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Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.12.0 released

stonewell — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:12:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released Aspose.Workflow hotfix 1.2.12.0, it contains:

1) Invalid files are packaged with demos, now it fixed.

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow Hotfix 1.2.11.0 released

stonewell — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:59:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released Aspose.Workflow 1.2.11.0, it contains

Feature Added:

Add a ParentTask property in the ITask interface,when a task is created in a block activity, using ParentTask can access the parent block activity task.
Add a new AssignTask api in IProcessInstance to assign task without accept task
Add a return value IPackage for UpdatePackage API to return the updated package instance.
Add a set of ReevaluateAssignments API to IEngine interface, use these APIs can reevaluate the assignments when user/group change before task accepted.
Add IEngine.SimulateInstanceAdmin to return an instance admin for simulate running workflow
Add ISimulateInstanceAdmin interface for simulate running workflow.

Bug Fixed:

Small bugs fixed in designer

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.10.0 Released!

stonewell — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:23:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released Aspose.Workflow 1.2.10.0, it contains

Bug Fixed:

When using CompleteTaskEx to set "Next" activity id, user can only to set "Next" activity which in the same activity block. now it fixed to

"Next" activity is in same activity block
"Next" activity who is not in the same activity block but in the Process activities.
"Next" activity is in other activity block which is not same as current block. To set "Next" activity in other block, user have to provide a "path" to the target activity. and the first element of the parameter array must be the EngineManager.JUMP_PATH_ACTIVITY_ID, and other elements should be the path to target activity. for example, if want to set "Next" activity to the activity A which in Block B1, and Block B1 is in Block B2, and block B2 is in process activities. the array should look like: new string[] { EngineManager.JUMP_PATH_ACTIVITY_ID, "B2", "B1", "A" }

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.9.0 Released

stonewell — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:08:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released Aspose.Workflow 1.2.9.0, it contains

API Added:

IActivity add a new property Applications, it returns all applications defined in current activity.
IActivity add a new property Deadlines, it returns all deadlines defined on current activity.
add a new interface ISimulateWorkList by customer request, please check detailed information at http://www.aspose.com/Community/forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=59563

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.8.0 Released!

stonewell — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:41:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.8.0, it contains:

Database Changes:

Updated store-procedure for SQLServer
- Workflow_DeleteProcess.sql
Newly added store-procedure for SQLServer
- Workflow_GetPackage_D_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetPackage_DR_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetPackage_DRV_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetPackage_DV_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetProcess_D_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetProcess_DR_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetProcess_DRV_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetProcess_DV_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetAll_DR_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetAllForProcess.sql
- Workflow_GetAllForPackage.sql
- Workflow_GetAll_R_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetProcess.sql
- Workflow_GetAllProcess.sql
- Workflow_GetPackage_S_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetProcess_SV_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetPackage_SV_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetProcess_S_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetAll_D_Proc.sql
- Workflow_GetProcess_Act.sql
- Workflow_GetProcess_A_Act.sql
- Workflow_GetActivity.sql

Feature Added:

Add new APIs for query delayed process instance in IInstanceAdmin:
- IProcessInstance[] GetAllDelayedProcessInstanceList(bool runningOnly);
- IProcessInstance[] GetPackageDelayedProcessInstanceList(string packageId, string packageVersion, bool includeAllVersion, bool runningOnly);
- IProcessInstance[] GetProcessDelayedProcessInstanceList(string packageId, string packageVersion, string processId, bool includeAllVersion, bool runningOnly);

Add new property ActivationTime on ITask and ITaskHistory interface
Add a new interface IAssignmentsManagerEx, using this interface just same as IAssignmentsManager, but it can replace single user with multipal replacement users.

Bug Fixed:

Deisnger doesn't allow connect two activity with multipal transitions, now it fixed.

Please get the newest version from http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Workflow/Default.aspx

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.7.0 Released!

stonewell — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:55:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.7.0, it contains:

Behavior Changes:

All Activity whoes start mode set to "Automatic" will be treated as "automatic" execute activity. The old implementation has different behavior based on if the activity has ToolAgent defined.

Feature Added:

Designer panel now has scroll bars.
Add a cache for the IActivity object.
Add IPackgeAdmin.ReplacePackage API, This api will replace the existing version package using the new XPDL, and UpdatePackage API will always create a new version.

Bug Fixed:

Fixed a bug, when automatically running process end with exception, if the state already change to completed, don't change to terminate.
Update the process context when load the already existing process.

Please get the newest version from http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Workflow/Default.aspx

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.6.0 Released!

stonewell — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:29:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.6.0, it contains:

Feature Added:

Add asyncrhonized tool agent execute, user can add "Tool.Execute.Asynchronize" to the ToolAgent extended attributes. and set the value to "true", then the tool agent will be executed in a sperate thread. this feature requested by a customer.

