24-FEB-2023   Build number 4.4.1.38

• New Features

• 🌟Exchange Model/Architecture Information via CSV (Learn More)
  • Prolaborate now allows users to download the data from reports and charts as a CSV file with just a click. Downloading reports & charts as CSV provides a possibility for non-Prolaborate users to access architecture information and review them offline or use them as the basis for further analysis or action.
• 🌟Prolaborate Add-in for EA (Learn More)
  • View Prolaborate discussions within Enterprise Architect:
    • View All Discussions page provides summary of all the artifacts which has discussions in Prolaborate. This kind of view helps user to understand the overall discussions happened at model.
  • Navigate to EA artifacts from a discussion in View all discussion Page:
    • Find an artifact by name or discussion content or date. Search helps users to locate artifact in the project browser.
    • Prolaborate Addin streamlined with proper error message handling on configuration, accessing the artifacts from Enterprise Architect Application.

• Improvements

• 📤 Roadmap Chart Usability Improvements (Learn More)
  • Hide/Show bars using legends in Roadmap charts:
    • With the introduction of legends in roadmap charts, users can hide/show bars for better usability experience. The legend on the roadmap represents unique value that provides better representation of information.
  • Better Representation of Roadmap Plan:
    • Static color is set for the group bar (plan) in the Roadmap chart to differentiate the items for a clear representation.
    • Auto hide group bar when the group is expanded. This functionality provides better clarity about the information captured.
  • Usability Improvements:
    • Clicking on a bar (plan item) in the Roadmap chart now opens the Artifact Properties Window instead of the Overview Page.
    • The date format selected in General Settings is automatically picked in the date format under time interval settings when configuring a Roadmap chart using designer.
• 📤 Convert Prolaborate registered User account to SAML-based user account seamlessly
  • With the new functionality of user management, Prolaborate registered users are automatically converted as SAML users along with their configuration and access. This change applies only to a user who uses the same email address before and after conversion, thus consuming a single license.
• 📤 Specific toggles that control inactive and blocked users
  • Now with specific controls, admin users can control individual user accounts that are both active or inactive. Additionally, three incorrect attempts to log in to the user account will block the account. Admin can unblock the locked account based on a request from the user.
• 📤 Keep O365 Email notifications service Active
  • The expiry date of Client Secret token of the O365 Outlook Mail configuration, is now displayed on the Mailer configuration page. This feature helps admin to act before the expiration date. Admin can renew the token and update it to avoid disruption of email notifications.
• 📤 Set Color for the tagged value of type Boolean
  • Prolaborate extends the support to configure individual colors for the tagged value of type Boolean. The applied color is set across various places such as Property Window, Custom Properties, Overview Page and Reports.
• 📤 Control WebApp settings from App instead of editing properties file
  • Admin can modify session timeout, PCS requests timeout, external host permissions, and other details from the new interface under Prolaborate Service Management instead of modifying properties file.

• Bug Fixes

• 🐞 Custom Property not accessible for Anonymous Users and Read-only Users has been fixed.
• 🐞 Share URL throws 404 error in Confluence has been fixed.
• 🐞 Issues related to missing License file and Machine ID are now fixed
• 🐞 Sort Dashboards in Dashboard listing page, login entries in Login History page, Users of Repository and Application based on Date works as expected
• 🐞 Password reset link now expires immediately after the password is reset
• 🐞 Loading time of discussions is optimized for diagram which has a large number of artifacts
• 🐞 Tagging a user in a discussion of an artifact with a chart and a report works as expected
• 🐞 Discussions created by deleted authors are now accessible
• 🐞 The group ‘Expand and Collapse’ option in the Landscape chart now works as expected
• 🐞 URL generated from Private and Public share are case sensitive
• 🐞 ‘My Profile Page’ load issue for Active Directory User is fixed now
• 🐞 Stereotype dropdown in the search window no longer retains the previously searched values
• 🐞 Special characters are supported in tagged value of type ‘Enum’
• 🐞 High CPU utilization issue that occurs while performing an import of large MDG file (upto 25 MB) into MSSQL DB is resolved
• 🐞 MDG file with UTF-8 are imported into Prolaborate (MySQL) without any issues
• 🐞 Linked document popup window duplication is now fixed
• 🐞 Open Form Designer option is now working as expected for Connectors
• 🐞 Packages that are deleted using EA are removed under Sections page within Prolaborate
• 🐞 Issues related to Roadmap charts are now fixed

  19-DEC-2022   Build number 4.4.0.54

• New Features

• 🌟 Create and Modify Connectors (Learn More)
  • The ability to create and modify connectors by non-EA users using a simple interface has been a long-awaited feature. Prolaborate 4.4 now supports managing connectors in a controlled manner without having to create diagrams and draw connectors. This will make it incredibly easier to get traceability information input from wider stakeholders.
• 🌟 Simplify and Publish Connected Information (Learn More)
  • Simply create a connector property with the connected element details and Prolaborate will display the connected information (traceability) as simple clickable lists
• 🌟 Custom Property (Query Based) (Learn More)
  • EA Model is more complex than directly connected elements, and it’s imperative to have the ability to publish more complex information for Model artifacts. Custom Property, a very flexible feature, displays information as a list that helps users to view the information in a simplified way. Added custom properties to a stereotype can be easily viewed in the Properties tab and Overview page.
• 🌟 Link Role-based access directly with SAML User Groups (Learn More)
  • Most modern-day teams prefer to separate user management from individual tools to a central User Management System (IAM). Prolaborate 4.4 makes this easier with the ability to link SAML user group(s) to be directly linked to Role based access in Prolaborate.
• 🌟 View discussions and reviews of Prolaborate in EA (Learn More)
  • Prolaborate Addin for Enterprise Architect provides seamless collaboration support to the EA users to review the artifacts. Users can review the discussions added in Prolaborate by a collaborator in Enterprise Architect easily without using Prolaborate.
  • Prolaborate EA-Addin is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Enterprise Architect applications
• 🌟 SQLite DB Support for EA with Prolaborate
  • Teams can connect to EA Repository hosted in SQLite database. The feature enables teams to access EA model information from Prolaborate.

• Improvements

• 📤 SSO based Jira Server Configuration (Learn More)
  • Jira SSO users can now configure Jira Server Application and access their projects in Prolaborate
• 📤 Secured Share settings (Learn More)
  • Organizations that wish to publish EA models in a digital documentation platform like Atlassian Confluence prefer to restrict Public Access to information. By separating the controls for public link share and Embedded link share, Organizations can decide the level of access to model information.
• 📤 Improvements in Roadmap chart (Learn More)
  • Validation for date format is added to the Roadmap chart that is designed using designer configuration. The Validation functionality ensures the date format which is entered in Prolaborate matches the date format that exists in EA.
  • Users can mention a Custom Date Format for the time interval in Roadmap Chart

• Bug Fixes

• 🐞 Review widget displays active reviews for the user where a user group (user belongs to) that is added as Reviewer or Approver
• 🐞 User groups that were added as Reviewer or Approver to a review can now be successfully removed by edit
• 🐞 Users who are part of a review cannot be invited again
• 🐞 SAML and AD users are allowed to access Prolaborate based on the configured license type assigned to an Access Control Profile
• 🐞 Authentication Type with Default credentials in Mailer Configuration now works as expected
• 🐞 Users can now save the changes of the ‘Date’ type tagged value if the date format in General Settings is empty
• 🐞 General Settings configuration now works as expected for all user types
• 🐞 The Diagram icon within the Report Widget is now properly displayed
• 🐞 Issues related to Roadmap charts are now fixed

  26-OCT-2022   Build number 4.3.0.8

• New Features

• 🌟 Microsoft Teams Integration (Learn More)
  • Prolaborate Microsoft Teams Integration enables sharing real-time modeling information from your Enterprise Architect models to a Microsoft Teams User via Chat
• 🌟 Open Community Access (OCA) (Learn More)
  • Open Community Access allows read-only access to anyone in the organization using short URLs
  • This feature allows an organization wide ‘Wiki’ based on model information
  • Due to security concerns, OCA is available only for an ‘On Premise’ environment
  • For Cloud environment, the users can purchase read-only licenses to obtain the same benefit
• 🌟 Domain Access Management (Learn More)
  • The feature allows admins to control application access (Whitelist or Blacklist) based on Domain Names or IP Addresses
• 🌟 O365 Outlook Mail Configuration (Learn More)
  • Organizations using Office 365 based email addresses can configure Microsoft’s security attributes in Mailer settings page to receive email notifications for actions performed in Prolaborate
• 🌟 Login History (Learn More)
  • View the user's session information such as log-in date & time, log-out date & time and more
• 🌟 Publish Model in Atlassian Confluence Cloud
  • Publish Prolaborate model content from Prolaborate V4 to Confluence Cloud
  • Migration functionality is added to migrate existing integration from Prolaborate V3 to V4
• 🌟 Migrate Prolaborate Model Content - Atlassian Confluence
  • Migrate Prolaborate model content in Atlassian Confluence seamlessly between Confluence Server and Confluence Cloud or Confluence Data Center and Confluence Cloud

