary: In custom UI pages, the multivalue text field and its label are displayed in separate lines.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-3002 Summary: Custom pages deployed on the Standard enterprise are not displayed for every enterprise.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2984 Summary: On deploying custom UI page with a link to metadata operation, no error is displayed, even if no repository is associated with the custom page.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2976 Summary: In UI Builder, the Data property in the datagrid widget does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2965 Summary: In UI Builder, the Date Time picker property does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2955 Summary: The removal of a data grid from an existing custom page, leads to inconsistencies in the page model.

Workaround: Recreate the custom page after modifying the page model.

CIMS-2948 Summary: In UI Builder, the jsonReader property is not supported in the property view for datagrid.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2911 Summary: In UI Builder, the Custom Property does not work for Date Time picker widget.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2891 Summary: In UI Builder, pagination controls on datagrid does not work if the web browser is resized.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2896 Summary: In UI Builder, the widget names are inconsistent.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2878 Summary: In the custom UI page, style property for the table border in a datagrid does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2855 Summary: The Timestamp picker widget in TIBCO MDM Studio and in the TIBCO MDM server appears different.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2824 Summary: For repositories with a large number of attributes, creating a tabbed panel in a custom page takes longer time.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2812 Summary: When the Save, Save and Process buttons are added on the sticky footer, they are placed close to the top border of the sticky footer. In addition, the Top and the Left padding space is not proper.

Workaround: Put a line break before the sticky footer.

CIMS-2776 Summary: If the accordion pane is accessed in the UI Builder canvas, the accordion pane does not get highlighted in the tree outliner viewer.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2730 Summary: In UI Builder, the Size and Shade property does not work in the "hr" widget.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2683 Summary: The custom UI page does not support the aligning of buttons.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2682 Summary: The custom UI page does not support the Browse Image property.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2674 Summary: On the custom UI page, no validation is defined while specifying initial values for a date format.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2669 Summary: The help link on the select repository and relationship wizard does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2668 Summary: The help link on the select a file container wizard does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2661 Summary: In UI Builder, error is not displayed while adding another widget within an existing widget.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2617 Summary: In UI Builder, multicolumn combo box does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2611 Summary: In UI Builder, filtering of records within a datagrid does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2598 Summary: In UI Builder, positioning and alignment of widgets on the canvas is not consistent.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2564 Summary: In UI Builder, datagrid property section does not support user preference action buttons.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2549 Summary: In UI Builder, on previewing the field set, the attribute labels are overwritten by the text box.

Workaround: None.

CIMS-2547 Summary: In UI Builder, the text box does not appear uniform on previewing the text box on a browser.

Workaround: None.