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What is new in Prolaborate 5.1.0 ?
30-OCT-2023
Build number V5.1.0.126
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Prolaborate Macro for Confluence
EA Add-in
Diagram Editor
Confluence Data Migrator
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New Features
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🌟 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
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🌟 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.
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Improvements
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📤 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.
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📤 Editor Table improvement
- Usability improvements are added to the inline editor view on the overview page, sub-reports (charts), and reports.
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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.
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5.0.0
27-JUL-2023
Build number V5.0.0.46
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
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New Features
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🌟 Lifecycle Roadmaps (Learn More)
- The advanced lifecycle roadmap is a powerful method for showcasing the status of various architectural artifacts, such as applications, capabilities, or projects. It plays a pivotal role in the Application Portfolio Planning providing a clear and concise overview of their lifecycles.
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🌟 Dynamic Charts - One Chart Multiple Reports (Learn More)
- Over the years, we have observed that our customers rely heavily on charts to visualize data. Furthermore, we have noticed that many users create multiple charts for the same object and each chart displays different data points.
- Dynamic Charts will reduce such redundant efforts and will offer more intuitive reports for users to analyze information based on various attributes. Users can pick the data they would like to see on the go. This enhancement allows for greater flexibility and efficiency in data representation.
- Dynamic Charts can be enabled in the following chart types:
- Pie
- Donut
- Bar (Regular and Stacked)
- Column (Regular and Stacked)
- Landscape charts representing multi-level hierarchical information
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🌟 Card Widget(Learn More)
- Users always prefer curated and succinct insights from complex architecture information, to focus on important aspects of the business.
- Card Widget allows architects to highlight business information and key metrics from model in your dashboard Designed to highlight vital metrics like cost, numbers, counts, and text, the Card Widget allows for concise and visually appealing presentation of key information.
- Our business users highly appreciate this widget for providing valuable insights into crucial aspects, including Total Cost Of (TCO) applications, applications count based on key attributes, percentage of high-impact applications and much more.
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🌟 Rich Text Editor for Dashboards (Learn More)
- We have introduced an advanced Rich text editor, to enhance documentation in dashboards. This new editor replaces the HTML editor widget and offers improved functionalities and benefits to users who require custom texts and formatting options. The Rich Text editor significantly enhances the appeal and presentability of dashboards to stakeholders. With additional features that simplify the editing documentation content in dashboards, it becomes the ideal choice for text and image presentation.
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🌟 Rich Text Editor for Email Templates (Learn More)
- The Rich Text Editor is now also available for customizing email templates. This new editor provides enhanced functionalities and benefits for users who need custom texts and formatting options, making it easier to customize emails.
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🌟 List Views and Inline Editor for Easy Model Updates (Learn More)
- ‘Inline editing using a simple list view, powered by metadata to allow context-based model editing’
- List views, designed to resemble Excel-like interfaces, have always been the choice for stakeholders when it comes to viewing and updating model information. Whether it's the task of viewing and updating applications, managing data entities, or modifying requirements and use cases, the combination of list views and inline editors has consistently delivered the most sought-after user experience.
- The List view and inline editor is enabled in all key model viewing capabilities of Prolaborate.
- Viewing artifacts (or child elements) of a package
- List of Elements listed based on charts and reports
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Improvements
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📤 Security Enhancements
- Certain vulnerabilities identified during the vulnerability assessment have been remediated.
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📤 Enhanced Package Overview Page (Learn More)
- The overview page has been enhanced to provide insightful information. The enhanced page presents all child artifacts in a list view format beneath the selected object. The page offers a more comprehensive view of the object and its related artifacts.
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📤 AD & ADFS Sync Setting (Learn More)
- Existing Prolaborate teams that have configured user management via AD and are planning to migrate to ADFS can benefit from this new feature. During the migration process, administrators now have the option to choose between synchronizing settings based on AD group settings or ADFS group settings. The permissions will be set accordingly based on the selected option.
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Note:
- In the current version, AD groups work based on Just In Time, while ADFS does not yet have this feature implemented.
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📤 Other Improvements
- Feature Search – A handy tool for users to identify newly added features and existing features via search.
- Share and other functionalities work smoothly when including two distinct widgets within a master widget.
- Confirmation window now works as expected across application.
- Input field validations have been added to multiple areas, including the report configuration, EA reports definition, chart definition, connector definition, placeholder, and query definition pages.
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Bug Fixes
AD & ADFS Merge
🐞 In version 4.4.2, we introduced the capability to merge AD and ADFS accounts. This allows current Prolaborate users with AD accounts to smoothly transition to ADFS. However, we identified an issue where users who were removed from AD user groups could still access the application. We have promptly resolved this issue in Prolaborate V5.
Others
🐞 After the upgrade from V3 to V4, the previously configured email notification settings for reviews and discussions are retained.
🐞 The random toggle button visible on the notification page has been removed.
🐞 When traversing between elements, the property window displays the expected element name.
🐞 The "Back to Previous Element" field on the properties page retains the expected element name when clicking the back button.
🐞 Connector information is now accessible from the traceability section.
🐞 Switching between the minimized view and maximized view within reports retains the stereotype dropdown value.
🐞 The email template page no longer freezes after modification.
🐞 Prolaborate admins can now enter a database password of up to 250 characters.
🐞 Reviews with the state "archived" are displayed as expected.
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