Smart Mover 10 Release Notes

The Smart Mover Release Notes contain information about the new features, changes, fixed issues, known issues and upgrade instructions for each release of Smart Mover version 10.

The versions are sorted by version number in descending order. Use the Navigation block to the right of the page to quickly navigate to the information of a released version.

Smart Mover 10.4.1 - build 27

Release date: 9 April 2020

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New features

The following features have been added in this release of Smart Mover:

• Smart Mover Manager can now export Log file detail. Open the Log then select All or the entries you want and click export. Errors or warnings are indicated by an exclamation mark in first column.

• The Preferences > Logs window includes the option to download the HTTP Logs from the Smart Mover Service machine to the Smart Mover Manager machine desktop. You can also Clear the Logs. This was done to eliminate the need to access the Smart Mover Service machine directly.

• The Preferences >Misc window includes 2 options that are invoked when Smart Mover Manager is launched: "Open Connect Window to Service" and "Auto Connect to Service". The first one simply opens the Connect window where you can enter the password and connect. The second will automatically connect to Smart Mover Service if the password has also been provided.

• When setting up various Tasks the "select folder dialog" now includes the option to Upload files into the selected folder. You can now also Delete files or folders. This was done to eliminate the need to access the Smart Mover Service machine directly. The upload option should be used for scripts, templates and other supporting files and not for production files like images, layouts, and so on.

• Image File Processing IM & SIPS both now allow the command to include data from an associated -metadata.xml file. This is done by entering {/pathToMetadata} in the command.

Changes

The following changes have been implemented in this release of Smart Mover:

• Updated AWS Translation languages.

• The Enterprise Transfer Task now keeps the Destination layout locked until all child relations are set. This was done to prevent Enterprise InDesign Server Automation from processing the layout before its relations are set.

• The New WoodWing logo has been added to the splash screen.

• The Send Mail Task debug data is now included in HTTP Logs.

Fixed issues

• The S3 Upload & Download Task setup now works for all Regions.

• The Enterprise Mod MetaData Task can now modify custom metadata fields that are null in the database.

Documentation

The Smart Mover User Guide has been updated.

Smart Mover 10.4.0 - build 24

Release date: 18 November 2019

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Fixed issues

Documentation

Important notes Once this new version is installed, check your Preferences > Error Handling Send EMails settings. "User Address" (the e-mail address of the User Name) has been added and you may need to enter that data. Click the Test button to make sure your settings are OK. Smart Mover 10.4.0 is MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) compatible. Smart Mover Manager has been code-signed, hardened and notarized. Smart Mover Service is not. (At this time Apple has not provided a way to properly add those security layers to service/console applications.) To start Smart Mover Service for the first time, right-click the application and choose Open from the menu. Once it starts you may also see the message "Terminal would like to access files in your X folder", where X is the location of your Base Path. Click OK to continue.

New features

The following new features have been added in this release of Smart Mover:

• Support for MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) has been added.

• The Copy Files Task now includes the option “Copy Files that have been stable for X seconds". This option can be used to insure that each file is not still being written to by another application.

Background: Before any Task operates on a file it checks to see if another application has the file open. It does this by briefly opening the file with write access. If the file cannot be opened then it is assumed that another app is still writing to it and it is skipped until the next time the Task runs. But there are some situations where this technique may not always work. To work around those times, using this option, the Task first gets a list of all the file sizes that it will be processing. It then waits for the designated number of seconds before it tries to copy each file. If the file size has changed during that delay or the file was not in the original list, it is skipped until the next time the Task is run.

• Elvis Update Bulk Task added. This Task does the same as the Elvis Mod MetaData except that all the processing is done server side with a single command. The Elvis Mod MetaData runs the desired query and then updates each asset one at a time, logging each update. If you are updating more than a few hundred assets then you should use the Bulk Task. It is much faster but does not provide a detail log of the assets that have been updated. Once completed, the Bulk Task will log how many assets where updated along with the number of errors. No detail is available though.

