Docstar 14 Release Notes

Part of any Disaster Recovery Plan should include performing regularly scheduled backups of the docSTAR database and Inbox contents. The images of the stored documents should be written to a local media device for easy retrieval, as well as, to a removable media device as a backup. Ideally, a copy of the database, Inbox contents, and the stored document images should be keep on-site for easy restoration in the event of a system failure, as well as offsite, should a total loss of both the system and locally stored backups occur.

Alpha and beta releases.

Production release.

SUGR 228 Template actions with a source of Other Action would fail to recognize data from other actions, which had been associated with a page other than 1.

Build 3.14.2

BUGZ 9948 docSTAR’s barcode engine has been replaced. It is faster with better accuracy, more barcode types, and image enhancement options including an “Auto” enhance option, which will reread the image with more aggressive enhancement if a low confidence barcode is read.

BUGZ 9993 An extraneous database entry related to an invalid folder was created when an image PDF document was imported via auto import. There was no visible manifestation of this error, but it was discovered by our support team and has been fixed.

BUGZ 10148 Version 3.14.1 was accidentally distributed with an older build of WebView, which failed to display images on a new installation.

BUGZ 10157 Fixed a bug that made it impossible to set certain combinations of Administrative Permissions.

BUGZ 10168 The Word Process Display Mode preference, on the user preference’s screen, now applies to the Autofile and Review (Native) windows as well as the Manual File/View.

BUGZ 10192 When a user was removed from and/or added to one or more groups, and no other changes took place, in some cases (eg. the Inbox), their permissions failed to reflect the group change(s). This has been fixed, so that such changes take effect immediately.

BUGZ 10272 The Admin program would fail to exit on some operating systems after accessing the Inboxes dialog, requiring that the task be terminated via Task Manager. This has been fixed.

BUGZ 10685 PDF output via SendTo uses a new mechanism, which better preserves the quality of original files of various formats and doesn’t increase their size. (In particular, non-image PDFs are not unnecessarily converted to images.)

BUGZ 10541 Some files required by docSTAR’s new barcode engine were not installed on the clients. This has been corrected.

BUGZ 10067 A fix was made to locate the Hightail/YouSendIt application under its new name.

BUGZ 10322 Removed duplicate extension, such as _PDF.PDF, which would often be added to files send from docSTAR.

BUGZ 10750 Diagnostic info improved in DSNetInf utility.

BUGZ 11123 A fix was made to the OCR engine so that it is able to read certain images that triggered non-fatal warnings, such as LOW_DPI_WARN.

Build 3.14.4

BUGZ 10094 Turning off audit trail purging in Admin, System Settings, would produce a Type Mismatch error (# 13). This was fixed.

BUGZ 10465 An Unlock button has been added to the Technical Information area in the document viewer. It is available only to users who have the “Tech Utilities” administrative permission (and the ADMIN, of course.) It allows the user to remove all locks on the current document, and is intended to allow someone to make edits when another user has left docSTAR unattended with a document open. It should be used cautiously, because it makes it possible for one user to save changes that would overwrite another user’s changes.

BUGZ 10068 A fix was made to the scanner software that caused a particular model Fujitsu scanner operate below its rated speed in some situations. Specifically, docSTAR no longer turns on Job Separator Detection unless it is specifically requested through the More settings dialog(s) of the scanner driver.

BUGZ 10726 The Two Sided and Single Page/Multi Page options in the Scan Append / Scan Insert dialog are now remembered as station settings.

BUGZ 11503 A bug causing a null reference exception processing VCS data was fixed.

BUGZ 10551 On the Retrieve page, security classes are now always listed alphabetically when in the search criterion drop-down list for CLASS.

BUGZ 11193 Updated to use a new Authentidate/EPM library.

BUGZ 11303 A fix was made to the download feature in WebView, which otherwise would generate blank, invalid, or partially blank output from certain PDF files. (Note that the affected file is installed or updated with the main docSTAR setup, not the WebView setup.)

BUGZ 11712 Fixed a bug, which caused a runtime error “-5” when selecting a Custom List, such as in the template editor.

BUGZ 11203 GenericRetrieve (used with various integrations) was failing, in some cases, to launch DSClient when configured to do so. This has been corrected.

BUGZ 12067 and 12074 Document (Batch) Export with XML was experiencing two issues. First, it generated invalid XML output when custom field name wasn’t a valid XML element name; such names are now converted to valid element names through judicious use of underscores. Second, when executed through the Add-In Module in DSAdmin, it sometimes reported error -91.

BUGZ 12249 The ImageGear toolkit was upgraded to version 18.2, which includes limited support for XFA form content in PDF files. The support is incomplete, but it does allow PDFs containing XFA content to be imported and, generally, displayed.

BUGZ 11885 Shared lists were formerly limited to 1,000 total characters. Now, approximately 65,000 characters are allowed.

BUGZ 13688 The multi-branch dialog box failed to show a vertical scroll bar when processing the second or subsequent document in a selection. This has been fixed.

BUGZ 13621 DOCSTAR.INI options have been added to disable integrated retrieval and DSXML file handling in the client. This was done primarily to diagnose a unique situation in which slow file system performance was suspected of causing slow template processing.

BUGZ 13562 We found a situation when automatic import with automatic template execution was failing on certain PDF files. This was caused by a flawed validity check on the content of the file. This check was dropped. Native documents and PDF documents that are treated as native are no longer validated during import and template processing.

BUGZ 11332 Fixed an issue in the User Prompt/Place in Subfolder template feature. It would sometimes select a different folder instead of the one selected through the browse button.

BUGZ 13237 An issue in the MAPI interface of MS-Outlook 2016 caused the caller to crash when MAPI initialized twice by the same application. docSTAR has been modified to accommodate this by ensuring that it only initializes MAPI once.

BUGZ 13652 docSTAR 3.14 introduced a bug that caused COLD documents to print with an excessive, white border around each page. There were also issues printing multi-page COLD documents. These issues have been fixed.

Build 3.14.6

BUGZ 11141 It was found that a secured PDF, which disallowed accessing content, would generate an error message when attempting to open the Annotations Toolbar. This has been corrected. (It isn’t necessary to have content access permission in order to annotate a PDF.)

BUGZ 11499 The User Preference to limit the number of items displayed in Results/Browse was not being consistently applied. It wasn’t being applied to the folder tree in browse at all, and it was being applied to the Add to Folder dialog even when the checkbox to enable it was unchecked. This limit is now applied consistently in results, browse, and the folder selectors only when explicitly enabled.

BUGZ 14335 Two new options were added to the barcode engine. A banding option was added to read the page or specified region in a series of horizontal slices. The height of each band (in pixels) can be specified. This has proven effective in better reading multiple barcodes that are closely spaced on the page. A scaling option was added. Higher resolution images may benefit from scaling down (eg. 0.5) and lower resolution images may benefit from scaling up (eg. 1.5). Auto enhancement mode was also improved through addition of a minimum barcodes setting; failure to find this number of barcodes will cause a re-read with greater enhancement.

BUGZ 14362 The PDF output in 3.14.3 was enhanced to improve quality and file size, but decreased output speed, especially for very long documents. Therefore, an option was added to employ the older, faster PDF output mechanism. This is activated on each station by adding to DOCSTAR.INI:

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