Release Notes

Summary:  New feature and Bug Fixing

Feature

• New Add Approval Summary Post Function allows to write, on the current issue, all the Approval Responses, collected in different issue statuses, into a new Jira comment or into a custom field (text area multi line).

Bugs

• Wiki field doesn't render properly into the email starting from app version 40.40.2
• The approval mapping resets to default values when removing all approvers to add other approvers

Summary:  Bug fixing and Jira 8.17 compatibility

Bugs

• Duplicate Approvals are created for a specific scenario randomly

Summary:  Bug fixing and enhancements

Bugs

• Missing capability to setup the user used to perform the automatic action in Jira 8.14 and next
• The user-picker population doesn't succeed if the condition enabling the Approval returns false

Enhancement

• Availability of the parameter Issue Key to query Issue Approvals via Rest Api (e.g. ../rest/herzum-hap-services/1.0/api/issueapprovals?issuekey=PRJ-123)

Summary:  Bug fixing

Bugs

• The evaluation of a conditional rule is wrong when  the jql includes the OR clause and the whole jql is not into parenthesis 
• When the 'Approval reply' email arrives (notification email when someone approves/rejects) the link in this message to the project doesn't work
• Adding debug logs to investigate a rare bug 'Duplicate Approvals on some tickets'
• Some minor fixes on Delegation screens
• On performing a bulk approval that expects sequential approval, sometimes two approvals get approved
• When an Approval Mapping is not consistent with respect to the source status of the selected approval transition, it still shows as valid and the integrity checker reports a wrong warning

Summary: Jira 8.16 compatibility and Bug fixing

Bugs

• When the Submit date is not set, the delegated approver has not the capability to approve as delegated
• Approval email for Service Desk Not Working

• Icons in approval email notification are unusually big when they are displayed

Jira 8.16 Compatibility

• The JQL autocompletion doesn't work in Jira 8.16

Summary: Improvement and Bug fixing

Bugs

• Missing capability to grant permissions to notify the approval requests or permissions to configure approval flow for single issue to none
• After trying to save the post-function "Add approval summary on linked issues" the site didn't finish loading.

Improvement

• The notify button is hidden when the user displaying the issue is not enabled to click it

Summary: Bug fixing

Bugs

• Reminder notification doesn't work when the Sequential Approvals is Enabled and the Approvals are enabled basing on Condition

Summary: Minor Bug fixing

Bugs

• Some fixes for the check automatic transition failure, case of some scenarios

Summary: Bug fixing

Bugs

• Some fixes for Automatic Transition failure on abstaining
• When an Approval mapping is not consistent with respect the 'transition on approbation' configured on the workflow, the issue approval tuples are created but they should not
•  JIRA-Bootstrap ERROR [c.h.j.p.approval.lifecycle.LifeCycleManager]
• Missing capability to setup an super user via the user picker popup on different administration screen in Jira 8.14

Summary: Bug fixing and Improvement

Bugs

• When setting an expression, by using user picker or group picker tags, the suggested values do not load if chosen language is not English
• Valid Issue Approvals are deleted on deleting an Approval Mapping for a specific scenario
• Bugs on performing bulk Move or Delete Approval Mapping configurations 

Improvement

• Additional checks on Trial licenses

Summary: Bug fixing and  Code Refactoring

Bugs

• Missing capability to setup Single Issue Approval configuration (affects app v. 4.43.7)
• Bugs on clicking Cancel during an action (Approve Reject , etc) on an issue

Code refactoring

• Moving all the AO logic to a dedicated Persistence Manager

Summary: Bug fixing and Improvements

Bugs

When performing the bulk approval via the herzum bulk approval menu, the approbation doesn't succeed by inserting a correct username and password
Other Fixes

Improvement

Improving Herzum Web Panel's Time to load

Summary: Bug fixing

Bugs

• When trying to edit a workflow with the herzum linked issue validator, jira hangs
• The email that notifies for wrong approval reply syntax or required authentication doesn't fire
• the "Approval History" tab sometimes doesn't display data
• When a Conditional rule is invalid, no alert advises on the Condition Rules Administration Screen

