Change Log | Change overview

An overview of the changes in IQ4docs is provided below.

4.14.37 (25.11.2022)

• Printing
  • Correction: Messenger was very slow when printing via the print proxy (e.g. when printing images via the context menu in Windows Explorer).
  • Correction: In the list of print jobs in WebClient, the highlighting of the current print job disappeared when properties of the print job were changed.
  • Correction: The Refresh button in the WebClient did not update the price display below the print job list.
  • Correction: When sending a print job to a device via IPPS, it could happen that an error occurred in the PrintService and the print did not take place.
• Scanning Documentprocessing
  • New: Support for Russian and Ukrainian in OCR recognition in the Zone OCR module.
  • Correction: If a scan job cannot be started by the company because an attempt is made to start a duplex scan from the scanner glass, a clearly understandable error message is displayed on Epson and Kyocera devices.
• Document processing
  • New: In the Document Review module, an HTML-formatted text can be created in an info field that is displayed in the WebClient.
  • New: In the Document Review module, it is now possible to set that documents should only be displayed randomly in the My Tasks area.
  • New: In the Document Check module, variables can now be defined that can be (additionally) displayed and filled independently of a classification.
  • New: New module Start document workflow starts a document workflow from a scan workflow or another document workflow from a document workflow.
  • New: Interviews still to be answered are now called Task in the dialog.
  • Correction: The display of the variable fields of the document check in the WebClient was not correct in Mozilla Firefox.
  • Correction: It could happen that e-mail attachments from an e-mail document inbox did not start a document workflow.
• Accounting
  • New: Sender address for e-mailing the receipt for manual budgeting can now be set separately.
  • Correction: For Epson devices, a copy job was started even if the budget was used up (interrupting a running copy job if the budget is no longer sufficient for the copy job is not possible for Epson devices).
  • Correction: For Epson devices, the new account balance was displayed only after logging out and logging in again.
  • Correction: The message that the budget is used up and the process stops on the device was not displayed on some devices.
  • Correction: It could happen that not all entries in the account statement were displayed correctly in the WebClient.
  • Correction: It could happen that manual budgeting in WebAdmin under Manual budgeting was displayed twice after some time.
  • Correction: In the WebClient the prices for print jobs were no longer displayed correctly when print job properties were changed.
• DeviceClient
  • New: Workflow messages can now be viewed for a workflow afterwards in the message center on the device (this is useful e.g. if a message is immediately covered by another message, e.g. if budget is used up).
  • Correction: It could happen that faxes were not sent because the corresponding fax workflow (fax server as well as fax card) was not terminated correctly (new DeviceClient required).
  • Correction: The global timer setting Auto logout on device inactivity in seconds in the device settings also logged out on Lexmark devices when typing on the keyboard.
  • Correction: If there were many workflow tiles in the Workflows area, they were loaded with a delay once the workflows were sorted in Webadmin.
  • Correction: In the fax dialog, a default number value was removed on Epson devices when a fax number was entered via the hardware keys of the device.
• Multi tenant
  • Correction: The default maintenance password was not displayed in WebAdmin and a changed one was not transmitted to the device.
  • Correction: When the SNMP community was changed, the display of paper trays in the copy menu was no longer possible.
  • Correction: The setting Allow copying when disconnected from the server was not correctly transferred to the device and was thus not usable.
• System / Documentation
  • New: German-English language switching is now possible on every help page via the country flag icon.
  • Correction: When importing Azure AD, the TLS version set in the system area was not used correctly.
• Manual updates (not automatically by the Suite Installer, not mandatory, follow update instructions in the documentation)
  • Kyocera DeviceClient 4.14.50.71 (Java 8)
  • Lexmark DeviceClient 4.14.2.11

4.14.25 (09.09.2022)

• Scan- und Dokumentenverarbeitung
  • New: Interview modules can now also be used in document workflows. The data is entered in the WebClient in the my tasks area (user license document check required).
  • New: Variable %ResultFileNames% contains a list of resulting file names if file separation is enabled (works only within a workflow and not if a workflow is split into several as in zone OCR).
  • New: Support for Russian and Ukrainian in OCR recognition.
  • New: Many new variables from device data and scan and document data.
  • Correction: It could happen that interview dialogs were displayed incompletely on the device.
• Printing
  • Correction: When using the Kyocera Classic printer driver, Jobname= was incorrectly displayed before the name of the print job.
•  Devices
  • New: Support of the new Lexmark device models CX730, CX735, CX943 (new DeviceClient and DeviceService required).
  • New: For Lexmark devices, the IQ4docs embedded client interface can now be exited via Settings > Close Application Window (for devices that don't have a home button).
  • New: New card reader driver for Lexmark devices (can be used backward compatible for all devices).
  • Correction: Device import example in doc was not correct and has been corrected.
  • Correction: Under high system load, errors could occur when processing RabbitMQ messages for the device interface.
• RabbitMQ
  • New: Advanced configuration of RabbitMQ.
  • New: RabbitMQ policies can now be created via a definition file when starting RabbitMQ.
  • New: RabbitMQ users with permissions can now be created via a definition file when starting RabbitMQ.
  • New: RabbitMQ VHost can now be created via a definition file when starting RabbitMQ.
  • New: Improved behavior when clustering RabbitMQ.
  • Correction: Depending on the system settings, there could be a problem when creating a cluster if the HomeDrive was not set to c:.
• System / Reports
  • Correction: Using a new driver for MongoDB in all services. In interaction with MongoDB 4.4 an authentication error "Invalid Nonce" could occur.
  • Correction: The text in system emails could be incomplete if a language other than German was set.
  • Correction: If the interval of a report is set to monthly it could happen that the to-period was wrongly set to e.g. 31.05.22 0:00 instead of 31.05.22 23:59.
  • Correction: Problems could occur during data distribution (e.g. upward distribution of card data).
• Manual updates (not automatically by the Suite Installer, not mandatory, follow update instructions in the documentation)
  • Lexmark DeviceClient 4.14.1.2
  • RabbitMQ 3.10.7 with Erlang 25.0.4

IQ4docs cannot be run on Windows Server 2012R2. Windows Server 2012R2 support was discontinued with version 4.14.13.

