Release Date: February 5, 2021


This release includes fixes for the following issues:

Last Updated: February 5, 2021

Admin

Description Issue No.
Admins can delete a group even if the group is used in a document lifecycle role’s default and override rules.   DEV-295604*
In some scenarios, jobs stay in “Running” status and do not succeed or fail.   DEV-362366*
Under certain conditions, some audit data may be missing due to improperly handling null values.   DEV-367335*
The Maximum Length field on Formula types of object fields are locked and can only be updated via MDL   DEV-369886
In some cases, Vault Comparision reports fail if the source vault has several workflow definitions with the same Modified Date and one is missing a public key.   DEV-370134
When an inbound configuration migration package contains a new object field with a relationship to a non-custom object field, Vault fails to create the new field and returns a deployment error.   DEV-370623
The Vault Comparison tool fails if one vault has Vault Payments and the other vault does not.   DEV-371083
When using Vault Loader to update user records, Vault sometimes fails to add users to groups based on security profile.   DEV-371164
In some cases, Vault Loader fails to extract object records when the Include Non-Editable Fields checkbox is selected.   DEV-371223
The copyright date displayed in the Vault Loader CLI is incorrect.   DEV-372191*
When using Vault Compare, errors comparing individual components cause the entire comparison to fail.   DEV-372296*
In some scenarios, cross domain users cannot access sandbox vaults.   DEV-373056
Users who are not Vault Owners experience a server error when editing filters on object tabs.   DEV-374261
When preparing to deploy an inbound package, Vault does not display the “not allowed” icon when a user hovers over a disabled checkbox on the Review and Select Steps page.   DEV-376356*

Authentication

Description Issue No.
In some scenarios, Vaults fail to load.   DEV-370669*
In some scenarios, users cannot log in if the vault domain is in Configuration Mode.   DEV-371477
In some cases, when users attempt to log in using their SSO credentials, the page never loads.   DEV-374173

Clinical Operations

Description Issue No.
In some cases, the Last Modified Date on a document audit trail updates in spite of no changes to the Milestone field.   DEV-361554
Performing the “Create Protocol Deviation Log” user action on a Site results in a server error   DEV-365006
In some cases, Vault does not copy the Product field on copied documents   DEV-367220
Users cannot use the “Create Fees from Template” action without adding “Create” permission on the “Additional Fees” object type.   DEV-368858
In some cases, completion metrics on Milestones with Actual Finish Dates are updated unexpectedly.   DEV-369039

Commercial

Description Issue No.
In some cases, Digital Publishing for Documents fails and URLs are not generated.   DEV-336334
In some cases, the Production CDN URL field remains populated when the document is Retired.   DEV-346153
When a user updates an existing cover letter template to the new Medical Inquiry Case Response Cover Letter document type, Vault sometimes incorrectly maps existing custom document fields with similar names to the Related Case Request and Related Case Response fields, and cover letter generation fails.   DEV-367288
When generating an eCTD Compliance Package, Vault does not include the promotional document number and version on Form 2253 or the Supplementary Form.   DEV-367291*
Content Filters based on a previously created Saved View from a different portal do not filter or display results correctly.   DEV-369417
Vault fails to generate folders in eCTD Compliance Package binders.   DEV-370028

Developer Features: API

Description Issue No.
Vault does not log a “SUCCESS” in the api_response_status column of the API Usage Log after making API calls to retrieve audit trails.   DEV-208629*
The Update Single Document endpoint does not return a response status if the request fails. This fix only affects API v21.1+.   DEV-352915
The next_page and previous_page links returned from the Job Histories and Job Monitor API endpoints are missing an “=”, and do not work.   DEV-368881*
Vault does not prevent the creation of object types on objects that do not have object types enabled. Users encounter server errors when attempting to open these objects in Vault.   DEV-370702
The Download Document File API fails with PARAMETER_REQUIRED if called from the browser, even if all required parameters are present.   DEV-371155
When extracting documents with the Extract Data Files endpoint, if a user selects the include_source__v or include_renditions__v extract options, and no documents match the VQL criteria, or if all documents in the vault are placeholders without renditions, the extract fails instead of succeeding and returning an empty CSV.   DEV-371163
When exporting documents with the Vault API’s Extract Data Files endpoint, if a user selects the include_source__v or include_renditions__v extract options and does not include id in the fields array, Vault returns an error and the job fails.   DEV-371930*

