Archive Release Notes
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Updates are made periodically and will automatically be available in your Confluence Cloud instance.
Check out the latest releases to see what we have been working on recently.
Earlier Releases 2022
13th December 2022
What's New?
This is our new documentation space for Comala Document Control Approval Cloud!
We have updated the in-app links to this new documentation space.
The old documentation space at appfire.net/wiki will no longer be updated for Comala Document Approval Cloud.
If you have any questions please open a ticket with our support team.
Updates
maintenance update to improve stability and performance
30th November 2022
What's New?
Add one or more document approvals macros to a document to display approval information for a selected approval state. The macro can be configured to display the overall approval status in the approval state, the assignees for the review, each reviewer’s decision status, and the date of the last decision for each reviewer.
The document approvals macro is compatible with the Confluence page properties and page properties report macros.
27th September 2022
What's New?
New document state page macro.
Add the document state macro to a document to display one or both of the current approval workflow state and the date the state changed.
The macro is compatible with the Confluence page properties and page properties report macros.
1st September 2022
Bugfixes
fixed an issue that caused a document with an applied approval workflow in a Comala Publishing configured target space to be published to an another (un-configured) space when the applied approval workflow on the document in the target space was transitioned to the final state
23rd August 2022
Bugfixes
fixed a problem preventing email notifications from being sent for the approval with assignees if one or more of the assignees were invalid (for example the user account is disabled; the user does not have view permission)
10th August 2022
Update
error handling and logging improvements
Bugfixes
fixed an issue that caused the 'View approved' byline link to be removed after editing content in the final state
Add workflow options displayed on a page are now appropriate to the user permission (admin, edit, view)
Aug 2nd 2022
Update
security improvement limiting permission scopes (
admin;space_admin) requested by the app if not required
Bugfix
fixed a problem that prevented a user with space admin permission from choosing to delete approval history when removing a page workflow
June 1st 2022
What's New?
To better understand what business case our evaluation customers are seeking to achieve when installing Comala Document Approval the workflow picker now has the option to select a business use option from a drop-down menu before applying the approval workflow.
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A user can choose the option to Skip the request.
This business use option will be available in our evaluation version each time the approval workflow is added to the content. It is aimed to help in the development of features within the Comala Document Approval app.
May 12th 2022
What's New?
Users now have the ability to see what workflow is currently added and applied to the page.
new Show workflow option in the workflow popup dialog actions (ellipsis) menu
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Choosing Show workflow opens a dialog box displaying a visual workflow diagram for the current workflow applied to the content.
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Users can also view the current workflow by choosing the Show workflow option in the page tools menu
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May 5th 2022
Updates
What's New?
updated space settings Document Approval dashboard UI
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Only the Reindex workflows option is displayed if the approval workflow is disabled in the space.
April 27th 2022
Update
maintenance update to improve stability and performance
April 11th 2022
Update
vulnerabilities update
March 24th 2022
Update
a user cannot now clear Approval History from an individual page - the Reset Approvals button has been removed from the page Approvals History report
Approval History is stored as an attachment to a document. This attachment can still be deleted by a user with edit or admin permission and this will clear the document Approval History for the individual document.
A space admin will still have the option in the space settings Document Approval dashboard to Clear approval history for all documents in the space.
Bugfixes
updated Approvals Report to display "You have no approval workflows applied in this space" when no Comalatech approval has been applied to any content in a space
improved the display of multiple assignees of a specific approval in the Approvals Report dialog box
March 14th 2022
Updates
maintenance and backend improvement updates
Bugfixes
long state names displayed in the workflow popup are no longer simply truncated but are now displayed with an ellipsis and a tooltip to show the full name on mouse-over
resolved a problem displaying the page workflow history
fixed a problem that prevented the assignment of a user as a reviewer in the workflow popup and displayed an error
update to ensure consistent styles are used across dialog boxes in the user interface
February 17th 2022
Bugfixes
resolved a problem that prevented access to the workflow report if the space home page was deleted
fixed a bug causing the breakup of the style for some of the app dialog boxes
February 14th 2022
Bugfixes
fix to ensure workflow Updated transition works in any instance where Atlassian Confluence generates a long contentID
resolved a problem that created duplicate notifications in the Workflow History when initializing states space-wide
February 9th 2022
Bugfix
resolved a problem that caused the initialization of states in a space to fail if the space had no homepage
February 2nd 2022
Bugfixes
fixed a problem that caused inconsistencies in workflow states after a space-wide initialization of the states
when adding a workflow, it is no longer applied to the space home page†
† Previously the workflow was applied to the space home page but due to the limitations of Atlassian Confluence Cloud there was no access to the workflow or display of any workflow breadcrumbs
January 17th 2022
Bugfixes
updated approvals report to display details of any content that is under the root level of the space (except space homepage)