| Repstor affinity/assist Release Notes 3.5.4 | |
| New Features in 3.5.4 | |
| Bug Fixes in 3.5.4 | |
| New Features in 3.5.3 | |
| Bug Fixes in 3.5.3 | |
| New Features in 3.5.2 | |
| Bug Fixes in 3.5.2 | |
| New Features in 3.5.1 | |
| Bug Fixes in 3.5.1 | |
| New Features in 3.5.0 | |
| Bug Fixes in 3.5.0 | |
| Outstanding Issues | |
| New Features in 3.5.4 | |
| SYN-2369 | The Meridio filter now supports copying and moving document references between both folders and containers. |
| SYN-2026 | Meridio email headers will now display the attachment icon if they have attachments. |
| SYN-2341 | Repstor affinity in Word/Excel/PowerPoint now supports saving documents to Repstor affinity from Office macros. Contact support for details. |
| Bug Fixes in 3.5.4 | |
| SYN-2129 | An issue was resolved when replying to or forwarding Meridio emails from Repstor affinity. In previous versions Repstor affinity could attempt to update the emails in Meridio which would display an error. |
| SYN-2130 | Meridio search for repository will now show the location of classes and folders in the Fileplan when displaying search results. Containers will not show their path. |
| New Features in 3.5.3 | |
| SYN-2347 | When adding new documents to Repstor affinity via the Add Document menu and an existing document with the same name is found in the same folder a dialog will offer to add the file as a new version or show a comparison if they are Word documents. |
| Bug Fixes in 3.5.3 | |
| SYN-2094 | Support has been added to store login information for HighQ. The user will only be prompted once to login and then should not be prompted again. |
| SYN-2160 | An issue was resolved that could cause a failed WorkSite incremental sync to be marked as successful which could cause the folder to become out of sync. |
| New Features in 3.5.2 | |
| SYN-2336 | Repstor affinity can now to be configured so that when saving Office documents the user will be prompted to save to Repstor affinity or save locally. The dialog is displayed when saving a new document or when the clicks the Save As action (or F12 shortcut) in Microsoft Word and Excel. |
| SYN-2340 | For WorkSite repositories a new option changes the right click "Sync Now" menu item so that a full sync rather than the usual incremental sync is done. The Sync Now ribbon button will still do an incremental sync. To enable the setting create a DWORD WorkSiteSync.DoFullSyncNowNotIncremental set to 1. |
| SYN-2332 | Repstor affinity for Unified Groups is a new component which can be used to automatically sync the document libraries for Office 365 unified groups into Repstor affinity. |
| SYN-2331 | Folder deletion is now supported in the WorkSite and HiqhQ filters. |
| Bug Fixes in 3.5.2 | |
| SYN-2180 | An issue was resolved which prevented recently edit Repstor documents from being attached to email drafts correctly. |
| SYN-2345 | An issue was resolved when using Repstor affinity with Outlook 2016 64 bit. |
| SYN-2263 | An issue was resolved that caused Repstor affinity to sync folders with a trailing . character to file shares which are not valid on file shares. |
| SYN-1879 | An issue was resolved with Reptor aspects that could cause duplicate emails in the Inbox when filing email attachments only. |
| New Features in 3.5.1 | |
| SYN-2299 | Worksite documents can now be moved even if deletion is disabled if DWORD registry value EnableMove is set to 1. |
| SYN-2312 | Repstor affinity is now localised in English, German, Dutch and Danish. |
| Bug Fixes in 3.5.1 | |
| SYN-2183 | An issue was resolved when
accessing Repstor affinity via Repstor Drive and the folder names had invalid
URL characters. Folder names will have / replaced with "^". You can change the replacement character with the registry string value WebDAV.ForwardSlashReplacement. You should not use any character that is invalid in a folder name for the replacement string. Any other chars that are not allowed in filenames are escaped as {hexchar} e.g. \ as {5c}. Filenames will escape : with ; and / with ^ . Any other chars that are not allowed in filenames are escaped as {hexchar} e.g. \ as {5c}. |
| SYN-2302 | An issue was resolved when repeatedly editing OpenText documents. |
| SYN-2290 | A scrolling issue was resolved when viewing Repstor document properties. |
| SYN-2333 | The Meridio Receipt Date email custom property is now set correctly when an email is added to Meridio. |
| New Features in 3.5.0 | |
| SYN-2209 | When saving new documents from Office or Quick Filing an email attachment a more detailed Quick File dialog is displayed which shows the documents of the same type in the current folder. An existing document can be updated with the new content or the document can be renamed before saving to Repstor affinity. |
