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See the following list of new features, changes, and fixes for version 7.1.
| Product | New Feature |
| Laserfiche 6 to 7 Migration wizard | The Laserfiche 6 to 7 Migration wizard now features more useful error reporting as well as a more intuitive interface for registering the repository. |
| Laserfiche 6 to 7 Migration wizard | Each entry in a migration log file is now time-stamped. (20305) |
| Laserfiche 6 to 7 Migration wizard | Migration log files are now automatically saved when the user does not specify a location for the log file. By default, this log file is saved in the folder in which the Laserfiche 6 to 7 Migration wizard was installed. (19321) |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | There is now increased flexibility for generating audit reports. An audit report can now be split up into multiple pages. You can also specify how many lines per page to display in the audit report. Export options now include the ability to export the current page as well as the whole report. The Audit Report window now contains a toolbar as well as a status bar that displays the current page, the total number of pages, the number of items per page, and the total number of items in the report. |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | There is now an option to set up error log file rotation. This option allows you to specify how many error logs the server should use and when to rotate to another error log file. The option is located in the Settings item. (14224) |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | An administrator can now copy and paste items between repositories as well as within a repository. (13335) |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | There is now an option to automatically index documents. This option is called "Always index on document creation." It determines whether new documents will be automatically included in the search index. (16438) |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | The Laserfiche Administration Console now has the ability to create, rename, and delete public stamps. (13751) |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | Two new columns have been added to the Connections and Sessions items. The Last Active column displays the most recent activity time of the associated connection. The Authentication column displays "Password" if a user is logged in using a Laserfiche user account and password. If the connection was created using Windows authentication, the column will display a Windows user name. (6748) |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | The Browse (...) option in the Windows trustee linking section of the Group Properties dialog box now allows you to select both Windows user accounts and Windows group accounts. (19195) |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | The Rights tab of the User Properties dialog box now includes a Set All option and a Clear All option. These options allow you to quickly grant or deny all feature rights or privileges for a user account. (18524) |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | Users can now view the effective field access rights, volume access rights, feature rights, and privileges for a user. (14774, 10927) |
| Client |
Text can now be retrieved directly from certain types of electronic files. This feature will not create images. (18188) |
| Client | When viewing a document, users can copy a portion of an image and the corresponding text by selecting it and then copying it. The selected image and text can then be pasted into another application. |
| Client | Users can now view the effective entry access rights for a Windows user. (17025) |
| Client | There are now additional columns available for the Folder Browser. These columns are the following: Links and Tags. (11647) |
| Client | The context menu for search items now contains an OCR option and an E-mail Document(s) option. (20557) |
| Client | The Client now generates a dump file if it cannot recover from an error. The dump file is created in C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temp. (19478) |
| Client | There is now an option to export the file plan of a record series or record folder as a comma-delimited text file or as a HTML file. (19417) |
| Client | When an electronic document is selected, the File menu and the shortcut menu now contain an Open Pages option and an Open Electronic File option. The Open Pages option will open the Document window. The Open Electronic File option will open the electronic file associated with the electronic document. (19259) |
| Client | There are now additional toolbar buttons. You can now add a Delete button, a Forward button, a Tile Windows button, a Cascade Windows button, an E-mail Document(s) button, and a Snapshot button to the toolbar. (19162, 18971) |
| Client | Selected thumbnails are now indicated by a border. (19088) |
| Client | Documents opened from the results of a full-text search will appear with highlighted context hits. Previously, printing such a document would automatically include these highlighted context hits. You can now choose whether highlighted context hits will be included in a print job from the Print Options dialog box. (18074) |
| Client | CTRL + N is a new shortcut key for creating a folder. (17654) |
| Client | Performing a field search will automatically add all field columns for that template to the search results pane. (16739) |
| Client | The Tools menu in the Document window now also includes the View Document Links and View Document Versions options.(13430) |
| Client | Double-clicking a template name in the Browser Options dialog will select all the fields in that template. Double-clicking the template name a second time will clear all the fields. (12786) |
| Client | Double-clicking a briefcase file now uses the Send to Laserfiche feature to allow you to import that briefcase directly into a Laserfiche repository. (12192) |
