Today we're adding a small but important update to Copia's Web App: a simplified navigation bar that cleanly distinguishes between our different product offerings.

For our Git-based Source Control users, you can find your main landing pages under the "Source Control" menu: Repositories, Issues, and Pull Requests.

For our DeviceLink users, you can find your pages under the "DeviceLink" menu: Dashboard, Sites, and our new organization-wide Projects view.

Members and Teams configuration can be found under the "Members and Teams" menu.

We're introducing a new way to navigate all of your Projects in DeviceLink in one place. The Projects table allows you to browse, filter, and edit all DeviceLink Projects across all Sites in one information-dense view.

The Projects table can be found under the "DeviceLink" menu on the top navigation bar. In this new table, you can filter and sort Projects by Site, name/description, Project type, most recent job time, criticality level, supporting agent, and more. You can also edit Projects directly from this view, configure which columns are displayed, and adjust column sizes.

announcement feature 

We’re happy to announce that ABB Robots are now supported for DeviceLink automated backups, starting with Copia Agent v1.0.38.

DeviceLink can now back up your ABB robot controllers on a schedule or on demand, so you always have a recent restore point and get notified when a program changes on the floor.

Supports IRC5/IRC5P controllers. 

See our setup documentation to learn more, or check the full list of supported vendors and device types.

announcement feature 

We’re happy to announce that Siemens SCALANCE Switches are now supported for DeviceLink automated backups, starting with Copia Agent v1.0.38.

DeviceLink can now back up your SCALANCE switch configurations on a schedule or on demand. You can track configuration changes across your network infrastructure right alongside your PLC and robot code.

Supports configuration backups of SCALANCE XB, XC, XP, XR, XM, W, X-200, X-300 and X-400 network switches.

See our setup documentation to learn more, or check the full list of supported vendors and device types.

What's changed

When viewing CSV or TSV files in Copia, we now render and diff in the UI. Track your changes of exported tag values, or measurements directly next to your profile files.

Render

Diffing

TIA Portal projects utilizing Local User authentication are now supported in Copia. Now a repository administrator can store the project's Local User username and password in Settings › Project File Secrets, and every protected project file in that repository opens and shows differences like any other project.

Supports TIA Portal V17 and later. Read the docs here.

Hey there,

We're upgrading our TIA Portal support - Copia now renders and diffs SIMOTION inside a TIA Portal v14 to v20 zap files. 

Supported project items

• ST source
• Technology objects
• Symbols
• Tasks
• I/Os
• ITO CAM Graphs

For our DeviceLink customers, we are excited to share our newest feature with you: an organization-level dashboard that aggregates DeviceLink performance metrics and visualizes the effectiveness of your backup strategy in real time.

Recovery Point Objective monitoring

In this update, we are introducing a first-of-its-kind organization-wide Recovery Point visualization, allowing you to see at a glance whether your organization is meeting its RPO targets. This visualization shows the age of the most recent backup for every project at your site. If you needed to restore all of your backups today, this visualization shows how old your most recent restore points would be. It is a real-time monitor of how well your backup strategy is protecting you.

Visualizing your environment by criticality level

In a recent update, we launched device criticality labeling, allowing you to label your Devices with criticality levels. On this dashboard, we are introducing the ability to facet views by criticality level. Both the Recovery Point Distribution chart and the Last Backup Status chart can be faceted by criticality level.

Criticality levels are set on Devices, but Projects inherit the criticality level of their linked Device(s). For Projects with multiple linked Devices, they inherit the criticality level of the most critical linked Device.

These views can be especially useful to compare the backup performance of your critical Devices against the rest of your Device inventory.

Additional Visualizations

The new DeviceLink dashboard also contains a number of additional visualizations, including:

• an organization-wide job status graph, 
• a chart aggregating the most recent backup status per project,
• an organization-wide agent utilization table, and
• a breakdown of Devices by vendor and type.

Read the full description in our documentation to learn more about the DeviceLink Dashboard.

Your workflow runs just got a massive improvement: Copia is now rendering enriched job summaries, including aggregating and displaying test results directly in the workflow run details. See the steps your workflows are taking, where they failed, and any outputs that the workflow renders, easily. 

The job summaries support markdown and mermaid chart rendering so you can render exactly the output needed for your runs.

In order to help our DeviceLink users develop targeted disaster recovery strategies, we are introducing a "Device Criticality" field to DeviceLink Devices. You can now label each of your Devices in Copia with a criticality level (Low, Medium, or High). The field is optional and is blank by default.

Device Criticality is shown as a label on Device cards and as a field in our Public API. In the future, we will be announcing additional functionality and data visualization options based on Device Criticality.