OL Connect Automate release notes 1.1.0

Improvements

OL Connect Automate nodes now support configurable regex security levels to protect against potentially unsafe regular expression patterns. See Regex Security Settings. (NODERED-3452)

There are three new FileBound nodes, for upload, create file, and search. Using these nodes is documented within the nodes. (NODERED-3195)

Known Issues

If using Firefox, with AI link preview feature enabled (it is enabled by default), and you press and hold the up/down arrows of a number input field, you may get an error message from Firefox, We can't preview this link, and an option to view the link. The native HTML5 number input spinners are being misinterpreted as clickable links by Firefox's AI feature. The message can be disregarded. We are working on a solution to prevent this message appearing. [NODERED-3268]

Printing PDF files

When printing files for use with OL Connect Automate, for best results print source files (e.g. the Word file) whenever available, rather than PDFs. Some PDF viewers, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, etc.), may not produce useful results.

In general terms, the issue is that Adobe Acrobat Reader produces its own PostScript file, rather than passing the PDF to the OLRP Printer Driver to generate a PostScript file. This doesn't hinder the transfer of the file, but Adobe Acrobat Reader's own PostScript file sometimes lacks information about the original PDF, which may cause errors in the processing of that file and in the interaction following the transfer. For example, if the PDF contains a PostScript font (Type 1 in Adobe Acrobat Reader), an "error retrieving character data” may occur during the data mapping of the received file. In that case the data will be corrupted and no preview will be shown in the web template.

There are similar issues with how Chromium-based browsers prepare print PDFs, which may result in the loss of character data required for subsequent operations.