Version 2.4

Fri, Jun 23, 2017

Version 2.4

Released: June 23, 2017

Changes

SANE document source

A new document source has been added with the ability to retrieve documents from scanners directly. This new document source uses the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanner_Access_Now_Easy) API client to communicate with USB and network scanners. SANE must be properly installed for this document source to work. Your scanner must also be supported by the SANE API (http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html).

Automatic PDF orientation detection

The orientation of PDF documents is now detected at creation and a rotation transformation applied to each of the document's pages to correct the orientation.

Environment variables

Configuration options can now be updated from environment variables. To update a configuration option, prepend the string MAYAN_ to the name of the configuration option. For example, to increase the number of documents displayed per search results page (from a default of 40) to 50 documents, set the environment variable MAYAN_COMMON_PAGINATE_BY to 50 with:

 $ export MAYAN_COMMON_PAGINATE_BY=50

and restart Mayan EDMS. A list of the configuration options can be found in the [:menuselection:`Setup --> Settings`]{#problematic-1 .problematic} menu.

System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>{.docutils}, line 38); backlink

Unknown interpreted text role "menuselection".

Math filters

The django-mathfilters (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-mathfilters) package has been included to provide proper math filters in the indexes. An example of this is indexing documents by quarter:

 {% load mathfilters %}{{ document.metadata_value_of.date|date:"Y"}}Q{{ document.metadata_value_of.date|date:"m"|sub:1|intdiv:3|add:1 }}

Expand searchable objects

Previously, only documents and later on document pages were searchable. This release add support for searching for tags, metadata types and cabinets. This search support is available via the dynamic search API.

Management command to reset locks

During testing or development error occur and locks can remain behind, blocking execution of a process or task until they expire. To help resolve this a management command has been added called purgelocks that will delete all locks in the system.

Index by workflow state

Support was added to update the a document indexes from workflow state changes. To make workflow referencing easier from the index template, a new fields was added to the workflow model called internal_name. For example, for a workflow called "Publishing Workflow" with an internal name of publishing_workflow, use the following string to reference the current state in an index:

 {{ document.workflow.publishing_workflow.get_current_state }}

Task manager

A new app to monitor the distribution and consumption of background task has been added. This app is call "Task manager" and can be found in the "Tools" menu. Use this new tool to diagnose your background task workers or to determine when to scale up the number of workers.

Other Changes

  • Improve render of documents with no pages.
  • Fix repeated permission list API URL. GitLab issue #389.
  • Fix role creation API endpoint not returning id. GitLab issue #390.
  • Fix index rebuilding for multi value first levels. GitLab issue #391.
  • Add hardware requirements. GitHub issue #247.
  • Fix URL query string encoding for the document page navigation views. GitLab issue #383.
  • Truncate views titles via the APPEARANCE_MAXIMUM_TITLE_LENGTH setting. GitLab issue #217.
  • Add link to show a document's OCR errors. GitLab issue #291.

Removals

  • None

Upgrading from a previous version

Using PIP

Type in the console:

 $ pip install -U mayan-edms

the requirements will also be updated automatically.

Using Git

If you installed Mayan EDMS by cloning the Git repository issue the commands:

 $ git reset --hard HEAD $ git pull

otherwise download the compressed archived and uncompress it overriding the existing installation.

Next upgrade/add the new requirements:

 $ pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

Common steps

Migrate existing database schema with:

 $ mayan-edms.py performupgrade

Add new static media:

 $ mayan-edms.py collectstatic --noinput

The upgrade procedure is now complete.

Backward incompatible changes

  • None

Bugs fixed or issues closed