In these release notes, you can find packages, requirements, features, enhancements, fixed issues, and known issues for the Merge Service October24.12.09 release.

This documentation may describe optional features for which you have not purchased a license, therefore your solution or implementation may differ from what is described here. Contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) or Account Executive (AE) to discuss your specific features and licensing.

Packages

The following packages and dependent packages are required to upgrade to this release to utilize all the new features of this release. These are the minimum required versions; later versions are also supported. Separate prerequisites for each feature can be found in the respective guides. The packages marked as (New) are new packages in this release.

ProductLatest Certified Version Number
Conga Merge Service (New)

13.0.5.1128

Merge Service Release Configuration

By default, your production org references the GA version of Merge Service. If you had previously configured Merge Service for preview, you must change some settings to use the GA version. All Merge Service implementations must have the Comply System properties. You must configure Proposal System properties to use Proposal Management.

Use the following URLs to configure Merge Service:

The following configurations allow you to change your Merge Service or Remote Site settings:

To change your Merge Service setting for Comply System Properties

  1. Go to Setup > App Setup > Develop > Custom Settings.

  2. Click Manage for Comply System Properties.
  3. Click System Properties to raise the Merge Webservice Endpoint setting.
  4. Set the merge webservice endpoint to the URL listed above or to another URL provided by Conga and click Save.

To change your Merge Service setting for Proposal System Properties

  1. Go to Setup > App Setup > Develop > Custom Settings.
  2. Click Manage for Proposal System Properties.
  3. Click System Properties to raise the Merge Service Endpoint setting.
  4. Set the merge webservice endpoint URL listed above or to another URL provided by Conga and click Save.

To change your remote site settings

  1. Go to Setup > Security Controls > Remote Site Settings.
  2. Click Edit for ApttusMergeServer.
  3. Enter the URL listed above or the URL Conga provides you in the Remote Site URL field and click Save.
  4. Click Save.

If you would like to be engaged in our pre-release program for Merge Service, please reach out to your assigned CSM for details.

New Features

The following features are new to Merge Service in this release.

Configuring Compare Direction for Merging Documents

By default, the combine direction is set to Default. When the APTS_SetWordCompareDirectionToRevised admin entry is true, the RevisedDocument is used during the MS Word combine process, merging the original and revised documents. For more information, see Admin Entries.

Retaining Redlines in PDF output

When the APTS_PreserveRedlinesInPDF admin entry is true, redlines are retained in the PDF output when the Word document is converted to PDF for all ConvertWordDocument action requests. For more information, see Admin Entries.

Enhancements

There are no enhancements in this release.

Fixed Issues

The following table lists the issues fixed in this release. If any actions are required, they will be listed in this table.

Case Number

Conga Internal ID

Description

00909007COREAPPS-13530When you convert a protected DOCX file with unaccepted redline revision text in English or French to PDF using the convertWordDocForAgreement API results in the redline content appear rearranged and unreadable. This issue does not occur when using MS Word's Export or Save As options to convert the document to PDF.
00908088COREAPPS-13360The convertWordDocToPDF and convertWordDocToPDF2 APIs no longer retain redline revisions when converting Word documents to PDF.
00904921COREAPPS-13259When generating a document using the template after migration, the user encounters the “Word encountered an error processing the XML file" error.
00905077COREAPPS-13169When users insert a Rich Text Area field and a Long Text Area field inside a repeat table in a template, only the Rich Text Area field is rendered, while the Long Text Area field is not rendered upon generating the document.
 00899961COREAPPS-12582

During a parallel review, the redlines such as deleting lines, line numbers, words, and so on, appear correctly in the review check-in version but are not removed in the merged document. Instead, the deleted content is merged along with the redlined content.

Known Issues

There are no known issues in this release.

DOC ID: MSOCT24PRN241209