Release notes

WorkflowGen 5.1.6

WFG Team — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:02:50 +0000

Portal
- #2,737: NEW FEATURE - WorkflowGen Web Service API New Features and Updates.
- #2,671: UPDATE - User names in participant user selection lists are now properly ordered by last name then first name.
- #2,726: UPDATE - It is now possible to raise an assignment exception when a team action assignment is filtered using a process data.
- #2,694: PERFORMANCE - The portal, statistic and portlet modules are now improved in response time when hosted on MS SQL Server database.
- #2,553: BUG - The ok button was not functional in the add view window under Mozilla browsers (Firefox and Safari).
- #2,672: BUG - DateTime values received by system or sdk actions using the ADO schema WorkflowGen context were not properly converted with the appropriate DateTime format.
- #2,680: BUG - Process supervisor will now have access to the request or action follow-up form when all supervisor permissions are disabled.
- #2,681: BUG - Process data with disabled visibility on follow-up form are now available as follow-up search criteria for users with manager access.
- #2,682: BUG - Delegated users were receiving security errors on the follow-up forms or file attachments when accessing from their email notification of actions in self-service mode.
- #2,683: BUG - Condition evaluation on numeric values were failing when current user selected culture is other than en-US.
- #2,690: BUG - The Portal add/edit Views form were not functional under Mozilla browsers (Firefox / Safari).
- #2,692: BUG - The process or action date limit were not properly calculated when the start date falls into a non working day or holiday.
- #2,699: BUG - A sub-process action start exception was raised when the requester selected language is not defined.
- #2,706: BUG - The advanced and follow-up actions searches with category filtering were always returning empty or invalid results.
- #2,717: BUG - An exception error was raised when downloading a file without extension from the follow-up form.
- #2,727: BUG - An invalid automatic notification was sent to users when a team action todo was started from the WorkflowGen engine Windows service.
- #2,728: BUG - The engine condition evaluation was failing in some cases when the not equal "<>" operator is used in the condition.
- #2,735: BUG - Sub-process actions were always hidden in the request follow-up form in administration mode.
- #2,736: BUG - A database connection pool timeout exception was raised from the WorkflowGen Engine service when there are a large quantity of overdue actions.

Administration
- #1,376: NEW FEATURE - WorkflowGen Windows Service now supports several instances of WorkflowGen.
- #2,708: UPDATE - A version plugin error was raised when displaying the workflow designer on Macromedia Flash player 10.
- #2,675: PERFORMANCE - Directory Sync: The merging of user-group relationships on local and remote data was optimized in performance.
- #2,674: BUG - Action form help text were not properly encoded for html display.
- #2,676: BUG - The administration's 'add new delegation' function was not fully supported under Mozilla browsers (Firefox and Safari).
- #2,695: BUG - The diagnostic module failed after a fresh install (empty database) with Oracle 9i.
- #2,696: BUG - The diagnostic module could raised an exception on Oracle with the error : "ORA-00904: "NVARCHAR": invalid identifier".
- #2,704: BUG - An exception error was raised in the delegation list and form on Oracle database.
- #2,730: BUG - An exception error was raised when no form fields are found during the upload of a pdf file into a process data of File type.

