Summary
This article documents the list of changes for Laserfiche 8.1.
More Information
See the following list of changes for version 8.1.
New Features for Laserfiche 8.1
| Product | New Feature |
| Client | The Document Viewer window now includes an annotation pane that lists all the annotations that have been applied to the document. |
| Client | The Document Viewer now supports polygon annotations. |
| Client | The Folder Browser window now includes the option to display a Preview Pane that allows you to view the contents of imaged documents without having to open the Document Viewer. | Client | There are now more options when positioning panes in the Folder Browser and Document Viewer. |
| Client | The E-Mail plug-in now supports sending a link to a document in addition to the original option of sending a copy of the document. Sending a link to a document will send a .lfe shortcut file that can be used to jump directly to the document in the repository. |
| Client | You can now view and manage the list of electronic documents that are considered open by the Laserfiche Client. |
| Client | The Folder Browser now supports a basic set of undo operations. For example, if you have moved, renamed, or cut or copied and pasted a document, you can undo to reverse that action. If the recycle bin is enabled, you can undo deleting a document, page or electronic file. |
| Client | The Document Viewer now includes an Electronic File pane that can display PDF files. |
| Client | You can now choose to retain the folder structure when exporting search results as a Laserfiche briefcase. |
| Client | You can now choose to include shortcuts when exporting a Laserfiche briefcase. |
| Client | You can create custom quick searches for the Quick Search box. |
| Client | You can now create new informational tags from within the Laserfiche Client. |
| Client | OCR now uses the OmniPage 16 engine. |
| Client | The OCR engine now generates word location information for multi-byte Asian languages. |
| PhotoDocs | Laserfiche PhotoDocs allows you to retrieve photos from a digital camera and view, process and store those photos in Laserfiche. |
| Server | Search Syntax Updates:
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| Server | Copying and pasting a record folder now preserves the retention schedule, cutoff instruction, and review cycle. |
| Server | Expanded Recycle Bin Functionality:
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| Server | The Laserfiche Server now supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication. |
| Server | When you change a volume's fixed path, Laserfiche now attempts to automatically move the volume files to the new fixed path. Laserfiche deletes the files in the old path when all the data is successfully copied to the new location. However, Laserfiche will not delete the folder structure in the old path. |
| Server | You can now encrypt and compress volume files. Encrypted volumes become read-only. |
| Server | You can now specify constraints in number fields. |
| Server | There is now an option to automatically compress rolled-over audit logs. |
| Server | There is now an option to lock a repository. Locking a repository prevents any user account without the Manage Connections privilege from connecting to the repository. |
| Server | Laserfiche now attempts to compresses HTTP responses to version 8.1 client programs in order to improve network efficiency. |
| Server | Performance improvements to:
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Changes from Laserfiche 8.0.2
| Product | Change |
| Client | The Laserfiche Client now automatically prepends the record series code to the name for a record series when creating the record series. (45046) |
| Client | Typing the same character in a list field no longer moves to the next item in the list field with the same starting characters. Laserfiche now jumps to the exact value matching what you type. (44395) |
| Server | Moving an entry no longer requires the Delete Entry entry access right on the source parent folder. Laserfiche now also allows you to move an entry if you have the Modify Contents entry access right on the source parent folder. |
| Server | The progress indicator is now more accurate when copying entries, deleting entries, and migrating entries between volumes. |
| Server | Exported volumes no longer include version group information. Entries in a version group do not need to be in the same volume, and the exported information was incomplete. (45435) |
| Server | You can now delete a template when there are still documents in the Recycle Bin that reference that template. Field values for those documents in the Recycle Bin are retained. (43685) |
| Server | You can no longer create a folder tree hierarchy where a single record series contains both record series and record folders at the same folder tree level. (37690) |
Fixes for Laserfiche 8.1
| Product | Fix |
| Administration Console | Laserfiche now properly displays Active Directory accounts that are longer than 60 characters. (45524) |
| Audit Trail | 1012047 You May Be Unable to Generate Charts in Audit Trail Reporting When Using IIS 7. (41364) |
| Audit Trail | Audit Trail no longer displays a "You do not have permission to run reports on any audit data" error even though you are allowed in the Audit Trail Configuration page. (40806) |
| Client | There is now a longer default timeout period when connecting to the Laserfiche Server. (47404) |
| Client | Saved searches that involve multiple value list fields save properly. (47375) |
| Client | The Document Viewer no longer populates fields with the previous values when using the Next Document toolbar button. (47167) |
| Client | The Document Viewer no longer jumps to the first page after dragging a thumbnail to a new position in the document. (46697) |
| Client | The Choose Columns option from the View menu now properly functions with the Search Results Pane. (46071) |
| Client | Notebook editions of Laserfiche can now connect to the local standalone repository when connected to a VPN. (46506) |