| SYN-318 | Affinity now supports synchronizing of OneNote notebooks. These are synchronized as files. When edited or viewed, the native onenote app will be launched with the notebook - or the online notebook if the native app is not available. Note that copying and moving of OneNote files, or folders they are within is currently unsupported. |
| SYN-2215 | When using the Attach Items dialog options are now available to instead embed links to the selected items or embed links and also attach the original items. |
| SYN-2203 | When working with header documents or emails Repstor affinity will now display a progress dialog while downloading which can be cancelled if the download is too slow. |
| SYN-2271 | Repstor affinity will now only mark downloaded items as unread after the initial folder sync when they have been changed on the server outside of Repstor affinity. |
| SYN-2235 | Folders can be email or
document based on: 1) ratio of emails vs documents 2) Keyword matches (Assist.EmailFolderNamesCSV) Now you can make folders appear read only (greyed out) if they don't match the correct folder name/type. This is enabled through a new DWORD Assist.ShowOtherFolderTypesReadonly setting. The existing setting will still only show suggestions of the correct type: QuickFile.RestrictSuggestionsByType |
| SYN-1398 | When editing properties of multiple items, you can now set individual properties (like filename) when a single item is selected. |
| SYN-1741 | There is now an explicit rename feature (previously rename was only possible via the full properties dialog). |
| SYN-2240 | If there are folder default properties they are now applied at the top repository level. |
| SYN-2254 | Repstor affinity can now be configured to never defer folder synchronizations due to connection errors. This can be enabled for office based users when the server connections should always be available. |
| SYN-2262 | Copy link can be added to the Repstor document preview pane. |
| SYN-2281 | Repstor affinity and assist now require Windows 7 and later to align with Microsoft's Lifecycle Policy for Windows. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet |
| SYN-2234 | Repstor assist's Send and File and Send button text can now be customised via two string settings Assist.SendAndFileButtonName and Assist.SendButtonName. |
| Custodian Plugin | |
| SYN-2253 | Custodian dialogs like My Matters or My Clients are now displayed modeless which allows Outlook to continue to be used while the dialogs remain open. |
| CRM Link Client | |
| CRM-127 | This release includes a new version of the Repstor CRM Link client. This provides CRM associations for emails as part of the Repstor assist Quick File functionality. |
| Extensions | |
| SYN-2257 | Repstor affinity extensions can now add buttons to the Repstor document preview pane. |
| SYN-2191 | Custom validation can now be
added to property pages through extensibility. See extensibility documentation for more
information. |
| WorkSite Plugin | |
| SYN-2272 | If documents are moved/copied within a WorkSite database it will be refiled at the end of the operation. The destination folder's "Default Document Profile" will be used for the refile. We inherit the properties that we would inherit when adding a new document. |
| SYN-2275 | To synchronize the special WorkSite "My Matters" folder search for "My Matters" (without quotes) in the Search for repositories dialog. The first result returned will be the special "My Matters" folder. |
| Meridio Plugin | |
| SYN-2168 | Meridio Mail message custom properties properties are now captured when document is added to Meridio through affinity. The only exceptions are Level of Encryption and Encryption Algorithm. |
| Bug fixes in 3.5.0 | |
| SYN-2252 | An issue was resolved when copying or moving items with long names to a folder which already had a similarly named item. |
| SYN-2072 | An issue was resolved when attempting to install Repstor affinity 32 bit when Office 64 bit is already installed. |
| SYN-2100 | A new setting was added to prevent folder addition via the Meridio plugin. Set DWORD Registry value MeridioSync.CanAddFolders to 0 to prevent folder addition. This setting is detected when a Meridio repository is added and every time the top repository folder sync'd. Changing the setting will not take effect until Outlook is restarted and top repository folder is sync'd. |
| SYN-2126 | An issue was resolved when uploading emails with 100's of recipients. |
| SYN-2146 | The Meridio plugin now does not replace special characters such as : in document title before storing to Meridio. |
| SYN-2196 | An issue was resolved when adding an email from a Repstor affinity folder to another Repstor affinity folder when it already contains an email with the same name. |
| SYN-2222 | An issue was resolved when Outlook was closed while a large documents header was being downloaded and the transfer didn't complete in a short period of time. |
