ReadSoft Service Bus

This file contains late-breaking information about ReadSoft Service Bus.

Contents

Installation

Changes

Known issues

Support

Installation

For installation instructions, see RSB - Installation Guide.pdf.

Changes

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 25 - Release date: 7 October 2016

• Better handling of invoices with FileNet path issues.
• Improved handling of activity execution.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 24 - Release date: 20 July 2016

• The PROCESS DIRECTOR AP integration now supports tax tables that are specific to Brazil.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 23 - Release date: 20 June 2016

• License checks are now removed from RSB.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 22 - Release date: 3 March 2016

• Improved performance.
• Resolved issues with memory leaks.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 21 - Release date: 13 April 2015

• Among other improvements in this hotfix, document tracking and activity tracking has been improved to handle large amounts of logs. Note, however, that you must push the Retrieve items button in order to view the logs. Previously, the logs were refreshed automatically.
• An issue has been resolved that caused ongoing documents to be sent through RSB again if the RSB Windows service was restarted when using INVOICES with RSB.
• A problem was fixed that prevented the RSB INVOICES plug-in from connecting to a document service when adding a new invoice profile.
• Deleting old logs no longer causes a timeout.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 20 - Release date: 29 July 2014

• A problem has been fixed, which prevented error messages from being captured correctly when installing RSB on IIS.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 19 - Release date: 7 August 2014

• An issue has been fixed that caused the INVOICES adapter to upload suppliers to the wrong database.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 18 - Release date: 4 June 2014

• The PROCESS DIRECTOR AP and INVOICE COCKPIT adapters have new, updated versions of SAP interface DLLs.
• The log search in RSB Administration has new date and time filters.
• RFC packages are now included in the SAP adapter installation.
• An issue has been resolved that caused the document-service grid to appeared gray in the INVOICES plug-in for RSB.
• Compatibility issues with Windows Server 2012 have been fixed.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 17 - Release date: 10 April 2014

• Map designer has been improved, so XPath failures no longer occur when displaying certain type names with a namespace.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 16 - Release date: 2 April 2014

• Warning: This version of RSB is not compatible with adapters from prior versions. Therefore, if you upgrade to this version of RSB, you must upgrade your adapters as well. If you have created your own, custom adapters, you must rebuild them using the .NET 4.5.1 framework and the RSB SDK from this release. Due to this change, Windows XP and Windows 2003 are no longer supported.

• The OpenText adapter now uses the RSBOperationsTimeout setting to specify the timeout duration for service calls.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 15 - Release date: 7 January 2014

• A new setting, Use local image file, has been added to the RSB plug-in for INVOICES, which lets you determine where temporary image files are saved.

• An issue in which RSB did not recognize the administrator rights of Windows users has been fixed (Case: 140129-000056).

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 14 - Release date: 22 November 2013

• The INVOICES adapter can send the original XML files as an attachment.

• The handling of large logs in database (when viewing, exporting etc.) has been improved.

• Error handling for the SFTP target adapter has been improved.

• There is a new setting for image handling in the RSB plug-in for INVOICES that lets you save temp TIFF files locally.

• Attachment handling in the PROCESS DIRECTOR target adapter has been improved.

• The file input source adapter can attach XML input files can as source XML which you can use, for example, for archives in PROCESS DIRECTOR AP.

• Error logging includes more helpful information.

• Attachments are no optional for file and SFTP adapters.

• The XML mime type can be manually specified in the PROCESS DIRECTOR adapter.

• In the SharePoint target adapter, lookup fields are only validated if they are used in mapping.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 13 - Release date: 11 October 2013

• An issue that caused the loss of tracking information from long field values has been resolved (TFS 930).
• The PROCESS DIRECTOR adapter has been fixed, so the criteria needed for complete transfer works properly (TFS 946).

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 12 - Release date: 22 August 2013

• The XML Email Input adapter supports sending images to RSB and target systems.
• The SAP adapter has been improved, so the original XML can be archived for your reference.
• The RSB plug-in for DOCUMENTS has a time-out value of 60 min.
• Rescan functionality has been added to the INVOICE COCKPIT adapter (PROCESS DIRECTOR AP).
• The SharePoint adapter has been improved to correctly handle document list names that differ from the URL (TFS 553).
• The Master data consumer has been fixed so it ignores suppliers with no name (TFS 613).
• Logging for the SharePoint adapter has been improved (TFS 670).
• If you use RSB to connect INVOICES with PROCESS DIRECTOR, and your Transfer job description converts invoices to PDF format, the conversion now works correctly; however, you must use at least INVOICES 5-7 patch 2 and RSB 2-4 HF12.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 11 - Release date: 28 May 2013

