Release Notes - Aligned Elements V2.5 SP 4 (2.5.344/120.17963)
On January 30. 2021, we release Aligned Elements V2.5 SP 4 (2.5.344/120.17963).
Reason for this Version
This version contains a number of enhancements including:
- Web Client UX Enhancements
- New Review Experience
- Highlight inconsistent items in Word
- Integration with Subversion
- Integration with GitLab
- Configurable Email content
- Update Fonts in items with Batch Change
- Replace Words in items with Batch Change
- Queries for External Issue items
- Automatic Change Comments
- New Inconsistency Rule: check for unreviewed items in Documents
- New Inconsistency Rule: item must exist in signed Document
- Warn when trying to edit item currently under Review
- Group Attributes in Form
- New Approval Attribute
- Centralizing User Management in Web
...and large number of bug fixes.
Please see complete list below.
Fixes and enhancements
The full list of fixes can be found below. If you have questions about anything specific, please feel free to ask us on
Windows Client – Enhancements
- 5674 Allow traceobject chain to inserted as nested table.
- 8842 Support queries for Issue proxies
- 8880 Batch Replace Words: add function to replace words in String, Rich Text and Table Attributes
- 8886 Allow to only show last entry of revision history for an object
- 8896 Batch Change Search and Replace
- 8900 Implement Subversion Interface
- 8963 Signature: Provide warning when attempting to sign Document that contains unreviewed objects
- 8976 Signature: Inconsistency: object not part of a completely signed document
- 8996 Allow to highlight objects in doc with a certain inconsistency
- 9111 Review: Enable use of review where ReviewObjects omits Issue column
- 8661 Allow shading in tracetable which highlights all objects with same root
- 8763 User Attribute Restriction wording is not used consistently
- 8860 Search type dropdown: adapt width of dropdown to longest type name
- 8865 Import: Project name and revision number on Incoming trace IDs shall be optional
- 8867 TraceTo/FromQuery: it must be possible to select several queries
- 8876 SW Classification Incon messages: use alias name, only use project name when in linked projects, don't use revision numbers
- 8890 Typing Rev Obj ID in subset form search tab page shall filter on ID
- 8901 Consolidate Combined Trace To Inconsistencies in single inconsistency
- 8903 Allow synchronisation while tracking revisions or active design mode
- 8919 Non-TxTextcontrol StringAttribute control
- 8929 Use Enum Colors in EnumAtribute Control, Query Output and Trace Tables
- 8940 Add number column to DocxTemplateBuilder for table attributes
- 8951 Review: Notify user when trying to edit an item that is currently under review
- 8952 Review: When adding Risks to reviews, suggest also adding HZ MI etc
- 8953 Review: When adding File object to Review, suggest adding all items in the document to review
- 8954 Review: Optionally automatically lock items under review during review
- 8965 Signature: possibility to define and enforce signature order
- 8974 DHFIndex: Add flexibility to DHFLineItem name
- 8983 Jira, load wiki formattable fields as html
- 8993 Add Unlock Workflow action
- 8995 Allow Automatic Change Comments
- 9000 Group Attributes in sections in the base form
- 9001 Synched Import with ExtID: warn in advanced that locked items will not be imported
- 9015 Make Type Name dropdowns searchable in Trace Table Designer
- 9024 Allow parameter replacement in Lock / Unlock Workflow Reason
- 9025 Add possibility to have several approvals in an item across multiple revisions
- 9052 Display LastModified Date of traced Attachments (and other traced objects which contain a File Attribute)
- 9091 Perform template sanity checks on ConditionalRule Condition content
- 8893 Enable unicode in log file
- 8914 Use "using" to correctly dispose WinForms Dialog
- 8987 Add type name to Missing signature incon message
- 8991 Set minimum search length of DynamicListAttribute Enum and Enum User to 2
Windows Client – Fixes
- 5896 Cannot open object with trace to linked object where the linked project has a different template set
- 5897 Wrong user used to check rights for linked project operations
- 8568 When executing a test case with images in the stimulus / expected beh. col, the images are not resized
- 8861 Attribute Restrictions mess up user rights for the normal Create/disable Modify rights
- 8862 Cyrillic characters do not appear in signature on PDF
- 8877 Jira: add support for fixed version, affected version and components
- 8883 Attributes are removed when synchronizing an object and a trace table based on a query
- 8889 Redmine requires admin rights, not passing project id
- 8902 After error in synchronization, the document is not saved.
