2021 R2 Release Notes

When you move from using AutoViewer to using PDFTron, if you want to see previous renditions of your documents you must create those renditions. To simplify this process, there is a new Renditions Updater Tool which allows you to generate these renditions in bulk.

When you use this tool, the rendition settings from the current version of the document are applied to all previous renditions of the document.

When you configure the ACME CAD Converter Rendering Module, you can now enter multiple reference paths as a semi-colon separated list in the Font search path field.

When you visit the System Settings page in the Meridian Administration Console if you have Administrator permissions and the Hyperion site URL in the Enterprise Server configuration database is different to Server Name, you are now prompted to update the URL in the configuration database.

The Update title blocks before rendering option in the Aspose Rendering Module Options is now available for these document types:

• Doc(x); Docm

• Xls(x); Xlsm

• Ppt(x); Pptm

• Vsdx

When using the Aspose render engine, this eliminates the need to run Microsoft Office applications on servers.

The new PDF LAYERS GROUP NAME column in translation layer tables allows you to specify a group to which a matching layer should belong. You can now leave this field blank so that the layer is not added to a group.

When you Edit a Site, if you are not a member of the User Administrators group, but are a member of the Local User Administrators group for that Site you can now add and remove any Meridian users as members.

When you Manage a Meridian Enterprise Vault, you can now choose the sites that a repository belongs to. This allows you to delegate creation and management of layer translation tables to local administrators. You can:

• Restrict creation and editing of layer translation tables to only local administrators at a site

• Apply layer translation tables to specific Meridian repositories so that users in PowerWeb can only select from layer translation tables associated with that vault.

If you have the Application Administrators permission, you can select any Meridian vault. If you do not have the Application Administrators permission, but are a member of a local administrator group for one or more sites, you can apply the layer translation table to repositories associated with those sites.

The new Multiple pages per sheet Aspose rendering output option allows you to select the way in which users navigate a large Excel Spreadsheet rendered with Apose.

Named Licenses can now be reassigned after 30 days of inactivity.

A new SynchronizeDirect registry key value was added. We recommend you use this setting if you use the following file formats so that the results of synchronization will be available immediately:

dst; dgn; dwg; doc; docx; docm; xls; xlsx; xlsm; ppt; pptx; pptm; vsdx; vsdm

The UpdateContentPublisher registry key value's impact on system behavior has changed with the addition of the SynchronizeDirect registry key mentioned in the previous ticket. This registry key value now controls whether an update is processed by the publisher or by an application link.

There are two new registry key settings which allow you or your users to control when automatic uploads of AutoCAD files are completed. This setting is called ManualUpload.

If automatic uploads are disabled, a new Upload Document button is added to the Meridian ribbon. This button is visible in remote mode only, and is enabled after the first save of the document.

Learn how to configure this setting at the company-level.

Learn how to configure this setting at the user-level.

A new registry key setting has been added which allows you to control whether a Revit project is uploaded to the vault when the project is saved.

A security update made it so that Windows Search 2019 didn't allow the use of IFilters. To address this, we have added two new services to support content indexing. These are the Meridian Document Content Service and the Meridian Content Indexing Service.

A new LockOnCheckOut registry key was added. This registry controls whether PowerWeb downloads and locks a document during a workflow state change. By default, downloading and locking the document is disabled.

You can now configure thumbnail width and height on a rendition job.

A new RefrainFromErrors registry key value was added. This registry key resolves an issue where field values in a form were not being updated correctly, which lead to an incorrect error message. This registry key value is disabled by default.

You can perform bulk updates on files by executing commands after clicking the Search Results heading. This will apply the command you select to all results in your search, including results on subsequent pages. Learn more about this new functionality.

You can now synchronize your workspace in PowerWeb, as well as lock documents and synchronize your workspace.

If you have the privilege to unlock a document for others, you can now select several documents to unlock in one go instead of unlocking documents individually.

The Change Subscription command in PowerWeb has been split into two separate commands: Subscribe and Unsubscribe. Additionally, you can now subscribe or unsubscribe multiple users in a batch, if you have the Allow Management of Subscriptions for others privilege.