• Both Google and AWS Translate Tasks now include the option to “Add Translation Language Code to File Name”. This allows you to translate the same file into multiple languages and place them all into the same folder. So a file named “sometext.txt” translated into Spanish would be named “sometext-es.txt”.

• Both Google and AWS Translate Tasks can now dynamically translate into languages designated in an associated -metadata.xml file. This is done by picking "-metadata.xml XPath” in the Translation Language pop-up and then providing an XPath valid expression.

Example: If I have a custom Enterprise field called “Languages” and a User enters “es” (the code for Spanish) into that field for a particular article, I can then use the Enterprise Download Task including both the “native” and “metadata” for that article. If I enter "//ExtraMetaData/ExtraMetaData[Property='C_LANGUAGES']/Values/String” into the XPath field then the article will be translated into Spanish. Additionally, if a comma-delimited list of language codes is provided in that field then the file will be translated into each of those languages. So if I entered “es,de” into the Languages custom field for the article, it would be translated into both Spanish and German. Each Translated file name will include the language code to differentiate them and prevent overwriting.

• The AWS Translate Task now includes: Hindi, Malay, Norwegian, and Persian.

• The Enterprise Check Out-In Task now includes the option to set the Status to any given value. This can be done for both the Check-Out and Check-In functions.

Changes

The following changes have been implemented in this release of Smart Mover:

• If Smart Mover Manager has found an Enterprise WWSettings.xml file, the path to that file is now displayed on the About window. This was done to make it easier to determine which WWSettings.xml file is being used.

• When any Task logs in to Enterprise, the URL to that server is now included in the Log entry. Previously only the server name was included.

• Logs now include the name of the Task being run.

• Logs error details are limited to the first 500 characters. This was done to avoid including long Elvis call stacks. The error message itself is not limited.

• The Image File Processing (IM) Task now includes better error messages if it fails.

• The Elvis log-in code has been refactored to better handle load balancers.

• The Enterprise Download Task checks for locks just before each object is downloaded instead of checking when the query is run. This minimizes the possibility of the lock status changing between the time the query was run and the file is to be downloaded.

• E-mailed error Logs are now in HTML format and errors are in red to make them easier to spot.

• If AWS or Google Translate files have an associated -metadata.xml file then it will be placed in the destination folder along with the native translated file.

• The library that performs all zip and unzip operations has been replaced with a new one.

• If you use the Enterprise Copy Task to copy entire Dossiers including children then the child Status will not be changed if you are copying to the same Brand. However, if the copy is into a different Brand, Smart Mover will attempt to find and apply the same Status as the original under the new Brand. If that Status cannot be found then the 'first' Status will be used.

Fixed issues

• Some Elvis Upload errors would not be properly flagged at the Process level.

• When setting up and testing an Elvis query the results window would not include the Status.

• "User Address" has been added to the Preferences >Error Logging e-mail settings. This was done to comply with some SMTP server requirements.

• The Get Mail Task would not save any text at all if the message only contained HTML and the option to save HTML was turned off. Now plain text will be saved if that is the one rendition available.

• The buffer size used by the FTP Put Task has been increased to improve performance.

• HTTP Logs for the Enterprise Copy Task were incomplete.

• The Elvis Folder Upload Task now generates an error if a -metadata.xml override fails. However, the file is still uploaded.

• The Elvis Folder Upload Task now lets you use a -metadata.xml override to change the file name by specifying a "filename" node.

Documentation

The Smart Mover User Guide has been updated.

Smart Mover 10.2.1 - build 19

Release date: 18 June 2019

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New features

No new features have been added in this release of Smart Mover.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Smart Mover.

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed in this release of Smart Mover:

• The Enterprise Download Task would not include ‘output’ files even if they were present in the system.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Smart Mover.