WorkflowGen 5.1.5

WFG Team — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:50:00 +0000

Portal
- #1,643: NEW FEATURE - Online Database Backup: store file data in the database (Enterprise Edition).
- #1,645: NEW FEATURE - Web Services API.
- #2,424: NEW FEATURE - Process supervisor limited scope.
- #2,637: NEW FEATURE - It is now possible to set the display of the request data list in a pop-up window.
- #2,605: NEW FEATURE - The follow-up now supports partial requester's lastname search
- #2,325: NEW FEATURE - eFormASPX now supports removing a file when the INOUT parameters contains an invalid file path name.
- #2,652: UPDATE - The search and follow-up request number field's maximum and visible lengths have now been increased.
- #2,610: PER - The username is now always displayed in all user selection lists which allows differentiation of users with same names.
- #2,575: BUG - An exception error was raised after sorting the request follow-up list by process column.
- #2,578: BUG - An exception error is raised in a XmlToDabase action when there are more than one loop command used in a transaction.
- #2,585: BUG - Process data macro values were no longer visible in custom email notification after upgrade to release 5.0.39.
- #2,662: BUG - A JavaScript error was raised after selecting a date from the calendar view in the portal delegation list in mono-process mode.
- #2,658: BUG - Other process versions delegations were not synchronized when creating and updating a delegation from the portal.
- #2,654: BUG - A javascript error was raised when launching an action from an email notification.
- #2,651: BUG - A 'File does not exist' error was raised when launching a new workflow request (2).
- #2,649: BUG - A SQL deadlock exception was raised in the team to-do list.
- #2,647: BUG - A null reference exception was raised when remote start a process in active mode from the web service api module.
- #2,645: BUG - Users were able to select restricted process data as criteria in the portal search form.
- #2,642: BUG - A SQL exception was raised after performing a search on request as an user with administrator profile.
- #2,636: BUG - A SQL syntax error was raised when viewing requests follow-up list redirected from the real-time statistic report.
- #2,635: BUG - Update the action assignment search label for last name
- #2,633: BUG - Closed request PDF form data file were not found when the process 'Archive action associated data' option is disabled.
- #2,630: BUG - Increase SQL command execution timeout to 6 hours.
- #2,623: BUG - HTML content in the process or action help text was not rendered properly.
- #2,621: BUG - Actions filtered on a process data with the self service assignment method was considered as a team to do action in the request form instead of action to be done by someone else.
- #2,620: BUG - Some transition conditions were not properly evaluated when the value of process data is null.
- #2,618: BUG - The time limits in Portal list columns were displayed in 2 rows instead of one in Safari 3.1 for Windows.
- #2,616: BUG - Statistic: The follow-up list shows different results when coming from realtime report links filtered with process data.
- #2,613: BUG - Process data date/time values in lists columns were converted twice to current local time.
- #2,611: BUG - The email notifications were sent with incorrect header content type.
- #2,608: BUG - An exception was raised when launching a manual action with self-service assignment from email notification.
- #2,607: BUG - The portal application complete function was returning incorrect contents for a web proc async action.
- #2,606: BUG - The process start remote was returning a process instance value with carriage return at the end.
- #2,595: BUG - Users were able to access a request follow-up form when they are not the real initiator of the request.
- #2,592: BUG - The portlet RSS feed language node was not in the same language code value as the displayed language.
- #2,584: BUG - The portal header mono-process list was always selecting the last process item when the configuration panel's portal processes grouping option is unchecked.
- #2,579: BUG - The portal homepage new requests were not grouped by category when "Display categories and hide processes" is specified in the configuration panel.
- #2,555: BUG - A search for a specific process version returns requests of all version instead.
- #2,526: BUG - Incorrect table column label was shown for requester's request with overdue actions in the real time activity report.
- #2,491: BUG - The team to-do list was displaying additional requests after sorting by process data header column.
- #2,490: BUG - The 'OR' logical operator was generating an SQL Timeout error in the follow-up search.
- #2,479: BUG - Actions filtered on a process data with the self service assignment method could be launched by any participant of the action.
- #2,643: BUG - The actions list failed when numeric values are too large or to small

Administration
- #2,659: NEW FEATURE - The Diagnostic module displays the file size info
- #2,603: NEW FEATURE - Store file in database feature (Enterprise Edition).
- #2,583: NEW FEATURE - Diagnostic module
- #2,571: NEW FEATURE - The directory synchronization now supports Anonymous authentication mode.
- #2,627: PER - Directory Sync: The merging of local and remote data was optimized in performance.
- #2,574: BUG - An exception error was raised after sorting the process direct access list by Folder column and clicking on a specific folder link.
- #2,562: BUG - A SQL exception error was raised when deleting process data in multi-selection mode from the list.
- #2,563: BUG - A process data deletion validation rule was missing for data used in additional notification as recipient.
- #2,570: BUG - The ldap query prefix is now case insensitive.
- #2,639: BUG - An exception error was raised when activating a process which there are existing participant delegations in the previous active version and the delegate user is no longer associated with the new process participant.
- #2,638: BUG - Directory Sync: Local directory users where not found when user sync field is not "Username" and an user name prefix is specified.
- #2,632: BUG - The process XPDL file import is now supported in Firefox 3.
- #2,628: BUG - Directory Sync: The username prefix was not added to username when used with TEXT connector.
- #2,624: BUG - WorkflowFileUpload install pack for Visual Studio 2008.
- #2,615: BUG - An exception error was raised when editing the fields mapping of directory synchro on Text file.
- #2,622: BUG - A JavaScript error was raised when editing the process or action help text content.
- #2,646: BUG - Process data security was reset to all participant when saving in process active mode.
- #2,640: BUG - Delegations were duplicated when activating a process which there are existing participant delegations in the previous active versions.
- #2,650: BUG - The group ldap path field was not able to save with the associated property in the edit fields mapping form.
- #2,660: BUG - Group name duplication exceptions are now skipped in the directory synchronization / load remote data.

