Novunex Platform Updates

This page summarizes improvement, new features and general changes of the Novunex Platform. The version of the Novunex Platform you are working with is given in the bottom left corner of your screen.

Client version information on the bottom left corner of the Novunex screen.

Special plans and update path are available upon request from Novunex.


Update 25 Dec 2021 - Platform Version 4831

Features
  • #11674 Process inspector date filter

Description: The process inspector does now provide a date filter (from - to).

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #11673 Bar chart sort order issue

Description: Dates in bar charts used to be not correctly sorted in some cases.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • #11672 Grid control label renaming

Description: Some configuration labels in the grid form control within the process form designer were renamed to be more descriptive.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 22 Dec 2021 - Platform Version 4823

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #11611 Public API memory leak

Description: A potential memory leak in the public API is now fixed.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • #11612 Entity type forbidden names

Description: “Setting” is now a forbidden entity type name and will be checked during the entity type creation.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 19 Dec 2021 - Platform Version 4813

Features
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Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
  • #11563 Process Inspector

Description: Debug, cancelled, closed and running filters do now only show parent process instances. Faulted filter does now only show faulted process instances. By clicking on an instance, the hierarchy is shown in the details.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 04 Dec 2021 - Platform Version 4765

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #11372 Excel to PDF conversion issue

Description: Converting an Excel report to PDF could have lead into timeout issues, if the Excel did contain empty sheets.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 20 Oct 2021 - Platform Version 4618

Features
  • #10663 Chart designer extensions

Description: Chart designer now includes info box widget, progress bar and trend bar.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #10662 Excel to PDF convertion issue

Description: Using an Excel template, including formulas, PDF conversion might not have included accurate calculated values.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 12 Dec 2021 - Platform Version 4798

Features
  • #11480 Data explorer widget context menu

Description: Data Explorer widget now offers a context menu to execute multiple processes for editing.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #11483 Dropdown filter widget enhancement

Description: The dropdown filter widget does now remember the last selection when returning to the screen.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #11485 Data explorer widget “open in new tab”

Description: Data Explorer widget does now offer a configuration to open the link in a new browser tab.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #11486 Kanban board in chart designer

Description: A new Kanban board with extended functionality can now be created via the chart designer.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #11476 Report viewer form control filter issue

Description: Report viewer form control used to disable fields in case of using the filter button.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Description: A hyperlink from a hyperlink form control used to be still clickable in case the hyperlink control was disabled.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #11481 Explorer select from control configuration issue

Description: The display order configuration does now work correctly for the Explorer-Select form control.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #11482 Inline form button configuration issue

Description: Inline form button used to allow to configure “show comment” and “signature” even when “sign” action was not selected.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • #11478 Remove disable condition from readonly controls

Description: Disable condition was removed from read-only form controls and data-viewer control.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect yourorganization: N/A

Description: Hyperlink form control configuration label was changed from “Download required” to “Click required”.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 10 Oct 2021 - Platform Version 4584

Features
  • #10516 Dropdown options ordered by display attribute

Description: Dropdown options in process forms are now always ordered by display attribute.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #10517 Extend file activity

Description: File activity now allows resizing images based on configuration settings.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
  • None

Update 30 Nov 2021 - Platform Version 4759

Features
  • #11266 Height setting in text editor

Description: A default height setting can now be configured for the “Text Editor” form control.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #11269 Nested groups in Word templates

Description: Nested groups in mail merge (Word templates) can now be used to be build parent-child data relational templates.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
  • #11267 Removed “out of office” from user profile

Description: The “out of office” setting was removed from the user profile.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #11268 Report generation timeout issue

Description: Excel reports, returning a huge amount of records via data query, used to run into timeout issues.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 14 Nov 2021 - Platform Version 4709

Features
  • #11080 Multilanguage support

Description: Report Explorer widget columns can now be translated into different languages.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #11082 Heatmap chart in chart designer

Description: “Heat Map” charts are now available in the chart designer.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #11079 Chart designer “save as” issue

Description: The “Save as” feature within the chart designer did not save the chart with a new name.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 07 Oct 2021 - Platform Version 4574

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #10460 Home dashboard bundle missing

