We recommend that you read the information below before you begin.

Automatic Upgrade for Live Forms Online (Cloud Hosted) Customers

Live Forms Online cloud hosted customers will be automatically upgraded on December 16, 2017. The automatic cloud upgrade will be seamless. Cloud customers should review these topics to prepare for the new version of .

•  Migration Considerations for Cloud and In-house Customers   

If you have any questions, please email support@frevvo.com.

Migration Considerations for Cloud and In-house Customers  

Visual Rule Builder v2

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

Use this version of the Rule Builder to create rules to

• Compute a Subtotal and Total

• Populate fields with the logged in user’s information

• Concatenate field data

• Populate a Date field when the user signs

The need to manually write JavaScript is eliminated. Here is a list of the new functions:

It also supports these Operators:

Refer to the Visual Rule Builder chapter for more information. Be sure to see the real world sample rules that can be with the Rule Builder on the Rule Examples page.

Unsaved Changes Warning Message

Data loss is possible if users filling in a lot of data in a long forms/flows close the browser ot tab without saving or submitting. Users are now warned of this situation before the data loss. This applies to use-mode forms and flows only, not edit mode. The warning only shows if there have been changes made to the form/flow. If there are no changes, then no warning is displayed. If the form/flow is Saved or the Save on Navigate feature is configured for a flow, then changes are saved and the warning is not produced on any attempt to close the browser.

The unsaved changes warning feature is not supported on iOS Safari and only partially supported on Chrome Android. You may notice some inconsistencies with workflows. Refer to the Unsaved Changes topic for the details.

The warning behavior message is browser specific. The messages for Firefox, Chrome and Microsoft Edge are shown below:

Ability to display a warning message when user tries to delete a repeating section

• There are two new design time control properties available on tables and repeat items (i.e. the top level child of a repeat).
  • Prompt - Check box that defaults to unchecked. Check it in order for the system to prompt with an "are you sure" message dialog.
  • Prompt Msg - The text message/question that will appear in the "are you sure" message dialog. Defaults to "Are you sure you want to delete this item?". The Prompt Msg property is only visible when the Prompt property is checked.
• At runtime the system will display the modal dialog when the user attempts to delete a repeat item if the Prompt property is checked. This applies to table rows and repeat items. If the user selects 'Ok' the item is deleted. Selecting 'Cancel' aborts the delete.
• The Prompt Msg and the caption of the dialog (Delete Item) are available in the form level downloadable text strings file for localization.

Support for curly braces in Share Link URLs

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. However, if you are embedding forms, flows or the Task List in your website, change the markup to use parenthesis (). Support for curly braces {} will be dropped in a future releases

Migration Considerations for Live Forms In-house Customers  

frevvo-cofnig.properties

frevvo Connectors

PVE Connector no longer included in the frevvo tomcat bundle

Just a Reminder for In-house Customers

In-house customers should review the topics below, the instructions in the Upgrade Guide and Supported Platforms before migrating. It is recommended that you perform a full installation of  v7.3+ when upgrading. 

Hardware and Memory Requirements for your Live Forms Server

The minimum recommended hardware configuration for your Live Forms server is:

• 2 gigahertz (GHz) 64-bit (x64) processor with 4 cores
• 5 gigabyte (GB) of system memory
• 100 GB hard drive

However you must size your hardware platform to your specific form usage characteristics. As the number of concurrent users and forms/flows increases so must the system memory. Refer to the memory configuration topic for the details.

Insight Server Memory Requirements

The Insight Server and Service (Batch job) MUST be configured to take full advantage of the Reporting and the Submission view and search capability. Do NOT disable it in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\Catalina\localhost\frevvo.xml file.

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.

Email and Database Configuration moved to server.xml file

The database configuration that was done in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\catalina\localhost\frevvo.xml file has been moved to the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\server.xml file. Also, note that the datasource in the server.xml file has been renamed to jdbc/sharedfrevvoDS so that it can be shared by and the Insight server.

Insight log

This is intentional and a byproduct of integrating the insight.war into the frevvo.war. The messages formerly in the insight logs are now in the frevvo logs.

Start the Insight server before Live Forms

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