2023 Changelog
December 6, 2023
Laserfiche Outlook Add-in for Microsoft 365
- The Laserfiche Outlook Add-in for Microsoft 365 now uses OAuth authentication to connect to Laserfiche. Existing accounts should automatically switch over to using OAuth without additional administrator configuration. Users signing in through the add-in may be prompted to grant consent for the add-in to access Laserfiche.
December 5, 2023
Business Processes
- Resolved an issue where file upload fields in the form designer would not respect account file upload limits higher than the global 25 MB limit. (498586)
Capture Profiles
- Security updates and enhancements.
November 21, 2023
Business Processes
- Email fields in modern forms now require both hostname and domain name to be validated. (495670)
November 7, 2023
Business Processes
- Fixed an issue that prevented forms from loading when third-party cookies containing non-ASCII characters in the header were present. (405104, 494837)
Process Automation
- Resolved an issue that caused workflows or business processes to be terminated when being started by other process automation entities. (494601)
- Team Developers and External Developers can now delete business processes within appropriate team projects when they have the minimum account right of Access to Process Automation. (487807)
November 2, 2023
New Features summary for the Laserfiche Cloud November 2023 Update
Process Automation
- Users display names may now contain double quotes. (489675)
- Starting Rules that invoke workflows no longer display duplicated available workflows for selection. (476502)
Business Processes
- Limits have been changed for lookup table columns, rows, characters per row, and file size for improved overall performance. See the Service Limits page for additional information. (481425, 481255)
- The order of lookup rules is now always maintained when importing business processes from self-hosted Laserfiche Forms to Laserfiche Cloud. (488310)
- Form Designer Updates:
- Duplicating fields can longer cause duplicated IDs. (480598)
- Fixed a display issue where a narrow single line or drop-down field would not show all values clearly when filled from a lookup. (480747)
Custom Reports
- Additional relative date options added for filtering in reports. (476227)
- Reports now support multiple columns for sorting in Table in View. (476225)
Web Client
- Direct share now supports use of a one-time passcode to secure and retrieve documents. (374332)
- Resolved issues when generating pages and text from some PDFs. (485295, 486015, 491605, 485045, 485287)
Starting Rules
- The starting event creation dialog will no longer close if you click outside its borders. (475956)
Account Administration
- The My Account page now has a My Apps tab where you can view the SAML OAuth apps that you have granted access to your Laserfiche account.
Laserfiche App
- To successfully sign into Laserfiche Cloud using the app, you must update to the latest version of the app.
- For additional app updates, see KB 1014494.
October 27, 2023
Web Client
- The Everyone group can now be toggled between read-write and read-only repository access. (492029)
- Resolved an issue that could prevent users from downloading Laserfiche Webtools Agent from the Options page. (492860)
October 20, 2023
Documents
- OCR service availability and stability improvements. Improved resource sharing optimization between tenants prevents potential monopolizing of the OCR service when processing requests. This feature also introduces daily limits for different types of OCR jobs. This feature will be gradually rolled out to customers over the next few weeks.(395065)
Capture Profiles
- Generating text for a document will no longer create a separate version as each page of the document is OCRed. (372075)
October 12, 2023
Business Processes
- Fixed an issue that prevented form recovery if a user was completing a form when its process was republished. (488730)
- Fixed an issue that prevented a Custom HTML button from opening a document in a new window. (489438)
October 10, 2023
Capture Profiles
- Security updates and enhancements.
October 9, 2023
Bots
- Security updates and enhancements.
Rules
- Checkboxes in Document Merge Rules now allow additional boolean input types. (474384)
Business Processes
- Submission IP addresses are now available as a column in the Business Process Monitoring page.
- Fixed an issue in Business Process Settings where navigating to a form from a particular resource opened to a blank page when within a project. (420020)
- Radio button and checkbox fields within forms have been changed to only save selected choices if total choices exceed 100. (47639)
- Rows to Return feature has been added to Lookup Table Queries for improved performance of customer queries. (481216)
- Form Designer Updates:
- A change to the Custom HTML field now prevents the use of any type of window.postMessage JavaScript calls. Refer to this answers post to learn more about how to safely use HTML events in the form designer. Note: Any unsupported code will display errors in the browser developer console.
- Values in number fields can now be cleared using JavaScript. (472854)
- Validation is no longer triggered for required fields when adding fields in tables or collections. (479911)
- Duplicating fields no longer cause duplicated field IDs. (480598)
- Resolved an issue that was generating a "Invalid read-only field trigger" error. (481409)
- Right Pane validation is now displayed for saved forms with invalid range field rules. (481637)
- Resolved a timing issue that displayed a blank value when selecting a drop-down field that is populated by a lookup. (482584)
- Resolved an issue that prevented lookup rules from functioning if pagination is later enabled. (484104, 484103)
- Resolved an issue that prevented a form from receiving lookup rule values. (484278, 484263)
Teams
- Modifying a team's users no longer erases the team description. (486342)
Capture Profiles
- The Add/Remove Sample Documents dialog box can no longer be closed until the documents are finished creating. (474338)
- When uploading sample documents, any pages larger than 10 MB will now be compressed. (474733)
Laserfiche iOS and Android App
- Files can now be uploaded to a classic form successfully if the Prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery with a CSRF token option is disabled in Laserfiche Forms. (480930)
- User tasks can now successfully be reassigned in Forms if the Prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery with a CSRF token option is disabled. (482480)
Web Client
- Administrators can now disable the automatic transcription of audio and video files for the repository. (474835)
- Resolved an issue in which date searches fail with a "Date/time out of range. [9170]" error for some locales. (487492)
- Security enhancements.
