FORMCYCLE 6.5.2

Download 6.5.2

Changes

• Support of the jQuery noConflict mode within forms

Bug fixes

• Fixed encoding problems related to CSV data sources
• The "Forgot password" link during form authentication is no longer displayed on a frontend server without the corresponding user interface
• Fixed a bug that did not allow form authentication using HTTP header/URL parameters
• Fixed a bug where forms were not delivered correctly when called with jQuery-UI disabled
• Fixed bugs in the synchronization of the offline apps (including the storage of the signature widget data)
• Adjustments and bug fixes in the administration user interface

FORMCYCLE 6.5.1

Bug fixes

• Bug fixes regarding the new authentication mechanism on forms
• Adjustment of the evaluation of client-dependent permissions

FORMCYCLE 6.5.0

Features

Online appointments

The new appointment management modules lets your users book online appointments with a single click. You can manage the available dates and times in the appointment management menu in the backend. The new form element appointment finder in the Xima® Formcycle Designer lets you add a calendar to your forms where users can select and book an appointment. Once your users have booked appointments, you can view them in the inbox, or subscribe to a calendar feed directly. Finally, when a user books an appointment, they can also add that to their calendar (Google, Yahoo, Outlook, Mac). Use the new response page Appointment confirmed to display the links for adding appointments. (Short introduction).

Changes

• Separate role permissions for the different types of external users.

Bug fixes

• Displaying the form record in the current form version in the inbox works again.
• Fixed an error when changing the inbox configuration and the form subject.
• Only the form element columns that are also set in the inbox configuration of the form are exported by the XML export in the inbox.
• Fixed an error when saving a form record multiple times.
• Fixed an error when pressing the "Remove" button of repeated form elements.
• Unnecessary empty lines are avoided when exporting forms to PDF/Word.
• Fixed minor display errors in the user interface.

FORMCYCLE 6.4.2

Download 6.4.2

Bug fixes

• Fixed an error when exporting Excel/XML in the inbox view of a frontend server
• Fixed an error in the authorization check when resubmitting a form while reviewing it (e.g. within the inbox view)

FORMCYCLE 6.4.1

Download 6.4.1

Changes

• Extended the configuration of the action "Export (XML file)" by the selection of the fields ID, Status and Mailbox

Bug fixes

• Fixed the replacement of placeholders for the download of attachments in the returned template (ATTACHMENT, ATTACHMENT_ZIP and ATTACHMENT_LIST)

FORMCYCLE 6.4.0

Download 6.4.0

Features

External users

The new external users enable new methods of form authentication. Thus, login options can now be configured via SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, Google or Facebook. Existing authentication configurations of forms will be kept (e.g. authentication via NTLM, Kerberos, FORMCYCLE or form password). The new user variables [%$USER%], [%$LAST_USER%] and [%$INITIAL_USER%] as well as the XFC-METADATA object XFC_METADATA.user can be used to access information of the logged in users.

Highlighting outdated JavaScript symbols and migration via the interface

Outdated JavaScript symbols are crossed out in the JavaScript area of the designer. The editor also provides an easy way to migrate these symbols (for example, XFC-METADATA.currentUser).

Changes

• Technical fields can be shown/hidden in the inbox configuration of forms.
• "Please select" can be switched on or off for select elements as required
• The FORMCYCLE version number is displayed in the server information.
• The number of existing clients is displayed in the license information.
• New parameter in the processing of the POST request action allows the form field aliases to be used instead of the form field names.
• Multiple values are transferred as individual values when processing the POST-Request action in accordance with the HTTP standard.
• Form placeholders can optionally be displayed in the PDF or WORD export file of a form.
• If desired, text areas can automatically adjust their size to the content.
• If desired, the number of remaining characters can be displayed for text areas.
• Within database queries (SQL data sources), placeholders can be used.
• Internationalization of plugins: Display name and description of a plugin can be provided for different languages.
• Parameters of processing plugins can have a display name that differs from the technical name.
• Fine granular role rights for display, filtering and export in the inbox.
• Copied processes receive a valid UUID as process ID.
• An error is displayed when trying to access a process that no longer exists.
• The font size of the mail content of the "Email" action is specified in "pt" by default.
• The placeholders for processing results are also replaced if they return a value of zero or an empty string.
• The technical fields ID, subject and inbox of cases can now also be exported to Excel/XML documents.

Bug fixes

• When exporting configured inbox views, only the displayed columns are exported.
• The inbox filters "Edited by me" & "Created by me" also work for logged in LDAP users.
• Inboxes used in action processing are correctly assigned during form import.
• Dynamic containers/fieldsets are repeated during PDF/WORD export as often as the set maximum number of repetitions of the container/fieldset.
• When logging in to the form, an assignment to an LDAP user via the LDAP user groups is attempted if the LDAP user is deactivated.
• Fixed error during validation of date fields.
• Corrected minor interface errors.

