Summary

Laserfiche 11 introduces several new features to make it easier for users to find, work with, and share documents, as well as the introduction of direct share for self-hosted systems, and the release of Audit Trail 11. This release also includes numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.

New Features

Authentication and Security

The entire Laserfiche product suite now includes support for Single Sign On and multifactor identification to provide for streamlined and secure sign ins. We have also deprecated support for older operating systems and browsers for security purposes.

Direct Share

Laserfiche direct share, now available for self-hosted systems, allows you to share content from the Laserfiche repository with external users through the web client. When you send documents through direct share, the recipient will receive a unique and anonymized URL that they can use to access the files for a limited period of time. You can add a password, and specify the number of days until the URL expires. The sender will receive notifications when the content was viewed, and they or a repository administrator can see the status of who shared it, with whom, and if and when it was accessed.

Web Client

The Laserfiche web client includes several new improvements to help you find and work with documents.

The search bar at the top of the folder browser now offers several new options for performing quick searches. You can now select a search you’ve recently run to run again, and choose to filter search results by folder location and date created or modified without needing to open the search pane. You can also search by template and field value from quick search.

We have also made it easier to preview images when browsing the repository. You can choose to view the contents of a folder or set of search results as icons. This will display images stored in the repository, such as jpg, bitmap, and png images as thumbnails, and will also display the first page of TIFF imaged documents directly in the folder browser, making it easier to quickly locate the document you want. Folder views are set on a per-folder basis.

Finally, the web client now includes the ability to perform a batch print. The print option will be available when you have selected multiple documents from a folder or set of search results. When you print, the documents will be combined into a single PDF file, which you can then print as you would any other document.

Audit Trail

Laserfiche Audit Trail 11 introduces a new audit reporting experience to make it easier to create and view audit reports. When adding columns to a report, available columns are now grouped together to make them easier to find. There are also many more columns, allowing you to view even more granular information about your repository activity. These include a set of Changes columns that pinpoint what changed during the audited operation. We have also updated the Audit Trail architecture to provide significantly improved performance.

Distributed Computing Cluster

Distributed Computing Cluster adds support for a new Workflow 11 activity that allows you to schedule PDF generation and OCR processing of repository entries.

More Information

The following minor changes and fixes were also added to Laserfiche 11.

• The installation for the Laserfiche administration console has been moved from the Laserfiche Windows client install package to the Laserfiche Server install package. In addition, the Laserfiche Full-Text Indexing and Search Service now has its own installation package, and can also be installed from the Laserfiche Server installation package and the Audit Trail installation package.
• Improved performance when importing briefcases and pages, viewing entry listings, and performing searches.
• Improved event logging.
• Webtools agent now correctly locates Office Plugin installations to folders other than the default folder. (250604)
• Image previews now display correctly for documents selected from a set of search results. (201151)
• Metadata reports now only contain the selected entries. (202510)
• In some cases, a "Date/time out of range. [9170]" error message would be displayed when performing a date field search using the Spanish date format. This issue has been resolved. (245993)
• Resolved an issue in which buttons for adding or deleting transfer locations in retention schedule properties did not work properly when the browser language was set to Spanish. (215185)
• In some cases, list field definitions with a large number of list items could not be edited. This issue has been resolved. (294773)
• Importing repository objects as XML on the web client management page now functions correctly. (280927)
• Resolved an issue that could result in the web client not loading in iFrames. (214753)
• Including an optional attachment on a document in Docusign no longer causes imports to fail. (51267)
• Scanning now launches in the correct language. (265212)
• Resolved an issue that caused some PDFs to display incorrectly. (257400, 250829)
• Dynamic fields are now correctly sorted. (250395)
• Resolved an issue that could cause forms to display incorrectly when embedded in the web client details pane. (245496)
• Business processes with requirements are no longer disabled in the frequently used and favorite business processes lists. (169935)
• Printing from the web client no longer includes an extra blank page in the print job. (255926)
• Dynamic fields can now be modified when creating a new document from pages in an existing document. (242393)
• Some JPEG issues could cause issues in the import dialog box when importing. This issue has been resolved. (245994)
• In some cases, pages generated from PDFs would convert PDF annotations to Laserfiche annotations even if that option was not enabled. This issue has been resolved. (260352)
• Resolved an issue that could cause custom page ranges to be ignored when emailing multiple documents from the repository as a single ZIP file. (190848)
• Resolved an issue that could cause text box annotations to be displayed in the wrong place when the document is downloaded. (295852)

Related Links

• 1014263 Software versions and fixes included in the Laserfiche 11 Download Package
• 1014267 Release Notes for Laserfiche 11
• 1014544 List of Changes for Laserfiche Web Client 11 Update 9