Public Portal
- Resolved an issue that could prevent users from selecting all entries in a view for downloading. (481875)
- Security enhancements.
Account Administration
- Security enhancements.
October 2, 2023
Workflow
- Note: Users will need to clear the browser cache before continuing to use Workflow, otherwise the below issues may not be resolved.
- Resolved an issue that prevented changing the tag for Workflow input parameters. (485533)
- Running the designer in a language other than English will no longer translate tokens. (486808)
September 21, 2023
Account Administration
- Laserfiche Cloud customer account names can now contain up to 100 characters, up from 75. (418393)
- The Plan page now displays the "Laserfiche API" plan limit as Calls / Month. (473749)
September 20, 2023
Process Automation
- Added support for international languages and date/time/number formatting.
Business Processes
- Lookup rules are now enabled correctly on save as expected in the classic form designer. (484463)
Workflows
- Starting events based on stamp actions now trigger workflows correctly. (485013)
September 11, 2023
Web Client
- Security updates and enhancements.
- Resolved an issue that could prevent saved searches from loading in some repositories that were migrated from a self-hosted Laserfiche system. (482708)
- Resolved an issue that could result in a "Field not found" error for users in some cases when searching for documents containing a field to which they do not have access. (476946)
- Folders containing large numbers of entries now filter column values correctly. (477244)
- In some cases, deleting a group in the repository could cause all saved searches to stop displaying. This issue has been resolved. (477573)
Laserfiche Integration with Microsoft Teams
- The Laserfiche App for Microsoft Teams has been updated to include security fixes and to support Spanish and French localization. Learn how to update the Laserfiche App.
Solution Marketplace
- The Solution Marketplace has been updated to include a cleaner design and minor bug fixes.
Process Automation Platform
- Fixed an issue that had caused the quick searches widget to display an error when the user has an attribute larger than 3000 characters. (480051)
Business processes
- Resolved an issue where invalid characters in CSS classes were allowed to be used when designing a form. (359939)
- Resolved an issue where non-formatted/manually typed dates were parsed incorrectly when automatically formatted into their date format. (396296)
- Added code sanitization to user defined CSS classes. (402679)
- Resolved an issue when configuring field rules that allowed invalid date ranges when "show time" was enabled on the field. (424188)
- Resolved an issue where multiple lookup rules configured for the same field would fill the field out of order. (425740)
- Fixed an issue where formulas using checkbox were not working when "Append choices to lookup results" was enabled. (426628)
- Resolved an issue where lookup rules would not populate fields within a section in a collection. (476498)
- Resolved an issue in classic forms where new lines were not rendered in radio/checkbox choice options. (482414)
- Fixed an issue where a renamed variable in a collection caused formula references to fail. (480895)
- Resolved an issue where collections used across multiple forms would not remove user deleted sets as a process progressed. (477231)
- Fixed an issue where the link in a process failure or suspension notification email failed to open the intended instance details. (477301)
Laserfiche App
- Security improvements. (472557, 475057, 475423, 475424, 475581)
- In the Laserfiche Android app, users can now authenticate using fingerprint identification multiple times if the first attempt fails. (190437)
Account Administration
- Users with the Account Administration access right can review the Laserfiche Cloud subscription agreement from the Settings page's Profile tab. (476370)
Web Client
- Resolved an issue in which some strings in direct share emails were not translated. (426645)
Public Portal
- Security updates and enhancements.
- Fixed a potential issue where Public Portal searches did not process quoted search phrases properly. (479605)
August 30, 2023
Capture Profiles
- Security fixes and performance improvements. (479148, 473331, 473684)
August 29, 2023
Web Client
- Resolved an issue that resulted in saved searches no longer functioning after a migration from self-hosted editions of Laserfiche to Laserfiche Cloud. (480585)
- An issue that could prevent multiple users from simultaneously editing PowerPoint documents when using Office Online has been resolved.
August 28, 2023
Capture Profiles
- Smart Invoice Capture Profiles now have updated models with improved overall performance. (479155)
- Currency signs will automatically be removed from the numerical Subtotal and Tax Amount fields. (479155)
August 17, 2023
Workflow
- Importing a workflow with one or more rules to a new environment no longer creates a mismatch in the rule version. (413727)
- Fixed an issue that caused a workflow that exceeded instance loop counts to become idle. (475544)
- Clicking on a previously configured Assign Field Values activity no longer clears the previously specified template dropdown value. (476669)
August 9, 2023
Business Profiles
- Resolved an issue that prevented formulas from processing on fields with a lookup rule. (476706, 476524)
- Resolved an issue that caused a JavaScript error message with save to repository tasks. (474876, 474948)
August 8, 2023
Capture Profiles
- Improved processing for large images. (476495)
- Security improvements throughout the suite.
