FORTIS™ 2.4 RELEASE NOTES R ELEASE HISTORY 0B RELEASE 2.4.2 SERVICE PACK 1 (12/2009) Security: Database Access by Group – Resolved an issue with Fortis Users that were granted database access via group membership. In some cases during an update of permissions the user’s permissions were being removed. (10497) NOTE: It is not necessary to run a Fortis workstation setup after installing Fortis 2.4.2 Service Pack 1 as long as a workstation setup was run after the installation of Fortis 2.4.2 RELEASE 2.4.
Fortis Release Notes Page |2 Discontinued Application / Platform Support – The following applications and platforms are no longer tested by our Quality Assurance department and are no longer supported. Windows 2000 Server/Professional (IIS 5.x support for Fortis Web was already dropped as of Fortis 2.4.
Fortis Release Notes Page |3 Database Access: Groups – We have added the ability to control access to database by Fortis Groups, in previous releases database access had to be set for each individual Fortis User. In Baskets: Security - Fortis now supports user and group permissions of add, modify, delete and view on the contents of In Baskets. This provides much more granular control over the contents of In Baskets in Fortis.
Fortis Release Notes Page |4 Fortis Web: LDAP – Resolved an issue with Fortis LDAP that would prevent users from manually logging into Fortis Web if their LDAP password contained an ampersand (&). (10123) Fortis Web: LDAP – An issue was resolved in Fortis LDAP that would cause users who manually login to Fortis Web or ApproveIT with an incorrect password to have their Active Directory accounts locked out. (10386) Fortis Web: ActiveX Installer – Resolved an issue with FortisWeb.
Fortis Release Notes Page |5 Fortis Inflo: Password Prompt – Added validation to the Fortis Inflo Service configuration dialog so that it will prompt for a password if the user fails to enter one. (10269) Fortis Script Manager: Password Prompt - Added validation to the Fortis Script Manager Service configuration dialog so that it will prompt for a password if the user fails to enter one.
Fortis Release Notes Page |6 Fortis workstation installs run prior to 2.4.2 will still have Sun Java automatic updates enabled and they will need to be manually turned off if desired. (10232) Installation: Uninstall – Resolved an issue with Fortis workstation uninstall failing to work properly after the Fortis application server has been updated with a Fortis Service Pack.
Fortis Release Notes Page |7 you set index data on the date field during import or modify the data from a query result. (10121) Fortis: COM API – Resolved an issue with application.logout so that it now works as expected instead of throwing an error message. (9887) Fortis: COM API – Resolved an issue with COM allowing you to create a new document record with a MAG file that contains zero pages. COM will now insert a single blank page into the MAG file if the caller does not specify any pages to add.
Fortis Release Notes Page |8 When the administrator makes a change by either checking or un-checking Maintain JPEG files, a message box will be displayed telling the administrator that previously imported files will be unaffected by the change. Once a file is imported using the Maintain JPEG files option, the MAG page is marked accordingly and remains as created for the life of the MAG page.
Fortis Release Notes Page |9 When a non-converted JPEG is exported, all metadata that was with the file on import is still with the file on Export and the JPEG has not been modified in any way. NOTE: Feature Limitations of Using Maintain JPEG Files. JPEG files imported using the Maintain JPEG files option can be viewed, annotated, printed and exported just as any other file, but with some limitations in functionality.
P a g e | 10 Fortis Release Notes FORTIS 2.4.1 SERVICE PACK 4 (06/2009) Westbrook Technologies Fortis 2.4.1 Service Pack 4 includes quality improvements and new features that enhance reliability, security and performance. It is recommended that all customers upgrade to Fortis 2.4.1 Service Pack 4 to take advantage of these improvements. IMPORTANT: Customers must install or upgrade to Fortis 2.4.1 before applying this service pack update. Once Fortis 2.4.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 11 Append to MVF action creates a new version of the document and the new version is not part of the original result set for the rule query. The Move action will attempt to act on the old version of the document from the original result set for the rule query which is not allowed. The recommended solution is to do the Move Action first and then do the Set Data or Append to MVF actions last when working with versioned documents.
P a g e | 12 Fortis Release Notes The most common examples of this type of dialog are portions of the Print dialog, Choose Font and Choose Color dialogs with buttons such as OK, Cancel and Continue along the bottom. Spanish: Unsupported Products – The following products have not been localized or tested and are not supported in Spanish for 2.4.
P a g e | 13 Fortis Release Notes Spanish: Hotkeys - Certain default hotkeys currently will not work when using a Spanish keyboard due to a difference in key names between English & Spanish. Users can customize the Hotkeys for use on a Spanish keyboard. We are working on a mechanism to support all default Hotkeys as an enhancement for a future release.
