After a short working week following the Labor Day long weekend here in Australia we are very close to releasing another installment of BI Documenter.
The big news about this release is that we have added SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 as a documentation and diagram target.
This means that with BI Documenter 1.6 you can now document your entire Microsoft BI solution in the one documentation set, including:
- SQL Server databases
- Analysis Services Databases
- Integration Services Packages (located on the File system, SSIS package store, or SQL database)
- Reporting Services
In addition the new Reporting Services documentation functionality this release has a focus on stability and performance, including the following bug fixes and enhancements:
- Add hierarchies to the Dimension objects in an SSIS diagram.
- Add Script Tasks to Diagram Editor
- Fail gracefully on snapshots when the underlying solution objects are no longer available.
- Implement database independence for the repository backend.
- Add SQL Server User Defined Aggregates to documentation.
- Documentation enhancements, including improved home navigation and iconography.
- Add Unicode encoding option for CHM output to enable correct encoding of extended character sets, including Western European, Baltic, Cyrillic.
- Remove empty menus in documentation output.
- Fix response time for "quick" cancel of version write.
- Fix for AMO ItemNotFound exception.
- Fix behavior when writing cubes that contain Perspectives (Enterprise Edition SQL Server only). (Thanks: PK)
- Fix version write problem when a Data Flow Component references a connection manager which no longer exists. (Thanks: SK)
- Fix integrity checking on Analysis Services version write.
- Increase coverage of Exception Reporting applet, especially failures during documentation compilation (Thanks PK).
- Numerous other performance improvements (Thanks TB).
Version 1.6 of BI Documenter is code-complete and is currently under testing.
This new version will be released to the web site on Monday October 9th and is a recommended (and free) upgrade for any owner of BI Documenter Enterprise.