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Release Notes
Updates are made periodically and will automatically be available in your Confluence Cloud instance.
Check out the latest release logs below to see what we've been working on recently.
Latest Releases
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The update to the space document management dashboard is to be implemented in a planned feature update release expected March 2024. There is currently no change to the current app for the user or administrator in this release. |
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Workflows installed with the app cannot be overwritten and after editing one of these workflows the customized workflow must be saved with a new name. |
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Workflows installed with the app cannot be overwritten and after editing these workflows the customized workflow must be saved with a new name. |
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26th Sept 2023 | |
What’s New? | New Onboarding feature with access to use cases and interactive demonstrations. Accessed through the Apps options in the Confluence left-side or top menu. |
25th Sept 2023 | |
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15th Sept 2023 | |
What’s New? | We have updated our Comala Document Management Cloud app logo and in-app icons. |
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13th Sept 2023 | |
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29th Aug 2023 | |
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12th June 2023 | |
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30th May 2023 | |
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29th May 2023 | |
What’s New? | New Document Activity reporting page macro and updated document activity report. The document activity page macro can be added to a page or blog post to display the dynamic information for the lifecycle of the workflow events on the document. The macro can be configured to display one or more of the following:
The version includes a link to the document version. |
25th May 2023 | |
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11th May 2023 | |
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9th May 2023 | |
Improvements | The on-screen message notification displayed to an assigned user on viewing the page now includes the approval name and assigner. |
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27th April 2023 | |
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For example, when choosing the Apply button to add a workflow using the workflow picker, a spinner is now displayed and the Cancel button is disabled whilst workflow is applied. |
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Release log 2022
13th December 2022
What's New?
Our new documentation space is now docs.comalatech.com/CDMC for Comala Document Management Cloud!
We have updated the in-app links to the new documentation space.
If you have any questions please open a ticket with our support team.
Updates
minor maintenance updates to improve stability and performance
30th November 2022
What's New?
Add one or more document approvals macros to a document to display approval information for a selected workflow state. The macro can be configured to display the overall approval status, the assignees for the review, each reviewer’s decision status, and the date of the last decision for each reviewer and the reviewer comment.
Update
migrated content from server now includes the page status macro when the source server content includes the server page status page macro
the page status macro is not available in the macro browser in cloud
we recommend replacing this macro with the document state macro
27th September 2022
What's New?
New document state page macro.
Add the document state macro to a document to display one or more of the content current workflow state, the date the state changed, and, if present the state expiry date.
1st September 2022
Bugfixes
fixed an issue that caused a document with an applied workflow in a Comala Publishing configured target space to be published to an another (un-configured) space when the applied workflow on the document in the target space was transitioned to the final state
23rd August 2022
Bugfixes
fixed a problem preventing email notifications from being sent to valid assigned users to an approval if one or more of the assignees were invalid (for example the user account is disabled; the user does not have view permission)
when using the send-email trigger resolved an issue that stopped custom email notifications from being sent to any valid recipients added as a parameter value if one or more of the added recipient user values were invalid
10th August 2022
Update
error handling and logging improvements
log entry now occurs for a workflow trigger-generated email 'failure to send' error
additional context added for event requests to the log entries
Bugfixes
fixed an issue that caused the 'View approved' byline link to be removed after editing content in the final state
workflow popup is no longer blocked for an applied page-level workflow if the state transitions are edited after adding the workflow
workflow picker options displayed on a page are now appropriate to the user permission (admin, edit, view)
3rd August 2022
Bugfix
fixed a problem to allow a custom workflow created from the bundled Basic Approval Workflow to be applied as a page workflow
2nd August 2022
Update
security improvement limiting permission scopes (
admin
;space_admin
) requested by the app if not required
Bugfix
fixed a problem that prevented a user with space admin permission from choosing to delete workflow history when removing a page workflow
28th July 2022
What’s New?
As part of our integration into the Appfire family, Comala Document Management is now a member of the One Appfire app offering. We have updated our app logo and related assets.
28th June 2022
Update
security improvement limiting permission scopes (
admin
;space_admin
) requested by the app if the permission scope is not required
June 23rd 2022
Bugfix
pages were not expiring on the due date unless the page was viewed by a user. This release expires the content that is due since its deployment
fixed an error that stopped a due date on pages with a long
contentId
from expiring
June 1st 2022
What's New?
