What are the fixes available in this release?

• When the Connector is installed on a Windows operating systems, dropping a UTF-8 XML files containing high ASCII characters to the scan directory no longer produces errors. Previously you may have received an "Invalid byte" error followed by a parser exception.

• A minor update to the installer window.

• If you made changes to advance filters while either the Console or UCFDA were in service mode, the changes were not updated without restarting the Universal Connector. You no longer need to restart the Universal Connector for the advance filter changes to occur.

• A correction was made to the 4.0 Release Notes. The new feature description: Added ability to turn off XSLT transforms using the SkipXSLTransforms property in the LPSConnector.property file.

Was changed to: Added ability to turn off XSLT transforms by adding the element <tns:runXSL>false</tns:runXSL> within the parent <tns:ScanDirectory> element, in the jcfda_config.xml file.

What are the fixes available in this release?

• The Loftware Universal Connector now allows the setting of Java Options. A user can now add to the JAVA_OPTS variable within the .cmd script files; these files will also inherit external JAVA_OPTS values by default.

• Instance Expansion Rules are now functioning correctly and are providing error messages. Job XML assembly now reacts properly to XML transformers used by UCFDA

What are the new features of this release?

• Updated the look and feel of the Connector Console user interface.
• Added support for Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2.
• Added support for JDBC compliant databases.
• Introduction of an installation Wizard for the Loftware Universal Connector.
• Allow Filter triggers in the console to be based on incoming xml data .
• Added the ability to turn on or off individual filters without deleting them from the Filter Manager in the console.
• Added ability to turn off XSLT transforms by adding the element <tns:runXSL>false</tns:runXSL> within the parent <tns:ScanDirectory> element, in the jcfda_config.xml file.
• The XML created by the Connector Instance Expansion filter can be modified so that labels can besent to multiple printers.
• Add Save As Capability to Connector Filters.
• Allow over-writing data values on Print Attribute Substitution.

What fixes are available in this release?

• The Default Servers check box on the LPS Servers page now remains selected when Show/Hide Printers is selected.
• Print Attribute Substitution Filter is able to modify the literal _QUANTITY if _QUANTITY exists and a value has been assigned.
• Replace forward slashes (/) in printer model names to a space.
• When in the Modify Filter view, clicking the browser Back button no longer produces an error.
• Settings in the Connector Console do not update to the File Drop Service until the service restarts.
• LPSTemplate.setData(string,string) now truncates data if the data string being passed is too long.

What issues are known about this release?
The Loftware Universal Connector Setup program will not recognize and upgrade previous versions of the Loftware Java Connector on Windows systems.

• On servers with just the Loftware Java Connector installed, the setup program will perform a first-time install of the Loftware Universal Connector version 4.0.
• On servers with both the Loftware Java Connector and the Loftware Connector Console installed, the setup program will recognize and upgrade the Loftware Connector Console. To add the Loftware Universal Connector, you will need to follow these instructions on Windows systems:
1. After completing an upgrade of the Loftware Connector Console, navigate to the <Connector Install>\Connector\_Loftware Universal Connector_installation folder.
2. Run the Change Loftware Universal Connector Installation.exe program. The Configure Loftware Universal Connector wizard opens in Maintenance Mode.
3. Select Add Features, and click Next. A confirmation screen appears.
4. Click Next, and select Loftware Universal Connector.
5. Click Next, and then click Done to close the wizard and finalize the maintenance.

• Enables the receipt and processing of label print request files from any application
• Supported file types: XML, PAS, CSV and XSLT
• Supported on Windows and Unix platforms

• Job status information based on job name or filename is available via a JAVA API.