Category: Valentina Studio

Valentina Studio on Mac App Store

Valentina Studio 5.1 is now available for free through Mac App Store. Valentina Studio 5.1 was recently released with support for SSH, making it your best choice for working with virtual hosting services and the databases you may have stored there.

Valentina Studio on the Mac App Store also has in-app upgrading to Valentina Studio Pro for your convenience.

[VStudio][NEW] Support of SSH connects to remote servers

Usually mySQL servers are closed to access from external IPs. Instead mySQL users are used to connect to remote host using SSH tunnel and then connect to mySQL server like from localhost.

We have add into Valentina Studio support of SSH connects to remote hosts. It is clear that it can be used for any remote DB server:  Valentina Server, mySQL or PostgreSQL.

Also we have to push SSH parameters into the connection string of Valentina Reports, so now reports can connect to e.g. remote mySQL server by SSH tunnel also. Read in WIKI.

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[VStudio] MAS Submission steps

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After 5.0 release we have made the first attempt to submit Valentina Studio into Apple’s Mac App Store. As expected, it was reject with a couple of fair issues and one advice to hide all PRO features in the free edition of VStudio.

Step by step we have come to a new design. On the picture you can see how start page will looks for 5.1 version of Valentina Studio (MAS).

Since we was need to remove “Projects” section anyway, we have decide to put “in-app store” of Valentina Studio on the start page instead of section “Projects”.

If a user will do in-app purchase then PRO features will be enabled and become visible.  The section “Projects” will be visible again on the start page.

[VStudio][Change] Free VStudio 5.1 will be able to save diagrams and do reverse engineering.

In 5.0 Diagrams was a PRO feature, so was available in free version only in the demo mode: you could create and edit diagram, but you was not able save it for future use.

Working on submitting of Valentina Studio into Apple’s App Store, we was asked to remove from free version any such demo-features. We have decide instead remove it completely, open half of its functionality to free edition of VStudio. In 5.1 build of Valentina Studio you will be able

  • create diagrams and save them into your db.
  • add new schema objects (tables, fields, views, links)
  • add existed schema objects of your database (reverse-engineering).

Disabled will be just forward-engineering, i.e. generation of SQL scripts to produce new schema objects and change existed.

Interesting to note, that a competing product in AppStore, asks in-app purchase 70$ for reverse-engineering. Valentina Studio 5.1 will give this for free. Enjoy 🙂

[VStudio][Improve] Server Admin Panel – Log Files

5.0b60 includes significant improve of LOG files panel of Server Admin tool.

1) Now in the list of log files of a VSERVER you can see two sections. The first is named TAIL and contains only active log files. If you choose one of them, you will see tail (end) of this file with automatic refresh. This is analog of terminal tail command.

2) We have improve protocol between VSERVER and VStudio to exclude from vserver log file commands that send VStudio itself to collect information.

3) We have extend set of SNMP commands that VSERVER supports to increase performance of talk between VSERVER and VStudio. Besides, VSERVER is able proceed these commands absolutely parallel to its main job.

[NEW][MAC] VStudio.app and installer of VServer_x64 now are signed

OS X 10.8 has option “System Settings -> Security -> General -> Allow: MAS App Store and identified developers”  on default to be ON, so you cannot installed easy not signed applications and run installers. Note that 10.7 also can have this option enabled on some computers.

To resolve this issue, we have sign vstudio.app and vserver_x64.pkg installer.

Unfortunately we cannot easy sign other our installers (V4RB, V4REV, V4CC, … ) because we using third party installer.  So for now, for 5.0, we going to ship these installers not signed. To run them, OS X developer should in the Finder do CTRL + click on icon of installer and choose OPEN command in the contextual menu. In this case you will see the button ALLOW in the OS X security dialog. Click it, and continue as usual.

[NEW] VStudio – “Add Filter Row with Cell Value”

While you are in Data Editor, you may want select group of records using value of  some record at which you watch now. Todo this you was need

  • Select all value in the cell  (CDM+A)
  • Copy it   (CMD + C)
  • Add filter row   (CMD + F)
  • Double click cell in filter into which you want insert that value
  • Paste that value into filter  (CMD + V)
  • Execute filter using (CMD + E)
Now all this can be done by a single command using menu item “Filter by Cell Value” or its keyboard shortcut (CMD + SHIFT + F).

[VStudio][NEW] Commands GenerateSQL -> Insert / Update / Delete.

While you are in the Schema Editor, Column or Tree view, you can do right click on a table and in the contextual menu choose GenerateSQL -> Insert / Update / Delete.

You  will be asked to specify fields for Insert / Update commands, after that you will see SQL Editor with generated command. You still need finish it of course in VALUES() section for INSERT, and SET section for UPDATE command.

Anyway this feature can save you couple of minutes of job per each such command.