Developer Features: MDL

Description Issue No.
When a user drops a Permissionset or Securityprofile type component and then recreates a component with the same name, Vault applies description attribute values from the dropped component to the new component.   DEV-240639*
In some cases, Vault may not provide a useful error message when attempting to create Atomic Security component with empty attributes.   DEV-360491
When creating or recreating a document relationship type, users are unable to set the target doctype to a subtype or classification.   DEV-369048*
When creating custom Docfields, users are able to assign system picklists.   DEV-373618*

Developer Features: SDK

Description Issue No.
In vaults using the Vault Java SDK for local http callout requests, an invalid or expired session error is returned even when the Authorized Connection User is active.   DEV-367965
When creating field rules, changing the target field to a date field causes a browser error.   DEV-368911*
External Connections cannot retry sending Spark messages because session IDs are not stored.   DEV-370325*
When using the Query Service with High Volume Objects, processing threads are released to the thread pool when execution is complete.   DEV-376788*

Developer Features: VQL

Description Issue No.
For some complex VQL queries, the query times out and returns UNEXPECTED_ERROR.   DEV-368621
In some cases, when a VQL query has multiple pages of results, Vault retrieves the first page but fails to retrieve subsequent pages.   DEV-370342*

Documents

Description Issue No.
When a user checks in a document via Office Online, Vault does not accurately capture changes in file size.   DEV-277386*
Inline text attachments are missing as Vault attachments from .MSG files.   DEV-325528
In some cases, Vault does not display annotations when sorting by author.   DEV-328882*
Documents with Read-Only protection fail to render.   DEV-351423
Documents do not appear in the Document Change Control “Documents to Be Released” section several days after being added.   DEV-362683
After adding a rendition through bulk API to a document with an existing rendition, the Audit Trail incorrectly states that a viewable rendition was successfully added.   DEV-364633
After re-rendering a document with the Automated Image Rendition type, the Rendition Status page displays an incorrect status message.   DEV-366170*
After creating a placeholder and adding content, the size attribute is missing from the Audit Trail.   DEV-366779
In some cases, Vault generates zero byte files when downloading a PDF with annotations   DEV-367323
After deleting the specific bound version of CrossLink, the Document field on the CrossLink source object is blank.   DEV-367851*
Documents fail to render if the source document contains invalid merge field content.   DEV-368345
In some cases, Vault incorrectly renders citations as bookmarks.   DEV-370039
In some cases, merge fields that are unavailable on the active document type display an error instead of leaving the token blank.   DEV-370235
Attempting to upversion a document results in a server error if the document has a target version-specific document relationships with archived documents.   DEV-370249
Collaborative Authoring does not work as expected after a prolonged period of disuse.   DEV-371274
Vault fails to create and render CrossLinks for large documents.   DEV-371684
After updating documents using Vault Loader, Vault does not update the Timeliness document field.   DEV-371926
In certain circumstances, more than one version of a document may be returned by Vault search as the latest version.   DEV-374550
In some cases, tokens in letter templates are not populated.   DEV-375767