WorkflowGen 5.0.39

WFG Team — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:29:41 +0000

Portal
- #1866: PER - Optimized performance for closing or aborting a request when the process archive associated data option is unchecked.
- #2474: BUG - Action date/time limit was not calculated properly when action start date/time was not within the system working hour begin and end.
- #2496: BUG - A SQL exception was raised when sending custom notification with a recipient 'action assignee'.
- #2500: BUG - Other user's views were deleted when an user deletes his selected view.
- #2501: BUG - The associated data in custom email notification was not properly filtered based on each receiver permission.
- #2508: BUG - The workflow engine was failing to launch the next system action in a process when the engine is started by the scheduled engine Window service.
- #2511: BUG - ZIP file attachment download from the follow-up form gets corrupted when HTTP compression 'gzip' setting is used in the web server.
- #2514: BUG - File attachment downloads from email notification sent by the Engine Windows service now supports Secure Mode only.
- #2516: BUG - EFormAspx: Process data value was not erased when the form field returns an empty value.
- #2494: BUG - XmlToDatabase: XML field value were trimmed when inserting into database.
- #2517: BUG - Request relative identifier of a new process was not starting from 1.
- #2532: BUG - An Oracle SQL exception error was raised when opening the portal Requests menu.
- #2534: BUG - A 'File does not exist' error was raised when launching a new workflow request.
- #2542: BUG - A Javascript error was raised after selecting an user from the portal header delegate list.
- #2543: BUG - Some portal pages were not refreshed properly after switching from normal to mono-process or delegation mode.
- #2548: BUG - The past due filter fails to filter overdue actions in the Follow-up search.
- #2552: BUG - Oracle: An exception error was raised when completing an action which contains many outgoing transitions with conditions.
- #2556: BUG - Oracle: An exception error was raised when the ghost request deletion function is running on an Oracle database environment.
- #2557: BUG - The additional cancel assignment notification was not functional.
- #2493: FCT - WorkflowGen v5 now supports French Canadian (fr-CA) localization by default.
- #2546: FCT - WorkflowGen v5 now supports German (de-DE) localization by default.
- #2559: BUG - Oracle: An exception error was raised when filtering the user assign list in the action follow-up form.
- #2560: BUG - Oracle: An exception error was raised when sorting any portal requests or actions list on associated data columns.

Administration
- #2484: BUG - Some process definition warnings regarding transition exceptions were erroneously displayed in the process report.
- #2499: BUG - The process import function is now case insensitive when validating process xpdl file name.
- #2510: BUG - Test request launch validation was missing in the process list of a folder.
- #2539: BUG - A Javascript error was raised in the add new user form.
- #2521: BUG - The customized banner URL test was always displaying an error message indicating the URL is not valid.
- #2549: BUG - It is now possible to disable the "Delete the ghost requests" feature by setting the value to 0 in the configuration panel.
- #2502: BUG - Directory Synchronization: Remote data load errors are now logged for group members and user managers.
- #2551: BUG - The directory synchronization fails in LDAP mode when the ObjectSid is not specified in the same character cases as reference in the application.
- #2540: BUG - The directory synchronization Windows service was running indefinitely at a very high CPU consumption time.
- #2550: BUG - The directory synchronization Windows service was not supporting logs in other WorkflowGen standard languages than English US.
- #2533: FCT - The working hour begin and end now supports '00' hour in the configuration panel.
- #2522: FCT - The directory synchronization now supports the secure connection mode (Secure Sockets Layer).

WorkflowGen v5.0.38

WFG Team — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:02:32 +0000

Portal
- #2455: BUG - Sub-process action was always raising an assignment exception error when using dynamic assignment method "Automatic to a person" with a process data.
- #2462: BUG - Process data of type TEXT with null value is now evaluated as null in transition condition instead of empty string.
- #2463: BUG - Data report: Selected display data fields in search form were lost after refine search.
- #2468: BUG - Action starting: Some shared process data were not locked properly by previous action which allowed the starting of another action.
- #2470: BUG - Data report: Requests with data information were improperly repeated and displayed in the result list.
- #2471: BUG - An exception error was raised when sorting the action result list by process data column in delegation mode.
- #2472: BUG - The request and action list were displaying incorrect results in delegation mode which contains test requests/actions.
- #2465: PER - XmlToDatabase: Performance improvement for loop commands.

