AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions 5.7 MP3 - released October 2007

AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions 5.7 MP2 - released May 2007

AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions 5.7 - released January 2007

These release notes cover the 5.7 release of AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions.

Release notes are occasionally updated after the release date. For the most up-to-date release notes, go to edocs.bea.com.

We recommend that this maintenance pack be applied to all AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions 5.7.

ALBPM 5.7 MP3 must be installed prior to installing ALBPM WorkSpace Extensions 5.7 MP3.

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at support.plumtree.com for the latest information on supported operating systems, application servers, databases, and browsers and for a detailed list of supported combinations of operating systems, application servers, and JVMs.

• There are no new features in this maintenance pack.

• Workspace Extensions Navigation Tree is not displayed occasionally when a user logs into the portal. (Issue FUE-24592).
• Workspace Extensions Project Documentation not showing up when clicking on documentation link (Issue FUE-23162).
• Workspace Extensions Work Item Details portlet does not show global activities for instances with completed status (Issue FUE-26367)
• Workspace Extensions Work Item Details portlet does not show details for process instances waiting in a join activity (Issue FUE-25972)
• Workspace Extensions Work Item Details portlet does not show the audit or documentation links for instances with completed status. (Issue FUE-25567)
• Workspace Extensions audit trail date does not show full date/time stamp (Issue FUE-26122).
• Workspace Extensions audit trail does not show participants for copy instances (Issue FUE-25930)
• Workspace Extensions Send item with grab status fails. (Issue FUE-26036)
• Workspace Extensions cannot reassign instances (Issue FUE-26473).
• Workspace Extensions Reassign popup window aligns incorrectly the radio buttons (Issue FUE-26869).
• Workspace Extensions Process Community Presentation date format does not obey configured format in BPM Studio (Issue FUE-23719)
• With a large number of users and groups, the sync job on Oracle crashes with SQL Exception ORA-01795. (Issue 63715)
• The sync adaptor does not synchronize Manager ID field. (Issue 63775)
• Workspace Extensions Process Models Community does not update the process image when new project versions are deployed (Issue FUE-23375)
• Workspace Extensions Work Item Details portlet does not refresh correctly when shown as a popup (Issue FUE-26323)
• Workspace Extensions Audit trail timestamp only shows time in GMT format. (Issue FUE-27853).
• Workspace Extensions Invalid instance reassignment with different processes. Assignment popup window dont show the correct users. (Issue FUE-28369)
• Workspace Extensions Archive viewer is missing WE jar files requiered for operation. (Issue FUE-28445)

The following issues are in addition to the Known Issues listed below for Version 5.7. and 5.7 MP2. It is possible that some known issues are also shown as addressed for version 5.7 MP3.

• Participant load during the engine startup takes too long when using Plumtree directory provider(Issue FUE-22454)
• When using the fetchMatchingName method of DirHuman with a max parameter value of 0, instances based on this code will cause a failure in the Identity Service (Issue FUE-25134)

• ALBPM WE role assignment for a user through an addition in group membership causes an error when attempting to use the Process portlets (Issue FUE-28336)
• The ear and war files downloaded for the Engine EAR and Workspace WAR are zip files and cannot be uncompressed properly. (Issue FUE-27369)
• When using a split activity in a project, the participant and initiator fields do not show up in the instance view UI after the split occurs. (Issue FUE-28333)
• The executionDispatcher is not returning to the correct URL when used in faces files associated with the ALBPM portlets when iexecView is set to 0. (Issue FUE-28333)
• Email notification URL does not switch to https when the portal is configured to run in https. This causes an errorwhen clicking on the URL in a notification email. (Issue FUE-26967)
• Globals icon not available in Process - Worklist Items portlet in ALBPM WE.(Issue FUE-26248)
• Views with multiple assignment conditions do not function properly in ALBPM WE. There is no description text box available to enter the multiple assignment condition. (Issue FUE-26193)
• Using invoke() in jsp does not work in ALBPM WE .(Issue FUE-25986)
• Setting performnexttask=true in portal.properties does not work in ALBPM WE. (Issue FUE-25953)
• Jsp pages w/ jstl-1.0 do not work in ALBPM WE 5.7, such projects have to be modified to use jstl-1.1. (Issue FUE-23298)

We recommend that this maintenance pack be applied to all AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions 5.7.

