Laserfiche 10.1 introduces several new features that make it easier to work with documents in your repository.
In Web Access 10.1, you can now open both PDFs and Microsoft Office documents directly in the document viewer, without needing to download and open them locally. With this feature, you can view these document types in the same way you would an imaged document. Metadata and other information about the document is immediately available right in the details pane of the document viewer.
Note: The Office Viewer requires that your site implement Office Web Apps Server. For more information, see General Services in the Web Access section of the Laserfiche Administration Guide.
When importing images or a PDF file into Laserfiche using Web Access, you will now be provided with a preview of the images or PDF directly in the import dialog. This allows you to refer to the document if you need additional information to help you file the document or provide its metadata.
When working with a document or folder, you may want to be able to quickly open an audit report for information on that entry. For instance, you might want to be able to see the history of who accessed or modified the document. Once you have configured the relevant audit reports in Audit Trail Reporter, you can launch them for a specific entry directly from within Web Access. (This feature respects the same security as Audit Trail Reporter: if a user does not have sufficient rights to run an audit report, the option to launch it will not be available.)
You can now compare changes when viewing version information for Microsoft Office documents stored in Laserfiche, in both the Laserfiche Client and Web Access. When comparing changes, differences between the versions will be displayed using the native Microsoft Office revision markup, allowing you to quickly locate what was changed between two versions. This functionality is supported with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations.
Column profiles allow users to save sets of folder browser columns and then quickly apply them to view different information about entries. In Web Access 10.1, you can now apply column profiles to search results as well as to regular folders.
You can now copy text directly from the images in Laserfiche documents in Web Access, allowing you to quickly populate metadata with copy and paste. Using the new Select Text command will retrieve the OCRed text from the selected portion of the document and copy it to the clipboard, allowing you to easily paste it anywhere you choose.
The following minor changes and fixes were also added to Laserfiche 10.1.
Note: Laserfiche 10.1 is a cumulative update and also includes all changes included in Update 1 and Update 2.
Web Administration Console
- Fixed potential install issues on French operating systems. (138675)
Desktop Administration Console
- Trusted subdomains now display when linking windows accounts to repository users in Laserfiche Rio (140446)
- Copying users now retains the original audit settings. (139320)
- An incorrect "Access denied." error message no longer appears when modifying list field values where the user has appropriate rights to the field being modified, but not to other fields in the template. (132037)
Audit Trail Reporter
- Significantly improved log import performance in Oracle environments (85718)
- Fixed an issue where connections to the repository did not always close completely. (112773)
- Improved handling of daylight savings time when displaying the audit report. (142643)
Desktop Laserfiche Client
- Calendar pickers now properly display in Hijri environments. (139120)
- The option to enable HTTP logging is no longer present for products and operating systems on which it is no longer relevant. (140279)
- Generating text on PDFs in the repository will first try to perform text extraction, and will OCR if text extraction fails. (140905)
- Custom tokens can now be added as properties for custom toolbar buttons. (142474)
- Pages can now be generated from PDF types that previously caused issues. (127250, 134238, 141372, 132734)
- Password protected PDFs now correctly follow the monochrome option during page generation. (139291)
- Using tokens in the folder path during document import no longer limits the path to 255 characters. (140140)
- The parent field token now resolves correctly in fields where the token value has more characters than the field length. (139859)
- File import tokens now correctly resolve during import on multi-value fields. (133060)
- An issue causing the Laserfiche Client to crash when multi-selecting and editing dynamic fields has been resolved. (140890)
- The preview pane will now be displayed when a folder is selected in the Folder Browser. (140856)
- Addressed an issue where the column layout attributes would be updated unnecessarily. (140651)
- Creating a new document from the pages of an existing document will now retain the original document's metadata. (139998)
- Trailing spaces will no longer result in unnecessary field truncation warnings. (129000)
Database Migration
- The Laserfiche 6 or 7 to 10 migration utility now supports migrating to Oracle 12.1 database management systems. (138279)
- Addressed an issue with a looping SQL query during audit data migration. (134679)
