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IBM Daeja ViewONE 5.0.14 Release Notes

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Abstract

This Release Notes provide information about new features, fixes, and known problems for IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14.

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Release notes IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14

Abstract:
These release notes provide information about new features, fixes, and known problems for IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14.

Latest iFixes and readmes for this release:

See the latest iFixes and readmes.

Release description:

IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14 makes easier for business and IT professionals to view large documents and images in their enterprise content management (ECM) solution or in other custom applications, websites, intranets, and extranets.

Download location:

To download IBM Daeja ViewONE:

  1. Log in to Fix Central.
  2. In the Product Group list, select Enterprise Content Management.
  3. In the Select from Enterprise Content Management list, select the Daeja ViewONE edition that you want to download.
You must have a license to download this software. The file that you download is a product installer for IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual. When you run the installer, indicate any add-on modules for which you have a license. The installer then enables only those modules that you have purchased.
Prerequisites:

You must run the installer as an administrative user. Refer the prerequisites before you install IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14.

Before you install IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14:

  • Uninstall any previous version of IBM Daeja ViewONE before you install IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14.
  • Ensure that the Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) V8 or later it is installed on the system running the installer.

To generate a hardware and software requirements report, see System Requirements.

Installing IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14

You can run the installer interactively or silently. To run the installer silently, update the sample response file that is provided with the image archive before you run the installer.

On Windows

  1. At a command prompt, change to the directory where you extracted the installation image.
  2. To install the viewer interactively, enter the following command: 
    DAEJA_VIEWONE_5.0.14_WIN_ML.exe
    Alternatively, double-click DAEJA_VIEWONE_5.0.14_WIN_ML.exe in Windows Explorer.
  3. To install the viewer silently, enter the following command: 
    DAEJA_VIEWONE_5.0.14_WIN_ML.exe -f fully_qualified_path_of_the_response_file
From version 5.0, the default installation path on Windows is C:\Program Files\IBM\Daeja ViewONE_Virtual

On UNIX

  1. At a command prompt, change to the directory where you extracted the installation image.
  2. To install the viewer interactively, enter the following command: 
    ./DAEJA_VIEWONE_5.0.14_UNIX_ML.bin
  3. To install the viewer silently, enter the following command: 
    ./DAEJA_VIEWONE_5.0.14_UNIX_ML.bin -f fully_qualified_path_of_the_response_file
From version 5.0, the default installation path on Unix is /opt/IBM/Daeja ViewONE_Virtual

Configuring the Viewer

IBM Daeja ViewONE comes with a Toolkit rich in capabilities that enables advanced integration and customization of the viewer by using HTML parameters and JavaScript API methods. Refer developer’s guide: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual Developer's Guide

New features
IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14, provides the following new features:
 
CSDV-31 Display warning message for PDF documents which falls under limitation of 'Optimized performance of printing PDF documents'. 
During print process, when the application is not able to optimize the document for print, it silently switches to fallback print mechanism. 
Users will now be notified with a message in the print pop-up when the application is not able to optimize the document and prints using fallback mechanism.
The message reads as: 
The document cannot be optimized for print. Printing using fallback mechanism. Preparing File 
 
CSDV-51 Provide a configurable option to create temp folder for cache creation
In this release, a new server-side parameter, tempCacheLocation, has been introduced, allowing users to specify a custom temporary cache location.
Changes to this parameter require an application server restart.
The directory location that is assigned as a value to this parameter should have appropriate read and write permissions from the server where application is running.
This is an optional confiuration. If this value is not provided, the temporary cache will continue to get created inside the app server.
Sample syntax : tempCacheLocation=c:/temp

CSDV-60 Support for LiveCycle / Life cycle/ LifeCycle PDF Documents
In this release, PDF documents that contain XFA forms will be displayed with restricted feature capabilities.
Please note that this is a Tech Preview of XFA Support and some functionality may not work as expected
To activate the rendering of these forms, a new HTML parameter, enableXFA, has been introduced, with default value set to false. Setting this parameter to true allows the viewing of XFA forms.