• There is a new target adapter for sending files to a FileNet system.
• PROCESS DIRECTOR AP and INVOICE COCKPIT can set a URL to the image of a document.
• PROCESS DIRECTOR AP and INVOICE COCKPIT support SNC connections.
• PROCESS DIRECTOR AP amount field handling has been improved with a new setting, Set empty amount fields to zero, which sets the value of empty amount fields to zero in order to comply with PD requirements.
• Now there is a default XSLT for mapping between ReadSoft Online and PROCESS DIRECTOR AP.
• Open Text and SAP adapters support the SAP message server.
• DTD in XML can be handled.
• The handling of the document type configuration has been improved in the PROCESSIT adapter.
• Issues have been resolved with escape characters in XML that was sent to SAP-related adapters.
• Activity logs can now handle large amounts of data, and the log export has been fixed as well.
• SAP connection handling has been improved in the SAP and Open Text adapters.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 10 - Release date: 7 March 2013

• The RSB installation has been improved, so you can choose to manually create the RSB database.
• The FORMS plugin for RSB supports PDF output.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 9 - Release date: 5 December 2012

• Licensing has been implemented for the following adapters:
• SharePoint
• OB10
• OpenText
• Generic file target adapter
• SAP Adapter

You can obtain licenses at the ReadSoft Marketplace.

• Images can be deleted from INVOICES after transfer.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 8 - Release date: 18 June 2012

• It is now possible to save multi-TIF files in a local temp folder using the ReadSoft Online plug-in for INVOICES.
• Invoices are no longer rejected when there is an error with the ReadSoft Online plug-in for INVOICES.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 7 - Release date: 11 June 2012

• Compatibility issues have been resolved between the ReadSoft Service Bus plugin and DOCUMENTS 6-4.
• The Invoice Cockpit adapter now uses the new SAP API.
• There is a new SmartXML adapter.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 6 - Release date: 16 March 2012

• The SharePoint adapter has support for system fields such as ContentType.
• Now you can use XSLT-based functions with Map Designer.
• A new function which lets you map tables to header fields, TableFieldConcatFunctoid, has been added to Map Designer.
• The Open Text XSLT has been updated to the latest RSB version.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 5 - Release date: 17 February 2012

• There is a new setting in RSBConfig.xml, RsbSqlTimeout, which lets you to set the time-out value (in seconds) for SQL Server operations.
• The SAP adapter has been fixed so it reconnects properly after losing a connection.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 4 - Release date: 14 February 2012

• In previous versions of RSB, internal messages were limited to 2 MB, which meant that XML invoices were also limited to 2 MB in size. Now the default limit is 50 MB, but even that can be changed using the RsbOperationSize setting in RSBConfig.xml. This is beneficial, for example, if you embed image data in the XML invoice and need to increase the size of data that is allowed. Note that RsbOperationSize is specified in bytes.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 3 - Release date: 10 February 2012

• The Process Director adapter can now send XML for archiving.
• Tracking fields has been fixed so it works when source XML contains namespaces.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 2 - Release date: 03 February 2012

• RSB supports validation for tables (line-item, bank account, and VAT) and buyers. RSB validation override INVOICES validation for tables and buyers.
• Master-data import has been updated to comply with INVOICES 5-6 R1.
• The RSB plug-in for INVOICES has been improved. If you create a user-defined variable, RSBInvoiceImageFilePath, which specifies the location of the invoice image, the RSB plug-in for INVOICES uses the path specified instead of creating a multi-TIFF.
• The file-target adapter has been fixed so it can handle cases where there are no image attachments.
• The DOCUMENTS plug-in has been updated so the file name is taken from XML if it is not provided by the API.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 Hotfix 1 - Release date: 30 December 2011

• Dynamic properties are now supported.
• Advanced users who create adapters can create target adapters with custom attachments. An attachment target adapter can return a custom document attachment which is usable in subsequent adapters in the document service.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-4 - Release date: 4 October  2011

