Release 11.4.0

Owned by Thomas Swindells
Last updated: yesterday at 11:48 am
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Introduction

PhixFlow is pleased to announce the release of PhixFlow Version 11.4.0 This page describes the improvements and fixes in this version.

Installing or Upgrading PhixFlow

To install a new PhixFlow instance:

  1. Check System Requirements and Compatibility for details of the PhixFlow system requirements and update any dependencies. 
    1. Please email support@phixflow.com if you are planning to run PhixFlow 11 on an unsupported database version.
  2. Follow the instructions in Installing PhixFlow.

To upgrade an existing PhixFlow instance: 

  1. PhixFlow must be at version 8.3.18 or later in order to be upgraded to this version. If this is not the case please first upgrade to 8.3.18.
  2. Check System Requirements and Compatibility for changes to the system requirements or supported database versions. For example, you may need to upgrade your database or Java version.
    1. Please email support@phixflow.com if you are planning to run PhixFlow 11 on an unsupported database version.
  3. Ensure you have a backup of the database before upgrading PhixFlow.

  4. Follow the Upgrading PhixFlow steps. It is important to complete any Special Upgrade Instructions for all the intermediate releases between your current version and the version to which you are upgrading.


Special Upgrade Instructions

Please check the Special Upgrade Instructions for all the intermediate releases between your current version and this one.


Improvements and New Features

DEV-18567 - When Screen Building, setting a URL component to use the URL attribute from a File Table will now display the file, where possible. For example, PDFs and images will be displayed in the URL component, where as MS Excel Files will not.

DEV-18550 - Added new options to inbound Email Accounts to limit the date range of emails to be processed.

    • Process messages after accepts a date and time and will ignore any messages received before this time.
    • Ignore messages older than accepts a number and will ignore any messages received more than that many hours ago.

DEV-18511 - When configuring an Email Account as an outbound account, the ability to send emails using Microsoft's email protocols has been added.

DEV-18321 - On charts, it is now possible to use Label Expressions to customise the labels of series.

DEV-18144 - In Screen Building, when an HTML component is used to display a received email the inline images can now be displayed.

Bug Fixes

DEV-18574  - Emojis will now be stripped out of outgoing emails if the PhixFlow system database character set does not support them (previously this would cause the emails to fail to send)

DEV-18542 - The URL attribute defined on a File Table will now use the System URL, defined in System Configuration, as the base for the URLs it creates.  In addition, the URL created will now automatically escape non-URL safe characters, such as spaces.

DEV-18537 - When utilising an Email Endpoint to monitor and capture emails, if the database collation for the PhixFlow system does not support Unicode characters they will be removed from the body of emails.

DEV-18341 - Fixed problem with Screen Multi-line HTML components adding extra new lines when the text is formatted using carriage returns.

DEV-18234 - A warning is now shown when a context parameter attempts to set a non-numeric value to a numeric field.

DEV-17842 - In an Analysis Model, when exporting a spreadsheet to an Excel Template, if there is a typo in the name of the Excel sheet, the name being processed is displayed in the System Console log.