Summary: Bug fixing and minor improvement

Bugs

• Sometimes the Approval History displays error rendering
• On updating the Approval name, the Populate expression is corrupted
• When Project and Issue Type are not consistent for a configured delegation, no warning advise. 
• The Jql "issue in pendingForUserApproval("xxxxxxxx")"does not return any results when an issue that was expecting approvals has been deleted

Improvement

• The integrity checker informs in case of a configured delegation is no more consistent with respect to the Project and the Issue Type

Summary: Bug Fixing

Bugs

• Some groups name looks weird with this symbol R&amp
• Unable to generate approval request e-mails when a comment by anonymous user exists
• Fixed ERROR /secure/QuickEditIssue.jspa [c.h.j.p.a.manager.impl.UtilityManagerImpl] Invalid object name 'AO_56464C_APPROVAL'
• Fixed ERROR  /secure/QuickEditIssue.jspa [c.h.j.p.a.manager.impl.UtilityManagerImpl] Incorrect syntax near '='
• On uninstalling the app the Approval Conditions are not cleaned on the mapped Workflows when a workflow Draft exists and Jira uses Oracle database

Task

• Dismissing experimental jql  expPendingForApproval("", "") 

Improvement

• Capability to remove unused E-Mail Logos from uploaded logos list

Bugs

• Getting Sever Error 500 when trying to Approve or Reject an Approval
• Error on uploading some icons
• Minor fixes on Recovery screen 
• Minor fixes on Approval Reply recipient screen 

Improvement

• Capability to remove unused E-Mail Logos from uploaded logos list

Bugs

• Getting Sever Error 500 when trying to Approve or Reject an Approval
• Error on uploading some icons
• Minor fixes on Recovery screen 
• Minor fixes on Approval Reply recipient screen 

Summary: Bug Fixing

Bugs

• When the issue type icon is not available on the expected Jira/JSD folder (e.g. third part app custom icon) the emails show a broken icon instead of skipping the image
• When the priority icon is a JSD or custom icon, the emails show a broken icon 
• the Roles multi select list shows unexpected arrows in Jira 8.12 and next on the Recipient administration screen
• Other minor fixes

Summary: Hot Fix

Bug

• When the issue priority is null, notifications are not send and
  auto transitions after decision are not working

Include  unpublished version 4.43

Summary: Improvements and Bug Fixing

Improvements

• Approval emails display Project, Issue Type, Assignee, Reporter and Priority icons
• Approval Buttons in email change look

Bugs

• Missing capability to setup the require authentication options in Jira 8.12 and next
• Wiki Markup fields are not rendered identically to the other field in emails on MS Exchange servers and MS Outlook Clients
• the screen that popup when approving on the search navigator doesn't show entirely
• the Request Approval drop menu scrolls with the page
• the Awaiting your Approval drop menu scrolls with the page
• the Roles multi select list shows unexpected arrows in Jira 8.12 and next
• The transition on reject doesn't honor the Enable Automatic Workflow Transition based on Minimum Required Approbations and Rejections Global Setting OFF
• When creating or editing an Approval, the Approval Configuration screen shows unexpected arrows in Jira 8.12 and next
• On replying an approval and inserting a wrong password, no warning advises and the screen stalls in Jira 8.12 and next
• When rejecting approvals via the Awaiting your Approvals button, the action succeeds on clicking the second time in Jira 8.12 and next

Summary:  Bug Fixing

Bugs

• Some fixes for delegation screens
• The form allowing to setup the transition on rejection for a Single issue Approval configuration doesn't persist changes
• Issue type icons do not show in emails
• Lost Check Approval Conditions on updates
• Actions on Command-bar drop-down no longer works in Jira 8.12
• The Permissions forms do not keep selected options
• Cannot save user as user to run responsive workflow transition when username includes special characters

Summary:  Bug Fixing and Minor enhancements

Bug

• The “View Approval Workflow” link on an issue doesn't display the expected data for some users

Summary:  Bug Fixing and Improvement

Bugs

• Missing notification on moving back an approval in pending

• When choosing the bulk action 'Reject' or 'Abstain', the screen states 'approving' instead of 'rejecting' or 'abstaining'

• Approval Icons doesn't appear in Email notifications for a specific scenario

Improvement

• Refactoring 

Summary:  Bug Fixing

Bugs

• The email notification recovery doesn't inform about fixed inconsistencies
• Automatic Email Notification doesn't work randomly
• Icons doesn't show in Email notifications
• Other minor fixes