Description: Not all widgets used to be displayed correctly due to missing bundles in home dashboards.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect yourorganization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 28 Sep 2021 - Platform Version 4521

Features
  • #10195 Multi language support

Description: Multi-language support is now enabled for dashboard widget configurations.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
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Update 17 Sep 2021 - Platform Version 4469

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #10082 Form validation rule issue

Description: The form validation rule, to enforce users to insert at least one record in array controls, was not executed and the user was able to complete the form.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #10083 Language feature issue

Description: Language feature caused issues during form completion operations.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 09 Nov 2021 - Platform Version 4696

Features
  • #11003 Process inspector enhancement

Description: The process inspector does now show all levels of child process instances.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #11002 Process form refresh issue

Description: The return URL used to prevent refreshing of a form after clicking on a button and returning to the same form.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • #11007 Rename “report” to “data query”

Description: The label “Report” in the form dropdown configuration is renamed to “Data Query”.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 30 Oct 2021 - Platform Version 4644

Features
  • #10872 Account/subscription management

Description: Existing subscriptions can be renamed and the “IsSimulation” flag can now be changed directly in account management.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #10871 Form validation issue

Description: The form validation did not work if multiple controls with the same name in a form were used.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #10874 Excel to PDF conversion issue

Description: PDF conversion did not recognize landscape orientations if used in Excel templates.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #10875 Kanban board widget scrolling issue

Description: Kanban widget used to not auto-scroll left and right when a tile was held and needed to be dropped in a column that was currently not shown.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • #10873 Editor form control issue

Description: In case HTML text was copied to the “Text Editor” form control, some characters used not to be interpreted if the value was used in the mail merge feature of report templates.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 14 Mar 2021 - Platform Version 3848

Features
  • #6804 Split Data Editor and Data Explorer permission

Description: The user group permission “Data Editor and Explorer” is split to 2 separate resource permissions now: “Data Editor”, “Data Explorer”

What you need to do to prepare: Please configure any Data Editor or Data Explorer permissions if your organization is facilitating these roles. Per default the access is enabled for Data Explorer only.

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
  • None

Update 05 Oct 2021 - Platform Version 4554

Features
  • #10259 Dashboard widget localization

Description: Localization feature is now available for dashboard widgets.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Description: Localization management screen now offers a search possibility to search entries via key or translation value.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #10377 Predefined variable to access client domain name

Description: The new predefined variable ##[CurrentDomain] allows to access the client domain name.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #10325 Markeplace “Entity Type not found” issue

Description: Marketplace package creation threw “Entity Type not found” exception in some cases.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #10326 Data queries issues with DateTimeOffsets

Description: Data Queries did not support data type “DateTimeOffset” in result sets when used in templates.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #10335 Update entity type issue

Description: Update entity type - view was deleted in some cases - e.g. unique attribute validation failed.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #10376 SUM expression issue

Description: SUM expression used to calculate results incorrectly, if using values from paged grid with multiple pages.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • #10327 Improvement of delegation feature

Description: A clear separation between task sharing (user profile) and task delegation (task list) is added.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #10328 Process inspector retrigger issue if current activity is a form step

Description: Process Inspector does no longer retrigger a process instance after entering a form step.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #10330 Process steps depreciation

Description: The creation of new combined process steps is no longer possible. Existing process steps are still supported and can be modified.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 10 Mar 2021 - Platform Version 3838

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #6733 Dropdown issues

Description: Fix several issues with dropdown control

What you need to do to prepare: Admin will need to use False||Null instead of !True when filtering if a boolean is used in order to get all values that match the not true value.

