This article highlights new features and changes for Laserfiche Web Access 8.2.0.
- Web access 8.2 features various performance improvements in client-side page loading.
- Web Access 8.2 includes support for new Laserfiche Server 8.2 features that are now available through the Laserfiche Administration Console (e.g., custom field format display, dynamic fields display, Tag Watermarks).
- Web Access 8.2 now lets you perform records management operations.
- Search functionality improvements include:
- The Search pane now contains an option to refine searches by searching withing existing search results.
- The Pages search now lets you specify a page range.
- The Within Folder search now lets you specify multiple folders.
- The Electronic File search now lets you search by file size.
- You can now set a maximum limit to the number of results to display when running a full text search.
- You can now configure the length of the displayed context hits in the search results listing.
- There are now options to control case and accent sensitivity for non-full text searches.
- The Search Results listing now includes a "Relevance Ranking" column for full-text searches.
- You now have the option to create new stamp annotations without having to import a preexisting image file. You can directly specifying the stamp text or select from a list of tokens.
- There is now an option to allow Web Access to duplicate the exact access rights of folders and documents when copying and pasting.
- There is now expanded support for PDF files. Web Access can now directly generate page images for PDF files to create imaged documents. Web Access now also supports native text extraction in addition to IFilter text extraction.
- There is now an option to view Recycle Bin items for a specific folder or document. Viewing the recycled items for a folder only lists items deleted from that folder. Viewing the recycled items for a document only lists recycle bin items related to that document.
- Sticky note, callout text box, and text box annotations now support tokens.
- You can now rotate underline, strikethrough, text box, and callout text box annotations to match rotated page images.
- You can now choose how Web Access will handle importing a Laserfiche briefcase file when the briefcase file contains a folder structure that matches the folder structure in your repository. Web Access can either merge matching folder structures or create a new folder structure.
- You can now set image quality level for exported PDF files and JPEG images to control the level of compression for the exported files.
- When you configure the folder browser pane and search results pane to display a multiple-value field as a column, you can now mouse-over the column value to show a tool-tip that displays the other values of the multiple-value field.
- Web Access now has an option to export the contents of a folder as a zip file.
- You can now select multiple documents and export them all in a single zip file.
- When you choose to send a document as an e-mail message, you now have the option to download the e-mail as a .msg file and manually send the message through your installation of Microsoft Outlook.
- Web Access 8.2 introduces the the option of installing a second copy of the Web Access static components on a separate Web server from the main Web Access server. This allows you to distribute resource load as well as potentially decreasing load times in a WAN environment as remote offices can host their own copies of the static components.
Fixes:
- Text color for text box annotations now default to using black when the fill color is set to "None." (38702)
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Web Access 8.2 includes the following hotfixes previously released for Web Access 8.1:
- 1012602 List of Changes for Laserfiche Web Access 8.1 Hotfix 1012602. (May 20, 2010)
- 1012530 List of Changes for Web Access 8.1 Cumulative Hotfix 1012530.
- 1012496 List of Changes for Web Access 8.1 Cumulative Hotfix 1012496. (February 2010)
- 1012381 List of Changes for Web Access 8.1 Hotfix 1012381.
- 1012615 An Unhandled Exception Occurs When Specifying a Value in a Field with a Constraint when Using Web Access Scanning 8.1 (June 7, 2010).
1012693 Release Notes for Web Access 8.2.0.