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configuration properties are configured in the frevvo-config.properties file in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf directory. The frevvo-config.properties is a standard java properties file. Any valid context parameter can be configured as a property in this file. This file contains properties that define global customizations that apply to the <frevvo home>\tomcat\webapps\frevvo directory and the frevvo connector warfiles (Database Connector, Filesystem, SharePoint). For example, you can provide the client secret information for the Google Connector with a property in this file. 

The properties that can be added to the frevvo-config.properties file are discussed below. The configuration properties in the frevvo-config.properties file will override the properties configured in <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\server.xml file. Parameters, previously configured in the web.xml file included in the frevvo.war must be added to the frevvo-config.properties file as well.

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frevvo only supports/certifies  running in the tomcat container. Refer to our Supported Platforms for the list of Application Servers supported/certified by frevvo.

Converting Context Parameters to Properties  

The configuration properties follow a simple property name=value syntax. Let's say you had context parameters to default the tenant login and customize the placeholder on the login screen in the frevvo.xml file of your previous installation.

 The context parameters in frevvo.xml would look like this:

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titlefrevvo.xml from your previous Live Forms installation
<Parameter name="frevvo.default.login.tenant.id" value="your_tenant_id" override="false"/>
<Parameter name="frevvo.login.username.placeholder" value="user@<your_tenant_name>" override="false"/>

The configuration properties follow a simple property name=value syntax. Follow these steps to convert configuration parameters from previous releases to properties in the frevvo-config.properties file.

  1. Navigate to <frevvo-home>/tomcat/conf directory.

  2. Edit the frevvo-config.properties file.

  3. The Parameter name becomes the property name.
  4. Add an equal sign
  5. Add the value after the equal sign
  6. Repeat this for all custom parameters
  7. Save the file
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titlefrevvo-config.properties file in the v7.4.x installation
#Custom Tenant Id and Placeholder
frevvo.default.login.tenant.id=<your_tenant_id>
frevvo.login.username.placeholder=<@<your tenant name>

Here is an example of a frevvo-config.properties file that provides the client id and secret for the Box connector, the URL for the Filesystem connector, a property to turn on/off the Insight Server and a property to turn on DEBUG level logging for the frevvo.log and any frevvo connector logfiles.

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frevvo.box.connector.client.id=bttkldgy9r5td0kdu57v0h6h2gotjf03
frevvo.box.connector.client.secret=EM08T1IjiMFuyCP5OJWm5QPyTz0qcL4A 
frevvo.filesystem.connector.url=http(s)://<your server>:port/filesystem 
insight.enabled=true insight.service.url=http(s)://<your server>:port/insight 
frevvo.sharepoint.connector.url=http(s)://<your server>:port/sharepoint 
logging.level.root=DEBUG

Updating the frevvo-config.properties requires server re-start. You do not have to restart the Insight server.

frevvo tomcat bundle

In the frevvo tomcat bundle, the frevvo-config.properties file is located in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf directory. The path to the frevvo-config.properties file is specified in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\bin\sentenv.bat.sh files

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set CATALINA_OPTS=%CATALINA_OPTS% -Dspring.config.location="file:///%CATALINA_HOME%/conf/,file:///%CATALINA_HOME%/conf/frevvo-config.properties"



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  • Login to your  server as user admin@d, password admin.
  • On the page that is displayed, click the Manage Tenants link.
  • Click the icon to manage tenant named d (Default tenant)
  • Click Manage Users
  • Click the Image Removed Image Addededit admin user icon for the admin user. This displays a profile form.
  • Change the password as desired and submit the form.

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 is a multi-tenant application. See the administration section on Manage Tenants. However, it is possible that all you need is a single tenant. If this is your case, it simplifies the  server login if you default the @<tenantname> so the user only needs to enter their username to login. Customers who default the tenant login normally would also customize the placeholder on the login screen. Please read that topic for details.

  1. Stop Live Forms if it is running.
  2. Navigate to the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf directory
  3. Open the frevvo-config.properties file with a text editor.

  4. Add the frevvo.default.login.tenant.id property to the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\frevvo-config.properties file and set the param-value to the name of your one tenant.

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    titlefrevvo-config.properties
    frevvo.default.login.tenant.id=<your_tenant_id>


  5. Save the file
  6. Restart .

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titlefrevvo-config.properties
frevvo.deprecated.submissions.view.enabled=<true or false>

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Forms Home Page when the Legacy Submissions View is turned off.
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Designers see a message when an attempt is made to add a searchable field that would exceed this max number.
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The message The message appears on the lower right of the screen and disappears after a short time. Any fields in excess of the max configured will not be allowed.
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frevvo.submission.delete.buttons=<true or false> 
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Administration of reCAPTCHA Keys
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  • frevvo.forms.server.external.url - If set, all share dialogs for forms and flows will use this as the external URL. Use the syntax shown in the example. change the <myexternalhost>and <port> to your external server name and the port that you are using for  on this server. 
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    titlefrevvo-config.properties
    frevvo.forms.server.external.url=http://<myexternalhost>:<port>>

     Note
    If the frevvo.forms.server.external.url is used with X-forwarded headers, the external.url will always take precedence (so X-forwarded headers will not work.)