Lifecycle & Workflow

Description Issue No.
Initiating workflows has decreased performance.   DEV-361728*
Vault may display an error when attempting to change a Content Plan object record to a Locked lifecycle state.   DEV-364107
Vault users’ ability to use a bulk state change action may incorrectly be blocked by the Start Workflow permission.   DEV-367522
After an auto-start workflow is initiated, the task bar loads slowly.   DEV-370986
In some cases, users receive a server error when attempting to “Add Participant” on an active object workflow.   DEV-371769
The error message displayed upon failing to meet entry criteria for a lifecycle state may incorrectly show the state key value instead of the state label.   DEV-372062
In some legacy workflows, when a user executes the Update Workflow Dates action on a workflow task with multiple participants, the workflow task participants continue to receive notifications that the task due date has been updated.   DEV-373480
In certain multi-document workflow configurations, after creating an optional workflow task via Add Participants, the optional workflow may be unexpectedly completed upon completion of a parallel required task.   DEV-374039*
Vault may display a server error when trying to delete a custom object with Atomic Security configured for a field in the object’s lifecycle.   DEV-376007

Localization

Description Issue No.
Some labels in multi-document workflows may not correctly show translated text.   DEV-366623*
If the base language in the target vault does not exist in the source vault, integration rules return “null” for field labels.   DEV-366628*
Error messages for SDK integration field rules do not have translations.   DEV-368663*

Objects

Description Issue No.
Date and DateTime fields do not allow clearing default values. For example, an object record with a defaulted value cannot be edited and saved with a blank value.   DEV-356521*
An error occurs when users lack Read permission from a join object to one of its parent objects and navigate to the related object section for the parent object on the join object record detail page.   DEV-360208*
In some cases, when users select Edit from a record’s Actions menu or click the Edit button on an object record detail page, Vault clears the values in fields with dependencies configured.   DEV-370136
When users create an index on a high volume object and then refresh the page, the page alignment is incorrect.   DEV-370331*
In some cases, users cannot save a field value which contains an apostrophe.   DEV-371408
In some cases, clicking Show More to display a Long Text field value may cause the field content to overlap and obscure the field label.   DEV-378386*

Performance & UI

Description Issue No.
In some scenarios, the hover tooltip text for Auto Managed Groups appears in the top-left of the page.   DEV-274380*
Automated Image Rendition Density is defined in pixels per cm, rather than pixels per inch.   DEV-300499
In some cases, inline editing a cell on an object record page may freeze the page, making other actions impossible   DEV-360594*
In some warning messages, the “warning” icon is too small.   DEV-362686*
In some cases, Vault errors when attempting to display a user group with a very large number of members (3,000+ members).   DEV-362855
Custom object notifications sometimes have missing values for tokens for some users   DEV-365458
The display name for cross-domain users does not display correctly when changing names.   DEV-366471*
Changing a domain name does not update domain user display names.   DEV-368216*
When creating SDK integration field rules, some fields exceed the page width.   DEV-368666*
In some cases, the My Vaults page fails to load.   DEV-368760
Editing a reference lookup displays a Save + Create button.   DEV-370413*
In some cases, Vault does not track the Avg Time Login performance statistic.   DEV-371091
Long Text fields don’t appear correctly when an object record detail page is in Edit mode.   DEV-371279*
Notifications for Vault Loader jobs are missing bullets when viewed in Internet Explorer 11.   DEV-371996*

Quality

Description Issue No.
In some cases, Vault may display an error when attempting to change the state of a Proposed Audit record after adding a user to a Quality Team role.   DEV-366008*
Some e-learning courses may not play or play intermittently in the IE 11 browser.   DEV-366031*
Users may experience slow performance when creating and updating EU MIR Reportable Event records.   DEV-366186*
Document icons may not correctly appear in related document sections on Training Assignment or Training Requirement Impact Assessment object record details pages.   DEV-366755*
Vault may incorrectly allow Person object records without a User reference to be saved with a Training Eligibility field value of ‘Eligible’.   DEV-366788*
In certain Substitute Training configurations, a substitute training assignment which should be canceled may not be correctly canceled by the nightly Update Training Assignments job.   DEV-368030
Admins can assign the Learner license type to users in vaults where Vault Training is not enabled   DEV-368735
In Vaults with a QMS-Regulatory connection, Vault may not correctly display a user-friendly error message when an Impact Assessment record is unable to enter an Impact Assessment Complete lifecycle state.   DEV-368870*
In some cases, e-learning courses may fail to play in the Safari mobile browser.   DEV-369034*
In some cases, the Learner Homepage may fail to completely load.   DEV-369388
In Vault Training, the entry action for Training Assignment records sometimes does not copy all fields.   DEV-371201*

