issue #21182: wrote characteristic test
made fix
new workspace smoke wait until the id is there
moved files
change to item test
Merge remote-tracking branch 'XTUPLE/master' into 21182
update honorific test
tests pass
Merge remote-tracking branch 'XTUPLE/master' into 21182
massaged Travis's test into new signatures
Merge pull request #867 from shackbarth/21182

issue #21182: check previous status for model array validation