Smart Mover 10.2.0 - build 17

Release date: 9 May 2019

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Changes

Documentation

New features

The following new features have been added in this release of Smart Mover:

• The Enterprise Download, Enterprise to Elvis Transfer, Enterprise Transfer, Enterprise Mod MetaData Tasks all now include the option to set their Status to a given Name. This is in addition to the existing option "Set to Next".

Note: It is important that the provided Status Name exists for all the Brand and Object Type combinations that are selected by the query. If that Status Name is invalid for a particular object then an error will be generated and the current Status will not be changed.

• The Elvis Download, Elvis Check Out & In, Elvis Transfer to Enterprise, Elvis Mod MetaData, and Elvis Delete Assets Tasks now allow the use of a "Query String" in addition to the existing "Query Builder" to select the assets that should be acted upon.

The "Query String" uses the same syntax as the Elvis Pro Client app "Search" field. This way, the string can be constructed using the Pro Client and then copied and pasted into the Smart Mover setup window. Keep in mind that the "Query String" will not apply any Filters that you may be using in the Pro Client; it must therefore select the appropriate assets without Filters.

If you have both a "Query String" and a query built with the "Builder" then only the "Query String" will be used to select the desired assets and the "Builder" setting will be ignored.

For more detailed information about the "Query String" syntax, click the link located just below the field in the Task Setup window or visit Searching for files in Elvis 6 by using a query.

Note: AWS Elvis 5 installations with Elastic and Application Load Balancers are supported.

• The Enterprise Mod MetaData Task now includes the option to "unlock" (abort check-out) the selected objects.

Note: Use this feature carefully; improperly unlocking objects could lead to workflow problems.

• The Enterprise Mod MetaData Task now allows you to copy field values from one metadata field into another for each selected object. This is done by entering a valid Xpath statement proceeded with a "&" into the "value" for that field. For example if you wanted to put the Status Name of the Object into a custom field then set its "Value" to "&//WorkflowMetaData/State/Name".

Notes: The Xpath statements must comply with the current version of the SCEnterprise.wsdl. If this is unclear please post a description of what you need to do to the Smart Mover User Forum. Be careful to apply the correct data type to the field. For example, if the field is "boolean" then the value must be "0", "1", "true" or "false"; "integers", "doubles", "dates" and "datetimes" must also be honored. "string", "multistring" and others can be most any value. Only single values are supported and you should make sure that any "multilist" values are valid for that field.

• The AWS Translate and Google Translate Tasks can now also translate Print articles (.wcml files).

Notes:  Any character or paragraph styles will not be applied in the translated file. However, the first paragraph style found in each "story element/component" will be applied to that entire "story element/component". It is therefore best to do any translations before any extensive styling is applied. There can be no pending Track Changes in the file. If there are then the file will not be translated and placed in the error folder.

Changes

The following changes have been implemented in this release of Smart Mover:

• The Twitter character limit has been increased to 280.

• The AWS Translate Task no longer requires one language to be English. AWS removed this requirement so this change was made.

• The AWS Translate Task now also supports Korean and Indonesian.

• The "Smart Mover Error Files" folder has been moved from the "Smart Mover Service Support" folder into the "Base Path".

Note: This was done to allow easier access to the files and possibly use a Smart Mover Process to manage them. Any existing files will automatically be moved to the new location when Smart Mover Service 10.2.0 is first launched. If you have to revert to an older version of SMS then a new folder in the old location will be created and used, potentially resulting in files in both locations. The new error folder in the "Base Path" has been named "SMS_Error_Files".

Documentation

The following changes have been made to the documentation in this release of Smart Mover:

• Smart Mover User Guide - updated
• Compatibility of operating systems with Smart Mover 10 - updated

Smart Mover 10.1.3 - build 15

Release date: 29 October 2018

Changes

The following change has been implemented in this release of Smart Mover:

• Post URL Task now includes a “User-Agent” in the HTTP header.

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed in this release of Smart Mover:

• Smart Mover Manager incompatibility with MacOS 10.14.

