Archive Release Notes
- Robert Alexander Marshall
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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)
Earlier Releases 2021
December 16th 2021
Bugfix
fixed a problem in some instances to ensure the display of workflow history where Atlassian Confluence generated long contentIDs (greater than 9007199254740991)
This is related to an Atlassian issue in some instances where Atlassian generated a long contentID - it could not be correctly handled by Confluence or certain add-on apps. Atlassian has currently resolved the issue by handling the contentID as a string instead of a number.
The Comala Document Management family of apps has been updated to be able to handle the contentID as a string as well.
December 9th 2021
Update
maintenance update on the debug tools feature, which is a non-public (dark) feature
October 28th 2021
Updates
error handling messages are now displayed when importing or exporting workflow history
import/export of workflow history is now logged and traced with a unique Trace id for the request containing details of the
user who performed the action
Cloud instance
space key
content id (if applicable)
process type (Export or Import)
Crowdbugfix
resolved a problem to ensure that we wait for a successful check for user rights before doing some actions
October 21st 2021
Update
update related to Atlassian Connect installation lifecycle security improvements
Bugcrowd fix
update to prevent users from being able to change the app configuration using the REST API
October 14th 2021
Updates
disabled workflow history backup and restore process
Due to customer feedback, we have temporarily disabled the workflow history backup and restore process.
Customers that are in the upgrade process should contact us.
September 27th 2021
Bugfixes
resolved a problem displaying the workflow content byline
after using the Atlassian Cloud to Cloud migration process to move their entire site to a different Confluence Cloud site
after using the Atlassian Cloud to Cloud space import process to import a space to another Confluence Cloud site
September 15th 2021
Update
standardized the storage of user and assigner attributes after a workflow action occurs to
accountID
anddisplayName
- ensures consistency of display in the workflow history
Bugfixes
resolved a problem displaying changes in space administration when there was a large number of space properties
August 24th 2021
Updates
when a user is disabled or deleted, Workflow History will now display the default avatar and a user's full name (as stored as the display name) instead of the Atlassian ID
Back up Workflow History dialog close button has been renamed from Cancel to Close to avoid misinterpretation of the action
links to summary details of the Last import and the Last export of a workflow history backup now available in Workflow History in the space Document Approval dashboard
Bugfixes
minor code patches to differentiate between upper and lowercase
updated typos in some UI components
July 26th 2021
Updates
vulnerability updates
Bugfixes
resolved a problem that caused resizing of the app global configuration screen
June 16th 2021
Updates
You can use the Initialize states option to publish every page in a space to a target space at the same time. Comala Publishing is used to publish content in a space on a page-by-page basis. However, you can choose to configure the Comla Publishing action on the transition to a specific state
the source space page hierarchy is maintained on the publish action to the target space
updated space document dashboard UI to include a warning when initializing states if Comala Publishing is installed
"Note: if Comala Publishing is installed & configured for this space, Initializing states when may result in unforeseen publishing of content to the target space"
Bugfix
resolved an issue that was preventing the status of pages from being updated in the Approval Report when the workflow was removed at space or page level
fixed a problem that when a space admin chose to initialize states, it initialized content to the initial workflow state instead of the state selected in the space settings Document Dashboard dropdown menu
resolved a problem that was causing misdirected request logs
June 8th 2021
Bugfix
fixed a problem that caused the approval history to be rendered empty
May 27th 2021
Bugfix
fixed a problem with license validation after the license has expired
when no Comalatech workflows are added to a space, the approvals report now displays confirmation that the app is disabled for the space
May 18th 2021
Updates
Atlassian Connect framework update
updated space Document Management dashboard to remove reminder that enabling e-signature is found in approval settings
removed inWebo OTP configuration option
Bugfixes
updated the approval report to display confirmation message if no Comalatech approval workflow is installed in a space
fixed a problem in the previous version link in the page history
fixed a typo in the Change state on-screen notification
fixed an authentication error when installing the app to a new instance
April 27th 2021
Updates
upgraded app security together with improvements in cache management and performance
update to support changes in the App migration platform - see the Atlassian migration model deprecation
April 1st 2021
Maintenance update
March 31st 2021
Maintenance update
February 24th 2021
Fixed issue in Approvals Report listing when space workflow disabled and other bugfixes
Earlier Releases 2020
August 25th 2020
Multiple UI enhancements and bugfixes
August 4th 2020
Fixed an issue where approving a page with a pre-assigned group not working
Fixed an issue where the workflow report was not showing correct data, now it is searching on every user action
June 15th 2020
Update to handling of expired subscriptions to improve error messages where app functionality will not be available.
June 4th 2020
Workflow report has been renamed from Document Report to Approvals Report. Sidebar menu link and report title updated.
May 18th 2020
New Welcome Tour feature added with useful information and links for new users.
May 15th 2020
Option to disable individual user usage tracking added to the global admin configuration menu.
This option is only available for paid licenses, not during trial. Site wide feature usage statistics will still be compiled by Comalatech for all license types to help understand usage trends and prioritise future feature development.
Earlier Releases 2019
November 26th 2019
Introducing Comala Document Approval (formerly Comala Approvals)
The new name unites Comala Document Approval with our other apps in the Comala Document Management family. Renaming the apps makes it easier for our customers to understand how they are related, and better explains their scope and use.
This update also includes a bug fix that was preventing page approvals from being added to pages in some situations without resetting the space configuration.
October 29th 2019
Bug fix, updates, including:
Fix for emojis in approval/assign comments causing an error.
September 26th 2019
Bug fix updates, including:
Fix for in page notifications on page approval/rejection
Fix on description in the activity history for assigned/unassigned entries.
Fix for the state dialog that was showing the internal user ID on assigned users.
June 13th 2019
Improved Approvals Dialog Layout
The visual design of the Approvals Dialog Pop-up has been improved. It's now easier to use, and is up to date with the latest Confluence styling.
March 18th 2019
Minor UI updates and Atlassian API changes for GDPR compatibility.
Earlier Releases 2018
December 14 2018
Introducing Comala Approvals Cloud. The Easiest Way to Add Reviews and Approvals to Confluence