June 2020 - stop a run, full screen mode, showing ageing information and more

This release includes a whole range of enhancements across the application, from data ingestion to how to make it easier for you to analyse data.  You can also find the list of bugs fixed at the bottom of this article.

• Stop a run if something goes wrong
• Fullscreen mode to see more data
• Seeing more exception ageing information to prioritise your work easily
• Using file names in processing
• Extract file header information from delimited files
• Data platform query enhancements
• New look in Settings, continued
• Email upgrade

Stop a run if something goes wrong

Sometimes the wrong files may be submitted, or rules are not yet fully configured, leading to runs taking a long time to process. This can hold up other processes and cause delay to your mission critical operations. You can now send a request to stop that run.
We have introduced a new role Run stopper for this action in process permission, so that you can restrict who can stop an ongoing run for each process. Any user with the permission can stop the run while it is queuing or running, before the matching process is finished.

Fullscreen mode to see more data

Many Duco users do not have access to a full-size work station and monitor when they are working from home, hence it’s more challenging to analyse large amounts of data. We have now added a full-screen mode to parts of the application where a lot of data is presented, so that you can interrogate with less scrolling.

Seeing more exception ageing information to prioritise your work easily

Managing exceptions and investigations across teams have become ever more challenging as teams are becoming increasingly distributed. To enable you to better prioritise work, we have included more ageing information across the application for transparency:

• in exception workflow history you can see the exception age as when the action happened;
• in the Excel and XML exports you can see the age as when the export was generated, for Excel a new column called "Age as at export" is added next to “Ageing started at”, and for XML a new attribute called "ageAsAtExport" has been added within the "Workflow" component;
• in NRL for calculated results, you can now use an operator that gives you the ageing started at date time.

Note: if you rely on the exact column locations in how you use our Excel exports such as value lookup, you may need to update your logic with the new column added.

Using file names in processing

You may have information in the submitted file names that you want to use for processing, be it the source system name, date of when data was extracted or others.  You can now make use of it in your match field transformation rules.  The new NRL operators can give you the submitted file name, as well as the individual file names submitted within a zip file.

Extract file header information from delimited files

Some delimited files may have additional data stored at the beginning of the file i.e. the file header.  You can now choose to extract data within the header portion as part of processing. Specifying where your actual data starts in the file, and which preceding lines are header data that you want to use for match field transformation rules.

Data platform query enhancements

When you have lots of data going through Duco, including all the manual actions such as labels added to items, getting data from Data Platform may slow down when your volume increases.  We have reorganised the way how data is stored in Data Platform, so that they are closer to how you would normally retrieve them, hence reducing the time for results to come back to you.

To make your query simpler, we have also changed how we grouped data by time.  Instead of using the time when data associations were made, we are now anchoring by the process run date.  For example, if a label was added to an item 2 weeks ago, which get carried over in today's run, the record will now appear in results_to_labels_last_day, instead of results_to_labels_last_month.

New look in Settings, continued

In this release we have modernised the Process Permissions screen, as well as the top and bottom part of the application with the administration functions now repositioned to under More.

Email upgrade

Email notifications generated by Duco have now got a new makeover with our latest branding.  Our Welcome email to new users also give more information to help them started.

Bug fixes