Laserfiche iOS and Android App
- Users without repository access are now able to sign into Laserfiche Cloud and access Process Automation successfully. (331622)
- Occasionally, a "Failed to read file" error displayed when attempting to submit an offline form containing an upload field. This has been resolved. (371730)
- Signing out of the app and back into Forms now successfully directs you to the app view instead of the web view. (474320)
- The iOS app no longer closes unexpectedly when uploading an HTML file to the repository. (429648)
Capture Profiles
- Adding a sample document no longer fails when deleting multiple sample documents at the same time. (428346)
- The Capture Profile Designer loading performance has been improved. (429706)
Workflows
- Revised the designer to correctly state the number of attachments (4) in the Email activity. (316109)
- Changed the "Open selected workflow" button behavior to open a new workflow designer tab in the same web browser tab. (470259)
- Using zero (0) in conditionals for integer/numerical objects now works. (442291)
- In the Track Tokens activity, clearing all on global tokens no longer clears other activity's token selections. (423198)
- Resolved an issue preventing a saved search from running following a previous saved search in the workflow monitor. (425044)
Starting Events
- Schedule starting events will no longer occasionally run twice. (429692)
- Condition starting events with certain sets of fields now load the field list correctly. (472140)
Rules
- In Web Request, The HTTP Request Header field size for web request rules has been increased to allow better visibility of the header string. (414988)
- PDFs with calculations will no longer show "NaN" in document merge rules. (426144)
- Resolved an issue preventing Boolean values from properly displaying in query results. (469310)
Business Processes
- Added a 'refresh' button in the history tab of the instance drilldown page. (470122)
- Fixed an issue that displayed the wrong error message when a deleted field is still in use in a save to repository task. (428506)
- Form designer forms are no longer converted to classic form format when importing an updated version of a business process. (469830)
- An inserted token from the variable picker is now placed correctly in the process diagram. (470059)
- Fixed an issue where a read-only field with a formula would not compute when the locale was set to Spanish (Spain) for both form designer and classic forms. (473142, 473143, 473040)
- Form designer:
- Resolved an issue where the layout designer would warn a user of a field rule targeting the same field multiple times when the other field rules were disabled. (371014)
- Resolved an issue where fields populated by lookup results would not respect the default value if lookup results contained the default value. (372204)
- Resolved an issue where reCAPTCHA was shown on every page regardless of which page the Submit action was on. (410977)
- Resolved an issue where radio buttons were not being processed properly in formulas when used in conjunction with IF functions and Time fields. (416788)
- Fixed an issue where submission actions were hidden off screen when used on some iOS devices and some display resolutions. (419606)
- Fixed an issue where read-only fields were difficult to distinguish from editable fields. (420321)
- Fixed an issue where formulas in a table or collection would clear readonly fields when certain criteria were met. (426264, 426261)
- Formula using checkbox is not working when Append choices to lookup results is enabled (426628)
- Fixed an issue where save to repository tasks would not display form logos when converted from classic forms to designer forms. (427950)
- Fixed an issue where multiline fields would not retain new lines when the values were sent via email. (430223)
- Resolved an issue where a submitted form that contained custom JavaScript created a blank page when printed or downloaded from the thank you page. (443107, 430532)
- Fixed an issue to show the Save Draft button on every form page rather than only with the submit action buttons. (469547)
- Submission is now properly blocked while a file is uploading and tells the user "Uploading file" instead of "Retrieving field values". (469979)
- Resolved an issue where subsequent lookup rule triggers that would otherwise shrink a table or collection kept the original table size. (471298)
- Resolved an issue where field rules on a checkbox would not fire when the checkbox was filled via a lookup rule. (471617)
- Invalid characters in CSS classes no longer generate JavaScript errors on preview, now cause a validation error in the designer. (359939)
- When saving PDF in Forms using Edge or Chrome, page breaks remove data (426568)
- Lookup rule filling multiple columns as new sets in a repeatable adds extra rows for every column that returns empty array (472596)
- Resolved an issue where formulas in number fields would not be triggered when filling a form on iOS devices. (474144, 474056)
Web Client
- When using the "within" option in a Text search, the context hits list will now display the correct results that are within the specified proximity to one another. (413786)
- Resolved an issue that could cause some imports to fail. (471573)
- The recent folders list, accessible from the path bar in the web client, now correctly shows recently-opened folders. (471574)
Account Administration
- Solution Providers can now access a Repository Import Monitor site, allowing them to monitor the migration process for customers that are migrating repository data from self-hosted Laserfiche to Laserfiche Cloud. To view the site, select Repository Import Monitor from the app picker or the Overview page. This service was previously available as a preview to select Solution Providers.
