Kofax Process Director 7.9 Web Applicaton Patches

Introduction

This ReadMe file contains information about updates and enhancements made to the Kofax Process Director 7.9 Web Application.

Patch Level 6 - December 25, 2023

Updates

2000766: Invoice images are now displayed without errors.

Third-party libraries have been upgraded.

Application security has been enhanced.

Patch Level 5 - July 31, 2023

Updates

1646423: Negative tax rate no longer causes error messages.

1819796: The X509 authorization now works with the user exit.

1827117: The date and time of the creation of the invoice image for the Incoming Invoice (IV) document are now available on the Attachments tab.

1888644: It is now possible to log in to the Web Application if the password is encrypted with sec.zip.

1943180: The language can now be changed in the user profile. You have to log off and log back in to complete the change.

1957206: The public certificate for service provider is now parsed without errors.

1961419: The Save, Query, Forward, Reject and Back functions now properly work for incoming invoices even if the data check returns errors. The Approve function is executed only for workflows with multiple steps (RSPDN1956406).

1964838: In the Notes, the numbered list is now formatted as expected.

Third-party libraries have been upgraded.

Third-party Notices report has been updated.

Patch Level 4 - December 6, 2022

Updates

Resolved an issue whereby the changing of the initial password caused an internal server error.
Resolved an issue whereby the Query action for the processor selection was unavailable.
Resolved an issue whereby a Forward action produced an error.
Resolved an issue with log level and other log.properties configuration settings.
Resolved an issue whereby session-related logging events were duplicated.
Several security-related issues were resolved.

Patch Level 3 - June 7, 2022

Updates

Resolved an issue where SAML2 Relay State cookie was validated with an error message.
Corrected the error with too many similar entries in the /EBY/PDWA_TPAR table.
Resolved an issue whereby a posting attempt after a workflow release in Web Application did not work correctly if the document was not error-free.
Several security-related issues were resolved.

Patch Level 2 - October 20, 2021

Enhancements

The maximum user ID length is now extended to 256 characters in MSADAuthService and MSADAuthService2.
PO history can be hidden for invoices with many line items. The number of line items in a PO for which the PO history will be shown is now configurable within the "pdap_show_po_history" configuration file.
On logon the help page appears as a pop-up.
A new parameter pd_wfsteps_in_detail that determines whether the workflow processors are displayed in the table area of the document detail view or in the additional information area has been added.
A new parameter pdap_show_maa_table has been introduced (in Process Director Accounts Payable only) to enable an option to hide or display the account assignments for purchase order item in an MM invoice.
A configuration has been added to track whether the client is connected to the server by sending heartbeat calls. The second added configuration will terminate the session if a configured number of successive heartbeat calls was missed. This option allows to keep only active sessions that otherwise may not be timely terminated while using Google Chrome (version 80 or above) or MS New Edge browser.
A security exception warning is recorded in the log file in case the entered user name or password are wrong.

Updates

Resolved an issue whereby the wrong mimetype was used to upload documents via drag and drop.
Resolved an issue whereby Croatian language was not supported, Hungarian was used instead.
Resolved an issue whereby a workflow receiver could not be chosen between two identical SAP/WUM user IDs, the field was inactive and the error message was displayed.
Resolved an issue whereby Web Application retrieved WEB BOARD related data during login operation and called /COCKPIT/RFC_WB_GET_FIELDS_WEB function module. This call is obsolete and was removed.
In case the plugin_configuration.properties file cannot be loaded in AbstractProviderLoader, the proper error message is recorded in the log file.
Corrected the error with two simultaneous calls for Web Application: only one JCO DesinationDataProvider can be registered for JCO3.
Resolved an issue whereby the language in the user profile remained partially unchanged when a different logon language was set.
Resolved an issue whereby the SAP user language was blocked from being applied in RS Mobile.
Resolved an issue whereby NullPointerException appeared if the configuration parameter accounting.copy had NOT_EXISTING_FIELD.
Default values for the configuration parameter maxresult.search were changed to improve performance and avoid Tomcat CPU spike.
Resolved an issue whereby a workflow processor assigned in the background was displayed in the pop-up instead of read-only user assignment table.
The following third-party libraries/utilities were upgraded: pdfbox to 2.0.23, fontbox to 2.0.23, commons-io to version 2.8.0, xmlgraphics-commons, jsoup.
Several security-related issues were resolved.

Patch Level 1 - January 28, 2021

Enhancements

For MYSAPSSO scenario, the check for an active connection with the same name is performed before a new connection is created.

Updates

Resolved an issue whereby the size limit set for attachments in the /COCKPIT/WI15 transaction was not applied in the Web Application.
Resolved an issue whereby the session timed out within two minutes of opening the OCI catalog in the Chrome browser.
The following third-party libraries/utilities were upgraded: sapjco3 version 3.1, hibernate-entitymanager, hibernate-c3p0, guava, bcprov-jdk15on, and bcprov-ext-jdk15on.
Several security-related issues were resolved.

Support

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