Release Notes

Welcome to our Release Notes page, your go-to resource for staying informed about the latest updates to our software. If there are any questions - please contact CumulusPro support at support@cumuluspro.com

31/03/20225 - TaskUI

Various Security Updates

31/03/20225 - Straatos API

Bugfix when loading groups with many users, document types and organizational units.

09/12/2024 - TaskUI - Hotfix

Bugfix Issue that taskdetails were not displayed in split view
Bugfix for caching issues of data when submitting documents in a short time interval

29/10/2024 - TaskUI - GOVCH

New PDF Viewer - shade of active page thumbnail more prominent
Task Details - Dynamic sizing of the document viewer and index field display area
Task Details - Dynamic sizing of the indexfield accross the available space for indexfields
Form Designer - Optimized the distance of the description of a field
Form Designer - Color schema for Date Picker adjusted to the customizable color design
Form Designer - English Translation for AHV Number error message and Address field
Form Designer - Bug that 'View form on' link was not displayed after the initial saving of a new form
Form Designer - Bug fix that Form Designer Navigation disappears when opening the form in a separate tab
Form Designer - Configurable Email notification option when a new form is submitted
Form Designer - The asterisk (*) indication of the mandatory field now follows the font color defined

14/10/2024 - TaskUI

New PDF Viewer which displays thumbnails. To use the PDF Viewer, the TaskUI Settings need to be changed, otherwise it shows the current viewer
Splitting of PDF documents based on Thumbnail selection
Archive UI - Bugfix for the search query not being cleared when going to the Advanced Filters
Archive UI - When multiple filetypes are in a task, it displays the first PDF file in the viewer when loading the task.
Archive UI - Bugfix: The file name was displaying the GUID instead of the filename
Archive UI - The indexfield display uses now more of the available screenspace to display the field value. So longer indexfield values are visible to the users
Archive UI - Improve UI speed when opening the Advanced Filter
Archive UI - Advanced Filter - Allow only to enter numbers in number fields and dates in date fields
Archive UI - Advanced Filter - Range search for number fields is added
Indexfield values can be displayed in different colors based on rules
Lock task display in tasklist if another user is editing the document
History displays only the user tasks

01/10/2024 - Straatos API v2

Faster search result display from Archive when returning many tasks
Bugfix when searching with an OR clause
New Endpoint PUT GetArchiveDefinition to retrieve the archive definition

17/06/2024 - TaskUI

Bugfix: Display of Numbers and Amounts in Dutch Localization
New Feature: Form Designer
Document type navigation items collapsed by default
Organizational Unit and Document types are not displayed in Group if they are not defined
Print function in the viewer for PDF files
Document types allow users to add multiple fields.
Security updates by updating libraries to the latest version

17/06/2024 - Straatos

Security updates by updating libraries to the latest versions
Purge optimized (background process)
DocumentPages extracted (reduce performance consumption on Straatos process for preview image generation)
Redact for rotated pages (bugfix)
Several bug fixes
Effektif: Allow removal of invalid tasks
Autocleanup of LogStats for documents deleted more than 1 year ago

17/04/2024 - TaskUI

Datetime Comparison bugfix
Sum Function for Tables
MS O365 - Straatos for Outlook - Bugfix on Email body uploaded as eml, but not visible in the TaskUI
Imprioving usability to remove index fields in the document type configuration
Bug fix for API Error in TaskUI - ReleaseTaskLock
Archive UI search by range Date or Integer added

Amount format changes for Switzerland Amounts

15/04/2024 - Straatos

Few bug fixes and updates
SetSecret and GetSecret for Workflow Script Task

26/02/2024 - TaskUI and Straatos API

Few bug fixes and updates
Implemented "Hot Keys" in TaskUI to use keyboard keys for validating tasks in the TaskUI
- alt+enter: approve task and go to next task
- alt+r: reject task and go to next task
- ctrl+s: save task

Note: this functionality must be configured per Validation Task (for more info please contact CumulusPro support)

Straatos API
- Lock task in the workflow: when a user is working on a task - this task will be locked to prevent other users from working on the same task
- Unlock task in the workflow: possibility to unlock a task in the workflow

