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.
- Three new full-page widgets.
- 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
- REST
- 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.