Version 8.14.x Release Notes
- 20 Sep 2024
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Version 8.14.x Release Notes
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Breaking Changes
Some steps have been removed due to security concerns and are no longer supported. We understand that this may impact existing flows, and recommend using the new Upgrade Validator to determine if any of your flows are affected. The Upgrade Validator is designed to help identify and address any potential issues that may result from upgrading.
[DT-030733] FHIR Module: Add FHIR R4 Cannot have R3 and R4 FHIR Modules Installed Together Decisions has added a new FHIR integration module that supports FHIR R4. Please note that environments may only use either the R3 or the R4 modules. Contact the Support team for assistance with removing previous FHIR modules before installation at support@decisions.com.
[DT-038230] Kill List: Entity Actions to Create Text Merge Entity
Decisions will be removing the "Text Merge Entity" from the product. Please note this is not the text merge you create within steps, but instead is a reusable text merge you can create in a designer folder. If you are using text merge entities, it will continue to work as expected, but you will no longer be able to create new ones. Please contact Support if you have any questions or concerns.
[DT-038273] Remove Script Form Step From Product
We have removed the Script Form step from the Decisions toolbox. If you are using this step, it will continue to work as expected, but we will not be supporting this in the future. Please contact Support if you have any questions or concerns.
[DT-030733] FHIR Module: Add FHIR R4 Cannot have R3 and R4 FHIR Modules Installed Together Decisions has added a new FHIR integration module that supports FHIR R4. Please note that environments may only use either the R3 or the R4 modules. Contact the Support team for assistance with removing previous FHIR modules before installation at support@decisions.com.
[DT-038230] Kill List: Entity Actions to Create Text Merge Entity
Decisions will be removing the "Text Merge Entity" from the product. Please note this is not the text merge you create within steps, but instead is a reusable text merge you can create in a designer folder. If you are using text merge entities, it will continue to work as expected, but you will no longer be able to create new ones. Please contact Support if you have any questions or concerns.
[DT-038273] Remove Script Form Step From Product
We have removed the Script Form step from the Decisions toolbox. If you are using this step, it will continue to work as expected, but we will not be supporting this in the future. Please contact Support if you have any questions or concerns.
8.14.1 (9/18/2024)
Feature | Description |
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Security enhancements | Customers on v8.14.0 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to v8.14.1. Contact support@decisions.com for more assistance. |
8.14 New Features (9/6/2023)
Feature | Description | Screenshot |
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[DT-037673] Repo SSO Client IP Alternative Option | Users can now specify a ClientID for authentication with the repository server; this allows machines whose IPs are not static to maintain connectivity with a repository utilizing RepoSSO functionality. |
Fixes
Infrastructure
DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
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[DT-038694] MT - Accounts having access to Primary instance on 5/6.x can no longer access Primary instance after upgrading to 8.x | When upgrading a multi-tenant install from version 6 to 8, accounts were not getting all the correct permissions to tenants assigned. This has been resolved. | 8.x |
[DT-038741] Repo Server will not allow logons | Customers were unable to login as the DB was using a lot of CPU after each login since it was fetching all the resources instead of counting them. This has been resolved. | 8.x, 7.x |
[DT-038792] MT Error navigating to Hosting folder when Control Instance is running as Non Admin Windows Users | Added a check for permissions to Windows Services. | 8.x |
[DT-038801] MT - Account attributes modified on control after an account is already created do not reflect on the tenant. | There was an issue with modifying an account on the tenant vs. the control instance and not having the updates saved appropriately. This has been resolved. | 8.x |
Installer
DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
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[DT-038518] Getting the following error on Clean installation on version 8.12.1.71934 | For clustered environments, when installing v8.12 on a clustered multi-tenant server, we were seeing some errors with the cluster not connecting appropriately that have been resolved. | 8.x |
[DT-038778] Installer Requires Password for SMTP Configuration on Upgrade Even Though SMTP Is Using OAuth | In previous versions of Decisions, you could not specify OAuth credentials for your SMTP server while in the install wizard and instead were required to configure the settings.xml file post-install. We have updated our installer so that you can configure and test OAuth settings for SMTP in the install wizard. For more information, please see here | 8.x |
Modules
DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
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[DT-035614] logs should show message about SQS queue stopping when using the "stop" action | There is a new notification in logs for which queues are stopped when using the stop queues action. | 8.x |