July 13, 2023
Business Processes
- Resolved an issue where importing a process updated in an alternate account caused form designer forms to be converted to classic form format. (469830)
- Resolved an issue in the form designer where a table populated from a lookup included extra rows if the number of lookup values are less than the row count of the table. (471298)
- Resolved an issue in the form designer where a calculation within a collection that depends on a value from a lookup cleared the field value. (426261, 426264)
- Resolved an issue in the form designer where the ROW() function in a table would return incorrect values. (471427)
July 10, 2023
- Added the Laserfiche Status and Support links to the My Account menu. (430006, 430010)
- Resolved an issue that could prevent MSG files from displaying correctly. (430836)
- Generating pages from some PDFs could result in a "Incorrect operator definition" error. This issue has been resolved. (428318)
- In some cases, Laserfiche could stop responding when displaying search highlights for searches using the within search parameter. This issue has been resolved. (430451)
Account Administration
- Select Solution Providers can now access a Repository Import Monitor site, allowing them to monitor the migration process for customers that are migrating repository data from self-hosted Laserfiche to Laserfiche Cloud. To view the site, select Repository Import Monitor from the app picker or the Overview page.
Integrations
- Web Service Connections now support OAuth 2.0 protocol and custom headers.
Laserfiche Mobile
- Biometric support for signing into Laserfiche Cloud has been updated to include Azure AD and AD FS. Face/Touch ID is supported on iOS and fingerprint scanning is supported on Android. (422302)
- The Android app now asks for permission to open the gallery. (429415)
- The Android app is now able to add a Laserfiche widget to the Android home screen. (429643)
- The Android app is now able to sign into self-hosted when redirected after a failed domain sign-in attempt. (419247)
- The iOS app map information is now loaded successfully when viewed or when searching a location. (429644)
- An invalid connection error is no longer displayed when attempting to share a file using Direct Share. (429952)
- Session timeout is no longer displayed when attempting to save an offline copy of a folder. (429953)
- An unexpected error is no longer displayed when attempting to view a PDF as an electronic file. (430039)
- The sign in button now says Laserfiche Cloud instead of Cloud. (469291)
- Users are no longer prompted to sign in to the app when viewing a task after their previous session timed out. (313683)
- Taking a picture using the Scene Optimizer option on Samsung devices and uploading it to Laserfiche no longer closes the app unexpectedly. (368578)
Web Client
- Resolved an issue in which using the %(FileModified) token during import could result in a "Bad field value. [9017]" error. (423492)
- In some cases, jumping to a specific entry in a list by typing failed. This issue has been resolved. (430021)
- Resolved an issue that could result in a "The value of start must be at least PageRange.MIN_PAGE_NUMBER (1). (Parameter 'start')" error when importing a file as a new version of an existing document. (430095)
- Resolved an issue that could result in a "The value of start must be at least MIN_PAGE_NUMBER" error when sharing a document using direct share. (467259)
June 30, 2023
Capture Profiles
- Smart Invoice Capture optional field extraction is no longer disabled when lookup tables are not configured. (470347)
June 22, 2023
Business Processes
- Fixed the sort order of the task list in the inbox so that leading special characters in task names are consistently sorted. (428189)
- Importing a process to an account that was updated in another account completes successfully. (443143)
- Survey results no longer show incorrect values when a new version is published. (442718)
June 15, 2023
Starting Rules
- Fixed an issue that caused the rule schedule to not be displayed in the summary page when editing/creating/importing a starting rule. (430111, 442555)
- Fixed an issue that was preventing additional conditions from being added to a rule when editing a starting rule. (429417, 442555)
Business Processes
- For limited release - The single line field in the form designer now features an A.I. assistant to help build and explain a regular expression based on a prompt.
