Summary
Laserfiche Workflow 8.3.1 is a minor release. For a detailed list of changes, please see Knowledge Base article 1012950.
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
Note: If you install Workflow components (the Designer, Subscriber, and/or Administration Console) on a different computer than the Workflow Server, you must have domain authentication within your network to let those components connect to the Workflow Server.
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 Server | Scheduled workflows will not start if the Workflow Server is running on a non-standard port. | 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 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 | 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 | 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 Install | When upgrading from Workflow 8.3 to Workflow 8.3.1, if you select "Ignore" on the "Files in Use" prompt instead of stopping the running services, and if you select "No" when prompted to restart your computer, you will receive the error: "The process terminated unexpectedly." It is safe to ignore this error, but you still must restart your computer to successfully complete the installation. (86303) | 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 Install | 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 Install | 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 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 | The Time token does not record seconds. (75630) | 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 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 | If a Routing Decision activity is running as a task and none of the conditions on its branches are met, the activity will never finish. Always include an exception branch when configuring a Routing Decision activity. (86186) | 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 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 | 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 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 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 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 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 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 change Workflow Servers in the Options dialog, the status bar at the bottom of the Workflow Designer may not update with the new Server name. (81991) | Workflow Designer | Dates and times used in the Token Calculator activity will be converted to numbers and included in the mathematical operations that are performed. To add or subtract dates and times, use the Date Token Calculator activity. (82196) | Workflow Designer | The Date Token Calculator activity does not let you insert an hour greater than 12 or less than 1, even if 24 hours is selected as the time type. If a token placed here, the activity runs correctly. (85994) | 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 | Custom trustee properties are not available in the token menu the first time you open the Routing Activity Options dialog for Route Entry to User and Route Entry to Group activities. You can access these tokens by closing and re-opening the Routing Activity Options dialog or by using the Token Dialog. (85823) | 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) | Workflow Designer | If you replace a custom activity assembly by adding a new assembly to the Toolbox, the custom activity assembly will not be update and Workflow will continue to use the old assembly. If you want to replace a custom activity assembly with a new version, you need to remove the existing assembly, close and re-open the Workflow Designer, and then add the new version of the assembly. (83592) | 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 | Microsoft Hotfix KB2183292 may be required for Workflow to send e-mails with attachments larger than 3 MB. (73332) |
Related Links
Release and Hotfix Information for Laserfiche Workflow 8.3.1.