[DT-037260] Incorrect PGP Module Installation Prompt on 8.8 Upgrade during checkout | Resolved a bug when upgrading to version 8.8 where a module was not identified correctly and therefore giving a message to the users to install. The module versioning check has been updated. | 8.x |
[DT-038173] Amazon BucketName is Null within the Output | Resolved an issue where occasionally using the Amazon S3 steps was not correctly sending the "BucketName" Field. | 8.x |
[DT-038476] Saving Okta Settings Can Sometimes Cause Null Reference Exception During SAML Login | In some setups, customers using Okta and SAML would have the settings get updated incorrectly. This has been resolved. | 8.x |
[DT-038622] Configure Emitter Does Not Work for SSL Emitters | For the HL7 module and integration, there was an issue connecting and creating an emitter utilizing some SSL configurations. These have been resolved, and all expected connections can now be configured. | 8.x |
[DT-038816] Modules: Twilio settings are present on install of the Telephony module then disappear once the Telephony module settings are setup | Fixed an issue where the Twilio settings would disappear after installing the connected 'Telephony' module. This has been resolved. | 8.x |
Forms
DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
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[DT-036690] Active Form Flow Triggered on Component Value Change Should Run when Component's Value Is Changed by Another Flow | Fixed an issue where Active Form Flows did not get triggered by the result of other Active Form Flows. | 8.x, 7.x |
[DT-038234] Truncated data after over time | Now the text box or area form control will not allow the user to type after reaching the limit if the setting is active. | 8.x |
[DT-038413] Calendar Controls Stop AFFs From Running If Time Zone Translation Is On | If Time Zone Translation is enabled Active Form Flows do not run if there is a Calendar Control on the Form. | 8.x |
[DT-038500] Form Control - Close Button: There is no ability to provide 'Button Text' from 'Data Name'. | Added the ability to provide 'Button Text' from 'Data Name' on the Form Close Button. | 8.x |
[DT-038526] Copy Text button on simple forms doesn't work on initially hidden text | Fixed an issue where the copy button could not find a form control if it was not initially visible. | 8.x |
[DT-038590] Assignment Form: Rerunning an assignment triggers the 'Shared Flow' even though 'Re-use Assignment' property is set to 'Always' and 'Rerun Startup Flow' is unchecked. | Fixed an issue where re-running an assignment triggers the 'Shared Flow' even though the 'Re-use Assignment' property is set to 'Always' and 'Rerun Startup Flow' is unchecked. | 8.x |
[DT-038654] Simple Form - An error is displayed in the console and blank form is displayed when running the flow in a new window | Cannot read properties of null (reading pulsate) error is displayed when running flow with simple form in new window if form contains checkbox with tab index 1. | 8.x |
[DT-038690] JavaScript Control - Update JavaScript Control: JS file is not getting updated. | JS Controls were not allowing for File Updates without name changes. This has been addressed. | 8.x |
[DT-038702] Form Control -> Diagram Tile -> diagram tile refreshes consistently whenever any rule on the form is triggered | Diagram tile refreshes consistently whenever any rule on the form is triggered. This occurs even when the rule's purpose is to update the data of another control. | 8.x |
[DT-038726] File Upload/File Upload Area Control: Output Type - File Data: Specify Inputs - True: Unable to download a file whose input is mapped as 'Byte Array'. | The ID of the uploaded file was not passed properly. Thus the file was not able to be downloaded. This has been resolved and the proper ID is saved now. | 8.x |
[DT-038742] Simple Form - File Upload control: An error occurs in the console when clicking on the 'OK' button without uploading any file. | For the file upload control on simple forms, there are now additional checks to ensure a file is correctly uploaded. Proper error messages will not show when trying to proceed with no file, or a bad file, selected. | 8.x |
[DT-038786] Data Repeater Add button throws console error when DataRepeater contains Single File Upload Controls | Fixed an issue with the Add Button for a Data Repeater where it would throw an error if the Data Repeater contained a Single File Upload Control. | 8.x |
Flows
DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
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[DT-031990] Cannot Pick Rule Set Created in Designer Folder from the Run Rule Set Step | Fixed an issue where a user could search for the rule set in the picker but could not drill down in to the folder with the Rule Set inside of it. | 8.x, 7.x |
[DT-037889] Regression: Duplicate file names displayed in View Completed Form preview when using Multiple File Download component in a Form | Solved an issue when previewing a completed form from the Folder Activity Panel of a process folder, if the form contained a “Multiple File Download” component, the user would see each file duplicated. | 8.x |
[DT-038458] Compare Last Four Passwords Portal Setting Preventing New Account Creation | Fixed an issue where new accounts fail to create with the Create Account step if the "Compare Last Four Passwords" administrator setting is enabled. | 8.x |
Rules
DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
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[DT-032855] Issue with the functioning of Number Equals step | Fixed an issue where Equals (Number) rule step did not recognize the difference between null and 0 | 8.x |