QualityOne

Description Issue No.
In some cases, Vaults without QualityOne Training are able to create users with the learner user license.   DEV-371014
When an existing NCR record has a blank value for “Add Image Carousel”, Vault returns a “Server having problems” message when trying to access the record.   DEV-375436*

QualityOne Mobile

The QualityOne Mobile release, including all Platform fixed issues, is targeted for tentative availability on February 16, 2021.

Description Issue No.
When deleting an NCR record, users receive an unclear alert instead of the expected confirmation text.   OLS-1229*

Regulatory

Description Issue No.
Users experience slow performance after running the Create Related Records wizard when constraints are configured on join objects.   DEV-345236
Vault performance is slow when creating or updating many records from the Manage Registered Details wizard.   DEV-350357*
Applying column filters for some field types in the Content Plan Hierarchy Viewer results in a Vault error.   DEV-353561*
In some cases, the removal of manually matched documents fails and results in an error while the daily automatching job is running.   DEV-358364
The duplicate detection warning in the submission import results CSV file is not complete.   DEV-360767*
In some cases, after continuous publishing runs, Vault updates the binder but reports rules incorrectly.   DEV-365570*
When users select the Create Sibling action in the Content Plan Hierarchy Viewer, Vault adds the new record at the bottom of the hierarchy rather than below the record where the action was initiated.   DEV-365758*
When replicating Content Plan sections, Vault does not propagate blank values on join records.   DEV-366346
When retrieving submission import results via the API, errors appear in the incorrect order in the API response.   DEV-366425*
In some cases, Sequence IDs with hyphens causes continuous publishing to fail.   DEV-367255*
Users sometimes see a server error when attempting to import a submission ZIP file.   DEV-368111
When continuous publishing is enabled, if a user unlocks a matched document and then excludes it or unmatches it, Vault publishes the unlocked document version rather than a placeholder.   DEV-368496*
When validating the US Form filename as part of US 5029, Vault expects no characters to exist before the form number.   DEV-368618*
While generating Product Data Messages, Vault fails to load an XML attachment and message number if the Product Report Item’s Language Code field is blank, causing the XEVMPD submission to fail.   DEV-369059
The Manage Registered Details wizard does not allow the addition of new Registered Product records that contain a comparator product to an Investigational Product registration that has a different non-comparator product.   DEV-369419
Permalinks to Submissions Archive content are not resolved if the published version is deleted.   DEV-370910
When Dossier Formats are defined, Vault does not load STF files to the correct folders during submission import, and users see warnings in the import notification.   DEV-371068
Matched documents do not appear in the Content Plan Hierarchy Viewer after the documents are approved.   DEV-371531*
In some cases, when a submission import is not successful, Vault doesn’t attach the import results to the Submission record, and the notification email doesn’t include the complete details about the failure.   DEV-371632*
An error occurs when users export the Excel Tree with All Descendants from a content plan that contains placeholder documents after adding the Matched Document Size column in the Content Plan Hierarchy Viewer.   DEV-372121
When users add a related submission to a published submission, continuous publishing does not run and Vault does not update the Publishing Status field.   DEV-372309*
Users cannot add a Unit of Presentation into a denominator when working with XEVMPD data.   DEV-374164
Some submissions imported through Vault File Manager get stuck in the TRANSFER_INITIATED status.   DEV-374543
Users can proceed in and complete the Create Related Records wizard without populating required fields, even though Vault cannot create the new records.   DEV-376644
When users open and save a configurable impact assessment report, Vault includes tags from the report template on the copied report.   DEV-376785