- Made performance improvements that will prevent random Forms submission failure. (425698, 425708)
Workflow
- Fixed an issue that prevented conditional statements from comparing against a zero (0) value. (442291, 442289)
Capture Profiles
- Smart Invoice Capture now automates the extraction of four new fields from invoices: the shipping address, subtotal, tax amount, and tax ID. (425904)
- Improved error logging has been added to Capture Profiles. (427788)
June 9, 2023
Microsoft Teams Integration
- You can now save files to repositories in multiple regions for a single manifest. (425523)
June 8, 2023
Business Processes
- Fixed an issue that stopped formulas from populating tables/collections when triggered by fields outside the table/collection. (430584)
June 5, 2023
Business Processes
- User interface improvements to the save to repository service task. (423523)
- Token fields for output values are now clickable and searchable. (415324)
- Fileset repository search is no longer case sensitive. (427924)
- Fileset instances within report drill downs are now viewable. (427593)
- In team projects, business process rules that were created by other team members can now be opened in project resources. (415778)
- Fixed a font size issue in Message Start Event. (424915)
- Classic form preview page is now loading in Safari on MacOS. (421449)
- Correct columns are now displaying in survey submission report CSVs after new items are added to the survey edit page. (424293)
- Time format is now sowing correctly on the monitor page for locale setting French (Canada). (424707)
- Fixed issue that could cause slow performance when loading forms tasks. (425245)
- Fixed an issue with Test Wait Duration in sub-processes that use task reminders in user tasks. (426495)
- Email notifications now being sent when processes are suspended in an instance configured with invalid STR access. (427525)
- Improved response time on lookup rules within a collection. (321714)
- Fixed an issue with column resizing when hidden columns are used. (410876)
Rules
- Query testing now displays the total number of results that would be returned from the query. (418271)
Workflow
- Fixed an issue with evaluation of folder contents conditions using input parameter tokens. (423916)
- Resolved an issue with configuring conditions using the "is in" operand for numbers. (339857)
Capture Profiles
- A validation error is now displayed when a user attempts to upload a document with any pages that exceed the OCR limits (10 MB or 10,000 pixels width or height). This validation now also occurs when reprocessing documents to use the newer OCR. (420500)
- When processing a multi-page TIFF, and only one page fails, an error message is now displayed letting the user know the document failed. (420825)
- All help links on the Smart Invoice Profile pages are now correctly linked to the Smart Invoice Profiles documentation. (425890)
Laserfiche Integration with Microsoft Teams
- For organizations using the Laserfiche Integration with Microsoft Teams, your integration has been updated to use OAuth. If you are not using the Laserfiche Integration with Microsoft Teams, but want to start using it, follow the instructions here: Installing and Configuring the Laserfiche Integration with Microsoft Teams.
Web Client
- Removed support for changing the language display to Thai or Italian.
May 18, 2023
Business Processes
- Public forms with read-only date/time fields no longer fail on submit for non-English languages. (426600)
- Filesets now appear correctly when monitoring instances for EU customers. (427097)
May 17, 2023
Business Processes
- Fixed an issue that was preventing files from uploading to file sets in classic forms. (426751, 426748)
May 16, 2023
Capture Profiles
- Smart Invoice Capture Profiles now have updated models with improved overall performance. (426520)
May 15, 2023
Business Processes
- Save to repository tasks can no longer be marked suspended after completed. (424511)
- Users denied access to process automation are now able to reassign tasks to process automation teams. (424940)
May 9, 2023
Process Automation
- Resolved a potential issue that could result in select pages displaying labels in a test language when viewed on web browsers configured for certain languages. (426029, 426047)
Rules
- Corrected an issue introduced with our regular May release that disabled remote agent workers version 11.3 and earlier. (426045)
Account Administration
- When creating a demo account, the supported country list now matches the Laserfiche Order Management System's country list.
Rules:
- Increased the table limit per data source from 3500 to 10000. (422954)
May 4, 2023
Process Automation
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused a connection error when inserting data into a lookup table from a workflow run rule activity. (421914)
Workflow
- The email activity no longer marks addresses as invalid when a token contains multiple valid addresses. (422505)
Repository
- Users can now access My Account settings by clicking their user name in the upper right corner of the web client. (418144)
- When copying a link to a document in the web client, the user's account ID will be included in the URL, so that the user who receives the URL does not need to manually input the account ID. (418154)
- Resolved an issue that could result in an incorrect "There are no matching multi-value field groups for the selected entries" error when selecting multiple documents with the same template and multiple multi-value field groups. (423174)
- The email format option and custom field format options now correctly display the currently-selected value. (346612, 390060)
- Resolved an issue that could cause rearranging toolbar buttons to order the buttons incorrectly. (420117)
- In some cases, the document viewer could become unresponsive when a multi-value field exceeds 1000 values. This issue has been resolved. (420716)
- Resolved an issue that could prevent field values for fields present in two templates from being retained when switching between the templates. (417790)
- In some cases, currency fields would display incorrectly when the browser language is set to Spanish. This issue has been resolved. (421401)
- Resolved an issue that could cause users to be unexpectedly signed out. (421444)
- Field searches where a specified field does not equal (<>) a specific string will now exclude documents where the field is empty. (421019)