To better understand what business case our evaluation customers are seeking to achieve when installing Comala Document Management the workflow picker now has the option to select a business use option from a drop-down menu before choosing a workflow to apply.
The workflow picker will then display all the available workflows including any custom workflows. The first workflow displayed in the picker will be prioritized for the chosen business case use. A user can choose the option to Skip the request.
This business use option will be available in our evaluation version each time a workflow is added to the content. It is aimed to help in the development of additionally available workflows and features within the Comala Document Management app.
May 12th 2022
What's New?
Users now have the ability to see what workflow is currently added and applied to the page.
new Show workflow option in the workflow popup dialog actions (ellipsis) menu
Choosing Show workflow opens a dialog box displaying a visual workflow diagram for the current workflow applied to the content.
May 5th 2022
Updates
What's New?
Updated space settings Document Management dashboard UI
new layout for Utilities and Settings
new Edit Workflow button that is always visible for the current space workflow.
new Set Parameters button option displayed if the current space workflow includes one or more workflow parameters
Selecting the Set Parameters button opens the Parameters dialog box to edit the workflow parameter values.
April 27th 2022
maintenance update to improve stability and performance
April 11th 2022
Update
vulnerabilities update
Bugfixes
fixed an issue in the send-mail trigger action that prevented the email notification being sent to some of the specified recipients
resolved an issue when an applied workflow encountered a duration type workflow parameter with a fixed date value that caused the date value to be set as the current date
fixed a bug in migrating the current workflow state attributes
March 24th 2022
Update
users cannot now clear Workflow History from an individual page - the Reset Workflows button has been removed from the page Workflow History report
Workflow history is stored as an attachment to a document. This attachment can still be deleted by a user with edit or admin permission and this will clear the document Workflow History for the individual document.
A space admin has the option in space settings Document Management dashboard use the Clear to remove the workflow history for all documents in the space
Bugfixes
updated Workflow Report to display "You have no approval workflows applied in this space" when no Comalatech workflow has been applied to any content in a space
oimproved the appearance of the Workflow Report dialog box when displaying multiple assignees of a specific approval
improved the display of group parameters in the parameters value dialog box accessed through Manage Workflow parameters menu option on the content
resolved an issue in migration for spaces with >5k documents migrating some anonymous user and deleted user details who actioned the last workflow state change
March 14th 2022
Updates
maintenance and backend improvement updates
Bugfixes
long state names displayed in the workflow popup are no longer simply truncated but are now displayed with an ellipsis and a tooltip to show the full name on mouse-over
resolved a problem displaying the page workflow history
fixed a problem that caused the
fixed a problem assigning groups to an approval by Confluence
groupName
and/orgroupID
in the "assign" trigger actionupdate to ensure consistent styles are used across dialog boxes in the user interface
February 17th 2022
Update
updated our app to allow us to work on implementing future improvements to our UI
Bugfixes
resolved a problem that prevented access to the workflow report if the space home page was deleted
fixed a bug causing the breakup of the style for some of the app dialog boxes
February 14th 2022
Bugfixes
fix to ensure workflow Updated transition works in any instance where Atlassian Confluence generates a long contentID
resolved a problem that created duplicate notifications in the Workflow History when initializing states space-wide
February 9th 2022
Bugfix
resolved a problem that caused the initialization of states in a space to fail if the space had no homepage
February 2nd 2022
Bugfixes
resolved a problem causing duplication of automatic email notifications to users who are pre-assigned as a reviewer for an approval
fixed a problem that caused inconsistencies in workflow states after a space-wide initialization of the states
when adding a workflow, it is no longer applied to the space home page†
† Previously the workflow was applied to the space home page but due to the limitations of Atlassian Confluence Cloud there was no access to the workflow or display of any workflow breadcrumbs
January 17th 2022
Bugfixes
updated workflow report to display details of any content that is under the root level of the space (except space homepage)
update to improve performance when using InWebo credentials for e-signature authentication
Release log 2021
December 16th 2021
Bugfix
fixed a problem in some instances to ensure the display of workflow history where Atlassian Confluence generated long contentIDs (greater than 9007199254740991)
December 14th 2021
Update
from now on migration data values for Comala Document Management will use a new attribute
eventType
(with eitherapp-data-uploaded
