--- title: 7.0 slug: 70 createdAt: 2026-02-26T19:00:47.412Z --- # Prerequisites - .NET Framework 4.7.2+ is required - The Microsoft Report Viewer control is now embedded into the Activate Install and a separate install is no longer required. ## UI Styling Enhancements - Microsoft Fluent Design (Similar to AzureAD and Office 365 2019) - New Icons to match the Fluent design - New Font - New Tabs styling - User Avatars - Tooltips and quick links are available for most objects - Redesigned default Homepage ## Search Enhancements - New Recently accessed items are shown when a user clicks in the search bar - Dynamic results tabs for filtering search results - Activate Select controls support recent and suggested items - Enhanced search panel for dynamic searching (for example when logging a call) - Generic Object tags allow multiple objects to be grouped and tagged together ## User Properties Enhancements - Simplified and enhanced views for most property pages - New Graphical Organisational Chart - Simplified Folder Access View ## Object Browsing - Folder icons removed to make it easier to provide icons for categories - Users can change the number of items shown and the size of the items (similar to Explorer in Windows) - Automatic mode to dynamically change views based on the number of items in a category - Breadcrumbs now include Home to make it more obvious how to return to the top of the catalogue ## Workflow Enhancements - Consolidated view of all sub-requests workflows - More targeted information for approvers - Show requests that are about to escalate - Requests > 50% of time to escalate are shown in orange - Requests > 80% of time to escalate are shown in red - New columns and colour coding of requests - Any new Approvals since a user logged in are shown on the homepage - Approvals that are due to escalate in the next 2 business days are shown as a warning on the homepage - Ability to view Emails and re-send them from the Web Site - New History view of request and approval history - Weblinks in emails render differently than the Web Site. This removes unnecessary images for links when rendering for emails - New Owner Dashboard to provide an overview of a user's approvals and owned objects - Images are now automatically attached and embedded in emails to make it easier when users are off-site - Simplified Email Approvals and ability to request more information via email - Ability to mark specific text in an email as sensitive so that they are not stored in the database ## Common Shopping Cart - A new common shopping cart experience means that users can request different types of items and submit the requests in a single step - Simplified Checkout screens that show items and workflow in a simpler manner for users - Ability to update information like Effective and Expiry dates directly from the confirm pages - Total Cost and Per Month costs calculated and shown ## General Web Site Enhancements - New Wizard Control for multi-step forms - New Browse Instances page for enhanced Dashboards - Update Article now includes an HTML diff of the changes when updating articles - New FlowPanel and FlexPanel controls to make forms more responsible when viewed on mobiles - Dialogs now nest rather than replacing the open dialog - Enhanced Select User pages with recent users and more graphical view to make it easier for users to select a user - New Simplified User Management landing page - Simplified Create User/Suggest access screen - New Service Update tasks to allow management of multiple approvers on services - There is now a 'Copy Link' in the share menu ## General System Enhancements - New REST API with Swagger UI interface - Services now have a permanent GUID associated with them so that external systems can link to them without using name or id's - New Reporting View controls - Updated to latest C# compiler to support the latest C# language features ## Activate Administrator Enhancements - New Visual Studio 2017/19 styling - New Start Page - Links to Common Items and Online information - List of recent changes throughout the system - New Job properties to maximum screen real estate for administrators - New GUI Web Form Editor - GUI - Drag and Drop interface to create forms - New streamlined Toolbox - Ability to automatically manage bindings - Ability to preview a form directly in Activate Administrator - Ability to browse Icons on the web site when setting URL's - New Connector GUI Editor - Enhanced Object History Views - Show last change only - Export to CSV - Add Changes to a package for deployment # Upgrade and Known Issues - The duplicate legacy .gif files have been removed (for example user.gif) - These were a hangover from Activate 4.0 and have now been removed - Any forms referencing these that have been customised will need to be updated to the .png version. In most cases it is simply changing the extension from .gif to .png - These were most often used in SectionHeaders - the new styling has removed these - The Activate Web Site in V7 should have 'Anonymous' access enabled - This is automatically done for new installations but must be manually enabled for existing sites - Images, Icons and Stylesheets are served without requiring authentication - The ProvisioningCollection classes have been changed to System.Collections.Generic based classes - This means that in most cases it is no longer necessary to cast items in collections for example Job.Children\[0] will return a Job and not just a ProvisioningCollection - This means that any customised scripts using ProvisioningCollection as a type must be changed. A verify of tasks should find these - ProvisioningCollection should be changed to IProvisioningCollection\ - In the default install there were two locations that this was done in 'Select Multiple Users' - Activate 7.0.0 certificate