Universal Controller 6.6.0.0 Release Notes

Universal Controller 6.6.0.0 Release Notes

Release Notes

Universal Controller release 6.6.0.0 contains the following high-level features; for a complete list of all the included features and fixes, please refer to the Universal Controller 6.6.x Maintenance list.

Attach Local Files to an Email

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B-03133

Ability to attach local files as email attachment

This addresses the requirement to allow file attachments for Email tasks and also now supports binary files (such as pdfs) as attachments for Email Tasks and Email Notifications.
 
Previously restrictions existed because file attachments to Email Notifications were treated as output objects which did not support binary file types. Similarly email Tasks do not have a relationship with an agent and so were unable to fetch a remote file to attach.
 
To allow these capabilities customers can drop the required file attachments into a directory defined by a New opswise property to define a "single" directory location where files can be attached from. This is not configurable from the UI for security reasons, this should be enabled by the system admin rather than the UC admin. Every 10 minutes the opswise.properties will be read and if the opswise.email.attachments.local.path has changed, the new value in the opswise.properties will then be used within the Controller.
 
The files to be attached would need to be on a file system accessible to all Universal Controller cluster nodes within the HA configuration so that regardless of which cluster node is Active, the file can still be accessed.
 
Customers will be responsible for delivering files to the specified local email directory, and for maintaining (i.e. deleting) files in this directory. Customers should also be aware that all Email tasks (and potentially other types of tasks) will be able to access files in this directory.
 
Once the opswise.email.attachments.local.path has been set, the option to "Attach Local File" will be available in the Email Notifications and Email Tasks.

Bundle and Promote Security

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B-09939

Business Services Security and Visibility for Bundles

In order to allow more granular administration bundles can now be assigned to business services and a new user / group permission type for "Bundle" has been added to control how users can interact with Bundles. The existing "ops_bundle_admin" remains to provide global access to the bundle feature.
 

B-09938

Business Services Security and Visibility for Promotion Targets

In order to allow more granular administration promotion targets can now be assigned to business services and a new user / group permission type for "Promotion Target" has been added to control how users can interact with promotion targets. The existing "ops_promotion_admin" remains to provide global access to the promotion targets.
 

B-10286

Optionally allow bundle-less promotion for users without ops_promotion_admin role

To augment the features delivered in B-09938 and B-09939 a new system property "Bundleless Promotion With Execute Permission Permitted" has been added to optionally allow promotion of definitions outside of a bundle without requiring the ops_promotion_admin role.
 
By default this property is "false", meaning that the Promote… action is disabled unless a user has the ops_promotion_admin role. For a user with the ops_promotion_admin role, the Promote… dialog allows selection of any pre-existing promotion target.
 
When the property is set to "true", the Promote... action will be available to users who have "execute"permission to at least one promotion target. Again, for a user with the ops_promotion_admin role, the Promote… dialog allows selection of any pre-existing promotion target.

Calendar and Trigger Enhancements

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B-06728

Calculate Observed Public Holidays

This provides the ability to support "observed" public holidays without the need for a custom day list of dates. For example if July 4th falls on a Saturday the observed July 4th would be Friday July 3rd and if July 4th falls on a Sunday the observed July 4th would be Monday July 5th.
 

B-09506

Time Trigger expanded to include "Week" as a Complex Qualifier

For Example "Run on 1st Business Day of week".
 


 

IMPORTANT!

A Time Trigger using "Week" Date Qualifier may skip qualifying times when using certain complex restrictions.
 
1.Create a Time Trigger with "Complex" Day Style using the following:

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2.List Qualifying Times for trigger.  This should should list times for every day of the week. 
3.Add Complex Restriction to Time Trigger from step 1 using the following:

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4. List Qualifying Times for trigger.  This should list times for every day except Sunday; however, the List will only show times until the next Sunday. 
 
* Month, Year also exhibit the problem. The work-around is to use "Simple" Day Style if possible instead of "Complex" Day Style.  For example, Daily instead of Every Day of Week.

B-03218

Run Criteria expanded to include "Week" as a Complex Qualifier

For Example "Skip on 1st Business Day of Week".
 

B-07357

Custom Days (Relative Repeating Date) Add “Last Day” & “Last Business Day” to the When Clause

For Example "Run 2 Business Days before the Last Day of the Month".
 

B-04047

Automatic purging of old Custom Day dates from Date List

A new System Property has been added to allow customers to automatically purge old dates in a Custom Day of type Date List. If the System Property “Purge Dates From Custom Day List Older Than” is set, then after midnight when the log is rolled over, part of the post log rollover will now purge any dates out of Custom Day (Date List) that are older than the number of days set as the System Property value.
 
For example, if the System Property is set to 7, then any dates older than 7 days will be automatically removed from Date List – Custom Days.

B-07148

Add Nth and Nth Amount to Time Trigger Restrictions - Complex Restriction - Adjective

In the Restrictions section of the Time Trigger Definition you could previously specify 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, First and Last. Support has been added for Nth and Nth amount.
 
For example, this will enable restrictions for 10th Day of Month.

B-09498

New System Property to Control the Minimum Frequency in Seconds for a Time Interval on a Time Trigger

New System Property "Time Trigger Minimum Frequency in Seconds". This allows customers to restrict the creation of new Time Triggers with a time Interval less that the value specified in this property.