Autoform DM 8.4 Release Notes

DM Release Version 8.4

Release date: 3rd July 2019

Notable Changes

These changes should be considered before upgrading:

• Fixed an issue in name validation which incorrectly allowed names such as ‘test’-, -‘test’ and ‘test—’.

• Names can no longer start or end with a dash, or have more than one consecutive dash. 

New Features

The following new features have been added since our last release:

Configuration Management

The new import and export screens allow AUTOFORM DM administrators to streamline management of their configuration across environments, as well as boasting the following features:

• REST API resources to automate export, validate and import operations.

• Intuitive and flexible UI for selective export creation.

• UI for validation / import providing feedback and error reporting.

REST API

• Added ‘Client App’ Resource.

• Added ‘Settings’ and ‘Custom Settings’ Resource.

• Added ‘Configuration Management’ Resource.

• Update ‘Documents’ resource with an endpoint for deleting document files while maintaining metadata.

Fixes

The following list contains details of fixes we have implemented since the last release:

• Default input functions on query keys can now be parsed correctly when the field is empty.

• The list of document definitions is no longer cut-off at the bottom of the screen when more document definitions are added.

• Resolved an issue preventing users with special characters in their username from changing their password.

• Unsaved changes warning dialog now always shows on key and document definition manager pages.

• The Footer no longer overlaps with long document definition lists.

• The Add button works with longer lists when binding document definitions and key definitions.

• Group deletion now updates application access via groups.

• Resolved an issue preventing the update of application visibility.

• REST API now checks user status correctly during authorisation.

• We have tidied a misleading WARN message from logs.

• Resolved an issue where enabling password expiration caused exceptions in the logs.

• Spaces in document file extension no longer cause issues.

• Attempting to create a keydef with a duplicate DB identifier now shows the correct response code.

• Resolved issues around duplicate system keys in search results.

• Login screen message now correctly shows a new icon.

• Removed misleading automatic updating option from search configuration.

• Applications of different types but with the same name are handled correctly by the front-end.

• Temporary password no longer visible in log files when resetting the password.

• Entering an invalid account expiry date now prevents user creation.

• Removed the numbering option from the search configuration.

• Improved user roles mapping to better enforce the relationship.

• Updating documents by CUK in webservices v1 should now work as expected.

• Added logic to prevent being able to disable all admin users (via roles removal).

• Note metadata and icons now display correctly in search results.

• Screens now gracefully handle invalid names.

• Resolved various cases of UTF-8 characters not rendering correctly in the front end.

• Resolved a problem preventing the uninstaller from removing all files and registry entries.

• Sorting by document definition in searches no longer throws errors.

• Resolved issue allowing deletion of the ‘last’ admin user in some cases.

• User property labels are now correctly translated via webservices v1.