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SafiServer and SafiWorkshop 1.2 is here!

Posted At : December 1, 2009 1:26 PM | Posted By : zacwolfe
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This is a seminal release for us as the product is now more stable, powerful, and easy to use than ever. We've also added a new ActionStep "CallWSByWSDL" that allows you to easily consume Web Services from your Saflet, providing you with even more integration possibilities for your IVR/Callflow applications. The release of this ActionStep is merely the first of many non-telephony-specific ActionSteps that are in the works, representing an overall commitment to making SafiWorkshop and SafiServer the most flexible and powerful development and integration tools for Asterisk on the market (free or otherwise).

The Web Services integration functionality is currently in Alpha and we'd love to hear your feedback and ideas for how to improve it. This screencast should help get you started.

Here's a summary of some of the changes with this release:

SafiWorkshop

Added Web Services features (alpha)
Undo/Redo now works correctly for ActionStep dialogs
Fixed bug where moving ActionStep connections would fail and cause workshop to hang
(UI) Variables all synched up appropriately with SaifServer and editors.
Added pre-execution busy check for the Extension ActionStep
Fixed issue with deleting Saflets on SafiServer
Added recursive audio file import for Asterisk system prompts
Added full channel support (i.e. Local, SIP, ZAP, IAX, etc) for Extensions ActionStep
Performance improvements and bug fixes for Prompt Manager
Fixed bug in SAR (Safi Archive) imports causing null pointer exception
Added auto-complete for all Dynamic Value editors.
Variable editor enhancements

SafiServer

Fixed an issue causing the SafiServer to bind to an invalid IP address in some cases
Fixed Global variable issue.
Improved Linux install script that installs SafiServer as a service
Added ami.retry.period property to environment.properties to control how frequently to retry broken manager connection (in seconds)
Added useManagerPing (true/false) to environment.properties to toggle the manager "ping" function (ping command is broken in some versions of Asterisk 1.6.x)
Removed bind.ip from environment.properties and install scripts.
Fixed issue with certain linux (e.g. Ubuntu) distro picking up wrong localhost ip address and route based on misinformed hosts file information.

In addition to the Web Services screencasts, a number of new ones have been added and/or updated:

Free PBX Integration

Simple Auto-Attendant

Variable Passing From Asterisk To Saflet

Database Integration Part I and Part II

Other screencasts available here

NOTE: The Linux version of SafiWorkshop 1.2 will be available shortly

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great news! I was already disappionted, but then noticed your note:) there is no need to give Linux up, I'll just wait for this version. I wonder just what shortly means? have read some articles about it (downloaded by ------ SE) from which I found out that safi for Linux will be awailable in the first decade of 2010. is it really so?

# Posted By Edward | 1/4/10 3:25 AM

Edward, I'm hoping that "shortly" will be in the next couple weeks. The problem that we have is we don't have a dedicated Linux (GUI) build machine. We do all our development work in Windows and therefor putting out the Windows version of SafiWorkshop is much more streamed lined then building the Linux version. We're currently re-working our build process and hopefully we'll have more unified release cycles moving forward.

# Posted By erice | 1/4/10 2:15 PM

Hey...its 2010 now...im still waiting for the saif for Linux. I'm using ---- for downloading many files..but did'nt got what i wanted..

# Posted By Dex37638278273 | 3/21/10 2:18 PM

I have the same concerns as Edward. And do not you cheated. The release was indeed very easy to use. I just was not difficult to understand all, although I'm not an experienced user. I hope that the alleged stability is confirmed. Thank you!