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 26 Sep 2021 - Platform Version 4510

Features
  • #10190 Description field in subscription settings

Description: Description field is now available in subscription settings.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #10193 User group permissions got deleted during deployment

Description: Existing user groups lost their permission settings in target subscription, after using the deployment feature.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #10194 Upgrade process instance issue

Description: Upgrading an existing process instance to the latest process version led to a wrong process instance definition.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 29 Aug 2021 - Platform Version 4400

Features
  • #9838 Process Inspector - button to open process

Description: Process instance can be opened directly from process inspector.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9841 Chart Designer - color from query column

Description: The chart designer now allows to use the result of a color column from a data query.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #9839 Form owner calculation issue

Description: Form activity did not set the ownership for the following form.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9840 Process Inspector - order of sub processes

Description: The order of sub processes and process steps in the Process Inspector is now changed into chronological order.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 10 Mar 2021 - Platform Version 3832

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
  • None

Update 09 Mar 2021 - Platform Version 3828

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
  • None

Update 09 Mar 2021 - Platform Version 3824

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
  • None

Update 13 Sep 2021 - Platform Version 4459

Features
  • #9987 Resize existing images

Description: An API method is now available to resize existing file images.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9992 Update user group description in deployments

Description: The User Group description and recommendation is now updated during the deployment to a different subscription or account.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #9988 User dropdown is showing empty list

Description: User dropdowns used to show an empty list in case of using a “NOT Filter” via expression control.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9990 Report viewer widget missing order by

Description: “Order by” is now working properly for report viewer widgets.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9993 Text editor control disable not working

Description: The “Text Editor” control in the form designer can now be disabled using the “disable” control configuration or the conditional disabling feature.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Description: Form activity configuration screen was missing the link to the expression editor for some settings where expression editor was used.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • #9994 Move “Junction” to Basic group

Description: The “Junction” activity is now in “Basic” group in the process designer.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 25 Jul 2021 - Platform Version 4340

Features
  • #9446 Multilanguage support

Description: Multi language support for process forms and menu items.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
  • None

Update 31 Mar 2021 - Platform Version 3900

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #7373 Dropdown not reset if filter changed

Description: The dropdown control did not reset the current selection and did not display a valid option with specific parameters.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: In case the dropdown control is still not showing the correct values, the browser cache should be cleared accordingly (some browsers are using aggressive caching methods and prevent a successful fix with this rollout).

Changes
  • None

Update 24 Aug 2021 - Platform Version 4387

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #9757 Page count issue in data explorer in some cases

Description: Data Explorer used to show the wrong page count if the search result includes matches with display member of reference properties.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9759 Create activity list properties with empty values

Description: Assigning empty values to list properties of an entity, using the “Create” activity, was leading to entity loading issues.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9760 Multi approver form issues with delegates

Description: If using a delegate in a multi approver form, the delegation did reset existing approvals of other owners.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 08 Aug 2021 - Platform Version 4360

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #9552 Conditional required rule issue

Description: Required input rule failed if rule based on conditions was switched off and on.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9554 “Less Than” validation issue if using values from expressions

Description: “Less than” validation for number control was not working in Form Activity if comparing a value against an expression control.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9556 Task from other users showing up in MyTask List

Description: In more than three level process instances, a user task could be visible to others users in special configuration scenarios.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 18 Jul 2021 - Platform Version 4329

Features
  • #9381 Upload image and resize

Description: Core API is extended with image upload and resize functionality to support custom widget development.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9382 “End Process” activity enhancements

Description: “End Process activity” now supports process instance termination based on created or cloned entities.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #9378 Activity setting display order

Description: Activity settings did ignore predefined display order in configuration screen.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9379 Data query builder labeling

Description: Labels in Data Query builder were renamed from “Report” to “Data Query”.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9380 HTTP activity file upload issue

Description: Non-ISO characters in file upload were lost if using HTTP activity.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 02 Jul 2021 - Platform Version 4286

Features
  • #9113 Integrate cloud convert API v2

Description: CloudConvert API (alternative to build-in) was upgraded to use version 2.

