diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
index 8484cdb42..85d0207ff 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
@@ -1851,7 +1851,7 @@ lxml = "*"
 type = "git"
 url = "https://github.com/sartography/SpiffWorkflow"
 reference = "main"
-resolved_reference = "46f410a2852baeedc8f9ac5165347ce6d4470594"
+resolved_reference = "062eaf15d28c66f8cf07f68409429560251b12c7"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "SQLAlchemy"
@@ -2989,18 +2989,7 @@ psycopg2 = [
     {file = "psycopg2-2.9.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d529926254e093a1b669f692a3aa50069bc71faf5b0ecd91686a78f62767d52f"},
 ]
 pyasn1 = [
-    {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py2.4.egg", hash = "sha256:fec3e9d8e36808a28efb59b489e4528c10ad0f480e57dcc32b4de5c9d8c9fdf3"},
-    {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py2.5.egg", hash = "sha256:0458773cfe65b153891ac249bcf1b5f8f320b7c2ce462151f8fa74de8934becf"},
-    {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py2.6.egg", hash = "sha256:5c9414dcfede6e441f7e8f81b43b34e834731003427e5b09e4e00e3172a10f00"},
-    {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py2.7.egg", hash = "sha256:6e7545f1a61025a4e58bb336952c5061697da694db1cae97b116e9c46abcf7c8"},
     {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:39c7e2ec30515947ff4e87fb6f456dfc6e84857d34be479c9d4a4ba4bf46aa5d"},
-    {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py3.1.egg", hash = "sha256:78fa6da68ed2727915c4767bb386ab32cdba863caa7dbe473eaae45f9959da86"},
-    {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py3.2.egg", hash = "sha256:08c3c53b75eaa48d71cf8c710312316392ed40899cb34710d092e96745a358b7"},
-    {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py3.3.egg", hash = "sha256:03840c999ba71680a131cfaee6fab142e1ed9bbd9c693e285cc6aca0d555e576"},
-    {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py3.4.egg", hash = "sha256:7ab8a544af125fb704feadb008c99a88805126fb525280b2270bb25cc1d78a12"},
-    {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py3.5.egg", hash = "sha256:e89bf84b5437b532b0803ba5c9a5e054d21fec423a89952a74f87fa2c9b7bce2"},
-    {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py3.6.egg", hash = "sha256:014c0e9976956a08139dc0712ae195324a75e142284d5f87f1a87ee1b068a359"},
-    {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py3.7.egg", hash = "sha256:99fcc3c8d804d1bc6d9a099921e39d827026409a58f2a720dcdb89374ea0c776"},
     {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:aef77c9fb94a3ac588e87841208bdec464471d9871bd5050a287cc9a475cd0ba"},
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 pycodestyle = [
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/__init__.py b/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/__init__.py
index 5d591d847..de73385f3 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/__init__.py
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/__init__.py
@@ -104,11 +104,14 @@ def create_app() -> flask.app.Flask:
     app.register_blueprint(api_error_blueprint)
     app.register_blueprint(admin_blueprint, url_prefix="/admin")
 
+    # preflight options requests will be allowed if they meet the requirements of the url regex.
+    # we will add an Access-Control-Max-Age header to the response to tell the browser it doesn't
+    # need to continually keep asking for the same path.
     origins_re = [
         r"^https?:\/\/%s(.*)" % o.replace(".", r"\.")
         for o in app.config["CORS_ALLOW_ORIGINS"]
     ]
-    CORS(app, origins=origins_re)
+    CORS(app, origins=origins_re, max_age=3600)
 
     connexion_app.add_api("api.yml", base_path="/v1.0")
 
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/process_instance_processor.py b/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/process_instance_processor.py
index 9b6ed01b9..d1df67428 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/process_instance_processor.py
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/process_instance_processor.py
@@ -178,9 +178,9 @@ class CustomBpmnScriptEngine(PythonScriptEngine):  # type: ignore
         )
         return Script.generate_augmented_list(script_attributes_context)
 
-    def evaluate(self, task: SpiffTask, expression: str) -> Any:
+    def evaluate(self, task: SpiffTask, expression: str, external_methods=None) -> Any:
         """Evaluate."""
-        return self._evaluate(expression, task.data, task)
+        return self._evaluate(expression, task.data, task, external_methods)
 
     def _evaluate(
         self,
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/interfaces.ts b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/interfaces.ts
index 42ba53356..3c3d7c122 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/interfaces.ts
+++ b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/interfaces.ts
@@ -12,9 +12,8 @@ export interface RecentProcessModel {
 }
 
 export interface ProcessReference {
-  id: string; // The unique id of the process or decision table.
   name: string; // The process or decision Display name.
-  identifier: string;
+  identifier: string; // The unique id of the process
   display_name: string;
   process_group_id: string;
   process_model_id: string;
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/routes/ProcessModelEditDiagram.tsx b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/routes/ProcessModelEditDiagram.tsx
index 9ef71a7ca..d117f798f 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/routes/ProcessModelEditDiagram.tsx
+++ b/spiffworkflow-frontend/src/routes/ProcessModelEditDiagram.tsx
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ export default function ProcessModelEditDiagram() {
     if (processModel) {
       const files = processModel.files.filter((f) => f.type === type);
       files.some((file) => {
-        if (file.references.some((ref) => ref.id === id)) {
+        if (file.references.some((ref) => ref.identifier === id)) {
           matchFile = file;
           return true;
         }