• Several improvements have been made to the user interface. Most notable are status icons in the tree-view which indicate whether a service is active or not.
• Adapters now support asynchronous target activities.
• Powerful validation settings have been added to the RSB plugin for INVOICES.
• The performance and speed of the Activity tracking list has been greatly improved.
• A time-out setting has been added to RSBConfig.xml, which determines the amount of time to wait for internal events in RSB.
• You can specify which IP addresses have access to RSB using the IPFilterAllowedAddresses setting in RSBConfig.xml.
• The SharePoint adapter supports SharePoint 365.
• The file-target adapter has been improved.
• There is a new adapter for Crossgate and a Crossgate to PROCESS DIRECTOR Connector.
• The IIS portion of the RSB installation has been improved.
• All of the installation packages related to RSB have been created using NSIS. Among other benefits, the new installation packages install faster.
• Service extension properties can now be viewed when a service is active.
• The SQL scripts used for database creation during the installation are available as external files for customers with specific security requirements.
• Port issues for SAP simulators have been resolved (TFS 6751).
• The send-feedback function in SDK documentation has been corrected (TFS 7314).
• It is no longer possible to call an inactive data service (TFS 7556).
•  Improvements have been made to the core installation, regarding .NET Framework version checking (TFS 7660).
• The INVOICES simulator has been fixed so it uses the correct file formats (TFS 7711).
• When installing multiple adapters from the main RSB installation, they are now installed in the location you specify (TFS 7714).
• The ReadSoft Capture Simulator now uninstalls properly (TFS 7715).
•  The RSB INVOICES plugin now uninstalls properly  (TFS 7716).
• The RSB INVOICES simulator now uninstalls properly  (TFS 7717).
• The RSB SAP simulator now uninstalls properly  (TFS 7718).
• Several issues with the main RSB installation have been resolved (TFS 7720, 7721, 7722).
• Some error message were improved for better usability (TFS 7713, 7723).
• Data services can no longer be activated without mapping (TFS 7724).
• A false data-service warning was fixed (TFS 7725).
• Activity tracking for data services has been improved to include more positive information. In previous versions, tracking data was only logged when something went wrong; now positive data is logged as well, so you can confirm that everything is working properly. Other improvements were made to the object ID information displayed in the activity tracking  (TFS 7726, 5023).
• An issue with the data services dialog in the INVOICES Verify module was resolved (TFS 7727).
• A problem with format errors in INVOICES Verify was fixed (TFS 7728).
• An issue with activity-log paging has been fixed.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-3 Hotfix 4  - Release date: 10 January 2012

• RSB has been fixed to ensure that all pages make it to the target system when sending multi-page documents (as multi-TIFF files) from FORMS to a target system.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-3 Hotfix 3 - Release date: 22 November 2011

• In previous versions of RSB, internal messages were limited to 2 MB, which meant that XML invoices were also limited to 2 MB in size. Now the default limit is 50 MB, but even that can be changed using the RsbOperationSize setting in RSBConfig.xml. This is beneficial, for example, if you embed image data in the XML invoice and need to increase the size of data that is allowed. Note that RsbOperationSize is specified in bytes.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-3 Hotfix 2 - Release date: 15 November 2011

• When an error is returned to the INVOICES plug-in, the status is not changed to Rejected. Instead, the status remains the same as it was before the transfer attempt.
• There is a new setting to the INVOICES plug-in configuration (RSBPluginConfiguration.xml, which is located in the INVOICES global path). The setting, SaveMultiTiffInTemp, determines whether the temporary multi-TIFF file that the plug-in creates is saved in a temp folder. The temp folder location is determined by the Windows environment variable for temp folders.
  
  You must close all INVOICES modules before changing SaveMultiTiffInTemp.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-3 Hotfix 1 - Release date: 18 August 2011

• The SharePoint adapter now supports Office 365.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-3 - Release date: 23 June 2011

Core

• Simplified port handling.
• Temporary storage for File repository.
• Tracking and administration mode.
  During the RSB installation, you can specify a group or user to have administrator access to RSB. All other groups and users are restricted to read-only access of the Tracking view.
• Document types are no longer exposed in the GUI, providing a simplified user experience.
• Filtering for document and activity tracking have been improved.
• Bug fixes (detailed below).

SDK

• FORMS simulation has been added to the Capture simulator.
• The SDK has been updated with new samples and Visual Studio templates.
• Improved documentation.

Adapters

• New FORMS adapter.
• Adapter for DOCUMENTS 7, including invoice output.
• New PROCESSIT adapter and DOCUMENTS to PROCESSIT connector.
• The SharePoint adapter supports SharePoint Online.
• New SFTP adapter.
• New LogAgency adapter.
• The target simulator supports the SAP adapter.

Map Designer

• Map Designer supports the mapping of data services.
• New functions and improved date handling for Map Designer.

Bug fixes

• Now you can view settings in Map Designer in read-only mode without deactivating the document-routing service.
• An issue was fixed that prevented RSB from processing certain characters such as question marks.
• The installation program will stop if it fails to start the RSB service. This prevents subsequent failures of adapter installation, for example, later in the installation.
• A progress bar and better error messages have been added to the Settings view to provide the user with better information when saving settings. Other small UI fixes were also implemented.
• Mapping schemas are now included in site export.
• The Test tab (Map Designer) is now available when the XSLT transform tab is selected.
• Map Designer has been improved for stability and a number of unpredictable errors have been resolved.
• The XML that is sent to RSB is now almost exactly like INVOICES XML, which makes testing easier among other things.
• A warning is displayed if the user tries to map from a table to a header field.
• Logging has been improved for errors that occur with RSB database setup.
• Problems that occurred when importing a site from RSB 2-2 to RSB 2-3 have been fixed.
• Import/export now supports Unicode characters.
• The default time-out value for the release-invoice invent has been increased to one week in order to provide better support for batch output in INVOICES.
• Adapter and simulator installations now check for administrator privileges to avoid errors.
• To improve tracking, the original, imported image file names are included in the INVOICES output XML.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-2 SP1 Hotfix 1- Release date: 16 March 2011