4.14.20 (08.08.2022)

• Printing
  • New: Redesign of the setting for the print method and delegation printing in the WebClient (analog to the setting in the Webadmin).
  • New: New user rights for changing the print method and delegation print (in WebClient).
• Devices
  • New: For Lexmark devices, the input field is now initially cleared when using the hardware keyboard (e.g. when specifying the number of copies).
  • Correction: It could happen that the value -99999 was displayed for device data from the fleet management. Now "-" is displayed here.
  • Correction: If the device search was aborted, the connection from DeviceService to the devices could be interrupted for a short time.
• System
  • New: When registering a card, the card number can be checked for plausibility with a regular expression and saving can be refused if necessary.
  • Correction: ConfigService sent configuration data even to services that are not installed or have been deactivated.
  • Correction: Logging on to WebAdmin in a multi-client environment was not possible.
  • Correction: Use of a new driver for MongoDB in DeviceService. In interaction with MongoDB 4.4 an authentication error "Invalid Nonce" could occur.
• Other minor improvements and corrections.

4.14.17 (08.07.2022)

• New: Adminstrative identifier in the system area allows to restrict the view to system areas, print jobs located there and to select the system area in the device record.
• Correction: Fields in the installer enlarged to allow entering very long hostnames.

4.14.13 (06/02/2022)

• Printing
  • Correction: With very large print jobs, it could happen that the workflow did not continue after the analysis.
  • Correction: For web or email prints, the user's keywords were not loaded correctly and were not available in the workflow.
• Scan
  • New: Proxy for OneDrive connection no longer hosted at MSE (new redirect URL required in LocalService.config of ConfigService):
    <add key="MicrosoftOAuthProxyUrl" value=https://mse-office365-proxy-apim.azure-api.net/proxy />
  • New: The performance of QR code recognition has been improved.
  • Correction: When creating TIF or JPG files, the correct image resolution was not written into the header of the image file.
  • Correction: With PDF/A files it could happen that the conformance level was not set correctly.
• Epson Devices
  • Correction: On Epson devices, the Auto Logout timer also logged off when there still interaction on the display.
  • Correction: The Embedded Client window could not be closed (for copying) multiple times per login session on Epson devices.
  • Correction: Fax server workflows could not be started on Epson devices.
• Reports
  • Correction: It could happen that the ReportService was terminated unexpectedly and remained in MaintenanceMode.
  • Correction: Improvements to reports and in the report designer.
• Correction: MongoDB-Installer installs required Microsoft runtime vcruntime140_1.dll into the directory c:\windows\system32.
• Correction: Date variables were not processed correctly in the Notification module.
• Correction: For SmartPrinter licenses, fax card workflows were displayed on the device.

4.14.7 (05/05/2022)

• Scan
  • New: The content of an OCR zone can be filtered using a regular expression. This allows data corresponding to the expression to be found and extracted from anywhere on the page.
  • New: The recognition of QR codes was further improved.
  • New: Zone content can now have spaces removed from within the zone (in addition to at the beginning and end).
  • Correction: In the Decision module, self-generated variables were not displayed correctly.
  • Correction: Minor corrections in the Replace Variable module.
• Printing
  • Correction: With Epson devices, the finishing options Staple and Punch could not be set correctly via print rule or on the device.
• Reports
  • New: The report summary can now be turned off in the menu.
  • Correction: Summarized reports now no longer include the clock times.
  • Correction: In reports it could happen that the last days of the month were not included in the report.
  • Correction: Not all elements were output in the generated report and were therefore different from the preview.
  • Correction: CSV report headings have been optimized.
• Manual updates (not automatically by the Suite Installer, not mandatory, follow update instructions in the documentation)
  • MongoDB: 4.4.13
  • DeviceClient 4.14.0.22 for Lexmark devices
  • DeviceClient 4.14.0.0 for Kyocera devices (with close application window function)

MongoDB 4.4.13 cannot be run on Windows Server 2012R2. For new IQ4docs installations, Windows Server 2012R2 support will be discontinued.

4.13.77 (03/25/2022)

• Devices
  • New: Support for Konica devices is being discontinued. Konica devices are no longer supported effective immediately.
  • New: With a maintenance password definable by the customer, a technician can log in to the device with administrator rights.
• Scanning / Document Processing
  • Correction: When scanning to a directory with directory selection (folder browsing), the directory depth did not work correctly and could lead to an error.
  • Correction: In the Zones OCR, Barcode, QR Code module, page separation did not work correctly for odd pages.
  • Correction: Recognition of QR codes improved.
  • Correction: When creating a new document input by folder, the default workflow was not selected correctly.
• E-mail
  • New: When sending e-mails, the MIME type for attached files is explicitly set to the file type for this section (e.g. Application/PDF).
  • Correction: The sender address specified in the e-mail section was not used when sending the PIN.
• Printing
  • Correction: With Epson machines it could happen that jobs could not be continued during scanning and printing because the job ID could not be found in the job log of the device event.
  • Correction: Multibrand technology did not work correctly on Epson machines.
  • Correction: For some device manufacturers, the number of copies of a print job was not correctly taken into account in the context of the multibrand technology.
• Manual updates (not automatically by the Suite Installer, follow update instructions in the documentation)
  • DeviceClient 4.13.17 for Lexmark devices with improvements, among others, in RabbitMQ queue handling.
  • DeviceClient 4.13.18.2 for Kyocera devices with improvements for the current Kyocera devices.