  • frevvo.internal.baseurl - If set, all URLs used internally by the form server will use this base url. This may be needed when using frevvo.forms.server.external.url if that external url is not also accessible from the form server machine. Use the syntax shown in the example. change the value "http://localhost:8082"  to the server name and port of your  server.
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    titlefrevvo-config.properties
    frevvo.internal.baseurl=http://localhost:8082 
    the syntax shown in the example. change the value "http://localhost:8082"  to the server name and port of your  server.
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    titlefrevvo-config.properties
    frevvo.internal.baseurl=http://localhost:8082 
    • If frevvo.internal.url is set to empty, then port 8081 will go unused. In this case you should remove the the connector:8081 line in the server.xml file.
    • If you change frevvo.internal.port to 8082 then in this case also port 8081 will go unused, so you should remove the the connector:8081 line in the server.xml file.
    • If you change frevvo.internal.port to something different from 8082 then in this case user needs to set same port for the internal connector in server.xml file, as in this example:
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      <Connector address="127.0.0.1" port="8086" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"
               connectionTimeout="40000"
               maxHttpHeaderSize="32768"
               useBodyEncodingForURI="true" />

       Warning
      Changing the frevvo internal connector 8081 settings in the server.xml file can cause unexpected changes, and is not advised. Please keep this in mind before changing frevvo.internal.baseurl.

Default Port
By default the  tomcat bundle is configured to bind to port 8082. You can change the port by:
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 Note
  • There will be three additional logfiles when running Tomcat as a Windows service:
    • frevvoforms - stderr.YYYYMMDD and frevvoforms - stdout.YYYYMMDD for standard error messages and standard output stream, respectively. This is the default Tomcat behavior.
    • commons-daemon.YYYY-MM-DD.log for Windows Service errors
  • The Insight server no longer creates a log since the insight.war is integrated into frevvo.war. The messages formerly in the insight logs are now found in the in the <frevvo-home>/tomcat/frevvo_YYYY-MM-DD.log
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When a person is using a form/flow then pauses for longer than the configured <session-timeout>, they will see the login screen.
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When a person is using a form/flow and then pauses for longer than the configured <session-timeout>, they will see the following error the next time they enter a value into the form or try to submit a form from a timed out session.
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Live Forms as a windows service
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  1. Stop 
  2. Download the jai-imageio-core-1.3.1.jar here.
  3. Add it to frevvo classpath i.e. tomcat/lib folder
  4. Deploy pve.war (PVE Connector) in tomcat/webapps folder. Download the latest version of the PVE Connector from our frevvo Software Downloads Directory.
  5. Restart the  server. You will now see the TIFF option in the connector wizards Send Snapshot dropdown. The image shows the TIFF format option for the PaperVision or ImageSilo Connector wizard.
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 no longer supports the web.xml parameters for frevvo.xforwarded.protocol.header, frevvo.xforwarded.host.header, and frevvo.xforwarded.port.headers. The general recommendation is to rely on the Servlet Container for handling dynamic proxies. A better approach is to use tomcat's RemoteIp Valve instead.  Please see this documentation on the Apache Tomcat website for information about the RemoteIp valve functionality. This tomcat valve has been incorporated into our  tomcat bundle.
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 <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve"
            internalProxies=".*" 
            remoteIpHeader="x-forwarded-for" 
            proxiesHeader ="x-forwarded-by" 
            protocolHeader="x-forwarded-proto" />
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  1. If the target tenant does not exist, create it by following these steps. For the sake of this document, the target tenant id is mytenant. 
  2. Login to the target tenant as an admin and create a user with the same id as the user in the original tenant. In this example, the user id is john in the tenant mytenant.
  3. Transfer the applications to the new user account in the target tenant
    1. Login to the source tenant as a tenant admin, for instance admin@d. 
    2. Navigate to Manage > Manage Users.
    3. Login as the user you want to move. 
    4. Navigate to the user's applications page. 
    5. Download each application for that user and save to a folder in your file system. 
    6. Logout
    7. Login as the user in the new tenant: john@mytenannt.
    8. Upload the applications you've downloaded in the previous steps. 
  4. Move the submissions in the submissions repository. You need to run these steps in the database where you persist the  submissions. Please back up your database before moving forward. 
    5. Login to your database.
    1. Edit the script shown below to:
      1. Replace the word john with the id of the user you are migrating.
      2. Replace the tenant id d with the id of the source tenant. The default tenant in  is called d.
      3. Replace the word mytenant with the name of your target tenant 
      1. Login to your database.
      2. Edit the script shown below to:
      3. Run the script shown below in your  submissions database.

