MadCap Ixia CCMS

IXIA CCMS V6.5

December 2, 2021

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-19479] When doing a Deep Status Change on a map, some topics were not listed in the Move Dependencies dialog box because of DRM Content Level Security settings. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • [DEV-19812] When generating outputs from large snapshots, an Unable to process document error message sometimes appeared. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA Scheduler

  • [DEV-18939] Scheduler sometimes sent empty Activity Reports. This issue has been fixed.

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. To prevent performance issues downloading all the content to the user’s workspace, this issue will not be fixed in CCMS Desktop.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-19293] Pushes to a delivery branch included cross-referenced topics at an initial workflow state. This has been fixed and the cross-referenced topic now blocks the push action.
  • [DEV-19290] Sometimes pushing a map to a delivery branch resulted in a blank page. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-19140] When a topic had a status of Authoring:work and a parent topic at Authoring:done, both topics had grey background shading in a Collaborative Review. This issue has been fixed and the topic at Authoring:work is now shaded in white.
  • [DEV-19045] In Structure view, the edit icon for topics at Authoring:readonly was not grayed out. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-19044] Sometimes an error dialog box in a Standard deployment used the DRM terminology “fork”. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • [DEV-19040] With the AddIds trigger enabled for the release action, a topic that was cloned with the Open in default editor option did not have changes saved after releasing the topic. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • [DEV-19206] Exporting a Collaborative Review did not include the annotations. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA Scheduler

  • None

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. To prevent performance issues downloading all the content to the user’s workspace, this issue will not be fixed in CCMS Desktop.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-18910] The CCMS Web Oxygen license for 2022 is included in this Service Pack.
  • [DEV-18795] This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component in the Web installation script with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-18780] Forking a topic in the web that contained a conref with a self-reference prevented later status changes of the topic from Authoring:done to Authoring: work in Desktop.
  • [DEV-18620] Using the REST API to set a user property did not create an entry in the Revision History. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-18619] When forking a DRM topic in CCMS Web, the Original Filename value was not copied to the new instance. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17797] Collaborative Reviews created in CCMS Web had « No comment » in the assignment email instead of the user-entered comment. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17639] Sometimes a “Sorry, load products did not work” error appeared when searching for documents using the CCMS Web Advanced Search filters for DRM. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17176] Image thumbnails were sometimes displayed in CCMS Web as gray boxes instead of the image preview. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16917] The Table of Contents for Collaborative Reviews did not display topicheads. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16162] In a DRM installation, build manifests sometimes lost their container relationship. The cause was related to actions taken in CCMS Web. This issue has been fixed. To repair existing containers, you can run the CCMSUtils DRM Container Analyzer.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • [DEV-18665] Forking a topic in the web that contained a conref with a self-reference prevented later status changes of the topic from Authoring:done to Authoring: work in Desktop. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-18658] In a Standard installation, users were unable to publish a map that shared topics with a previously published map. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-18636] If a map had a previous snapshot, users were unable to create a new snapshot when the map had topic edits, but no map structure changes. This issue has been fixed and requires a configuration change. Contact Support for more details.
  • [DEV-18419] Adding a taxonomy term to a map using the Taxonomy view broke the structure of the map. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16950] Sometimes the DRM Rename action did not completely rename the version. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16216] Sometimes the DRM Rename action did not completely rename a version and the Dependencies view displayed the old version. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-8602] If the connection between TEXTML and Scheduler was lost, users had to manually stop and start the Scheduler service. This issue has been fixed and the Scheduler service now automatically recovers its connection.

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • [DEV-18333] Generating an output failed in CCMS Web when topics contained the word error in the filename. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16953] When creating a Collaborative Review or generating output with the XHTML output format, table footnotes appeared at the end of the content instead of at the end of each topic when chunking was used. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA Scheduler

  • None

TEXTML

  • [DEV-18547] This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-17283] TEXTML server sometimes had too many file handles open for the PrimaryReplicationCfg.xml file. This issue has been fixed.

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. To prevent performance issues downloading all the content to the user’s workspace, this issue will not be fixed in CCMS Desktop.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • None

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • None

IXIA Scheduler

  • This service pack fixes an error with the Scheduler scripts encrypt.sh and encrypt.bat from the previous service pack release. The build number matrix lists the update for Desktop but it is for Scheduler only.

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. To prevent performance issues downloading all the content to the user’s workspace, this issue will not be fixed in CCMS Desktop.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-18409] The Undo icon was not visible when editing a topic. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-18210] CCMS Web allowed users to change the status of documents via the Deep Status Change action even though they did not have the rights enabled via DRM Security. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-18064] In CCMS Web, some of the right-click menu options did not appear for related links. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17661] In the My Assignments page, the Due filter displayed assignments that had already been Marked As Finished. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17535] Users were sometimes unable to add an annotation to a Collaborative Review and received a Maximum call stack size exceeded error in the browser console log. This issue has fixed.
  • [DEV-17474] Collaborative Reviews created in CCMS Web had the incorrect From username in the email notification. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-18310] In a Standard installation, the ability to perform the Publish action on localized content and have all the auto-translation translate=”no” attributes automatically removed has been implemented. This was a specific customer request and requires a configuration change. Contact Support for more details.
  • [DEV-17809] While in DITA Map view, moving topics or submaps with their children expanded sometimes causes a Java Null Pointer Exception error. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-17978] If the Scheduler and the Output Generator services ran out of memory and had a Java heap space exception, the processes would hang and needed to be restarted. The services now fail so that monitoring system can detect the failure and automatically restart them.