09/02/2024 - Straatos Archive Help Page

Straatos Archive Help: updated / new version of the Straatos Archive Help page for customers- and partners to install- and configure a Straatos Archive into a customers Azure environment. The help page can be found here: https://help.cumuluspro.net/archive

22/01/2024 - TaskUI

Caching of search and filter: When a user searches for tasks or filters based on columns, the TaskUI will cache the search criteria. When the user opens a task, and then returns to the tasklist, the cached filter/search will be used to display the documents. This option is available in global search only.
Assign and Unassign tasks: Possibility to configure buttons in the TaskUI to assign / unassign tasks to the logged-in user. These tasks can be shown in a separate folder (for example, "My Documents")
Compact view of tasklist: Updated design to display more lines in the tasklist.
Show eml files (e-mail documents) in the TaskUI Viewer: Users can now select eml files and this eml will be shown in the TaskUI viewer
Allow users to set 1000 tasks per page in the TaskUI
Advanced Search on Archive: display all index fields and possible to search in ranges and other search options
Multiple bug fixes and improvements

17/12/2023 - TaskUI

Tasklist results can be sorted ascending or descending based on the timestamp.
Sorting of Comments Ascending/Descending: Comments can now be sorted in either ascending or descending order in the configuration.

17/12/2023 - Straatos

Renaming Additional Data in Script: The name of the additional Data can be changed in a script task.
Split Function for Additional Data: A PDF file with additional Data can be split into multiple files via the script task. The files can either be added to the same task or to different tasks.
Straatos API v2
- Tasks API call can return the tasks sorted ascending or descending based on the timestamp.
- The Info API returns the configuration of a specific user task for tables: The Info API returns settings on tables that are made in a user task and overwrites global settings. For example, if a table is set to 'hidden = false' globally, but a user task sets it to 'hidden = true', this information is now returned to the Info API call.
- Privileged Access Management: An API where Privileged Access Management for Admin Functionality can be defined at Organisation level and the users can enable/disable privileged access when they need to perform Admin Tasks. This applies to Straatos API v2 functions.
- Unassign from User: API call to unassign a document from a user
- Archive - Delete Document: An API to delete a document from an Archive.
- Archive - Set Document Lifecyle: The option to define a Document Lifecyle duration so that documents will be automatically removed from the archive at the end of the lifecycle. The setting can be made globally and can be overridden for each document if desired.
- Archive - Set Legal Hold: The ability to set a legal hold on an archived document. If the legal hold is set to true, the document will not be deleted from the archive even the end of the lifecycle is reached.

23/11/2023 - Straatos

Hot Fix for Timeout issue: We deployed a fix that addresses timeout issues in script tasks for the functions ftpPut, addAdditionalData and addAdditionalDatawithURL.

22/11/2023 - TaskUI

Bugfix: Improved speed of loading the tasklist when 250 or more tasks are displayed

February 2023

The following features have been implemented

Replacement of ABBYY OCR and Finereader engine with Microsoft Azure Cognitive OCR service
New Azure Archive service which enables the possibility to store documents in a (customer) Microsoft BLOB storage
New Azure function for the redaction of PDF documents
New Azure function for better barcode recognition of documents
New User Task UI version 2 - improved look- and feel and possibility to customize the Task UI for business needs
Possibility to create multi-tenant workflows for customers to fasten deployments of solutions and make maintenance easier
New Microsoft Office 365 email connector which enables faster and reliable email import into CumulusPro workflow