What you need to do to prepare: Register new API key in account management settings

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #9107 Public API did not expect JSON arrays

Description: Public API did not expect JSON arrays in process start parameters.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9109 Form widgets could not be deleted

Description: An exception was thrown when form widgets were deleted.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9111 Entity process history missing

Description: Entity process history entry was missing in some cases.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #9112 Dropdown configuration missing after deployments

Description: Data source configuration was not set correctly after deploying form widgets to a different subscription.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • #9110 Allow bigger customer logos

Description: The margin is removed in the customer logo div to increase the logo visualization space.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 17 Jun 2021 - Platform Version 4247

Features
  • #8865 Data Explorer edit button open process in new tab

Description: The Data Explorer widget allows opening a process in a new to instead of the current window, when using the edit button.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #8866 Data Explorer exception in search feature

Description: Data Explorer did throw an exception when using search in some cases: “Conversion failed when converting the nvarchar value ‘[]’ to data type int”

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8868 Process history in data explorer not showing latest process

Description: Process history in Data Explorer shows only the first process.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • #8869 Remove some settings in serial number definition

Description: Balance and script settings in serial number definitions are deprecated and removed.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 19 May 2021 - Platform Version 4185

Features
  • #8391 HTML render in Word reports

Description: Word reports can now render HTML content in mail merge fields.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8392 “Data Explorer” paging in history

Description: Paging is now available in “Data Explorer” history records.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8393 Signature handling with OpenId flow

Description: The signature release flow has been changed to accommodate MFA authentication requirements.

What you need to do to prepare: ROPC flow can be enabled in account management.

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
  • None

Update 24 May 2021 - Platform Version 4215

Features
  • #8595 New entity type data type: Big Integer

Description: Data type big integer is now available to store 8 byte numeric data.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8596 Entity type attribute decimal: define precision

Description: Data type decimal allows to define precision and scale.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8597 Make data queries, dashboards, entity types searchable by GUID

Description: Data Query, Dashboard and Entity Type lists allow search via GUID.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Description: Hyperlink control in process form designer supports mandatory check. This ensures that the user must click on a hyperlink to be able to finish a form.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8602 Administration activity assign subscription

Description: Administration activity, to create and manage user and user groups, supports subscription assignment of users.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8603 Expressions to parse JSON strings

Description: New expressions (formulas) are available to easier access properties and paths of JSON strings.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #8598 Double Processes with “Save as”

Description: Process designer “Save as…” saves the process only once, when hitting save button multiple times.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 08 May 2021 - Platform Version 4154

Features
  • #8284 Menu identifier when sub menu items are available

Description: Menu items display a small arrow in case of having sub menu items to open.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8287 Kanban widget event

Description: Kanban widget throws an event when the widget is initialized and loaded.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #8281 Wrong page count in “Data Explorer” column filter

Description: The page count displayed in the “Data Explorer” column filter was not calculated correctly, this lead to multiple empty pages to click.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8282 Dropdown search issue

Description: Search in form dropdowns did not work when using the data source from a query.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8286 Scrolling not possible in collapsed menu

Description: Scrolling was not possible in case of a collapsed menu containing more items than available screen space.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 30 Apr 2021 - Platform Version 4115

Features
  • #8006 Live notifications to client

Description: Client can retrieve live notifications from backend services to refresh widgets automatically (based on configuration).

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #8003 “Data Editor” does not display predefined lookup values

Description: “Data Editor” did not visualize data of array lookup attributes.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8004 Popup dashboards not refreshing data

Description: Popup dashboards did not refresh the data immediately and could display “old” data.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8064 “Data Explorer” widget issues filtering arrays

Description: “Data Explorer” widget, used in dashboards, did not display array attribute values correctly in filter popup. Additionally, the chosen filtering option did not return any result.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #8121 Clear array attributes issue

Description: Update entity ignored clearing of array attribute values.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 22 Apr 2021 - Platform Version 4073

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #7890 Kanban widget overrides entity attributes

Description: As the kanban widget cached loaded entity data, it could overwrite changed entity attributes.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7891 Update entity attributes

Description: Update entity attributes, triggered from custom widget API calls, might override existing attributes if body data not delivered in a proper way.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7892 Entity type list loading time

Description: Entity type lists - used in several places, like entity type overview, data editor, data explorer, attribute refrence selection, etc. - could have longer loading times.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 17 Apr 2021 - Platform Version 4052

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #7834 File storage access issue

Description: In some cases, it was not possible to download a file from the Azure storage.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7835 Process inspector query timeout

Description: The “Process Inspector” might throw a timeout exception in case of a large amount of open process instances.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7836 Create entity via entity type GUID issue

Description: Using the core API in HTML widgets, to create entities, did not work with entity type GUID instead of Id.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7837 Zero values not displayed in data view grids