Summary:  Bug Fixing

Bugs

• Same JQLs do not return expected results on Jira 8.11
• Gadget export file does not support encoding UTF-8
• Other minor fixes

Summary:  Bug Fixing

Bugs

• Approval Status displays into the Customer Portal also when it is not expected
• Other minor fixes

Refactoring

• Dismiss unused items
• Replacing deprecated methods

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Feature

• Capability to show the approval status on the customer portal

Improvement

• Bounce approval by email message when response syntax is invalid

Bugs

• Fixed some bugs on Jira 8.11
• Minor bugs

Bug

• Missing Capability to setup the transition on rejecting after upgrading 4.41

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Feature

• Capability to select a Condition that enables or disables the usage of an email template

Improvement

• Capability to choose if fields having an empty value display on the Approval emails

• Capability to Change the name of an Approval
• Refactoring

Bugs

• Issues with JQL Function: MyPendingApproval
• The built-in gadget causes that Oracle database connections remain locked (Affects only Jira Server for a specific scenario)
• Approval Notification is not sent when an issue is cloned using ScripRunner
• Minor bugs

Summary: Bug Fixing

Bug Fixing

• The Customer Request Type field doesn't display expected data in the approval emails
•  The REST call ---/rest/herzum-hap-services/1.0/api/ issueapprovals  get back data without filtering the 'Approval Name'

Summary: Bug Fixing

Bug Fixing

• The information details of the Issue Sub-Tasks to show into the Approval Email Templates do not include the Summary.

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Features

• Capability to include Sub-task and specify the information details to show into the Approval Email Templates
• Availability of methods to retrieve the list of all Approval Mappings and Approvals in a ScriptRunner script in order to populate Custom Fields

Improvements

• When require Authentication is enabled an email advises that Herzum Mail Handler cannot process the response
• Improving performance of Pending Approval, pendingForUserApproval('') and MyPendingApproval Jqls
• Improving performance of Herzum Gadget when clicking Prev
• Improvement performance on Herzum Approval Report Gadget for Jira having MySql Database

Bug Fixing

• When configuring the Optional Approvers or the Approval Reply Notification Scheme on the Single Issue Approval Configuration screen, the Advanced Setting button gets disabled
• The minimum required rejection 'None' unconditioned doesn't work
• ClassCastException causes Pending Approval and MyPendingApproval do not work
• Other fixes

Summary: Improvements and Bug Fixing

Improvements

• The JQL Function myPendingApproval() can take the parameter Project Key: myPendingApproval(Project Key)
• The JQL Function pendingForApproval() can take the parameter Project Key: pendingForApproval(Project Key)

Bugs

• Approval_Menu_Perm AO is not included in Herzum Export.zip file
• Missing Alert on Approval create screen for invalid Users Groups
• The dashboard Approval Report Gadget is not able to load and other fixes

Summary: Bug Fixing

Bug

• Email Templates configuration screen displays 'Field has been removed' instead of the Field Name

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Features

• Securing Approval actions in compliance with FDA regulation CFR 21 Part 11
• Allowing bulk reject, abstain request awaiting approval through the Jira's Bulk change interface

• Capability to Customize the Buttons labels on the issue

• REST API for developers who want to integrate with the app

Improvements

• Code Refactoring
• Sanitization of the Information kept into the Herzum export zip file

Bugs

• When the username associated to an Approver Bulk User is updated, it is deleted by the list without advising
• Approval Bulk Operation at step 4 erroneously states that there are no issue to approve (case of some scenarios)
• Other fixes

Summary: New Features and Bug Fixing

Feature

• Capability to Reply Approvals on the command-bar of the issue view

Bugs

• Case of delete bulk operation, the number of affected mappings is wrong
• When performing a Bulk operation, the screen advising for the result shows behind the Bulk operation screen
• Misleading text on Sequential Approval setting
• Bug for scenario involving Require authentication and Mandatory comment

Summary: Improvements and Bug Fixing

Improvements

• Code Refactoring

Bugs

• Some minor fixes on Integrity Recover routine

Summary: Improvements and Bug Fixing

Improvements

• New JQL function pendingUserApprovalName
• Code Refactoring

Bugs

• When trying to create a conditional rule  without granting super user with browse permissions on no Project, the displayed alert is misleading