4.11.100 (04/12/2021)

• Scanning
  • New: PDF Changes module to reduce the file size of PDF files.
  • Correction: PDF password could no longer be predefined in the module.
  • Correction: When separating documents with barcodes, the first page was missing.
  • Correction: Scans on Lexmark devices were sometimes rotated and enlarged copies required the paper tray to be selected.
• Client system
  • Correction: Number of registrable cards in the client system is not taken into account.
  • Correction: PIN defaults were not correctly observed for a client system during PIN import.
• Other corrections and new items
  • New: Search function in workflows and previous workflows as well as additional columns that can be shown in the list view.
  • New: Device features Scan Unit and Print Unit introduced (for better display in the DeviceClient for smart printers and smart scanners).
  • New: Cost center number may be alphanumeric (reports may have to be adjusted)
  • Correction: User import from file corrected.
  • Correction: Improvement of the print data analysis.
  • Correction: Display of previous workflows was incorrect.
  • Correction: Improvements in the connection to SimpleClicks.
• Manual updates (not automatically by the Suite Installer, not mandatory, follow update instructions in the documentation)
  • MongoDB: 4.2.3
  • RabbitMQ 3.7.17

4.11.45 (08/11/2020)

• System Dashboard
  • New: System Dashboard: Gadgets provide an overview of workflow duration, status changes, status of services as well as RabbitMQ and MongoDB and much more.
  • New: To use the dashboard, the system user is automatically added to the local groups "Performance Log Users" and "Performance Monitoring Users"
  • New: Overview of service status
  • New: Overview of system information
• Users
  • New: Additional languages for the user interfaces (DeviceClient, WebClient, e-mails): French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Chinese.
  • New: Under the administration rights for users, it is now possible to assign a "Report Administrator" role.
  • New: User-defined user fields which can be filled manually or via an import from an LDAP or CSV file.
  • New: User roles can now be freely defined and areas for read or write access can be grouped.
  • New: Users can be completely imported from a CSV file (previously only additional data for existing users could be imported).
  • Correction: During the update, the new user rights for existing users were not applied correctly.
  • Correction: If users had very many and very long keywords, it was possible for a login to the device to fail.
  • Correction: During LDAP import it could happen that inactive users were not reactivated by the import run.
  • Correction: It was possible for an error to occur when the anonymous user logged off the device.
• Printing and copying
  • New: The automatic deletion of print jobs can be extended by a configurable number of days by clicking a link in the notification e-mail.
  • New: If the deletion day falls on a Saturday or Sunday when print jobs are deleted automatically due to a time expiration, the deletion is postponed to the following Monday.
  • Correction: If print jobs were saved encrypted, problems could occur when sending via IPP.
  • Correction: Error in copy settings (e.g. color settings) on Kyocera and Lexmark devices fixed.
  • Correction: The maximum size of a print file for IPP printing was sometimes not set to 2 GB (but to the default value of 30 MB).
• System
  • New: Protocol type selectable in the system area.
  • New: Offline Documentation: Documentation that exactly matches the installation is stored locally during installation (the online documentation is password protected; dealers and customers can obtain free access).
  • New: An existing system user is read from the registry and entered into the installer dialog, e.g. after uninstalling and reinstalling.
  • New: For encrypted communication, the encryption method can now be set in the system area.
  • New: When the license expired, the DeviceService stopped working completely - now it is possible to import a new license in this state.
  • Correction: The message "Workflow could not be started" was displayed on older Kyocera devices because many of the web return values are unknown to their web browser so it replaced them with 0 (a workaround was created for this).
  • Correction: Depending on the workflow settings, it was sometimes not possible to export a workflow.
• Messenger
  • New: Local Print Redirection: If the Messenger loses the connection to the NotificationService, a local network printer can be addressed automatically.
  • New: Recipient Selection in Messenger: Print jobs can be forwarded to a user that can be selected in the Messenger pop-up.
• Other corrections and new features
  • New: In zone OCR, all sections with the same zone content can now be merged into one file when the pages are separated.
  • New: Improvement of the device list, creation of views including search filter.
  • New: The accounting data have been enhanced to include an administrative identifier and areas to provide better filtering.
  • Correction: In the WebClient, a negative account balance was displayed in green.
  • Correction: When importing a new license it was possible that the license option "Use User Accounts" would only applied correctly after the AccountingService was restarted.
  • Correction: Automatic reports were executed too often and no e-mail was sent.
  • Correction: User defined device fields were not shown in the detail dialog of the device when creating a new data record (only when the device was edited).

4.10.39 (07/09/2020)

• New: Improved Messenger with print and backup-print function
• New: When importing, the keyword of the cost center is always placed first in the user's list of cost centers.
• New: The budget of the user can now be displayed in the DeviceClient on the device.
• New: Direct printers can now also be passed in the printer name of an LPR printer name.
• New: New report templates
• Correction: When importing LDAP with SSL, the import process was sometimes canceled.
• Correction: Several corrections in user interfaces, texts and behavior when resizing or in responsive design.
• Correction: Prices were not displayed correctly in the WebClient if devices had different price lists.
• Correction: Prices were not correctly hidden in the WebClient if no prices were to be displayed.
• Correction: In a manual posting, the recipient was not unique if there were many users with the same name.

4.9.28 (03/23/2020)

• WebClient
  • Correction: During the WebClient upload, a document was always printed immediately, even if print@me was set as the print method.
  • Correction: During WebClient upload, a file with the same name from the same directory could only be uploaded again after the page was reloaded (Google Chrome).
  • Correction: After login via SSO, pages of the WebClient were not loaded correctly (it was correct after reloading the page).
  • Correction: The possibility of spamming via the WebClient has been eliminated - a user can now request a pin code or password in the login screen a maximum of 10 times per day.
• Printing and copying
  • Correction: A print job was not printed if the "All Pages" checkbox on the device was disabled and then enabled again.
  • Correction: If no job name was recognized in the print data stream, the workflow was sometimes canceled.
  • Correction: The hostname check for direct printer assignments was case sensitive (now upper and lower case is no longer relevant for the check).
  • Correction: Color copies could be made on the device even if the user had no rights to make color copies.
  • Correction: With PDF or WebPrint, changes to the print job (number of copies, color settings...) were sometimes not set correctly, depending on the device manufacturer.
• Accounting
  • Correction: On the device, the prices were only displayed in the list of print jobs after the list was scrolled down and up again.
  • Correction: The cost center set initially was not used; postings were not entered with this cost center.
• Other corrections
  • Correction: On HP devices, a fax job via a local fax card is executed again through the dialog of the Embedded Client (from IQ4docs 4.7 on, the machine interface was automatically accessed as a fall back due to an error in the device’s OXPd). The prerequisite for this is a device firmware version 4.10 or higher.
  • Correction: Card registration before login did not work correctly (after login was not affected).
  • Correction: The address book on the device did not display more than 11 entries.
  • Correction: The internal validation of users has been accelerated (also, less data is now displayed in the UserService.log).
  • Correction: When logging into the database in a cluster installation, the ConfigService sometimes reacted with a considerable time delay.
  • Correction: Debug output has been removed from console output in the web browser.
  • Correction: Minor improvements and bug fixes.