Description: Zero values in numeric attributes were not shown (empty controls) in dashboard data view grids.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Description: The search for reference array attributes in “Data Editor” did not work.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7840 Deployment process issue

Description: Deployment of processes to different subscriptions could fail in some cases.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 10 Apr 2021 - Platform Version 3947

Features
  • #7688 Process Designer - Indicator if using output conditions

Description: Indicator to visualize activity outcomes using script conditions.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7690 Display GUID in data query, entity type and dashboard

Description: Generated GUID is displayed in entity type editor, data query editor and dashboard editor.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7691 Task list widget - enable process filter

Description: Task list widget allows to filter processes based on configuration.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #7687 Dropdown loading issue

Description: Dropdown could stop loading in case of using specific parameters.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7689 Conditional rules - access to global variables

Description: Some global variables could not be accessed in condition/rule builder.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7692 Teams integration - page loading issue

Description: Novunex Teams integration app did not display the dashboard after login without using a manual refresh.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 04 Apr 2021 - Platform Version 3928

Features
  • #7561 Display build number

Description: Client app now displays the current build number.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7562 Chart designer - custom JSON

Description: Chart designer now allows overriding and extending chart properties with custom JSON definitions.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7563 “Report” activity - overwrite file name

Description: Report activity can now create a file name based on configuration.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7564 “Serial Number” activity

Description: Serial number activity is now able to store the output into a context variable.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7565 Browser not supported message

Description: Client displays warning in case of using an unsupported legacy browser.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
  • #7566 Remove public controllers from core service

Description: Public API interface URLs standardized and are not exposed in core services anymore.

What you need to do to prepare: All external calls (for any integration scenario) must use the new public domain as host name. All other URLs for API calls are considered deprecated.

How this will affect your organization: N/A


Update 25 Mar 2021 - Platform Version 3884

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #7109 “Search Entity” wrong page result

Description: Search entity results with specific parameters, as a response shown in data explorer and widgets, returned a page statistics result that did not match the actual page size.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7110 Characters used in specific fonts (Chinese language) are not shown in document title

Description: Non-ISO-8859-1 characters in the document title were not included in the file name.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7112 Display bug at “compare tab” in Entity History Explorer

Description: The data explorer history comparison feature - “compare with previous record” - displayed an entity attribute value as [object.Object], instead of the real value.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7113 Missing value in “modified by” column in entity history

Description: “Modified by” column in “Entity History” page in data explorer was missing for “current” record.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7114 Dropdown not reset if filter changed

Description: The dropdown control did not reset the current selection and did not display a valid option with specific parameters.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7128 Dropdown showing ID instead of display value

Description: The dropdown control did show the ID as the chosen option instead of the real display value with specific parameters.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7142 Entity history current record

Description: Entity history current record was shown in the wrong sort order in the history list.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7277 Correlation Id mismatch

Description: Correlation Id was not stored correctly in the subscription log.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #7278 Data query deployment issue

Description: Deployments to different subscriptions did not overwrite data queries with previous state “deleted”.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 15 Mar 2021 - Platform Version 3852

Features
  • #7289 Split “Data Editor” and “Data Explorer” permission

Description: The user group permission “Data Editor and Explorer” is split to 2 separate resource permissions now: “Data Editor”, “Data Explorer”.

What you need to do to prepare: Please configure any Data Editor or Data Explorer permissions if your organization is facilitating these roles. Per default the access is enabled for Data Explorer only.

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #6847 Dropdown loading issue if wrong default value

Description: If a wrong default value is set for a dropdown in configuration, then the form could not load. Wrong default values are ignored now and the form is still able to fully load.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 06 Mar 2021 - Platform Version 3819

Features
  • #6645 WO21020700 - Marketplace

Description: Marketplace feature

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #6643 WO21030749 - public API entity list paging issues

Description: Public API entity list paging issues

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #6644 WO21030745 - list entity attributes containing multiple same items throws exception

Description: entity attributes defined as list, containing multiple same items, throws exception in data explorer, but not data editor

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 28 Feb 2021 - Platform Version 3808

Features
  • #6475 WO21020696 - Dropdown filter widget using select2

Description: Dropdown filter widget using new select2 component to allow search through options in a more soffisticated way

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: Clear browser cache

  • #6477 WO21020591 - sortable lists (Id, Name, ModificationDate, CreationDate)

Description: Main lists in entity type, reports, processes, dashboards, etc should be sortable by Id, Name, ModificationDate and CreationDate

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #6476 WO21020712 - User group permission overview - displayed deleted processes

Description: User group permission overview should not show already deleted processes

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: Kathy:“Tested, worked well.”

