Workflow Modeler

New and Improved Features:

• New overlays for analysis data (Time, Cost, Quality, Value) are now available under the overlay pane accessible through the View Ribbon -> Manage Overlay (or the flag icon at the top right of the application). These can be toggled on/off individually or together.
• Improved the way we share a place (repository):
  • Customize the email being sent for the invite
  • Option to not send the invite email
  • Auto-complete user names from the current users of your Digital Enterprise Server (only available to corporate users)

Tips:

• We have received some questions about the new launch screen of the Digital Enterprise Server and its interaction with the unsaved work cache that we used to have in the product. Simply put, this unsaved work cache is still there but to access the last unsaved model, you need to open the product using the tile menu at the top (9 small squares). Clicking on a model in the navigator will open the last saved version of that model from your place (repository).

Bug Fixes:

• In some rare cases, the delete key stopped responding when entering labels.

New and Improved Features:

• Accelerators are now sorted alphabetically with the Digital Enterprise Graph always being the first.

Bug Fixes:

• Corrected an issue with the marker automatic refresh on Choreography Tasks.

New and Improved Features:

• When viewing the relationships of an element, the type of each relationship is directly depicted in the HW5 view. The relationship type is clickable to modify the relationship or delete it.

New and Improved Features:

• Added the HW5 view for task, events, data objects and data stores. It is accessible by viewing the Details (3 bars) on a shape.
• You can now create relationships in the BPMN modeler to items that are not normally depicted in BPMN such as Actors, System and Goals.
• You can now manage hidden items that are not normally visible in a BPMN drawing. Those include the Actors, System and Goals that you can now define in the elements details but also extend to Messages, Signal, Errors and Escalation codes. This is accessible using the Manage hidden items button in the BPMN ribbon.
• You can now create input/output relationship from a task to a data object that are not depicted graphically using the task details and adding to the what perspective.
• You can now hide a Data Object depicted in the BPMN Diagram by right clicking on a Data Object while keeping the input relationship in the detail of the task.
• You can now drag System and Goals from an accelerator to bring them in your BPMN context and reuse them.
• The report was improved to add the new information that can be captured using the new HW5 view in BPMN.

Bug Fixes:

• Prevented a rare case where on page creation, we would give the same name as an existing page.

New and Improved Features:

• New and improved Visio import. When importing Visio files, you can now map each shape from the stencil to get the best and most accurate import of your model.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the previous file name was still used in some rare cases.
• Time Cycle is now outputted in the documentation.
• Fixed an issue during the export to documentation where it would stop the export when encountering an empty diagram.
• The Adhoc marker is now black on the collapsed adhoc sub-process.
• Fixed an issue where multiple help windows would open.

New and Improved Features:

• Files are now filtered to the proper types when using import services.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where the markers would not be displayed in the diagram when using import services.
• Fixed an issue where deleting a page associated with a new sub-process, clicking on the plus button would do nothing.
• Fixed an issue where pasting a Data Object from a BPMN model to another, it would lose its name and collection attribute.
• Fixed a bug when assigning an external process to a call activity, it would come back as a task and lose the link when saved and opened in a repository.
• Fixed a bug which would prevent from editing attributes in the latest version of the Chrome browser.

Bug Fixes:

• Lanes dropped on a vertical pool are now properly rotated.
• Fixed an issue where the quick connect arrow would not come back in some rare cases.
• The outgoing sequence flow is now properly connected when dragging activities connected to artifacts from the accelerator.
• Fixed an issue where changing the lane from horizontal to vertical does not update the label position.
• Moved the pool/lane orientation change action at the top level in the context menu.
• The edge selection shadow of the quick connect arrow now disappears when selecting the link and dragging.

New and Improved Features:

• The Share functionality button has been moved to the Teamwork tab from the Animator tab.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where using the Spacer feature would sometimes break the links.
• Fixed an issue where when using a spacer inside multi-level pools and lanes, the lanes would be misplaced in some cases.
• Fixed a bug which would move a shape when it was resized to a size smaller than the minimum.
• When copy/pasting containers, their links and their attached shapes are now also considered.
• Fixed an issue which would prevent from moving unconnected links on the canvas.
• Fixed an issue which would scroll the canvas when clicking multiple times on the Zoom Standard button.
• Fixed a bug which would prevent the ability to select newly added shapes from the comments right panel.
• Standardized the Attach button function in all the tab.
• Now the details and the quick connect buttons are always hidden while moving or resizing a shape.
• Fixed an issue where the “More Pages” dialog would not open the first page.

New and Improved Features:

• Added the capability to manage overlays displayed in the canvas. Using the Manage Overlay button from the View ribbon, users can now turn on/off each overlays, such as the commenting and attachments icons, displayed on shapes.
• The comments are now integrated with the details view of the shapes. Users can now use the Detail option on a shape to manage the comments or use the existing commenting button in the Teamwork ribbon.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue which would prevent from opening a link to another BPMN diagram due to a special character.