P a g e | 14 Fortis Release Notes "Ctrl+V", "Paste Page", "F3", "Find Next", "Ctrl+N", "Find Index Data", "F4", "Find Previous", "Ctrl+G", "Go To Page", "Shift+F5", "Cascade Window", "Ctrl+T", "Go To Document", "Shift+F4", "Tile Window Vertically" Spanish: Fortis Help System – All Help topics will be displayed in English. Help topics that contain a “See Also” hyperlink may return a JavaScript error when they are selected on some Spanish workstations.
P a g e | 15 Fortis Release Notes FORTIS 2.4.1 SERVICE PACK 3 (04/2009) Westbrook Technologies Fortis 2.4.1 Service Pack 3 includes quality improvements and new features that enhance reliability, security and performance. It is recommended that all customers upgrade to Fortis 2.4.1 Service Pack 3 to take advantage of these improvements. IMPORTANT: Customers must upgrade to Fortis 2.4.1 before applying this service pack update. Once Fortis 2.4.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 16 necessary information to the browser to support changing the color of a selected URL. (10065) Fortis Web: Import Documents – Resolved an issue that would cause an error message “No more pages can be added to this document file” if the path to the imported file was long in length. (8013) Fortis Web: LDAP – Resolved an issue that was causing a failure to properly identify domains that are child / nested within another domain.
P a g e | 17 Fortis Release Notes RELEASE 2.4.1 SERVICE PACK 2 (02/2009) Westbrook Technologies Fortis 2.4.1 Service Pack 2 includes quality improvements and new features that enhance reliability, security and performance. It is recommended that all customers upgrade to Fortis 2.4.1 Service Pack 2 to take advantage of these improvements. IMPORTANT: Customers must upgrade to Fortis 2.4.1 before applying this service pack update. Once Fortis 2.4.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 18 Fortis Web: Versioned Documents – Resolved an issue with Microsoft Internet Explorer crashing when viewing documents via Fortis Web that have many (28+) versions stored in Fortis. (9987) Fortis CDExpress: Installation – Resolved an issue with installing a CDExpress database recording that includes installation of a Fortis Service Pack. (9940) LDAP: Password Encryption – Resolved an issue with passing the LDAP Proxy User password in clear text.
P a g e | 19 Fortis Release Notes during save if the system fields Annotation_Texts and Annotation_Types were excluded from the layout of the query used to find the documents. (9759) Navigation: Next Doc – Resolved an issue when clicking the next doc button in the Fortis document viewer the cursor was not setting focus on the first index field of the new document as expected. (9700) Release 2.4.1 Service Pack 1 (12/2008) Fortis 2.4.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 20 Document: Launch – Resolved an issue that caused the error message ‘No Launch information found’ to display if a user attempted to launch a Microsoft Word 97/98 document. (9799) OCR: Accuracy – Resolved a character recognition issue where, in certain situations, alpha characters were recognized as numeric. The primary example of this was the letter “O” being recognized as the number 0. (9767) OCR: Menus – Resolved an issue with certain OCR menu commands.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 21 Enhancements: DDE - A number of enhancements were made to the Fortis DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) API that facilitate customer integration with the Fortis application and directly control the Fortis user interface. Updated documentation of the new DDE commands is included in the updated Fortis Programmers Reference guide distributed with the service pack .
P a g e | 22 Fortis Release Notes QuickFind: COM – Resolved an issue using QuickFind to query the Audit Trail document type for deleted documents. QuickFind displayed a Run-time error 1288, if the user attempts to open a document from the query result. The reason this occurred is the document was deleted and the Audit Trail only contains the record of the delete document event. (8175) Fax In: Setup – A Browse button was added to the folder location control of the Setup>Fax dialog.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 23 Click the following link for information about eDrawings and to download the viewer: eDrawings AutoCAD viewer. H Export: PDF/A-1b – We are pleased to announce that customers now have the option to export documents as PDF using a PDF/A-1b compliant format. PDF/A-1b is a standard that defines a format to be used for long term archival storage of electronic documents. For additional information about PDF/A, click here: http://en.wikipedia.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 24 “Inverse Print Override” that can be set on each individual printer connected to a workstation. (9548) NOTE: The “Inverse Print Override” preference only supports Black & White printers. The setting does not support color printers and produced low quality output. This new preference setting is only supported in the core Fortis application.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 25 Fortis Web: Security – Fixed a potential vulnerability to client side scripting being inserted into user-supplied variables. The attack surface was extremely limited in that the injected scripting still required a valid Fortis username/password to execute. The fix will now prevent any client side scripting inserted into a user variable from executing, even in the event that a valid Fortis username and password are provided.