Changes
  • None

Update 22 Feb 2021 - Platform Version 3794

Features
  • #6334 WO21020697 - Deployment User group including permissions

Description: If user groups are deployed to other subscriptions, then take over permission settings as well

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #6335 Dropdown - error in console

Description: GET 404 Error in console if using dropdown controls with NON Id values

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 14 Feb 2021 - Platform Version 3770

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #6113 WO21020654 - Dropdown filter widget issue with multiple url parametesr

Description: Issue if dropdown url parameters using similar parameter names, e.g. LotNumber, LotNumberC

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #6114 WO21020650 - Dropdown issue in process forms

Description: Dropdown issue in process form if using data source = Report/Data Query and report doesn’t deliver a value which is set on dropdown

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 08 Feb 2021 - Platform Version 3765

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #5968 Missing bundle

Description: Regenerate API keys test failed in previous QA release

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #5969 Debug form context view - missing scroll bars

Description: No scroll bars anymore in debug - form step - manage context - found by Heimo

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 19 Feb 2021 - Platform Version 3788

Features
  • None
Bugfixes
  • #6270 WO21020683 - Dropdown issue in case of non Id value

Description: Dropdown in process form, using ValueMember a non ID attribute, fails loading if a value was set and saved

What you need to do to prepare: Combined display attribute will not work as display attribute - nothing is shown. Is Loading correctly after value is set and saved - exception: using a grid. When using a grid, nothing is saved.

How this will affect your organization: Browser cache must be cleared

  • #6271 WO21020674 - Dropdown issue in case of default value

Description: A default value in dropdown control creates issues in loading a form

What you need to do to prepare: Works fine

How this will affect your organization: Browser cache must be cleared

  • #6272 WO21020672 - Dropdown issue in case of using list arrays

Description: Dropdown control as array with datasource from Report/Query throws an exception

What you need to do to prepare: Works fine

How this will affect your organization: Browser cache must be cleared

  • #6273 WO21020670 - Load entity by unique value issue

Description: Load entity by unique values could return wrong result

What you need to do to prepare: Works as expected - cannot add same value twice (in the same entity type). But can add the same unique integer in two different EntityTypes

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #6274 WO21020659 - Deployment file template issue

Description: Deployment of a Report/Query with an attached file results in an empty file with no URL set

What you need to do to prepare: Works fine

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #6275 Entity Type creation issue with array attributes and unique values

Description: Creating an entity type with an attribute as array in combination with is unique flag throws an exception

What you need to do to prepare: Cannot create a entity attribute which is an array with an unique constraint.

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 05 Feb 2021 - Platform Version 3752

Features
  • #5858 public api dataquery/report

Description: additional public api function to deliver report/dataquery result

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • None
Changes
  • None

Update 06 Feb 2021 - Platform Version 3759

Features
  • #5887 WO21020612 - Manage API Subscription keys in account mgmt

Description: API Subscription keys (used for public api calls) are visible in account mgmt. Keys can be re-generated

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: The API key is shown when clicking on “show”. When trying to re-generate it will give an error: “Unexpected System Error The api server encountered an unexpected system error. Please contact support or try again.”

