Workflow Designer Changelog

What's new in Workflow Designer 5.31.949

Apr 30, 2019
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Workflow Designer 5.31.945 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Minor bug fixes

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