• Now RSB can properly utilize case-sensitive collation on SQL Server.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-2 SP1 - Release date: 21 January 2011

• Map Designer has several new functions (ConvertDate, ConvertAmount, ConditionalValue, CurrentDate).
• The SDK includes new templates for mappable target adapters and a scheduled source adapter base.
• INVOICE COCKPIT adapter has a new EDI XML adapter service for transferring documents to EDI COCKPIT.
• RSB SDK contains the GenericScheduledDocumentSourceService, which supports scheduled document input.
• There is a new FORMS plug-in and source adapter.
• SharePoint 2010 is supported.
• The SharePoint CMIS interface is supported.
• There is now a context menu for target nodes in Map Designer, so you can apply functions directly without dragging a source node (for example, CurrentDate).

• Improved visibility of file target adapter description in activities.

• Export of site, log and database has been improved with file-download functionality.

• Permissions for site, log and database export have been fixed.

• Database export performance has been fixed so it no longer times out on slow computers.

• The INVOICES plug-in for RSB now includes more logging details.

• Time stamps on error logs, maintenance reports, and activity reports have been corrected.

• An issue was fixed where the INVOICES plug-in for RSB stopped working if it was running for a long time.

• An installation issue was fixed where wrong parameters to component that updates config file caused parameters to be checked halfway through the update.

• Fixed a problem with the installation not working on non-English operating systems.

• Fixed a problem with the split string function for Map Designer.

• If the INVOICES plug-in for RSB config file is missing, better information is given to the user.

• Support for data services clients was restored.

• The data services sample has been fixed.

• A problem was resolved where the source schema could not be updated from Map Designer, even if the source adapter supported it.

• A problem was resolved where using the same type of function, multiple times, in one map did not work.

• More info is now provided when errors are posted to SharePoint.

• Using DOCUMENTS adapter in the Map Designer no longer causes an error to be displayed.

• A problem was fixed where the DOCUMENTS plugin failed to generate schemas for tables lacking system name.

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-2 - Release date: 1 December 2010

• Mapping fields made easy with the new Map Designer.

• RSB uses Microsoft .NET 4.

• Developers can create custom functions for use with Map Designer (see SDK documentation).

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-1 - Release date: 29 September 2010

• Filtering documents using a service extension.
  
• Site import and export. Useful for support as well as moving systems or copying test systems to production.
  
• Log-file export. Makes it easier to collect logs when submitting support issues.
  
• RSB database export. Database export is only one click away with this new feature. This can be useful for backup, support, and much more.
  
• The state of the tree view is retained after you close the web browser.
  
• New services for:
  
  • OB10
    
  • SAP
    

ReadSoft Service Bus 2-0 - Release date: 24 May 2010

• Support for data services such as master data.
• Master-data services for INVOICES.
• Content-based routing.
• The design-area interface has been redesigned to reflect new concepts, like activities
  and services.
• Live data.
• New services for:
  • DOCUMENTS
  • PROCESS DIRECTOR
• Adapter compatibility. To avoid compatibility issues during the installation, there is an mechanism that checks if there are any adapters that require an upgrade. It is also possible to run old adapters on new versions of RSB.

Known issues

• When using master-data services, RSB does not support systems that use Oracle databases.
• When upgrading to RSB 2-3, you must upgrade your adapters.
• If you use custom XSLT (XSL transform tab in Map Designer) with the INVOICE COCKPIT adapter, you must click Update target schema before you close Map Designer. Failure to do so will cause errors during production.
• You must run the SAP simulator as an administrator.
•  Export of sites, logs or databases may fail on Windows Server 2008 R2 because of a write-permission error. To export in such cases, use the stand-alone RSB Administration instead of the web-hosted RSB (IIS) on the computer where RSB is installed.

Data service validations for INVOICES

• Validation only occurs when you change a field value in Verify. Validation does not occur in Interpret or when you click OK in Verify.
• The INVOICES plug-in does not automatically register as a plug-in in Verify and Interpret, so you must to add it to EILOCAL.INI manually in order to utilize this functionality.

If you have questions or problems, please contact your local ReadSoft representative. Information on how to reach the local support channels is available at http://www.readsoft.com/services/support.htm.

Authorized ReadSoft customers and partners can obtain upgrades from the ReadSoft home page at the following locations:

• http://www.readsoft.com/customer (for customers). If you do not know your login information, please contact your ReadSoft sales representative.
• http://www.readsoft.com/partner (for partners).

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