- In some cases, if a field is applied to a document independently from a template, and then a template is applied to that document that contains the same field as part of a set of dynamic fields, the field values would not load correctly. This issue has been resolved. (380921)
- In some cases, documents with dynamic fields would become inappropriately locked when being viewed by a user who does not have modify rights to the field. (419593)
Public Portal
- The total document size and electronic file columns in the folder browser now display sizes as KB, MB, or GB, depending on size, instead of as bytes. (418143)
- Resolved an issue that could prevent searches involving double quotes from being processed properly as phrase searches when performed from the Welcome page. (419173)
- Resolved an issue that could prevent some PDFs from displaying correctly. (408064)
April 24, 2023
Rules
- A temporary limit of 3500 tables per data source has been added to control performance. No existing data sources should be affected. (422532)
Workflow
- Tokens containing multiple email addresses are now handled correctly when using the send email activity. (422505)
Business Processes:
- Updated the PDF generator to prevent save to repository task failures. (421439)
- Limits have been added to prevent extremely large data extractions when exporting reports from the monitor page. See the Service Limits page for additional information. (422982)
April 13, 2023
Bots
- Laserfiche bots now support Chrome 111.9.5563.65. (421690)
Business Processes:
- On importing a process, form tables and collections now receive different IDs. (418093, 418076)
- Fixed an issue when importing a process that contains an email display name. (419039)
Repository
- Resolved an issue that could cause searches to be performed as fuzzy searches even when the fuzzy search option was disabled. (418049)
- In some cases, importing a briefcase with multivalue fields could result in conflicting field values being lost. This issue has been resolved. (418132)
- The ZIP file created when a folder is shared via direct share is now correctly named. (415810)
- In some cases, when renaming an entry multiple times, the entry will display a previous name. This issue has been resolved. (404126)
Public Portal
- Improved responsiveness when using a screenreader. (173179)
- Resolved an issue that could prevent the currency field format from displaying properly when the field is part of a multi-value field group. (190821)
- In some cases, users were unable to download media files when using mobile devices with the Chrome browser. This issue has been resolved. (244535)
- Resolved an issue that could prevent custom column widths in the search results from being retained. (417606)
- In some cases, folders with very large numbers of subfolders would not load or would load slowly. This issue has been resolved. (414632)
- When opening the last page of search results, if only one document was on the page that document would sometimes automatically be opened. This issue has been resolved. (415568)
- Resolved an issue that could prevent searches created in the public portal designer from being saved. (409975)
- Tokens in watermark headers and footers now display correctly in public portal. (410638)
- Resolved an issue that could caused within searches to display "undefined" instead of the correct context hits. (410837)
- Files that do not have a file extension can now be downloaded. (405148)
- Resolved an issue that could prevent public portal pages ending in ElectronicFile.aspx from loading correctly on the first attempt. (408694)
- When an external column in a dynamic field is assocciated with a list field in Laserfiche, the search dropdown would not always populate correctly. This issue has been resolved. (410723)
April 3, 2023
Capture Profiles
- Importing a landscape legal-sized PDF as a capture profile sample document no longer crops part of the document. (404400)
- Zones named the same name, with different casing, will now be considered invalid. Zones must have unique names. (413524)
March 25, 2023
Documents:
- Viewing a document with dynamic fields could sometimes result in the document being automatically locked. This issue is now resolved. (419593)
March 23, 2023
Business Processes:
- Corrected a problem where a network issue could prevent a workflow from starting a business process. (417574, 417865)
March 22, 2023
Documents:
- Resolved a potential display issue where the Access Rights dialog may not display inherited rights from the root folder for repositories with a configured repository display name. (419074)
- When sharing content via email in EML format, the generated email message body no longer includes unnecessary visible HTML elements. (414172)
- The Shared quick access view now correctly displays a shared folder's name. (415810)
- Laserfiche could display an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error when modifying older custom tabs. This issue is now resolved. (416493)
- The Annotations tab no longer displays a "Specified page does not exist" error message when viewing a previous version of a document containing deleted pages that had annotations. (405653)
March 21, 2023
Process Automation Data Management
- Fixed an issue that counted empty rows when providing a row count for lookup tables. If a lookup table row count in the details pane does not match the number of data rows displayed in the table, perform an update to the table that inserts, deletes, or replaces a row in the table to correct. For instance, download the lookup table, then select the update button, and use the file you just downloaded. (418811)
March 15, 2023
Business Processes
- The process designer has been updated for ease of maintainability, and users may notice some of the following interface changes and improvements:
- Interface elements like check boxes and radio buttons were updated to more closely match the style of other elements.
- The Timer Catch Event properties pane layout was revised for better useability.
- An updated date picker control was introduced.
- The rich text box control has been updated.
- Accessibility has been enhanced by increasing the color contrast.
March 9, 2023
Capture
- A new dialog in Capture Profiles that automatically updates your sample documents to have more accurate text (by using our improved OCR engine) is now available to all accounts. This feature was previously available as an early preview.