IXIA Scheduler

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-17978] If the Scheduler and the Output Generator services ran out of memory and had a Java heap space exception, the processes would hang and needed to be restarted. The services now fail so that monitoring system can detect the failure and automatically restart them.

nightbuild

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.

CCMSutils

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. To prevent performance issues downloading all the content to the user’s workspace, this issue will not be fixed in CCMS Desktop.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.16.0.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.16.0.

IXIA Scheduler

  • None

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. To prevent performance issues downloading all the content to the user’s workspace, this issue will not be fixed in CCMS Desktop.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-17718] Maps that had keys defined in a submap instead of in the main map, sometimes had a Sorry, could not load map in CCMS Web Structure view. The maps would open in Content view. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17524] When editing a topic in CCMS Web and searching for an image to insert, the search took a long time if the search values were left blank. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17476] Sometimes, a Collaborative Review was created at Authoring:creating status instead of Authoring:review. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17448] After resizing the browser window, users could not check in documents using the More options button.
  • [DEV-17391] In CCMS Web, some maps reported out-of-scope errors for submaps when changing status. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17368] Keys that were defined in a map using CCMS Web did not appear after clicking the Insert Links and variables defined as DITA keys icon. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17340] After upgrading CCMS Web to 6.4 SP1, users were not able to load their assignments or favorites. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17303] When adding a topic to a map in CCMS Web Structure view, a Key definition not found validation error was displayed, and the topic title was not resolved. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17285] Some Collaborative Reviews in CCMS web remained locked by the system during a Move operation and were displayed with a broken graphic in the Assignments view. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17284] User-defined keys did not resolve in topics for CCMS Web. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17257] When a Collaborative Review in CCMS Web was left open in a browser for an extended period and the session timed out, there was no indication of the timeout. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16940] After a single sign-on login was completed, CCMS Web did not correctly redirect to the Assignments page. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16937] When a user had both a Writer and Information Architect role, creating a new map in CCMS Web created the map at a review state instead of the initial working state. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16776] Sometimes the CCMS Web Tomcat process would hang, and users were unable to login. The log file showed a java.io.IOException: Too many open files error message. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16772] In the CCMS Web Advanced Search panel, DRM products and libraries were not sorted alphabetically. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16760] In 6.3 SP3, the default user parameters specified in the Output Generator preprocessors.xml configuration file, were not populated in CCMS Web. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16721] In CCMS Web, table entry tags were sometimes superimposed. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16711] In CCMS Web, some context maps were not appearing in the advanced search. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16563] Users sometimes saw a blank Search Results page in CCMS Web when logged in with a username that contained mixed case. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16467] If the Writer role was renamed in a configuration, the Collaborative Review open topic icon did not appear in CCMS Web. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16228] In CCMS Web, attributes that contained an uppercase character did not copy to clipboard. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16172] In CCMS Web, the assignment indicators were not fully displayed. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16170] In CCMS Web, the locid attribute was displayed by default in Content View. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16159] Users were unable to create a Collaborative Review in CCMS Web for a map that contained a topic with a self-reference. The log file in My Outputs showed a The file does not exist error. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15892] Sometimes a nested map would not load in Structure view. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-14234] When editing a topic and inserting a conref that is a table element, a validation error appeared. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • [DEV-17475] In a DRM deployment using a pivot language, the CCMS auto-translated topics on their first localization cycle. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17447] When trying to create a topic in CCMS Desktop using saved settings for a topic with more than one subfolder, an error dialog box appeared with an empty description. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17442] In CCMS Desktop, sometimes creating a snapshot failed with a String index out of range: -1 error message. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17256] Reports were not filtered according to the saved date criteria. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16939] When localizing a published map using a pivot language, the translate=”no” attribute was incorrectly inherited from the pivot language. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16936] When the metadata of an image was modified and then localized, the system comment in the Revision History showed that the image was auto-translated but the image content was replaced with the authoring source image. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15817] If topics in the localization cycle were already locked when the parent map was localized, an Unable to lock the document error message appeared. This message has been changed to Unable to lock, the document is locked by another user.
  • [DEV-15758] For large topics with a lot of ixia_locid attributes, the Localize action took a long time. Performance has been improved and where possible IXIASOFT recommends splitting large topics greater than 2Meg in size into smaller topics.

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • [DEV-16781] In a DRM deployment, when importing a map with the Update existing documents option selected, maps were imported without the container reference which caused invalid references. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA Output Generator

  • None

IXIA Scheduler

  • [DEV-17255] The Scheduler Activity Report failed to process tickets if any were for topics that contained special characters. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16973] The Scheduler did not send email notifications when a Collaborative Review that was created on the web was assigned to a user. This issue has been fixed.

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. To prevent performance issues downloading all the content to the user’s workspace, this issue will not be fixed in CCMS Desktop.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar