• • New Features

  • 🌟 Easily Publish Sparx EA Model Information in MS SharePoint (Read More)
    
    • Due to the significant demand for publishing Sparx EA model information to MS SharePoint, we have introduced Prolaborate Macro for MS SharePoint (Cloud Only).  
    • As most organizations generally use SharePoint as their information portal, Prolaborate Macro for SharePoint Cloud will help large enterprise teams communicate architectural information to a wider audience. 
  • 🌟 Access Prolaborate in Different Languages (Read More)
    
    • By incorporating a language selection option, we can empower users from different linguistic backgrounds and make navigating Prolaborate's interface easy and understandable.
    • The feature is crucial for our global audience as we promote effective communication and ensure that users from different linguistic backgrounds can fully engage with and benefit from the application's features.
    • The Prolaborate User Interface can now be changed to other languages, such as Arabic, French, and Dutch.
    • From the next version (5.4), customers can access Prolaborate in Japanese and Spanish; we are working with our customers and partners to make this available soon. 
  • 🌟 Access Prolaborate Resources in One Place (Read More)
    
    • Most of Prolaborate’s resources (widgets, reports, dashboards, etc.) are scattered across the application under different menus and have not benefitted many users because they are unaware of such features. Prolaborate introduces Resources Manager, which brings all the reusable resources under a common library. With a lot of focus on usability, we believe the feature will deliver a better user experience and value to users.  
    • Introducing the Resources Manager to manage the resources. As a first step, we have included Widget Library and Report Configuration under Resources Manager.  
    • Resources like Dashboards and many others will be included in the next versions. 
  • 🌟 Resources Manager – Widget Library (Read More)
    
    • Prolaborate introduces the Widget library, a place to manage all widgets within a repository. From the widget library, you can create, Edit, Update, and Publish Reports and Charts. Users can easily publish widgets to multiple dashboards with just a few clicks.  
    • The new feature under Resources Manager replaces an existing feature, Widget Template, from the earlier versions. 
  • 🌟 Resources Manager – Reports Configuration (Read More)
    
    • Report Configuration, which allows us to create and store reports, has been moved under Resources Manager.  
    • All the existing capabilities of Reports Configuration have been retained. 
  • 🌟 Receive Reminder Notification about Review Closure (Read More)
    
    • Reminders about pending actions are sent via email and in-app notifications to users who are yet to complete their task(s).  
    • The new feature prompts users to conduct their review actions promptly. 

• • Improvements

  • 📤 Dashboard Enhancements 
    
    • Export and import multiple dashboards, including all widgets and dependent configurations, from one repository to another.
    • An option to override the existing dashboard and its resources is introduced to replace the existing dashboard configuration if the repository already has that dashboard. 
    • Multiple dashboards can now be selected and deleted with just a few clicks.   
    • As a usability enhancement, we have modified the workflow for saving dashboards. When saving a new or existing dashboard after editing, the application automatically redirects to the dashboard page. In contrast, the older versions redirect to the dashboard listing page. 
    • Note: Dashboards exported from previous versions of Prolaborate (5.2 or below) are incompatible with Prolaborate 5.3 and above and vice versa. Users are recommended to upgrade to the latest version and then try the export and import feature/option.  
  • 📤 Accessibility Enhancement – Set a Font Size
    
    • As part of web accessibility standards, Prolaborate allows font size customization. Admins can set a minimum font size of 12px and a maximum of 14px. The selected font size will be reflected across the application for better readability and accessibility. 
  • 📤 Overview Page Enhancements
    
    • In the new version, additional details of attributes and operations such as Name, type, and notes are displayed in a table format on the Element Overview Page. 
  • 📤 Deliver a better viewing experience for Diagrams
    
    • The new setting enables the 'Fit to Screen' option for diagrams across the repository, so diagrams are always launched in Fit to Screen mode. 
    • Note: The diagrams published in Confluence and SharePoint will also be displayed based on the Fit to Screen configuration. 
  • 📤 List the default number of rows (Read More)
    
