TIF 2023.2.0
Job Data Viewer
TIF 2022.2.0 Release Information
20 May 2022
Table of Contents
1. Admin UI - Role Based Access
As of this release you can disallow certain functionality in the administration UI based on role access.
The available roles an administration user can have are listed in the table below:
| Role Name | Parent Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
Can view job data, job-services and job statistics |
||
Job Data Editor |
Job Data Viewer |
Can delete, resend, resolve jobs. |
Service Editor |
Edit service settings etc. |
|
App Event Viewer |
View Application Events |
|
App Event Editor |
App Event Viewer |
Can delete app events |
Job Queue Viewer |
Can view job queues |
|
Job Queue Editor |
Job Queue Viewer |
Can edit job queue settings such as thread count. |
Instance Viewer |
Can view:
|
|
Instance Editor |
Instance Viewer |
Can:
|
Scheduled Job Viewer |
Can view the scheduled jobs and the status/logs from them |
|
Scheduled Job Editor |
Scheduled Job Viewer |
Can:
|
Configuration Viewer |
Can view integration configurations |
|
Configuration Editor |
Configuration Viewer |
Can edit integration configurations |
Service Activator Viewer |
Can view the service activators |
|
Service Activator Editor |
Service Activator Viewer |
Can Start/Stop a service activator |
User Viewer |
Can view the admin users in the system |
|
User Editor |
User Viewer |
Can create and edit users. |
After upgrading to this release, all current administration users will initially be assigned all current roles.
From the User management page in the Administration UI you can inspect the role assignments as well as update the assignments.
Figure 1. Admin user with role information
| A user with role user-editor can not assign a user a role, which the current user lacks. |
2. Payload Generation with Multiple Transformers
Within the payload definition, you can now have multiple transformers defined.
The transformers will be invoked in the order they are defined. The output from the previous transformer will be used as input for the next transformer.
This can make complex transformation easier to perform, especially if you want to generate JSON output and get better control over the output. Also, it will make it easier to split and reuse stylesheets in an easier way.
Example:
<Payload>
<TableContent outerElement="EBOM">
<DataSet>BOM.xml</DataSet>
<Table>PartBasic.xml</Table>
</TableContent>
<TableContent outerElement="Documents">
<DataSet>GetReleasedDocs.xml</DataSet>
<Table>DocumentInfo.xml</Table>
</TableContent>
<Transformer xslt="Step1.xslt"/>
<Transformer xslt="Step2.xslt"/>
<Transformer type="json" />
</Payload>3. Create Update Integration from Directory Listener
When invoking the create/update integration via a directory listener, there is a new argument available for controlling the processing of the file.
This argument is called updateSourceFile and per default it is TRUE to preserve same behavior as in earlier releases.
However, setting this to FALSE will have the effect that the status (or output) from the create / update integration
will not be propagated into the source file, instead it will then be available from the admin UI.
4. Launch External Process
The job-type "Launch External Process" have got some useful improvements:
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Allow using standard job-macros in several places of the configuration
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E.g. same macros as used in other places.
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Better control of the generated ZIP file regarding paths to files within the ZIP.
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Allow returning a single file without wrapping it in a ZIP file
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Allow setting ENV variables prior to launching the process.
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Allow setting job-parameters as a preparation step
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Makes it easy to grab data from the source object and simply pass as argument to the external process.
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For more information please see this document.
5. Credentials - Custom Context Provider
The <Credentials> configuration used for example within the configurable REST services allows overriding how the creation of the ENOVIA/3DExperience Context connection is done.
You can use such Context handler also in combination with container managed security if wanted.
Please read more in this document.
6. Mail API Dependencies
In order to not conflict with Mail related JAR files from for the ENOVIA/3DExperience application, the internal mail handling in TIF have been restructured. This also have lead to some minor changes to the internal APIs around mail-sending.
This should not have any impact on normal usage of TIF, except if you have built custom code utilizing the internal Mail API within TIF.
However, you should when upgrading TIF ensure that you don’t do the upgrade into an existing TIF installation, since that will cause the old JAR files to be present within the wrong directory (lib). The preferred upgrade approach is to install TIF into a new clean directory, and after that move your configurations/settings into the new directory.
7. Export Bookmarks from Word Document to PDF
There is a new option to export bookmarks when converting Microsoft Word files to PDF.
For example:
<CreatePDF>
<WordOptions>
<Bookmarks>headings</Bookmarks> (1)
</WordOptions>
</CreatePDF>| 1 | Creates bookmarks using headings in Word document. The element also accepts value word that instructs to use Word bookmarks instead. |
8. Fixed Bugs
Below is the list of fixed bugs as of this release.
| Issue No | Description |
|---|---|
879 |
Fixes an issue with the directory listener not restarting correctly when for example a drive becomes unavailable or when a network drive is not available when TIF starts. |
884 |
If a configurable REST service only have one operation, this will be used regardless of what HTTP method were used for the request. This could be useful in cases when you invoke a READ operation using the http POST verb. |
892 |
Address conflict with Mail related JAR files. |
900 |
Address limitation in the Jetty Http client used for outbound HTTP calls, which occurs when the response content-length exceeds 2mb. |
904 |
Admin UI not showing total payload storage size |