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 26 Queries: Versioned Documents – Resolved an issue where users running a browse query with multiple fields against a versioned document type would return an error “Ambiguous column name ‘date’. The cursor was not declared.” (9478) Queries: Date/Time – Resolved an issue with range queries of formatted date/time fields that would result in the error “Syntax error converting date/time from character string. The cursor was not declared.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 27 Image on Text. NOTE: We recommended that customers install Acrobat Reader and use the Fortis preference to view PDF in Acrobat for optimal viewing results. (9430) OCR: Results Location – Resolved an issue with user selected OCR Results location (Before Each Page, After Each Page, At End of the Document, etc) not being retained from one document to the next.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 28 Toolbar Buttons: Launch & Burst – Resolved an issue that would intermittently cause the Launch and Burst buttons to be disabled in cases where they should have been enabled. (9437) Menus: Related Documents - Resolved an issue that would cause the Related Documents menu items to be disabled after clicking on a Related Document Link or running a Fortis Query. This would sometimes also disable the Templates menu.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 29 RELEASE 2.4.0 SERVICE PACK 2 (04/2008) Fortis 2.4.0 Service Pack 2 contains a number of enhancements and problem fixes to the Fortis Workstation MSI Installer. It is recommended that all customers install Service Pack 2 on top of their existing Fortis 2.4.0 installation and run a workstation setup on all Fortis Workstations. Important: Inflo customers must install Hot Fix 2 (HF2) before upgrading to 2.4.0 Service Pack 2.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 30 RELEASE 2.4.0 HF2 (03/2008) Fortis 2.4.0 HF2 contains several enhancements to the product related to providing the ability to append values to a multi-value field. These enhancements are provided in the following product feature functions listed below. Important: Inflo customers must install Hot Fix 2 (HF2) before upgrading to 2.4.0 Service Pack 2.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 31 RELEASE 2.4.0 SERVICE PACK 1 (02/2008) Fortis 2.4.0 Service Pack 1 contains a significant number of problem fixes and miscellaneous performance improvements. It is recommended that all customers install Service Pack 1 on top of their existing Fortis 2.4.0 installation. Installation instructions for 2.4.0 Service Pack 1 can be found in the Fortis Installation Guide.pdf document included with the Service Pack or available for download from our website.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 32 OCR: Point & Shoot – Added support to allow multiple OCR zones to map to a single multi-value field and select either append or replace data in the field. (9401) OCR: Point & Shoot – Resolved an issue that prevented an OCR zone from populating a date field that uses the format dd/mm/yyyy.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 33 Fortis Web: Annotations – Resolved an issue with Fortis ERM documents not properly updating thru the Fortis Web client when a user deleted an annotation.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 34 Scan: Document Description – A change was made to how the document description is set such that if the user explicitly sets a document description it will no longer automatically append #n to the description.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 35 Programmer’s Reference Guide – Fortis 2.4 SP 1 includes an updated version of the Programmer’s Reference Guide that contains minor updates and rebuilt bookmarks. (9406) Service Pack 1 includes all fixes from HF1 (Listed Below). If you have not already installed HF1 then installing SP 1 is sufficient as it includes all the HF1 fixes as well. Westbrook Technologies, Inc. · 22 Summit Place · Branford, CT 06405 USA Toll free: 800-949-3453 | Outside U.S.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 36 RELEASE 2.4.0 HF1 (12/2007) IMPORTANT: All Fortis 2.4.0 Customers – Fortis 2.4.0 HF1 is a hot fix update to the Fortis 2.4.0 release done to fix several critical issues. Customers who have already upgraded to Fortis 2.4.0 who suspect that they may have experienced any of these issues should carefully track any documents that have been added to Fortis since they upgraded to Fortis 2.4.0 and verify that the documents were captured properly.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 37 RELEASE 2.4.0 (12/2007) We are pleased to announce the launching of Fortis Web, our new browser-based document management solution. Fortis Web delivers easy access to the Fortis repository from remote offices (or anywhere) so that your organization can manage business critical information from the web. Existing PowerWeb customers will receive the new Fortis Web solution as part of their Fortis 2.4 upgrade.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 38 Searchable Annotations – Fortis Administrators can now enable searching of annotations on Fortis Document Types. Users will be able to search for specific text within an annotation as well as find annotations by type, i.e. FREEHAND, HIGHLIGHT, LINE, NOTE, OLE, REDACTION and STAMP. Fortis LDAP – A new user interface and a new authentication mode called Mixed Mode has been added to Fortis LDAP so that users now have three choices for user authentication.
Fortis Release Notes P a g e | 39 Enhanced OCR functionality – A number of miscellaneous improvements have been made to OCR including support for Windows Vista. Enhanced PDF Export – Export to PDF now includes improved support for color documents and support for Windows Vista. Updated Scanner Technology Support – A number of miscellaneous improvements have been made to scanning including the ability to support newer model scanners and support for scanning under Windows Vista has been added.