    • A new option is introduced in General Settings, which allows admin users to configure the number of rows displayed in a data table across the application.
  • 📤 Understand and resolve Domain and SAML Certificate related issues quicker 
    
    • With advanced validation techniques for Domain and SAML certificates, Prolaborate identifies and automatically rejects SAML certificates that have expired or become invalid or when the password is incorrect during configuration.  
    • Similarly, the SSL certificate for a domain is also validated upon configuring an HTTPS connection in the Prolaborate Management application. 
  • 📤 Retain filters in search
    
    • Keywords entered & filters applied in searches are retained when returning to the previous page. 
    • The enhancement is developed for searches on charts, reports, and repositories. 
    • Sharing a report with the filter applied is now possible. 
  • 📤 Active Directory
    
    • The 'Active Directory—Add User' page includes additional information, such as each AD user's first and last name.   
    • Prolaborate Admins can search AD users by first or last name.   
    • Access permissions from multiple Access Control Profiles are granted to actual Active Directory users, even if they belong to various user groups. 
  • 📤 Support for IP Ranges in Manage Application Restrictions
    
    • Restrict or Access applications not just by IPs but also based on IP ranges in the form of CIDR notation to manage application access. 
  • 📤 Notification
    
    • Instead of sending all the emails from the queue, notifications from the last 24 hours will only be sent via email if the mailer service is restarted. 
    • Even though a user has set his notification setting to participate, the user receives a notification even without a tag when someone replies to a discussion created by the user. 
  • 📤 General Enhancements
    
    • Notes of operation are now visible in the Property Window. 
    • Proxy Connectors are removed from the listing in the Prolaborate’s repository browser. 
    • Prolaborate displays ’Artifact Not Found’ as an error message when navigating to Prolaborate using the deleted artifact link from Jira instead of ‘No Response.’ 
    • A valid error message is displayed on the repository listing page if the Pro Cloud Server license has expired. 
    • Introduced an option to remove Super Admin from Prolaborate by another admin user. 
    • The logged-in username is now displayed on the password reset screen.  
    • The reset password option is removed for AD and SSO users. 
    • Email template types are now listed in alphabetical order. 
    • The error log downloaded from the Prolaborate Health Check page is now stored under the new path ProlaborateApp\wwwroot\Logs\ErrorLogZip. 
    • We have introduced a progress bar in the Data Migrator App to indicate migration progress. 
    • Select All option is introduced in the display columns dropdown of the tables in charts, reports, and overview page. 
  • 📤 License Validation
    
    • Prolaborate services such as Mailer, Automation, and Push Notification stop if the license is expired. 
  • 📤 Charts
    
    • Introduced an 'Unclassified' category to the Roadmap chart, grouping objects with null or empty values for a selected property in the Group By field. 

• Bug Fixes

• 🐞 User-friendly error messages were added for issues identified in SAML Just In Time.

• 🐞 Resolved Access Denied error for SSO Users in the Cloud Auto Scaling environment.

• 🐞 Admin can modify access permission for a dashboard if the dashboard author is removed from the application.

• 🐞 Sort by Name (Ascending) works in the Roadmap chart and behaves as expected.

• 🐞 Adding or removing values for the 'DiagramRef' Custom Property functions as expected.

• 🐞 A filtered discussion list is instantly updated when the status of a discussion is modified on the discussion window. 

• 🐞 Modifying the timeline from the settings page within a roadmap chart built using query works as expected. 

• 🐞 The issue of importing custom properties without selecting the XML file has been resolved.

• 🐞 Adding an already existing AD user to Prolaborate is now disabled.

• 🐞 The issue where 'ANONYMOUS NULL' was displayed upon clicking the profile icon in publicly shared artifacts has been resolved.

• 🐞 Artifact names and breadcrumbs no longer appear on the repository listing page following certain actions.

• 🐞 Configuration missing in the existing card widgets after upgrading to Prolaborate 5.2 is restored.

• 🐞 Display column names in a report using desired letter cases and aliases within SQL query syntax.

• 🐞 On click of the ' Back to Repository ' button, navigate to the repository listing page.

• 🐞 Data migrator migrates large data successfully from V3 to V5.

• 🐞 Deleting existing lifecycle configurations is possible even if the respective Modeling Language has already been removed from Prolaborate.

• 🐞 In hierarchical charts, the direction type in the builder displays the expected values while editing.

• 🐞 The creation of the Specialization Connector from Matrix view now works.

• 🐞 For MySQL users, the report widget now displays the required information on the dashboard, even if their EA database is of a case-sensitive type.

• 🐞 Logging of technical information when syncing AD users' information is now removed. 
• 🐞 A user's active session is terminated when an admin initiates the reset password function.
• 🐞 Clicking on the 'Go to Widget' button on the notification page now navigates to the widget. 
• 🐞 Stereotype dropdown filter present all over the application now displays the intended list. 
• 🐞 The download option is now visible even if a widget contains multiple widget blocks. 
• 🐞 Users are redirected to the login page when clicking on a diagram widget shared via the iFrame URL. 
• 🐞 Previously enabled repository share is disabled if Open Community Access is excluded when updating a new license. 
• 🐞 A User-friendly error message is displayed to Invited Collaborators whose access has been revoked.  
• 🐞 A User-friendly error message is displayed when an invalid domain is entered as an input for Application Restrictions.
• 🐞 Repository sharing works as expected, even if the alias name is given in languages other than English. 
• 🐞 Users can tag a root package as a resource in any discussion comments.
• 🐞 The PDF document downloaded from discussions displays discussion comments added in other languages. 
• 🐞 Custom icons set for UML artifact types are displayed properly on the artifact overview page. 
• 🐞 'Bad Request' issue related to the EA database of type ‘PostgreSQL’ in Linux environment are fixed.
• 🐞 Issues related to the EA database of type ‘Oracle’ are fixed.  

  12-JAN-2024   Build number V5.2.0.70   Upgrade - SQL Schema   Upgrade - MySQL Delimit Schema     Installation - SQL Schema    Installation - MySQL Schema    Prolaborate Macro for Confluence    EA Add-in    Diagram Editor    Confluence Data Migrator 

• • New Features

  • 🌟 Version Explorer – for model comparison (Read More)
    • Version Explorer, an exciting new feature of Prolaborate, allows architects to compare multiple model versions seamlessly. Version Explorer enables architects to examine revisions to a diagram or artifact effortlessly. Gaining such insights help them build more efficient, reliable and optimized solutions in the future.
  • 🌟 Multi-Factor Authentication for Prolaborate - Identity and Access Management (Read More)
    • In today's digital landscape, ensuring the security of customer information is predominant. Introducing Multi-Factor Authentication for Prolaborate IAM, has taken a tremendous leap forward in strengthening user’s account against unauthorized access.
    • Prolaborate's IAM supports the most popular Authenticator apps for MFA authentication, such as Microsoft, Google, and others.
  • 🌟 Apply Custom Icons for Artifacts in Prolaborate (Read More)
    • Experience the next level of personalization with our latest feature that offers personalization of artifacts' visual appearance. With this feature, users can customize icons for any artifact in Prolaborate. Architecture Teams who prefer their standards can enjoy the flexibility of customization, so they can tailor the look of artifacts to match their organizational standards.
    • Teams who desire custom icons apply the custom settings or use default colors from MDG.
    • Custom icons are reflected in Charts (built using a designer), Reports (built using a designer), and other places.
  • 🌟 Apply Custom Colors for Artifacts in Analyzer Views (Read More)
    • Like the previous one, users could change the color appearance of artifacts in the Analyzer view. The feature lets you personalize your Analyzer experience by customizing object colors. Elevate your impact analysis on enterprise architecture models with ease. Custom hues help in enhancing visual distinction and simplifying complex models.
  • 🌟 Dynamic Dashboards (Read More)
    • Dynamic Dashboard is an extended feature of the Dynamic Widgets feature, which customers widely applauded for making reporting effortless. The new enhancement addresses the need for flexibility in managing multiple charts, focusing on specific stereotypes. It is a game changer for customers who have Dashboards with 2D Charts and Hierarchical Charts built on the same stereotype. With Dynamic Dashboards, users can seamlessly switch properties on the Dashboard filter, dynamically loading the entire Dashboard based on the selected property. It's a game-changer, offering unparalleled adaptability and efficiency in managing diverse visualizations within your architectural models.
  • 🌟 Introducing SysML as OOTB MDG (Read More)
    • We are introducing Out-of-the-Box support for OMG SysML, an essential modeling language for Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) issued by Object Management Group. From its inception, Sparx Systems Prolaborate has been a steadfast supporter of SysML. However, with the latest version, 5.2, we've elevated the experience by incorporating SysML as an Out-of-the-Box MDG. This enhancement is a testament to our commitment to meeting the evolving needs of MBSE enthusiasts, providing seamless collaboration and an enriched experience for SysML modeling within Prolaborate.
    • Systems Engineering teams who want to collaborate and update models built on SysML 1.5 in Sparx Enterprise Architect can leverage the OOTB SysML MDG from Prolaborate.
  • 🌟 Prolaborate Management: Ease the Backup and Restore Process (Read More)
    • Prolaborate Management Service brings in an essential feature for seamless database management. Now, users can effortlessly perform backup and restore operations for their Prolaborate Database at their convenience.
    • The power to migrate Prolaborate Data from one instance to another is at your convenience, ensuring a smooth and efficient transfer of information. With this user-friendly feature, managing and safeguarding your Prolaborate data has never been more straightforward.
  • 🌟 Introducing advanced web accessibility standards (Read More)
    • Enable users who may have difficulty reading text on the screen. The Narrator feature aims to make Prolaborate more accessible by offering voice-guided assistance, allowing users to navigate and interact with the application smoothly.
    • Enable users who prefer using keyboards with keyboard controls. With this, they can interact with the Prolaborate Application easily.
    • The above initiatives are major enhancements to comply with Section 508 accessibility standards.
  • 🌟 Create Artifacts using list view and inline editor (Read More)
    • Create new artifacts directly from the list view and inline editor.
    • Edit or update values seamlessly with an enhanced user interface that supports keyboard shortcuts, auto-save values, and more.
  • 🌟 Introducing Just-in-Time (JIT) Provisioning for SAML (Read More)
    • Just-in-Time (JIT) provisioning to automatically create a user account in Prolaborate the first time a user logs in with a SAML identity provider.
    • JIT provisioning manages access permissions to the repositories dynamically for SSO users.
  • 🌟 Introducing SAML Assertion Validation
    • To ease the process of SAML configuration, we have introduced a validator that verifies the SAML response and simplifies the debug process in the SSO login failure event directly within Prolaborate.

• • Improvements

  • 📤 Security
    • Prolaborate adopts configurable fields in Prolaborate Management for cookie-related configuration.
  • 📤 Announcement of SQLite Users
    • Customers using SQLite database and PCS v5.1.126 or above must upgrade Prolaborate to its latest version, 5.2.
  • 📤 Enhanced Properties Filter on Dynamic Charts
    The previous version listed all property types without filtering in the dynamic widget filter drop-down. In response to customer feedback, we've refined it to show only specific properties based on certain conditions outlined below:

