Release Notes - tsgrp/HPI GitHub Wiki

This page contains notes for recent releases of the Alfresco Content Accelerator or ACA (previously the OpenContent Management Suite or OCMS). Note that the OCMS to ACA name change occurred as part of the 3.4 release.

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Releases

3.4.3

This release adds support for Alfresco ACS 7.0.

3.4.2

This release was comprised of bug fixes and updates to allow for greater configurability.

Notable Enhancements

Enhancement Short Description More Information
OpenOverlay Improved Configurability with AEVT When using the AEV Transformer (formerly OAT), OpenOverlay configurations can be overridden by placing an XML file in the repository. Note that this is only available for certain clients and customers of Alfresco PaaS
Manage Content Templates Administrators can now create content templates in the admin UI
Manage FTL Templates Administrators can now override FTL templates in the admin UI
Additional OpenContent Override Layer OpenContent external properties can now be overridden by another AMP file see here

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3.4.1

Note - this release is only officially supported for the Policy and Procedure Content Accelerator.

Notable Enhancements

Enhancement Short Description More Information
Distribution Lists Properties can be added to Quality Documents to set up distribution lists for groups and/or users
Logo Asset Overrides The default login page logo, login page background, header logo, and site favicon can be overridden in the ACA admin
Generate Attestation Report Action Generates an Excel report related to TBR workflow attestation status
Effective Date Interval from Attribute A document's Effective date can now be set based on an attribute automatically upon Approval
Periodic Review Interval from Attribute A document's periodic review interval can now be set on an attribute rather than always set to 2 years
FTL Template Admin FTL templates in OpenContent can be overridden in the ACA admin

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3.4

Notable Enhancements

Enhancement Short Description More Information
Alfresco Content Accelerator for Claims Management Modern Claims Management with the Alfresco Content Accelerator web page
Alfresco Content Accelerator for Policy and Procedure Management Modern Policy and Procedure Management with the Alfresco Content Accelerator web page
Workflow Notifications in Slack Send a Slack notification to users when receiving a workflow task blog article
Workflow Notifications in MS Teams Send a Teams notification to users when receiving a workflow task blog article
Print to Repository Allow users to print from any location and save the print as a PDF in the repository blog article
User Controlled Dashlet Visibility Users can show or hide certain dashlets based on administrative configuration
Execute Search within Folder Execute a respository search in a case folder. This is useful in scenarios where there are more documents in the folder than are allowed to come back in the initial query. For example, a folder may only display 2,000 total results. This query allows the user to search across a claim folder that has 10,000 or more documents.
Doc Viewer Properties Pane Display additional document properties in the doc viewer pane based on configuration
Obsolete and Periodic Review support on Documentum The policy and Procedure solution on Documentum now contains Obsolete and Periodic Review functionality support

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3.3

Release Blog Article

Notable Enhancements

Enhancement Short Description More Information
Capture 2.0 Utilize machine learning to improve the document capture process blog article
SmartCOMM and Twilio Integration Utilize SmartCOMM and Twilio to improve customer communication blog article
Kira Integration Send documents to Kira for Machine Learning analysis blog article
Search timing data visualization Report and visualize search results timing information
Search Results - updated mobile view Better mobile view for search results
XML Document Viewer View XML documents natively in the browser
Bulk Upload - Extract Zip When uploading a zip, automatically extract contents and relate them to the zip as children
Copy ActiveWizard Form action Copy an ActiveWizard form to a create a new form instance
Generate Active Wizard Form Approval Report action Generate an HTML approval report for an AW Form
Manage Active Wizard Ad-Hoc Supporting Docs action Add supporting documents in an ad-hoc manner, without editing the form
PrunePDF Action Split off pages of a PDF to a new document. The split pages are removed from the original document, which is versioned
Send Email action - support for token replacement Place tokens in email templates to save the user from re-typing information. For example, can automatically insert the claim ID, claimant name, etc. into a claims email
Active Wizard - Question grouping support Group questions together. Example: Addresses - in a group together, city/state/zip on one line horizontally

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3.2

Release Blog Article

Notable Enhancements

Enhancement Short Description More Information
Support for DynamoDB Utilize Amazon DynamoDB as the content repository 11 Billion Document Benchmark
Compare Documents with Workshare Compare Generate redline comparisons of documents as well as versions video
Controlled Print Control and Audit the document printing process blog article
Generate Impact Assessment action Automatically generate a report of documents impacted by changing a given document
Redact Folder Documents (Bulk Redact) Redact text across all documents in a case folder or search folder redact article , search redact article

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3.1

Release Blog Article

Notable Enhancements

Enhancement Short Description More Information
Bulk Upload - Extension whitelist Restrict uploads to only certain file formats, rejecting others
View Folder Terms Action Analyze documents in a case folder for occurrences of certain terms blog article
Reporting Dashlets Build report dashlets and visualize results with graphs
Create PDF from Word Mail Merge Allow the user to fill out a form and merge the data with a Word document Template blog article

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3.0

Notable Enhancements

Enhancement Short Description More Information
Search Results Thumbnail view View thumbnail previews of search results
AEV Video (previously OpenAnnotate Video) support View and annotate videos blog article
Bulk Upload - Integration with Box Utilize Box as a source for content in the Bulk Upload action
Checkout / Checkin from Cloud Service - Support for Google Drive Edit documents directly in Google Docs
Send Email - Templates Set up email templates for users to streamline the email creation process
Dashboard - Tabbed layout Arrange dashlets by tabs to organize and speed up the dashboard
Alfresco Chain Versionable AMP Support for Controlled Documents Versioning and Security improvements for Alfresco blog article
Config Archiver Utility to archive and upload OCMS configurations
Non-Mandatory Aspect Support (Alfresco) Support for applying a non-mandatory aspect to an object type

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2.5

2.4

2.3

2.2

2.1