4.9.22 (02/24/2020)

• Customizability (especially WebClient)
  • New: Many new user rights. Especially the WebClient is fully customizable, areas can be hidden and unwanted functions can be disabled (all importable from AD).
• Data repository in large installations
  • New: System Areas - Large installations can be divided into system areas, each with its own services, RabbitMQ and local storage of files (print files, scans...).
• Database and RabbitMQ
  • New: MongoDB 3.6.14 > 4.2.3. When updating an existing installation, MongoDB is NOT automatically updated to version 4.2.3 by the installer. The update is not mandatory, IQ4docs 4.9 also runs with version 3.6.14. The MongoDB package installer can only be updated manually as of version 4.9.
  • New: RabbitMQ is no longer automatically updated by the Suite Installer (as with MongoDB) so that no existing (cluster) installation can be affected. An update of the RabbitMQ is only necessary if a new version of it is used - in this case instructions for the update are provided.
• Accounting
  • New: Inclusion of a payment terminal (ZVT protocol) for credit postings to user accounts (new workflow type: External).
  • New: New area Account Statement in the WebClient: Users can view all their transactions here (can be hidden via user rights).
  • New: Negative values are now also possible for budget postings.
  • New: A one-time budget posting can now be made for a user without having to create an automatic budgeting (separate dialog).
• Workflows
  • New: The values of the Replace Variable module can now be imported from a CSV file.
  • New: User-defined device fields can now be evaluated in all workflow types in the decision module.
  • Correction: Icons of workflow types were not displayed correctly on the device.
• Scanning
  • New: Scanning unequal-sized originals in the original size setting Auto is possible (not available for all supported devices).
  • Correction: Page separation was not executed correctly if there was a line break in the zone value that was read.
  • Correction: Selecting multiple addresses from the address book did not work correctly.
• Print
  • New: When importing printer queues, the file is now checked for duplicate and incorrect entries.
  • New: In the Print Control module, it is now possible to set whether the user's print method setting should be taken into account in the workflow or not.
  • New: The selection of the direct printer on the separator page can now be done with GUID or the content of the field Hostname of the device.
  • New: The name of the print job can be extracted from the LPR header for LPR print jobs - if it is not found in the data stream.
  • New: Ricoh data stream detection for integrating the devices as direct printers.
  • New: Cancel print jobs and Log users out when device failures occur is now available on Lexmark devices with the Embedded Client.
  • Correction: When importing the printer queues, the complete list was not replaced by the content of the CSV file and umlauts were not handled correctly.
  • Correction: If the name of a printer queue was changed, errors could occur.
  • Correction: Color was not recognized correctly by the Kyocera Classic driver 3.30 PCL 6.
  • Correction: If the use of a device as a direct printer was excluded by keyword, the administrator could still set it as a direct printer.
  • Correction: When a print data stream is transferred from the spooler to the PrintService via IPP, an error occurred when the print file was to be stored encrypted.
  • Correction: There could be errors in the LPR log during print job analysis (e.g. printing Word files).
• More
  • New: DeviceClient 4.9 with improved connection to a cluster node (if the current cluster node is dropped).
  • Correction: When testing the LDAP import, the user rights were not displayed correctly.
  • Correction: Location data were not saved correctly if the associated data record was deleted in SimpleClicks.
  • Correction: The address book on the device always showed only 11 entries at a time (also in the search result).
  • Correction: When installing a Lexmark device, device permissions were no longer set correctly (locking the device web interface).
  • Correction: When importing a department with special characters (e.g. long hyphen), the user could no longer log in to the device with this department.

4.8.39 (12/02/2019)

• Devices and printing
  • New: Support of Epson devices with Epson Open Platform technology (via new EpsonComService).
  • New: Printer queues shared on a print server can be connected automatically for individual workstations (IQ4docsMessenger required).
  • New: Using the module Print Job Interview, a direct printer can be requested by the user via IQ4docsMessenger if the user has several direct printers.
  • New: For a PC, more than one direct printer can now be entered.
  • New: Direct printers connected to the PC can be imported and exported via CSV file.
  • Correction: In the list of devices, it was no longer possible to search by the device names and the device keywords were no longer displayed.
  • Correction: Workflow steps (during scanning, e.g., Copying Files) were no longer displayed as status messages on the device.
  • Correction: The devices’ display of the finishing options folding and stapling was swapped in the WebClient.
  • Correction: When creating a device in IQ4docs and using SimpleClicks, locations in SimpleClicks were sometimes created twice.
  • Correction: It was possible for the location data on the device to be displayed incorrectly in the WebAdmin.
  • Correction: Number of pages of a print job was not displayed on the device when the print job was printed.
  • Correction: Sometimes it was not possible to load the list of workstation-related direct printers correctly in the WebAdmin.
  • Correction: Page numbers were not determined correctly and the analysis result could differ depending on the workflow setup (billing data was correct when printing on devices with the Embedded Client).
• Scan and document processing
  • New: The Replace Variable module can convert a zone OCR or interview variable value to the value of an allocation table or fill a new variable with the table value.
    With the new module Replace Variable (ODBC), the values for the replacement can be read from an ODBC data source (SQL query).
  • New: Using the Interview Selection (ODBC) module, the contents of a selection list can be read from an external data source.
  • New: In addition to querying the size of the scan file of the device, the size of the converted file can now also be queried.
  • Correction: If all scans were selected in the list of scans in the WebClient and then one was deselected, it disappeared from the list (reappeared only when the list was reloaded).
  • Correction: When scanning to USB, the timestamp was attached to the scan file even if this option was disabled.
  • Correction: Document input e-mail did not always work correctly.
• More
  • New: New MongoDB version 3.6.3 > 3.6.14
  • New: The WebClient can be called directly in the context menu of the IQ4docs Messenger.
  • New: Report templates and standard reports.
  • New: CSV reports can also be created on a time-controlled basis.
  • Correction: When importing users from a CSV file, the login name is no longer treated case sensitively.
  • Correction: During LDAP import, group names are no longer treated case sensitively.
  • Correction: The Pin Code Required option of the Allow copying on disconnection to server function did not work correctly.

4.7.19 (11/05/2019)

• General
  • New: Support for Windows Server 2019 (also clustering of RabbitMQ and MongoDB).
  • New: Offline activation by e-mail
  • New: Update of the message broker, new versions of RabbitMQ (3.6.14 > 3.7.17) and Erlang (20.2 > 21.3).
  • New: Role management - administrators for devices and users can be defined and the view of administrators can be limited to specific users or devices.
  • Correction: When trying to register a deactivated card by learning, no message appeared that the card is deactivated.
  • Correction: The logging levels for FleetcomService and HPcomService could not be set in the WebAdmin.
  • Correction: During CSV import of devices, identical devices could be imported multiple times with multiple import runs.
• Fleet Management
  • New: Use locations from the fleet management SimpleClicks in IQ4docs.
• Printing
  • New: When assigning direct printers via workstation computer, it is now possible to assign more than one printer to a workstation. When printing, the desired printer is then requested from the user.
  • New: Faster loading times when setting the direct printer in the WebClient with a very large number of devices (> 1000).
  • Correction: Duplex variant was not displayed correctly on the device: Duplex Long Page was initially displayed as Duplex Short Page - strictly a display problem, the print was correct.
  • Correction: If a print with separator page was sent and a PDF file was to be created in the workflow using the Print to File module, this could fail.
  • Correction: If a very long queue name is used for print transmission via LPR (e.g. with a client installation), it was sometimes not possible to create the printer port (under Windows).
  • Correction: Letter format is now recognized as a small format (A4) and not as a large format (A3).
  • Correction: The HP universal printer driver detected b/w print jobs as color.
  • Correction: On HP and Toshiba devices, status queries of devices with DeviceClient sporadically failed (print job had to be resent or requested at the device, depending on system settings).
  • Correction: On HP devices, a fax job via a local fax card cannot be processed correctly due to a bug in the device’s OXPd, therefore, when faxing via fax card, the machine interface is now accessed automatically instead.
  • Correction: In the workflow Print All, modules could be put into the workflow that could not actually be used at all.
  • Correction: During OCR scanning to the .doc file format, errors occurred (.docx worked correctly).
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• Embedded Client
  • New: New Lexmark Embedded Client (4.7.0.2) supports SNMP V3.
  • Correction: The version of the Embedded Client was not displayed correctly in the detail dialog of the device in the WebAdmin.
  • Correction: On Lexmark devices, the settings in the copy dialog (e.g. number of copies) were not used correctly.
• Scanning, copying and faxing
  • New: When scanning, Kyocera and Lexmark devices can use a custom paper size that is set in the device.
  • New: If a user does not have the right to copy in color, the color setting Color is not available on the device.
  • Correction: The media type set in the device was not displayed correctly in the copy dialog for Kyocera devices (it was always displayed as Normal).
  • Correction: On Kyocera IRIS2 series devices (TASKalfa 2553ci, 3253ci, 4053ci, 5053ci and 6053ci), logout did not work correctly when the copy menu of the device was called and then logged out.
  • Correction: When scanning to e-mail, the scan file name was not set correctly when sending via the Exchange protocol (SMTP protocol of an Exchange server was not affected).
  • Correction: With certain file formats (e.g. PDF (image), hcPDF or PDF TS (OCR + image)), an error could occur with A3 originals during file separation.
  • Correction: When scanning to My Web, the WebClient link in the notification e-mail was improved (now jumps directly to the list of scans).
  • Correction: On Lexmark devices, the color change on the device did not work correctly.
• Accounting
  • Correction: If the user accounts were not to be used for billing (license option), the cost center for the billing was not recorded correctly.
  • Correction: For price lists, prices were saved with 4 decimal places but displayed rounded to 3 decimal places when the price list was called up again (and then saved as such when saved).
  • Correction: When importing from cost centers, the keywords were sometimes not created for the user.
• Client environment
  • Correction: The start screen setting did not work correctly in a client environment.
  • Correction: Newly created administrators of a client environment did not work correctly.
  • Correction: Login to the WebAdmin of a client from the client management did not work without a password.

Version 4.6.39 (06/17/2019)

• FleetComService and message center
  • New: Message Center: In the Embedded Client on the device, messages from the system can be viewed in a list that can be dragged from the bottom of the screen to the top. Messages can - depending on their priority - be displayed persistently and read in the message list afterwards.
  • New: FleetComService allows messages of the fleet management SimpleClicks to be displayed directly in the message center on the device (error messages, toner orders, etc.).
• WebClient, devices and authentication
  • New: WebClient now with responsive design - also suitable for mobile devices (smartphones or tablets).
  • New: Use of Elatec card readers on HP devices possible.
  • New: special IQ4docs keyboard for input in the Embedded Client on the device. The keyboard is fully configurable.
  • Correction: When using SNMP V3 and disabling SNMP V1/2 on the device, the devices could not be created or the DeviceClient could not be installed via the WebAdmin.
  • Correction: A bug in a RabbitMQ exchanger could cause the AuthenticationService to work incorrectly.
• Printing and copying
  • New: The analysis of the print job can be reduced to a configurable number of pages if very large print jobs (usually more than 1,000 pages) cause problems when printing with the driver in use (setting in the LocalService.config of the PrintService).
  • Correction: In the Kyocera universal driver, when switching to duplex, an extra page was printed when the "set duplex on" command was used.
  • Correction: A change in the number of copies was not saved in the print job list on the device.
  • Correction: On Lexmark devices, E-MailPrint jobs remained in the Printing... status.
  • Correction: In the copy dialog, the Color mode could be selected on b/w devices (of relevance for this is the color setting of the device in IQ4docs).
  • Changed: In CITRIX environments, the login name of the CITRIX session might not be the same as the login name of the Windows session (this could cause the print job to not be assigned to the expected user). If a login is transferred via a separator page, this login is now always given priority.
• Scanning and Document Processing
  • Correction: In a document workflow from a HotFolder, barcode recognition was not performed correctly.
  • Correction: Problems with blank page detection in b/w scans were fixed.
  • Correction: If the ImageService cannot access a directory to store a scan, e.g. because the password for access has expired, this did not result in a general workflow error notification (general workflow settings).
• Client system
  • New: In the client system, LPR, IPP and e-mail input can now be used in addition to a RAW input (this can be switched in the client management).
  • Correction: In the client admin, the edit and delete buttons had no function at the print input.
  • Correction: In a client installation, the System Administrator role had no effect.

