Release Notes for Plugin Trace Viewer

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• #126 Integration from other tools can now open PTV with specific filters.

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• #19 New feature: Open trace message and exception with external editor for easier analysis
• #77, #85, #86 fixed: Weird behavior when selecting cell with multiline content
• #78 fixed: Scrollbars were acting very scrolly when switching log record

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• #79 Change max duration limits to 1000000
• #80 Added column CreatedOn, useful when Start Time is missing
• #81 Support milliseconds in Start Time field, when available in the platform
• Rebranded with 2019 design

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• #74 Prompt to turn trace log setting to off when closing tool – by request from Microsoft
• #73 Added Quick Filter to quickly filter log records by text in trace message and exception

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• #72 Use [Shift]+C to select all records with same correlation instead of [Ctrl]+C
• #68 Auto Refresh of logs is now more tolerant to network failure
• Rebranding
• Assembly name change

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• #68 Automatically refresh logs: Off / Notify / Auto
• #69 Easy way to set From and To date filter values – click the link next to the label
• #71 Quick Find (CTRL+F) and Find Again (F3) in Trace and Exception message windows
• #9  Allow undocking Trace and Exception message windows
  • Updated UI with nicer menus
  • Merging referenced assemblies to deliver one assembly only

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• Azure Application Insights for anonymous usage statistics

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• Adding column displaying size of the trace message
• Implemented #49 Persist column order, widths and visibility
• Fixed #67 Incorrect url when opening log records
• Fixed #51 Unit confusion made more clear

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• Implementing TabIcon property (XTB #677)
• Compatible with SDK 9.0
• Displaying detailed assembly version info in About window

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• Bugfix causing XrmToolBox to crash (#65, XTB #672)
• Filter by multiple messages, exclude messages (#64)

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• DockPanel layout to arrange windows freely (#9)
• Option to highlight all similar records, based on selected cells (#60)
• Show aggregated stats about selected / highlighted records (#62)
• Option to display local times instead of UTC (#58)
• Filter by Stage (#47)

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• Handle keyboard shortcuts only when tab is active, using IShortcutReceiver interface in XrmToolBox

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• New build procedure (including new versioning strategy)
• Removed date constraints (#39, #54)
• Disable form while retrieving to avoid concurrency (#52)
• Numeric values possible to sort after update to CRMWinForm component (#53)
• Display column Step Name (#46)
• Right-click selected records to filter by entity, plugin and message (#38)
• New window to display all plugin statistics for the organization (#37)

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• Correlation GUID and Request GUID available in view (#50)
• AggregateQueryRecordLimit problem handled better (#40)
• Delete All bug fixed

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• Show columns Stage and Rank from the plugin step (#42)
• Option to filter by Operation: Plugin or WF (#45)
• Possibility to select which columns to display and persist between sessions (#43)
• Exception summary is shown in Exception groupbox title
• Menu icon rendering strangely (#44)
• Improved performance when refreshing the grid

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• Show Plugin Statistics for selected log record (#36)
•  This feature takes the best of two worlds and combines the detail of the Plugin Trace Log with aggregated execution stats from the Plugin Statistics stored in CRM.
• UI improvements in menu layout and panel behavior

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• Display, group by and filter by CorrelationId (#35)
  • This feature is extremely useful when investigating “plugins triggering plugins”.
  •  Please see issue at GitHub for description of functionality
    https://github.com/Innofactor/XrmToolBox.PluginTraceViewer/issues/35

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• Possible to update organization Plugin Trace Log setting from this tool (#26)
• Separating connection specific and general settings
• Recording usage statistics for feature improvements (#33)

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• Show exception summary in grid column (#29)
• Save current filter settings on each Retrieve (#32)
• Fixed bug for include/exclude entities filter (#30)

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• New window panel construction, improved UI
• Using SettingsManager to store plugin settings
• Added possibility to exclude plugins and entities (#17)
• Save filter FetchXML query to file (#27)
• Open filter query with FetchXML Builder (#28)
• Using LogManager for debugging purposes

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• Delete log records (#10) Credit: @shytikov
• Filter by date AND time (#20)
• Specify multiple plugins/entities filter (#16)
• Save and Open filters (#23)
• Open log record with double click (#24)

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• Verify CRM version, tracelog available (#3)
• Added button to reload filter data (#5)
• Added filter for execution duration (#12)
• Entity filter dropdown is now sorted (#14)
• Added possibility to hide the filter panel (#15)
• Various UI improvements

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Official first release out of BETA !

• Grid columns now sizeable (#4)
• Option to wrap text in Message and Exception boxes (#6)
• Possible to filter logs by entity name/wildcard (#8)
• Bug with exception when switching connection fixed (#7)
• Date constraints were always added, even when unchecked (#13)

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• UI improvements for different window sizes.
• Info label show retrieved record count.
• Custom logo.

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• Not dependent on FetchXML Builder anymore.
• Refreshing list does not crash anymore.
• Close button now works.
• Menu cleaned up.
• Added filter for:
  • Plugin name
  • Message name
  • Mode
  • Exception
• Added max row count to return.
• Changed font to monospaced for message and exception.

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Please note: This plugin requires the FetchXML Builder to be installed to work properly!
   
Enables you to filter and find information from the Plug-in Trace Log in CRM.
   
Currently in ALPHA version!