July 2021

The following features have been implemented

The workflow steps in the option 'Move all to...' in the Straatos Monitor are now ordered alphabetically and an automatic type-ahead filter option is available. http://help.cumuluspro.net/move-tasks-in-monitor
You can add a task in a workflow directly from the Straatos monitor. http://help.cumuluspro.net/start-task-in-monitor
You can now copy comments from the main flow to a subflow as well as comments in the subflow to the main flow. http://help.cumuluspro.net/comment-to-and-from-subflow
You can now copy table values to and from the subflow http://help.cumuluspro.net/passing-table-values-to-subflows
A new workflow task can now be started from a script task: http://help.cumuluspro.net/straatos-adapter-rest-api-2$startWorkflow
In the Straatos Monitor when a workflow step is selected and the table with the tasks is displayed, there is a new column 'Files' which lets you see all the files of a task, including Original File and additional data.
In the Straatos Monitor when a workflow step is selected and the table with the tasks is displayed, the script log column has moved to the front part of columns (before all index fields) to make it easier for developers to quickly access the script logs.
When using the SendGrid option to sending emails, the possible files to be added has been expanded. Now any additional data file can be specified to be included. http://help.cumuluspro.net/send-email-with-attachment
The workflow reports have now an optional ability to export the history for a specific workflow step only or/and a specific documentId.
In the workflow monitor, a recycle bin is available. Any deleted document will go first into the recycle bin. From the recycle bin the document can be restored again back to the workflow. http://help.cumuluspro.net/recycle-bin
Creating a Searchable PDF from Azure Machine Learning (OCR) as an additional option for creating Searchable PDF. Contact us for more details.
Improved the Email and FTP import and included a test button in the configuration to test the connection and accessibility of the email or ftp servers.
Updated the Barcode Engine to the latest version which improved the barcode recognition as well as the ability to read barcodes from PDF files. The existing barcode engine remains there until all processes are migrated. http://help.cumuluspro.net/straatos-adapter-rest-api-2$DetectBarcodesV2
STAR: Straatos Archive and Retrieval solution, in this release the first part (Archive) is implemented. Allows you to write tasks, including documents, index fields and comments to your Azure BLOB storage http://help.cumuluspro.net/star. In a next release, we will also provide a Retrieval option through a taskui.
GetFiles wrapper, instead of using an ajax call to get the file content in a script task, a get files function allows you to do that in a single line of code. This function is available in both Script Task and Interact API: http://help.cumuluspro.net/straatos-adapter-rest-api-2$getFileAsString

January 2019

The following features have been implemented

SAML-based Single-Sign-On (SSO) with Microsoft Azure Active Directory- Straatos now supports Single-Sign-On with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) (XML-based framework for authentication and authorization between two entities: a Service Provider and an Identity Provider (IdP)). Users are not required to sign in again when accessing Straatos if their access has already been authenticated by the Microsoft Azure Active Directory (the 'ldP'). At the same time, user accounts are added automatically in Straatos during user's first successful login.
New ‘Manage User' role - Users with ‘Manage User” role can create new user accounts, assign roles to users, disable and enable accounts, reset passwords etc.
Custom Password Policy - Straatos administrators can create separate password policies for their user groups. Each policy can be created with different maximum login attempts, session timeout limit; password history policy enforcement (restrict the use of old passwords), minimum password age policy(forces the user to change their passwords regularly after a number of days).
Enhanced Straatos security - User password policies like ‘minimum password length’, ‘Passwords Must Meet Complexity Requirements policy (eg passwords cannot contain user names), weak passwords checks are now available. Another security enhancement added is the incremental-delayed login after 3 unsuccessful attempts (on top of the current Account Lockout feature).
Improved backend performance - A new queuing framework is implemented in Straatos to handle high volume processing of tasks and backend processes.
Enabling/Disabling of Accounts - User Accounts now have an option where an Administrator or a user with the role 'Manage User' can enable or disable a user account.
Enhanced iConnector framework-security- New security option is available in iConnector framework to enforce an authenticated user session for uploading of documents. This is especially useful if Mobile Apps are built with CumulusPro Mobile SDK and only authenticated Straatos users can upload documents from the Mobile App.