ALBPM 5.7 MP2 must be installed prior to installing ALBPM WorkSpace Extensions 5.7 MP2.

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at support.plumtree.com for the latest information on supported operating systems, application servers, databases, and browsers and for a detailed list of supported combinations of operating systems, application servers, and JVMs.

ALBPM WE 5.7 MP2 adds support for AquaLogic Interaction 6.1 MP1.

• There are no new features in this maintenance pack.

• After undeploying a project, a user who belongs to the process model group and has a process selected in a report will receive an error message shown in the report's main page saying, "Process XYZ not available". (Issue #55613)
• Adding a 1 MB or larger Collaboration attachment to the process instance fails with "Process is unable to process this request" error message. This is an AquaLogic Interaction 6.0 and 6.1 EDK issue #56222. (Issues #56034 and #56222)
• Re-installing AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions 5.7 on top of an existing AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions 5.7 installation is not supported. (Issue #59090)
• Process Administrator Attachments page Help link yields "HTTP Status 404" error. (Issues #56399)
• In an IE 6.0 browser, Process Model Community reports display question marks "?" for Asian locale strings. (Issue #56525)
• Installation of Workspace Extensions does not complete successfully if there is no connection to the internet. (Issue #57865)
• The Process - WorkList Items portlet will always throw an error and fail to display properly when used in conjunction with a 5.0.5J portal. (Issue #58197)
• A NullPointerException is throw while using the "refresh" button in the middle of an interactive activity execution. (Issue #56343)
• Process - WorkList Items portlet is not properly propagating the community preferences. (Issue #56285)
• "Grab" multiple instances at once does not work. (Issue #56209)

The following issues are in addition to the Known Issues listed below for Version 5.7. It is possible that some known issues are also shown as addressed for version 5.7 MP2.

• Process name is not properly encoded in an error message returned when requesting consultation. (Issue #FUE-22876)

• Oracle 10g create_user.sql file should include granting 'create view' rights to user. (Issue #60360)
• Two files in the \albpm5.7\enterprise\webapps\restore folder are named incorrectly. (Issue #58336)

• Once a BAM Database SQL Configuration is assigned to the BAM Configuration, it is not possible to delete it. (Issue #FUE-22718)
  
  Workaround: Edit the existing BAM SQL Configuration and make the necessary binding changes instead of creating a new one.

• ALBPM's Process Execution Engine Disposer thread is not deleting participants that were disabled in ALI's Portal. (Issue #54833)
  
• ALBPM's Process Execution Engine connecting to ALI's Hydrogen Service is not being able to synchronize a thousands of Users and Groups in a timely manner. (Issue #55859)
  
• Mapping roles to groups will time out if there are many members in that group. (Issue #FUE-23121)

• The Process - Models portlet will cause IE 6 to crash when the portlet is deployed in a 5.0.5J ALI Portal. (Issue #58202)
  

• Note icon is not displayed in WorkList Items portlet when a note is added to an instance. (Issue #FUE-22767)
• Attachment icon is not displayed in WorkList Items portlet when ALBPM Attachment is added to an instance. (Issue #FUE-22666)
• "Has Notes is true" condition of Search and View filter returns incorrect results. (Issue #FUE-19219)
• FireFox 1.5/2.0 Browser: When "Process - Models" portlet and "Process - Views" portlet are included into the same ALI Portal page, "Process - Views" portlet does not display any views. (Issue #59757)
• Month and year combo of View and Search Date-Picker remaine open if Date-Picker is closed without selecting a date. (Issue #59856)
• It is not possible to see audit information for split instances. The audit trail portion where the split occurs never shows detailed information. (Issue #60779/FUE-23133)
• Project documentation is not showing up when clicking on the documentation link in the WorkList Portlets. (Issue #FUE-23162)

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at support.plumtree.com for the latest information on supported operating systems, application servers, databases, and browsers and for a detailed list of supported combinations of operating systems, application servers, and JVMs.