Bug Fixed:

Change the table persistence order to avoid dead lock
When there is only .Net 2.0 installed, the installer will fail, now it fixed.

Please get the newest version from http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Workflow/Default.aspx

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow Hotfix 1.2.5.0 Released!

stonewell — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:58:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released Aspose.Workflow Hotfix 1.2.5.0, it contains:

Feature Added:

Add new API IInstanceAdmin.CreateProcessInstance using which user can specify the activity id as start activity to create an instance of given process.
Add new API IPackage.GetVariableType and IProcess.GetVariableType Return the datafield type
Add new API IActivity.IsStartActivity and IActivity.IsEndActivity to determine if an activity is start activity or end activity
Add a new interface IUserGroupManagerEx, using this interface to create custimized user group manager, user will get the runtime information through the new added IRuntimeArgs parameter.

Bug Fixed:

Small designer bug fixing.

you can get the latest version of Aspose.Workflow from http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Workflow/Default.aspx

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow Hotfix 1.2.4.0 Released!

stonewell — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:35:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released the Aspose.Workflow Hotfix 1.2.4.0, it contains:

Feature Added:

New API IWorklist2.GetAllTasks(params string[] ids), get other user's tasks and API to get all tasks of users in one group
New Method in EngineManager, EngineManager.GetNewInstance(), Return a new instance of EngineManager, user can use this new instance to connect to other database or use different configuration in one OS-process.

Bug Fixed:

Update the IQueryService document
Remove no needed transaction creation to avoid dead lock.
Caching the compiled script assembly to increase performance.
Obsolete some APIs.

Database Changes

Add Workflow_GetProcessVariables and Workflow_GetActivityVariables for SQLServer Only.
Add a set of script for SQLServer to create all varchar fields using nvarchar.

Please go to http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Workflow/Default.aspx to get the newest version

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.3.0 Released!

stonewell — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:07:00 GMT

Dear Customers:

We have released the Aspose.Workflow Hotfix 1.2.3.0, it contains,

Feature Added:

Wait Activity

When the activity has an extended attribute called "Activity.Wait.Condition", Aspose.Workflow will treat the value of extended attribute as a condition expression, which written in VB.Net, and the engine will automatically start the Task when the condition expression evaluated to be true.

Bug Fixed:

Save the process definition name in the processdefinition table
When the data fields' name has some invalid characters, such as "-", "+", "*", the engine will report error, now it fixed, user have to use AsposeWorkflow_DataFields("DataField_Name") to access the datafield in condition or expression instead of directly put the data field name in the XPDL.
Add a flag in activities table to see if it is delayed.
Add ITask.Delayed,ITaskHistory.Delayed to indicate if the task has exceed its deadline.
Add delayed to process process_history
Add IProcessInstance.Delayed IProcessInstanceHistory.Delayed
When there are invalid processid in the database, the lock will fail, now it fixed.
When Property return empty string instead of null in the IEngineConfiguration interface, the InitCaches method will fail. now it fixed.

Database Changes:

Database Table Change:

Add delayed CHAR(1) To activities table
Add delayed CHAR(1) To activities_history table
Add processdefinitionname VARCHAR(255) to processdefinitions table
Add delayed CHAR(1) To processes table
Add delayed CHAR(1) To processes_history table

Store Procedure Change, Update the following store procedures:

Workflow_DeleteProcess
Workflow_SaveProcess
Workflow_SaveProcessDefinition
Workflow_SaveActivity

Please goto http://www.aspose.com/downloads to get the newest version

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow Hotfix 1.2.2.0 Released!

stonewell — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:10:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released Aspose.Workflow 1.2.2.0, it contains:

Feature Added:

Add PackageAdmin.DoesPackageExists method
Add ITaskHistory.ReservedBy
Add LastTaskId LastTaskPerformer ProcessVariables to the IRuntimeArgs
Add customized IAssignmentsManager to let user customize the assignments, Add a property in the configuration file to let the Aspose.Workflow using customized AssignmentManager.

AssignmentsManager.Implementation.Type= Customer.CustomizedAssignmentManager

the Customer.CustomeizedAssignmentManager must implements Aspose.Workflow.Engine.IAssignmentsManager interface

Access DataField's Extended Attributes IProcess.GetVariableExtendedAttributes
Add PackageId PackageVersion ProcessId To ITaskHistory
Add DoesProcessInstanceExist to IInstanceAdmin

Bug Fixed:

When using QueryServices under MS Access database, the query will fail, now it fixed.

Please goto http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Workflow/Default.aspx to get the newest version.

