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Release Notes

LinkOne WebView 3.28

June 2022
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Enhancements ............................................................................................................4
Defect Fixes ............................................................................................................6
 Enhancements

Enhancements
Add an export to csv button in OCI selection
list
Enhancement Number LO-1086
SFDC Case 20220530-6039193
SFDC Account Suncor Energy Inc
Problem
Customer required to export selection list in addition to list being returned to SAP
Solution
Export functionality added to OCI and cXML Selection List following customer request

Current location - Copy Link

Enhancement Number LO-917
Problem
It is difficult to find the URL for a page to provide as a reference to another user
Solution
A “Copy Link” icon has been added to the Current Position page that copies the current location/URL
into the user's clipboard or equivalent.
If the server is exposed via a firewall or similar device, the server component of the URL can be
modified by adding the key
Mincom.LinkOne.WebView.WebServer.Services.BookService.InternalWebsiteHostName to the
Mincom.LinkOne.WebView.config file:-

Download status bar not always appearing

Enhancement Number LO-848
Problem
The Offline Download status Bar does not always appear
Solution
When the geometry of the the browser screen is on the small side, the download status bar may not
appear. When this scenario occurs, the Download Status Bar has been replaced with an Icon, which
upon selection transfers the user to a download status page.

Linkone Ethical Hacking testing results

Enhancement Number LO-894
SFDC Case 20211119-5391139
Description
Following ethical hacking tests as part of customer implementation project, several changes were
made to rectified the scenarios reported in CVE-2021-40337/8/9/40 and incorporated into the 3.27
release. The majority of these changes involved “hardening” the default website configuration
(web.config). A subset of these changes relate to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) - these may need to be
disabled for some integration scenarios.

Reporting for single site with multiple URLs

Enhancement Number LO-966
Problem
Login reporting did not correctly report details when multiple URLs are used on a single Site.
Solution
Modified Login Activity to include details on the URL used and one graph is produced for each URL

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 Enhancements

licenced, based on logins.

Test WebView Offline viewer

Enhancement Number LO-1145
Description
Corrected issue with Offline client so that special characters are not decoded when parts are added to
the Selection List. Also rectified minor issues with Offline client encountered during testing.

WebView Sharepoint Integration Deprecation

Enhancement Number LO-169
Description
The LinkOne SharePoint Integration has now been deprecated and no longer supported.
It was configured by using Mincom.LinkOne.WebView.WebServer.Services.Cms.Enabled setting in the
Mincom.LinkOne.WebView.Config file . If the value is set to true, the system will fail to start correctly
and a Error will be written to the ~/Data/Log directory including the following message:-
“The configuration variable Mincom.LinkOne.WebView.WebServer.Services.Cms.Enabled is no longer
supported. Please contact LinkOne Support”

WebView search panel should accept Enter

to execute search
Enhancement Number LO-932
SFDC Case 20211213-5690612
SFDC Account Mundano Pty Ltd T/A DS Techwrite
Problem
Standard/Default Search does not use the Enter/Return key to initiate the search and the user has to
explicitly press the search button
Solution
Standard Search has been modified so that the pressing the Enter key will initiate the search.

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 Defect Fixes

Defect Fixes
Book indexing service crashes
Defect Number LO-650
SFDC Case 20211119-5431152
SFDC Account Fenten Oy
Problem
LinkOneBookIndexingService crashes just after starting.
Solution
Updated code to support different date separators

Categories containing "/" character will break

edit category display
Defect Number LO-936
Problem
When Note categories contain a / character, the entire category details are not displayed
Solution
If the Note category contains a slash character, it is replaced with a space so that the majority of the
details are displayed. The / character is used as an internal separator, so replaced with space
character in the small number of cases it is used.

ConfigureUsers not supporting certain

username character combinations
Defect Number LO-999
Problem
With Windows Authentication enabled, username that included characters such as hyphen after the
backslash character were not accepted valid eg mydomain.com\me2-admin
Solution
Modified username validation pattern matching to allow this type of character combination

Faulty redirect from login page for

authenticated users
Defect Number LO-1141
SFDC Case 20220615-6044474
SFDC Account Fenten Oy
Problem
With Azure AD, when a user is already authenticated, they may receive the message “Object moved
here”
Solution
Additional is performed on Login page to check Third Party Authentication is enabled and
tpa:PostLogoutRedirectUri parameter is set. If the user has logged out, it will redirect to the URL
defined in tpa:PostLogoutRedirectUri otherwise it will redirect to Default URL defined, default value is
~/Viewer/Default.aspx.

Full book printing stops working after

printing a specific book
Defect Number LO-970

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 Defect Fixes

SFDC Case 20220207-6003377

SFDC Account Fenten Oy
Problem
Full Book printing fails while printing some books
Solution
Found that the failure was caused by missing pictures/images. Code was added to handle this
situation and when the book is being printed and the image is not available, a message “The picture
for this page is not available” is printed.

Heading not vertically centering

Defect Number LO-955
SFDC Case 20211130-5687130
SFDC Account Komatsu America Corp
Problem
When Layout/formats are used for headings over multiple columns, the headings for the last column
are raised slightly out of alignment with other columns.
Solution
Code altered to better cater for this scenario

P6 error in default layout in Finnish

Defect Number LO-1088
SFDC Case 20220525-6038204
SFDC Account Fenten Oy
Solution
Default Finnish translation for Quantity updated

Pressing enter on user filter textbox causes

exception.
Defect Number LO-1056
SFDC Case 20220401-6021912
SFDC Account Fenten Oy
Problem
On Configure Users, if the return key is pressed following entering text in the filter textbox, an
exception is generated.
Solution
Code modified to allow the return key in this scenario to perform the same action as selecting the
filter icon.

Removing items from the default selection

list does not work
Defect Number LO-1075
SFDC Case 20220516-6035117
SFDC Account Fenten Oy
Problem
Deleting items from the Selection List does not work using some browsers including Firefox.
Solution
Code adjusted

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 Defect Fixes

Search indexer service crashes: too many

changes.
Defect Number LO-925
SFDC Case 20211129-5686591
SFDC Account Fenten Oy
Problem
Advanced Search LinkOneBookIndexing did not correctly support different locale and time
specifications
Solution
Enhanced Locale/timezone support

Valid token count calculated incorrectly

when a site is licensed for multiple
hostnames
Defect Number LO-852
SFDC Case 20211119-5412658
SFDC Account Mundano Pty Ltd T/A DS Techwrite
Problem
WebView does not correctly record token usage for multiple licensed URLs on a single instance
Solution
Application including table structures updated to correctly record token usage when multiple URLs are
used.

Webview - SAP integration

Defect Number LO-1072
SFDC Case 20220510-6033177
SFDC Account Suncor Energy Inc
Problem
LinkOne WebView 3.27 OCI integration with SAP is not returning parts to SAP
Solution
Selection List component oci.js reference to Checkout updated.
As part of the LinkOne WebView 3.27 release, a number of server hardening items were added to the
default web.config. The cross site scripting (XSS) items Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy, Cross-Origin-
Opener-Policy and Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy may need to be disabled for the OCI connectivity.

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