These release notes provide information about new features, fixes, and known problems for IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.15.
Latest iFixes and readmes for this release: https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Enterprise%20Content%20Management&product=ibm/Other+software/Daeja+ViewONE+Virtual&release=5.0.15&platform=All&function=all
IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.15, makes it 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.
To download IBM Daeja ViewONE:
Log in to Fix Central.
In the Product Group list, select Enterprise Content Management.
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 you have purchased.
You must run the installer as an administrative user.
Before you install IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.15:
To generate a hardware and software requirements report, see System Requirements.
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.
At a command prompt, change to the directory where you extracted the installation image.
To install the viewer interactively, enter the following command:
DAEJA_VIEWONE_5.0.15_WIN_ML.exe
Alternatively, double-click DAEJA_VIEWONE_5.0.15_WIN_ML.exe in
Windows Explorer.
To install the viewer silently, enter the following command:
DAEJA_VIEWONE_5.0.15_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
At a command prompt, change to the directory where you extracted the installation image.
To install the viewer interactively, enter the following command:
./DAEJA_VIEWONE_5.0.15_UNIX_ML.bin
To install the viewer silently, enter the following command:
./DAEJA_VIEWONE_5.0.15_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
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. For more information on the developer’s guide refer to:
IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual Developer's Guide
IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.15, provides the following new features:
This release adds support for viewing the table of contents or bookmarks in applicable PDFs.
By clicking the Table of contents / Bookmarks button on north toolbar, users can view and navigate directly to any section of the PDF.
A new HTML parameter, enableTableOfContentsButton, controls the button visibility and getPDFTableOfContents() JavaScript API allows fetching the table of contents / bookmarks programmatically for enhanced navigation.
Example:
enableTableOfContentsButton = false to hide the Table of contents / Bookmarks button.
enableTableOfContentsButton = true to show the Table of contents / Bookmarks button for PDF with table of contents / bookmarks. Default value is true when this parameter is not configured.
JavaScript API getPDFTableOfContents() to fetch table of contents / bookmarks of documents in json format.
We have updated the underlying implementation used to render Excel documents. As a result, you may notice differences in page count, formatting, layout or styling in the rendered output compared to earlier versions.
Previously added annotations may also be affected, as changes in formatting and layout could impact their alignment or positioning.
In this release, support for the EXIF orientation tag in JPG files has been implemented to ensure correct rendering.
The feature automatically applies required rotations and flips based on orientation metadata.
In this release, two JavaScript APIs have been introduced to manage custom header parameters in outgoing requests.
The first method setHeaderParameter allows setting or updating a header by accepting a key-value pair as parameters.
Once invoked, this method ensures that subsequent requests include the specified header.
Example:
viewONE.setHeaderParameter("security_token", "xabxyabyzabz")
The second method removeHeaderParameter enables the removal of a previously set custom header, passing key as the parameter.
Example:
viewONE.removeHeaderParameter("security_token")
While this feature is primarily intended for setting a 'security token' in the header, it is not limited to that purpose and can be used to configure other parameters as needed.
PDFs can include embedded digital certificates. Starting with this release, users can view these certificates present in a PDF file.
Click on View Certificates button to open a panel displaying all the certificates contained in the PDF. Currently, the following details about the certificates are available:
A new HTML parameter, enableDigitalCertificates, has been introduced to toggle the availability of the button.
A new JavaScript API, getDigitalCertificates(callback), has been introduced to retrieve the digital certificates embedded in a PDF. This is an asynchronous function and requires a callback object to handle the results. The callback object must include the following methods:
Example:
enableDigitalCertificates = false to hide the digital certificate button.
enableDigitalCertificates = true to show the digital certificate button. Default value is true when this parameter is not configured.
JavaScript API getDigitalCertificates(callback)
// Define the callback object
const certificateCallback = {
onSuccess: function (certificates) {
console.log("Certificates retrieved successfully:", certificates);
// Process the certificates as needed
},
onError: function (errorMsg) {
console.error("Error retrieving certificates:", errorMsg);
// Handle the error accordingly
alert("Failed to fetch certificates: " + errorMsg);
}
};
// Call the API
viewone.getDigitalCertificates(certificateCallback);
This release adds support for viewing the table of contents in applicable PDFs.
By clicking the Table of contents button on north toolbar, users can view and navigate directly to any section of the PDF.
A new HTML parameter, enableTableOfContentsButton, controls the button visibility and getPDFTableOfContents() JavaScript API allows fetching the table of contents programmatically for enhanced navigation.
Example:
enableTableOfContentsButton = false to hide the Table of contents button.
enableTableOfContentsButton = true to show the Table of contents button for PDF with table of contents. Default value is true when this parameter is not configured.
