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2.14. LincDoc 3.2.2 Release Notes

Published on: 20 Sept 2013

This section contains information about the LincDoc 3.2.2 release. This release contains both new features and corrected defects from previous releases.

New Features

The following new features have been added with this release:

Plug-In Version Checking and Display (3493)

LincDoc now performs a check of all installed plug-ins, and verifies that they are compatible with the current version of LincDoc.

You can also view your current plug-ins, as well as the version of LincDoc needed to use the plug-ins, by selecting about LincDoc from the help button on the main LincDoc toolbar.

The About LincDoc screen appears, showing both the current version of LincDoc, as well as a list of currently installed plug-ins and the version of LincDoc needed for the plug-in. In the following example, the Credit Card Plugin has been installed, and requires LincDoc 3.2.2.13 to function correctly.

New Action for Manipulating a Document Created Using the "Run a Doc Package or eForm" Action (3514)

A new action has been added that gives you the ability to edit, view, or sign an eForm or Document Package that has been launched using the Run a Doc Package or eForm action, and is associated with a particular field in your original eForm or Document Package.

To use the action, you need to specify the following information:

action. Allows you to select the action that will take place regarding the eForm or Document Package. The following options are available:

edit. Alter an existing copy of the form.
edit copy. Alter a new version of the form, leaving the existing copy unaltered.
view. Examine the form in the Document Viewer.
sign. Examine the form in the Signature View, and complete any necessary signatures.

docID field. Specify the field in the original form that contains the document ID.
Note: You can use the DocId function to set a field in your form to the document ID.
event ID. Used to specify custom events added using the Add Event button on the Admin dialog box's Actions tab.

Tip: If you want to provide the ability to perform multiple actions (for example, edit and view), you can add multiple instances of this action, and assign each option to a custom button.

Specifying an Authentication Provider in a Link (3522)

A new advanced option allows you to specify a particular authentication provider directly in a hyperlink.

When adding links (which are DRAT expressions), you can specify the authentication provider using the seventh parameter in a link.

In the following example, an Email action uses a link in its body text to specify the authentication provider as "mainActiveDirectory". Notice the six colons prior to the authentication provider name, which act as notations for the six (non-used) parameters.

Since this option is considered an advanced option, you should contact Technical Support for further assistance.

New IsWebServiceSync Function (3557)

A new function, IsWebServiceSync, is used when syncing data that was initially recorded offline (such as using an iPad at a remote site) to your main service once a connection is re-established.

This function is useful for preventing actions from occurring during the "After signing" event that should instead be done during the "After sync signing" event.

No parameters are available for the function. Instead, it simply returns a "true" or "false" value, based on the whether or not a data sync is currently being performed.

Document Viewer Image Display Improvements - Scrollable PNG View (3573)

In previous releases of LincDoc, if your eForm or Document Package was made up of several pages, each page was displayed individually when viewing the document in the image (PNG) view. Now, you can scroll down and automatically see all of the available pages, one after another.

For more information on the Document Viewer and the different view options, see Using the Document Viewer.

Oracle and MariaDB (MySQL) Supported for Database Lookups (3575, 3542)

When adding database connections (for the purpose of database lookups), you can now connect to Oracle or MariaDB (MySQL) databases.

These options that control these lookups can be found when defining a new database from the Configure database dialog box.

On the main LincDoc toolbar, click the system button, and select the databases option.

The Databases dialog box appears.
Click the new database button.

The Configure database dialog box appears.
Click the Driver drop-down list.
The new database options appear in the list, as shown below.

Ability to Sort Order of eForms/Document Packages on the Main Selection List (3590)

You can now specify the order of eForms and Document Packages in the main selection drop-down list (on the LincDoc toolbar).

The Sort order option on the eForm/Document Package tab allows you to specify a number, which is used to determine the current eForm's or Document Package's position in the list.

The numbers are relative to other specified numbers for other eForms or Document Packages. For example, if you have one item set to "1" and another set to "3", but none set to "2", the item set to "3" will actually appear second in the list.

You can click the clear button to remove any current number.

Important: If a number is not specified for an eForm of Document Package, it will appear below all items that do have a specified order number, and will be listed based on the item's identification number, which was automatically assigned when the item was created.

Credit Card Transactions Supported via Amazon Marketplace (3372)

You can now add credit card transactions via Amazon Marketplace. This feature is offered using a plug-in and requires a specific license to use.

Corrected Defects

The following table provides a list of the most important defect resolutions.

ID	Description
3533	Required fields did not change colors, as expected, when populated via and action or database lookup.
3534	Extra characters were appearing in codelist error messages.
3535	PDF check boxes can now be updated during the signing process.
3539	Allowed upload file types can now be configured in the database.
3540	Multi-row calculations were not executed when expected (after row values were updated).
3541	When mapping a Credit Card Return action using Amazon Marketplace, a cancelled mapping (when a user would begin to click and drag an item but not complete the mapping) would result in the existing mapping being deleted.
3545	Added items to the help for date/time format information.
3548	An error in the database initialization script caused an exception when deploying version 3.2.1.7 to a system that had never hosted LincDoc.
3551	Signature image overlay text was being used even when it was disabled.
3552	Error appeared when sorting the repository browser.
3556	Fixed issue with the calculation wizard that caused additional conditions following an if/then/else statement to display poorly.
3565	When using Internet Explorer 10 and viewing a form in PDF mode, the Adobe Reader instance was not closing correctly.
3566	After completing credit card processing on Amazon, the return message from Amazon would appear in a open form. It now appears on the user's desktop.
3574	Fixed "Comparison method violates its general contract!" error that appeared in repository browser when sorting.
3585	When using a multi-value table, multi-value codelists were not populating correctly.
3596	For web services (such as iPad sessions), keep track of the username used at login time, and check against that for subsequent authentications in the same session to prevent the "already logged in" error when using alternate (different capitalization) forms of the username.
3597	When using the Adobe Reader PDF viewer in Internet Explorer 10, a PDF with signatures was the only one that could have focus, and the LincDoc Document Viewer would become unusable.

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