At the time of release, AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions 5.7 supports the following:

• Operating Systems: Windows 2000 and 2003 SP1, Linux SUSE 9 and Linux RHEL 3.0-3, AIX 5.3, Solaris 8 and 9 (SPARC)
• Databases: Microsoft SQLServer 2000 SP3a, Oracle 9.2.0.4 and 10.1.0.3, including RAC
• Browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Firefox 1.1 and 1.5, Safari 2.0.4, Netscape 7.2
• Application Servers: BEA WebLogic 9.2, IBM Websphere 6.0.2, Tomcat 5.0.28

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center for the latest information on supported AquaLogic User Interaction products.

At the time of release, AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions 5.7 supports the following:

• Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0.5 and 5.0.5J; Plumtree Foundation 6.0 and 6.0 SP1; AquaLogic Interaction 6.1
• Plumtree/AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration 4.0.2 through 4.2
  

The product comes with the following documents. All documentation except the attributions file can be found on edocs.bea.com.

• Content integration: users can attach documents to work items from crawled documents in the AquaLogic Interaction Knowledge Directory.
• Collaboration:
  • Design-time collaboration for BPM implementations enables users to share process models as portlets.
  • Ability to invoke business processes from AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration documents.
  • Integrated user experience with Collaboration, including the ability to view work item details from Collaboration.
• Internationalization support and localization of portlets in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Korean.
• J2EE application server support.
• Community preferences enable users to set default process applications and views for communities.
  

• Work List Items cannot be sorted by the initiator. (Issue # 49968)
• Capture errors are returned by Fuegi/AquaLogic BPM when participant is absent. (Issue #50612)
• Execution of a process activity when the activity is an external method results in an AquaLogic BPM error. (Issue #51242)
• The Oracle versions of create_schema.sql should not reference the PLUMINDEX tablespace. (Issue # 51515)
• A process cannot be instantiated from an external JSP portlet. (Issue #52646)
• When using MS SQL Server for the directory service, synchronization issues may occur under rare conditions. (Issue #53092)
• A NullPointerException is thrown when starting the failover engine. (Issue #53575)
• Global applications with instance access are displayed in the Applications portlet instead of the Work Item Details portlet. (Issue #53601, Support Request #1-3700498933)
• Images do not appear in Fuego Object Presentations or BAM dashboards. (Issue #53620, Support Request #1-3747691557)
• Collaboration attachments do not work in processes with split-join activities. (Issue #53702)
• The FuegoWarehouse service does not populate the BAM database. (Issue #53766, Support Request #1-3784589492)
• When a portal user is deleted and then recreated, some PAPI calls using this user will fail with a "cannot authenticate participant" error. (Issue # 54617)
• When the process engine is restarted, all work items selected by the current participant since the engine was last restarted become unselected. (Issue #55975)

• General
  • startwebconsole.bat and startwebconsole.sh JVM settings and memory arguments are not optimal. (Issue #56015)
  • When starting the Process Administrator for the first time on AIX, the following exception is thrown: "Exception in thread "PMB Message Processor" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.plumtree.openfoundation.util.XPArray". (Issue #54731)
    
    Workaround: This exception can be safely ignored as there is no functional impact. It is thrown only on the first startup of Process Adminstrator and does not arise on subsequent startups.

• General
  • Fewer concurrent process user sessions are supported than in Plumtree Process 1.5. The server can support up to 300 concurrent users without a performance impact. (Issue #56014)
    
    Workaround: Decreasing http session-timeout to 10 or 15 can increase a number of concurrent users that can be supported by the server without a performance impact. Put following in $ALBPM_HOME/webapps/portal/WEB-INF/web.xml before mime-mapping:
    <session-config>
    <session-timeout>15</session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    
  • Intermittent: On the Process Administrator Attachments page, when changing credentials to create instance-specific folders in Collaboration, the change might not take effect and the previously saved user name will be displayed in credentials field after Process Administrator is reloaded. (Issue #55391)
    