Administration
- #2476: BUG - An exception error was raised when adding a new process data by browsing PDF form fields.

WorkflowGen v5.0.37

WFG Team — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:02:04 +0000

Portal
- #2454: BUG - The action start mechanism was not blocking user properly from starting another action of the same request when there are some data locked by another user.
- #2441: BUG - Statistic: Process filtering was not applied in the Activity Real time report to show user accessible processes only.
- #2440: BUG - Statistic: The activity and data search form were not displaying test processes in the filter which the supervisor have access permission.
- #2439: BUG - Statistic: The activity and data form displays the numeric identifier instead of name in the process filter when the user has manager and supervisor roles on different processes.
- #2450: BUG - Additional notifications were sent to incorrect users when the activity is repeated and the recipients were set to "A person who handled a previous action" or "Action assignee".

Administration
- #2449: BUG - All Help texts are now supporting carriage return characters.
- #2447: BUG - An http error was raised when displaying the XPDL view of the process definition in the admin report.
- #2445: BUG - The user's activity report of requests and actions numbers were showing different results than in his portal follow-up.
- #2322: BUG - Additional notification templates were not copied when making a duplication of an existing action of the process.
- #2239: BUG - The WFG windows service now retries several times (3 by default every 30 seconds) to connect to the database.

WorkflowGen v5.0.36

WFG Team — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:01:13 +0000

Portal
- #2318: BUG - Extra Notifications: Conditions were not evaluated.
- #2309: BUG - The 'My current request' list was displaying an incorrect icon for processes in test mode.
- #2285: BUG - Notification/Data: Date/time values are now displayed using the local time instead of UTC (the values are always stored in UTC in the database).
- #2277: BUG - French characters were not properly encoded when using the CVS export in Statistics data reports page.
- #2197: BUG - Process data with date value only were displayed with time in email notification.
- #1949: BUG - French notifications were partially translated.
- #1948: BUG - Email notification languages was not dependent on the portal unique, recipient selected or default languages.
- #2333: BUG - The statistics, search and follow-up forms are now supporting negative values as criteria for numeric process data filter.

Administration
- #2305: BUG - Flash: the mini map was positioned inappropriately over the toolbar and hidden under the canvas when redisplayed.
- #2302: IMP - Admin/Home: The club site link is now referring to the new Community Web site.
- #1872: BUG - The process import error popup dialog was not displaying a window title.

WorkflowGen v5.0.35

WFG Team — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:31:08 +0000

Portal
- #2201: BUG - eFormAspx: The temporary action files in the storage path were not emptied when re-launching an eformAspx action.
- #2212: BUG - Views: An exception was raised when deleting a view in Oracle.
- #2218: BUG - Request and action time limit were incorrect when used with the working days/hours in the calculation.
- #2240: BUG - The homepage to-do list displays an embedded sub-process action like an action to-do.
- #2242: BUG - Process data filters were not displayed in the search form when filtering on a specific sub-process for all versions.
- #2244: BUG - File content type is now set when downloading from WorkflowGen.
- #2254: BUG - Assignment cancellation was not processed by the engine service.
- #2257: BUG - Sub-process completion SQL error "field NAME doesn't exists" is now fixed.
- #2261: BUG - RaiseException and XmlTrans action fails with an assembly file load error.
- #2268: BUG - Home page: Automatic to the person actions are now removed from Actions to assign.
- #2269: BUG - Overdue additional notification was not sent when the action is not assigned such as in self-service.
- #2271: BUG - Statistics: An exception of "object must be of string type" was raised in Activity statistics.
- #2280: BUG - Request follow-up form: Associated data: For Date process data, Time is now displayed in the request/action follow-up form as a tooltip.
- #2283: BUG - EformASPX and EFormPDF converts OUT PARAMETER date time value into Server time zone instead of UTC.
- #1862: BUG - Time Limit is still running even if the request is closed in the request follow-up list.
- #1944: BUG - An exception is raised when evaluation a condition with syntax errors.
- #2077: BUG - Process data filter items was not listed by their display order.
- #2265: BUG - eFormPDF: Time data is not converted into a time value when System.Time macro is used.
- #2276: BUG - A SQL exception is raised when the category selection is changed on various reports (search and follow-up) of the Portal Module.
- #2279: BUG - When entering a non numeric value into the Request# of a search you get a "Conversion failed when converting the nvarchar".