• Improvements

• 📤 Enhanced User Activity Tracking
  • View the Recently Modified model elements and diagrams using Recently viewed items (Learn More)
• 📤 Improved 3.X to 4.X migrator
  • Improved version compatibility check during upgrade. If the previous version of Prolaborate is less than 3.5.0, the application throws a warning during the upgrade and halts the upgrade process (Learn More)
  • Support added for Integration Report widget migration

• Bug Fixes

• 🐞 Fixed ordering of EA artifacts on the Sections page
• 🐞 Fixed repository browser content load issue for AD Group users
• 🐞 Fixed the default dashboard setting user and user groups
• 🐞 Comments can now be added for artifacts, widgets, and dashboards in the Firefox browser
• 🐞 Notes added for artifacts now visible in the Firefox browser
• 🐞 Creating EA artifacts of SysML MDG technology from Prolaborate is now properly shown in EA

  30-Aug-2022   Build number 4.2.1.7

• Improvements

• 📤 The response time of search is enhanced for large models in the overall application
• 📤 Apply colors to bars in Road Map chart based on Basic Properties or Tagged Values using Color Palette Configuration
• 📤 Data limit support is added to charts to improve the visualization of information. The charts in the widget display an error message if the data set exceeds the expected data limit
• 📤 Detailed subreport for a report widget will now be displayed on the same page to ease accessibility
• 📤 The security of the application is improved by applying recommended security metrics that are applied to the overall application and validated using premium security tools. The applied metrics are listed below
  • Malicious and invalid files are restricted from upload
  • Lock Out Mechanism is added to lock the user account after three unsuccessful login attempts. Refer to FAQs to unlock an account
  • Content Security Policy for header is added to restrict I-Frame
  • Authorization header in SAML APIs is added to restrict unauthorized access of application

• Bug Fixes

• 🐞 Charts of type bar and column support decimal values
• 🐞 ORDER BY and hide_ syntax in SQL query for charts and reports work as expected
• 🐞 Chart reload issue is resolved for every di-section click
• 🐞 Make multiple columns clickable in report widget using SQL query
• 🐞 Support added for ‘Phase’, an EA basic property, in all types of charts

  05-July-2022

• 🌟 MDG Color Configuration (Learn More)
  • This feature allows users to control chart colors from a central setting at the repository level. It is applicable across various places such as Property Window, Custom Properties, Overview Page and Reports.
  • Color rendering is supported for two types of properties, Enum & Boolean.
• 🌟 Report Configuration (Learn More)
  • One can now Create and reuse Reports to avoid repeated configurations and showcase results in different formats.
• 🌟 MDG Based Sub-Report (Learn More)
  • The new MDG Based Sub-Report feature in charts allows users to configure stereotypes from the Modeling Language profile and auto-picks columns to be displayed in reports.
• 🌟 Analyzer (Learn More)
  • It helps one understand how each artifact is impacting other artifacts in the organization using Analyzer View. In addition, it makes it easy to understand and analyze the impact of change in a model to make informed decisions.
• 🌟 Placeholder (Learn More)
  • One can now Generate dynamic reports by entering value during execution of reports.
• 🌟 Designer Method support for Report Widget (Learn More)
  • This feature Creates complex EA Reports by picking and selecting values instead of writing a query.
• 🌟 Create Artifacts (Learn More)
  • This new feature allows users to Create element & package from Prolaborate.
  • Currently supported Modeling frameworks for element creation UML, SysML, ArchiMate3.1 and BPMN2.0.
  • Stereotype of type ‘Requirement’ is allowed for element creation in a Custom MDG framework.

• What’s fixed or improved?

• We at Prolaborate always strive to make our user experience better by the day! To support our motto, we have worked on some bringing in some new features while fixing some existing bugs for better interaction.

• 📤 The user session retention is handled for auto-scaling environment or application restart.
• 📤 We now have an improved search feature in the repository browser for EA artifacts.
• 📤 Support added for tagged value of type Int.
• 🐞 In the event of an upgrade from Prolaborate V3.x to V4.x, a user with dual user accounts (SAML SSO & Registered User) is allowed to log in with both accounts.
• 🐞 Login with SAML SSO in Private Share helps navigate to the respective shared item.
• 🐞 Content from Large Prolaborate models loads in Confluence without any issues in Prolaborate Macro.
• 🐞 Loading issue in Property window for Tagged value of type RefGUID is resolved.
• 🐞 Chart load issue for data with more certain rows (approximately 600 rows) is handled with a warning message.
• 🐞 Review Status is set automatically as per review dates. In case the system date is modified in the server, an admin must execute Prolaborate automation.
• 🐞 For tagged value with no value for ‘type’ in the XMl file, it is considered as type ‘String’.
• 🐞 ‘Start Date’ set in Review works for various time zones.
• 🐞 Remember user session works as expected.

  05-April-2022

• 🌟 Designer Method for Road map
  • Every user, irrespective of SQL expertise, who wants to create Roadmap type charts will benefit from the Designer Method that auto-generates queries based on the configuration selected. Users can also copy, review & reuse the auto-generated query from the Designer.
• 📤 Data Migration Support Data Migration feature supports the migration of dashboards and charts, discussions, reviews, theme settings, SAML settings, users and user groups and URL shared from 3.5 or above to Version 4.1.2 Currently, migration does not support review summary widget and discussion summary widget.
• 📤 Session Expired Configuration Users can configure Session expiry time on the Prolaborate.json data file.
• 📤 MDG Performance Optimization The overview page and property tabs are optimized for faster loading specifically for MDG based data.
• 🐞 Application sends a welcome email to the new users as expected.
• 🐞 Discussion list renders as expected when creating the discussion on a diagram.
• 🐞 Deleting an admin user by another admin user is disabled.
• 🐞 Time zone setting work as expected at the application level as well as user level.

  28-feb-2022

• 🌟 Confluence Integration
  • Confluence Server and Data Center Integrations are now supported with Prolaborate
  Note: Users who wish to continue using Prolaborate 3.x do continue with the existing version of Confluence macro.
• 🌟 Designer Method Support for Multilevel charts
  • Users can configure the multi-level charts using the designer method instead of queries with the support of enhanced Prolaborate UI. The functionality enables non-technical users to design advanced charts without a writing single word of query. Users can visualize & reuse the query generated by the designer.
• 🌟 Group default definition
  • For a user who is part of multiple groups in a repository can select a group and perform actions accordingly. The functionality is disabled for users who is part of single group.
• 🌟 Health Check Page
  • Prolaborate Health check feature allows user to download error log of PCS, SAML, Prolaborate & more and to see the versions of database, mailer, Prolaborate, & service management
• 🐞 Bugs that were reported in 4.0.0 are fixed in Version 4.1.1

• • 🌟 Discuss Dashboard and Widgets
    • Creating discussions for entire dashboards and individual widgets is possible now.
  • 🌟 Widget Landing Page
    • The widget landing page is distinctly added as a feature to view the widgets on an individual page.
  • 🌟 Inline Edit
    • In version, 4.0 users can edit the Dashboard and Widgets easily by using Edit Icon on the Page.
  • 🌟 Enhanced Over View Page
    • In Version, 4.0 the Overview page was enhanced to show all the related details of the respective package and element by default to the users.On this page, the user could see the element Basic Attributes, Usage, Share, Discussion, Traceability, Review, Children details, of the respective items just by selecting the element or package.
  • 🌟 Form Designer in Properties Tab
    • Form Designer option added in a properties tab to easily navigate, see and change the attributes details of the respective element.