Summary: Bug Fixing and Jira 8.8 compatibility

Bugs

• Losing capability to setup or view Single Issue Approval Configuration
• Other minor fixes

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Features

• New JQL function pendingForApprovalName('')
• New Quick filter filtering only pending approvals

Improvement

• Revamping Integrity Checker feature

Bug

• Automatic Workflow transition failure on issue creation
• The permissions to display the Approval Menù doesn't work when selecting users enabled to display the menu
• Some Approval fields in Oracle DB can have the value Null instead of ' ' and it causes a Null pointer
• Herzum Approval Plugin causing slowness in Jira due to ReindexSingleissue multiple threads during peak hours
• The Bulk Operation screen, at step 3, doesn't inform about the effective number of Mappings that will be updated
• Other minor fixes

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Features

• Capability to bulk approve as a Delegated approver through the bulk edit interface on the the Jira's built-in search navigator
• The new Bulk 'Edit' operation allows to update existing approval mappings using the setting applied on an existing mapping

Improvements

• Enhance application logs in order to investigate performance issue in JQL searches using pendingforuserapproval
• Add the Jira system fields "Component/s to the list of fields that can be displayed on the Herzum Approval Report Gadget

Bugs

• On updating the 'Automatic transition on Rejecting' on a Mapping, the Automatic transition doesn't run also if the issue should transition
• The Check Automatic transition failure utility doesn't report transition failures based on setting 'transition with None Approvals'
• Usability bug on Require Authentication feature: when a user hits enter to enter the password it doesn't register a change
• Missing capability to reorder gadget fields due to AUI library changes from 7.9.x to 8.0
• When the approval reply by email via approval tag doesn't include the expected comment, the email that advises doesn't fire
• The capability to setup 'Super Approvers' on Mapping (or Single issue config) basis, doesn't work if the 'Super user to Populate the user picker basing on expressions' is not configured
• The tag <tempo-teams> doesn't show on new added Approvals
• The Require comment in approval mappings can be bypassed by entering space for some scenarios
• The Approval form doesn't honor the buttons setting
• Other minor fixes

Summary:  New features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Features

• Capability to setup mandatory and optional approvals on Mapping basis
  
• Use Tempo Teams to configure the requested Approvals

Improvement

• Capability to show links to issue attachments included in the approval e-mails

Bugs

• On the Approval Mapping Configuration screen (add Mapping) some setting are not correctly displayed when navigating across different transitions
• Other minor fixes

Summary:  New features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Improvements

• The Bulk Configuration screen allows to manage bulk operations by Project, Issue Type, Workflow Source status and Transitions
• Other minor improvements

Features

• Allow super user to reset all approval instead of all or nothing

Bugs

• When removing all requested approvals and then adding a new one the Advanced Setting are still displayed as configured but on saving them are not
• The two functionalities 'Require Authentication' and 'Require Approval Comment' are not able to work together
• Some minor fixes affecting Jira 8.4 compatibility
• When the 'Require Authentication'  is enabled, the Approval Comment is not kept in the history
• The app fails to install when Jira version is not numeric (E.g. EAP version)
  
• Other minor fixes

Dismissal

• Sleep time in automatic Request Approval Notification is no more needed following the improvements in v. 4.33

Summary:  Improvements and Bug Fixing

Improvements

• Improving performance of the Automatic actions performed by the app
• Support "Teamworkx Issue Picker for Jira" custom fields in emails: have the summary followed by the issue key in brackets

Bugs

• Different Fixes to meet jira 8.4 compatibility
• The Count of the Pending Approvals, on the Manage Delegated Approvers screen, doesn't show the effective number of issues
• The Date Picker field on the Manage Delegated Approvers screen doesn't load properly when tool language is not English
• It's not possible to delete email template fields when these fields have been deleted in Jira
• On enabling Authentication and Require approval comment options, a wrong message appears on the screen allowing to approve via email
• After upgrading to latest version, Approval Mappings Window stopped working (affected Microsoft SQL Server)
• Approval Reply failure when configuring recipients with a 'Single' user picker custom field causes Automatic transition failure
• Other minor fixes

