The following enhancements and bug fixes are included in the VERA 2022.2 release:
Web Portal UI Redesign
The Web Portal has been completely rewritten using the React Framework and Tricentis branding. React allows us to load the initial page view faster without having to wait for all data to load first.
Jira Workflow Enhancements
VERA has been upgraded to allow for an intermediate Jira workflow state when routing for approval. Users can now add a “Pending VERA Action” state to their workflow before the Routing for Approval state. VERA will automatically move the record to Routing for Approval when the route has started or to a Failed state if something goes wrong. This allow VERA to process large records in the background and not confuse users by showing it as Routing for Approval even though it is still processing.
Domain Security Improvements
VERA will now prevent users who are not in a domain from seeing or approving records in that domain. For example, User #1 is not in the “LIMS” Domain, but tries to access a record in that domain by clicking the link from Jira. Instead of seeing the record, User #1 sees an error message and is shown their Approval Queue.
Policy Management Improvements
Policy files can now only be uploaded and downloaded directly from within the Web Portal UI. Existing policies are automatically imported into the database during the first startup after the upgrade.
Any files copied to the Policies directory after the upgrade to 2022.2 will not be imported and will be ignored by the system. Please use the UI described above to update policy files.
Locate Approved Records
You can now search for previously approved records from with VERA. The Records tab has been added to the home page of the Web Portal and allows for users to search the approved records within the domains that they can access.
Bug Fixes
Summary | Description |
|---|---|
Slash characters in approval role names caused errors | Approval Roles with slash characters are now acceptable and will not cause issues when routing records for approval. |
Jira Cloud user field values were not properly imported into VERA | VERA will now use the Display Name for the value in Jira Cloud user fields. |
Deleted domain users occasionally caused issues when routing for approval | When a user is deleted, VERA will automatically remove the user from all associated domains. |
Restrict retries and configure HTTP timeouts | In order to prevent issues caused by multiple retries when the server is busy, VERA will now ignore repeated retries for the same record. Also, HTTP timeouts are now configurable for each module. |
Some XRay attachments were not loaded correctly into VERA | All XRay Server attachments are now loaded properly. |
Improvements to the MongoDB interface | Several improvements were made to the MongoDB interface to speed up searches and reduce connections to the database from the VERA modules. |