- 8905 Changes lost after renaming file
- 8926 Trace table over same type in linked project list
- 8931 nested tables not scaled correctly if multiple snapshots in single review
- 8941 Sometimes rows are lost when executing testcases with many rows
- 8944 EnumToIntegerAttribute not working for Visibility in FMEA
- 8978 Risk with reduction in POH => New risk shall not be calculated if there are no traced measures.
- 8984 Some styles are not correctly shown when inserting objects in word document
- 9002 Contained Files as direct attribute does not work
- 9003 The attribute Visibility in Failuremodes cannot be removed nor set to invisible
- 9005 Ids of traced objects not listed in "objects in file" if they are not part of merged object
- 9011 If no snapshot exists, exception thrown when trying to insert a snapshot in word.
- 9021 Export objects as csv writes data in ambigous format
- 9022 Paste hangs if Base Form contains table attribute
- 9028 In French and German Word Versions, Force Update causes numbering heading to be lost
- 9032 Take offline/online and merge branch does not work when working with azure file storage
- 9044 Testcase cannot be executed
- 9051 Full Username not displayed
- 9060 Filtering Risk Analysis with query leads to incorrect results
- 9064 Chapters are mixed up after Copy Project to Server
- 9085 After signing as a different person, that different person is stored as logged in.
- 9097 Crash when creating a review if issues contain a field for an external system attribute such as svn
- 9104 Exception when toggling inconsistencies for File Objects from Default Templates
- 9105 Null Ref when toggling Highlights
- 8870 During take offline, discard offline changes to items of types not available online
- 8872 Test Run w/o config word report shall not contain column for config
- 8885 Table Attribute: Adding non-last-column in rvt => appears to move cell values from <new col index + 1> to <new col index>
- 8887 If a risk table based on a non-Risk Analysis item is inserted in word, do not assume that Probability2 is in the inserted object
- 8910 Not possible to Set Trace from Table attribute cell to Issue proxies
- 8915 Opening richtext attrtributes adds additional new line at end
- 8917 Multiselect checkboxes in FM are not correctly displayed
- 8930 Col widths of tables in docxattributes are all equal after insertion into word
- 8946 Revisable Object Template schema contains invalid color names
- 8949 Review: Assigned Users in word limited to role and name
- 8982 Jira issue, priority is always updated
- 9007 occasional false positive during synchronisation if description starts with new line.
- 9053 Incorrect risk summary retrieved if risk type name contains other risk type name
- 9089 Highlighting not applied for queries if the toggle is on during insertion
- 8913 Ask for Confirmation when setting multiple items to unsuspect
Web Client – Enhancements
- 8694 Make email content configurable
- 8859 Extend Project Explorer
- 8881 Display test run progress in test run explorer
- 8884 Add dashboard widget for Risk Summary
- 8888 Enable filtering in Manage Users view (AccountController)
- 8907 Centralized user management
- 8908 Add issue integration with GitLab
- 8958 Review: Reviewers should have the possibility to perform review actions in review in parallel
- 8959 Review: Add possibility to open and edit an object under review from the Review
- 8964 Review: Track Review progress per user
- 8981 Generate multiple from query result. Display selection of objects in trace form as from chapters view
- 8999 Add new automation action, Copy users from project
- 9019 Display associated causes in Risk Analysis view
- 9029 Insert trace-tables with linked projects
- 9030 Add security headers, change from obsolete x-frame-options allow-from to using CORS in add-in
- 9054 Switch on secure protocols in automation tool
- 9107 Update tours
- 8868 Add possibility to load xsl as part of ESPA import
- 8871 Allow to specify fonts for Tiny MCE editor
- 8894 Comments should filter users on the entered term
- 8897 Expand chapters in selection and move /reorder view according to original chapter view
- 8906 Setting traces usability improvements
- 8918 Ensure proper culture on server
- 8934 Add Generate / Trace To menu items to concrete types to reduce number of clicks
- 8937 Add File Explorer as separate sidebar item
- 8939 Query view, hide project name if results only from master project
- 8979 Support gapform setting allow auto reuse in espa
- 8980 Access to Save as PDF and Save to Disk from more views
- 8985 Generate Issue from Inconsistency
- 8986 Generate Issue from Comment
- 8988 Enable usage if the connection to the license server fails
- 8989 Expand chapters on click
- 8997 Enable ssl protocol in Active Directory connection
- 9009 If search filter does not contain "disabled=true", do not display the disabled column
- 9017 Skip displaying filter dialog first time you click on Non Chapter book
- 9031 Provide API with swagger json description and swagger ui, experimental
- 9041 Refer to detailed help in user manual from chapter and query chapter as well
- 9043 Make gapformsettings project specific
- 9055 The order of shown inconsistencies in the word dropdown seems to be random. Group them or sort them alphabetically.
- 9059 Add Close all tabs, all but this functionality
- 9071 DHFIndex: Display enum and enum to int attributes with their item color if available
Web Client – Fixes
- 8864 generate template based word report does not properly load attributes for pages in sub chapter
- 8869 Remove restrictions to only allow one risk parameter to change for mitigations/measures
- 8875 Add-in not loading if the file name contains Cyrillic chars
- 8898 Manage users, Failed to compare two elements in the array
- 8909 Finding user by name not case sensitive
- 8945 EnumToIntegerAttribute not working for FMEA
- 9004 Trace tables in linked project with different templates : Cannot find template for ''
- 9008 Sometimes table layout breaks when executing testcases
- 9012 Assigned Harms are still locked after releasing or committing Risk Analysis
- 9014 Exception when showing gap form
- 9016 VisibleInRiskGrid does not work in ESPA for probability
- 9036 Objects inserted in wrong position
- 9038 Cannot execute trace table when using linked projects with different template sets
- 9058 Error message "Eine Tabelle in diesem Dokument wurde beschädigt" when force updating a req
- 9065 Error message is thrown when inserting project information
- 9076 EnumToIntegerAttribute in FMEA, selection does not stick
- 9077 Only calculate NRPN after Mitigation has been added
- 9079 Risk Analysis: Probability2 does not trigger re-calc. When using Cause, no re-calc is done
- 9094 Requirement not shown in trace table when working with linked projects
- 8916 Add to review ignores user display modality in assigned users table
- 8932 Display page from linked project in trace table may fail , 'Page, invalid dbid'
- 8943 Int Range Attribute with distinct values are displayed as a full range in ESPA
- 8990 AddTrace right removes the display of trace to tab. This should not be.
- 8998 Signatures are not appearing in the predefined filter Your assigned Items/All Items
- 9013 DBIDs in Dependent object tables as html does not display popup
- 9056 When switching on highlighting of incons the message "invalid insert position" appears
- 9069 Null ref exception loading objects in word
- 9090 Toggling highlighted incons move a snapshot down one paragraph
- 9100 When adding a new issue with SVN as external system attribute, there should be no default value
- 9112 Automation tool, logfile not written in LocalApplicationData
For more detailed information on Aligned Elements, or to request an evaluation copy, please contact
Upgrading from previous versions
Aligned Elements V2.5 SP 4 is backward compatible with Aligned Elements V2.4 and earlier. Opening a project for the first time with a new client will initiate a conversion of some of the internal data to a more performant structure. The data integrity is intact and no information will be altered.
Note! As of Aligned Elements V2.5 SP 2, the User Group management contains a new User Group right for Locking / Unlocking objects. When upgrading a project from versions earlier than V2.5 SP 2, this right will be added to the project. The change causes a Message Box saying "Templates have changed. Database will be upgraded." Click "Yes" to proceed (our recommendation) and upgrade the project.
Note! As of Aligned Elements V2.5, newly created Users must do their first log in within 5 days of the user creation date! If more than 5 days pass, a Project Administrator must reset the created user’s password to grant the user a new window of 5 days to do the initial login.
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Installation
Aligned Elements V2.5 SP 4 Windows Client is available on our website for download as a standalone installer.
For MS Word x64 bit compatibility, use the designated setup on our website.
For setting up the Aligned Elements Web Server, contact us on
To install using the standalone windows installer:
Uninstall any installed version of Aligned Elements on your computer.
Unzip the file and click setup.exe to install.
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