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    frevvo.login.forgot.password.enabled=false     
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    Moving Data Sources to the Top of the Designer
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    This image shows the Data Sources section moved to the top, the "New from XSD" button hidden and the palette configured for only nine controls.
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    Modifying Content Types for the Upload Control
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    This will add the swf extension to the Restricted Content Types list in the designer.
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    An easier and preferable alternative, is to type the additional mime type into the Other Mime/Ex field on the Upload control property pane. Refer to Upload control for more information.   
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    The show/hide pagebreaks icon  Image RemovedImage Added on the Form Designer toolbar is a toggle to make PageBreak controls in your form on visible/invisible. When you create or edit a form, PageBreak controls will be visible. When you drag a PageBreak control from the palette onto the canvas it will be visible in the designer. If you save the formr/flow then edit it the PageBreak controls remain visible.  If you want to change the default behavior, i.e. make them invisible by default, add the frevvo.designer.showPageBreaks property to the frevvo-config.properties file. This property defaults to true. Setting it to false will hide the PageBreak control by default in the designer. Clicking the icon will make them visible.
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    The prompt and save of the form prior to additional pdf mapping can be controlled by the frevvo.form.save.on.mapping property. The property defaults to true. If set to false, the designer will not be prompted to save the existing pdf form before continuing pdf mapping and the editing instance will not be saved. This parameter applies only to forms, not flows.
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    Follow the steps to hide this message:
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      When users try to upload a file that exceeds the configured attachment size, this error displays:
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    If you are using MySQL, and you upload a large image or you are using a workflow that contains a large pdf, , you may see this error:
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    The default value of the max_allowed_packet parameter in your MySQL server may not be large enough. Refer to this website for detailed information about the MySql configuration parameter. Increasing the max_allowed_packet variable setting in your MySQL Server from the default (1M) to something like 16M (16777125) fixes the issue. To fix the issue temporarily, run the following commands:
    • mysql -u root
    • set global max_allowed_packet=16777216
    To permanently set it, choose one of the two methods listed below:
    • You can add the parameter  - max_allowed_packet=16M to the mysqld command line or (mysqld_safe command line) as shown: 
     mysqld --max_allowed_packet=16M 
    • Edit the MySql configuration file (my.ini on Windows/ my.cnf on Mac OS) and add max_allowed_packet=16777216 to the [mysqld] section. 
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    [mysqld]
max_allowed_packet = 16M
    • Restart MySQL.
    • Restart frevvo. 
    • The setting will permanently take effect.
    On Mac OS, you can access the my.cnf file by typing
    • sudo vi /etc/my.cnf
     The location of the my.ini/my.cnf file varies by configuration.
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    Skew error when logging into an Azure SAML tenant
    Users logging into a Azure SAML tenant may encounter the error "Access Denied.  Authorization Required". Examination of the frevvo.log shows the following entry:
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    Response issue time is either too old or with date in the future, skew 60, time 2016-06-01T05:49:25.330Z
    This error is typically caused by a clock synchronization issue between the Service Provider (frevvo) and the Identity Provider (Azure) or a genuine delay in the connection. If you get this error, adding the com.frevvo.security.saml.response.skew property can be used to specify the time in seconds allowed between the request and the response from Azure to a value greater than the default value of 60 seocnds. 
    Follow these steps:
    1. Stop Live Forms if it is running.
    2. Navigate to <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf
    3. Open the frevvo-config.properties file with a text editor.
    4. Add the parameter shown below with a value greater than the default value of 60 seconds. The example shown increases the timer to 120 seconds.
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      com.frevvo.security.saml.response.skew=120

    5. Save the file. 
    6. Restart .
    7. Retry the login.
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    In-house customers can change the maximum size for images uploaded to forms/flows using the Image control in the designers by adding the frevvo.asset.maxsize property to the frevvo-config.properties file. The default value is set to 2097152 bytes. Any uploaded file that exceeds the value in this parameter displays an error message to the designer so they can take corrective action.
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    The error message will not display for video files that exceed the specified limit.
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    Changing the Default Task Notification Email Message
    If you want to change the default subject and body of the task notification email for your  server, add these properties to the frevvo-config.properties file.
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    frevvo.task.notification.email.subject=New task
frevvo.task.notification.email.message=You can access your task list by clicking <a href="{task.perform.url}">this link</a>
    Change the value in this parameter to anything you want. The task.perform.url template {task.perform.url} is a built-in template in  and it will always point to the specific task. Refer to the Task Notification Email Link topic for some other options. If you wrap the templates in an HTML <a> tag, it will generate a clickable link in the email.
    If you do not want the link in your task notification emails to go there, you can remove it. The default message can include form control templates. 
    Security Vulnerabilities
    The following security vulnerablities have been addressed as follows:
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