checking is more strict than previous versions - This means that certificates must be valid to be accepted. - Self Signed Exchange certs are no longer accepted by default - If a certificate has an issue you can force the certificate to be accepted within Activate by adding a new parameter 'Allow' at '//Resources/Configuration/Certificates' - Format: Allow="hostname\:thumbprint" - Example: Allow="avmtest2012.activatetest.com:1b4f64171228f3514ebff8aca986f8801f681538" - This will force any web service connecting to avmtest2012.activatetest.com to accept a certificate with the thumbprint above # Developer and Advanced Changes - The internal Activate Parser has been enhanced - In a similar manner to javascript, the parser now supports either a singe quote or double quote for strings - For example XXX="=IsInRole('Administrators')" is now valid - Expressions with numbers can now be used with quotes for example =//CurrentUser/Roles/Departments/0 - There are now Generic Evaluator.GetObject\ calls so that casting is not required - Services now have a GUID as a permanent id. =//Services/{Guid} can be used to access these from anywhere even if they are moving or renamed - Grouped Services will now appear a leaf nodes in searches - ServiceInstanceDetails control now renders the Service details (ie WebForm) automatically as required - There is a new ProvisioningObject.Parents property that allows the objects parents in order to be obtains. For example, /Parents/0 will get the top level etc. - There are new properties on a Job - TotalWorkMinutes - The total work minutes since the job was submitted - NextActionType - the next action - NextActionTime - the time the next action will be taken - JobAction.WorkMinutes - A user has a new property 'AccessTo' that is similar to 'OwnerOf' that can be used to get a link of objects that they user can access - The new Swagger UI can be accessed as /Activate/swagger. The user must be a member of 'Activate Developer' or a new role 'Activate API User' (this role does not exist by default but can be created) - There are new FlowPanel and FlexPanel controls to make it easier for mobile devices - This implements the CSS flex box pattern. More information on this can be found here - https\://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ - There is a new Role Reference parameter type that should be used in place of plain References - JQuery has been updated to 3.1.1. - All JS and CSS files are automatically bundled and minified by .NET - There is a new SelectOU control - There is a new ability to provide a join in CommonProperties for Services and Assets. An example of joining to ADCache to object some user information is below: :::BlockQuote \   \=/data/phoneNumber/StorageValue\   \     \ADCache.title\     \ADCache.department\   \   \AssetInstanceID, PhoneNumber\ \ ::: - % =sensitive("=/expression")% can be used to encode data that should not be stored in the database - After an email is sent this value will be replaced with '\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*' - The value will still be sent in clear text in the email - Controls that are not visible are no longer bound into the job - Previous versions bound the value of a control into the job regardless of whether the control was visible or not - It is unlikely that this was used, however, to standardise how binding works there values are not bound - The mostly affects ListPanel/OptionalPanel - NOTE: 6.5 also introduced another change that can affect users upgrading from previous versions - Previous to that version of a control was bound to an empty value - then the existing value was kept - The means that a control like \ would default to the current user if the user element in the job was blank - In 6.5+, the value in the binding overrides the default and the user value will be cleared. The fix for this is to set the default value in the job arguments - \=//CurrentUser\ ## ## Activate 7.0.0a - 27th May 2019 - Added additional index for TrusteeSid for FolderAce - Speed up Suggest access on sites with a large number of folders - Activate Anywhere - Updated jQuery version to match main Activate version - Added ability during install to specify that SSL only should be enabled. This enables production installs without requiring the web.config to be changed - Fixed an issue where ANR searches for custom properties for assets and services where case sensitive - reverted to being case insensitive - Fixed an issue with ServiceInstanceQuery generating an incorrect join ## Activate 7.0.0b - 10th June 2019 - Fixed upgrade issue where ResponseMsg on JobActionUser table was not changed to nvarchar(max) on some SQL installs - Removed error when adding an invalid group to a list. This fixes an issue when DL References are no longer valid - Added missing ticket status icons - Fixed SelectAssetInstance issue with the default service form not being visible and therefore SearchDefaults not being bound correctly - Fixed SharePoint Admin issue where nodes under WSS could not be seen - Update SharePoint Request Access to match Folder access - Added Tags to Activate Administrator for Articles - Passwords generated by Resources.Passwords.GeneratePassword will not automatically ensure that the password is complex based on standard Active Directory complexity rules - Fixed an issue where the system.log file was not under LogFiles - Fixed an external Azure User import issue - Fixed issue where Activate Administrator enforced 'Delete' rights to delete a parameter but it should have been write access instead - Added header when adding Notes to jobs to reflect who was notified of the new note - Fixed CSS issue with rendering Service Instances in some browsers - Fixed an issue from 6.5.1f where RunAsJob could sometimes clear the current Job. This causes an issue in 6.5.1 