Summary:  New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Features

• Capability to setup Super Approvers on Mapping basis
• Capability to notify Watchers on approval actions 

Improvements

• A Teamworkx Issue Picker for Jira custom field in approval email includes Issues Summary

Bugs

• Wiki markup custom field are not rendered in Html in the emails 
• When the database is SqlServer the export.zip file doesn't include Approval History data 
• When the database is SqlServer the Herzum Validators do not work 
• Other fixes

Improvement

• Improved Logging Messages 

Summary:  New Features and Bug Fxing

Features

• Capability to customize the action button texts per Email Template
• A new Email template option allows to show linked issues in approval emails
• A new option allows requiring authentication when clicking approval buttons on the issue.

Bugs

• In Oracle, after saving the Customized the default reply and request templates, the free body section is erroneously instantiated.
• Other minor fixes.

Notification regarding Herzum Approval Data Center approved version

We intend to launch a Data Center approved version of Herzum Approval soon.
If you own a Data Center host product, you will be required to purchase a Data Center app license upon your next renewal.

Summary:  New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Features

• New option allowing to group approval history data by 'Work Flow Source status & Approval Execution Start date’
• New option allowing to skip the remind of the pending approval request depending by the evaluation of a conditional rule
• Allowing bulk approve request through the Jira's built-in search and bulk edit interface
• Capability to setup via UI the sleep time in delayed job autoRequestApprovalNotification

Improvements

• Delegation screens graphic restyling

Bugs

• Some fixes for Approval Reply Notification email
• When editing an existing delegation, the selected issue type is not displayed on the Edit screen.

Summary:  New Feature, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Improvements

• Global Configuration screen revamping
• Capability for the approver to delegate all his approvals at once to a single delegate by project or globally
• Changed some text on buttons and screens

Features

• Capability to define the users to notify regarding a approval reply for every approval mapping
• New option allowing to customize History fields
• New option allowing to hide the bar showing the percentage number of kept approbations
• New option allowing to avoid that approver can Reject

Bugs

• The Automatic Notification doesn't fire when the Conditional rule is based on a Scripted field populated when the ticket transitions in the Workflow Status requiring the Approvals
• The filter option 'Show the last/final decision of a approver within an approval (workflow)' sometimes doesn't work
• Approval Request emails are being sent to inactive users
• Other fixes case of inactive users
• Calling the Service Manager before all components are loaded. 

Features

• New jql function issue in approvedApproval('ApprovalName' text, 'Approved Count int) returning all issues with a number of approbations from an Approval (specified by name) greater than the specified Number
• New jql function issue in myApprovedInHistory() filtering in Approval History all issues having received an Approbation by the logged user.

Bugs

• Workflow transition in Approval Reply email always states Approval transition and not the Reject Transition even when reject is performed
• Other minor fixes

Summary:  Bug Fixing

• Automatic notification failure
• The Herzum Approval Percentage custom field doesn't honour Conditional rules on Approvals or Mapping
• Emails including the Herzum Approval Percentages Actions custom field don't display coloured percentages
• When a Conditional Rule applied on an Approval or on a Mapping returns False, the Approval Summary must not consider those Approvals and other fixes
• Minor bugs on Approval Re-indexing
• Other minor fixes

Features

• Auto populate an user picker field basing on expression
• Capability to customize the email body of the message sent case of wrong response
• Capability to dispatch the 'Add Comment' event when adding the app add a comment to an issue

Improvement

• Timestamps are consistent with Language and Time zone User Preferences

Bugs

• The notifications that a comment is missing does not use Global Approval Email address or Project Email address
• Other minor bug fixing

Feature

• Availability of the new Validator 'Conditioned Validation on subtasks, parent of subtask, epic or issues in epic'
• Availability of the new Validator 'Conditioned Validation on Linked Issues'.

Bugs

• When data to display on the gadget are ordered by date the displayed information are not ordered properly
• When configuring a Single issue Approval for the first time on a specific issue, on clicking Advanced Settings, the list of available setting doesn't appear (affects Jira 8)
• NullPointerException on updating and saving a Conditional Rule associated to MRA or MRR
• The Approval emails are not sent when email template includes a Project Picker custom field.

 Improvement

• Post Function 'Add Approval Summary on linked issues' provides a new option allowing to add the Approval Summary on the current issue.