Version 4.5.1275 (04/02/2019)

• New: New SystemConfigurationIIS package in the installer suite installs the IIS (if selected) and configures the .NET Framework. The package installers (individual installers of the components) no longer perform the installation themselves. This makes the installation faster.
• New: The variable %DOCNUMBER% numbers generated documents of a scan or document workflow uniquely (consecutively) throughout.
• New: The compression algorithm of b/w TIFF documents created by image optimization (e.g. straightening) or page separation within the Zone OCR module has been changed from LZW to CCITT Group 4 (files from normal page separation without barcode recognition remain LZW compressed as before).
• New: For generated files (e.g. scan destinations) a file extension can be specified that is different from the standard file extension (e.g. tif instead of TIFF).
• New: Support of HP devices as Embedded Client devices.
• New: Support of Kyocera IRIS 2 devices (e.g. TASKalfa 4053ci).
• New: Group print/delegated printing in the workflow, grouping by keyword (keywords can be imported from Active Directory based on group names).
• New: Length of the system user password generated automatically by the installer increased from 10 to 16 characters.
• New: E-mail text of the e-mail for fax sending can be set in the Fax Server module.
• New: Multiple internal address books can be managed. Assignment of address books by department, user and/or keywords.
• Correction: In the user interview (Interview Selection module), the process could be continued without making a selection.
• Correction: When using E-MailPrint on Lexmark devices, if the print job was sent to the device via TCP, the print job status would remain at Printing... after printing.
• Correction: During the device search it was possible for older and not the currently entered values to be used as search criteria.
• Correction: In the user import only a semicolon was accepted as the separator although other characters can be entered as well.
• Correction: In the module Create User (Guest Print) the option Create Password was not saved correctly.

Version 4.4.1243 (03/08/2019)

• New: A sender address can now be set when sending the e-mail for the guest print, (previously this was always the e-mail address of the guest).
• Correction: Uninstalling RabbitMQ via single installer was not complete.
• Correction: With Lexmark devices it was sometimes not possible to start a scan because the device reported that a scan job was still running (devices had to be switched off and on again).
• Correction: When using a PCL 5 data stream (of an unsupported printer driver), the document name and number of pages were not recognized and the print job status remained at Printing... after printing.
• Correction: During encrypted transmission of print data, the print jobs’ status sometimes remained at Sending....
• Correction: In a client installation, no devices could be found with the device search.

Version 4.4.1230 (03/01/2019)

• New: Network login parameters of the SMB module can be configured in the user interface.
• New: Test function for directory access for SMB modules.
• New: New device series from Kyocera is supported (when copying, paper tray Auto is not supported for the function 2 on 1).
• Correction: Sometimes the installer skipped package installers that were already installed during the update without checking the version.
• Correction: When separating pages in the Zone OCR module, an additional file with all pages was also sometimes created erroneously.
• Correction: During zone OCR, barcode contents were sometimes not correctly transferred to the corresponding variables.
• Correction: During cluster setup of the RabbitMQ, the cluster could sometimes not be created due to lack of an exact matching between node names (fully qualified / not fully qualified).

Version 4.4.1217 (02/18/2019)

• New: Cluster installation can be done by and large with the installer.
• Correction: Scans to a USB stick became unusable due to incorrect decryption.
• Correction: Card registration on Toshiba devices did not work correctly.
• Correction: With older Konica devices, it was possible for a card login to fail because the card data were not processed correctly.
• Correction: During the device search in a client installation the message Your permission could not be determined appeared.
• Correction: In a client system, it was not possible to log in to the client management.
• Correction: With SSL encryption, device search did not work correctly.
• Correction: When faxing jobs via a built-in fax card, sometimes two pages too many were billed.
• Correction: Handling of locally stored print jobs (local print service) corrected.
• Correction: When printing very large print jobs, an error could occur during the analysis and the print job could not be printed.
• Correction: When printing very large jobs with PCL5c, an error occurred when creating the preview image.
• Correction: When encryption was enabled, print jobs in the status Sending... could stop and not be printed.

Version 4.4.1193 (02/02/2019)

• Correction: When sending the Embedded Client during device installation, it was possible for the data to be transferred incompletely.

Version 4.4.1192 (02/01/2019)

• New: Network login parameters of the SMB module can be configured in the LocalService.config of the ImageService.

Version 4.4.1191 (01/31/2019)

• Correction: When sending the device configuration automatically (e.g. by changing the configuration URL) it was possible for two devices to be given the same GUID (expressed itself, for example, by having to present the card twice for card login).
• Correction: Removed right-click menu in the user's detail dialog (this can only be used in the list view).
• Correction: If the local PC print app is used (print is cached locally on the workstation PC) and this storage location was not accessible by a print service, print services on a server sometimes ran into an error and had to be restarted.

Version 4.4.1181 (01/22/2019)

• New: Guest print function: Users can be generated automatically via a module (validity period can be limited).
• New: License-free OCR PDFs can be created (tesseract-ocr).
• New: Device communication with either SNMP v1 or SNMP v3 is now possible.
• Correction: Fixed and extended usage of variables for the e-mail sender in the fax server workflow (variables of user-defined device fields can now be used).
• Correction: If the sender was changed in a cloned fax server workflow, this value was also changed in the original workflow.
• Correction: With the PDF (image) file format, the image was sometimes cut off at the bottom right.
• Correction: For Office printing, only the PPTX format is supported for PowerPoint (not PPT).
• Correction: During the scanning, paper formats such as DIN-A6 were not recognized correctly and were converted to DIN-A4. The scan was then stretched or compressed.
• Correction: Delegated print jobs caused an error if the user to whom the print job was forwarded had Direct Print set as the default print method, but the direct printer was turned off.
• Correction: When a user with an invalid e-mail address requested a PIN via the WebClient, only Undefined was displayed as the error message.
• Correction: If the Bonjour name of a device was changed, sometimes the manufacturer was not set correctly in the device search.
• Correction: Input of prices in price lists improved.
• Correction: During the budget check in a copy workflow, the process was sometimes terminated although the user still had a sufficient budget.
• Correction: If the color mode was changed by a print rule, this setting could no longer be changed on the device (even if the change was allowed in the print rule).
• Correction: E-MailPrint did not work correctly when print data encryption was enabled.

