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.