    Workaround: Re-enter new credentials again if such a behavior occurs.
  • Process Administrator Attachments page Help link yields "HTTP Status 404" error. (Issues #56399)
  • Process projects created prior this release using jsp pages w/ jstl-1.0 do not work in this release. Such projects have to be modified to use jstl-1.1. (Issue #55674)
    
    Workaround: In all 1.5 jsps, change the following in the jsp. This is done in a text editor, as you cannot edit JSP files in AquaLogic BPM Studio 5.7:
    <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
    to:
    <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
    * Note the addition of jsp in the uri URL.
  • Basic Authentication does not work with WebLogic 9.2. (Issue #55793)
    
    Workaround: If users do NOT want to authenticate basic authentication headers, they need to add this to their config.xml. Add this element:
    <enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials>false</enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials> to the last line of <security-configuration> in config.xml for the users domain, usually in /bea/user_projects/domains/mydomain/config/config.xml. This keeps WebLogic from trying to authenticate basic authentication headers.
• User and Group Maintenance
  • When a user is deleted from AquaLogic Interaction, the participant becomes disabled in Process Administrator. If you add a new user with the same name to AquaLogic Interaction, Process Administrator displays one disabled and one enabled participant, both with the same name. (Issue #49565)
  • As a result of user and group integration limitations, Process Administrator filtering on users returns results using "ID", "Display Name", and "Any" filter conditions only, and "ID" and "Any" parameters when filtering Groups. (Issues #55312 and #55314, AquaLogic BPM 5.7.x issues #FUE-19576 and #FUE-19577)

• General
  • Users with an active Workspace Extensions session do not receive "New instance ..." process e-mail notifications. Process user session is not getting closed after user logs out of the AquaLogic Interaction portal and expires when session is idle for 20 minutes. (Issue #56323)
  • Rarely used "Reassign" functionality does not work. (Issue #56360)
• WorkList Items Portlet
  • "Grab" multiple instances at once does not work. (Issue #56209)
    
    Workaround: "Grab" instances one at a time.
  • "Select All" checkbox only works on first page. (Issue #56048)
  • Having the Unified Worklist Portlet and individual Worklist Portlets ("Process - Applications", "Process - Views", "Process - Worklist Items," etc.) on the same portal page generates a JavaScript error. (Issue #55976)
    
    Workaround: Do not mix "Process - Unified" portlet with other Process portlets on the same page.
• Applications Portlet
  • Invoking the same process from the "Process - Application" portlet twice will open two new windows but only one will succeed in creating a new instance. Submitting a form from a second window will generate the following error: "The result for the current component is already set. Continue on with the normal execution. Please continue with the normal execution." (Issue #54962)
• New/Edit View and Search dialogs
  • In IE 6.x, after clicking the date picker in an existing view's creation time filter, the Finish button becomes disabled. (Issue #56102)
    
    Workaround: This issue arises when the interval between the date picker and the Finish button clicks is less than 0.9 seconds.
  • Intermittent in IE 6.x browser: Worklist Items Search and New/Edit View Filter Processes page requires two attempts to select or deselect the Filter Options selection boxes. (Issue #56032)
    
    Workaround: The option is selected or deselected with the second attempt.
• Collaboration Attachments
  • Adding a 1 MB or larger Collaboration attachment to the process instance fails with "Process is unable to process this request" error. This is an AquaLogic Interaction 6.0 and 6.1 EDK issue #56222. (Issues #56034 and #56222)
    
    Workaround: Add a customized client-config.wsdd that specifies commons-httpclient as the handler. This can either go into axis jar, or into /tomcat/commons/classes. If this goes into /commons/classes, add commons-httpclient.3.0.lib into /commons/lib, along with commons-codec.1.3.jar.
  • There is a limit on the number of links to Collaboration documents that can be added to a process instance at one time , but there is no "Remove" functionality if more than five documents are selected. (Issue #56242)
    
    Workaround: Close and open "Link to Collaboration Attachment" dialog window again.
  • Initiating a process froma Collaboration documents fails when only the machine name is used when logging into the AquaLogic Interaction portal. This is a Collaboration 4.2 bug #56148. (Issues #56150 and #56148)
    