| Client | Users can now select multiple thumbnails and rotate only the selected pages. (8217) |
| Laserfiche Repository Upgrade utility | You can now run the Laserfiche Repository Upgrade utility in silent mode by specifying a -q flag. "UPGLFRP.exe -q" will automatically upgrade 7.0.x repositories without user intervention. (19693) |
| Laserfiche Scanning | Laserfiche Scanning now comes in two modes: basic and standard. The basic interface is designed for small scan jobs where few documents are captured at a time. The standard interface is designed for processing larger batches of documents. |
| Laserfiche Scanning | There is a new type of scanning engine called "Laserfiche Photo Capture." This scanning engine is designed to scan images from digital cameras and removable drives. (18189) |
| Server | There are now Laserfiche-specific counters that can be added to the Windows Performance Monitor MMC snap-in. |
| Server | Documents that have been previously indexed are now automatically reindexed when changes are made to its text pages. |
| Server |
The Laserfiche Records Management system has been redesigned for better ease-of-use. New features include:
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| Product | Changes |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | Menu options for exporting a logical volume have been removed. This option never functioned. You can still export the physical volumes associated with a logical volume. (20020) |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | The mouse cursor is replaced with an hourglass when calculating effective field access rights. (19265) |
| Client | The Replace permission entries on all child objects option has been removed from the Enty Access dialog box. This option has been moved to the Tools menu and has been renamed to Propagate Rights. (18852) |
| Client | The OCR/Extract Text/Index dialog box could take a long time to load for large documents. In such a situation, there was no visible indication that Laserfiche was performing an action. Laserfiche now presents visual cues that the dialog box is loading. (20476) |
| Client | There is now one uniform format for all dialog boxes involving importing and creating new documents. (14023) |
| Client | There is now better error reporting when using Snapshot from the Client. (20024) |
| Client | Many of the Records Management dialog boxes have been redesigned. |
| Client | The Process option in the Outlook Import Options dialog box has been removed. (19605) |
| Client | Clicking the Reset option in the Prompt Options dialog box now displays a confirmation message box. (19483) |
| Client | The OK and Cancel options in the Stamp Manager dialog box have been renamed to Apply Stamp and Close, respectively. The behavior of these options has not changed. (18263) |
| Client | The Reset option in the Customize Toolbar dialog box now prompts you for confirmation. (18021) |
| Client | The Always prompt for tempate field data option in the New Document Options dialog box has been renamed to Always show Document Metadata dialog. (18008) |
| Client | Attempting to delete a document that you currently have open now prompts you for whether you want Laserfiche to automatically close the document and continue the deletion. (15904) |
| Server | The maximum number of allowed expansion databases has been raised to 30. (20130) |
| Server | The Manage Repository Configuration privilege is no longer required to modify audit archiving settings. The ability to modify audit archiving settings is controlled by the Manage Audit Settings privilege. (19465) |
| Server | The option to clear the Indexing queue requires the Configure Search/Index privilege. (19314) |
| Server | The maximum character limit for a record series code has been increased from 10 characters to 32 characters. (18877) |
| Server | Deleting a public stamp no longer automatically deletes all instances of that stamp. Deleting a public stamp removes the stamp from the list of available public stamps. However, pages that contained that stamp will still have that stamp. (18583) |
| Product | Fixes |
| Laserfiche 6 to 7 Migration wizard | When migrating a large database, the Laserfiche 6 to 7 Migration wizard could slow down significantly or become unstable if it ran out of virtual memory. Large amounts of virtual memory were required because it used a single-pass approach when migrating tables. This could potentially cause issues on large tables. It now uses a multi-pass approach for the Loc, Stamp, Ann, and Wof tables. (20180) |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | 1000664 The Laserfiche Administration Console Cannot Select Multiple Items on Computers using Windows 2000. (14755, 18804) |
| Laserfiche Administration Console | An invalid pointer (-2147467261) error could occur in the Laserfiche Administration Console if you right-clicked on Index and selected Properties without first clicking on the Index node. This error no longer occurs. (17669) |
| Client | 1000895 Items in the Contents Pane May Not Be Visible When Using a Black Background. (19028) |
| Client | 1000886 Laserfiche Takes a Long Time to Load the Repository List. (18352) |
| Client | 1000870 PDFs Exported by Authorized Users Will Contain Unsecured Redacted Text. (18554) |
| Client | 1000817 Printing Electronic Documents from the Folder Browser May Not Work. (17730) |
| Client | An error would occur when the Folder Browser was set up to display a field that had already been deleted. The Client no longer displays the error and just leaves that column blank. (20316) |
| Client | Pressing the Q key in the Folders pane would not take you to the first item with a name that starts with Q. Instead, it would allow you to edit the name of the currently selected item in the Folders pane. This issue is now resolved and pressing the Q key will take you to the first item with a name that starts with Q. (19798) |
