OpenText MBPM 9.3 released!

Stuart White

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenText MBPM 9.3 and OpenText BPM Mobile 9.3, which can be downloaded from https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/37765429 (for OpenText MBPM 9.3) and https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/37764629 (for OpenText BPM Mobile 9.3). These releases are available to Partners/Customers with active maintenance agreements.

 

Below are the release highlights, for more details please do reference the Release Notes which are located at the above links.

 

Complex Web Service Data Mapping

New features:

• Support Web Services with both complex inputs and outputs
• Intuitive wizard interface
• Directly generate Scripted Business Object

 

OpenText Content Server Integration Enhancements

New Features

• Ability to add / edit metadata within Content Server
• Support for metadata “categories”

 

Enhanced Process Analytics/Dashboards (OpenText managerView required)

New Features

• MBPM pre-integration with OpenText managerView
• Improved data access performance through pre-calculated caching

 

BPM Mobile Enhancements

New Features

• New filtering and sorting
• Read-only grids
• Process enhancements (support for chained actions / re-open folder)

Brian Mellert

It looks like the documentation is available, but the code/upgrade itself does not seem to be.  Also, when following the links above, the following is returned:

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Content Server Error: 

[Sorry, no exact match was found for an item with the Nickname "37765429". Either it does not exist or you do not have permission to access it. If you were sent a link to this item, please contact the sender for assistance.]

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I am also a bit concerned the documentation itself refers to this release as beta: "OpenText MBPM 9.3 Beta 2 includes the following new features."

Jerome_Pearce

So... still with the 'close' button looking exactly the same as the action buttons. This causes massive confusion. Am I really the ONLY user to have noticed/complained about this? It appears so, and I have never received any response from OpenText regarding the problem.

Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to keep asking for fixes to 9.1 to be made as well as 9.2 & 9.3. Seems like a waste of effort to me.

Jacob_Eastman

Jerome, our Web Client Configuration Guide specifies where in our CSS the Submit and Cancel buttons are defined. Here is the section of the combinedcss.css specifying the buttons:

 

input.submit, input.cancel
{
    width:62px;
    height: 19px;
    cursor: pointer;
    font-family: 'Segoe UI regular' ,'Segoe UI' ;
    font-size:12px;
    font-weight:normal;
    color: #333333;    
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#eef9ff', endColorstr='#cde9f9');
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#eef9ff), to(#cde9f9));
    background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(238,249,255) 3%, rgb(205,233,249) 100%);
    border: 1px solid #95bbd8;    
    border-radius:2px;
    text-shadow: #ffffff  1px 1px; /* Modern browsers */      
    box-shadow:1px 1px #ffffff;  
    vertical-align:top;
    margin-top:1px;
     
}  

 

You can change that background-image: to any image you want to make the web client look any way you want. This has been a documented in past versions as well.

Jerome_Pearce

I fully understand that the defaults can be changed, I also understand that this is an irksome overhead, because the file (along with all others) is overwritten at every update. I also know that (finally) we get a copy of the replaced file stored for us, but we are forced to go through every change to this file and apply it once more manually, as the replacing file may be different in content. That requires extensive documentation being kept on exactly what changes are made in each file, and an overly risky manual update for each change.

Because of these we have given up making any changes, even simple ones.. The overhead is very rarely worth it.

In addition, we are spending so much time going through faults in the 'standard' configuration, such as Oracle set-up scripts that fail in several interesting ways, and massive performance hits because of the non-Unicode Folder Id field, that we have little time left for such forced customisations.

My frustration was born of having complained about this pretty obvious (to me) design flaw several times in 9.2 and 9.3 beta and never receiving a single response. My frustration remains.

Jerome_Pearce

<< I am also a bit concerned the documentation itself refers to this release as beta: "OpenText MBPM 9.3 Beta 2 includes the following new features." >>

Could this be just a Freudian slip...?

Stuart White

@BMellert - are you still not able to access the downloads for MBPM 9.3? The links work okay from my side, so we may need to open permissions for you. You can let me know at stuartw@opentext.com.

 

Stuart White

An older version of the release notes had been uploaded, this has now been corrected. Apologies for this.

assistenza

Hi,

 

this link don't works fine

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/37764629

 

i have to download the new mobile version.

 

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Stuart White

I'll get our technical team for Knowledge Centre to investigate the permissions issue for accessing the MBPM 9.3 installs.

Brian Mellert

Curious if the access issue has been addressed?  I still cannot see/access the mobile 9.3 site.

 

Since I cannot/won't implement 9.3 until I can get all of the components, has anyone implemented 9.3 yet and can comment on its stability/enhancements in general?  (The release notes have several items I am interested in, but since I've not implemented yet its worth asking for others experience.)

Ryan Saul

I have implemented 9.3 in my dev environment and I have not experienced any issues yet.

There are a couple bug fixes noted immediately, and have yet to report any new bugs in this version (unlike previous major releases).

Stuart White

Is anyone else struggling to access the BPM Mobile folder on OT Knowledge Center https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/37764629 (other than those who have mentioned they can't on this thread)?

Brian Mellert

As I PMed, that link, as well as drilling down, are working now without issue for me.  I can access the executable, but can't access the documentation shortcut/link.

 

Now to download and decide when to implement.  I'm glad no obvious new issues reported thus far, though Ryan do you mean new bug fixes, or one fixed in the release?

Sabrina Rogers

Can we upgrade from Metastorm 9.1.x directly to 9.3.0.1? Thanks.

Brian Mellert

I asked that same question in the release notes where we download from, and this is the response on 10/18 by Jacob Eastman:

 

I've confirmed that the 9.3.0.1 installer IS a full install package like the base 9.3.0.0 and you can install it directly on top of 9.2.x without installing 9.3.0.0 first. This is a first for our hotfixes though I can't say at this time if it will be the norm or not.

 

and subsequently confirmed by Artur Valitov the same day

 

Correct and will be the norm for our hotfixes now

 

So it looks like we don't have to step through the #.#.#.0 version before going to higher hot fixes.

Sabrina Rogers

Has anyone experience problem about losing tab order when closing and reopening a solution file in Metastorm 9.3? My controls are in panels. I have the tab order set in certain way, publish the changes, close my solution file and then reopen, the tab order is rearranged by itself/system/Metastorm!?!?

 

Thanks.

-Sabrina