| SYN-2255 | An issue was resolved when lists or document libraries are recreated in SharePoint with the same URL as an existing Repstor repository. |
| SYN-2265 | An issue was resolved which prevented Word document comparisons from being saved to Repstor affinity. |
| SYN-2273 | Improvements were made to the Repstor item selection when the folder is synchronized. |
| Outstanding Issues | |
| Impact: Medium | |
| SYN-2326 | When Quick Filing Attachments to a folder with a required field will only show the Properties for the last attachment to fill in the missing value. As a workaround when filing attachments if you choose to "Don't prompt to rename the existing items" the Properties for all items will be displayed. |
| SYN-2097 | Repstor's HPRM plugin uses the HPRM ServiceAPI to sync the document and emails. When document content is requested via the ServiceAPI and specific errors occur it can return a success status code but the content returned is the error details. See the Repstor HPRM plugin install documentation for steps to ensure that these errors are not processed as the document content. |
| SYN-1983 | An issue with Repstor Drive
can cause Word, Excel and PowerPoint to stop responding if the user has
previously browsed a SharePoint location in the Save As dialog and then
navigates to the "Repstor affinity" network place shortcut in an
Office Save As dialog. This appears to be an issue with Microsoft
Office. To workaround the issue avoid browsing SharePoint locations when using Repstor Drive or alternatively access Repstor Drive locations via the Other Web Locations section of the Save As page. Contact support@repstor.com for more information. |
| SYN-1768 | Repstor assist extracts text from PDF files using the locally configured third party component. With some Windows 8 or later 64 bit configurations certain PDF files can cause this training process to hang. To resolve this issue install the most recent Adobe IFilter 64 bit component. http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5542 |
| SYN-1687 | Repstor Drive supports a
limited set of characters for the names of Repstor affinity folders and
documents. Names containing % will fail to be displayed correctly in Repstor
Drive and will not be accessible. If the server repository supports other
invisible characters (eg tab, bell, new line) in the filename metadata field
these items may also not be accessible in Repstor Drive. Functionality for names containing the following characters will be limited / \ : * ? " < > | { } # &. The limited items will fail if copy, move, renamed or added via Drive. However existing items in Repstor affinity with this set of characters can be browsed to and edited. |
| SYN-1701 | If a document set is configured with shared properties, these properties will be inherited onto contained documents. Currently affinity is not aware of these defaults, so will prompt for missing required properties that would be inherited. However, the correct values are set after a synchronization. To avoid this issue, don't make properties to be inherited from document sets mandatory. |
| SYN-1700 | Copies of documents made in the same site will always be the latest version of their source document. If the source document is modified before the copy is synched to the server the modified document may be used for the copy instead of the version of the document when the copy was made. To avoid issues, allow the sync to occur before editing the source or destination document. |
| SYN-1627 | On Windows 10 the text in some Repstor notification messages may be truncated. |
| SYN-954 | Repstor does not currently support SharePoint standard forms authentication. ADFS authentication is supported. |
| SYN-595 | If a large number of items exist within Repstor, or within other message stores, the Outlook "Show In Conversations" can affect overall Outlook performance. This can be avoided by switching off the feature, or setting it to not show messages from other folders. |
| SYN-819 | Repstor can appear to hang if while uploading a large number of documents, you remove a different repository. |
| SYN-15 | The conflict messages report SharePoint’s internal version numbers when used with SharePoint document libraries which have Checkout required or major/minor versioning enabled. These differ from the user displayed version numbers in SharePoint. |
| SYN-340 | When custom lists are synchronized with Rich Text Fields and are displayed in the preview pane, Outlook will move the focus to the rich text field. This stops up/down arrows from working in the Outlook list view. |
| SYN-939 | In Outlook 2007 command bar buttons that are too large to be accommodated on the main toolbar can become unclickable. This can be resolved by customizing the command bar and repositioning the buttons. |
