Announcing Metastorm BPM version 9.1.3

Claire_Denton

We are pleased to announce the availability of Metastorm BPM version 9.1 service release 3. This is provided as an incremental update and may be applied to any previous 9.1.x release. This is now available to Partners and Customers with active maintenance agreements for Metastorm BPM.

 

This release also supports the updated Metastorm BPM Widgets release 2 that work with the OpenText Smart Business Workspace Version 9.1.

 

In addition to defect fixes release 9.1.3 I would like to point out that this release also includes some enhancements such as:

 

Transactional Support in Engine

Transactional support for Visual Scripts ensures that any database changes made using a Visual Script will be rolled back if the transaction does not complete. If a transaction fails, only the database operations in that transaction are rolled back. Any operations, which are not connected to the database, are executed regardless of whether the transaction fails or succeeds.

 

AJAX Compression (Web Client Improvements)

The BPM Web Client uses a component called RadCompression that can be configured for AJAX compression by making changes to the Web Client’s web.config file. In a slow network or a Wide Area Network, enabling AJAX compression is likely to result in faster response times when opening forms that have Grids, and Drop-down, and List fields with large numbers of options.

 

Grid Performance (Web Client Improvements)

The performance of the read-only grids has been improved when the grid columns have their width set as a percentage value rather than a fixed width value.

 

Encoding Password

A new entry can been added to the Web Client's web.config, Administrative Tools web.config, and Deployment’s deploymentService.exe.config that determines whether the component encodes the user's password before it is sent to the BPM Engine via the ECL. This can be of use to developers creating custom SAPs that are reliant on receiving the credentials in plain text.

 

For a full list of enhancements, resolved issues and changes to the supported environments, please see the Release Notes they can be found here: 
https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/25009276

 

 

Install files and updated documentation can be found in the patches section of the Knowledge Center:

 

Metastorm BPM 9.1.3 install file

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/25015680

 

Metastorm BPM 9.1.3 Redist Folder

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/25016972

 

Metastorm BPM 9.1.3 Documentation

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/25014568

 

 

Note: This release does require an updated to .NET 4 and Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable which are available in the installation Redist folder.

 

 

Kind Regards,

Claire Denton

 

MBPM Product Manager

Brian Mellert

In the past you uploaded both .rar and .zip formats, but there's not .zip this time (yet anyway) and there's doesn't appear to be a "complete package" as in the past.  Will those be added later or is this they way its being done going forward?

Claire_Denton

Thank you for your post. Please let me know if you need .zip formats as well as .rar and I will post those too.

 

There is now a .rar file containing the redist folder and the install available at the following URL, there is presently a preference to keep the documentation separate but I do welcome your feedback.

 

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/25038335

 

 

Kind regards,

Claire Denton

 

MBPM Product Manager

Brian Mellert

Seeing that the 7.6.4.2 release is being released as a .zip, please continue to do so for the v9 fixes as well.

 

I agree keeping the documentation separate is a good idea.

 

I just wish every patch or hotfix didn't break every configuration setting, especially SSO, every time ....

Ellary Kahan

Does SR3 include SR2 or does SR2 have to be installed first? Thanks.

Jefferson Garcia

I think it will be good if they can sort out all issues when installing the product. This is one thing that still needs significant improvement.

Brian Mellert

9.1.3 should be all inclusive so 9.1.2 should not be needed first.  I believe from the notes that is still the case.

 

Agreed, existing settings not specific to the ones in the release shouldn't be cleared every single time.  SSO is the biggest example, they change the settings they tell us to make in the config files and in the IIS settings for the web sites and application pools.  Kind of a pain having to go through them all each time, on multiple machines, just for initialing a  simple hotfix.