 Bugs

• I can't use [Approval Name] in the Approval notification free body text,

 Bugs

• Can't save E-Mail Templates when adding long texts and fields
  

Feature

• Capability to put the final Approval Reply Summary into a comment in the linked issues
• Availability of the new field ‘Can Approve Detail’ to customize the free body text of the Approval Request email Template
• Availability of the new field ‘Can Approve Detail’ to customize the free body text of the Approval Reply email Template

 Bugs

• The Approval Report Gadget displays information stored on the Approval History without checking logged user permissions.
• The Herzum Approval Status Custom field doesn't display the Approval detail properly case of Approval associated to a Group picker custom field
• The field 'Approval Name' is erroneously named 'Approval' in the Global Configuration ->Customize the text of the approval log
• Extra ";" in approval notification template
• No available transition on Reject to choose due to java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Step cannot be null
• In the Conditional Administration screen the URL is misspelling

Feature

• Availability of a new field "Can Approve Detail" to customize the text of the approval log

Improvement

• Reducing the gray border of the mails when no content must appear (no logo, header and footer texts)

Summary: Bug Fixing

Bug

• When opening an issue in the List View of the Search Navigator, the approval panel shows no approvals to process.

Summary: New Feature and Bug Fixing

Feature

• Capability to default the Only My Approvals filter

Bugs

• Approval Multiple Property conf screen - On selecting the Group Picker field the User Picker field All still appears on the other tab

• When a project have a mapping associated to a no more existing issue type, the Approval Mapping administration screen throws an error

• Workflows having transitions from Any Status to Itself cause the error 'java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Step cannot be null'

• On editing a mapping in order to add an email automation service, an unexpected alert appears

• The evaluation of who can approve is not correct for a specific scenario

• Other minor fixes

Summary: Minor Bug fixes on Quick filters

Summary: New Feature and Bug Fixing

Feature

• Approvals Quick Filters

Bug

• Missing capability to respond to an approval request case of user picker (any) single property

Summary: Improvements and Bug Fixing

Improvement

• Include the Herzum approval app version info on the troubleshooting page
• Capability to render Html of the the Approval Percentage and Approval Status custom fields in the Approval Reply screen

Bug

• Some bugs on the evaluation of the excluded approvers
• Some fixes for the Approvals menu.

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Bug Fixing

• On approving via comment, if status is written using lower case (e.g. approved) the approval succeeds but 'Approval Comment is not added

• Inactive user are still allowed to approve via email (buttons or mail-handler)

• Some texts are confusing

• Free body text placement doesn't work case of Approval Reply email template

• Some bugs on loading the Request Approval Button

• Adding a logo to the emails sent by the plugin is preventing mail from being sent

• Approval Reply screen doesn't show logo

• java.lang.ClassCastException: com.atlassian.jira.user.DelegatingApplicationUser cannot be cast to java.util.Collection

• The bulk dialog shows empty when selected page is the Approval Mapping administration screen

• Other trivial bugs

Feature

• As a configurer I need to setup that none has Request Approval Permissions by Project and issue type

• Add "approving user" and "approval name" as a variables you can use in the free body text of an Email Reply

Task

• Dismissing jql issue in expPendingForApproval

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Improvement

• Providing Conditional Rule autocomplete renderer

• Improving appearance and usability of the Approval Configuration screen

• Changing export.zip destination folder

Feature

• Blocking a Transition on an issue depending by Linked issues Approval status

• Blocking a Transition on subtasks/parent of subtask/epic/issue in epic depending by related issue/s Approval status

Bug

• Correcting some spelling and grammar errors returned by the warnings messages

Summary: New Features and Bug Fixing

Features

• New option allowing to establish, dynamically, the start date to re-send unlimited notifications, according to an established schedule, reminding that an item has not yet received the approval response.

