Tag: 21.1

This is an brief overview on the highlights of Content Server 21.1. This is only a technical list without any screenshots.

In the following posts I will discuss some of the new features more in detail, of course with screenshots

What’s new? A brief overview.

This is an excerpt from the Content Server 21.1 Release Notes

• Administration
  • Admin Server Processes have now names which follow the the schema AdminServer-NN.
  • Read-Only Partitions. They have been eliminated. During Upgrade, they will be converted to retired node.
  • New Indexing Control Rules. For new installations, they follow the best practices for configuration.
  • Transport Warehouse, The system was simplified.
• Connected Workspaces
  • Folder Templates. Like creating documents and workspaces from predefined templates, Folders now can be created from predefined folder templates.
• SmartView
  • Multilingual Metadata. The name and the description fields in the metadata now support the edit of these fields in the configured multilingual metadata
  • Search Forms. Search Forms, created in classic UI are now available from smartUI.
  • TreeBrowse. A new widget allows to browse the nodelist widget with tree like display (similar to the Windows Explorer) after enabling this widget.
• OpenText Viewing
  • Is now available as Windows Installer in an non-containerized environment.
• Perspectives
  • Perspectives now can be enabled or disabled
• Content Intelligence
  • Three new full-page widgets.
    • Nodes Table Webreport -Full
    • Table Webreport – Full
    • Visual Count – Full
  • New full page Webreport destination supports the new full page widgets.
  • New Tags/Tag Options
    • Enable Row Filters: Automatically filter a Webreport data source if the report is used as a button within the Visual Count Widget.
    • Hidden Columns: INDLUDEHIDDENCOLUMS: <hiddencolumns to include> is a new option in Table Webreports to display hidden columns.
• Records Management
  • REST
    • Add and remove users to a hold
    • Add and remove users to a user based hold
    • Execute a user based hold and apply or remove holds from content owned or modified by the user
• Security Clearance
  • Dynamic Security Clearance. The Clearance can now be controlled based on organizational defined criteria, like network and device to provide a finer control of the Clearance. For example, a login from a coffee shop can receive a lower Clearance as one from the intranet.
  • User profile. Clearances and Supplemental Markings can now be displayed on the user profile.
• Workflow
  • Initiation by Mime Type. Workflows can be initiated by mime type, such as a pdf in the proper format.