What's New in K2 Cloud Update 11

  • Integration
    • Custom Steps: Extend your environment by adding additional steps in the workflow designer. These custom steps can help speed development time in workflows, since you can now expose Service Object methods as steps in the workflow designer toolbox, allowing easier drag-and-drop configuration of workflow steps that interact with various technologies.
  • Workflow
    • Step tab validation: Design-time validation messages now appear on step tabs, to indicate missing or deleted references and variables, and highlight missing or incorrect configuration on the step.
    • Edit previously deployed workflow: You can now load a previous version of a deployed workflow, edit it, and re-deploy it.
    • Set email importance: You can now set the importance on an email by selecting a priority level. You can do this for the email on the Send Email step, and the Email Reminder on the Task step.
  • SmartObjects
    • UMUser : Added two methods, Get Roles for User and Get Roles for Groups, to the UMUser system SmartObject. Executing the new methods with the input properties returns a list of roles or groups the user belongs to.
  • Integration
    • SmartObject system mappings: You can now use current date and time, and current user details as system values in advanced SmartObjects.
    • REST service type: Set query string spaces encoding using the Use legacy query string parameter encoding service key, either current encoding (+) or legacy encoding (%20).
  • Integration
    • REST and OData service types: The Certificate Store Location and Certificate Store Name service keys have been deprecated.
Each release includes all bug fixes from preceding releases; see the release notes for previous releases for more details on bug fixes in previous versions. K2 Cloud Update 11 includes the following additional bug fixes:
  • All bug fixes in K2 Cloud Update 10 Fix Packs 1-6.
  • Where a SharePoint group contains another nested group along with individual users, only the individual users are returned when executing the Group (SmartObject) > Get Users For Group, or Group (SmartObject) > Get Users For Group ID methods.
  • When generating artifacts from a SharePoint list, the workflow artifact is not created when the workflow title contains language-specific Unicode elements (for example, Élément).
  • Where you have a list view containing a drop-down list control with paging enabled for the list and caching enabled for the control, the list view loads without data after clicking the 'Next' button followed by the 'Back' button.
  • When you have a SharePoint list that does not contain the 'Item' content type, an error is thrown when configuring the associated workflow start rule based on the SharePoint list.
  • When setting authentication cookies, the cookies are not flagged as secure.
  • Where you have a SmartObject method step that uses reference fields from another SmartObject step as input properties, a deployment error occurs if you move the step (for example, moving the SmartObject step into a multiple-step).
  • Recommended Azure indexes for performance improvements.
  • There are no known issues at this time

  • If you are using K2 for SharePoint, re-run the K2 for SharePoint registration wizard after the update.

  • Download the enhanced Package and Deployment tool from https://<runtimeurl>/Management/Remote. Once downloaded, log a ticket with Nintex Customer Central to provide your public IP address ranges to K2 Operations. This allows access to your K2 Cloud environment from your network. Please see the Package and Deployment Considerations topic for further considerations about working with the Package and Deployment tool.

The following Fix Packs apply to this version of K2 Cloud. To determine the version and Fix Packs applied to your K2 Cloud environment, please see the KB article KB003537: How to determine the installed K2 software version, Cumulative Updates, and Fix Packs for K2 Platform and K2 Cloud