Administration
- #2228: BUG - Workflow: Adding a transition from the action's next action tab was failing to update the Flash graphical workflow.
- #1857: BUG - An error was raised when updating a table that has a reserved keyword such as a column name in Oracle.
- #2191: BUG - Application: A SQL exception was raised when adding a new application parameter in Oracle database.
- #2262: BUG - Windows service: Some assembly files were missing in the WorkflowGen Windows Service folder.
- #2273: BUG - Setup: Oracle scripts installation issue is now fixed.
- #2181: BUG - Users: It is now not possible to change a user to inactive while being the last associated user of a participant.
- #2182: BUG - Workflow: An exception was raised when adding multiple parameters in a process action.
- #2183: BUG - Process data: An exception was raised when saving a process data Text changing from File type.
- #2229: BUG - Workflow: The icon size fields were hidden after switching from parameter to Information tab in the graphical mode.
- #1912: BUG - PDF Form fields are not cached in the temporary file when using the process data form fields selection.
- #2289: BUG - Process Participant list header style was incorrect.

WorkflowGen.My 2.1.6

WFG Team — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:17:05 +0000

- #0102 NEW FEATURE: Supports large files and displays a progress bar.
- #0101 NEW FEATURE: Integrated Upload WebControl.
- #0094 NEW FEATURE: Readonly fields are not accessible from the TAB key.
- #0096 BUG: The IsStandAloneMode property is deprecated.
- #0095 BUG: Simple quotes were not correctly supported by the javascript alerts of required fields.
- #0091 BUG: The FieldDataType attribute was case sensitive.
- #0067 BUG: It was not possible to use gridviews in readonly mode without the command field.

WorkflowGen v5.0.34

WFG Team — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:30:08 +0000

Portal
- #2243: BUG - New request launch confirmation was missing in multi-process mode.
- #2237: BUG - Action cancellation by process supervisor was not possible.
- #2235: BUG - French characters were not properly encoded to display in email notification.
- #2226: BUG - The 24 working hour end is now supported.
- #2219: BUG - A requester was able to assign an action which the action assignment permission was not given to the user.
- #2216: BUG - The graphical follow-up was displaying the last action number only for each action instead of a comma separated list of action numbers when the same action has been performed many times.
- #2207: FCT - The log file was locked by another process when system is performing a XmlToDatabase action.

Administration
- #2249: BUG - Administrators were unable to access the configuration panel.
- #2245: BUG - An unexpected DBNull error was raised when importing a process xpdl.
- #2234: BUG - The action sub-process selection list now displays distinct sub-process name.
- #2231: BUG - An exception was raised when deleting an action without the participant selected.
- #2230: BUG - A JavaScript error was raised when sorting the directory column in the synchronization logs list.
- #2203: BUG - Some labels were always displayed in English only.
- #2214: BUG - An exception was raised when sorting request list by process data column.
- #2215: FCT - It is now possible to resize the mini navigation map in the Flash workflow designer.

WorkflowGen v5.0.33

WFG Team — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:25:05 +0000

Portal
- #2213: BUG - An exception was raised when searching requests with a TEXT process data filter in Oracle.
- #2132: BUG - Exclusive access control issue when two users are launching the same action at the same moment.
- #2220: BUG - An exception error was raised when completing a request without the "Archive action associated data" and with at least one process data in read-only used as an action parameter.
- #2224: BUG - A JavaScript syntax error was raised in the portal and admin module when used with the language German (Switzerland).

Administration
- #2134: BUG - Lists CSS styles were not maintained when navigating with the browsers Back and Forward buttons.
- #2137: BUG - An exception was raised when changing process participant or data display order after item deletion.
- #2208: BUG - Process participant supervisor permissions were lost when importing a process XPDL.
- #2211: BUG - Configuration panel access validation on the username is now case insensitive.
- #2217: BUG - A JavaScript error was raised when adding many groups to a participant.
- #2222: BUG - Global and process participant unique record error message is now more clear.