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.