Version 4.3.1147 (11/29/2018)

• New: In a client environment, features that are not possible are hidden in the WebAdmin (Documents and Printing > Direct Printers).

Version 4.3.1145 (11/27/2018)

• Correction: With an import from a Lotus Notes address book, a maximum of 1,000 entries were imported.
• Correction: Print jobs with the KPDL description language were not completed correctly and remained in the status Printing....
• Correction: With direct printer assignment, the entry was not automatically removed when the corresponding device was deleted.
• Correction: If a direct print is to be routed to a device that is not (or no longer) available, sending is no longer attempted repeatedly, but instead, the error output is used immediately (this could lead to a high system load).
• Correction: A print rule was executed incorrectly or not at all if the print job name could not be read from the data stream.
• Correction: Automatic reports were not executed correctly and the interval was not transferred correctly when changed.
• Correction: Direct printing on a device entered on the separator page was not performed correctly.
• Correction: Database conversion from the Firebird database was improved.
• Correction: On Toshiba devices, the card registration method did not work after registration.
• Correction: Improvement of import behavior: Fields with unspecified attributes are not imported (value in IQ4docs is retained).

Version 4.3.1131 (11/14/2018)

• New: Detection of Brother data streams with subsequent option of changing the color mode.
• New: In the decision module it is possible to react if a user has no right to print in color.
• New: Additional variables for user rights available.
• Correction: Direct printing by specifying the guide of a printer on the separator page was not executed.
• Correction: Under certain circumstances, there were sometimes problems with billing, cost centers and price list usage.
• Correction: When activating the license, there were sometimes problems if a proxy server was entered in the Internet options.

Version 4.3.1120 (11/02/2018)

• General
  • New: Billing to user accounts can be switched off via a license option.
  • New: Workflow usability can be bound to devices or users by means of keywords.
  • New: The administrator can provide an address book for all users. The entries can be exported and imported (CSV file).
  • New: Users can maintain their own address book in the WebClient. The entries can be exported and imported (CSV file).
• Variables
  • New: Additional variables %SCANIDENTIFIER% (creates sequential number) and %CARDNUMBER% (card number used to log in to the device).
  • New: Formatting options of the variable content.
• Users
  • New: The maximum number of access cards per user can be limited (between 1 and 10 cards; the oldest card is automatically deleted when a new card is registered through learning).
  • New: Users can use the WebClient to send themselves a new PIN by e-mail.
  • New: User notifications can now be displayed instantly in the message area of Windows 7 or Windows 10 via push message (IQ4docs Messenger required on workstation computers).
• Devices
  • New: Devices can be imported from a CSV file with all device data as an alternative to the device search.
  • New: If a device error occurs, the user can be automatically logged out of the device after a definable time and/or all jobs that are already in the device can be deleted automatically.
• Print
  • New: All printing can be performed automatically immediately after logging in to the device.
  • New: The selection of direct printers can be restricted by means of keywords (e.g. only to workplace printers).
  • New: Devices can be excluded from selection as direct printers.
  • New: Notification for the user in the Print Job List module when the print job is about to be deleted.
  • New: A module for file output is available in print workflows (for PCL-XL data streams).
  • New: E-mail print and web print support Office formats (DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, PPT, PPTX).
  • New: Simple analysis of print data for ZPL and EPL added.
  • New: Print jobs can also be used for direct printing without analysis (the analysis of the data stream can be switched off using separator page parameters).
• Scanning and Document Processing
  • New: Document processing: Via a document input, documents that are already available as files can be fed into a document workflow to perform image enhancement options, OCR, barcode recognition, etc.
  • New: Additional PDF formats available for document creation (scan or document processing).
  • New: Scan to OneDrive added as a module for the scan output.
  • New: When entering a value in the scan interview, alphanumeric characters can now be entered in addition to numbers.
  • New: The values entered in the scan interview can be restricted with a regular expression.
  • New: File separation when scanning with selectable page number (1-10 pages per file).
  • New: When scanning, two pages can be scaled down vertically side by side and placed on a landscape page (similar to the Combine function when copying).
  • New: Devices can also transfer scan files via FTP or SFTP to the Workflowfiles directory.
• Corrections
  • Correction: Number of pages in the decision module did not take into account the number of copies in a print job.
  • Correction: Variable usage at several places extended and corrected.
  • Correction: Installation with the language setting English resulted in an unusable installation.
  • Correction: Behavior of single installers when uninstalling via the control panel was improved.
  • Correction: Device location data was not displayed correctly in the WebClient.
  • Correction: In the copy workflow, the Copy Process module could not be connected with the Notification module.
  • Correction: Data transfer from IQ4docs 4.1 was improved (import and users).
  • Correction: Group memberships improved for imports.
  • Correction: Import interval was not executed correctly.
  • Correction: Take cost centers into account when sending a fax.
  • Correction: Behavior of messages in the Embedded Client when starting Print All was corrected.
  • Correction: A3 prints on A4 devices are correctly redirected to print@me.
  • Correction: E-mail addresses for e-mail printing can no longer be assigned multiple times.
  • Correction: Login to the device sometimes failed for users with many keywords.
  • Correction: When outputting faxes via fax server, documents were not decrypted correctly.
  • Correction: The speed and reliability of the device search has been improved.
  • Correction: Several minor optical corrections and improvements.

Version 4.2.1025 (07/18/2018)

• Correction: Demo license exchanged (the demo license prevented the online use of a customer license).
• Correction: Multiple changes of the devices did not work for some device properties.
• Correction: During import, sometimes empty tags appeared for e-mail print addresses or cost centers.
• Correction: When PINs were created during import and sent by e-mail, the e-mail was sent even if the user could not be created due to an error (e.g. duplicate card number).
• Correction: For E-MailPrint, the e-mail print addresses to be specified separately were not used correctly.

