Cora SeQuence 9.6 Release Notes

12 JANUARY 2021

Welcome to the Cora SeQuence Release Notes.

As they become available, additions and updates to these release notes can be found here.
The latest releases appear at the end of the list.

What's in the Release Notes?

• About Cora SeQuence
• What's new in Cora SeQuence V9.6
• Idea board
• New features
• General enhancements
• Breaking changes
• Limitation
• Resolved issues
• Known issues
• Deployment

About Cora SeQuence

Cora SeQuence is an Intelligent Business Process Management Suite (iBPMS) that facilitates rapid build and change of high availability, mobile-enabled workflow applications. Cora SeQuence is built on the HotChange^® technology, an architecture used for software development in the field of Business Process Management (BPM). HotChange^® enables consultation in the field of design, development, implementation, and integration of information technology solutions for business processes. Business users and developers can seamlessly design and execute workflows on a single canvas using Dual View. Cora SeQuence is a low-code platform that also supports advanced development capabilities.

What's new in Cora SeQuence V9.6

Cora SeQuence V9.6 is all about reducing solution time to market. 

The new UI rule engine expedites the development of customized forms and enables implementors to create UI rules in simple coding language. This feature reduces product delivery time and maintenance.

Customers dealing with personal data can now manage sensitive data efficiently and adhere to the data privacy standards set by the Global Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). 

Cora SeQuence application can now be deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to reduce cost and enhance durability.
With multiple site instance capability on non-production sites, you can now have multiple instances of Cora SeQuence on the same machine and configure each instance individually.

This release also introduces other features like preview case attachments and brings enhancements to some existing features.
The Global Administrators can now edit default Flowtime grids in the Flowtime portal. Cora SeQuence now enables inserting attachments from a byte array input to the database.

IDEA BOARD Thank you for posting your ideas at the Ideas for Cora SeQuence site. We've been listening! The following idea has been implemented to the product in this release: Manage System Views You can post your ideas here.

New features

• Contact Us and Privacy Policy links: To let customers comply with Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Cora SeQuence now provides an option to add Privacy Policy and Contact Us links to Flowtime. Customers' dealing with personal data can add their privacy policies to ensure their clients about data safety and security.
  For more details, see this article.
• Manage personal and sensitive data: As phase one of the data management capabilities in relation to GDPR, you can now mark and collect all personal and sensitive information in Cora SeQuence database.
  For details, see this article.
  In phase two, the purging of this collected data will be extended.
• UI rule engine: A UI rule engine is introduced to reduce the efforts of developing complicated and time-consuming forms in a customized implementation. The development of these forms may require complex JavaScript code snippets. The UI rule engine enables implementors to create UI rules in simple coding language and reduces the project's implementation time and maintenance.
  For details, see this article.
  
  
  NOTE
  This feature is currently available in preview mode only.
• Now deploy Cora SeQuence application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and run the application quickly and reliably on different environments. 
• Preview Attachments: A new preview functionality for case attachments is introduced. To enable preview for attachments you need to add a Preview Attachments control to your workflow instance.
  For details, see this article.  
  
  

General enhancements

• XLSX export support for grid control: Grid control functionality now supports the export of data in XLSX format too.
  For details, see this article.
• Support for attachments from byte array input: It is now possible to store an attachment from an external byte array source into the Cora SeQuence database.
  For details, see this article.
• As a global administrator, you can now edit the default Flowtime grid views in the Flowtime portal, similar to the Shared views.
  For details, see this article.
  
  
• As an enhancement to the Conversation View component, you can now:
  • set priority for email conversations.
  • make conversations read-only.
  • preview conversations.
    For details, see this article.
• In our continuous efforts to keep the Cora SeQuence database clean, all obsolete tables (with ~CanDel_ in the name), views, and stored procedures have been removed from the database.
• The job history in the JES jobs management now displays the hostname for a job. This helps to manage redundant jobs efficiently.
• For Azure Active Directory Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication, on single logout (SLO) from the user identity provider, all active sessions of Cora SeQuence terminate.
• For OpenID connect configuration, the system does not require encryption attributes from users. So, the attributes cookieEncryptionKey and cookieEncryptionInitializationVector are no longer required for configuration.
  For details, see this article.

Breaking change

• For versions earlier than V9.6, running the Get-CoraSeQuenceSite PowerShell function without any parameters returned the existing Flowtime, Administration, and WebAPI sites. In this version, running this function without parameters does not return any results regardless of whether the sites exist or not.

Customized portal considerations

• We strongly recommend using custom applications and release pipelines to manage changes in the Flowtime portal.
• If you use a custom Flowtime theme, you need to reapply your customization after the upgrade.
  For more details, see this article.
• If you've customized the Flowtime portal, after upgrading, you need to compare your customized files with the newly released product files, and if required, reapply any customization.
  List of frequently changed file types: 
  • Grid config files
  • Menu config files

Limitation

• The external data source tables are not exported with the workflow. You need to manually create or update the tables in the target database prior to importing the workflow.
• For new installation where site instance does not exist on the server:
  • the provided service account is used and a dedicated application pool is created for the site. 
  • If a service account is not provided, the DefaultApplicationPool is used. 
  • If the DefaultApplicationPool does not exist, then a dedicated one is created.

Resolved issues

Known issue

Deployment 

Download the release package from the Cora SeQuence repository.

There are six pre-build application deployment packages available, depending on the type of application that you are deploying. You install each Cora SeQuence application separately.

When you deploy pre-built applications, you can choose between the Standard and Premium packages. The Premium package includes HotOperations. You can also build and deploy your own Cora SeQuence applications. 

Click here to see how to deploy Cora SeQuence in an environment with pre-built applications. 

For more details on installing and deploying Cora SeQuence, see this article.