Version 2.6

Released: July 18, 2017

Changes

Sending documents to multiple recipients

Support was added to send a document as an attachment, or a link to a document to multiple email recipients. To use this feature enter a comma separated list of email recipients in the “Email address” field.

Visual changes

Several patches to change and improve the user interface landed on this release. The first, by Macrobb Simpson @Macrobb, makes the content area width, match window area. This means that on almost all device screen sizes the content area will be almost full screen. Another path from Macrobb Simpson, improves the visual appearance of the document metadata widget. The other big change is the new list item view template which lists documents in an column, row layout. With this layout document thumbnails are more clearly visible, much more information can be displayed for each document, and works much better on small screen devices like tablets and smartphone than a responsive table which requires two axis navigation on small screens. The height of the dashboard items is now adjusted via JavaScript to ensure correct layout regardless of screen size of message length when translated.

Logging

The logging configuration was improved to create a log for critical errors when running on production mode. The default location for this log file is: /mayan/error.log. This path can be changed with the COMMON_PRODUCTION_ERROR_LOG_PATH setting. This log file will capture application errors and request exceptions.

Cabinets

The access control for cabinets has been fixed in some regards and improved in others. The permission to add and remove documents can now be applied to individual root cabinets instead of globally for a role. Also, the permission to add or remove documents from cabinets must also now be granted to a document or document type. In other words, to add a document to a cabinet, the user’s role must have the permission to add documents to cabinet, for the cabinet to receive the document and for the document about to be added.

New permission

The patch to add a permission to view a document’s version list was backported from the development branch to make it accessible now. Like cabinets, the tag access control now works on two levels. Now to attach a tag to a document, the permission to attach tags must be granted to the tag to attach and to the document that will receive the tag.

ACL changes

The document type permissions namespace was renamed from “Document setup” to “Document types” for clarity. Along with that change, support was added for granting the document type edit, document type delete, and document type view permissions to individual document type instances instead of just globally.

Testing

The documents app view tests now test for view access and not just permission. Testing against access is more robust and also tests for permissions implicitly.

Other Changes

  • Fix HTML mark up in window title. GitLab #397.

  • Sort setting by namespace label and by global name second.

  • Sort indexes by label.

  • Switch the order of the DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES of DRF. GitLab #400.

  • Improve code to unbind menu entries.

  • Increase the size of the mailing profile label field to 128 characters.

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