Smart Mover 10.1.0 - build 14

Release date: 3 September 2018

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Documentation

New features

The following new features have been added in this release of Smart Mover:

• Google Translate Task added.
• AWS Translate Task added.

Note: The following languages are currently not supported by AWS but have been included in the setup window since they will be available soon: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Polish, and Swedish.

• Elvis query based Task values can now be calculated using a one-line RB Script (see Appendix C in the User Guide).

Changes

The following changes been implemented in this release of Smart Mover:

• When editing a Process the Available Tasks list group was renamed "Internet & Cloud" instead of just "Internet".
• Enterprise Upload now includes an option to replace GUIDs for WCML articles.
• Enterprise Folder Upload now includes option to replace GUIDs for WCML articles.
• Enterprise Copy now includes an option to put a space between the object name and the suffix being added.
• Facebook Upload has been removed. Existing Tasks may continue to run but may begin to fail at some point.
• Enterprise Admin Transfer will now transfer Statuses as long as both servers are Enterprise Server 10.2 or newer.
• Improved Log message detail when unable to get an Enterprise object.
• Improved Proxy support for Authorization.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Smart Mover:

• Search & Replace, Image File Processing SIPS/IM, Convert File Encoding could try to process some sub folders as files generating an error.
• Search & Replace, Image File Processing SIPS/IM, Convert File Encoding might fail to return an error when it should when processing files in sub folders.

• Various Enterprise Task setup windows would not include User Queries.

Documentation

The Smart Mover User Guide has been updated.

Smart Mover 10.0.0 - build 10

Release date: 26 October 2017

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Fixed issues

New features

The following new features have been added in Smart Mover 10.0.0 - build 10:

• Preference to set the TLS version used for HTTPS connections specifically for Enterprise.
• Preference to optionally verify the host name when using HTTPS on Enterprise.
• Placing a certificate file in the "SmartMoverService/TLSCertificates/Enterprise/" folder will use that certificate to verify all HTTPS connections to Enterprise.
• Preference to set the TLS version used for HTTPS connections specifically for Elvis.
• Preference to optionally verify a host name when using HTTPS on Elvis.
• Placing a certificate file in the "SmartMoverService/TLSCertificates/Elvis/" folder will use that certificate to verify all HTTPS connections to Elvis.
• "Preferences > Logs > Log HTTP Data" now not only includes all Enterprise and Elvis communications but also HTTPS handshaking and certificate verification detail. (This can be used to help debug certificate problems.)
• Post URL, SOAP XML-RPC, JSON-RPC Tasks using HTTPS allow you to optionally set a certificate used to verify the host. You can also verify the host name.
• Added new Task: "Convert JSON Files to XML".

Changes

The following change has been implemented in Smart Mover 10.0.0 - build 10:

• SSL is no longer supported. Instead you must use TLS. All existing Tassk will default to TLS. This includes all Enterprise and Elvis related Tasks, Get Mail, Send Mail, Send Folder Mail List, Post URL, SOAP XML-RPC, JSON-RPC.

• All apps are now 64-bit. 32-bit Libs are not required for Linux installs.

• New system requirements imposed:

Smart Mover Manager

• Mac OS: 10.9.5 or newer
• Windows: 7 SP1, 8.1, 10

Smart Mover Service

• Mac OS / Mac OS Server: 10.9.5 or newer
• Windows: 7, 8.1, 10, Server 2016, 2012, 2008 R2
• Linux (or newer): Mint 16, Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 7, Debian 6, OpenSUSE 11.3, Fedora 13.

Other Linux distributions may work but all require: glib 2.0, glibc-2.14, libstdc++.so.6.0.13

Documentation

An updated Smart Mover User Guide is available.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in Smart Mover 10.0.0 - build 10:

• Small memory leaks were fixed in several places including Search & Replace, Copy Files and Delete Files Tasks.
• Facebook Task setup "Get Albums" could cause an error.
• Facebook Task setup "Authorization" could fail to return a token.
• Enterprise XML Upload now checks validity of any external http references before uploading.