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow 1.2.1.0 Hotfix Released

stonewell — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:28:00 GMT

Dear customers,

We have released Aspose.Workflow 1.2.1.0, It contains

Feature added:

Designer can access the external reference package now.
Recent file list add to Designer
New APIs to update the variables directly IProcessInstance.UpdateVariable, IProcessInstance.UpdateVarabiles.
New API to test if a process instance is a subflow, IProcessInstance.IsSubflow
New API IWorklist2.CompleteTaskEx2 with a IRuntimeCallback parameter to let user can decide performer and next activity at runtime.
Add an API to return package/Process level variables
IPackage.GetAllVariableIdNameMap IProcess.GetAllVariableIdNameMap
Add an API to return latest version of packages. IPackageAdmin.GetAllPackagesLatestVersion
Add an API add to IPackge to return all versions. IPackage.AvailableVersions
Add an API to return instance for all versions package
GetProcessInstanceListForAllVersion GetPackageProcessInstanceListForAllVersion
Add ProcessInstance.Cache.Size to configuration file, set Process.Cache.Size to 0 will disable cache.
Query API for filter datafields, change the database table to plain table. Add IQueryService API.
New API to return all user's history task, IHistoryAdmin.GetTaskHistoriesByUser

Bug Fixed:

Join/fork node with no transition connected will not show correctly in designer, now it fixed
Two packages with applcations which has same Id, then SetApplicationMapping didn't work. now it fixed.
IHistoryAGetInstanceTaskHistories return Tasks in non-correct order, now it fixed to return in desc order,which means the newest tasks placed at index 0.
Update database scripts for SQLServer 2005
RemoveUserFromGroup doesn't work, now it is fixed
IPackage.GetAllPackages will return duplicated IPackage object, now it fixed.
When engine start, Aspose.Workflow will always update the processstate and activitystate table using default value, now it fixed to only use default value when the states not exists.

Please goto http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Workflow/Default.aspx to get the latest version

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow 1.2.0.0 Released

stonewell — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:29:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released the Aspose.Workflow 1.2.0.0, it contains

Feature Added:

PackageAdmin/InstanceAdmin now can work on different package versions. Please refer to the APIs of IPackageAdmin and IInstanceAdmin
User now can configure the Aspose.Workflow database table name, please refer to the wiki page. http://www.aspose.com/Wiki/default.aspx/Aspose.Workflow/CustomizedDatabaseTableNameQA.html
Table struct change of Application Mapping and Participant mapping, to reflect on the new feature of Package version

Changes made:

GetProcessInstanceList didn't accept processId and PackageId with null. not it fixed, when both parameter is null return all instance in current system. if process id is null, return package instance list.
obsolete some APIs, because add new API can operate on different package version.
Change Demo ContractWorkflow, the table "Contacts" to "Contracts"
Add API to IPackageAdmin, now UploadPackage accept parameter "System.io.Stream" or a string conains the package's content.
Add new API Using application config section to configure Aspose.Workflow, http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/48658/ShowPost.aspx
Package.Participants will not return the participant with same id but in different process, not it is fixed
Actual parameter is not displayed correct Designer, now it fixed
Update the document of ITask.Status, list the avaliable values.

Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.1.70 Released

stonewell — Mon, 08 May 2006 12:16:00 GMT

Dear Customers,

We have released the Aspose.Workflow 1.1.7.0, it contains:

Prepare statement does not work when using under .Net 2.0 SDK, now it fixed
the participant's processId always return packageId, now it fixed.
Small display bugs fixed in designer.

Please goto http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Workflow/Default.aspx to get the new hotfix

Regards,

Stone

Aspose.Workflow 1.1.6.0 HotFix Released

stonewell — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:14:00 GMT

Dear Customers,
We have released Aspose.Workflow 1.1.6.0, it contains:

Several small bugs are fixed in designer.
Added a new feature called "DynamicJoin", it must use with "DynamicFork" feature at the same time.
when add the "AssignmentType.DynamicJoin" extended attribute to an activity, the value of the extened attribute will change the behavior of how to finish current activity and go to next activity. The value of "AssignmentType.DynamicJoin" can be one of belows:
- "AND": only when all "DynamicFork" tasks finished, the current activity will be finished, and Aspose.Workflow engine will go to next activity.
- "XOR": when one of the "DynamicFork" tasks finsihed, all other "DynamicFork" tasks will be aborted. Aspose.Workflow engine will finish current activity and go to next activity.
- "StandAlone": when One of the "DynamicFork" tasks finsihed, Aspose.Workflow will run into next activity, but all other tasks are leave there, current activity finshed only when all tasks have been finished.

If an activity has the "AssignmentType.DynamicFork" but doesn't have the "AssignmentType.DynamicJoin", it will use "StandAlone" by default.

The new release can be downloaded here http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Workflow/Default.aspx

Regards,
Stone