Summary
Laserfiche Workflow 8.3 is a major release. For a detailed list of changes, please see Knowledge Base article 1012839.
Workflow 8.3 System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems
Note: 32-bit and 64-bit versions supported for all Workflow 8 components.
Requirements for the Workflow Designer
Requirements for the Workflow Server and Subscriber
Software Requirements
Windows Components
Supported Database Management Systems
Note: If you are using an Oracle DBMS, the Oracle Client 11.2.0.2.1 with the corresponding version of Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) must be installed on the machine hosting the Workflow Server.
Laserfiche Components
| Component | Known Issue | Workflow Designer | The PDF Viewer (used in the Retrieve PDF Form Content and Fill Out PDF Forms activities) does not load dynamic xfa PDFs. (71927) | Workflow Designer | Microsoft Hotfix KB2183292 may be required for Workflow to send e-mails with attachments larger than 3 MB. (73332) | Workflow Designer | Workflow 8.0 scripts copied verbatim into a Workflow 8.3 script activity (that uses LFSO81, 82, or 83) may not run in Workflow 8.3 due to changes in LFSO. Migrated scripts should run correctly. (73628) | Workflow Subscriber | If you installed your Workflow Server and Subscriber on different computers, additional Microsoft Message Queuing configuration may be required. See the Workflow 8.3 Installation Guide for specific instructions. (78523) | Workflow Subscriber | If you installed your Workflow Server and Subscriber on different computers, you may need to provide domain authentication instead of using Local System Account when configuring the Workflow Subscriber. (77933) | Workflow Subscriber | Stopping a Workflow Subscriber Service will not unregister the Subscriber from the Workflow Server. To remove a Workflow Subscriber you must delete it in the Workflow Administration Console. (78860) | Workflow Server | Installing .NET 4.0 resets the Microsoft Message Queuing Service. If you install .NET 4.0 on a machine running the Workflow 8.0 Server, the Workflow Server service will be stopped and may need to be manually restarted. (78689) | Workflow Server | Worflow's Installation silently fails and rolls back if you try to create a firewall exception when the firewall service is disabled. Either enable the firewall service or clear the option to make a firewall exception in the Installation Wizard. (82407) | Workflow Server | If you are installing Workflow on a computer running Windows XP, you will not have the option to automatically create a Windows Firewall exception for port 8085 during installation. (The Workflow Server uses this port to communicate with other Workflow components.) Instead, you must manually open port 8085 in the Windows Firewall. (79698) | Workflow Server | Uninstalling Workflow does not deactivate your license. Prior to uninstalling, you must delete the license in the Workflow Administration Console to deactive it. | Workflow Server | The E-mail activity (and the e-mail portions of the Routing activities) will not send messages unless the "Sender Address" is a valid sender e-mail address for the login that the Workflow Server service is using. See KB1012838. (67972 and 68560) | Workflow Server | The summaries for the Parent Folder: Parent Contents, Parent Folder: Parent Contents (recursive), Folder: Contents, and Folder: Contents (recursive) conditions indicate that the conditions apply to the Starting Entry. The conditions actually apply to any entry in the parent folder or folder. (79476) |
| Workflow Designer | If you copy and paste multiple starting rules from one workflow into another workflow, only the first pasted starting rule will retain its conditions, all the other starting rules will revert to the default condition. (82215) | Workflow Designer | When you close an unsaved workflow, you will be prompted to save, publish, or discard the workflow. If you choose to publish your workflow and your Workflow Server is down, the workflow will fail to publish and all unsaved work will be lost. (81147) | Workflow Server | If you are running an Oracle database, you cannot create the WFADOUSER$ in the ADO.NET node. If you try to create the user in this node, Workflow will not tell you the action failed. You must create the user outside of Workflow. (80929) | Workflow Server | If SQL encounters error 1105 (out of disk space) Workflow will continue to process, but workflows will fail to write data to the database producing errant behavior and inaccurate results. (81064) | Workflow Server | The Time token does not record seconds. (75630) | Workflow Designer | The Page Setup dialog will crash the Workflow Designer if the printer specified is not installed. (82000) | Workflow Designer | Laserfiche Metadata is not validated when workflows are imported. If you change a workflow's connection profile when importing, the metadata may be invalid and no validation warning will appear. You can manually validate the workflow in the Designer. (52468) | Workflow Designer | The Table feature of the Retrieve PDF Form Content activity stores a series of fields as a multi-value token. However, if one of those fields is a multi-value field (such as a list box that allows multiple items to be selected), its values will not be listed correctly in the multi-value token. (81917) |
| Workflow Designer | In Windows 7 and Windows Vista, the Workflow Designer must have elevated UAC privileges for you to make changes to the list of 'Common Profiles' connection profiles. Without these privileges, an error will be reported when you close the Common Profiles dialog indicating that access to the path 'C:\ProgramData\Laserfiche\Workflow 8.3\ConnectionProfiles.xml' is denied. (81985) |
