Release Notes

New features in Comflow 2.22 includes:

Summary

  • New look and feel according to Material design
  • Strong signifiers via icons and action color
  • Improve ability to style portal
  • Enhance user menu and enable avatar
  • Redefined “My functions” menu
  • Introduce Mega menu and rework top and side menu
  • Introduce desktop functions
  • Improve quick search capabilities to also cover functions
  • Introduce file browser in portal
  • Introduce sound events
  • Changes in process framework to enhance usability

New Comflow logo

White “C” on blue circle for portal. Blue “C” on white circle with blue rim for Studio.

New look and feel for enhanced usability

  • Look and feel according to Material design (Google)
  • Continue to focus on data compared to labels
  • Light yellow entry color to distinguish input fields
  • Strong signifiers via icons and blue action color (“everything you can click on”) with grey hovering color
  • Styling based on function key. Enter is styled blue with white text as the only standard implementation of this
  • Tool bar icons visible top right
  • Standard custom css classes for fields and labels

Still very clean and comfortable but even more distinct! Aimed for working fast with a lot of information. Please see Comflow Styling - Basics

Easy change of look and feel

Changed menu structure

  • Three system menu items
  • Active (functions)
  • My Functions
  • User Menu, possibly with Avatar
  • Two menu functions
  • Quick Search
  • My worklist, with new icon. This menu entry is also configurable to start any task and the icon itself can be changed as well. (Please see Quick Start - Basics)
  • All but Active tasks can be controlled and even disabled in different ways
  • Gives less standard menus and more space for custom menus

User menu

My Settings

  • Centralized user settings
  • My System settings
  • My Work list settings
  • My Print control
  • My Functions admin
  • Multi avatar implementations
  • Local (Comflow, default)
  • Gravatar
  • Custom

Change session language

  • New function to change session language
  • Interface to session manager - To complement language change in Comflow for other systems via the current session manager implementation

My functions

  • Redefined “My functions” menu as one single place for user oriented functions
  • Controlled via menu tree (for all users) and by user in my settings
  • Can also be activated via toggling the star tool bar icon

Reworked top and side menu

  • Harmonized all menus with a top bar always visible (with logo, search, worklist and user menu) and same look and feel as the portal
  • Side shows Active (functions), My Functions and Functions and collapsed via menu icon
  • The action color is active in the Active section of side menu

New mega menu

Top menu that folds out over the whole screen. Solves the problem with large menu content. Please see Mega Menu

Desktop Functions

  • Desktop functions are added in order to make navigation easier for non-frequent users
  • Controlled via sitedef and via MyFunctions
  • Stylable in css down to task level

Please see Desktop Functions

Enhanced Quick Search

  • Searches not only in documents and data, but also in functions such as Active, My Functions and All functions (language controlled)
  • Full screen search view via search icon or Ctrl + Space
  • Search starts after entering 1 character. Can be overridden in sitedef
  • Enter gives a portlet with the full search result with links to related function and data
  • Quick Search can be disbled via sitedef

Please see Quick Search

Enhanced System Functions

  • Remake of printer control and printer management
  • Introduce file viewer of Comflow controlled folders
  • Enhancements to search audit trail

Enhanced User Management

  • Slightly compacted layout
  • Added more functions to the user center - Audit trail and License

Built in IPP Server

  • IPP = Internet Printing Protocol server
  • Automatically connects to all Windows printers available on the Comflow server via Active Directory
  • Includes Zebra and Intermec printers
  • Allows full control of print properties at printout

Please see Comflow IPP

Sound Events

  • You can now connect sounds to events in Comflow
  • Aimed to be used for situations when the user do not see the screen, like mobile applications in environments where the screen is not always visible
  • No standard sounds are delivered so they must be implemented at customer

Please see Sound Events

Process Enhancements

  • Reworked work item comments to encompass all process comments - The comments on each work item can now be communicated through out the whole process on each WI
  • Process instance view
  • Added access to audit trail
  • Changed graph color scheme to blue
  • Added automatic state logging in process history
  • Added excel export to all lists
  • Added process comments view
  • Added check list items
  • Work list all users - Changed order on columns to enable easier filtering on work item user

Work Item Enhancements

  • Reworked work item detail view
  • Added attachments
  • Work item comments as process instance comments
  • Added function to open possible work reference
  • Added function to complete work item
  • Added Work started time for measuring work time
  • New PDCA work item statuses
  • Changed re-assign mechanism

Process Instance Comments

  • Work item comments reworked to process instance comments
  • Comments in one process step can be seen in all subsequent so it creates an easy way to communicate through the process

Worklist Enhancements

  • Enhanced listing speed
  • Added Description column to list and settings
  • Changed default viewed columns to be fewer for a new user
  • Added Workday view

My worklist – Workday view

  • For users with many work items, so they need to schedule their work
  • Gives a structured way of working with work items by manually or in code set planning date
  • Shows work items in different segments if there is data – Unplanned, due, late, today’s, future and closed today.
  • Controlled via work list settings

Suggester/FkAjax – Automatic filter on description

FkAjax automatically gives filtering on description field (“Identity column”) in table definition when both id and description is shown.

Web Browser Support

Supported Desktop browser are

  • On Windows

    • Internet Explorer 11
    • Edge
    • Firefox
    • Chrome

  • On Windows tablet 8

    • Internet Explorer 11

  • On Mac

    • Safari 7+

  • On Linux

    • Firefox
    • Chrome

  • On Ipad

    • IOS (Safari) 9+

  • On Android (Android OS 4.x) +

    • Chrome

Supported Handheld browsers are

  • On PDA with Windows Mobile 6.5 or later

    • Internet explorer
    • Symbol Pocket browser 3.x

  • On Windows phone 7 and 8

    • Internet explorer

  • On Iphone

    • IOS (Safari) 9.x +

  • On Android (Android OS 4.x) +

    • Chrome

Comflow Studio

  • Updated to Eclipse 4.8.0
  • Introduced Custom classes in Comflow.css and tooling for accessing it for fields and labels. Please see Comflow Styling
  • New action guideline implementation - Adaptions for icons and more structured palette of buttons
  • Creations of Comflow subfolders - Creates subfolders in the folder for the wanted components

Technology

  • Upgrade of Eclipse
  • Upgrade of OSGi version
  • Upgrades of library , like Quartz, Pojo, Axis 2 and Hazelcast
  • OpenAPI

Comflow System Documentation

Published on a new web site

What needs to be done for a 2.20-2.22 upgrade?

  • Verify code so all previous deprecated methods are managed
  • Quartz tables must be regenerated
  • All Quick Search definitions and indexes needs to be regenerated
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