2022 Release One (1) Expere Engine and Tools Changelog

Expere Engine Release: 2022 Release One (1)External release date is January 2022. Expere Engine build number is: 22.1.0.4039.

New Features
Enhancements
Defect Corrections
Expere Engine: Log4j updated
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 707674
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: No documentation impact
Summary: It was identified that the Expere Engine was using a version of Log4j that was determined to have a medium security risk (2.17.0). We have corrected the security finding by updating the Expere Engine with Log4j 2.17.1.
Implementation Notes: This enhancement is available in the Expere Engine 2022 Release One.
RTF behavior enhanced
  • Type: Defect
  • Reference: PBI 705012
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: No documentation impact
Issue: A user reported that the signature and date line on an .RTF document did not match that of a .PDF document in that the aforementioned lines within the .RTF were shorter than that of a corresponding .PDF.

RTF



PDF
Solution: This issue has been resolved: the length of the signature and date lines are identicial between an .RTF and .PDF document.
Implementation Notes: This defect correction is available in the Expere Engine 2022 Release One.
Engine enhanced to support FOP 1.1 and 2.6
  • Type: Feature
  • Reference: PBI 629931
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: Expere Developer Guide: SelectAndGenerateRequest; GenerateRequest
Summary: As part of our initiative to upgrade the version of FOP used by the Expere engine for document generation from FOP 1.1 to FOP 2.6, we have enhanced Expere to allow the use of both versions. Users may now specify between FOP 1.1 and FOP 2.6 for document rendering using a new FOP26 element at the root of the SelectAndGenerateRequest and Generate API calls.
Important: Note the following:
  • We recognize that users may experience some performance degradation when using FOP 2.6; we are aware of this and are actively working to mitigate these issues before our next self-hosted release.
  • TaggedPDF will always render using FOP 2.6 regardless of FOP26 flag setting. This is in support of WCAG 2.0 compatibility work. Additionally, RTF and RawXML do not use FOP for document rendering, so this value is not applicable for those document formats.
Implementation Notes: This feature is available in the Expere Engine 2022 Release One.
Expere Engine enhanced to use FOP 2.6 for TaggedPDF documents
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 696660, 696662, 701342, 687273, 686589
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: No documentation impact
Summary: As a part of our continued effort to create WCAG 2.0 compatible documents we have updated the Expere Engine to now use FOP 2.6 when generating TaggedPDF documents. We will continue making enhancements to FOP 2.6 for TaggedPDF support, so check back for items being identified and corrected. Please note, WCAG support requires special content authoring and is not currently supported ‘out of the box’. As part of our feature to update the Expere Engine to use FOP 2.6, we made the following WCAG 2.0-related changes in the December release:
  • PBI 696660: during the course of reporting an issue related to our WCAG 2.0 feature work, an internal user reported that the Adobe Acrobat Accessibility checker was failing. This PBI resolved that issue so that running the Accessibility checker now completes successfully.
  • PBI 696662: we addressed three issues for this particular work item:
    • An internal user reported that our authoring tool timed out when attempting to generate the Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA) as a TaggedPDF document type. This issue has been resolved.
    • An italicized word, Texas Constitution, was tagged incorrectly and was being read out of order. This issue has been resolved.
    • A URL, www.oregonlawhelp.com, appeared in a separate section within the Adobe tag tree rather than within the tagging for the paragraph where it resided. This issue has been resolved.
  • PBI 701342: an internal user reported that when clicking a Form tag within the Adobe tag tree, it resulted in the the entire form being highlighted, rather than a particular word or phrase. It was discovered that checkboxes associated with this Form tag were being removed, resulting in an empty form tag and the entire form being highlighted. This issue has been resolved.
  • PBI 687273: an internal user reported when a document contained a column, text that spanned across multiple columns resulted in the screen reader reading that text with each new column. The expected behavior is that the screen reader would read the text the first time it encountered it and would not repeat it. This issue has been resolved.
  • PBI 686589: It was reported that in a TaggedPDF document, tables that were split between pages resulted in the corresponding Adobe tag tree displaying the tables separately. A TaggedPDF document with tables that split between pages are now combined into one table in the Adobe tag tree.
Implementation Notes: This enhancement is available in the Expere Engine 2022 Release One.
Support for Embedded PDF
  • Type: Feature
  • Reference: PBI 677951
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: No documentation impact
Summary: Wolters Kluwer has introduced a new authoring format as part of WCAG 2.0 compliance initiative. When authored as a "PDF." (PDF prefix), the Expere Engine now generates documents with an embedded .PDF file of an image. For more information, see the following Expere Authoring and Tools changelog.
Implementation Notes: This feature is available in the Expere Engine 2022 Release One.
RTF output: signature line behavior enhanced
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 703264
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: No documentation impact
Summary: Users reported signature line inconsistencies that necessitated addressing; instead of being a starndard, uniform width, the length of the signature line directly corresponded to the number of the characters in the value of the SignerName element. As a result, the signature line would span across the entire width of the page. This behavior has been enhanced so that the signature line for both RTF and PDF outputs are 3.5" wide.
Implementation Notes: This enhancement is available in the Expere Engine 2022 Release One.
Engine: multiple accounts now allowed in a single transaction with the same product
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 701178
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: No documentation impact
Summary: A user reported that an error occurred when opening multiple accounts in a single transaction when where the same EZ Config (or OPPSA) Product name was used for more than one account in the request. Internal analysis determined that this error occurred because Expere previously only allowed multiple accounts in a single transaction when the product name was different for each account. As a result, this behavior has been enhanced: Expere now supports multiple accounts in a single transaction with the same product name.
Implementation Notes: This enhancement is available in the Expere Engine 2022 Release One.