HotDocs Cloud Services Release Notes
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Table of Contents
- About
Cloud Services Release Notes
- End User
Concerns
- New Features and Software Fixes
About
Cloud Services Release Notes
HotDocs Cloud Services enables global access to functionality previously
available only through HotDocs Server. HotDocs Server and HotDocs
Cloud Services functionality overlaps in two areas:
Browser Interview functionality also appears in the
Test in Browser feature of HotDocs
Developer.
HotDocs Cloud Services specific API and integration feature enhancements
and bug fixes appear only in these release notes. Due to the nature of
the Cloud, HotDocs Cloud Services releases are uploaded as needed; there
are no announced releases. Therefore, you should check this page as often
as you think necessary for new features and software issue fixes.
End User Alerts
Enhancements to browser interview functionality impact your end users
most. The same is true of software issues that affect your end users'
experience with your templates and interviews. We annotate both improvements
and concerns here (except bug fixes, which are annotated in the appropriate
Readme or Release Notes file), so that you can alert your customers to
the enhancements and issues that affect their user experience.
Concerns
Browser Behavior
Mouse Wheel Scrolling Issue
When constructing Silverlight interview dialogs long enough to grow
scroll bars, be aware that users of browsers other than Internet Explorer
(for example: FireFox, Chrome, and all Macintosh browsers) cannot use
their mouse wheel to scroll. Mouse wheel events from browsers using the
Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) are not recognized
by the Silverlight windowless mode used by HotDocs to support pop ups.
Users of these browsers must scroll using their scroll bars, not their
mouse wheels. For more information, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd759034(v=vs.95).aspx#platform_dependencies.
Silverlight Support
- On Windows, Silverlight is supported on Internet Explorer, FireFox,
and Chrome.
- On Macintosh systems, Silverlight is supported only on Safari
: to use Safari to view Silverlight interviews, you need to change
a setting in your preferences. Navigate to Safari>
Preferences> Advanced;
then deselect Stop plug-ins to save
power.
Watermarks disappearing
Text watermarks do not work with any browser-based services (such as
HotDocs Server or HotDocs Cloud Services). To adapt your watermark for
browser-based deployments, turn your text watermark
into an image; then use Microsoft Word's picture
watermark feature instead of a text watermark.
Issue with having a multiple choice option containing quotation marks
fixed
You can now use the "Automatically select this option if variable
is unanswered when displayed" option on a multiple choice option
containing quotation marks.
New
Features and Software Fixes
The following HotDocs Cloud Services incremental releases contain new
features and software fixes:
1.0.5927.18277
- HotDocs Cloud Services now uses HotDocs Server version 11.2.1.6467
1.0.5884.17368
- New RetrieveFromHub API parameter enables Cloud Services to retrieve templates from HotDocs Hub
1.0.5766.18253
- Cloud Services now uses HotDocs Server version 11.1.5.6361
- Multiple documents generated from a single template in an embedded
interview session now have unique filenames
- New GetInterviewFile endpoint added; allows
files to be retrieved from Template Package (.hdpkg) files uploaded
to Cloud Services (this removes the need to cache all the interview
files in your Host Application when using GetInterview)
- New encodeFileNames parameter added to GetInterview and AssembleDocument methods; allows developers to
control filename encoding of files returned from Cloud Services
- For some templates, selecting the “Update table of contents, references,
fields, etc” option in the Component File Properties caused the assembly
process to stop; an updated version of the HotDocs assembly components
now enables HotDocs to assemble final documents as expected (#1050)
1.0.5679.16331
- Cloud Services now uses HotDocs Server version 11.1.4.6323.
- Additional logging information for HMAC parameter validation
added to the Cloud Services Administrative Portal (US,
EU).
1.0.5407.27553
1.0.5394.29133
- The HotDocs Embedded Disposition dialog now has an improved
look and feel (improved hdsystem.css) and improved localization features
(#5652)
- HotDocs now poperly processes a Submit button click on an interview
you accessed from a copied template link (i.e., a blank dialog no
longer appears) (#5924)
- Running a packages published from Developer 10 now works as
expected (HotDocs no longer throws an invalid signature error) (#6006)
- Assembling an embedded interview in Silverlight now downloads
the compiled template as expected (#6007)
- A template with an ampersand (&)
in the file name now opens in direct interviews as expected (#7290)
1.0.5037.41324
- Support for previewing documents in embedded interviews
- ResumeSession REST calls no longer require a trailing slash
in the URL
1.0.5024.27556
- Multi-byte characters in embedded interviews no longer causing
"unterminated string" error (serialized state no longer
truncates) (5703)