Charts & Reports

• 🌟 All New Landscape Chart Landscape Charts in Updated version Revamped with Enhanced capabilities like,
  • Adjusting Stroke width,
  • Fit type,
  • Legend Position orientation,
  • Node Font Size and Font style changes,
  • Level hover and Node hover capabilities and also able to do level-based Node text changes like size, style, and column wrapping sizes.
• 🌟 Chart Preview in Edit Mode
  • The preview feature is implemented in the chart. While creating or editing the chart, the user can now preview the chart to resize the widgets considering the output of the chart.
• 🌟 Modify Look and Feel of Charts on the fly
  • The “Test Changes” menu feature is provided under widget settings. By using this feature users can view and change the chart configurations temporarily i.e legend title, position, color patterns, etc.
• 🌟 Horizontal bar chart
  • In Version 4.0 another new chart was introduced to showcase the EA data into the Horizontal bars.
• 🌟 Downloading Charts.
  • Now users can download the charts in .PNG,.JPEG,.PDF, SVG Vector image formats.
• 🌟 Change Chart Type in a few clicks
  • Users can change the chart type by using “View As”. This feature will temporarily help you to simulate the existing chart into a similar type chart.
• 🌟 Filter Profiles
  • Added ability to use already created custom profiles/filters, so there is no need to rewrite the same query again. Users can use this profile to get the results in chart configuration.
• 🌟 Individual Chart Widgets Refresh
  • Users can now “Refresh” the chart widget in case of any changes are done in the model or an item
• 🌟 Inline Tagging of Users and Objects
  • Inline users tagging feature is implemented in this release. Users can now able to tag the other users into the discussion by simply typing “@” in the description and “#” to tag elements.
• 🌟 Opening A Diagram in A New Tab
  • Users can now view a particular diagram in a new tab. It can be viewed by simply right-clicking on the diagram and by choosing the “Open in new tab” option.
• 🌟 The Diagram Tab
  • “Diagrams” are now added as an exclusive menu in the menu tab. Users can “Search” or “See the List of Diagrams” from the drop-down menu even without landing on the “My Diagrams” page. This feature will enable the user to experience the ease of accessing, searching, or viewing the list of diagrams just by a simple click.
• 🌟 Invite Groups
  • In reviews, you can now Invite “Groups” to review or approve the added items.
• 🌟 Stats Tab for Moderator
  • In the previous version, the moderator had a separate dashboard to check the status of the review and review items. But in this version “Stats tab” has been implemented where all the details are available from the moderator's perspective.
• 🌟 Diagrams Page
  • The “Diagrams” tab has been implemented in this version. If some reviews items contain reviews, it will get reflected while viewing the diagram in full-screen view
• 🌟 New Elements Page
  • In this version items and lists for review can be viewed in a “Tree” structure or “List” view instead of getting results in the table view.
• 🌟 Find In Project Browser Feature in Access Permission Preview Section
  • Implemented the “Find in browser” feature. This will help the user to check the respective element location in the project browser.
• 🌟 Assigning User Groups for Profile
  • Now admin or user can assign user groups into the profile to configure the stereotype and restrict the visibility of the attribute to the other users.
• 🌟 Multiple Inherited Stereotypes Has Been Supported
  • Multiple inherited stereotypes have been supported in this release so that users can handle the attributes for multiple stereotypes in the form designer page.
• 🌟 Added Support to Delete a Profile
  • In this release, users can delete the profiles from the manage profile list. In the previous version, there is no feature available to delete the created profile from the manage profile list.
• 🌟 Import/Export Tagged Values Across Repositories
  • Users can able to export or import the created custom properties from the modeling languages to any other repositories using the “Import” menu from the page.
• 🌟 Repository Search
  • In version 4.0 users can able to search the element, diagrams, packages by their name or alias with object type, type, stereotype-based filters from the repository using the “Search Repository” feature.
• 🌟 Repository Management Instead of recreating repositories every time, users can now copy the repositories from the repository list. Once the repositories are reproduced users can edit the details of repositories such as name, alias name, etc. And also, you will be able to set default repositories from the repositories list and you will be redirected into the default repositories while logging in to the application.
• 🌟 OIDC Based Authorization
  • OIDC based Authorization is implemented for API access.
• 📤 Manage User Profile Profile page updated to show more relevant information.
• 📤 Stereotype Configuration Listing Changes In Adding/Editing a profile, stereotypes listing shows all the lists including connectors, elements. But in this Build UI changes are done to show the stereotyped connectors in a list with a Category column so that users can easily identify the connectors, elements easily from the list without any confusion.
• 📤 Custom Icons for Each Stereotype Feature added to change the “Stereotype icon” for each stereotype in the “Form Designer” Page.
• 📤 Creating Discussion for Reviews You can now create a discussion on reviews.
• 📤 Enhanced Diagram View “My Diagrams” listing has been updated with new features such as view attributes, view diagram info, comments, and view diagram page. Search and additional filter features were also implemented in this release.
• 📤 Author Tag If a user creates a discussion and made a reply, it shows the Author Tag for those discussions and replies which was created by a user.
• 📤 Breadcrumb Breadcrumb has been introduced in all the pages for easy navigation.
• ⛔️ Repository Management - EA Security-based authentication Require EA Authentication toggle button removed from repository configuration page. Based on the discussion less users using this feature but create lot of confusion for normal users who doesn’t use the EA authentication.so it is removed in this release.
• ⛔️ Modeling Languages - Stereotypes in Application Modes In this release Stereotype based filter options in application modes was removed from the modeling language configuration.so in future users controlling the visibility of Stereotypes in the Repository browser not available.
• ⛔️ Reviews - Dashboard management Dashboard management option removed for reviews from manage review listings.in this version user can able to swap the toggle button from review page can able to check the moderator, reviewer, approver dashboards easily.