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Why Upgrade?

v7.3 contains new features that improve usability and makes designing forms easier.
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Why Upgrade?

v7.3 contains new features that improve usability and makes designing forms easier. Here are a few of the top reasons to upgrade:

New Features:

  • A new SharePoint Connector and wizard to save your documents to a SharePoint library or to write data to a SharePoint list

  • Save and Test icon to test forms/flows without exiting the designers. This feature helps designers become more efficient.

  • Tenant/flow admins now have the ability to delete Pending, Waitng & Saved submissions directly from the submissions repository UI
  • Preconditions:
    • Precondition Rule Builder to make coding of preconditions in the flow designer easier
    • Improved error message when the evaluation of a pre-condition fails
  • Message Control:
  • Enhanced ComboBox control

    • The ComboBox control now works with forms created data first from Schema  

    • Populate the options of a Combobox control from a database  
  • The Task notification email default link now uses the {task.perform.url} bulit-in template and generates a clickable link. This brings users directly to the task instead of the task list.

  • The Database, Google and SharePoint connectors now generate their own logfiles.
  • Guided Tours and Page Help to assist new and existing  users
  • Ability to to customize default messages and Form designer labels

    Ability to display a customized warning message when a user tries to delete a repeating section or table row.

  • System Metrics to monitor Platform Stability / Performance - (Cloud Only)
  • Version 2 of the Visual Rule Builder now supports functions/expressions. This added functionality greatly enhances the rule builder's ability to create more powerful rules reducing the need to manually add JavaScript.
  • frevvo.war now uses springboot to standardize server framework   
  • Spaces generate menu item url's using parentheses instead of curly braces    
  • The Fields list dropdown in the Rule Builder no longer 'wraps' when using up/down arrow to select   
  • Rule Builder: Support for mapping a data structure
  • The Insight Server is now included in the frevvo.war file. In-house customers using the tomcat bundle. You will no longer see an insight.war file in <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps. Log entries for the Insight Server are now captured in <frevvo-home>\tomcat\logs\frevvo.YYY-MM-DD.log
  • An unsaved changes warning displas when the form/flow browser window/tab is closed without saving or submitting and changes have been made to the data
  • Customization of in-house installations is done in a single properties file named <frevvo-home>\conf\frevvo-config.properties
  • Global configuration property to disable the unsaved changes warning for in-house customers
  • Configuration Property to turn on json logging for the frevvo log


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A new version (v2.5.3) of the Database Connector is no longer included in the v7.3 frevvo tomcat bundle. It is available in a separate download. You can download it here.  The database.war does not extract after startup. You will not see a database subfolder in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps directory if you are using the tomcat bundle as in previous releases.

The Database Connector v2.5.3 requires v7.3.2 . The v2.5.3+ database connector datasources are now defined in the new <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\frevvo-config.properties files. The v2.4.* database connector datasources were defined directly in configuration.xml. This upgrade requires you to move your datasource configuration out of configuration.xml and into a configuration properties file.

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Embed code for forms/flows now contains container=false by default. This change should not affect existing embedded forms which have container parameter set to true. If you need the container value to be set to "true", change this setting manually for  newly embedded forms/flows going forward.

Tips for Embedded Forms/Flows viewed on Mobile Devices

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Java 1.7 is no longer supported. In-house customers should upgrade to Java 8 before upgrading to v7.3+.  Please review Supported Platforms for a complete list. 

You must install the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) or the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) before installing Live Forms. Although Live Forms will run with either JAVA package, the Insight Server requires the JAVA_HOME environment variable so set it to the installation directory for the Java package that you install. Refer to  JDK or JRE Prerequisite for configuration details. 

Tomcat version Upgraded

The version of tomcat used in the frevvo bundle has been upgraded to now uses Tomcat  8.5.16. Tomcat 7 is not supported for 7.3.0.

Override _data properties in Configuration Files

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It may be necessary to increase heap size for the Insight server, when reporting on/indexing a large number of submissions. Refer to the memory configuration topic for the details.

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 requires Insight software for the Reporting and Submissions View feature. The Insight software is included in the tomcat bundle. The Insight server MUST be started BEFORE starting . Instructions for Windows and Linux operating systems are listed here:

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 Windows:

  1. Open a command prompt. Navigate to <frevvo-home>\solr-5.4.1.Type bin\solr.cmd start to run the Insight server in the background, listening on the default port 8983.

    You will see this message:



  2. Browse http;<your server:your port>/solr to verify the Insight server is running. The <server:port> default values are localhost:8983. Change <your server>  to the server name and <your port> to the port the Insight server is running on if they are different than the defaults. Do not include the angle brackets <>. You will see the Insight server (Solr) dashboard with the current status:

Warning

If you close the Insight server (Solr) startup window, the server will stop running. Leave the window open or set up Live Forms and the Insight Server to run as Windows services.

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Linux:

  1. Ensure that the scripts are executable: chmod 755 <frevvo-home>/tomcat/bin/*.sh
  2. Navigate to <frevvo-home>/solr-5.4.1/bin. Run this command to make the solr startup file executable:

    chmod +x solr
  3. Navigate back to the solr-5.4.1 directory.
  4. Start the Insight server by typing:

    bin/solr start - this starts the Insight server in the background, listening on the default port 8983.
  5. Browse http;<your server:your port>/solr to verify the Insight server is running. The <server:port> default values are localhost:8983. Change <your server>  to the server name and <your port> to the port the Insight server is running on if they are different than the defaults. Do not include the angle brackets <>. You will see the Insight server (Solr) dashboard with the current status:

   

  You do not have to restart the Insight server every time you restart .

 

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