where Grouped services where not rendered sometimes - Added ability to display the stack trace during an error if the user was being impersonated by someone that is an Activate Developer or Administrator - Fixed SelectAssetInstance issue with custom query when there are URL reserved characters - Enable Request Validation for .NET 4.5 - Enable events/onValidate on GenericConfirm - Fixed issue with client scripts in Web Portal WebForm Editor - Fixed Service export/import issue where the GUID was not kept - Fixed parameter Type change issue keeping ValueGuid - Activate Anywhere - Fixed issue where referrers were not passed through. This broke some functionality to ensure the user returned to the correct page when clicking Cancel - Fixed issue with no session being available during startup causing event log entries that are not required ## Activate 7.0.0c - 8th July 2019 - Fixed issue with closing dialog where the page was reloaded sometimes - Performance improvement - Fixed issue with Dynamic Tabs rendering sub controls sometimes when they shouldn't - Performance Improvement - Speed up WorkflowSummary/JobDetails/JobActionsFeedControl by preloading User records - Optimised JobEmail to never attempt to load parameters - Optimised performance for loading properties for Draft jobs that are not required - Fixed an issue when Deleting Draft jobs from JobList.aspx returning to the home page - Fixed SelectMultipleUsers.aspx issue with selecting users from the autocomplete - Fixed issue with Service.ServiceInstances.Count not working correctly - New Activate Anywhere Anonymous External User Registration process (not enabled by default) - Added missing Icon for UserNoUpdateL.png - Mailbox Office 365 - new Sync process to batch and speed up process by detecting changed mailboxes - Fixed IE11 issue with disabled tables - Fixed issue with DateTime Picker where Min/Max date was not honoured - Fixed issue with ServiceReference where an invalid entry could not be deleted - Fixed issue with Connnectors.UserChangeHandler where if an event was not specified the event was not marked as complete ## Activate 7.0.0d - 21st July 2019 - Allow multiple OverrideUpdatableOU separated by a ";" - Search Enhancements - Fixed issue where partial words in names was no matching sometimes (fixed issue with user names) - This requires an index update. So should be done manually on upgrade or will take affect the next day - Fixed issue where if global AvailableObjects was set you could not search for job numbers - Allow AvailableObjects to have "-" in front of RefTypes to exclude these rather than needing to include all valid options - Allow wildcard search within Text/Keywords etc for words of length 4 characters and more - Improved search document scoring to adjust relative level of objects within the search results - ImageUpload control - Show KB rather than MB if max size is less than a 1MB - Fixed issue on initial load where the image size was the ImageSize rather than DisplaySize - If the image size uploaded is within 8pixels of the ImageSize, don't rescale - this stops double rescaling and potentially making the image bigger - Fixed rare case with BrowseObjects where could show the root of //Resources if the root was set to the Child which was a Leaf (meaning it had no children) - Added SQL functions to support improved Analytics ## Activate 7.0.0e - 2nd August 2019 - Fixed MailboxResource issue introduced in 7.0.0d where a Mailbox Resource could not be created manually - Fixed issue with Escalating to Roles - Fixed issue with Connector workflows notifying a role - Fixed Activate Administrator issue duplicating bindings when creating a new Arguments parameter - New File Upload Control that supports chunking large file uploads - Fixed issue with displayColumns from SelectUserFromList.aspx not being used - Fixed refresh issue when editing services on an approval screen - Added //Resources/Users/AvailableUsers ## Activate 7.0.0f - 12th August 2019 - Installer enhancements - Auto run Activate Administrator at end of install - Error if not running as 'Administrator' under UAC - Fix issue if Config Wizard is cancelled - Fix a SQL issue on new install - Record the Install Directory and reuse on reinstall - Fix SQL install issue some recent versions of dbo is the service account - Misc Administrator fixes - Fixed issue with bindings not being renamed correctly - Added UPN to the user properties page - Other minor fixes - Fix Web Grid issue in Edit mode with double click removing the row - Added template for app\_offline.htm - Allow ConnectAs for Exchange Resources - Fix Role Member vs Role properties issue - Fix issue with relative paths and embedded base64 encoded images - Fix an issue with deleted users on being loaded if a domain was specified on the path - Temporarily hide a job that has just been approved or declined from the JobList to allow the server time to process the request. - Change Rest API Post to allow naked body rather than just a JSON string ## Activate 7.0.0g - 9th September 2019 - Added ability to add AvailableUsers for External Web from 6.5.1h - Updated RequestValidation to allow TextBoxes to support HTML if AllowHTML is enabled. - This disables the standard .NET validation and is now done by Activate. - Automatically encode RequestReason in job views - Fix missing icons for ticket and running runs when searching - Fix job search issue when searching for 'SELF' - Fix ParameterList issues with deleting newly added rows - Fix issue with updating Service approvers where groups where not binding - Fix admin issue where scroll bar was missing when editing messages ## Activate 7.0.0h - 4th October 2019 - Fixed issue with CreateMailbox in Exchange Online - Fixed routing issue with POST to api/Job and allow the content to be raw XML rather than JSON string encoded