  • #5888 WO21010332 - Overdue flag in task list

Description: Overdue tasks in task list on main dashboard are highlighted and more visible

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #5889 WO21020607 - Process parameter display issue

Description: If defining multiple process input parameters, wrong names (always name of first parameter) were displayed if starting the process in debug mode

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • None

Update 04 Feb 2021 - Platform Version 3742

Features
  • #5775 WO21010316 - User Group Soft Delete

Description: A deleted user group is kept hidden in the system to avoid reference issues in entity arrays

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #5776 Data Editor not displaying values

Description: Data Editor did not display data in some circumstances

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #5777 WO21020578 - Form SQL Validation Issue if using # charachters

Description: Form validation on controls using SQL did not work correctly if # characters are used in the expected input

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #5778 WO21010560 - Dropdown issue if using parameter from context

Description: Console error in case of using dropdown from report and provided parameter are #context variables

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: Both options (context variable and #myIrgendwas.Attribute) work

Changes
  • None

Update 30 Jan 2021 - Platform Version 3726

Features
  • #5438 WO21010420 - Entity Type via GUID

Description: Entity type can be retrieved by using the GUID instead of ID

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #5439 WO21010420 - Add entity can use GUID in entity type object

Description: /api/entity/v2 Can use Id, GUID or Name property in entity type object

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: Timo > there were no v2 Delete to find, so he used v1 delete

Bugfixes
  • #5432 WO21010554 - DataExplorer page size inconsistency

Description: If entities have multiple process history entries, then wrong amount of data (page size) are displayed in the data explorer

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: Creating the record with the first process works without any problems. Updating the same record with a separate process works fine as well.

  • #5433 WO21010527 - Double scroll bar in popup windows

Description: Dashboard popup windows have 2 scroll bars visible - cosmetic fix

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: Only one visible scrollbar

  • #5434 WO21010521 - Drop down search issue if using combined columns

Description: Drop down search delivered no result in case of using combined display attributes

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: User can use search in form dropdowns in processes.

  • #5435 WO21010516 - Start Process Widget Label issue

Description: Configured labels in “Start Process” widget are not matching the order of configured processes

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: Lables do now match the correct process.

  • #5436 WO21010503 - Data Explorer widget settings lost when dashboard is deployed

Description: Hyperlink settings are lost after deploying a dashboard to a different subscription

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: Deployment to another instance and again to another one was successful - no hyperlink settings disappeared - All good!

  • #5437 WO21010495 - Exception in SQL create/update if parameter value includes

Description: SQL create/update activity throws an exception if one of the provided parameter includes a # sign in the value

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: Values can contain a few # signs without trouble using the update or the create SQL activity

Changes
  • None

Update 23 Jan 2021 - Platform Version 3705

Features
  • #5162 Reports accessible via GUID

Description: Report services and client feature can run and access reports via ID and GUID now. The needed link need to follow this pattern: url/report/run/guid e.g. https://yourAccount.novunex.app/report/run/868e414a-7307-4cd4-9e62-3d9dbc30a37c | Report needs a template

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #5165 Formulas can start with “=” sign

Description: All backend activity settings (using formulas) can start with a “=” sign to identitify the usage of formulas. Backwards compatibility is ensured, “$” and included # values still working

What you need to do to prepare:

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Bugfixes
  • #5159 Entity Type editor - reference dropdown loading issue

Description: Reference data loading issue in attribute dropdowns in entity type editor leads to wrong data in attribute settings in some circumstances, especially working with remote instance accounts.

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #5160 Chart designer and widget javascript errors

Description: Chart designer and chart widget throws javascript errors in browser console

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #5161 Dashboard deployment losing IsHistory flag

Description: If a dashboard gets deployed to another subscription, and this subscription has no active dashboard with the same GUID, the deployed dashboard is still invisible because of missing correct IsHistory flag setting. Dashboard might not be visisble after deployment

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #5163 Entity history issue in data explorer

Description: If some historical entities having null values in array attributes, then history viewer hangs during rendering the data

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

  • #5164 Dashboards retrieved via GUID can display widgets in wrong order

Description: Dashboards retrieved via GUID (instead of ID) can display the widgets in a wrong order due a different backend query

What you need to do to prepare: N/A

How this will affect your organization: N/A

Changes
  • #5173 API Interfaces Depreciated

Description: API domains such as public-novunex-services.novunex.app, public-us.novunex.app, public-eu.novunex.app will be depreciated by the end of this release cycle

What you need to do to prepare: Please migrate all your external process calls and external interfaces to the API to the new public domain.

How this will affect your organization: N/A