    • Display only Enum and Boolean properties.
    • Apply additional filtering based on the user's default profile setting.
    • Exclude all basic property types from the dynamic widget filter, including Enum and Boolean.
    • However, please note that the conditions do not fit when creating or modifying a Chart or Widget. The configuration page lists all the property types without any exclusions.
  • 📤 Improvised Audit for User Login
    • User Login Audit, previously known as Login History, captures the success and failure events of users logging into the application.
    • The admin can review, in which case the login attempt failed, and decode them.
    • User login activity can be downloaded as an Excel file for offline analysis.
  • 📤 E-mail notifications support Plain Text Format
    • The administrator can choose the email message format, either HTML or plain text, from the Mailer configuration for the organization.
  • 📤 Extended Features in Modeling Language
    • Properties of Stereotypes extended from another stereotype within the same Modeling language now work as expected, though with or without Base MDG.
    • Enum properties updated with additional values are now visible in the existing MDG profiles upon updating the modeling language.
    • Import Modeling Language files up to 128MB successfully into Prolaborate.
  • 📤 New Keyword for Placeholders in query
    • The previously recommended placeholder syntax in the query is modified to "<#placeholder name#>".
    • Existing Prolaborate users who have used placeholder definitions in their queries do not need to worry. During migration, placeholder keywords are automatically modified to the new keyword upon executing the data migrator post-upgrade.
  • 📤 Configure Application Access via Prolaborate Manager
    • Reduce redundant effort; No more tweaking configurations such as protocol, domain, and port in dual places. Modify the configurations in Prolaborate Management; the settings will automatically get reflected in the Integrated Application-Access Management of Prolaborate.
  • 📤 Improvised Legend on Hierarchical Charts
    • A level-based legend is introduced in Nested Pie and Heatmap charts, previously available only for landscape charts.
    • The last level of Legend is set to always expand for all the hierarchical charts in the upcoming version.
  • 📤 Validations for Integrations
    • Deletion of Integrated Applications (e.g., Jira) is not allowed if any project created within a repository utilizes the Integrated application. This restriction is in place to prevent potential disruptions for projects that depend on the integration.
    • Deletion of application projects (e.g., customer-created Jira projects) is not allowed if an integration widget or integration property utilizes the project. This restriction is in place to prevent disruptions for integration widgets or integration properties that depend on the project.
    • Deletion of integration property (e.g., Jira Property) is not allowed if a stereotype utilizes the property. This restriction is in place to prevent loss of information.
  • 📤 Enhanced Data Migrator for seamless Upgrade
    • Data Migrator is now automatically executed post-upgrade.
  • 📤 General Enhancements
    • The logged-in username is now displayed on the password reset screen.
    • Standard column width is introduced to list view on the overview page, charts, and reports.
    • A solution has been implemented to enhance the accuracy of report downloads. Users can only click the Download button once the report is loaded and displayed on the page. This change ensures that reports are downloaded with complete information, addressing the previous issue where partial data could be downloaded if the button was clicked too early in the loading process. This improvement guarantees users a more reliable and useful experience leveraging the Download feature.

• Bug Fixes

• 🐞 Reports from 'Report Configurations' exchanged between repositories via export/import are now specific to that repository. Modifying the report in one repository does not impact the same report in another repository.
• 🐞 The login option is removed from the embedded share content page.
• 🐞 Clicking on the 'Go to Widget' button on the notification page now navigates to the widget.
• 🐞 The review widget lists only the reviews whose status is only Active.
• 🐞 Active Reviews are displayed in the review widget even if the description contains single quotes.
• 🐞 Duplication of last names for AD users is now fixed.
• 🐞 Reloading of the rich text editor in the dashboard edit view, which uses iframe URLs, is now fixed.
• 🐞 Issues related to the migration of charts from v3 to v5 are fixed.
• 🐞 The artifact overview page displays all the information properly post-upgrade from v3 if its notes contain hyperlinks.
• 🐞 Query attributes created in previous versions of Prolaborate are working as expected upon executing the data migrator post-upgrade.
• 🐞 Configuration details of the Query Property can be viewed properly post-upgrade.
• 🐞 Bar and column charts now display the expected output based on the total if the selected property has empty values.
• 🐞 Ordering in bar and column charts behaves as expected, even when grouped using a property.
• 🐞 Charts are displayed based on the selected color theme pack upon configuration.
• 🐞 Text alignment related to Integration Item types is now fixed when viewing the configured integration property.
• 🐞 Notes of Class Operations can be viewed in the Properties Window.
• 🐞 The diagrams displayed under the usage section on the artifact's overview page are the same as the list shown in the artifact's property sheet.
• 🐞 The popup of multiple confirmation windows is fixed across the application.
• 🐞 The disappearance of the Prolaborate ribbon menu after navigating back from full-screen mode is fixed.

