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Why Upgrade?

v7.4 contains new features that improve usability and makes designing forms easier. Here are a few of the top reasons to upgrade:

New Features

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Version 2 of the Visual Rule Builder now has built-in functions and the ability to use operators to enable building useful expressions. The Rule Builder provides a Lookup mode to search for the function that you want to use and a Help mode that provides function syntax information and an example

The Rule Builder eliminates the need to manually write JavaScript. Use this version of the Rule Builder to create rules to:

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The version of the Insight server (Solr) used for the new Submissions view and the Reports feature is upgraded to v6.6.2.

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Changes to Revision

Revision numbers for have changed in v7.4.4+. The revision number is now a unique 40 character string. Release notes refer to the revision number by the first 7 characters. See Version Information for details.

Tomcat 8.5 doesn't allow curly braces in URLs since they are not valid URL chars and deemed a security vulnerability. currently supports parenthesis as well as curly braces. If you are embedding the Task List in your website, change the markup to use parenthesis (). You may also notice that Share links for the Important items now show parenthesis instead of curly braces. You will see the parentheses in any newly created space. Support for curly braces {} will be dropped in a future releases

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Migration Considerations for Live Forms In-house Customers  

frevvo tomcat bundle Configuration Changes

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Modification of the frevvo-config.properties file requires a server restart. You do not have to restart the Insight server.

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on the Unsaved Changes Warning

In-house customers can turn off on the display of the Unsaved Changes warning by adding the the  frevvo.unsaved.warning property with a value of false true to the frevvo-config.properties file. It is turned off by default.

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MS SQL Server driver

At this time, frevvo only supports the v6.1.0.jre8 version of the SQL Server JDBC driver. This version of the driver is included in the frevvo tomcat bundle in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\libdirectory. v6.2+ of the driver may cause an issue with downloading larger attachment files from the submission repository. v6.2+ versions should not be used until further notice.

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The PVE and Google Connectors are no longer included in the frevvo tomcat bundle. See Software Downloads to download the latest versions of all the frevvo Connectors for the currently supported versions of .

Note
  • frevvo Connectors are an Add on feature with additional costs.
  • frevvo only supports/certifies frevvo connectors running in the Apache Tomcat container. Refer to our  Supported Platforms for the list of Application Servers and databases supported/certified by frevvo

Just a Reminder for In-house Customers

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It may be necessary to increase heap size for the Insight server, when reporting or 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-6.6.2. Type bin\solr.cmd start to run the Insight server in the background, listening on the default port 8983.
     

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    Use the bin\solr.cmd -all command to stop all instances of the Insight Server. The -p option allows you to specify the port number for the instance you want to stop

    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-6.6.2/bin. Run this command to make the solr startup file executable:

    chmod +x solr
  3. Navigate back to the solr-6.6.2 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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