Summary

This article highlights the new features and changes for Laserfiche Forms 10.1.

Performance Dashboard

Forms 10.1 adds a performance dashboard to go along with the operational dashboard. View metrics on process instances started or finished over a specific time period. Break down instance duration by stages and view average duration of tasks within each stage. Drill down on task durations to see user completion times for tasks.

Business Process Library

When creating new processes, you now have the option of selecting from an online library of prebuilt processes. Process templates include preconfigured process diagrams and forms as well as Laserfiche briefcase files with template and field definitions.

Operational Dashboard Updates

The operation dashboard now includes more detailed information on user task distributions. View information like the top 5 users with the most assigned tasks for a process and quickly view a list of all tasks assigned to one of the users. You can now click on tasks in the list of all tasks in the process to view all instances of that task.

Process Diagram Updates

• Signal Catch Event: Process designers can now insert Signal Catch Event objects anywhere in the process flow. In Forms 10, the catch event could only be attached directly to user tasks or sub-processes.
• Repeat Timer: There is now a "repeat" option for timer events that are attached to user tasks and sub-processes.
• Split stage: Process diagram stage headers now includes a Split stage option to facilitate creating new stages from existing stages.

Forms Designer Updates

• There is now a drop-down menu that lists out all available formulas when editing a field. On the Advanced tab, click fx to see the list of supported formulas.
• Forms now supports same row calculations in Tables and Collections. There are 3 new functions to support this feature. Use the INDEX, ROW, and TableName.ColumnName functions to retrieve values from specific cells in the table or collection. These new functions are also compatible with existing formulas like the SUM formula. For example, in a 3-column table, use the following formula in the third column to automatically sum the contents of first 2 columns:

  =SUM(INDEX(Table_VariableName.Column_VarName1,ROW()),INDEX(Table_VariableName.Column_VarName2,ROW()))

• Additional new formulas:

  Name	Format	Description	Examples
  VALUE	VALUE(string)	Converts the specified text to a number.	VALUE("20 3/4") Returns 20.75
  WEEKDAY	WEEKDAY(date, [type])	Returns the day of the week of the specified date as a number. Type can be set to 1, 2, or 3 and determines whether the first day of the week is Sunday or Monday. Type=1: Sunday to Saturday => 1 to 7 Type=2: Monday to Sunday => 1 to 7 Type=3: Monday to Sunday => 0 to 6	WEEKDAY("4/15/2016", 3) Returns 4

• The Required and Read-only field options are no longer mutually exclusive for Single Line, Multi-line, Drop-down, Number, Email, Date, and Currency fields.
• You can now configure a file upload limit on the File Upload field.

Additional Changes

• You can now reassign and modify the due dates of multiple tasks all at once on the Tasks page.
• You can now edit the priority of tasks in the Tasks page.
• Forms now meets WCAG 2.0 Level AA and Section 508 standards.
• Forms now features improved responsive designs when viewing your assigned and available tasks listing on mobile devices.
• There are now additional team filter options when configuring the default user task assignment.
• There are new columns available for the Tasks listing page.
• You now have the option to keep an existing draft when reassigning or releasing a task.
• The values for the Public form submission error message and Public form loading error message options in the Forms configuration site are now stored in the Forms database instead of the web.config file. (142666)
• The IF formula no longer evaluates both possible output values when unnecessary. For example, IF("a"="a", "true", 1/0) now returns "true" instead of displaying that there is a calculation error. (141950)
• Forms no longer tries to remember the last Forms page you were viewing if you explicitly click sign out. (141307)
• The SUM formula now properly handles number field values when the thousands delimiter option is enabled. (141261)