Workflow
- Fixed an issue where Laserfiche could not redirect you to the appropriate business process when using the Open selected business process option when viewing the properties of an Invoke Business Process activity. (416649)
March 6, 2023
Capture
- Fixed an issue where Capture Profile sample documents would fail to be created for Process Developers unless they also had Process Administrator Account Control System rights. (414381)
Documents
- You no longer receive a generic "Import failed" error message when using the drag-and-drop method to import a file into Laserfiche. (416526)
March 3, 2023
Capture
- Fixed an issue where a missing MIME attribute caused a cascading failure from a capture profile into workflows. (416666)
Process Automation Platform
- Groups with the same name as a user no longer appear to be available when creating a process automation team. (412506)
- Loading the drop-down list for field conditions no longer gets stuck when using "is in" conditions for starting events. (415270)
Capture
- Running a Read barcode activity on a document without a barcode no longer returns an error. (411499)
- Uploading a sample document without text in the capture profile designer no longer returns an error. (413471)
Business Processes
- Improved performance to prevent sporadic occurrences of slow Save to Repository task completions. (415330, 414985)
- Form Designer:
- Fixed an issue that allowed the browser language setting to over-ride account settings for currency/number formatting. (379385)
- File upload field disabled by field rules or javascript no longer allow existing files to be removed. (408058)
- Custom JavaScript errors no longer interfere with field rules and lookup rules. (408936)
- Previously uploaded SVG logo images are now properly rendered when forms are saved. However, SVG images are no longer a supported file type for logos in new forms, and can not be uploaded. (409860)
- Hidden columns in a table no longer affect the size of adjacent columns. (410876)
- Invalid data is no longer able to cause a form to become unresponsive.(411500, 412573)
- Creating a copy of a form, editing, and then saving no longer results in the form name reverting to the original name. (415502)
- Nesting tables or collections within a collection is no longer allowed. (415535, 415548)
- Fixed the use of the RIGHT/LEFT formulas with string fields containing numbers as input parameters. (416043)
- Single Line fields now round numbers correctly when used as input to formulas. (416044)
Web Client
- The Recent Documents list now displays twenty documents at once by default rather than ten. (402597)
- Resolved an issue that could cause file imports to fail with a "File not found" error when the file contains no data. (33013)
- In some cases, opening a link to a document located during a search could result in a "Search results could not be retrieved" error. This issue has been resolved. (406334)
- Resolved in an error where selecting multiple documents sometimes caused all selected documents to be locked. (411918)
- In some cases, date and date/time fields were not correctly adjusted to match the language setting. This issue has been resolved. (411192)
- Resolved an issue that could cause text fields to be resized to a size smaller than the height of a single row of text in the field. (410732)
- Copy URL now works correctly when entries are in focus. (410728)
March 1, 2023
Documents
- The document viewer could display an empty preview for certain types of EML email messages. This issue is now resolved. (414969)
- When applying a stamp annotation, the "Most Recent Stamps" list could be empty. This issue is now resolved. (415514)
February 23, 2023
Laserfiche iOS App
- The app no longer closes unexpectedly after canceling an image upload to a form and reopening the form. (414682)
- The Laserfiche document image preview is no longer blurry for some documents. (414342)
February 22, 2023
Laserfiche Android App
- The app no longer closes unexpectedly when using the camera feature from within the app. (414933)
February 17, 2023
Business Processes:
- The option to customize the sender display name for email messages sent as part of a business process is now widely available. The option was previously available to select accounts as an advanced preview.
Documents:
- Resolved a potential issue that could prevent certain character sets from displaying properly when viewing the body of an EML file format email message. (413446)
- Resolved a potential issue that could display extraneous line breaks when viewing the body of an EML file format email message. (413447)
- Resolved a potential issue where the generated image pages for certain PDF files could contain unexpected characters. (410662).
- Resolved a potential issue that could cause a "PDFPageRenderer.ConvertPageToImage returned GenericError for page x: Index was outside the bounds of the array." error message when generating image pages for certain PDF files. (411496, 411529)
- Fixed an issue that could result in a "There was an error importing 'samplefilename': File not found. Please upload the file and try again" error message when uploading an empty 0-byte file. (333013)
February 16, 2023
Bots:
- In Laserfiche Bots, you can now edit the 'Open web page' URL in the Launch Application action when the action is configured to launch a web browser. (353387)
- The Laserfiche Bots Launch Application action now has a token picker for the Window Title and Window URL fields of the Update Application Information dialog . (286404)
February 15, 2023
Laserfiche iOS and Android App
iOS:
- The app no longer closes unexpectedly when closing the document viewer. (406884)
Android:
- The app no longer closes unexpectedly when a user presses Add New Photo to upload an additional image. (394246)
- Pictures uploaded as an attachment to a form are now displayed in their proper zoom ratio. (403659)
- Electronic documents (without Laserfiche images) can now be viewed successfully in the app. (407457)
- Images uploaded as attachments to a form, when using the classic form designer, are now uploaded successfully. (411611)
iOS and Android:
- An "unexpected error" dialog is no longer randomly displayed when a user downloads a form offline. (412560)
- The app no longer occasionally freezes when signing into Laserfiche Cloud using SAML. (406752)
February 14, 2023
Business Processes:
- Fixed an issue that had caused certain service tasks to become stuck. (412176, 413077)
Documents:
- When copying folders, the "Copy folders only" option could sometime still include documents. This issue is now resolved. (412503)
- DocuSign configuration changes are now saved correctly. (412100)
- Fixed an issue where downloading a folder as a ZIP archive did not properly retain document or folder names that contained certain accented characters. (411638)
- The "Request a Signature with DocuSign" option is now properly available when attempting to send a document that does not contain Laserfiche image pages. (412731)
- Resolved a potential issue that could prevent certain character sets from displaying properly when viewing the subject of an email message. (410452)
- Resolved a potential issue that could cause datetime and date field values to always display in YYYY/MM/DD format. (413033)
February 7, 2023
Business Processes
- Fixed an issue that could potentially prevent the process designer page from loading in Safari for MacOS. (412023)
- Malformed PDFs uploaded through a form attachment and saved via a save to repository task will no longer result in a failure. (412257)
- Resolved a potential issue that could prevent the monitor page from displaying available field variables. (412278)
Documents
- Improved web browser language detection logic for determining whether to display a configured alternate template name. (410510)
- You no longer receive a "'zh-Hans' does not follow the expected format" error message when viewing the Repository Administration page when the web browser language is set to Arabic. (410952)
- Resolved a potential issue where selecting the document name could create a highlight annotation. (409605)
- Resolved a potential issue that could prevent a custom tab from displaying when configured with the "Only display in specific folders" option. (410880)
February 6, 2023
Capture Profiles (Preview)
- A new dialog automatically updates your sample documents to have more accurate text (by using our improved OCR engine).