Bug Fixing

• The Approval Mapping Administration screen does not display View Setting when the only MRAR is the MRR unconditioned

Summary: Bug Fixing

Bug Fixing

• The Approval Configuration screen doesn't allow the turn empty the values configured on users and groups properties
  

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Features

• Capability to control the placement of the free body text

• Capability to control the placement of the approval buttons

• Capability to control if the screen requiring to insert an Approval Comment pops up when approving via email

Improvements

• /wiki/spaces/HAP/pages/30739582
  

Bug Fixing

• /wiki/spaces/HAP/pages/12006264
• Fixed some minor bugs

2018-07-26

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Improvements

• A new option allows to switch off the service that add the Approval Conditions

Features

• New Approval built-in custom field displaying the percentage of approbations, rejections,abstentions and pending approvals
• New jql function issue in PendingApprovalDays(Days)
• New Approval built-in custom field displaying Approvals status

Bug Fixing

• NullPointerException notifyUpdateApprovalStatus(ApprovalManagerImpl.java:1660) causing Automatic transition failure
• Some Minor bugs

Summary: Bug Fixing

• Bulk operations form doesn't allow to perform the expected operations
  

4.15-Jira-7.0-7.10

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Features

• Capability to enable or disable the Abstain approval on the Mappings and on Configurations for Single Issue
• Approval Mail Handler is able process comments not triggering any action (E.g. @COMMENT my comment@)
• Capability to customize the character sequence that serves as the marker for start and end of approval and approval comment (E.g.###APPROVED###')

Improvements

• The list of Available fields to customize the Free Text in Body section includes the Issue Approval Id

Bug Fixing

• The Herzum Report gadget does not display data when Jira database is Sql Server and collation is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI
• Wrong evaluation of elapsed time to unlock the Retry refreshing consistence for an Approval Mapping
• Case of enabling 'Notifying Approvals via Comments, the Comments added by the Jira Add comment mail handler are not properly processed
• Other minor bugs

2018-06-20

Summary: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

Features

• New option to have sequential approvals by users selected in an user picker custom fields

• New option to customize the approval email body: capability to add a text constructed dynamically by concatenating issue fields and texts

• New jql functions:
  • Issues that have received no approbation
  • Issues that have been partially approved

Improvements

• The reset button is hidden when the Lock reversing approval actions is enabled
  

Bug Fixing

• Some minor bugs

Summary: Bug fixing

• Wrong check on Conditional Rule causing errors on JQLs results and automations (Email Re-sending and Approval Action automations)

Summary: Bug fixing

Support zip doesn't include Jira logs

2018-06-05

Summary: New features and Bug fixing

Features

• Setup the Approval Comment mandatory on approving, rejecting, abstaining individually HAPSD-30)
• Automate resending the Approval Request email notification after an elapsed time (21))

Improvements

• Adding Original Estimate field to the list of available fields of the approval email template HAP
• Reducing Heap Space Consumption due to Conditional Rule evaluation

Bug Fixing

• Some minor bugs

2018-05-04

Summary: New features and Bug fixing

Features

• /wiki/spaces/HAP/pages/30739582(HAPSD-16)
• Sequential & Non-Sequential Approvals (HAPSD-35)
• Automate approval after an elapsed time (HSUPT-106)

Bugs

• When setting Other Filters on a Gadget, the selected options are cleaned on refreshing the dashboard
• When clicking the Request Approvals notification button the issue is not refreshed causing that the Requested Notification date is not up-to-date (HAPSD-37)
• The Data Picker custom field included in an Approval Email template shows hour 00.00.00 in addition to date (HAPSD-25)
• Deactivated users are notified of Approval Request/Reply (HAPSD-39)
  
• Delegated approvers don't receive Approval Reply emails
• Other minor fixes

Summary:

Features

• Approval delegation (HAPSD-8, HSUPT-106)

Improvements

• Hiding a field in the Approval Request email when it is empty or none (HAPSD-25)

Bugs

• Adding border line for tables in the email
• Other minor fixes

Summary: New features, Improvements and Bug fixing

Bugs

• Approval Reply email doesn't show the Approval Comment
• Minor bugs on the email notifying the Service desk approvals
• Wrong email format in Outlook (HAPSD-25)
• Upload image icon returns error
• Other minor fixes

Features

• Customize the text displayed on the buttons of the Approval Request email(HAPSD-7)

Improvements

• Hiding the transitions under the Request Approvals button in case of single transition, so that user can click on "Request Approvals" to send notifications (HAPSD-12)

Summary: Bug fixing

• Automatic transition on rejection not working in some scenarios

Summary: Bug fixing

• E-mails are NOT sent when clicking on the Request Approval Button (affects Jira versions 7.5 and subsequent versions)

