What's new in Workflow Designer 5.31.949
Apr 30, 2019
New in Workflow Designer 5.31.945 (Oct 18, 2016)
New in Workflow Designer 5.31.944 (Jul 15, 2016)
- Added importing support for .vsdx files, Visio 2013 onwards
- Updated printing of generated reports to correctly use the Copies setting to print more than one copy at a time
- Changed application icon
- Fixed using F2 on shapes to change the text causing Workflow Designer to crash
- Fixed crash when trying to alter a line after it has been restored from an undo after deleting
New in Workflow Designer 5.30.938 (Jan 6, 2016)
- Added ability to select user and group assignments for workflow guides
- Improved number of colours when publishing to Workflow Connect
- Improved QuickDraw to hide when a figure is not selected or Workflow Designer is
- minimised
- Updated welcome screen with new styling
- Updated logos to the new FlowBiz logo
- Changed loading message in status bar to a progress bar
- Fixed exporting to an image failing for wide charts
- Fixed Overview tab displaying over the Purpose and Scope tabs
New in Workflow Designer 5.20.906 (May 25, 2015)
- Added support for workflow types to the workflow details tab (used with Workflow Connect workflows)
- Added ability to change Reference workflows to Guides
- Added ability to change Guides and Automation workflows to Reference
- Added link to Video Tutorials in the welcome screen Help Point
- Added Guidelines for steps, used with Guide workflows
- Added link to New Features in the Hints and Tips dialog
- Changed standard default logo in reports to a smaller size
- Changed Purpose, Scope and Business Analysis to be in tabs to provide more editing space
- Changed Description and Business Analysis to be in tabs to provide more editing space
- Improved image properties in rich text editing to make it more user friendly
- Improved error information displayed when transferring data from a Workflow Connect server
- Improved Open Workflow dialog to include only workflows in searches, and an option to display only Reference, Guides or Automation workflows
- Improved document tab to include an asterisk (*) if unsaved changes have been made to the workflow document
- Improved file saving to produce smaller files, and keeping compatibility with earlier versions
- Fixed a publishing problem with Unicode characters in rich text editing lost or jumbled when published to a Workflow Connect server
- Fixed rich text editing fields to have random characters appear at the end of the text
- Fixed attached files list allowing the index number to be edited
- Fixed crash when trying to open Workflow Connect server jumps from the jumps list (they shouldn't be able to be opened)
- Fixed Export as document using an old header
New in Workflow Designer 5.13 (May 25, 2015)
- Added checkbox to publishing progress dialog to change option to automatically close on success
- Added Step Overview showing the steps as a list
- Added icon indicators to the Step Overview to highlight which steps have jumps and/or attachments
- Changed background of publish options for database and folder to indicate more clearly they can't be edited directly
- Fixed swim lane ordering buttons changing border width instead of the swim lane order
- Fixed compression error preventing Workflow Connect publishing
- Fixed crash when trying to open a jump with no jump selected
- Fixed option to automatically close publishing progress dialog when finished publishing to a Workflow Connect server
New in Workflow Designer 5.12 (May 25, 2015)
- Fixed generated reports displaying random characters at the end of the document if Number Of Pages are included in the document
- Fixed extra spaces being inserted in front of tags after generating reports
New in Workflow Designer 5.11.852 (May 25, 2015)
- Fixed generating reports may fail to be created correctly if nest tables are created
- Fixed pasting an image from the clipboard causing Workflow Designer to crash, depending on where the image is copied from
- Fixed Workflow Connect connections fail to authenticate properly where:
- user has already logged in and;
- the login has expired from inactivity or other reason and
- user is asked to login and cancels the login and
- a subsequent login is made
New in Workflow Designer 5.10 (May 25, 2015)
- Added status bar showing information about the workflow
- Added support for importing text from Word 2007-2013 documents (.docx)
- Added saving generated reports to Word 2007-2013 document (.docx)
- Enhanced Workflow Connect Select Item dialog for opening workflows and selecting jumps and attachments:
- Improve performance, reducing typical time of navigation folders by 50%
- Added caching of workflows and folders, further reducing time of navigating folder by a further 55%
- Added option for setting the age of the cache, with a default setting of 30 minutes
- Updated Refresh option in Select Item to support cache refresh
- Enhanced rich text fields:
- Added resizing by dragging resize handles
- Added picture properties dialog to access new features
- Improved scaled picture rendering on screens
- Improved picture compression, reducing file sizes by up to 98%, and improving responsiveness
- Updated Generate Report dialog to allow double clicking the report instead of selecting the report and clicking OK
- Changed opening workflows to bypass checking the password when the document doesn't have one. If a computer has a Crypto API permissions problem, typically when on a domain, it can cause up to 1 minute of delays when opening a workflow.
- Improved wording in the Workflow Connect publishing dialog to make it clearer to users
- Improved Generate Report dialog with a warning the workflow will save if there are any unsaved changes
- Improved Publish dialog with a warning the workflow will save if there are any unsaved changes
- Removed message panel from the welcome screen
- Fixed selecting text containing tables sometimes causing a crash
- Fixed publish uploading dialog showing the wrong number of bytes uploaded in the dialog title
- Fixed undo not working with some font changes to step figures
- Fixed chart print preview not always picking up the correct information for headers and footers
- Fixed Workflow Connect Select Item error message when an individual workflow is in more than one folder and two or more of those folders are expanded
- Fixed line type drop down selection containing the same line types repeated a number of times in some situations
- Fixed a bug that causes generated reports to fail if the text contains mismatched combinations of braces, { and }.
- Fixed publishing dialog to save workflow before sending it for publishing
New in Workflow Designer 5.00.842 (May 25, 2015)
- Fixed bug in web service connections to a Workflow Connect server using a proxy server
New in Workflow Designer 5.00 (May 25, 2015)
- Added Swim Lanes support
- Added support of Workflow Connect 5.0 servers using change control (checkout, history and approval management)
- Added default report template option to use when publishing workflow documents without a report template selected
- Enhanced performers to retain names when changing from a performers list to plain text
- Enhanced performers database refresh
- Enhanced publishing progress display to show more information
- Updated QuikDraw to use template figure details when selected
- Changed information pane interface from shortcut bar to tabs
- Improved user feedback when publishing a workflow
- Fixed View Document Library File feature to check if the document has a file and display a message to the user instead of an error
- Fixed some text entry losing focus and requiring additional clicks