FileVista v8.6.0

Version 8.6.0 - February 22, 2022

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Fixed: First page gray issue if "Background graphics" option is selected on Chrome's print preview dialog.

  • Fixed: Incorrect ligatures for Persian Farsi when converting PPTX to PDF.

  • Improved: Stability and performance of Portable, WordProcessing, Spreadsheet, Presentation and Email formats.

• Improved: Stability and performance of image thumbnails, image viewer and video thumbnails.

• Improved: Updated installer.

FileVista v8.5.0

Version 8.5.0 - November 29, 2021

• Added: New icons for most file extensions, e.g. latest icons from Windows 11 and Office 2021.

• Improved: More relax drag and drop for preventing confusion for users, i.e. even if user drags over regular files
  (e.g. not subfolder and not container files like .zip), the parent folder will be considered as the drop target (similar
  behaviour to Windows Explorer). This works for both internal drag&drop and upload drag&drop. This is especially useful when
  user is using "Details" view layout where there is not enough white space.

• Improved: When using drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts will be displayed to the user as labels e.g. "Hold down SHIFT to move",
  "Hold down CTRL to copy" and "Press ESC to cancel". Many users may not be aware of these useful keyboard shortcuts.

• Fixed: Missing placeholders in Swedish and Arabic language files.

• Improved: Updated Media Player:

  • PIP (Picture in Picture) support.

  • Updated background images to new FullHD images for both audio and video modes.

  • Minimum player size is increased to 448x252 (HD Video 16:9 ratio) so that video info shown at the end, fits the player.

FileVista v8.3.7

Version 8.3.7 - May 26, 2021

• Improved: FileUploader:

  • Improved: MessageBox opened by FileUploader -> "View info" will display maxRequestSize instead of
    maxUploadAsBinarySize, maxUploadAsFormSize in "Server features" for less confusion.

  • Improved: In Web.config, will be used again instead of
    and for less confusion and also because older machines (lower than .NET 4.5) may not
    understand /UploadAsBinary or /UploadAsForm part in path for httpRuntime.

  • Improved: Ensured upload queue is always stopped for unrecoverable errors, e.g. for connection error (offline error).

• Improved: Better error messages for connection (XHR) errors (e.g. offline error) in FileUploader and FileManager.
  Better error handling for late coming responses, to prevent UI update related errors when component was already destroyed.

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Improved: Stability, performance for WordProcessing and Spreadsheet formats.

• Improved: Updated Media Player.

• Improved: Updated installer.

FileVista v8.3.6

Version 8.3.6 - April 28, 2021

• Fixed: Since v8.3.0, when running under server runtime lower than .NET 4.5 version (old servers)
  FileUploader showed "Maximum request length exceeded." for files bigger than 4MB in old browsers like IE9 (Html4 mode).
  Added an additional setting in Web.config to support old servers out of the box again.

• Fixed: MessageBox opened by FileUploader -> "View info" was displaying html encoded message where it shouldn't since v8.3.5.

• Added: MessageBox opened by FileUploader -> "View info" will now display more info, i.e.
  "Server features" (maxUploadAsBinarySize, maxUploadAsFormSize, chunkSize)
  and "User restrictions" (allowedMaxFileSize, allowedFileTypes, deniedFileTypes).

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Fixed: DocumentViewer threw below error intermittently on some machines when using physical file system for cache:
    "Access to the path "[DocumentCache]:\lock-****.json.lock" is denied due to insufficient permissions."
    The error was not really a permission error but a multi-thread file access error.

• Improved: Updated installer.

FileVista v8.3.5

Version 8.3.5 - April 18, 2021

• Improved: Names will be html encoded everywhere to prevent possible XSS issues and show proper file names like "File>Test"
  instead of "File>Test". In MultiView, MessageBox title/message/conflict dialog, Window title, Breadcrumb buttons and menus,
  Folder Tree, MediaPlayer file info, ImageViewer bottom title, DocumentViewer.

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Improved: Stability, performance for Portable formats.

• Improved: Updated Media Player.

• Improved: Updated installer.

FileVista v8.3.1

Version 8.3.1 - March 23, 2021

• Improved: The installer will not show "Install to subfolder" checkbox when upgrading an existing installation to prevent confusion.
  Forgetting to uncheck it, resulted in a nested FileVista folder which caused IIS Web.config error.
  If you had this problem with the older installers, you can fix the corrupted upgrade like this:

  1. Go to IIS Manager and find FileVista application under the parent web site.
  2. Right click on that, select Delete (which will delete the IIS Application not the actual folder)
  3. Refresh the parent web site, if you don’t see FileVista folder with regular folder icon (e.g. a folder icon with a shortcut symbol)
     Repeat step 2, this time you will be deleting the IIS Virtual Directory.
  4. Refresh the parent web site and you should see FileVista folder with regular folder icon.
     Right click on it and click "Convert To Application".
     In the opened dialog, select existing "FileVista" for ApplicationPool field and click OK.
  5. Finally in File Explorer, ensure you only have "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\FileVista" and not a nested folder "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\FileVista\FileVista".

• Fixed: "Add to zip" action displayed "Could not find file" error even if the zip was correctly generated.
  The problem probably started happening with v8.3.0 (after improvements to ArchiveFileSystem).

• Fixed: GleamTechWebConfiguration.LocklessSessionFixEnabled property which was added back in v7.9.0, caused early session timeout
  issue (e.g. 2 minutes) in the host application. The default property is now changed from true to false for preventing the issue.
  Note that this only effected ASP.NET Classic applications but not ASP.NET Core applications.

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Fixed: Duplicate file names will now be allowed in PDF Portfolio because surprisingly there are people who add attachments
    with duplicate names to an email. For example if there are 2 attachments named "test.pdf", the second one will be renamed to "test (2).pdf".
    DocumentViewer will no longer display error "PDF already contains an embedded file named ..." for emails with duplicate attachments.

FileVista v8.3.0

Version 8.3.0 - February 16, 2021

• Improved: Stability, performance for FileManager and FileUploader.

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Improved: Stability, performance for Portable formats.

  • Fixed: Prevent unnecessary error in some cases:
    'attachments' parameter is unexpectedly null or undefined.

FileVista v8.2.5

Version 8.2.5 - January 1, 2021

• Improved: Updated Media Player.

• Improved: Updated installer.

• Changed: Source code package did not include source of GleamTech.Common project since v7.34.0.
  From now on, it will be included again.

FileVista v8.2.1

Version 8.2.1 - November 23, 2020

• Added: Cookieless session will be used when necessary to automatically fix session issues, i.e. when the browser
  does not allow cookies via browser settings or via iframe with a cross-domain URL.
  The cookieless session will be established via headers, form or querystring where possible.

  Added GleamTechWebConfiguration.AutoCookielessSessionEnabled property to control this feature (default value is true).
  You don't need to use GleamTechWebConfiguration.CookieSameSiteFixEnabled when this property is true.

• Fixed: When was set in Web.config, the below error was being thrown:
  'Invalid method request: Method with name "" not found'

FileVista v8.2.0

Version 8.2.0 - November 17, 2020

• Fixed: The Location field of RootFolder was still being truncated to 255 characters,
  although in database it was increased to 500 characters back in v6.7.

• Improved: For Azure file system, correct content type will be set for files that are uploaded.
  In previous versions content type was not set so Azure Blob by default used "application/octet-stream" for all uploaded files.
  This made complications for external usage of uploaded files from Azure Blob.
  For example when using an Azure Blob URL in a web page, it should be have the right content type,
  e.g. for png image, content type should be "image/png", so that the browser shows it immediately as image
  (not download it to users computer, as when Blob was content type of "application/octet-stream").

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Fixed: Viewing email formats with a zero-sized attachment failed with "Index was outside the bounds of the array. " error.

  • Improved: Updated Danish, Swedish and Norwegian translation files.

• Changed: Logo on login page from "keys" logo to FileVista logo.