FORMCYCLE 6.3.2

Download 6.3.2

Bug-Fixes

• Correction of errors that may have prevented the inbox from being usable on a frontend server
• The Word/PDF file of the project export is now in DIN A4
• Correction of an error when saving the action "Save in file system" if no action was selected
• Minor bug fixing of the UI

FORMCYCLE 6.2.1

Download 6.2.1

Bug fixes

• Optimization and stabilization of the update procedure
• Optimization of the mechanism for reconnecting lost frontend server connections
• Fixed an bug when using support mails with attached forms
• Generation of missing functional identifiers (UUIDs)

FORMCYCLE 6.2.0

Download 6.2.0

Features

Form summary

Creates a PDF document with details about the form, such as the form fields it contains, the configured worfklow, used data source and more.

Word / PDF export

Direct export of FORMCYCLE forms in Word / PDF format, as an alternative to the electronic online form (blank print) or as a template for automatic generation of print receipts.

Reworked form import and export

When you export a form, all data sources and templates used by the form are exported as well. When you import the form later in a different system, these resources can be created if they do not exist yet. In case you do not want to export all resources, you can choose which resources you would like to include in the form export.

Update form

You can update a form with the data from an export file. One common use case is when you want to transfer a form between a test and a live system. In case certain user groups, states, actions, data sources or other resources cannot be found in the target system, a new wizard dialog helps you to quickly resolve these conflicts.

Invite people (with costs)

The new invitation features lets you create a new form record for each person and prefill it with some of their data. You can then send an email to each person with a link to the prefilled form.

Plain text emails

The workflow action email now lets you send email either as HTML (rich text), plain text, or as HTML mixed with plain text.

Password policy

You can now define a password policy for user passwords, such as the minimum number of characters or which characters the password must contain.

Deleting protocol entries

You may now delete old protocol entries, either manually or automaically. This frees memory in the database and may be required by certain privacy policies.

Grant client frontend server permission to all forms

Previously you had to grant access for each form separately. With the new option on the client frontend server, you can grant it access to all forms so that all existing and future forms are available on that frontend server.

Open form with different themes

You can add the URL parameter xfc-rp-theme to a form link to open it with different CSS layouts. For example, you could use with feature to embed the form in different parts of your web page with differently colored themes.

Disable entire pages, containers, or fieldsets

The feature that lets you disable element depending on the user group or current state of the form now works for form elements of type page, container and fieldset as well. All form elements in the container are disabled as well.

Hide buttons for repeated elements

When a trigger element was set for a repeated element, a new option now lets you hide the plus and minus button on the repeated element. This is helpful when you want the number of repetitions to be controlled only by the trigger element.

New cluster settings

New cluster properties were added to control the timeouts for the communication between cluster servers.

Changes

• When you add a new form element of type buttons, previously only a back and next button was present by default. Now a third submit is present as well.
• For a Auswahlfeldern element, you can enter a list of selectable options. Each options consists of a title that is shown to the user and a value that is sent when the form is submitted. Now, white spaces at the beginning and end of the value are removed automatically (only when displayed as a drop down list). This lets you now enter default options with an empty value.
• Line breaks in the value or options of select elements are now ignored, as they are usually added unintentionally (when copying and pasting text).
• A new property renderStatus was added to the JavaScript object XFC_METADATA in the rendered form.
• Plugins developers can now let the build time be displayed on the plugin configuration page.
• Several performance optimizations in the inbox for filters, form-specific inbox views and attachments.

Bug fixes

• When the user adds a new copy of a repeated element, the value of the newly added element is now always cleared.
• The answer choices for select elements displayed as Questions are now internationalizable (can be translated into different languages).
• When a form is opened in preview mode, submitting the form will not create a new form record anymore. Instead, a preview page with the submitted data is shown, similar to the designer preview.
• The preview mode lets you view the form in different workflow states. The data in the JavaScript object XFC_METADATA.currentProcess is now set correctly.
• An error sometimes occurred when a page was deleted in the designer and the form was saved afterwards.
• Several small layout issues in the backend user interface were fixed.

FORMCYCLE 6.1.8

Download 6.1.8

Bug-Fixes

• Fix for incorrectly inserted placeholders for attachments within HTML templates
• Correction of an error that ignored the file names of uploads during processing when sending via frontend server. Saving the uploads was not affected by this.
• Fixed a rare bug that prevented forms from being rendered after restarting the server or application. This was caused by an incorrectly restored session.