Fix Pack Release Date Details
Fix Pack 16 July 2020
  • When you use the Save as PDF control to generate a PDF document and try to open the generated PDF on a mobile device, the form didn't load as expected.
  • When you use a collaboration platform such as Postman and the Odata API service to expose SmartObject data from SharePoint, the "odata.error":{ "code":"500","message":{ "lang":"en-US", "value":"Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1." error occurred.
  • When you use a form and try to upload a file or image attachment, the Internet Information Service (IIS) becomes unresponsive and would restart several times during the day.
Fix Pack 15 July 2020
  • Small internal system fixes and enhancement made in this update.
Fix Pack 14 June 2020
  • When you use the Workflow REST API service and create a custom connector in Microsoft Power Automate to connect to the Workflow REST API, the "Definition is not valid. Error: 'Critical : definitions/UserDefinedWorkflowInstance/x-ms-dynamic-schema/valuePath : The property 'valuePath' is not allowed and must be removed." error occurred.
  • When you use a Salesforce SmartObject (Contacts) as a data source, generate a List View and configure the View execute Initialize rule > Execute List method to sort a column using multiple properties, at runtime the "Contact ORDER BY LastName ASC FirstName ASC LIMIT 10 OFFSET 0 ^ ERROR at Row:1:Column:928 unexpected token: FirstName" error occurred.
Fix Pack 13 June 2020
  • When you embed a K2 SmartForm in a SharePoint site and open it in a Microsoft Edge browser, the "login.microsoftonline.com refused to connect" error occurred.
  • When you use the Odata API service to expose SmartObject data and configure Basic Authentication, no data returned.
  • When the To or CC fields on the Send Email step contains a blank value, the workflow failed and the "SourceCode.Workflow.Shapes.Execution.Mail.EWS: Exchange error code: ErrorInvalidRecipients Exchange error: Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ServiceResponseException: At least one recipient isn't valid., A message can't be sent because it contains no recipients." error occurred.
  • When you configure the Wait for External System option on a SmartObject workflow step, the workflow go into an error state and the "500 Server Error" occurred.
  • When you use Package and Deployment to deploy a package containing SmartObjects and a View, the deployment failed and the "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error occurred.
Fix Pack 12 May 2020
  • When you create a package using Package and Deployment and select the Package by Reference option, the "Missing Reference" Status showed on some artifacts such as a control on a form and the "The referenced View cannot be found" error occurred.
Fix Pack 11 May 2020
  • When you log into Management, browse to Users > Roles and click on a role, the "User not Authorized" error occurred.
Fix Pack 10 April 2020
  • When you use the Workflow REST API endpoint and execute a GET method to show a list of tasks assigned to you, slow performance was experienced.
  • When you create a package using Package and Deployment and try to map items to the site collection, the "Unsuitable item" Status showed on one of the items and the "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation" error occurred.
Fix Pack 9 April 2020
  • When using K2 Package and Deploy to deploy a subset of K2 artifacts to a target site where the artifacts exists, the "Missing Reference" and "Conflict with View" errors occurred.
Fix Pack 8 April 2020
  • When you log into Management, browse to Users > Roles and click on a role, the "User not Authorized" error occurred.
Fix Pack 7 March 2020
  • A small internal system fix has been made in this update.
Fix Pack 6 March 2020
  • A small internal system fix has been made in this update.
  • When viewing the View Flow for a workflow instance that contains a sub workflow, the View Flow's End step is green. However the instance remains in a running state in Management > Workflow Server > Workflows > {workflow name} > Instances tab and no errors showed in Management > Workflow Server > Workflows > {workflow name} > Error tab.
  • When navigating to Management > Workflow Server > Workflows > {workflow name} > Instances tab to view your workflow instance, the "Could not continue with NOLOCK due to data movement" error occurred.
Fix Pack 5 March 2020
  • When you add values to an editable list view at runtime and move from one row to the next, no changes occurred and added data lost.
Fix Pack 4 February 2020
  • A small internal system fix has been made in this update.
Fix Pack 3 February 2020
  • A small internal system fix has been made in this update.
Fix Pack 2 February 2020
  • When you design a list view, specify a name such as Status in Column tab > Detail > Name on the Layout page, save the view and then edit the view, the name changed to a generic column name such as Column7.
  • When you use Google Chrome version 80 or higher to access K2, several errors occurred. For more information see the known issue Knowledge Base article: Behavioral change in Chrome 80 for handling Cookies causes too many redirects error.
  • When you create a package using Package and Deployment, add items and select the Referenced Items option from the Automatically include dependent items as menu, the "[SharePoint Instance] ServiceObject is referencing the 'ListSetting' ListSetting that could not be found" error occurred.
Fix Pack 1 February 2020
  • Intermittent connection loss to the K2 API experienced.
  • You add a Calendar Control to a subform and set the width of the subform 300px or less. At runtime when you click the calendar button, the date picker opened but added unexpected vertical and horizontal scroll bars to the frame.
  • When editing a workflow in Workflow Designer and you select a Create Reference step, the step properties did not load in the Configuration Panel and the "The "<step name>" contains a reference to a removed reference field, "[Unresovled Token]" error occurred.
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