Scanning
- Dynamic fields no longer repopulate when another document with the same template has a different parent field value. (138165)
- An issue where Scanning would display a "Bad field value. [9017]" error when storing a scanned page into a document with a date field through Web Access in an Arabic environment has been addressed. (139523)
Server
- An issue where dynamic field values might be modified while scanning into an existing document if they had trailing spaces has been addressed. (130137)
- The reload license operation now includes new users added in the Laserfiche Directory Server. (138671)
- Addressed a connectivity issue when Laserfiche Directory Server's display name and legacy name didn't match following Directory Server migration. (139919)
- Improved performance when copying pages and documents with no location data. (140004)
- An issue where some repositories updated from 9.2 or earlier would be too restrictive when returning search results has been addressed. (140460)
- Addressed a connectivity issue when signing in via a named device license with windows authentication in a Laserfiche Directory Server environment. (140910)
- Increased performance when deleting documents in Oracle repositories with many entry links. (140924)
- Ignore the time parameter when it is left blank on date/time field searches. (141270)
- Addressed a rare issue where the Server might crash. (142121)
- Rebooting the Laserfiche Server now resumes indexing if the index queue was paused was due to an indexing error. (139317)
Laserfiche Office Integration
- More intuitive keyboard behavior when working with templates and fields. (117263, 134967, 138608)
- Can now correctly modify additionally assigned fields on a document where the template itself is read-only. (138191)
- Setting dynamic fields when connecting through Web Access is now more reliable. (139357)
- User-defined default save formats are now followed when saving new Microsoft Office documents to Laserfiche. (137711)
- Addressed an issue in Outlook 2010 where focus would always be reset to the top of the list after dragging and dropping emails. (140319)
Snapshot
- Field values set in the profile no longer reset to the repository default value when printing a document using Snapshot. (141856)
Web Access
- List fields with existing values now correctly update when a template is applied to a document such that they are part of a dynamic field. (137672)
- List fields in advanced search now display suggested values before users begin typing. (138168)
- Assigning date field values using only keyboard input is more reliable. (138779)
- An issue where Web Access would sometimes add search criteria with invalid template names has been addressed. (139094)
- When importing PDFs and generating pages, the option to discard the original PDF is now correctly followed. (139140)
- The auto-login option will display on the sign in page if present in the Web Access configuration file. (139433)
- An issue has been addressed in which users couldn't edit fields on a document that had a reverse relationship entry link to an entry on which they lacked rights. (139731)
- List fields now correctly display members that include tokens. (139788)
- An issue where folders sometimes displayed as documents when the Web Access and Laserfiche Server were installed on different language operating systems has been addressed. (140421)
- Leap year dates can now be manually entered in date fields without having to use the calendar picker. (140462)
- An issue where the saved search menu was inaccessible when long saved search names were present in non-English operating systems has been addressed (141428)
- Selecting an existing stamp from the stamp annotation list no longer opens the select stamp dialog (141554)
- Addressed an issue where connections using retrieval licenses could not access advanced search. (141807)
- Basic search strings containing punctuation are no longer always automatically quoted. Web Access now matches the desktop Client in which punctuation requires quoting the search query. (142401)
- Multiple file import with a period in the file name no longer truncates the name. (139136)
- Pages can now be generated from PDF types that previously caused issues. (127250, 134238, 141372, 132734)
- Password protected PDFs now correctly follow the monochrome option during page generation. (139291)
- Addressed a connectivity issue when Laserfiche Directory Server's display name and legacy name didn't match following Directory Server migration. (139919)
- Users can now relocate entries from the quick access view. (142614)
- Addressed an issue where cents would always display as ',00' when typing a number field value in 'Currency-Brazilian Real' format. (142125)
- Dragging documents into the contents pane now displays drop targets. (142029)
- Documents can now be sent to DocuSign for digitally signing using DocuSign templates created in the new DocuSign UI. (141821)
- Removed the "Exchange Web Service URL" item in the configuration site as it is no longer relevant. (139211)
- Addressed an issue where some dialogs would appear distorted in Chrome with software acceleration enabled. (134739)
1013760 Release Notes for Laserfiche 10.1