SIMCA-online Web Client 16.2 (Q951)

Summary

The SIMCA^®-online Web Client is a web-based solution for monitoring production in mobile or desktop browsers, and for displaying details about alarms and resetting them after clicking a link in a notification email. Users log in with their SIMCA^®-online user names and passwords.

SIMCA-online Web Client 16.2 is installed with SIMCA-online 16.1.2, but can connect to earlier server versions as described below.

Demo site
There is a demo of the SIMCA^®-online Web Client available at from http://demo.umetrics.com
Log in as test and with the password test

More information
Changes in Web Client 16.2, compared to the 16.1 version:

The login screen allows changing the server to obtain data from
The login screen allows changing how much initial data to read
You see the timestamp of the earliest data that the Web Client knows about after logging in or reloading the page
Charts for continuous project use the configured 'plot time range' of the project configuration
Click points in charts to select replaces box select and lasso select which been removed (single select, as before)
Tooltips in charts can be turned on and off with a new toolbar button.
Switch between two tooltip modes in the chart toolbar; closest (the default), and comparison which shows tooltips for all series in the chart with the same x-value.
About page shows the server connected to, its version, and the timestamp of the earliest data loaded
Updated third party libraries with security fixes and other improvements
Fix: the alarms page no longer makes the web client stop working when there are no alarms
Fix: batch level charts with many batches show the batches in the same order as the 'chips' above the chart that represent the batches
Fix: contribution charts are updated when a batch is finished so that phases that have changed show the right data
Fix: you can reset alarms as another user than the logged in user also in the case where the server is not forcing electronic signatures

Compatibility with SIMCA-online server:

SIMCA-online Web Client 16.2 is installed with SIMCA-online 16.1.2.
You can also connect to SIMCA-online 16.0, 16.1, 16.1.1 servers on the login screen of the Web Client.
Resetting alarms in the Web Client only works with SIMCA-online 16.1 servers or later.
If the log in fails when specifying another server, you have to change a setting in your browser. In Chrome, type chrome://flags in the address bar, and set the 'Samesite by default cookies' policy to Disabled. Other browsers have similar settings.

Installation instructions
See the SIMCA^®-online Web Client Installation Guide, for how to install and configure the Web Client on your SIMCA^®-online server. After installation, refer to the built in Help in the Web Client to learn how to use the product.

Release date
The version of this release is 16.2.0.24772. Release date 2021-03-04

System Requirements
The Web Client requires a SIMCA^®-online 16.x server. The full list of requirements is available in the Installation Guide.

About SIMCA^®-online
Learn more about new features in SIMCA^®-online in the knowledge base article for SIMCA^®-online 16.1.2

Third party software
SIMCA^®-online Web Client uses third party JavaScript libraries. Learn more on the Help and About page in the Web Client.