| Client |
Opening a folder in a second browser window would prevent you from deleting that folder even if you closed the second browser window. You would be unable to delete the folder until you logged out and relogged back in. Opening a folder in a new browser window no longer prevents you from deleting the folder. (19234) |
| Client | Custom searches did not save correctly. (18948) |
| Client | If you made changes to both a page and field data in a multi-page document, your field data changes would not be saved upon viewing another page in that document. Page modifications and field data changes are now both saved when you choose to view another page in a multi-page document. (18738) |
| Client | There were missing options in the Zoom setting in the View Document Options dialog box. The Zoom setting now correctly includes the following options: Fit Height, Fit Window, 200%, and 400%. (18351) |
| Client | The Send to Laserfiche feature would not allow you to send documents to Laserfiche without a specified template. You would receive an error 6000 if you attempted to send a document without specifying a template. You can now send a document without specifying a template. (17680) |
| Client | Default field values would not be displayed when creating Laserfiche documents using the Send to Laserfiche feature. Default field values are now filled in when using the Send to Laserfiche feature. (15874) |
| Client | The Folder Browser window would not display the creation/modification time for documents or folders created at 12:00:00 A.M. The Creation Date/Modification Date columns would display the time portion for affected documents and folders as blank. This issue is now resolved. (14097) |
| Laserfiche Scanning | 1000881 The Same Page is Continuously Scanned When Using Laserfiche Scanning with the Flatbed of a Kofax Scanner. (15426) |
| Laserfiche Scanning | 1000878 Laserfiche Scanning May Become Unresponsive When Used with a Kofax Scanner. (18855) |
| Laserfiche Scanning | 1000860 Deleting a Scanned Page Removes the Incorrect Page. (18379) |
| Laserfiche Scanning | When using Laserfiche Scanning, scanned documents that were processed by OCR would not be automatically added to the indexing queue if the current user inherited the Process feature right from a Laserfiche group. This issue is now resolved and the scanned documents are properly added to the indexing queue. (19301) |
| Laserfiche Scanning | A page removal process for blank pages could prevent you from rescanning. (18709) |
| Laserfiche Scanning | A "Cannot write to file" error could occur if you rescanned an image that had been OCRed. This issue is now resolved. (18063) |
| Server | Users denied the Read field access right on all fields in a template would still be able to see the name of the template. Although the template name would be revealed to unauthorized users, field names and field data remained secure. This issue is now resolved and users denied all rights on all fields will no longer be able to see the name of the template. (19620) |
| Server | The results of a full-text search could include documents to which a user did not have sufficient volume access rights. It would also display a context line for those search results. This issue is now resolved. The results of a full-text search for users that do not have sufficient volume access rights will no longer include documents stored on secured volumes. (20434) |
| Server | Briefcase import errors were not being reported. The Laserfiche Server now properly returns an error if a briefcase fails to import. (20391) |
| Server | When using compressed audit logs, archiving an audit report could potentially cause the Laserfiche Server to become unstable. This issue is now resolved. (20309) |
| Server | When attaching a volume from Laserfiche 4 to Laserfiche 7, date field values were not imported into the Laserfiche 7 repository. Date field values are now properly imported under these circumstances. (19770) |
| Server | When migrating documents into a logical volume, only half of the specified maximum size would be used in a physical volume before a new one would be created. Physical volumes created when migrating documents now correctly use the specified size limit. (19711) |
| Server | Briefcase export errors were not being reported. The Laserfiche Server now properly returns an error if a briefcase fails to export. (19627) |
| Server | If you used the Send to Laserfiche option from within Microsoft Outlook to send an e-mail with a multi-page TIFF attachment, only the first page would be created. This issue is now resolved and all the pages of the multi-page TIFF are successfully created. (19568) |
| Server | Importing a briefcase or volume into a repository that uses MSDE would import location data into the main database instead of an expansion database. Importing into a repository using MSDE now correctly uses the expansion databases. (17890, 20138) |
| Server | When using a terminal server, Laserfiche Scanning would not share a connection to the Laserfiche Server with the Laserfiche Client 7. Laserfiche Scanning now shares a connection with the Laserfiche Client. (17446) |
| Server | Tag descriptions were prevented from utilizing the full 200 character limit. Tag descriptions can now have a maximum length of 200 characters. (16272) |
| Server | Windows user or group accounts that no longer exist could not be removed from the associated Laserfiche user or group account. You can now remove nonexistent Windows accounts from a Laserfiche user or group account. (16152) |
| Server | A user without the Edit field access right to a field could erase a field value by changing the template. Users now cannot change the template assigned to a document when he/she does not have the Edit field access right to all fields that contain data. (20410) |
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