- Fixed an issue where uploading 5 or more sample documents at a time to a new capture profile will display an error. (402178)
- Fixed an issue where deleting multiple sample documents at a time could corrupt the profile. (410620)
Business Processes
- 11:49 A.M. Pacific Time: Business processes now again generate images and perform text extraction when importing PDFs into repositories for the United States data center.
- 10:58 A.M. Pacific Time: Business processes now again generate images and perform text extraction when importing PDFs into repositories for the Canadian and European data centers.
February 5, 2023
Business Processes
- February 4, 11 P.M. Pacific Time: As a temporary measure to maintain service stability, business processes no longer generate images or perform text extraction when importing PDFs into repositories.
Process Automation
- Schedule Rules: Single-run timers execute as expected under all circumstances. (409388)
Workflow
- The Add Text Box activity now limits opacity settings to valid values in the designer. (408338)
Business Processes
- Form Designer
- The field ID is now displayed in the field properties to make it easier to identify each field when configuring field rules. (397119)
- When a different value is selected in a field, dependent drop down values are now reset. (410227)
- The email service task no longer adds http:// to its "link" elements. (406201)
- A restored process no longer adds a colon to the form name. (406751)
- The save to repository task prints an embedded iframe within a form's custom HTML field. (409654)
- Added a link to open the selected lookup rule on a separate tab in classic forms. (410440)
- Fixed a misleading error message in classic forms when attempting to delete a form that is in use. (410668)
- Corrected a display issue on the manage page for macOS browsers. (411503)
- Customize the sender display name for email messages sent as part of a business process. (advanced preview)
January 27, 2023
Documents
- Fixed a potential issue that could cause a "Capacity must be positive. Parameter name : capacity" error when requesting a signature with DocuSign. (406776)
- The document viewer now properly supports saving text box annotations with a fill color set to "None." (407163)
- Resolved a potential issue that could cause the "Request Signature with DocuSign" option to not be available. (409814)
January 20, 2023
Public Portal
- Adding a quick search to a search form is now saved correctly.(409975)
January 19, 2023
Process Automation
- The process automation team role of Team Developer has been updated. This role now allows a user with only Process Automation Access rights to be added to specific team projects as a Team Developer to develop resources within those projects.
Business Processes
- Save to repository tasks properly overwrite files from a previous save to repository task rather than creating a duplicate. (408216)
- Importing a classic form that contains Unicode characters in field labels renders the characters as expected. (409371)
- Introduced error handling to catch and suspend rare occurrences of a save to repository task being directed to a sign-in page. (405874)
January 17, 2023
Business Processes
- Fixed a bug that caused save to repository tasks to suspend under special cases involving a form that contained an iframe displaying other content from the web. In rare situations, this can result in the iframe content not being fully displayed when the form is saved to the repository. (409607)
Documents
- URLs generated by the web client now include the Laserfiche Cloud account ID, allowing such document and folder links to be opened without having to manually enter the Laserfiche Cloud account ID on the sign-in screen. (409795)
January 13, 2023
Process Automation
- Patched an issue that was preventing access to process automation for new users. (409644)
January 12, 2023
Process Automation
- Improved timer reliability. (308925, 402012)
Rules
- Changed Remote Agent retention policy to disable agents older than 11.4.2208.01001 after 3 months of inactivity. (402589)
- Increased Web Request header limits and updated in Service Limits. (405143)
Business Processes
- Modern Form: Uploading a file no longer generates excessively sized files. (404410)
- Searching in the Start Event dialog for input parameters works as expected. (405549)
- Added safeguards to prevent a connection failure from being saved as a document. (405874)
- Fixed an issue to prevent saving a process that is missing attachment settings. (407889)
- Save to repository will now retry saving a document if a workflow moves the document before the process was completed. (408231)
- Add account ID to the default URL for user tasks. (406457)
January 10, 2023
Documents
- Fixed a potential issue that could prevent document import when the web browser's language is set to Chinese. (408011)
- Resolved an issue where the tooltip that appears when hovering over a multivalued field column in the folder browser would remain even after moving the mouse cursor away from the column. (401735)
- Service stability optimizations. (408823)
- Fixed a potential issue that could cause the Laserfiche app for mobile devices to incorrectly display field names. (408998)
Documents
- Service scalability improvements. (408483)
- Resolved a potential issue that could prevent importing of certain EML file format emails. (407395)
- The search engine update previously available in advanced preview is now widely available.