ViaWorks 2.7 (2.7.2970)
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Official build number:2.7.2970.19496
Release Date
October 13th, 2016
License compatibility
If you are upgrading from a previous ViaWorks 2.x release, your ViaWorks 2.x license will continue to work. If you are installing ViaWorks 2.6 for the first time, or if you are upgrading from ViaWorks 1.5.x, you will be required to obtain a new license key from VirtualWorks. Contact your VirtualWorks sales representative to obtain your license key.
New Installations
Download the ViaWorks Installation package, and run ViaWorks_2.7.2970.exe. Use a valid License Code and follow instructions on the screen.
For hardware and software requirements, and for help on how to install ViaWorks, please see the ViaWorks Installation Guide.
Upgrading from a Prior Installation
You can upgrade to this release from a previous ViaWorks 2.x release.
You CANNOT upgrade to this release from ViaWorks 1.5.x or earlier.
New Features & Improvements
ViaWorks 2.7.2970 is a new product release containing the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
Attention:
- The index will be rebuilt after the upgrade has finished. The index rebuild can potentially take a while, and users may not be able to search or have incomplete search results until the rebuild completes. Documents will not be re-fetched during this process.
- All customers will be moved to the “ViaWorksV2” SOLR core during the upgrade process. The “ViaWorks” core from versions 2.3 and older is no longer supported.
- After upgrading, SOLR will allocate 25% of physical RAM (4GB minimum) up front. Please ensure the server has a sufficient amount of RAM to accommodate this.
- Saved search URLs or Search Scopes using the platform_date field should be updated to use search_date instead. Using platform_date in 2.7 can cause the Date Refiner to behave unexpectedly.
- Customers using the ePhorte Connector should only upgrade to 2.7 with the help of Professional Services.
- There are known issues using Internet Explorer 9 with the new 2.7 UI. Per Microsoft’s recommendations, users should upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 in order to receive the latest security updates. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/End-of-IE-support
- Please ensure the Windows Firewall is enabled before installing or upgrading to 2.7.
New Features
Component | Description |
Web Client | New modernized user interface |
Web Client | New responsive web design to support resolutions down to 768 pixel for a better experience across screen sizes |
Web Client | Added support for Down-level Logon names and User Principal Names on the login screen. By default, the domain field is disabled. It can be re-enabled on the “Directory Services” page of the Management Console |
Web Client | Users can now add personal labels to search hits. Labels will appear in the refiner section to allow filtering on labels. Labels are user specific and not visible to other users. |
Web Client | Added predefined Search Scopes for new installations: Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Latest, Favorites |
Web Client | New refiners for “Is an Attachment” and “Has an Attachment” |
Web Client | Added a new user setting to control the font size of search hits |
Web Client | Added the ability to exclude refiner facets by either Alt+Click or the right-click context menu |
Web Client | New language support for Russian and Ukrainian |
Exchange Connector | Added support for indexing delegated folder permissions created by a user using an email client. |
Exchange Connector | Added support for metadata only updates for Exchange objects, reducing the number of documents to fetch |
Exchange Connector | Added support for the “Application Impersonation” role for the Exchange index user. Using this method no longer requires “FullAccess” to user mailboxes and improves indexing performance in Exchange Online. |
Web Dashboard | Administrators can now generate an Automated System Report from the Analytics section of the Dashboard detailing system specifications and repository information. |
Converter | New de-duplication feature. Fetched documents are compared to documents already in the index. If a match is found, the duplicate document is not converted again. |
SharePoint Online Connector | Added support indexing SharePoint Online’s new Group sites and Delve Blogs |
Alfresco Connector | Added support for enabling Alfresco change set detection |
Improvements
Component | Description |
SOLR | Upgraded SOLR to version 5.5.1 |
SOLR | Improved out of the box search relevance |
Web Client | Login screen now utilizes the browser’s auto-complete feature to remember usernames |
Web Client | Improved preview handling of unsupported document types resulting in fewer preview errors |
Web Client | Improved UI navigation using TAB and ENTER |
Web Client | Enabled preview support for .msg and .dwg files by default |
Web Dashboard | Added additional settings to the Create New Refiner page |
Management Console | Added pagination to the licensed users list when it exceeds 1000 users |
Index Builder | Optimized fetch aggressiveness to improve performance with many connections |
OCR | Improved OCR results for images embedded in documents |
Bug Fixes
Component | Description |
Search Service | Fixed an issue that caused an error when an HTTP GET URI was too long |
General | Fixed several memory leaks found in the Web Client and Index Builder |
Installer | Fixed an upgrade failure scenario that could occur if the upgrade was started immediately following a server reboot |
Installer | Fixed an issue where the installer would fail if it didn’t have access to certain registry keys |
Alfresco | Fixed an issue where the Alfresco crawler wouldn’t continue on non-fatal errors |
Exchange Online Connector | Fixed an issue where some emails weren’t properly showing their attachments |
Exchange Connector | Images embedded in emails will now appear in the preview |
Web Client | The Raw Text tab was being displayed when no text was available |
Web Client | Fixed an issue that could cause the “Did you mean” suggestions to get stuck in a loop |
Web Client | Fixed an issue that caused display issues in the Source refiner when a connection was renamed. Changing the name of a connection will cause that repository to be re-indexed. |
Web Client | Fixed an issue where creating a new Search Scope with the Favorites refiner caused an exception |
Web Client | Connection names containing double quotes, backslashes or the letters “and” will no longer cause issues in the web client |
Web Dashboard | System Search Scopes no longer require a date range |
Web Dashboard | Fixed an issue that allowed an invalid rule to be saved |
SharePoint Online Connector | Fixed an issue that prevented some SharePoint Online documents from opening |
SharePoint Connector | Fixed an issue that caused MySites to not get indexed when the root site collection was excluded in the wizard |
SharePoint Connector | SharePoint objects with an unknown content type will now be indexed properly |
Rules Engine | Fixed an issue where regex patterns were not being handled correctly |
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