Automatic Upgrade for frevvo Online (Cloud Hosted) Customers

frevvo Online cloud hosted customers receive a seamless automatic cloud upgrade. If you have any questions, please email support@frevvo.com.

New Features 

v10frevvo v10.1 brings customers some exciting new enhancements. We've upgraded our PDF Snapshot generator, so your printable PDFs will be more professional than ever. Digital Signatures are now available on workflow steps performed by email users, giving you confidence that your data is digitally secure from tampering as it routes through your workflow.  is frevvo is also offering a new Docuware Connector for customers who wish to integrate with their Docuware cloud ECM. To see all of the new features for this release visit our Detailed Release Notes page. Here are some highlights to get you started:  

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PDF Snapshot Generation

 v10frevvo v10.1 uses an enhanced technology to generate your form/workflow PDF Snapshots. You will not see any difference in the design-time or run-time user interface, but your PDF snapshot output may be slightly different (better, we hope!) Behind the scenes,  uses  frevvo uses Chromium browser as a rendering engine to generate a snapshot. Since the browser supports all the latest HTML + CSS standards, the snapshot output will match the HTML view of a form/workflow. This has several benefits.

• The Print header/footer template FREVVO.PRINT_PAGE_COUNT applied to workflows will now combine form PDFs and then apply the page count, so you will have a single, consistent page count on each printed page.

• Better support for the CSS page break classes, especially for controls like Textarea and Message that can contain a lot of white space and line breaks in the control content.

• New CSS Classes:
  

  • New f-break-children-avoid CSS class which when applied to a group control, will avoid a page break inside child controls.

  • New f-break-inside-avoid CSS class to avoid a page break inside a specific control.

  • The f-page-break-inside-avoid CSS class is now deprecated but will continue to work if already set.

• Improved alignment and consistent printing of all control types
• Improved multi-language print support for Arabic and other RTL languages.
• Supports future  enhancementsfuture frevvo enhancements

Cloud customers do not need to take any action to get all of the benefits of this feature. On Premise customers will need to install the Chrome or Chromium browser on same server where  is where frevvo is installed. Instructions are included in the Upgrade Guide.

Docuware Integration

 now frevvo now provides a built-in Docuware Connector. Tenant Admins will configure the Docuware integration via the new Manage Connectors page. 

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A new repeat control separator for templatized strings has been introduced that formats the control's value as a JSON array. JSON array format is commonly used when generating metadata for the Filesystem Connector and other integrations. To include values from repeating controls and multi-select controls in your metadata, designers can now use the built-in separator 'json' i.e.  / {json|controlname}. This special separator resolves to the JSON format, and is far simpler than the previous method of specifying the JSON separator characters i.e. ["{","|controlname}"]. 

Migration Considerations

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PDF Snapshot Generator

• On Premise Customers please note the additional Upgrade Guide step of ensuring Chrome is installed on the same server as your  installation your frevvo installation in order to use the new PDF Snapshot Generator.
• PDF Snapshots generated after the upgrade may look different, depending on the CSS classes you are using and how your Print Styles are configured. We recommend testing your PDF snapshots to be sure they look the way you expect.
  • If you use CSS classes for page breaks in your PDF, your existing CSS classes should continue to work. However, because CSS classes are more consistently supported with our new technology, we recommend that you test and adjust as needed. If you were using the CSS class f-page-break-inside-avoid, we recommend changing to one of the supported page break CSS Classes.
  • If you use the Print header/footer template FREVVO.PRINT_PAGE_COUNT, this will now show the total page count of the workflow (including all forms). It will not give a separate page count for each form in a workflow with multiple forms as it did in past versions.
  • Section controls will now print in the same width as other 12-column controls.
  • Images uploaded in Message controls using the Rich Text Editor will now be printed.
  • Arabic and other RTL languages will print with the correct RTL alignment when supported fonts are used. Please see this documentation on international characters in PDFs.

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Planning Your On Premise Upgrade

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Templatized Strings for Integration

• If you have workflows that use date or datetime control templatized strings for Document Actions: Send Documents integration, you will see no difference. 
• If you have forms that use date or datetime control templatized strings for Document Actions: Send Documents integration, they were previously sending the dates to your external in the user's locale format. After this upgrade, these templatized strings will always send date/datetime values in ISO format. 

External URLs

If you previously used the frevvo.forms.server.external.url property to set your forms server external URL, this property has been deprecated. Instead, configure a Tomcat proxy in the HTTP connector (port 8082) of the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\server.xml file. See the External URLs Documentation for instructions.

The frevvo.internal.baseurl property no longer exists in v10+. Any setting in frevvo.internal.baseurl will be ignored by frevvo.

The connector with port 8081 was newly added to server.xml in v10+. Please ensure this port is available for frevvo to use. As indicated in the server.xml, changing the frevvo internal connector 8081 settings in the server.xml file can cause unexpected changes, and is not advised. 

<!-- A "Connector" used for internal frevvo calls: DO NOT MODIFY IT! -->
    <Connector address="127.0.0.1" port="8081" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"
               connectionTimeout="40000"
               maxHttpHeaderSize="32768"
               useBodyEncodingForURI="true" /> <!-- makes sure that uri parameter are decoded as utf-8 -->

If you need to change the internal port, please see this Default Internal Port documentation.

Selection Controls with Comment Enabled

Selection controls with comments enabled that were created prior to v10.1.0 may have encountered a bug where the comment value was cleared after saving to the task list or continuing the workflow to the next step. Starting in v10.1.11, workflows with this bug can be fixed. The designer must take the following action to fix this issue.

1. Edit the workflow. 
2. Click "Forms" in the Guided Designer Navigation toolbar.
3. Select the form that contains the selection control with comment enabled.
4. Save and close the workflow. The control will be updated on the save action.
5. Repeat for each form in the workflow the contains a selection control with comment enabled.

Any workflows started after this fix will not encounter this issue. Existing tasks and submissions (prior to this change) will not be fixed. 

Task Notification Emails with Default Subject/Message

In versions prior to v10.1.11, task notification emails were not sent if the default subject and message were used. This is resolved for workflows created in v10.1.11+. For customers with prior version workflows that encounter this issue, you must upgrade to v10.1.11+ and take and additional step to manually upgrade your workflow to the new behavior. There are two options here.

1. (Recommended) On the affected workflow step(s), edit the Task Notification subject and message, then save the workflow.
2. If you have many workflows affected, or you're not sure which are affected and which aren't, please contact support@frevvo.com for steps your superuser admin can take to perform the manual upgrade on all resources.
   

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