Exmouth House 311 Pine Street London EC1R 0JH T F E WASCE 4.2 New Features and User benefits Luke Emmet 10 th December 2015 PT/366/3017/21 ADELARD 2015 Slide 2 Summary Compatible with latest Windows and Office platforms Extended modelling enhancements Display engine enhancements Data model enhancements Updates to plugin engine Updates to display engine Plugin updates Plugin manager updates Updated Bow Tie schema Support for international data Updated examples Bug fixes Availability ADELARD 2015 Slide 3 Updated to latest platforms Officially supported Windows 7 SP1 Windows 8.1 Windows 10 Microsoft Office Office 2003 Office 2007 Office 2010 Office 2013 Tested on, but not fully supported Windows XP 32 bit SP3 Windows Server 2012 R2 May work on other platforms but not tested Vista, Windows 8.0 Internet Explorer IE9, 10, 11 Current hot fixes User benefit continued compatibility and interoperability with core Windows Ecosystem ADELARD 2015 Slide 4 Extended modelling enhancements ASCE schemas allow new conceptual frameworks to be developed Schemas specify data model and visual design Enhancements for ASCE 4.2 Data model enhancements Display engine enhancements User benefits A wider range of applications can be rapidly developed for ASCE. By Adelard or by users. Users can reap wider benefit of their investment in ASCE ADELARD 2015 Slide 5 Data model enhancements Pre ASCE 4.2, schema modelling options Flat attribute structure Each node type has the same properties Works well for many applications But some properties may not be applicable to all node types All properties visible and editable Some applications need read-only or hidden fields Such as calculated fields ASCE 4.2 enhancements Differential node properties Different attributes for different node types Hidden properties Read-only properties Supports a richer set of potential data models Already being employed by Adelard in development of new tools and applications for ASCE E.g. Railway Hazard Log ADELARD 2015 Slide 6 ADELARD 2015 Slide 7 Display Engine enhancements ASCE 4.2 Italics, coloured and alternative fonts now supported Allows for scalable, symbolic font decorators etc User benefit: more notational possibilities, better visual communication Reduced visual clutter in user views Indicator that node is in another view Was: [>] decorator on node text Now: on tooltip ADELARD 2015 Slide 8 Updates to Plugin Engine Plugin API enhancements More fine grained events on changes to node properties, node drawing etc. Floating tool windows Keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+R) for plugin menus User benefits Richer range of plugins can be developed to meet user needs Plugins can evolve to have increased usability ADELARD 2015 Slide 9 Plugin manager updates Can now install schemas Advanced schema debug mode (showing dotted outlines on node shapes) harder to turn on accidentally Confused some users ADELARD 2015 Slide 10 New Bow Tie schema Bow Tie schema (Bow tie 0.2) has existed since ASCE 3.5 Used by some users, but visual design was simple Missing some element types Since then Bow ties have become more popular Some regulators have released Bow tie domain templates MAA, CAA A working consensus has emerged on general visual design Needed a visual refresh ADELARD 2015 Slide 11 Bow Tie 0.3 schema New visual design ADELARD 2015 Slide 12 Bow Tie 0.3 schema Updates Full element set, Better traffic lights, Modern visual styles Familiar to existing Bow Tie users User benefits: a free Bow Tie tool for all ASCE users with all the benefits ASCE offers for other notations: Evidence integration, Content DNRs Publication to Word, HTML Low adoption costs Can integrate with your safety case Depending on user interest we will extend this further Extended properties Plugin support for calculation or custom behaviours (e.g. filter, collapse) Adelard can help with importing from other formats or upgrading existing content Compatible with 0.2 schema, but some re-formatting needed ADELARD 2015 Slide 13 Plugin updates Updates to all released plugins Compatible with latest version of Windows and MS Office Minor bug fixes Linking to PDF plugin Updated to use XPDF 3.03 to extract from a wider range of PDF files One Click Export Performance improvements Compatibility with latest MS Office Resource manager plugin Reliability enhancements ADELARD 2015 Slide 14 Plugin updates (cont.) Arrangement tools menu based options for common tasks Node formatting plugin supports superscript and subscript VML Export plugin works with a wider range of schemas performance improvements ECassandra plugin now works with MDB exports from ECassandra version 4 THT Hazard Log plugin updated to work with The Hazard Tool version 1.5 ADELARD 2015 Slide 15 Support for international data ASCE 4.0/4.1 saves content in ISO (Latin-1) character set i.e Western European incl. English, French, German, Spanish Clear need to support other data formats Full solution will come with Unicode support Currently planned for ASCE 5 Interim solution in ASCE 4.2 Support for local code page content encoding (e.g. WINDOWS-1250) User benefits: Allows use of local character data No need to compromise or avoid such content ADELARD 2015 Slide 16 International data WINDOWS-1250 example Slovak character set is not ASCII Accented characters shown Uses WINDOWS-1250 code page Test bed for ASCE Other code pages are possible Details in help file Contact ASCE support for advice if required ADELARD 2015 Slide 17 International data (cont.) Copy paste from MS Office into node narrative Export (HTML, Word) works too ADELARD 2015 Slide 18 Updated examples - Kettle Has been used in training for many years For both CAE and GSN 1.3 schemas Have spectrum fields ADELARD 2015 Slide 19 Updated example - Bow tie submarine lift system Same one shipped with ASCE 4.1, updated ADELARD 2015 Slide 20 Bug fixes Node content formatting problems New table rows are green Missing formatting styles Fixed issue of broken node level links to nodes exported content Actually not ASCE bugs, rather hotfix changes to MS HTML libraries or HTMLDOM standards We found solutions anyway! ADELARD 2015 Slide 21 Availability ASCE 4.2 will be available from next week to all supported customers Contact ASCE support for early availability Website will reflect new download soon ADELARD 2015 Slide 22 Questions? Thank you ADELARD 2015 Slide 23