CSDV-66 Implement footer text and positioning when printing documents
Custom text can now be printed at the bottom of the document page and the positioning of this custom text can be specified.
A new parameter printFooter can be used to specify custom text to be printed.
We can also specify the alignment of the custom text with the two parameters printHeaderAlign for header text and printFooterAlign for footer text.
The parameter can take the following possible values:
left : prints the text in the bottom left of the page.
center: prints the text in the bottom center of the page.
right: prints the text in the bottom right of the page.
The following footer options are available:
Any Text :Custom text to be printed. For example, your own copyright for the documents that are being viewed or some other informational text
Formatted Text: Text can include limited formatted elements as below.
When parameter  printFooter is set to $page # $of ## , first page will display Page 1 of 5 for a document containing 5 pages.
It is to be noted that   #  will print current page and  ##  will print the total number of pages.  
 
CSDV-70 Allow Daeja font file location to be configurable 
User can now configure the additional font files location which are required to select the font type in annotation toolbar.
User can generate the font files required for custom annotation font type, using a utility (daeja-font-utility.jar).
Place the utility jar and TTF files of the relevant font under the same directory (for which font files needs to be generated) and execute the jar using the command 'java -jar <jar-path>daeja-font-utlity.jar'.
Example: java -jar C:/Administrator/Desktop/CustomFonts/daeja-font-utlity.jar
When the font generation is complete, copy the directory path and specify it under the server parameter annotationCustomFonts
Example: annotationCustomFonts = C:/Administrator/Desktop/CustomFonts 
Restart the web application server for the addtional fonts to be displayed in the font type dropdown within annotation toolbar.
For online documentation, see the https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSTPHR IBM Daeja ViewONE knowledge
center
Fixes
IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual, Version 5.0.14, includes all fixes and features up to and including IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual Version 5.0.13 iFix 4 along with the following additional fixes:
 
IO28920 CERTAIN PDF FILES WHEN VIEWED CAUSED  BROWSER TO RUN OUT OF MEMORY
With certain PDF Documents, with continuous scroll or navigation, the browser memory reached more than a gigabyte. 
This caused the browser to crash if the system memory was less. 
Affected users IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users 
IO28964 DOCUMENT FAILS TO OPEN WHEN DISPLAY IS NOT SET FOR CUSTOM FONT ANNOTATIONS
When the system lacks configured DISPLAY settings, custom font annotation texts fail to function. 
Affected users  IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users 
IO29322  A CERTAIN MS WORD DOCUMENT WITH CHECKBOX CONTENT IS UNRESPONSIVE DURING RENDER
Specific word document with checkbox content, fails to render and shows the spinner for a long time eventually resulting into hung threads.
Affected users IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users 
IO29342 JAVASCRIPT ERRORS GENERATED IN BROWSER CONSOLE WHEN USING THE GOTO PAGE FEATURE 
When goto page feature is used to navigate to different pages, javascript errors are thrown in the browser console. 
Affected users  IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29356 SPECIFIC MS WORD DOCUMENT CONTENT NOT RENDER AS NATIVE APPLICATION
Some MS Word documents do not render the complete page content table content missing while rendering. 
Affected users IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users 
IO29360 DOCUMENT DOWNLOAD FUNCTION OF VIEWER FAILS FOR A CONTENT MANAGER REPOSITORY
When Content Manager Enterprise Edition is the repository for documents, download function would fail in the viewer. This defect doesn't affect FileNet P8 customers.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29366 SINGLE-PAGE MS WORD FILE DISPLAYS IN MULTIPLE PAGES
Certain single page MS word document erroneously shows as a multi page document in the viewer. 
Affected users  IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users 
IO29367 CERTAIN MS WORD DOCUMENT WITH HEBREW DOES NOT RENDER AS EXPECTED 
While opening certain MS Word document containing Hebrew text, does not display content as expected. 
Affected users IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29368 ISSUE IN VIEWING PROCESSED MS WORD DOCX FILES IN VIEWER 
When certain MS Word docx files are opened in viewer, it keeps loading and the page count is observed to be incorrect.</p>
Affected users IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users 

More release information

Daeja ViewONE as an integrated solution

When you run Daeja ViewONE 5.0.14 as a component inside IBM Content Navigator, the minimum-supported version of ICN is 3.0.15, unless stated otherwise by the specific ICN release.