  30-OCT-2023   Build number V5.1.0.126   Upgrade - SQL Schema    Upgrade - MySQL Delimit Schema     Installation - SQL Schema    Installation - MySQL Schema    Prolaborate Macro for Confluence    EA Add-in    Diagram Editor    Confluence Data Migrator 

• • New Features

  • 🌟 Export and Import Dashboards (Read More)
    • Users can now effortlessly export dashboards, including all widgets, from one repository to another with just a few clicks.
    • Customers exploring our APM accelerator solution, Download the APM Dashboards and import instead of creating from scratch.
    • Export allows users to conveniently select dependent configurations, such as Modeling Language, Color Palette Configuration, Report Configuration, User Groups ,Groups, and Permissions, ensuring a seamless transition between repositories
  • 🌟 Enhanced Inline Editing in List Views (Read More)
    • In Prolaborate 5, Inline Editing was initially introduced with basic support for editing properties of type String and Enum. In response to valuable feedback from our customers and partners, we have expanded this editing capability to include other data types, including RefGUID (Link to Internal Object), RefGUIDList (Link Multiple Internal Objects), Color, and URL.
    • The enhanced editor empowers users to manage relationships using Connector Properties efficiently. It also enables adding or removing references to Jira Items, Azure Objects, and more through Integration Properties.

• • Improvements

  • 📤 Charts
    • Dynamic Chart Dropdown Enhancement: Properties are now displayed in the dropdown list for dynamic charts based on the user's default profile setting (Read More).
    • Bar and Column Charts: A new control has been introduced in chart settings, allowing users to select the position to display value.
    • Nested Pie Chart Improvement: A new option is introduced to construct the number of levels (two or three) visible when loading a dashboard.
  • 📤 Editor Table improvement
    • Usability improvements are added to the inline editor view on the overview page, sub-reports (charts), and reports.

• Bug Fixes

• 🐞 Discussions - with the state 'Open' were incorrectly displayed as closed when another discussion from the same object was closed has been fixed.
• 🐞 Element / Diagram Icons are now displayed as expected in a report view when the 'hide_' clause is included in the query.
• 🐞 Clicking on a diagram name from a report view now navigates to the respective diagram as expected.
• 🐞 Artifact stereotypes are now shown in the 'Add Element' window, even if the basic attributes group name is modified in Form Designer, resolving the issue.
• 🐞 Diagrams with enabled custom drawing styles works as expected in Prolaborate.
• 🐞 Ordering in bar and column charts behaves as expected based on the 'Order By' clause used in the query.
• 🐞 First Name and Last Name are displayed correctly in the respective fields on the My Profile page for Active Directory users.
• 🐞 Children tables are displayed as expected on the overview page with customized access permissions when the repository is shared using Open Community Access.
• 🐞 Users can now access the properties window even if the element contains attributes with multiplicity set.
• 🐞 The application works as expected even if there are empty widgets in a dashboard.
• 🐞 When reediting a widget within a dashboard, blocks that are repositioned within a widget now render accurately in their expected positions.
• 🐞 Bubble Chart: The number of data records available in sub-reports now loads as expected. The data records count now matches the count displayed on the bubble in Bubble charts.
• 🐞 Disabling the embed share toggle in the settings page for a repository will now immediately make previously shared embed URLs inactive.
• 🐞 Resolved the duplication issue for reviews with the state 'Archived.'
• 🐞 Learn more navigation links for Diagram Editor and Add Repository now correctly redirect to respective help guide pages on the Prolaborate Website, resolving the issue.
• 🐞 Hostname changes made in Prolaborate Management are now successfully updated in the respective configuration file, addressing the previously identified problem.
• 🐞 Migration of the SAML certificate happens as expected when upgrading Prolaborate from V3 to the latest version, V5.
• 🐞 Diagrams in Prolaborate are displayed as expected in different screen resolutions.
• 🐞 The roadmap chart configured using the date format ‘others’ shows the expected output post-upgrade from V3 to V5.