    Workaround: Use a fully qualified portal URL when logging into the AquaLogic Interaction portal.
  • After initiating a process from Collaboration Project Document explorer, the work item is not displayed in the Worklist Items portlet if loaded immediately after an instance was created or instance might be displayed without attachment in Work Item Details portlet. (Issue #55696)
    
    Workaround: Refresh Worklist Items portlet.
• Process Attachments
  • Process Attachments: in IE 5.x and IE 6.x, when checking out Process Attachment file with .doc and .ppt extensions, the default filename in "Save As" dialog is "ViewAttachment" instead of actual file name. (Issue #56237)
    
    Workaround: This is not an AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions issue and, in order to fix it, msword and powerpoint should be removed from the following section of the AquaLogic Interaction 6.1 httpcompression.xml file:
    <!-- IE Compression for Mime Types beginning with 'application/' (IE has compression issues with pdf files on some adobe plugin versions)-->
    <component name="httpcompression:defaultApplicationSettingsForIE" type="http://www.plumtree.com/config/component/types/httpcompression/application">
    <!-- application/ sets the default compression mode for all MIME types with the application prefix on the configured clients-->
    <setting name="default">
    <value xsi:type="xsd:boolean">false</value>
    </setting>
    <!-- semicolon delimted list of MIME type postfixes to force compression, overriding the default -->
    <setting name="forceCompression">
    <value xsi:type="xsd:string">mspowerpoint;vnd.ms-powerpoint;powerpoint;x-mspowerpoint;x-visio;msword;visio;vnd.ms-project;x-project;xml;java;java-byte-code;x-java-class;x-javascript;javascript;wordperfect</value> </setting>
    <clients>
    <client name="IE5"/>
    <client name="IE6"/>
    </clients>
    </component>
  • Uploading a 9 MB or larger Process Attachment (that is, AquaLogic BPM, not Collaboration attachments) file leads to gateway error.(Issue #56239)
    
    Workaround: Increase gateway timeout in AquaLogic Interaction portal settings.
  • A Process Attachment file with filename different from the original can be checked in without a warning or error message. (Issue #56269)
• Knowledge Base Attachments
  • Knowledge Base search returns KB documents from subfolders for Process Users with "Read" permissions. Trying to attach such a document to a process instance throws exception. (Issue #55429)
• 508 mode
  • "Checkout" button has to be clicked twice in order to see "Check in" and "Undo check out" buttons. (Issue #56232)
  • "Edit Process Attachment" (AquaLogic BPM, not Collaboration attachments) throws a stack trace if the attachment does not have a description. (Issue #56234)
    
    Workaround: Add a description when attaching a document to a process instance.
• Security
  • If the Everyone Portal group is added to Work List Details portlet security settings, the process instance details page can be accessed through the email notification link by a "Guest" user. Although the "Guest" user won't be able to execute the instance, Process Attachments and Notes can be added to the details. (Issue #56319)
    
    Workaround: Adding the Everyone group to AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extension's portal objects security settings should be avoided.

• General
  • After un-deploying a project, a user who belongs to the process model group and had selected a process in a report will receive an error message shown in the report's main page saying, "Process XYZ not available". (Issue #55613)
    
    Workaround:
    a) Removing role assignments for un-deployed projects will remove the process report from the list of available reports.
    b) Users can select another process report as a default.

• General
  • Re-installing AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions 5.7 on top of an existing AquaLogic BPM Workspace Extensions 5.7 installation is not supported.

• General
  • In an IE 6.0 browser, Process Model Community reports display question marks "?" for Asian locale strings. (Issue #56525)
    
    Workaround:
    1) Select a new encoding for the page. It does not matter which encoding is selected in this step.
    2) Ignore any errors that the browser may display.
    3) Change the encoding to Unicode (UTF-8).
  • Chinese font size is too small in the Workspace Extensions. (Issue #56129)
    
    Workaround:
    Increasing font size in browser settings should resolve this issue.
  • The Firefox Download dialog box shows garbled characters when localized named files are opened by click-through at the Work Item Details Portlet. (Issue # 55660)

• General
  • AquaLogic BPM Studio 5.7 SP1 does not work with the EDK Collaboration or Publisher samples. (Issue #56535)