| SYN-962 | The "Tell me More" links within the Repstor ribbon will display help for Lync. This is a Microsoft issue. The ribbon help should link to information on addins, but has been replaced by the Lync addin. We may workaround this issue in future releases. |
| Impact:Low | |
| SYN-1940 | An issue in Outlook 2013 can cause older Repstor affinity documents and emails to be hidden when the SyncWindowSetting Outlook Group Policy setting is enabled. This issue was resolved in Outlook 2016. |
| SYN-1909 | If you have very many terms in a term set there can be a long delay when editing a SharePoint Managed Metadata property from the TermSet picker. |
| SYN-1893 | Converting a Repstor Word document to PDF will fail if the document contains Personally Identifable Information which Repstor affinity can't remove. |
| SYN-1819 | For custodian installations when items are copied from one matter to another, the default properties are picked up from the new matter. However, if the matters are in the same site, and server-side copy is configured - the old properties will keep their previous matter values. |
| SYN-1805 | In HPRM, If a record type is configured with additional fields, these fields will appear, but have no value is configured in the list or properties pages. A future release will allow these fields to be displayed. |
| SYN-1749 | Repstor affinity uses Outlook APIs to save emails as .msg files before upload. These Outlook APIs can fail to save specific large emails with many embedded attached emails. Contact support for steps to workaround the issue. |
| SYN-1727 | Repstor Drive is prevented from accessing files larger than 50MB by default based on a Windows Explorer configuration setting. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2668751 for information on how to increase this limit. |
| SYN-1699 | Copying and moving items within and between repositories will under certain circumstances not prompt for required properties. Any missing properties can be set after the copy. |
| SYN-1698 | When a file share folder is renamed, syncing lower folders will fail until the rename is synced to the file share server. The rename will be propagated when the renamed folder's parent is synced. |
| SYN-1693 | Repstor Drive includes a new mechanism for more efficient folder copies and deletions. On 64 bit Windows these Drive folder operations are supported within 64 bit applications like Windows Explorer but not within 32 bit applications. |
| SYN-1653 | When adding a SharePoint list or document library the current user needs access to the location and also read access to the parent Team Site. |
| SYN-1640 | If copying document headers to a Repstor folder in Outlook or via Repstor Drive and server side copies aren't possible Repstor affinity will try to download the headers during the copy operation. If the headers can't be downloaded within a short time the copy operation will fail. |
| SYN-1639 | If a newly created repository folder hasn't synced and is copied to another repository folder a server side folder copy will not be done. |
| SYN-1638 | If Repstor Drive is used to copy Repstor affinity parent folders into a Repstor affinity repository server side copies of the underlying folders and documents will not be done. |
| SYN-1637 | If an expired folder is copied and server side copies are not available only the folder structure will be copied. If server side copies are available Repstor affinity will attempt to copy the expired documents on the server. |
| SYN-1636 | Dragging a folder in Outlook to a specific position higher in the folder view using the horizontal bar to position it will cause a folder with the same name to appear in the moved to folder. This drag and drop issue in Outlook causes the new folder to fail to display its contents. Restart Outlook to remove the new broken folder. |
| SYN-1634 | If Repstor affinity has deep folder hierarchies "Open in Explorer" will fail to open the folder in Windows Explorer via Repstor Drive. This problem can be avoided by adding the repository at a lower path in the folder structure. |
| SYN-1550 | Copying a document between two folders in Repstor Drive currently doesn't support renaming the document at the same time. |
| SYN-1502 | In Outlook 2016 the email preview's toolbar doesn't contain additional Repstor affinity items such as Properties. |
| SYN-1459 | The new SharePoint field for selecting people and groups doesn't currently restrict the suggestions to a named group if one is assigned. |
| SYN-1444 | The new SharePoint person and group field currently only suggests uniquely named accounts. If there are multiple users or groups with the same display name it will not be possible to select each of them. |
| SYN-1439 | In Repstor affinity SharePoint Enterprise Keywords are displayed as read only properties. |