April 2018

The following major features have been implemented

White-label service-Ability to white-label the Straatos MyHome and Admin Panel interfaces based on customer’s corporate requirements. (eg, Add favicon, company logos, modify color themes and fonts, and custom URL). .
Language localisation- New “Export from” and “Import to” Excel functions are added into the Admin panel (under Group settings). This helps to make language translation of the MyHome interface much easier. Export the current web labels in English (to Excel format) , translate the text to any language and then import the edited Excel back to Admin Panel group settings.
Document time-based access control - This is used when integration with third-party web services (server to server) is required and the services are incompatible with token-based security. Process administrator can configure time-based access (in minutes from time of document creation) that is open to these web services providers. Once the third party web services have processed the document and returns the results within the set duration, the document will no longer be accessible.
OMR and OCR Zonal Setup User Interface - A simple-to-use graphical template configurator is added for the setup of OMR and OCR Zones for forms processing needs.
Unzip - Unzip function has been added to the task script and Interact API libraries, which means uploaded ZIP files on Straatos can be automatically unzipped and the extracted content (images, text files) can be used as workflow processes.
Configurable user views of documents in task - In the new release, Process Administrators Administers can configure the type of documents that are displayed and revealed to users when they work on their tasks in MyHome

Bug fixing and minor improvements

Password reset ability for users without email, after login.
Convert JPG-to-PDF - Ability to create PDF output from JPG images.
Convert PDF to JPG - Ability to create a JPG output from a PDF file.

December 2017

The following major features have been implemented:

Custom UI - Able to provide your own user interface in MyHome for displaying the index fields, Buttons and Viewer. Either by providing a link to the hosted site or by uploading a zip file with the contents of the webpage. This allows you to provide a user experience optimised for your particular process. More information can be found here: http://help.cumuluspro.net/myhome-customui
Throttle - Automated Tasks can now be throttled. By default, Straatos processes 10 tasks per activity at the same time. In some cases, it may be necessary to manually adjust the throttle so that fewer documents are processed in parallel. For example if an external engine has limited performance capabilities. More information can be found here: http://help.cumuluspro.net/straatos-throttling

Bug fixing and minor improvements:

Infinite Loop prevention - In earlier versions of the workflow it was possible to create infinite processing loops for tasks that could not be terminated. In this version, Straatos abords any processing of a task if the task has passed through 300 workflow steps.

November 2017

The following major features have been implemented

Global Login: Users can now log in from our website cumuluspro.com to Straatos. Based on the login, users will automatically get to the correct datacenter.

October 2017

The following major features have been implemented

2 Factor Authentication with Google Authenticator App. The 2FA can be enabled on user level as an option, or enabled at the organisation or group level. When enabled at the organisation and group level, users in the organisation and group are required to use 2FA to login. More information about using and configuring 2FA can be found here.
Reference point in Process Designer. A reference point has been introduced in this release. The point is located at the top-left corner corner of the designer canvas. With a click of the button . (located above the zoom in(+) and out (-) buttons) , users resets the designer canvas to the original position. This allows users to align the process diagram when it gets too big.
My Home Task filter and sort options . Task id, workflow step and workflow names are now added into sort and filter options.
Introduction of tool tips, user tooltips and onboarding messages. When new features, product notes or specific user tips are introduced, a pop up messages displays additional information to the user. In this october release, these pop-up messages will display Release Notes description and 2FA setup instruction. This messages will only appear one time.
My Home tab tables for 'Form', 'Collaboration', 'History' can now be renamed

Bugfixes and minor improvements:

In My Home, type ahead dropdown are configurable to display all entries
Long Workflow Names and long user names display are shorten not to overlap the other functions buttons in the Admin Panel UI.
In Web Validation, fixed 'bad gateway error' issue when splitting documents
Fixed error when importing workflows with expanded subprocesses
Fixed Copy & Paste issue in Process Designer when using MS Internet Explorer 11
Fixed My Home Filter issue when special characters are used
Fixed Documentation links dialog being closed by pressing ok.
FIxed freezing of Process Designer when a user with workflow design rights tries to edit the workflow without clicking on the Edit Workflow button.
Fixed missing arrows display in PDF Report created on IE 11
Fixed missing arrows in the Process Monitor displaying workflow diagram
Fixed auto-complete/type ahead list display alignment during browser window resizing
Fixed error message on Admin Panel when user with Monitor View Rights opens a workflow

Fixed bug when user with designer role publish a workflow

July 2021

The following features have been implemented

Monitor List of Activities according to alphabetical order
Search for an activity in monitor list
Scroll list to view all processes
Adding a table to a task
Updating a table to a task
Deleting a table to a task