JavaScript API getPDFTableOfContents() to fetch table of contents of documents in json format.
Starting with this release, we have qualified IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual on Windows Server 2022.
With this release, users can create sticky annotations on documents using iPad.
To enable sticky annotation, use the html parameter annotationsSticky and set the value to true.
Note: The default value of the parameter annotationsSticky is false
For online documentation, see the IBM Daeja ViewONE knowledge center.
IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual, Version 5.0.15, includes all fixes and features up to and including IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual Version 5.0.14 iFix 10.
It provides the following additional fixes:
DT419622 Microsoft word document (.doc) fails to open with parsing exception
Certain word document with table content fails to open, eventually causing hung threads while parsing the document.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT420439 A particular EML file fails to open due to a parsing error
Specific EML file with an invalid style attribute value fails to open, showing the error message: "Unable to parse HTML email content".
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT435372 The checkbox in the PDF form do not render with borders
When viewing certain PDF document with form fields in the viewer, the checkboxes appear without borders, making it difficult to identify them.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
When running Daeja ViewONE 5.0.15 as a component inside IBM Content Navigator, the minimum supported version of ICN is 3.2.0, unless stated otherwise by the specific ICN release.
Go to the page at Software Product Compatibility Reports to create a high-level report for operating systems, hypervisors and prerequisites.
When printing PDF documents with annotations, the annotations are embedded in the
downloaded PDF document as native PDF annotations. This reduces the time taken
to print documents, especially large documents.
This process currently only applies to printing PDF documents when 'Print Original Size'
is selected in the print settings. If this is not selected or the printed document contains
other file formats, the print process completely flattens the content of each page.
The time it takes to prepare a PDF with annotations for print using the optimized print
depends on the total number of annotations. In most cases you need to have several hundreds
of annotations in a single document before the time difference becomes noticeable.
With the optimized print any annotations created in IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual are embedded
into the document as native PDF annotations. Therefore they are recognized as active annotations
when the PDF is viewed by tools that support editing of PDF documents. If this document is
subsequently viewed by IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual, any annotations will be treated as static
content where loading a document with pre-applied native annotations cannot be edited.
To prevent document or annotation modification appropriate security would need to be set via a
tool that supports editing or via some PDF printers.
Sticky Notes
Sticky Note annotations will appear on top of other annotations regardless of z-order.
Line Width
The maximum line width of native annotations is 12pt and will be limited to this for print output.
Solid Text
If a solid text annotation is set to be semi-transparent the fill background and the text will
become semi-transparent, previous behavior left the text solid and only the fill became
semi-transparent.
Image Stamps
Image stamp annotations will appear underneath any other annotation types regardless of the z-order.
This is due to the fact that they added to the content of the PDF and not as separate native PDF
annotations.
The optimized PDF print does not occur in the following circumstances:
The document will be built with the source document as it is saved in the repository. The document is also built by using the annotations that are saved in the repository, unless annotations have been edited. The following scenarios explain the effects of this behavior:
Result: The document currently displayed in the viewer differs from the newly built document in the system. To prevent this issue occurring, the master document should be locked or checked out when it is retrieved for document builder.
Note Versioned documents will not be affected by this issue. This will only affect situations where the document that a URL refers to has changed.
Result: The document currently displayed in the viewer differs from the newly built document in the system. To prevent this issue occurring, the master document should be locked or checked out when it is retrieved for document builder.
When in document builder mode, the option to restore annotations is not supported. The following scenario explains the effects of this behavior:
Scenario 1:
Result: The user cannot reload the annotations from the server. Newly created annotations and edited annotation edits remain.
To restore any newly created annotations, the user must take the following steps:
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:
For information on the supported file formats refer to the tech note below. Please note that this is a live document and might get updated frequently. https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10730429
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.
For additional information on IE/Edge limitations, refer to the following tech notes:
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. Please be aware, as this behavior may not be optimal for your end user viewing experience.
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
un-redacted document. For instance, mypresentation.ppt will default to
mypresentation.tif. In this version the user might be prompted with a filename
such as 41f96b20b97f431ebd4efd85245f1f72.tif instead. The user can still
change the name to something more meaningful.
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:
Result: This switch is not permitted and the user will stay in their current mode.
To enter document builder mode, the user must close the pageN document and then switch to document builder mode.
DocN documents are not supported in conjunction with document builder mode. The combination of these features may result in unusual and/or unexpected behavior.
Document builder is able to support TIFF and PDF files with the exception 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 flags 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 has indicated that the content may not be copied.
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 that have the transparent property set to true and a fill color set to black are not printed transparent for non PDF documents. When printing PDF documents, with 'Print Original Size' selected, these annotations are printed with transparency applied.
UI mirroring is not supported for the bidi languages, Arabic and Hebrew.
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