orlistener-triggered
values) that holds the current information for events fired by the Atlassian App migration platform. This is due to the Atlassian App migration platform deprecation notice for the webhookEventType attribute
December 9th 2021
Update
maintenance update on the debug tools feature, which is a non-public (dark) feature
November 17th 2021
October 28th 2021
Updates
error handling messages are now displayed when importing or exporting workflow history
import/export of workflow history is now logged and traced with a unique Trace id for the request containing details of the
user who performed the action
Cloud instance
space key
content id (if applicable)
process type (Export or Import)
Crowdbugfix
resolved a problem to ensure that we wait for a successful check for user rights before doing some actions when using Confluence accessor
isUserAppAdmin
method
October 25th 2021
Bugfix
resolved a problem when enabling the inWebo e-signature authentication settings in global administration that prevented the attachment of the inWebo authentication certificate
October 21st 2021
Update
update related to Atlassian Connect installation lifecycle security improvements
update to add in-app InWebo credentials encryption when using InWebo for authentication
Bugcrowd fix
update to prevent users from being able to change the app configuration using the REST API
October 14th 2021
Updates
disabled workflow history backup and restore process
Due to customer feedback, we have temporarily disabled the workflow history backup and restore process.
Customers that are in the upgrade process should contact us.
September 27th 2021
Updates
the user display name is now used in workflow history when workflow parameters are used to pre-assign or assign users and/or groups to an approval
Bugfixes
resolved a problem displaying the workflow content byline
after using the Atlassian Cloud to Cloud migration process to move their entire site to a different Confluence Cloud site
after using the Atlassian Cloud to Cloud space import process to import a space to another Confluence Cloud site
September 15th 2021
Updates
a user select transition is available to add to a
final
state in a custom workflowstandardized the storage of user and assigner attributes after a workflow action occurs to
accountID
anddisplayName
- ensures consistency of display in the workflow history
Bugfixes
resolved a problem displaying changes in space administration when there was a large number of space properties
August 24th 2021
Updates
when a user has been disabled or deleted, Workflow History will now display the default avatar and a user's full name (as stored as the display name) instead of the Atlassian ID
Back up Workflow History dialog close button has been renamed from Cancel to Close to avoid misinterpretation of the action
summary details link of last import or export of a workflow history backup added to Workflow History in the space Document Approval dashboard
Bugfixes
minor code patches to differentiate between upper and lowercase
updated typos in some UI components
July 29th 2021
Updates
vulnerability updates
Bugfixes
resolved a problem that caused resizing of the app global configuration screen
fixed an issue so that an edited workflow cannot be saved with a select transition and an approval transition in the same state
June 16th 2021
Updates
You can use the Initialize states option to publish every page in a space to a target space at the same time. Comala Publishing is used to publish content in a space on a page-by-page basis. However, you can choose to configure the Comla Publishing action on the transition to a specific state
the source space page hierarchy is maintained on the publish action to the target space
updated space document dashboard UI to include a warning when initializing states if Comala Publishing is installed
Bugfix
fixed a problem that when a space admin chose to initialize states, it initialized content to the initial workflow state instead of the state selected in the space settings Document Dashboard dropdown menu
resolved a problem that was causing misdirected request logs
June 8th 2021
Bugfix
fixed a problem that caused the workflow history to be rendered empty
May 27th 2021
Bugfix
fixed a problem with license validation after the license has expired
when no Comalatech workflows are added to a space, the workflow report now displays confirmation that the app is disabled for the space
May 18th 2021
Updates
Atlassian Connect framework update
updated space Document Management dashboard to remove the reminder that e-signature is edited in workflow builder for each approval
Bugfixes
updated the approval report to display confirmation message if no Comalatech approval workflow is installed in a space
fixed a problem in the previous version link in the page history
fixed a typo in the Change state on-screen notification
fixed an authentication error when installing the app to a new instance
April 27th 2021
Updates
upgraded app security together with improvements in cache management and performance
update to support changes in the App migration platform - see the Atlassian migration model deprecation
April 1st 2021
Maintenance update
March 31st 2021
Maintenance update
March 24th 2021
Bugfix
removed email validation when inWebo OTP is active to accept username field in order to validate credentials
March 10th 2021
Updates
send-email
action in triggers updated to include additional value references -@creator
and@lastUpdatedBy.
