Cumulative overview of Harmony releases. Multi lingual support, controlling UI dialogs (user interface flow) from rules sheet. Google Maps, Google Calendar and Google DOCS integration. Customizable UI. UI framework: Bootstrap (PC and mobile) replacing Sencha. The inventory data stores - updating data in real-time - managing all transactions in the cloud - with the ability to see all immediately in a Google DOCS spreadsheet. Also in this release - the new web services adapter (JAVA). We have provided a sample implementation showing the implementation of the EU VAT Implementation Exchance System. And of course more improvements: UI validations Dynamic deadlines LinkedIn login And and some fixes. Enjoy Harmony!

1. Harmony consolidated
Release Notes
Last update: release 2.0 (2 August 2013)

2. Our release policy
• 10 releases per year – containing
– new feature(s)
improving capabilities , increasing
business benefits
– Improvements
Revised or minor new features added to
extend functionality
– Bug fixes
– Sample implementation(s)
demonstrating “Harmony in action”
– More on our website: Agile product development.

3. FACT DEFINITIONS AND
IMPROVED CONFIGS
2.0 Release Notes

4. Change log
• New
– Fact definitions sheet – allows to specify how to
round numbers, decimals after the comma, initial
values and more
– Configuration improvements – search/replace of a
fact, dialog autofill, create new sheet
– Warnings web-part – identifies and helps with
common configuration issues
– Google App Script library for all Harmony
configurations, simplifies the release of new
functionality in the configurations
• 19 issues and bugs solved

5. Fact definitions 1/3
• By default, DS shows a result of an
expression like this:
• After configuring the order discount like
this:
• The result is:

6. Fact definitions 2/3
• To round-up, configure like this:
• The result is:

7. Fact definitions 3/3
• “InitialValue” – sets an initial value for a fact
– makes setting VAT.percentage to 21 in a rule
unnecessary
– all facts set with an initial value will be added to the
case data when starting a new case
• “Don’t show in decision support”
– for facts that are ‘internal’ to the process, users
might not be interested in them (set to true)
• “Don’t save in working memory”
– for facts like “next.order” just set to true and
Harmony won’t add that fact into the case data

8. Config improvements 1/3
• Search and replace of a fact (concept
attribute pair
– helps when re-factoring configurations:

9. Config improvements 2/3
• Insert concept /attribute pair
– The rules sheet can become quite large … so
we’ve made it easier to insert an existing c/a
pair or create a new one

10. Config improvements 3/3
• Insert pre-formatted sheets
– theme sheet
• Change the look of the UI. Sample
• a new color for the <a> HTML tag:
– reference data sheet
– language sheet

11. [new] Warnings web-part
• The purpose is to discover difficult to find
issues with the configuration
– speeds up time to diagnose the problem
• Uses websockets to push to the user at the
moment a warning occurs
• Visible to Admin users only

12. MULTI LANGUAGE
1.9 Release Notes

13. Change log
• Progress on customizing of the UI
– Multi-language support English & Dutch
– Configurable UI texts
• (great for Decision Support !!!!!)
• New “one-time-access” function
– Improved case sharing
• Error messages introduced
– Rules that provide additional control
over UI behavior
• 7 issues and bugs solved

14. Chrome “Dutch” browser settings

15. The same case [Qwy] – “English” settings

16. Chrome configuration

17. Firefox configuration

18. • Create your own preferred syntax
User customization enabled

19. New “one-time-invite”
• Inviting users to access their case only
requires the “one-time-dialog”
– Harmony configuration controls
authorization (tasks, queues, cases etc)

20. One rule to raise an error

21. INTEGRATION GOOGLE CALENDAR
1.8 Release Notes

22. Change log
• 1st version of integrating Harmony with
Google Calendar
– (deadlines are turned into events in the
calendar)
• After login, the user is redirected to the
originally requested page
• 18 issues and bugs solved
• Progress on customizing of the UI
– company specific colors

23. Show task deadlines in Google Calendar
• When application date is chosen,
Harmony computes deadline:

24. • Dialog is submitted, an event is added
to the calendar (end date of the event
= deadline date):
Show task deadlines in Google Calendar

25. • On login, users are challenged to
grant access to their calendar
How to set-up Google Calendar

26. • A standard deadline is defined:
• The user must be a member of the
Desk queue:
Configuring Harmony for Google Calendar

27. • When a deadline is re-computed
(dynamic deadlines):
• Changing the deadline (via a submit
of an Extend approval period in this
example) updates the event in the
calendar – end date of the event
changes
Real-time updates to Google Calendar

28. Calendar Integration … 6
• This is a basic implementation, based
on feedback we will extend the
functionality
• Good to know:
– The user must explicitly be a member of
a group (Users belonging to Admin only
won’t see events in the calendar)
– Dialog name used as event name, two
OWIs of the same name aren’t
supported in Calendar

