New Features in WebLink 8.0

May 26, 2009 | KB: 1012221
WebLink 8.0

Summary

The following list highlights some of the major new features in WebLink 8.0.

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Laserfiche WebLink New Features

New Feature Description
New WebLink Administrator's Utility The utility now contains expanded functionality, such as:
  • The ability to configure repository connections for multiple IIS virtual directories.
  • If you have multiple repository configurations, you can now choose which one to be the default DBID.
  • Configuring watermarks, e-mail settings, and modifying where to store temporary files.
  • Configure WebLink to store usage statistics.
Welcome Page WebLink contains a new portal page with an emphasis on searching and bookmarks.
WebLink Designer The WebLink Designer is a utility that allows you to customize WebLink without the need to manually edit any code. For example, you can customize the following:
  • Theme: Color scheme, logos, images and you can preview the settings before saving.
  • The Welcome Page: Title, Text, Bookmarks, show/hide quick search.
  • Document Viewer: default cursor mode, default zoom level, whether to display the breadcrumb, and/or highlight internet search results.
  • Search Results: Display mode, order and properties (such as display/hide blank fields, display each field on a separate line...)
  • Search Options: Quick search options and option to define minimum number of fields that must have values before user can perform a template search.
  • Search Form Designer: add custom search forms.
Document Viewer The Document Viewer contains the following new features:
  • The image viewer now supports tiling.
  • Continuous page scrolling.
  • Continuous thumbnail scrolling in the thumbnail pane.
  • Supports the new Laserfiche 8 annotations.
  • A "full screen" mode.
  • An option to display/hide annotations.
  • The ability to send an e-mail message containing a link to the document.
RSS Feed WebLink now provides an RSS feed.
XML configuration files Configuration information is now stored per virtual directory in an XML file instead of the Windows Registry.
Laserfiche 8 metadata support WebLink now supports the new Laserfiche 8 metadata types.
WebLink Reporting WebLink Reporting is an analytics package installed with WebLink 8.
WebLink Mobile View You can view a simplified version of the Doc Viewer on your mobile device. You are automatically redirected (i.e. only document viewer has a simplified version (docviewm.aspx), all the other pages are the same).
Quick Search WebLink now contains a quick search control
Folder metadata Instead of a folder tree, WebLink now displays a control on the side that displays metadata about the selected folder.

Changes from WebLink 7

Change Description
Entry Locks WebLink no longer locks a document when a document is open.
Default columns now use trustee attributes. Login.aspx.vb no longer has a InitializeDefaultColumns subroutine. WebLink now defaults to using the trustee attribute for default columns.