Cora SeQuence 9.8 Release Notes

19 AUGUST 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 V9.8
• Idea board
• New features
• General enhancements
• Breaking changes
• Limitations
• 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 V9.8

Cora SeQuence V9.8 is all about composable services and the ability to support high-impact implementations with Azure-based orchestration on different environments. 

Cora SeQuence now supports Apache ActiveMQ for internal queues. Apache ActiveMQ provides an improved and efficient messaging mechanism. The system can now trigger one or multiple processes with a single message from the queue. 

As part of Genpact's composable services strategy, Cora SeQuence now supports Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3). Amazon S3 can store files and execute all the file activities like uploading and downloading files, listening to file changes, and saving attachments. 

This release also introduces enhancements to existing features like the Elasticsearch indexing and sorting of views.

IDEA BOARD Thank you for posting your ideas at the Ideas for Cora SeQuence site. We've been listening! No new ideas have been implemented to the product in this release. You can continue to post your ideas here.

New features

• New integrating messaging mechanism: Cora SeQuence now supports Apache ActiveMQ as an internal queue mechanism. The new integrating messaging mechanism provides an improved and efficient messaging mechanism allowing reading of messages from one queue to multiple processes. SQL broker service is still the default messaging mechanism.
  For details, see this article.
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) external storage support: Cora SeQuence now supports Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) as an external file storage system.
  For details, see this article.

General enhancements

• New configuration parameters of the Elasticsearch integration: Two new parameters are introduced for managing bulk operations in the ElasticSearch indexing.
  For details, see this article.
• List of errors added to the HTTP service.
  For details, see this article.
• Order Flowtime portal views in ascending order: You can order all the Flowtime portal views except the System Views in alphabetical ascending order.
• The copying of Conversation items between cases now supports Comment conversation type also.
• The Process tasks due date previously supported only interval calculation like n number of days. It now also supports date calculation in date format like specific date 02 Sep 2021.
  This was mainly done for the Conversation tasks due dates where user selects a specific date. There are no restrictions on dates selection and a date can be an already occurred day.

Breaking change

• Implementations that inherited or used the conversation Task, Email, or Messages for their custom conversation types require an update as the SentOrReceivedAt property is now obsolete.
• While copying conversation items without specifying the itemType filter the Comment conversation items are also copied. To avoid the Comment copying, explicitly mention the item type in the itemType filter, "Email, Task".
• v9.8 supports only role-based permissions. While creating a new workflow, enabling the organization based permissions throws an error:
  

Customized portal considerations

• We strongly recommend that you use 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

Limitations

• The external data source tables are not exported with the workflow. You need to manually create or update the tables in the target database before you import the workflow.
• For new installations, where a 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 doesn't exist, then a dedicated one is created.

Resolved issues

Component	Issue	Ticket #
Conversations View	When the Cora SeQuence user time zone is set to UTC and the users' machine time zone is other than UTC, then the Conversations View displays time as per user machine and not as the Cora SeQuence user.
HotOperations	The Process Wall Questions page had UI issues when three or more users posted and replied to queries.	406255
Workflow	When you pasted a "Container" that included a Split or Switch activity, the following error was displayed by the internet browser:	349053

Known issue

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Deployment 

Download the release package from the Cora SeQuence repository.

There are seven 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.