29. UI ADDING DYNAMIC DIALOGS
(CONTROLLABLE PER “ITEM / LINE”)
1.6 Release Notes

30. Change log 1.6:
• Websockets are better “fit”with an ESB in
the browser
• new messages are published via web-sockets
to the ESB, web-parts change HTML content
accordingly
• Show/hide of dialog items
• Customer requirement for dynamic forms
• Configurable application name
• set in spreadsheet, (was "Harmony App“_
• Radio button dialog item type added
• 16 bugs fixed, added another 3 validation
rules in the spreadsheet

31. Introducing web-sockets in Harmony
• Relevant information for each user is pushed
from Harmony to the browser - doesn't require
a browser refresh for example
• In this release the OWI web-part updates in
real-time when rules fire (OWI amount
increases) or when somebody submits a dialog
(OWI amount decreases)

32. Show/hide of dialog items
• Every dialog item can be hidden by default
(setting the InitiallyHidden column to yes)
• Dialog items can then be shown via a rule RHS
using the "show.item" reserved word
• Dialog items can also be hidden using the
"hide.item" reserved word
• NOTE: a "dialog exists" statement must be
present in the rule LHS when using show/hide
reserved words - rules on what to hide and
what to show could be different per dialog

33. Show/hide of dialog items (example):

34. Radio button dialog item (example):

35. INTEGRATION GOOGLE MAPS
1.5 Release Notes

36. • Bi-directional Maps integration
– Enter address: display on map
– From map, change location
• Reflects address
– Entering coordinates
• 12 bugs fixed, added 5 validation
rules in the spreadsheet
Change log 1.5:

37. Google Maps
Enter address – result is displayed on Map

38. Google Maps
Move map “locator” and drop on new location
resulting address is displayed

39. Google Maps
(or) Enter coordinates:
corresponding address is found & location is displayed on Map

40. How to do ?
Just specify “location” (for type )

41. UI DIALOG DYNAMIC “ITEM /
(LINE)” SUPPORT
1.4 Release Notes

42. • New UI to allow easy customization
– Developers request more control over UI
– A brand new JavaScript library was built
specifically to help developers customize the
Harmony UI and integrate web-parts from
Harmony into their own applications
– Result from user demand
• New UI framework: Bootstrap
– One library supporting desktop and mobile UI
• [implemented] Extended UI archictecture
– Analysis from user “behavior”
• We have noticed logic still being coded coded in UI
layer (JavaScript)
Change log 1.4:

43. (NEW USER INTERFACE) BOOTSTRAP
A brand new JavaScript library was built specifically to help
developers customize the Harmony UI and integrate web-parts
from Harmony into their own applications

44. Desktop browser & mobile support

45. business services / rules
JavaScript for presentation
"logic"/dialogs
“standard”
RPG / COBOL *pgm
Webservices to access AS/400
dev framework
New UI architecture
HTML(5): content/stucture
CSS: structure/look and feel/layout
Presentation
tier

46. (NEW FEATURE) INVENTORY FILE
1.3 Release Notes

47. Inventory 2.0 (1/3)
• Define an Order object by creating
REF_Object spreadsheet with 3 fields:
• And the following two rules:
– Generate a unique order ID, in this example based on date & time
• can by any Harmony function such as unique_id(), concat(), etc
– Set the order confirmation date to the current system date:

48. • Creating an order [transaction]
When the order.id is provided/calculated a new
row in the REF_Object [table] is created.
– The order is immediately visible in the Google
Spreadsheet
Inventory 2.0 (2/3)

49. • Updating: when the order confirmation date and
order company are provided/calculated, the
corresponding order is updated.
– The order is immediately visible in the Google
Spreadsheet
Inventory 2.0 (3/3)

50. IMPROVEMENTS
Deadlines, UI data validation, LinkedIn sign-on, UI time control

51. Improvements 1/4
• Introducing: Dynamic Deadlines
– For example a deadline is defined like this:
“10 days before arrival.date”
– If arrival.date doesn’t exist in the case data,
the calculation of the deadline will be
postponed until arrival.date is provided
– The deadline is re-calculated always when the
arrival.date changes
– If the result of the deadline calculation is in
the past, a ‘deadline.expired’ fact is asserted
in the case data automatically

52. Improvements 2/4
• Reference data keys can be presented in
the UI as drop-downs

53. Improvements 3/4
• LinkedIn login
– Main e-mail address in the LinkedIn profile
used to login

54. Improvements 4/4
• New dialog item type: datetime
– When both date and time are needed,
define the dialog item type as ‘datetime’
– The generated UI will allow to provide the
time as well:

55. INTEGRATION
integration with external systems via industry standard
SOAP/XML web-services

56. (sample) EU VAT Service integration
• VAT Information Exchange System (VIES)
– Checks VAT-registration (= validity of VAT-
numbers) of companies registered in EU
Clickable link

57. Harmony sample
• Bla bla

58. For more information
• Visit
– www.liquidsequence.com
• Contact us
– http://www.liquidsequence.com/contact
• Follow us
– www.linkedin.com/company/liquid-sequence/
– www.twitter.com/NannovanderLaan
– Documentation on how to integrate web services
• Will be added later