Version 4.2.1002 (06/29/2018)

• New: Complete replacement of the Firebird database by MongoDB. The following components are no longer required (are uninstalled automatically):
  • IQ4docs Admin
  • Firebird server and database (service)
  • DB and report updates
  • Utility sservice
• New: Automatic data transfer from Firebird DB when updating from an existing 4.X installation.
• New: New MongoDB (3.6.3), automatic structural adaptation to new DB during update.
• New: All settings in IQ4docs WebAdmin.
• New: Multi-client capability (several customers can work with separate data using one IQ4docs installation).
• New: Export, import and clone function for workflows.
• New: Demo version now only limited in terms of time (no limitation of the number of devices).
• New: Project accounting is no longer necessary and is replaced by cost center accounting (projects are not transferred during the update).
• New: Report generator for accounting reports (existing reports are not transferred during the update).
• New: Pin code request and password change possible via the WebClient.
• New: Scan to WebClient (users can download their scans in the WebClient).
• New: Display of device messages in the IQ4docs Embedded Client on Lexmark devices.
• New: Selectable login method for SMB directory access (LOGON NETWORK or LOGON INTERACTIVE).
• Correction: Interview variables can now also be used in the directory name.
• Correction: Standard PDF format now no longer PDF/A.
• Correction: Since Erlang 20.2 the Erlang cookie is expected in the directory C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile and no longer under C:\Windows (only relevant for cluster installations).

Version 4.1.822 (04/25/2018)

• Setup of the Embedded Client adapted to the latest Toshiba firmware (EBX series).
• New: Automatic Windows authentication (Single Sign On, SSO) for the WebClient with the WindowsAuthService.
• New: The name of the print job is no longer displayed in plain text in the log of the device.
• New: Page separation during scanning is now possible according to configurable page number.
• New: New Embedded Client for Lexmark (4.1.0.5). Minor bug fixes and improvements of the login behavior.
• Correction: Swiping was not possible in the favorites line on Lexmark devices.
• Correction: Quotation marks are now allowed in the print job name.
• Correction: RAW printer ports were not opened if LPR port (515) could not be opened.

Version 4.1.764 (03/06/2018)

• New: FTP access to WorkflowFiles (mandatory for Konica devices).
• New: Error options of the RabbitMQ and MongoDB services are set to Restart Service by default.
• New: New DeviceClient 4.1.0.8 prevents device logins from accumulating and provides protection in case the device browser loses focus on the device, causing card logins to stop working.
• New: Message if scan workflow is started but the device is not ready yet.
• New: Update of RabbitMQ (3.6.14) and Erlang (20.2).
• Correction: For Toshiba devices, the setup of the Embedded Client was not possible with the WebAdmin.
• Correction: On Toshiba devices, the print job list display was not updated correctly after printing.
• Correction: On Kyocera devices, the user was sometimes logged out when the virtual device keyboard was open for a long time (independently of the device timers).

Version 4.1.725 (02/05/2018)

• Correction: Names of the PDF output formats.
• Correction: Analysis of E-MailPrint and WebPrint files.
• Correction: Device status for Toshiba devices (prevented further functions).
• Correction: Memory management for ImageService.
• Correction: Stomp-user permissions of RabbitMQ.

Version 4.1.707 (01/22/2018)

• New: Log settings configurable in the WebAdmin.
• New: Automatic expansion of LocalService.config files during update (manual intervention no longer necessary).
• Correction: Selection of installed components during update (there may have been too many components installed during the update).
• Correction: With the Kyocera PCL/XL data stream, stapling and sorting did not work when the number of copies was changed later on.
• Correction: Display on the device corrected.
• Correction: Setting for anonymous login to the device was not applied immediately.

Version 4.1.662 (12/15/2017)

• New: Zone OCR module with 1D and 2D barcode recognition (device licenses required).
• New: Quality of JPEG files embedded in PDF files configurable (50%, 75%, 90%, 100%) - this can influence the size of the resulting PDF files.
• New: Meta-file generation when scanning (SMB and FTP).
• New: Scan destination modules WebDav and SharePoint.
• New: Extension of billing to scan functions.
• New: Separation of the Image Processing module into Image Enhancement and Document Processing. The Document Processing module can also be used for faxing (with a fax server) and allows the use of PDF files (previously only TIFF).
• New: Configurable user interview (data input) on the device:
  • New: Interview Input module (input of a number on the device which can be evaluated in the decision module or be output in a metafile).
  • New: Interview Selection module (definition of a list from which the user can select an entry on the device; this can be evaluated in the decision module or output in a metafile).
  • New: The Display message on device module (display any error or info message as a message window or in the status bar).
• New: Print analysis (recommended description language, PCL XL).
• New: Print preview on the device (first page of the document).
• New: Repeat sending if there is an error (Send print job module), e.g. if direct printer was switched off when sending the print job, it can still be output there after switching the printer on - the error output of the module is not used immediately, which otherwise might divert the print to print@me.
• New: Process Approval module (to confirm prints in the WebClient).
• New: Printer Assignment module for direct printer connection to PC names for each user.
• New: WebPrint (Upload files in the WebClient that are used as print jobs).
• New: Login method: RFID card and PIN.
• New: Login option with PIN in case of loss of network connection (new Embedded Client required).
• New: Decision module that determines the path of the workflow based on conditions (with variable evaluation).
• New: More variables, e.g. usable in decision module or metafile (timestamp variables, variables for zone OCR and user-defined variables).
• New: User-defined fields in the device data record whose contents can be used in metafile, file or directory names, or other areas of the workflow.
• Improvement: New Embedded Client with improved RabbitMQ connection (must be installed along with an update!)
• Improvement: Print sequence for direct printing is now always chronological.
• Improvement: Automatic login sometimes caused the device to crash after a long period of use.
• Improvement: User guidance in the workflow editor (check if modules are connected).
• Correction: Settings dialog of modules with password fields (e.g. SMB or FTP module) was sometimes not displayed correctly.
• Correction: E-MailPrint with Exchange mailbox access was not possible.
• Correction: For E-MailPrint and WebPrint, the XPS format could not be processed.
• Correction: Uninstall routine improved.
• Correction: Several minor corrections and improvements.

Version 4.0.175 (09/22/2017)

• First official release version of IQ4docs 4. The version numbers of product derivatives were aligned.