This article highlights the major changes for Laserfiche Forms 10.2.1.
Forms Essentials and Forms Professional
Laserfiche Forms is now available in two editions:
- Forms Essentials: Contains core features necessary to design processes and forms.
- Forms Professional: Contains the complete Forms feature package.
See the following feature comparison between editions.
| Feature
| Forms Essentials
| Forms Professional
|
| Business process and form creation functionality
| X
| X
|
| Operational Dashboard
| X
| X
|
| Basic Reporting Options
| X
| X
|
| Teams
| X
| X
|
| Direct Approval through Email
| X
| X
|
| Data Lookups
|
| X
|
| Performance Dashboard
|
| X
|
| Enhanced reporting with data aggregation options such as count, sum, min, max, average, and median
|
| X
|
| Data visualization options such as charts and graphs for reports
|
| X
|
| Payment Gateway
|
| X
|
Forms availability for Laserfiche United and Laserfiche Team Installations
Forms 10.2.1 features support for Laserfiche United and Laserfiche Team installations. Forms user synchronization retrieves all users not marked as read-only and the total number of simultaneous connections to Forms matches the maximum number of simultaneous connections supported by your Laserfiche Server installation. Connections are released when a user chooses to sign out of Forms or if the user is deemed inactive. The default inactivity timeout is 30 minutes.
To modify the default inactivity timeout, insert a HowLongHoldConcurrentLicense option to the cf_options table and set the option value to be the desired timeout in minutes. For example, to set the timeout to 60 minutes, run the following SQL command on your Forms SQL database:
INSERT INTO cf_options VALUES ('HowLongHoldConcurrentLicense',60)
- User tasks now also support the "Collect Payment" option.
- Error logging now uses Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). When using the Windows Event Viewer, Forms events are now logged under Applications and Services Logs->Laserfiche->Forms->App.
- Workflow Service Tasks and Webhook Service Tasks now have an option to verify that the workflow exists and the web service endpoint is valid. (157037)
- The Save to Repository Service Task now attempts to generate Laserfiche pages when saving PDF files. This feature depends on the user specified in the repository profile to have the "Generate pages when importing PDFs" option turned on. (156488)
- When a lookup rule contains multiple match fields, you can now choose to hide the Auto Fill button and automatically run the lookup rule whenever there is a change in a match field. (156469)
- The installation wizard now includes an option to install the 32-bit version of Laserfiche Forms on a 64-bit machine. (154308)
- The Save to Repository Service Task now supports process variables that can retrieve values from a specific row in a table or a set in a collection for use in document name or template fields. For example, design a table with a "single line" field and a "file upload" field. If the table then has 2 rows of values, setting the file upload document name in the Save to Repository Service Task to {/dataset/Table_variable_name/Single_Line_variable_name[Row()]} will set the first file with with the first row's value and the second file with the second row's value. (154305)
- When downloading a report, there is an additional option for whether you want to include choices from checkbox, drop-down, and radio button fields. (154284)
- Certain upgrade scenarios could result in you having to retype Directory Server information on the Forms Configuration site. This issue is now resolved. (156549)
- It is no longer possible for the Routing Service to become unstable with a "System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException" error. (156440)