| Client | Laserfiche now displays a clearer error message if the search engine cannot complete a search request because it is currently indexing a large document. (44948) |
| Client | The Client now generates the correct search string when performing a multi-phrase text search using the OR operator combined with another search criteria. (44135) |
| Client | The Laserfiche Client now correctly stores field data when importing documents using .lst list files. (43788) |
| Client | The "Apply these properties to all entries imported in this batch" option now applies the specified metadata to all documents. (43196) |
| Client | Freehand annotations are now exported correctly in TIFF format. (41528) |
| Client | The Document Viewer no longer incorrectly displays stamp color if you modify stamp color several times in a row. (40034) |
| Client | You can now create a .lfe shortcut file to a 0 page document. (36382) |
| Migration | The migration wizard now has improved performance when migrating Oracle databases. (44057) |
| Migration | 1012171 The Laserfiche 8 Migration Wizard May Set Trustees to Audit According to "Selected events" Instead of "Group membership." (44425) |
| Migration | 1012074 An "Error: 'Current filing system' not found in location table in source database." Error Occurs When Migrating a Database. (42301) |
| Migration | The migration wizard now automatically handles electronic documents that contain a file extension greater than 15 characters. In such cases, the migration wizard will truncate the extension to 15 characters. (40807) |
| Scanning | Laserfiche Scanning no longer hangs when a paper jam occurs with a Ricoh IS450 scanner with ScanConnect 8. (45166) |
| Scanning | The Store option in the Action menu, now correctly functions in Basic Scanning when you have the repository or folder selected in the revision pane. (44851) |
| Scanning | You can now use the CTRL + V keys to paste values into template fields. (44238) |
| Scanning | Scanning now correctly populates the document name when you use a field token with a field name that contains a '/' character. (44221) |
| Scanning | 1012140 Laserfiche Scanning May Be Unable to Properly Switch From Flatbed Scanning to Duplex Scanning When Using Kofax. (44038) |
| Scanning | Laserfiche Scanning now supports the VRS automatic color detection feature in Kofax. (43412) |
| Scanning | The "paper source" option on the toolbar now properly updates when you change the setting from the "Scanner Options" dialog box and you are using the Kofax scanning engine. (43328) |
| Scanning | In Standard Mode, when specifying field values in the default properties, the DELETE key now allows you to delete text from the mouse cursor instead of prompting you to delete the "Default properties" item in the Configuration pane. (42245) |
| Scanning | The Default Document Properties pane no longer inserts a selected token twice if you select a token for the first two fields of a multi-value field. (40186) |
| Server | There is no longer a potential for instability when performing a within folder search. (47567) |
| Server | Performing a basic search for annotation text using "*" no longer returns multiple results for the same page in the context hits. (47108) |
| Server | Users can no longer view a folder's properties and see how many image, text, and electronic documents are contained in the folder if they do not have rights to view those contents. (46510) |
| Server | 1012192 The Laserfiche Search Engine May Become Unstable When The lfword.idx Files Is Greater Than 2 GB. (46311) |
| Server | You no longer receive an "Operation Failed Name is invalid" error when storing documents with Quick Fields and a field token in the document path is empty. (46290) |
| Server | Laserfiche is now more robust when exporting large volumes. Exporting large volumes should no longer time out and return error 790. (45900) |
| Server | Laserfiche is now more robust in handling multiple simultaneous long searches. (45452) |
| Server | Within Folder search now properly handles folder names that contain the " character. (45008) |
| Server | 1012162 An "Error 9008 (error executing SQL command)" Error Occurs When Migrating Multi-Page Documents. (44842) |
| Server | 1012189 Laserfiche Client Programs May Become Unresponsive When Connecting To Repositories With A Large Number of Volumes. (44832) |
| Server | 1012156 Migrating Electronic Documents Between Volumes Can Silently Fail. (44650) |
| Server | 1012164 Text Search Context Hits May Be Incorrect When The Search Engine Is Running on a Computer With Multi-Core Processors. (44421) |
| Server | Exporting a volume in Laserfiche 7 format no longer truncates entry names to 31 characters. Entry names are still truncated when exporting a volume in Laserfiche 6 format. (43721) |
| Server | Laserfiche now handles trustee names that contain a forward slash character. (43441) |
| Server | 1012173 The Laserfiche Search Engine May Become Unstable When Indexing with Large Search Catalogs. (43422) |
| Server | 1012174 A "TextProvider.exe - Application Error" Error Occurs When Indexing. (43918) |
| Server | Quick Fields 7.1.2 can now send documents to record folders when there is a parent record series with a series code that contains a blank space. (43560) |
| Server | 1012159 Legacy (Version 6 or 7) Client Programs Cannot Connect to a Standalone Edition of Laserfiche 8. (34779) |
| Server | 1012145 A "The current request could not be executed because there are too many existing operations executing. [9035]" Error Occurs When Indexing or Searching. (34027) |
| Snapshot | 1012168 Snapshot May Use the Laserfiche Client's Default Template Setting When Snapshot Is Configured With No Default Template. (45213) |
| Snapshot | Snapshot now allows you to save a configuration if the default template contains a required field that is blank. (44881) |
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1012195 Known Issues with Laserfiche 8.1.