| SYN-1425 | When a SharePoint list item is selected Send Link and Copy Link do not generate the correct links. |
| SYN-1424 | Email and documents can be added to the top level Repstor affinity folder however these items are not synchronized. |
| SYN-1405 | When working with documents via Repstor Drive Windows Explorer can display unhelpful messages. More useful messages will be displayed when possible depending on the operation. |
| SYN-1391 | SharePoint terms created in Repstor are not displayed in other locations until an item with the new term as a property value has been synced. |
| SYN-1390 | When adding new terms to a SharePoint open termset, the new term can only be added under an already synced term. This prevents term hierarchies from being created quickly in Repstor. |
| SYN-1354 | Due to a limitation in the WorkSite SDK it is possible for multiple updates on a document within a second to appear as a single change. Although this is unlikely it could lead to the local WorkSite document being out of date. |
| SYN-1334 | It is not currently possible to rename SharePoint list items within Repstor Drive. |
| SYN-1269 | When synchronizing SharePoint documents and emails they are the items which match the default view's filter criteria. |
| SYN-1231 | SharePoint document shortcuts are not currently supported. |
| SYN-1230 | Viewing SharePoint 2013 / SharePoint online record shortcuts requires the Open in Client setting is enabled on the document library. |
| SYN-1226 | After activating a license Outlook must be restarted to enable some Repstor functionality. |
| SYN-1167 | Currently it is not possible to add SharePoint document library folders which have a "." character in their name as a top level repository in Repstor. |
| SYN-1159 | Currently it is not possible to convert Excel or PowerPoint documents directly to PDFs in Repstor. This can be done by saving a PDF in a standard directory and dragging the file into a Repstor folder. |
| SYN-1158 | Connect to Outlook fails to add SharePoint Calendars via the standard Outlook functionality. |
| SYN-1138 | To add SharePoint
repositories the user requires these permission levels at the Team Site and
Document Library or List level. Use Remote Interfaces - Use SOAP, Web DAV, the Client Object Model or SharePoint Designer interfaces to access the Web site. Use Client Integration Features - Use features which launch client applications. Without this permission, users will have to work on documents locally and upload their changes. |
| SYN-1130 | When saving as a new Repstor affinity document the name of the file is incorrectly shown as the original file name in Word |
| SYN-1109 | If the Signals add in is being used it will prevent presentation of metadata forms and will impact certain Repstor actions such as preventing saving using Quick File from Word or presentation of metadata forms when mandatory fields are not completed |
| SYN-1105 | When copying folders in Repstor if server side copies are not available only the currently synchronized sub folders and documents will be copied to the new location. |
| SYN-1035 | Saving a document from Word to an existing Repstor folder which contains a document of the same name will fail if the document in Repstor is currently synchronized as a header. |
| SYN-1029 | WorkSite documents that are declared as records will not be deleted by Repstor. The documents will appear to be deleted, but in the next synchronization will reappear. |
| SYN-1004 | Adding a new column to a SharePoint view can take a long time to synchronize with the Repstor affinity view. Resynchronizing the entire repository can resolve this issue. |
| SYN-971 | If a batch of items is downloaded, but the synchronization is requeued to get the next batch, the status within the folder synchronization can indicate download is complete. It does not show the fact that further downloads are queued. |
| SYN-937 | For Repstor assist, incoming messages will not be matched to existing Repstor documents until training has occurred for the first time. |
| SYN-929 | Property validation for number fields will not localize the display of number formats. They will be displayed in SharePoint's native format. |
| SYN-925 | If Send Link is chosen for an item in a custom (non-document) list, the URL generated will be incorrect. |
| SYN-918 | When folders are created within Outlook, they will be created as soon as possible within the target Repository. This will occur regardless of synchronization settings. |
| SYN-916 | Import Folder may fail to import certain documents based on invalid characters in their filename. The Import Folder log will list any documents that fail to import. |
| SYN-893 | Parent folder settings cannot be edited once assigned – the repositories must be removed and re-added |