| Workflow Designer | The Entry Name and Entry Path tokens always return the starting entry's initial name and location, even if the starting entry is renamed or is moved to a new location during the course of the workflow. Use the Change Starting Entry activity to update these tokens with the entry's current name and path. (65655) | Workflow Designer | The list of starting rules in the "Starting Rule" search type in the Search Pane will not update if you rename a starting rule unless you restart the Workflow Designer. Additionally, if your Workflow Server is down when you start the Workflow Designer the starting rule list be will missing starting rules until you restart the Workflow Designer (after you have restarted the Workflow Server). (79691) | Workflow Designer | The configured fields of the Retrieve PDF Form Fields and Fill Out PDF Form activities are not marked as invalid if the PDF master form is replaced. (72786) | Workflow Server | With the Try-Catch activity, you can only catch Workflow errors by error type, not by error code. (81766) | Workflow Designer | When using the Rename Entry activity to rename a large number of entries with the same name at the same time, some entries may not be renamed. We recommend providing a unique name for each entry. (78070) | Workflow Server | Changing an entry's owner will not satisfy an "entry change" starting condition because the Laserfiche Server does not provide a notification for this action. (71075) |
| Workflow Designer | The Referenced Objects property box will list the objects on the Workflow Server, not just the current workflow. However, all objects of a given type will only be displayed if the current workflow has at least one object of that type. (73452) | Workflow Server | The Date, Time, and Date/Time tokens are converted to text before being used in the following conditions: contains/does not contain, starts with/ends with, matches regular expression/does not match regular expression. (75086) |
| Workflow Designer | If you specify a page range to print that includes pages that do not exist, the “Printing …” message box will remain open until you click the Cancel button. (82020) | Workflow Server | The For Each Results activity will not run its contained activities if the collection of results is empty, and no warning will be reported. (65560) | Workflow Server | If you use a token to rename an entry with the Rename Entry activity and if that token has no value when the activity runs, the Rename Entry activity will be skipped and no error will be reported. (82160) | Workflow Server | When using the Token Calculator activity with field values, the activity will sometimes extract any numbers in a text field instead of treating numbers mixed with text as zero. No error will be reported. For example, a text field with the value "2,3" will be interpreted as "23." (60800) | Workflow Designer | If you select or clear the option to record file version history in a workflow's properties, your change will only take effect after you publish (or re-publish) the Workflow; it will not take effect immediately or after saving the workflow. (78805) | Workflow Server | The "cleanup shortcut" option provided in the Routing activities will not work if a Routing activity is inside the primary branch of a Deadline activity and the timeout period is reached. The shortcut can be deleted with a Delete Entry activity in the deadline branch. (49932) | Workflow Server | If you create an entry with the same name as an existing entry and if both entries are inside the same folder, the created entry will be automatically renamed--even if the created entry is of a different type (folder or document) than the existing entry. (65791) | Workflow Administration Console | In the error logs listed in the Workflow Administration Console, sometimes the last modified date for errors stays the same as the creation date and does not update. (71427) | Workflow Administration Console | Setting the view mode to "Large Icons" makes the icon text overlap. (74302) | Workflow Designer | When using the Folder Contents, Folder Contents (recursive), Parent Folder Contents, or Parent Folder Contents (recursive) conditions, the Folder Condition editor only allows for the Entry: Tag condition to be "is set." The condition "is not set" is not available. To work around this issue, put the Entry: Tag condition in its own group and set the group's logic to "False." (53400) | Workflow Designer | If you add a custom trustee property in the Workflow Administration Console and assign it a value in the Workflow Designer, the token for the property will not be available until the trustees have been refreshed. To refresh the trustees, select "Manage Directories" from the drop-down list of available repositories for an activity or click the 'Manage referenced objects' link after selecting Trustee Directories or Trustees in the workflow's Referenced Objects property box. (74690) | Workflow Server | If a Route Entry to Group activity is configured to route to "all users" and you select to use the "Routed Entry" from that activity with another activity, an "entry not found" error will occur. (54973) | Workflow Designer | If the Workflow User's Laserfiche repository password expires, the dialog to change the password will appear every time Workflow tries to connect to the repository, even if you have already updated the password in the repository. You must update the connection profile to stop from being prompted. (37024) |
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