The Laserfiche 10.4 release includes a variety of new features, such as significant improvements to the handling of Microsoft Office documents, the ability to assign a map location to a document, and more flexible records management options. In addition, the 10.4 release includes many bug fixes and performance enhancements.
New Features for Office Documents
The web client installation now includes the Laserfiche Document Preview Service, which allows you to display Microsoft Office documents directly in the document viewer or the folder browser preview pane without needing an Office Online installation or account. This allows users to easily view their documents without needing to download them or use the Office Integration. In addition, users can now create Office documents directly in the repository without needing to first create them externally and import them.
Map Locations
Laserfiche 10.4 introduces the ability to associate a location on a map with a document or folder using Google Maps, Esri cloud maps, or Esri on-premises maps. Each location has both associated GPS coordinates and a location description; by default, the location description is the street address of the location. This location can be viewed in the details pane of the folder browser or document viewer, or used to perform a search.
Flexible Records Management
Laserfiche Records Management has been updated to enable greater organizational flexibility in how records are handled, while still enforcing security restrictions to help them meet their compliance needs. Cutoff and retention policies can now be assigned directly to any entry in the repository, without needing to be located within record series. In addition, holds (previously called freezes) can be placed on any entry in the repository, regardless of its folder structure or whether it is a record.
New Features in Federated Search
Federated Search can now be configured to allow users to search across Windows network drives and Google Drive accounts. Also, in addition to respecting Laserfiche security settings, Federated Search now allows administrators to control access to external data sources, such as websites and network drives, as some users or departments may need greater access than others.
The following minor changes and fixes were also added to Laserfiche 10.4.
Users will now have the ability to re-authenticate to Laserfiche Web Scanning using SAML if they sign out or lose connection. (117294)
In Laserfiche Scanning, processes configured to run immediately after the Auto-Rotate process will no longer silently fail. (73455)
Laserfiche Scanning no longer freezes when running the Despeckle process with a speckle size of 1 on a color image. (51421)
In Laserfiche Scanning, when editing default document properties, and after changing the document name, clicking in a metadata list field no longer displays the list of options in the top left corner of the screen. (92580)
OCRing certain documents in Laserfiche Web Scanning results in text extracted from page 1 showing up on other pages in the document. (112741)
In Laserfiche Scanning, scanning and adding image enhancements or OCRing compressed tiff files no longer fails with a “Failed to load image” error. (94653)
Date fields retrieved from dynamic fields no longer result in an erroneous "Input string was not in a correct format" message. (93623)
Resolved an issue that could cause the records management privilege to be displayed in the web client for sites not licensed for Records Management Edition. (91606)
When the Laserfiche Server notification port was blocked by a firewall, the web client sign-in page could take a very long time to load. This issue has been resolved. (34368)
In some cases, emails with braces ({) in the subject failed to import. This issue has been resolved. (97110)
Pressing SHIFT+ENTER while editing a text annotation now creates a new line rather than opening the properties dialog box. (93793)
On some operating systems, using the shortcut CTRL+SHIFT when dragging and dropping a document to create an LFE shortcut fails. CTRL+ALT should be used instead when dragging and dropping a document to create a LFE shortcut. (42943)
Documents with a single corrupted image page will now open and display all the uncorrupted pages. (100427)
Default colors for stamps and sticky notes are now correctly saved. (112604)
In some cases, when importing a PDF with a text box and converting the annotation to a Laserfiche annotation, the text box was not correctly sized for the text. This issue has been resolved. (52932)
Resolved an issue that could prevent an updated business process name from displaying correctly in the web client. (79423)
Resolved an issue that could automatically select the Document Text quick search option when only a custom quick search was selected. (78551)
The Start button for a business process is no longer incorrectly displayed for some entries that do not meet its criteria. (75484)
Dynamic fields with multiple children with one corresponding value to the parent field now autopopulate correctly. (76761)
Deleting a folder in the folder tree now correctly refreshes the contents pane. (62450)
Pages that have no width or height recorded in the database will now still be displayed. (29375, 156229)
Customizing the web client toolbar no longer incorrectly places the Email button under More Options. (91029)
Business process starting rules are now correctly checked for shortcuts in the web client. (91037)
Resolved an issue that could result in the web client becoming unresponsive when modifying or deleting a value on the parent value of a dynamic field with a very large number of values. (87994)
The subject of an email was not correctly autopopulating as the document name when importing the email in some cases. This issue has been resolved. (88204)
When using the web client in some locales, trailing zeroes on number fields were incorrectly removed. This issue has been resolved. (114634)
The web client now correctly displays date fields when the web server time zone is set to UTC+13. (115331)
Some documents containing date/time fields enabled the save button even when no changes had been made. This issue has been resolved. (123416)
Resolved an issue that could cause a metadata report generated as a text file to include all the metadata in a single column. (105810)
For annotations containing text, pressing arrow keys when editing the text now moves the cursor within the text area rather than moving the annotation. (98932)
When sending an email in HTML format from the web client, additional unicode characters were erroneously added to the email. This issue has been resolved. (99627)
Metadata reports exported in Excel format and containing date/time fields now display the correct time. (103386)
Date display format is now respected for dynamic fields. (95742)
Generating a link to a document by copying the URL or including it in an email now correctly respects user options for opening documents. (97469)
Refreshing the folder browser now also refreshes the URL for a custom tab. (127189)
Metadata reports for a folder with a column filter applied now correctly include all entry types. (129416)
In some cases, column filters including date fields would not reset correctly. This issue has been resolved. (89834)
- 1013909 List of Changes for Laserfiche 10.3.
- 1013819 Release Notes for Laserfiche 10.2
- 1013820 List of Changes for Laserfiche 10.2
- 1013760 Release Notes for Laserfiche 10.1
- 1013761 List of Changes for Laserfiche 10.1.
- 1013707 Release Notes for Laserfiche 10.
- 1013706 List of Changes for Laserfiche 10.
- 1013713 Release Notes for Web Access 10.
- 1013714 List of Changes for Web Access 10.
See the following articles for information on previous versions of Laserfiche.
- 1013609 List of Changes for Laserfiche 9.2.1.
- 1013528 List of Changes for Laserfiche 9.2.
- 1013418 Release and Hotfix Information for Laserfiche 9.1.1.
- 1013383 Release and Hotfix Information for Laserfiche 9.1.0.
- 1013341 Release and Hotfix Information for Laserfiche 9.0.3.
- 1013227 Release and Hotfix Information for Laserfiche 9.0.2.
- 1013132 Release and Hotfix Information for Laserfiche 9.0.1.
- 1013061 Release and Hotfix Information for Laserfiche 9.0.0.