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FlexDeploy 8.0.0.0 marks the completion of Next Generation UI/UX transformation, building on top of 6.0, 6.5, and 7.0. This is focused on Workflow as well as Project Type customization. This is not just about consistent and productive UX changes, but ; many new features are also incorporated.
FLEXDEPLOY-10239 - Underscores are now escaped in like clauses, so searching for them is possible. Likewise, underscores are no longer wild cards in search.
FLEXDEPLOY-10206 - Standardized allowed characters in name and code fields throughout FlexDeploy.
FLEXDEPLOY-11021 - Performance improvement for reading group permission checks. This improves application launch performance.
FLEXDEPLOY-11180 - Exposed RestFunctions to Issue Tracking System, Change Management System, and Credential Store Provider Groovy API implementation scripts. Additionally, exposed LogFunctions to Credential Store Provider scripts.
FLEXDEPLOY-11231 - Incoming, Outgoing (webhooks), and Scheduled (events) now have a dedicated FUNCTION_NAME variable that can be used in log functions.
FLEXDEPLOY-11309 - Download 24 Hours Logs now has an alternate download option that will include 3 thread dumps in the zip archive.
FD_WORK_ITEMS variable is now available in workflow execution which contains a comma-separated list of work items being built or deployed as part of the build or deploy workflow respectively. This is the same as the FD_ITS_TICKETS variable.
FLEXDEPLOY-11412 - Recently used Project Branches will now be remembered and suggested at the top of drop-downs.
FLEXDEPLOY-11412 - A new user setting has been added "Default Branch Sorting" that allows sorting Branch selects by updated date instead of alphabetically.
FLEXDEPLOY-11506 - New outgoing webhook events have been added - Pipeline Version Actived and Workflow Version Activated.
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Modern look and feel with new branding is now extended to Workflows as well as and Project Type customization screens.
Tables on various screens now support simple search (ctrl+ k), which can be used to quickly filter results.
FLEXDEPLOY-10533 - Admin Operations now display as tabs across the top of the page instead of an operation select drop-down.
User Profile
FLEXDEPLOY-11646 - The default navigation tabs for Projects and Releases have been changed to All instead of Favorites.
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Workflows can be searched using Global Search. Recent workflows will also show up when Global Search is invoked.
Tags can now be applied to Workflows.
Workflow security permissions can now be overridden at individual workflow levels to allow for finer-grained access to workflow management when necessary. Additionally, Bulk Update Permissions is available to simplify the update of permissions on more than one workflow.
Copy and Delete Workflow action is now available.
The workflow code is now stored as YAML. For customers upgrading from the previous version of FlexDeploy, workflow XML code will be automatically migrated to YAML.
Workflow Inputs now support values larger than 4000 bytes.
FLEXDEPLOY-10433 - List Data fields for Property definition now support more than 4000 characters.
Workflow Inputs can now be hidden or disabled conditionally even based on values in other inputs. Additionally, a list of values for input can be derived using Groovy script execution.
Workflow changes are now captured for the Change History Report.
FLEXDEPLOY-10831 - Variable FDBLD_SCM_SOURCE1_CHANGES has been removed from the workflow editor suggestions, previous usages resulted in an error saying the variable does not exist.
FlexDeploy 8.0 delivers a new workflow designer that simplifies and modernizes the management of workflows.
Workflow Designer
Workflow steps can now be dragged to a new location.
FLEXDEPLOY-2282 - Raise Fault operation now supports Groovy script for the name and details of the fault.
FLEXDEPLOY-6334 - Wait operation now supports Groovy script for wait interval.
Workflow version notes can now be added with version to document change details.
When working with Groovy, Shell, Batch, Jython, Python, or PowerShell plugins, syntax highlighting and variable assistance is are available in script input. This simplifies the modification of script code in the workflow.
The error handler is now available in workflow designer to customize the handling of failure situations.
Run Groovy operation is now available to execute Groovy script directly as part of workflow execution.
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FLEXDEPLYO-11505 - Resolved Artifactory Integration Test Connection to work with users that have only repository access.
FLEXDEPLOY-11637 - Resolved an issue where EMAIL function usage in Groovy script causes Internal Error - Invalid API Invocation, transaction already in progress. Found: API Transaction.
Salesforce
FLEXDEPLOY-11744 - Resolved an issue where the Salesforce Deployment summary shows 1 test success even though no test cases were executed.
Folders
FLEXDEPLOY-11868 - Resolved an issue where the Delete of folder notification was incorrectly checking update permission instead of delete.
Projects
FLEXDEPLOY-11097 - Fixed a rare issue that would sometimes cause a Utility Request form to not display newly created environments without a screen refresh.
FLEXDEPLOY-11438 - Resolved an issue causing table filters to not apply on both the execution tasks tab and request tasks tab.
FLEXDEPLOY-11475 - Resolved an issue causing the selected Pre-deploy workflow to not be displayed on the Project configuration if the user did not have READ Workflow access.
FLEXDEPLOY-11540 - ITS, Branches, and Replacements no longer show as valid copy project options when copying a Utility Project.
FLEXDEPLOY-11613 - Resolved an issue causing the committed user filter to not work on the execution files tab.
FLEXDEPLOY-11771 - Resolved an issue on the Execution Details page that would cause the header status to not refresh if it was in Queued status.
FLEXDEPLOY-11799 - All inputs will now be shown in the Invoke Workflow step in the Project Execution Details view. Previously only inputs with a value were shown.
