Product Update - September 2019: New Highlight Feature, AIMMS 4.69 Release and Performance Improvements

This post is an archive of the Product Update email sent by AIMMS Product Owner, Gertjan de Lange.

We have a lot to share in this Product Update, including some interesting features coming up in AIMMS 4.69. Read on to get the details!

Highlight information in your App

We introduced a new experimental feature in the bug fix release of AIMMS 4.68 that allows you to highlight specific items in your Gantt chart and Table Widget. For instance, you can use the Highlight feature to quickly see what belongs together when clicking on a cell in the table, or in a batch on the Gantt Chart. The example above shows all San Jose-related information in yellow. This additional option is a big improvement to our current widget annotation options, as those are less ideal for this task. Our thanks go out to the customer who shared crucial feedback to help us improve!
 Find out how to use this feature

New features in AIMMS 4.69

We are currently preparing to release AIMMS 4.69 and AIMMS PRO 2.23. You will find many new and interesting features in these releases. Let me highlight a few: 

• We have added the ability to add Widget Actions to the Scalar Widget, the Slider Widget and the Legend Widget (in fact, to all widgets that have title headers). 

• As of 4.69, on-premise AIMMS PRO users will have the ability to enable the offline use of libraries made available through our online repository (e.g. R or HTTP). This way, your AIMMS PRO instance does not have to be connected to the Internet to activate libraries in the repository. 

• The combined releases allow you to validate whether Directories or Files exist in the AIMMS PRO storage using two new functions: pro::storage::ExistsBucket & pro::storage::ExistsObject. 

• We have enabled multi-objective support for Gurobi users

Performance Improvements

We added a large series of WebUI performance tests into our build pipeline and identified opportunities to improve our code base. Over the last two months, this resulted in a 25% improvement in page load times. This is great news and we are happy to say that many of our customers have noticed! Thanks to this, we can now better understand how changes to our code impact our performance, and we can make our improvements more robust.

Coming soon: DateTime Picker 

We are working on integrating a DateTime picker. For it to work effectively, we will enable you to set an Application Time Zone, so that you can have applications run by multiple users in multiple time zones. Data will be converted to the respective client time zone automatically once it's set. We hope to release this feature in AIMMS 4.70.

100% Cloud Uptime in August

I am thrilled to share that August was the fourth month in a row where we reported 100% uptime, including maintenance. Take a look at this article in our Community for more insights on the AIMMS Cloud.

I hope this Update has been useful. Please share your feedback in the comments below.