[DT-038384] Truth Table Designer - Default Output Data: ‘[edit mappings]’ is displayed instead of mapped values when Build Data is selected as mapping type. | Mapped values are now displayed when "Build Data" is selected as input mapping type instead of "[edit mappings]". | 8.x |
Reports
DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
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[DT-038035] Save Report Definition Actions not Saving | This is a new setting where a user can save Reports to the home folder. | 8.x, 6.x |
[DT-038327] Flow Report Data Reports Disappearing After Restart | Fixed an issue where the Flow Report Data report would not show up after a restart. | 8.x |
[DT-038365] Report Bar Chart View Shows No Data Past 2nd Grouping | Fixed an issue where a Report did not display data when drilling down past the second level in Reports. | 8.x |
[DT-038697] Unable to view content of the report when 'Editable' property is enabled and report contains number field with 'Number' as format. | When the Report has the “Editable” property enabled and a Data Field with a “Number” format applied, the report was appearing blank. | 8.x |
[DT-038744] Report Viewer: 'Selected Row Count' is displayed for the Views which do not have multiple selection ability. | Fixed an issue in Report Viewer where the 'Selected Row count' was displayed for the Views which do not have multiple selection ability. | 8.13 |
[DT-038745] Report Viewer -> when folder containing report viewer opened without the folder tree in a new window, doesn't respect folder change events when set to refresh on the current folder change | When folder tree is hidden, report would not update for Current Folder Change event. This has been resolved. | 8.x |
[DT-038746] Report Viewer: 'Selected Row Count' is not updating properly for 'Text List' view when 'Multiple Selection' is enabled. | Fixed an issue where if rows were selected on text view, the selected rows counter was not updating properly. | 8.13 |
[DT-038790] Selected Rows Indicator shows incorrect number when select all is checked. | Fixed an issue where selected rows indicator would show the incorrect value. | 8.x |
Data Structures
DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
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[DT-030804] Adding a String List Option to the System Constants | Added the String List option in Flow Constant Type to add the constant value as a list of strings. | 8.x |
[DT-037363] Fields: On setting Field Length property for a field to type Specify, changing it back to Default doesn't update the Text Length | If a user updated the Text Length limit from Specify to Default (255 characters) for the data field, the input Text Length limit did not get updated, and it was throwing an error for the previous specified limit. | 8.x |
[DT-038632] Copying a Simple Flow Structure Throws an Error | Resolved an issue where copying a simple flow structure was not working correctly and throwing errors. | 8.11 |
Integrations
DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
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[DT-038456] Twilio Start Call step getting stuck | In some scenarios with the "Start Call" step in Twilio, the step would not move forward if a call was answered then immediately disconnected. This would cause the flow to be stuck. Updated all the Twilio steps to check for this call scenario. | 8.x |
[DT-038773] "Request Timeout (ms)" Property Not Respected for External Web Service Calls | Updated the External Web Service Calls to correctly use the Request Timeout property. In some cases this was not respected. | 8.x |
System / Portal Administration
DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
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[DT-037943] Users have access to the Home Folder even though it's disabled | Fixed an issue where Users could click on the home icon in the navigation bar to still access the home folder even though it was hidden in the portal settings. | 8.x |
[DT-038438] Customers Cannot Style Placeholder Text | Fixed an issue where the Customer could not Style Placeholder Text as this text contained the pseudo-elements. | 8.x |
[DT-038575] Archive Entities: Error Archiving entities The given ColumnMapping does not match up with any column in the source or destination. | We have resolved an issue that occurred when a table definition changed during the archival process. Archival will now work as expected, even if columns get updated and changed. | 8.x |
[DT-038624] User Portal: An error is displayed in the console after clicking on 'About' action. | An error would appear in the console if a user clicked on the “About Page” while in the user portal. | 8.x |
[DT-038762] Force User Change Password: User cannot log in to tenant after password is updated | We have fixed a bug where the "For User Password Change" action for an account was not working as expected. This has been resolved. | 8.x |
[DT-038788] AUTHREQUEST IS NOT FOUND WITH ID ERROR when Logging in Via SSO | We have updated error messaging that shows when a user waits to long on a login page where SSO is enabled. They now should see appropriate error messages with better detail. | 8.x |
Project Deployment
DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
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[DT-033076] Import/Export Data - Import Data From CSV /Export Data To CSV: Fields are not selected even if 'Select All' checkbox is checked. | Fields were not selected even if 'Select All' checkbox is checked on Field Names dialog. | 8.x |
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