Reporting

Description Issue No.
For dashboards that include multiple reports with run-time inputs, Vault does not combine run-time inputs for Created By and Last Modified By fields in the dashboard inputs.   DEV-338920*
In some cases, sorting a report column may result in an unexpected sorting pattern.   DEV-360934*
In some cases, report results grouped on text field values may show incorrect counts.   DEV-365379*
In some cases, Multi-Pass reports with filters on date aggregate formula fields fail to execute and result in a server error.   DEV-366627*
All date fields are blocked when joining a report view to another view in a Multi-Pass report after adding a date field to the report view with grouping and aggregating on the same date field.   DEV-368126*
When viewing the Document Audit History through the Vault UI, some descriptions are incomplete.   DEV-368702*
Grouping by period on datetime formula fields with up and down up objects results in a server error.   DEV-369174*
In some cases, Vault displays a server error when a user without permission to edit tags attempts to save a report.   DEV-369370*
Exported reports with the “Fit PDF export columns to one page” option enabled are longer than one page.   DEV-369993
In certain cases, Vault may display a server error when sorting a report by a formula field column.   DEV-370508
Document field values may not display correctly when performing a bulk document action from a report.   DEV-376524

Safety

The Safety release, including all Platform fixed issues, is targeted for tentative availability on February 10, 2021.

Description Issue No.
Fixed an issue where a decrease in system performance would occur during Assign Due Date on the Case lifecycle.   SAF-11086
Fixed an issue where the MedDRA browser and coding feature would not function if the profile language was not set to English.   SAF-12211
Fixed an issue where an error prevented automatic generation of Health Canada Submissions through the rules engine.   SAF-13075
Fixed an issue where attachments in .rtf format were considered invalid during E2B validation.   SAF-13234
Fixed an issue where an exception would occur when creating an Inbox Item with an attached form.   SAF-13259
Fixed an issue where multiple Drug History records were created for a single Combination Product once an Inbox Item was promoted to a Case.   SAF-13294
Fixed an issue where the Case Watchlist tag was updated with a constituent product’s watchlist tag when the constituent product had an associated Watchlist, but the Combination Product did not.   SAF-13295
Fixed an issue with Combination Products comprising of multiple vaccines and a single device product, where the Device Case Product record was being nested under each Vaccine Case Product record instead of only the primary (PMOA) record.   SAF-13302
Fixed an issue where certain patient-related ICH.D E2B validation rules failed for device malfunction-only Cases with no patient.   SAF-13378
Fixed an issue with E2B validation where the Validation Result Summary did not list vault fields evaluated with the ICH.D.10.3-3 and ICH.D.10.8.r.5-3 validation rules.   SAF-13421
Fixed an issue with E2B validation where the Validation Result Summary did not list IDs for records evaluated with the ICH.G.k.4.r.1a validation rule.   SAF-13424
Fixed an issue where the ICH.D.4 E2B validation rule did not show warnings if the Height was a decimal number.   SAF-13431
Fixed an issue where gateway transmissions with validation errors became stuck in the Sending ICSR state.   SAF-13432
Fixed an issue where the ICH.F.r.4/5 E2B validation rule did not allow decimal numbers.   SAF-13435
Fixed an issue where an AER could not be created with data from certain picklist fields when migration flags were enabled.   SAF-13451
Fixed an issue where the MedDRA browser version was using the active version in Business Admin instead of using the Case MedDRA Version for Case Drug History and Case Diagnoses records.   SAF-13462
Fixed an issue where the ICH.D.2.1-2 E2B validation rule failed for Date of Birth referring to a future date when the Case Date of Birth field was not set to a future date.   SAF-13463
Fixed an issue where the ICH.E.i.5-2 E2B validation rule failed for a valid Case Adverse Event Cessation Date.   SAF-13478
Fixed an issue where date validation errors appeared on different sections after removing the Date of Death.   SAF-13482
Fixed an issue where the medical review timeline was not loading.   SAF-13507
Fixed an issue where some UI elements of the MedDRA browser appeared misaligned and distorted.   SAF-13595
Fixed an issue where duplicate dosages were created when a follow-up is created from a Case with Blinded Study Arms.   SAF-13600
Fixed an issue where users were unable to create a follow-up from a Case when blinded study arms were enabled and the Download Dosage to Case option was turned on.   SAF-13601
Fixed an issue where a system error appeared when attempting to create an External Case Product.   SAF-13675
Fixed an issue where the DSUR Death List would not generate for a case when the Date of Death field was left blank.   SAF-13727
Fixed an issue where an error would prevent a FDA VAERS R3 file from being generated.   SAF-13855
Fixed an issue where transmission-level ICH Validations were not being executed and the record would remain in the Pending state.   SAF-13898
Fixed an issue where transmissions with the Auto-submit feature enabled would transition to the Ready state when validation errors were present.   SAF-13925
Fixed an issue where the FDA VAERS validation rules were not executing at the Transmission-level.   SAF-14068
Fixed an issue where EMA validation rules were not executing at the Transmission-level.   SAF-14144
Fixed an issue with E2B validation where the Validation Result Summary did not list vault fields evaluated with the EMA.D.10.8.r.1 validation rule.   SAF-14230
Fixed an issue with E2B (R3) exports where a blank autopsy section (D.9.3) was included when there was no death, causing submissions to the EMA Gateway to be rejected.   SAF-14235
Fixed an issue during automated intake where an Inbox Item was not created if Case Contact information was extracted from unstructured data.   SAF-14365
Fixed an issue where an error appeared when evaluating reporting obligations for a Case with registrations to an inactive agency without submission rules configured.   SAF-14396
Fixed an issue where Case Contact subheadlines were not updated to Reporter after selecting the "Contact is also Reporter" checkbox.   SAF-14402