This complements existing use of value references such as@watchers
Content Expiry Workflow updated to only include
@watchers
as the recipients for thesend-email
trigger action
Bugfixes
fixed issue with the use of
@watchers
value reference when used in thesend-email
action in a triggerfixed issue when using
clean-message
action in a trigger
March 1st 2021
Comala Document Management can now use inWebo authentication as an option when e-signatures are enabled
this allows clients to use inWebo to manage the authentication process for users when an e-signature is required for approvals
inWebo simply passes an API key and an inWebo Service ID - to Comala Document Management
Service ID key generated by inWebo administration must be added to Comala Document Management global configuration
a user generates an OTP token using the inWebo Authentication app for mobile Android and IOS devices
all other 2FA use is disabled when inWebo is used for authentication
Bugfix
resolved issue where sometimes status wasn't updated in byline and workflow report after a workflow change
February 18th 2021
Workflows can now be edited to add a select transition to a state.
Each individual state can be configured to allow users to use the workflow popup to choose a destination state and transition the workflow to this state.
One or more options for the destination state will be displayed in a dropdown menu in the workflow popup.
The destination state options displayed in the popup are configured using the transition editor in workflow builder.
The select transition cannot be used
in a state with an approval
in a final state
A select transition can be added to a state together with an expired transition and an updated transition.
A select transition will not be available to add to a state with an approval added - the transitions editor will only display the approved, rejected, updated and expired transition options.
Adding an approval to a state with a previously added select transition will replace the Submit option on the workflow popup on the content with the Approve and Reject buttons.
February 15th 2021
When there are more than 6 reviewers assigned to an approval a read-only workflow dialog box is available to display the full list of reviewers.
The approver dialog box is read-only but the columns can be sorted and the report can be filtered.
The approval reviewers list is available from
the workflow popup on the page by choosing the +n icon
from the Document Report by choosing a reviewer avatar
Bugfix
resolved issue of
set-expiration
macro use in a trigger
January 26th 2021
Update in workflow report to show approval avatars (rather than assignee) when a state has multiple approvals. Users can click on each approval avatar to view assigned users
Bugfixes
correct date format now being displayed in workflow history
layout amended for reports when selecting filter buttons and accessing mouse-over information popups
set message action amended to resolve issue when used in a workflow trigger
Release log 2020
December 23rd 2020
Bug fix release that fixes some problems when showing pre-assigned reviewers (reviewers assigned by using the Builder as shown below) on the Workflow Report:
December 16th 2020
We are introducing some security improvements onto the current approvals configuration different setting options.
Anyone can approve (no restrictions)
From now on, approvals with the configuration Anyone can approve (no restrictions) won't be assignable anymore.
The workflow state dialog will NOT ALLOW reviewers assignation
Users can be assigned through the (workflow popup) UI
This option allows manual assignation of reviewers by using the workflow state dialog. This will remain working same as now. → So It will still be possible to leave the approval with no assignees or assign specific reviewers:
Workflow state dialog will ALLOW the assignment of reviewers, but you can add users in the approval editor to allow PRE_ASSIGNMENT of reviewers.
a user with VIEW & EDIT permissions over the content will view enabled approve/reject buttons
if a user has been assigned but the current logged-in user is NOT ASSIGNED to the approval the approve/reject buttons are disabled
Set all reviewers that have to approve
From now on, approvals with this configuration won't be assignable anymore. It'll still be mandatory to pre-assign the set of reviewers to the approval:
Workflow state dialog will NOT ALLOW the assignment of reviewers. A user accessing the content who is not assigned as a reviewer will see the approve/reject buttons disabled (greyed out).
October 26th 2020
Introducing Comala Document Management Cloud as part of the roadmap of development of the Comala Document Management family of Cloud apps.
For details of the roadmap for feature development please see Migrating to Confluence Cloud for Comala Document Management for Cloud app.