FLEXDEPLOY-11817 - Resolved a NullPointerException that could occur when creating a project from a blueprint in some cases.
FLEXDEPLOY-11859 - Unassigning a workflow from a project without assigning a new one would not remove the workflow property set from the Target Group configured on the project.
Project Package
FLEXDEPLOY-11411 - The Sequence All Files action is now disabled for dynamic packages.
Project Triggers
FLEXDEPLOY-10874 - Resolved an issue that would rarely cause the 'Upcoming project execution date' to be in the past.
Topology
FLEXDEPLOY-11344 - Inactivating or Activating a Target Group from the list page will now correctly remove it from the list if it no longer matches the active/inactive filter.
FLEXDEPLOY-11676 - Resolved an issue where the User with Delete endpoint permission is getting an error - User does not have delete permission for Endpoint.
FLEXDEPLOY-11713 - A more accurate error message is now displayed when trying to delete an Environment that has been used in Workflow Requests.
FLEXDEPLOY-11727 - Target groups now get added to recent access when clicking on the row instead of opening the edit popup.
Release and Pipeline Management
FLEXDEPLOY-11104 - The "Differences Only" checkbox, found on snapshot comparisons and gate details, logic has been adjusted to more accurately show what will be deployed.
FLEXDEPLOY-11311 - Configuring the Pipeline on a Release required both Configure Pipeline permission and Read Pipeline global permission. For 8.0 the Read Pipeline global permission requirement has been removed.
FLEXDEPLOY-11494 - Copy stage gates/steps is are now disabled if the stage has no gates or steps.
FLEXDEPLOY-11568 - Resolved an issue causing Gate and Step execution positions to potentially display in random order.
FLEXDEPLOY-11600 - Resolved an issue in the create snapshot popup where clicking the pending snapshot link would not open in certain cases.
FLEXDEPLOY-11746 - FLEXDEPLOY.createReleaseProject now clearly indicates whether the Package is not found or is inactive.
FLEXDEPLOY-11767 - Resolved a NullPointerException in Wait Step when a valid wait seconds value is returned but as Long or String data type.
Groovy
FLEXDEPLOY-11759 - Resolved an issue with the groovy formatter that would incorrectly put a space between the != operator.
Notification Templates
FLEXDEPLOY-9821 - Resolved an issue causing the Notification Templates List page to not refresh when re-assigning events or creating new templates.
FLEXDEPLOY-11869 - Copy Notification Template is now hidden if the user does not have Create permission.
Integrations
FLEXDEPLOY-10649 - Resolved a regression issue where out-of-the-box Change Management Systems no longer allowed adding custom Ticket Fields.
FLEXDEPLOY-11527 - Resolved a NullPointerException that occurred during the test connection for OCI Cloud Account when the private key file format was invalid.
Webhook
FLEXDEPLOY-11248 - Resolved an issue where the actor was being set incorrectly on Outgoing Webhook Messages for multiple event types.
FLEXDEPLOY-11249 - Resolved an issue that caused outgoing and incoming webhook log messages to not refresh.
FLEXDEPLOY-11781 - A few missing fields in outgoing webhook payloads have been added. Notably "pipelineExecutionId" from the Pipeline Stage Completed event and "snapshot.createdBy" and "snapshot.createdOn" in the Snapshot Completed event.
Groups
FLEXDEPLOY-11523 - Resolved an issue while adding group members. If a new user was created from the drop-down it would be selected.
WebLogic Plugin
FLEXDEPLOY-11590 - Resolved an issue in the WebLogic restart domain operation that caused excluded servers to be restarted as though not in the list when multiple comma-separated server names were provided.
Subversion Plugin
FLEXDEPLOY-11660 - Resolved an issue with the Subversion plugin Tag operation where Tag Path input would cause a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException if it did not end with '/'.
SonarQube Plugin
FLEXDEPLOY-11683 - startSonarScan operation will no longer generate scan results. To generate scan results use analyzeCode or retrieveScan operations.
PMD Plugin
FLEXDEPLOY-11684 - Rule File Name as input or project property will correctly work when the path contains spaces.
Checkmarx Plugin
FLEXDEPLOY-11689 - Resolved an issue where Scan Results were generated only when an XML report was requested.
FLEXDEPLOY-11766 - Resolved an issue where Failed scan can result in “JSONObject["details"] is not a string”.
HP Test Plugin
FLEXDEPLOY-11732 - Resolved an issue in executeUFT operation where Application Path was still required even when VB Script was being passed in.
FLEXDEPLOY-11751 - Resolved an issue where executeUFT operation would fail if the VB Script path contained a space.
Microsoft Teams Plugin
FLEXDEPLOY-11782 - For userSendNotifcation and teamSendNotification operation an appropriate validation error is thrown if the password grant type is not set on the Messaging Account.
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Blueprints and all of the blueprint dependencies are now created as a single unit. As a result the final blueprints confirmation popup now takes a folder path directly instead of the Folder select. The folder path will be created if it does not exist. This is similar to how blueprints worked prior to before 6.0.
Workflows
The workflow group and subgroup have been removed and migrated to tags associated to with the workflow. Certain groups and subgroups, such as Build, Deploy, and Test, were omitted when converting to tags.
The Workflows URL has changed from
/flexdeploy/faces/workflowsto/flexdeploy/next/#/workflows
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