Transact Manager 17.10

New Fluent API to support Object Marshaling

A new Fluent ObjectMapper class has been added to provide standard approach to marshaling objects between xml and java objects for use in Groovy Scripts and provides XML Document to Object mapping support based on a specified xpath within the Document. 

See the Fluent API JavaDoc and the ObjectMapper class.

A new option has been added to TM Security Managers 'Strict Header Security' to enforce that each HTTP request within authenticated user session is checked to make sure it originated source that created the session. The following items are checked:

• IP Address
• Browser User Agent

A new REST Api has been added to Manager to enable TPac's to be managed trough a REST Api. Ant taks have also been added to the SDK to add support for this through Ant build scripts.

See the REST Tpac API in the Transcat Services Guide.

A new TxnHistoryQuery API has been added to the Transact SDK to support the searching of the TM Transaction History table. This API support searching on a subset of the transactions attributes and also exporting the data in a CSV format.

See TxnHistoryQuery in the TM Fluent API Javadoc

A new updater API has been added to the Fluent API. This class will enable Fluent scripts to manage the job properties associated with a collabortaion job.

See the JobUpdater in the TM Fluent API Javadoc

Add functions to:

• TxnQuery to support searching by group name,
• JobQuery to support searching by collaboration job groups.

See TxnQuery, JobQuery and the addGroup method in the TM Fluent API Javadoc

Added a new attribute to TxnUpdater to allow it to set the form version number against a transaction. This is useful after deploying a new form version when there is a need to update existing transactions to move over to the new form version.

See TxnUpdater.setFormVersionNumber() in the TM Fluent API Javadoc

Added the ability to control the initial route when a collaboration job is instantiated based on server side rules.

Collaborations jobs have been enhanced to support the concept of groups.

See the TM guide on the Knowledge Base for more infomation.

Enhancements to improve the effectiveness of the Groovy Service Logger

• Encrypted log data to protect any PI written to the log
• Chained service produce their own log entry and are associated, where possible, with a submission to give context to the log. (Limited to services which run in the same thread)
• Groovy Logger is injected into any objects that has a public Logger instance exposed
• Service parameters are automatically logged in debug mode

Enhancements to TxnQuery, JobQuery and TxnHistoryQuery to support

• Searches by submission property name (TxnQuery & JobQuery)
• Searches where submission property does not exist (TxnQuery & JobQuery)
• Common approach to searching on request, last user activity and form completed time-stamps (TxnQuery & TxnHistoryQuery)

See TxnQuery, JobQuery & TxnHistoryQuery in the TM Fluent API Javadoc

New pages have been added to present transaction usage statistics based at the transaction or job level. Facilities exist to limit the results to:

• Completed or Abandoned Delivered Transactions
• Internal or External Transactions
• Standalone Transactions or Transactions in a collaboration job.

See the TM Guide on the Knowledge Base for more information.

PhantomJs is upgraded to version 2.1 when running on Centos 7

Version 2 of the Dynamic PDF Receipt Service has been added with:

• improved configuration to manage the execution of the service, including timeouts.
• enhanced error handling to detect and manage errors
• capture the PhantomJs console when an error is detected
• support for headers and footers in PDF receipts

Support has been added to the app-package Ant Task to support the management of the following form flow control URL's

• redirect_url_cancel_page
• redirect_url_confirm_page
• redirect_url_saved_page

See Transact SDK documentation under transact-sdk/template/docs/ant-tasks.html#app-package

Transaction level lockout facilities have been added to allow control of the maximum number of failed attempts to access a save challenger protected transaction. This can be configured at the Form, Organisation or Space level, including the max number of attempts and the lockout period.

This has been removed from the product and is no longer supported in Transact Manager

Remove Complete state from Email Queue filter box