Summary

This article documents the list of changes and new features for Workflow 9.0.2

Updates

Workflow 9.0.2 is a minor release that provides a variety of new activities, features, and updates to existing functionality. It also fixes some existing known issues.

New Activities

• The HTTP Web Request activity sends a request to a Web service and stores the response in a token.
• The HTTP Form Post activity sends a multipart/form-data POST request to a Web service and stores the result as a token.
• The Delete Links activity deletes a document relationship link between Laserfiche entries.
• The Update Step Instructions activity changes the instructions of a business process step.
• The Update Step Due Date activity changes the due date of a business process step.
• The Schedule OCR activity sends an OCR job to a Laserfiche Distributed Processing Scheduler.
• The Simple Synchronization Sequence activity allows a workflow instance to wait until a shared resource is no longer being used by the activities inside another Simple Synchronization Sequence.

Updated Activities

• The Generate Web Access URL activity now also generates URLs for search results in Web Access.
• The Create List Item activity now lets you create Document Library list items in SharePoint and works with SharePoint 2013.
• The Move Pages activity has a new token that tells you how many pages were moved.
• The Business Process Step activity now produces tokens for its instructions and resolutions.
• The Find Entry activity now has reporting options that change what information is shown in the workflow instance details.
• You can use tokens to define your pattern in the Pattern Matching activity.
• The email delivery notification option lets you specify if you want the email server to send a receipt to Workflow's sender email address in different situations.
• You can now use tokens to specify PDF passwords when encrypting a PDF to send via email.
• In the database activities, the NULL token formatting expression inserts a null value in the case that the token's value is blank (the empty string). If you want to set a column's value to the null value regardless, use the NULL token: %(DB.NULL).
• You can now specify parameter types in Custom Query activities.
• Activities that interact with entries, files, and trustees now automatically bind by default to the most relevant entry, file, or trustee if they are placed inside another activity. For example, a Rename activity placed inside a For Each Entry activity will default to the entry currently being processed instead of the starting entry.

New Workflow Administration Console Features

• Database Maintenance Timers create a schedule for how often old data will be deleted from your Workflow database. You can create different schedules for different types of data. By default, the new schedule removes completed instance data once an hour from 2:00 AM to 10 PM.
• A connection to Laserfiche Distributed Processing lets you manage which Schedulers OCR jobs will be sent to.
• Laserfiche Connection Redirects let you configure how Workflow User password changes will be handled. This feature ensures that connection profiles that rely on the Workflow User do not fail if the password is changed.

Workflow Designer Updates

• The Properties Pane now has an advanced category accessed by clicking a button.
• The Toolbox Pane has new categories to organize the growing number of activities in Workflow.
• The Run Current Workflow feature now has an option to track tokens and cookies. This option will record token and cookie values at the end of the workflow and display them in the workflow instance details.

More Features

• New token functions let you easily edit your tokens in a variety of ways. The new functions include: encode URI, remove empty items, average, split, sum, text length, and to title case.
• There are new condition types: Entry ID, parent ID, is divisible by (aka, mod), stamp name, annotation text, is version controlled, and folder entry count
• When you import workflows that connect to password protected data sources or Web services, the Import Wizard prompts you for the passwords.
• During installation you can specify IIS settings such as choosing which website to use. This option only appears if you choose to do a custom installation.
• Workflows can now be exported as an image file for large scale printing or viewing.
• You can now print workflow summaries directly from the file menu.
• There are new options for viewing the advanced category in the Properties Pane and the Connection Profiles property box.
• Double-clicking a Workflow Import File (.wfi) will now automatically open the Workflow Designer and the Import Wizard.
• Icons appear on the instance details tabs that indicate the status of the instance.
• You can now access the Trustee Directory Manager from the Trustee Directory Configuration dialog box where you select Trustee Directories to edit.
• You can now connect to a Workflow Server from the Rule Manager Pane.
• The Activity Proxy Generator has been updated to reflect the changes to the Properties Pane.
• You can now access the Error Log Viewer from the Tools menu in the Workflow Administration Console, even if you cannot connect to a Workflow Server.

Fixes

See the following fixes in Workflow 9.0.2

• There is now a GetTokenAsMultiValue function in the Workflow script API. This function returns a copy of the token as a list. (100450)
• Parent workflows no longer wait indefinitely if the child workflow returns a multi-value output parameter with lots of values. (99530)

Related Links

Release and Hotfix Information for Laserfiche Workflow 9.0.2

Release Notes for Laserfiche Workflow 9.0.2