New and Improved Features:

• It is now possible to assign a version and a state to your model file. Assigning a version and state to a model functionality can be found in the “Teamwork” ribbon, by clicking on the new “Publish” button.
• The version and state of a model has been added to the “Project Charter”, in the “Version” tab. This information is also present during the export to reports.
• When switching an expanded Sub-Process to a collapsed one, the same behavior than “Create From Content” action is now used.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that was sometimes causing the feedback to get excessively big when resizing a shape.

New and Improved Features:

• Added the possibility to open historical versions of saved files.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug which would prevent the Choreography tasks to be properly rendered in the BPMN Viewer.
• Fixed an issue which would cause the page resize arrows to be positioned in the wrong location in FireFox.
• Fixed an issue which would show the URL in the browser thus hiding the page’s name.
• Fixed a bug which would prevent the “Create from content” functionality from working.

New and Improved Features:

• The BPMN Modeler is now available in the French language.
• The process animator now highlights the nodes when they are completed.
• The BPMN shapes palette has been reorganized for a better classification. The shapes palette is now divided into Workflow Pattern, Basic and Advanced sections.
• When publishing a model, the BPMN Modeler will now generate a short URL.
• The validation and error window columns are now adjusted depending on the window size.
• Links to other model are now created with an improved file picker.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the user was not properly notified when their file has been modified by someone else when they were about to save.
• Fixed a bug which would resize the images included in the documentation when generating reports.
• Fixed an issue which would sometimes cover the page zoom functionality with the page URL when zooming the canvas.
• Fixed an issue which would prevent the proper loading of accelerators in the attribute editor in FireFox.
• Fixed an issue with conditional events that could, in certain conditions, generate an invalid BPMN file.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing user from changing a typed event to a none event correctly.
• Fixed an issue where the add page button would not appear if the page names were too long.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the active page highlight to be lost when the “All” button was clicked.

New and Improved Features:

• Moved the shape details under a unified detail dialog accessible using the detail icon in overlay () . This dialog now contains:
• Description
• Attachments
• Semantic Links
• Activities also have: Time, Cost, Value, Quality and Gaps field.
• Added Block Attachment button in the Process Animator, which skips all linked attachments and while playing the animation.
• Added Block Models button in the Process Animator, which skips all external models while playing the animation.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue in the Process Animator where a message from a pool can only be sent once.
• Fixed an issue where when processes are created from a pool with no name, an undefined appears in the name in the exported BPMN xml file.
• Fixed a bug which would not attach log markers to the shape when using the import and changing a page.
• Fixed a bug which would sometimes prevent editing the documentation in Internet Explorer.
• Fixed an issue where the reuse button would not be enabled when a task is changed to a linkable task.
• Fixed an issue where the report would sometime crop connectors.
• Fixed a bug where when exporting into HTML, the page borders would be printed.
• Fixed a bug where the documentation could not be set on page.
• Fixed an issue where the indenting would not be kept in description when generating reports.
• Fixed an issue in the Process Animator where a non-Interrupting event subprocess would interrupt the enclosing process.
• Image names are now kept human readable when exporting into an image format.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue when resizing a node with has a straight link docked to it, the extremity of the link would go inside the node.
• An error is now shown when a user cannot save or copy to the local storage.
• Fixed a bug where some links would not get fully deleted when doing undo/redo in some cases.
• Fixed an issue when selecting a shape and starting to type its new name feature: the first letter typed was lost.
• Fixed an issue where when exporting a model with an event timer with cycle time would create an error upon import.
• Fixed an issue where when undoing a page rename action, the page would be assigned with a blank name.
• Removed the CostParameters from the BPSim Simulation interface options as it is not supported by LSim yet.
• Fixed a bug where the errors would not be displayed on operation details.

New and Improved Features:

• Documentation reporting improvements:
• Advanced attributes are now exported in MS Word and HTML reports.
• User choices are now remembered in the documentation box.
• The proper loop type icon is now shown.
• The logo is now added to the title page of the documentation export.
• A new Project Charter functionality has been added. The project charter allows to define the Scope, Goals, Challenges and Stakeholders of your project.

Bug Fixes:

• Aligned the placement of Quick Connect arrows in Internet Explorer 9.
• Aligned the text on the button for the Dialog Box in Internet Explorer 9.
• Fixed an issue which would create an infinite loop when generating a BPMN report.
• Fixed an issue where the user would not be notified if a save failed.

New and Improved Features:

• Basic attributes are now exported in the MsWord and HTML reports.
• Multiple visual improvements to the MsWord and HTML reports presentation.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the custom logo on diagrams could not be changed in IE9.
• Fixed an issue in the Process Animator where an interrupting attached event would behave like a non-interrupting attached event.
• Fixed a bug where BPMN import would fail if a link would have an invalid source/target.