Summary: Bug fixing

• In the approval notification the logo and icon images are not rendering (affects Jira versions 7.5 and subsequent versions)

Summary: Bug fixing

• In the approval notification the logo and icon images are not rendering
• Other minor bug fixing

Summary: Bug fixing and Improvements

Improvements

• Improving JQLs performance
• The Approval History stores 'Reply Notification' date/time

Bug Fixing

• Approval Request email displays ${issue.getPriorityObject().getName()} when the Priority field is hidden
  
• When the Herzum Approval Gadget points to a no more existing filter, the Gadget throws Internal Server Error

Summary: Bug fixing, Jira 7.6 Compatibility and Improvements

Improvements

• Improving 'issue in pendingForApproval()' performance

Bugs

• Error when configuring the permissions to display the 'Single Issue Approval' button
  
• Some minor bugs on email notifications
• Other minor bug fixes

Summary: New features and Bug fixing

Feature

• /wiki/spaces/HAP/pages/12006264
•  The Recipients Administration Screen provides the capability to avoid that the approval request email is sent to the users selected in User Picker Fields

Bug

• Approval Mappings do not show after that the associated transition on reject is deleted from the workflow.
  

Summary: Bug fixing and improvements

Bugs

• When running a Re-indexing, the configured MRA and CMRA that belongs to an Approval Mapping are deleted
• On updating the settings allowing the Automatic transitioning based on conditions, the existing issues are not transitioned consequently
• Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'EVENTS', table 'JiraSoftware.dbo.AO_D195E9_APPROVAL_RECIPIENTS'; column does not allow nulls

Improvements

• Improving jql functions performance

Summary: Improvements and Bug fixing

Improvements

• On installing the add-on, the Approval Conditions are added only to the Workflows associated with an Approval flow.

Bug Fixing

• Getting an exception when selecting the"Destination Status" to customize the Approval log on Jira Comments tab
• When using 2 approval groups from 2 group picker fields, the "selected group detail" from the first approval group displays the users of the second approval group
• Approval Reply template doesn't display properly when approving via buttons
• When accessing the Recipient option under the Herzum Approval configurations, page displays Error 500
  
• Other minor bug fixes

2017-05-22 

Summary: Improvements, New Features and Bug Fixing

Improvements

• /wiki/spaces/HAP/pages/12006264

New Features

• /wiki/spaces/HAP/pages/12006264
• New option providing the capability to enable sequential approval

Bug Fixing

• Some texts/images are not properly displayed when wiki rendered fields are added to Approval Required/Reply email templates
• Null Pointer in Oracle when navigating an Approval Configuration
• Other minor fixes

2017-04-21 

Summary: Bug fixing

• When user email address is associated to multiple accounts the approval reply via email does not work

Summary: Bug fixing

Bugs

• A customized Subject in an Email template by Project omits the Source status field

• The actions buttons show large also if the option display large button is off

• Restore of the Icon - PostgreSQL Error on Approval Re-indexing

• Other minor bug fixes

2017-03-23

Summary: Improvements, new features and bug fixing

New Features

• The/wiki/spaces/HAP/pages/12006451
• Capability to reset an approval via email and via comments

Improvements

• Capability to reset selected values on filters of the Herzum Approval Report gadget

Bugs

• Fields User_Evaluator and Icon Id not properly initialized on Jira instance having SQL Server
• Bootstrap Error
• Other minor fixes

from Jira 7.0 to Jira 7.3

Summary: Improvements, new features and bug fixing

New Features

• Configurable automatic workflow transition depending by the number of rejections
• /wiki/spaces/HAP/pages/12006451
• /wiki/spaces/HAP/pages/12006451
• Capability to specify if the Conditional Rule is evaluated with the current User or reporter or assignee or user picker
• /wiki/spaces/HAP/pages/12002028
• Bulk Copy/Move/Delete Approval Mapping configurations
• /wiki/spaces/HAP/pages/12006169
• Herzum Approvals Report gadget
• Support Request Form

Improvements

• Revamping of all user interfaces (Administration screens, Approval Web panel, Approval History)

Bugs

• Fixed Error converting XML to workflow descriptor.: root cause: Attribute "type" with value "" must have a value from the list "AND OR "
• Other minor fixes