| SYN-892 | After uninstall the Repstor
affinity message store remains in Outlook. This is by design, if required the user can remove the Repstor message store manually. |
| SYN-891 | Files larger than SharePoint limits will fail to be uploaded and return an error from Repstor. |
| SYN-885 | Outlook 2007: When selecting a document without a preview handler, the view document button within the preview page will not launch the document correctly. Choosing View Document from the command bar will launch the document correctly. |
| SYN-876 | If the administrative user and windows system locale are different from the Repstor user's locale, problems can occur creating the Repstor repository. Please contact Repstor support to resolve this issue. |
| SYN-825 | When Repstor affinity has a lot of folders enabling a repository which has been disabled can take some time before the folders start syncing again. |
| SYN-822 | Multi-line text fields are rendered with HTML tags when added as fields in the Outlook column view. |
| SYN-817 | Quickfile button is enabled on RSS fields and web page folders |
| SYN-812 | Changes to the properties of an item does not trigger a conflict – the last change wins. This is equivalent to standard SharePoint functionality. |
| SYN-806 | If the exact same folder is synchronized twice (once as a sub-folder, once directly), the folder will not be presented as a suggested folder. |
| SYN-792 | The Repstor protocol handler does not license correctly if two versions of Outlook are installed. |
| SYN-756 | Closing outlook during training for categorization appears to show no folders categorized. |
| SYN-654 | When creating a new folder in Outlook, repeated synchronization of folders with invalid characters can cause folder synchronization to fail. |
| SYN-564 | When resolving a conflict, if the actual content of the file is not changed within the client, selecting "Keep Local Version" will overwrite the content with the new server version content. |
| SYN-561 | Editing with no changes in marks items as new when the cancel checkout is synchronized. |
| SYN-511 | Reminders are not supported for Repstor items |
| SYN-489 | Lookup values are not populated from all docs in a library - they are only populated from the first level of document items. |
| SYN-448 | Errors generated when synching fileshares cannot be viewed |
| SYN-447 | If an item is dragged and dropped within Repstor from one folder to another which has been deleted server-side, the move will be successful, and the folder will then be deleted by Repstor. The deleted item is moved to the "Local Failures" folder. |
| SYN-441 | Users may be prompted to save changes on the properties form when no changes have been made |
| SYN-417 | CanAddRepsoitories Registry setting is not honored by Connect to Outlook |
| SYN-353 | There is limited (read-only) support for external lists. List items do not display properly in the preview pane. |
| SYN-345 | When using Quick Print only the item headers are printed |
| SYN-343 | Required multi-choice fields can be saved in Repstor without providing a value. SharePoint will flag missing fields as an error during synchronization. |
| SYN-342 | Additional versions are created when Library settings don't demand check out. This will result in versions increasing in twos. |
| SYN-287 | Repstor does not support the addition of calendar entries to a repository. |
| SYN-284 | Adding or updating an item within Repstor affinity and cancelling the change can result in redundant prompts on existing Outlook. |
| SYN-257 | Append only fields are not fully displayed with full history. |
| SYN-174 | Secured file shares which prompt for custom credentials can’t be added automatically. Browsing to the share in Windows Explorer or configuring Windows to remember the credentials will allow the file share to be synced. |
| SYN-132 | SharePoint Appointment Lists are currently unsupported. |
| SYN-83 | When SharePoint items are dragged to Explorer they are saved as an .msg file. To save the associated SharePoint document when selected in Outlook use the File | Save Attachment menu. |
| SYN-72 | Synchronized SharePoint custom lists don’t support attachments or related content. |
| SYN-71 | Dragging multiple items from a Repstor repository into a different message store will leave user property values on the message. |
| SYN-21 | Outlook 2010 and later has a default setting which blocks Repstor working with documents greater than 20MB. Contact support@repstor.com for steps to increase the default size for Outlook 2010. |
| SYN-12 | In Outlook 2007, after uninstall an empty toolbar remains in Outlook. Users can delete the empty toolbar by using the Toolbar tab in the Tools | Customize dialog. |
| SYN-6 | Files on file shares larger than a defined size are silently skipped during synchronizations |