System requirements

Go to the page at Software Product Compatibility Reports to create a high-level report for operating systems, hypervisors, and prerequisites.

Supported File Formats in ViewONE Virtual

Refer for supported file formats in the technote, which is a live document and might get updated frequently. https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10730429

Known problems, Issues and Limitations

As problems are discovered and resolved, the IBM Support team updates the Support site. By searching the Support site, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

Limitations for watermark in documents:

  • When a greater number of Annotations (more than 10) are associated with a document, there would be a slight delay in rendering of the document.
  • You cannot add watermark in docBuilder mode. 
  • Thumbnails show the watermark only on the pages, which are rendered after you added watermark. 
  • You might see slight difference in the color or transparency of the watermark between render and print. 
  • As watermark is rendered on all the pages, you might see slower performance due to the number of pages of the document.
  • Print or redaction can change the transparency color for the dark color background images.

As problems are discovered and resolved, the IBM Support team updates the Support site. By searching the Support site, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

The following links open queries for IBM Daeja ViewONE documents on the IBM Support site:

Comparison with native renderers

IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual is designed to support as many file types as possible. However, the product is not able to render every type of file with the same accuracy as native applications, such as Microsoft Word. The flexibility of the viewer can lead to differences in the way that the documents are displayed between the native application and the viewer. The severity of the differences varies depending on the complexity of the file type. In particular, PDF files and Microsoft Office files are difficult to render with complete accuracy in a universal viewer.

Microsoft browser limitation

For IE/Edge limitations, refer to the following technotes:

Excel spreadsheet load times

Excel spreadsheet load times are impacted based on the size and complexity of the Excel document. In order to improve load times, IBM Daeja ViewONE does support tuning capabilities, such as breaking up the Excel document presentation into multiple pages. Be aware, as this behavior cannot be optimal for your user viewing experience.

Prompt to save redacted documents uses hexadecimal file name

After a document is permanently redacted and the user selects Download, they are normally prompted to save the document with a file name based on the original unredacted document. For instance, mypresentation.ppt is default to mypresentation.tif. In this version, the user might be prompted with a file name such as 41f96b20b97f431ebd4efd85245f1f72.tif instead. The user can still change the name to something more meaningful.

No pageN support in document builder mode

If a pageN document is open in the viewer, the user cannot switch to document builder mode. The user remains in the edit mode in which the document was opened. The following scenario explains the effects of this behavior:

Scenario 1:

  1. Viewer is loaded in either annotation or redaction mode
  2. A pageN document is loaded from a repository
  3. A user attempts to switch to document builder mode
  4. The user receives a message and remains in annotation or redaction mode

Result: This switch is not permitted and the user stays in their current mode.

To enter document builder mode, the user must close the pageN document and then switch to document builder mode.

No docN support in document builder mode

DocN documents are not supported with document builder mode. The combination of these features can result in unusual and, or unexpected behavior.

Document Builder supported file type limitations

Document builder is able to support TIFF and PDF files except of email attachments. TIFF and PDF files that are attached to emails cannot be used as source files for a new document.

PDF files with access control flag set by the owner of the document cannot be used as a source document for document building where they require a password to view the document or where the owner indicated that the content cannot be copied.

Rendering of the semi transparency appears to blend between the outline and the fill

Annotations that have the semi-transparent property set to true, the transparent property set to true and a fill color set can appear to blend the line and fill colors near the edges.

Annotations with fill color set to black and set to transparent are not printed transparent

Annotations that have the transparent property set to true and a fill color set to black that are not printed transparent for non-PDF documents. When you print PDF documents, with 'Print Original Size' selected, these annotations are printed with transparency applied.

UI mirroring limitation

UI mirroring is not supported for the bidi languages, Arabic, and Hebrew.

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Document Information

Modified date:
14 December 2023

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