Security

Description Issue No.
Some users are not automatically added to groups based on their security profile.   DEV-363066

Site Vault

Description Issue No.
When a document type in the Product Profile document type group includes an apostrophe in the label, Sitevault cannot move the state of the study product record from Proposed to Active.   DEV-307127
In some cases, Vault creates duplicate Distribution Tasks when the Send Document via Clinical Network action is taken.   DEV-353537
The Research Organization field on SiteConnect tasks does not default to the organization.   DEV-368640*
When an Adverse Event, IP Accountability, or Protocol Deviation document already exists for a study and participant and you attempt to upload the same document type for the study and participant, SiteVault does not notify you to consider uploading them as new versions of the existing documents.   DEV-369241*
When a Study Person or Study Organization moves into the Active state, Vault does not correctly filter documents for which it creates distribution tasks.   DEV-371225
A question mark (?) instead of the file type is displayed in the thumbnail of documents that are included in connected study tasks to provide original documents.   DEV-372317*
Users cannot accept Agreements with Site Connect Rule Sets.   DEV-378519*

Veeva Clinical Network

Description Issue No.
In some cases, users see a Page Not Found message after sending a document package to a Study Site.   DEV-366638
Vault does not prevent the Send Agreement Invitation entry action from creating Agreements for Sites with no organization or whose organizations have missing or invalid USN values.   DEV-367526
In some cases, Study value metadata is transferred from SiteVault vaults to Clinical Operations vaults for studies that do not have active Agreements.   DEV-368720*
In some cases, Distribution Tasks fail to move to the Sending state and documents cannot be transferred.   DEV-370138
Vault creates duplicate documents when transferring multi-site documents from Site Vault Enterprise vaults to Clinical Operations vaults.   DEV-371561
Vault does not populate the source_tmf_document_number__v field on documents transferred to target vaults.   DEV-374725