FossLook Automation Platform Changelog

What's new in FossLook Automation Platform 6.5

Apr 23, 2016

Calculated fields:
If you're working with documents like Invoices and Quotes, you need to have the ability to perform arithmetic operations with numeric fields. Guess what, now you can! FossLook now allows you to handle low-level calculations and even use some functions like sum, abs and others.
At the moment calculations can be performed only for numeric and currency field types, but in future we may support other types of fields. If you want to know more about this feature, head over to our "Using Field Calculations in FossLook" article and learn how to use it to perform your calculation tasks.
Send attachments via email:
Sometimes you need to mail someone all attachments of the particular document. Previously you'd need to create a new email and then manually copy every attachment into it. Now, you can simply select all attachments using Shift + click, and then select "New message" from the context menu. The system will prepare a new email with all selected attachments. Definitely a very convenient feature.
Note: this feature only works if your document has mailing function.
Printing multiple templates at once:
If you have multiple printing templates attached to the one document, previously, to print them, you'd need to go over each individual template and print them separately. Now you can do this in one gulp. Just Shift + click them all and press "Choose".
Create document from context menu:
Now, whenever we right-click on any folder in folders tree, we get "New document" menu which allows us to create new document. It really speeds up document creation.
Text snippets now available in web client:
Text snippets: If you need to insert the same piece of text in your document over and over, you can create a text snippet for it. Then, you can use the shortcut + Insert to quickly insert it into the document.
Other small improvements:
added icon set for document libraries.
added the ability to create MySQL backups using command line interface.
new task that unlocks locked system objects daily.
filestream mode configuration now resides in App.config file.
library export now includes printing templates.
added object deployment plugin.
performance optimization of the entire system.

New in FossLook Automation Platform 6.4 (Nov 26, 2015)

Suspicious files warning:
Recently, the number of viruses that are coming as an email attachments increased, causing all sorts of problems for accountants who are using FossLook. We fixed this problem in the new version. Now, If the zip archive contains some executable files (".exe", ".js" etc.), FossLook will warn you about it when you try to open them or save them on your computer. In this way, the probability of getting a virus or a trojan through FossLook is very low.
Relocate department function:
If the structure of your organization has changed, you now have the ability to relocate department in the departments tree.
Sending email directly to the correspondent:
Now you can send an email to the correspondents directly from the FossLook Client. If these correspondents have a contact person with email address, the system will send a message to those addresses.
System objects recovery:
This function will help you to recover deleted system objects. For example, let's imagine a situation where someone was learning the system and accidentally deleted the system dictionary, or any kind of system object that is required for normal operation. This problem can't be fixed by simply rebooting the system.
By pressing "Reload system objects", you'll reload all the modules and the objects, thus recovering everything that was accidentally removed.
Relocating users to another department:
This function allows you to immediately move all users from one department to another. Very convenient, for example, when the department was disbanded, and you need to relocate employees to another one.
Default folder view generation:
Now, if you create a document type or add/remove field from the existing one, system regenerates the default view in the document folder. It also adds a new column "Creation time". All documents in that folder will be sorted in descending order (new documents will be at the top).
Other small bugfixes:
added the ability to set up email account to send a messages in the workflow settings.
"My Documents" folder finally will work correctly with the custom document types.
fixed a bug in the user replacement controller.
fixed the crash when connecting an external module.
fixed department relocation into it's parent.
added a new system task "Server logs packaging".
performance optimization of the entire system (ACL).
system libraries now don't have "Access" folder.