Two new commands have been added to PowerWeb: Subscribe to Project and Unsubscribe from Project. These commands allow you to subscribe and unsubscribe from project-specific events. Additionally, you can subscribe or unsubscribe multiple users in a batch, if you have the Allow Management of Subscriptions for others privilege.

The Publisher Queue is now filtered so that it only displays jobs for the current vault.

The Audit Log is now filtered so that it only displays events for the current vault.

References and File Properties can now be synchronized for a batch of AutoCAD, Microstation, and Office documents in PowerWeb.

When you Edit the Rendition Properties, the layer translation tables you can choose from are determined by the restrictions that your administrator has configured.

In PowerWeb, when any dependency of the selected document cannot be released as master, the Release as Master action now fails.

There is now a setting in your Inventor options which allows you to disable automatic upload of drawings when you save or close the drawing. When this setting is enabled, you must click the Upload Drawing button in the Link ribbon to upload your drawing to the vault.

The behavior of the Include CAD References setting when sending documents to Meridian Portal has been modified.

In PowerWeb, when the user sends the document to Portal with CAD references for revision:

• editable reference documents are included for revision

• non-editable reference documents are included for revision

In PowerWeb, when the user sends the document to Portal with CAD references for information:

• reference documents are included for information

The Portal-side of this enhancement is still being developed. When it is complete, you will see an update in the What's New page for Meridian Cloud.

If a user sends a project copy to Portal, and the project copy has CAD references to documents outside the project, these referenced documents are now included in the package for information.

The Site Cache client normally downloads documents via the Site Cache server, but can also directly download document from the PowerWeb Server. This may result in the document being downloaded to a different local folder, depending on the configuration of the client.

In some cases, the Site Cache client may silently switch to direct download, resulting in the document not being in the expected place. The Site Cache client now warns that the document was not downloaded via the Site Cache server.

You can now create a QuickChange Workflow Defintion in the Configurator.

For the new QuickChange Workflow Definition, you cannot add or remove states or transitions in the workflow diagram.

You can now give users a security privilege to edit the annotations of other users.

Clients using the Aspose Rendering module can now choose whether to migrate their document properties to the Custom section of the Office link or to continue to use the OfficeCustomProperties section.

If you want to continue using the OfficeCustomProperties section, you will need to add a new record to your Office link settings.

If you have the Aspose Rendering Module enabled, Meridian now supports reading references for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio documents without having Microsoft Office installed.

You can now choose the way extents of hotspots are recalculated when a user updates a rendition in PowerWeb and the render job is configured to extract hotspots. To do this, the Configurator application now allows you to add the RecalculateExtentsOnHotspotExtraction option to the TAGEXTRACTION settings in the AutoCAD tab of the Application Link Settings.

You can now add confirmation pages at several points in the document copy event sequence. These new events are:

• PreInitializeCopy

• PreBeforeCopy

  PreBeforeCopy is not called when executing Copy with References. Copy with References will call PreBeforeCopyWithReferences.

These events can be used in wizards relating to copying documents.

You can now add a confirmation page to the Copy with References wizard.

You can now add confirmation pages to custom commands.

You can now add a confirmation page at several points in the revoke a document event sequence.

Two new arguments have been added to the Batch.Argument object property. The DocumentPath argument provides the location of the document in the local workspace starting from the root of the vault. The MatchedTypes argument provides a semicolon-delimited list of internal type names matched to the document extension.

These arguments will only process if the NewLibraryComponentDocType setting is disabled.

Explorer now uses the same file size limit as Meridian Enterprise for synchronizing revisions, renditions, or hybrid parts.

You can now configure a setting which sets the Modified and Modified By fields in Sharepoint to the values they have Meridian.

There is a new option for the Aspose Rendering Module which renders HTML documents to the smallest standard paper size that can contain the width of the document.

In the Create Document wizard in PowerWeb, if the user enters a new value in a property field and then uses the Tab key on their keyboard to move to the next field, the wizard page refreshes, and the focus is lost.

Focus determines how your keyboard interacts with elements on the page. In this example, the user cannot type in the next field, because the field is no longer in focus. The user would have to manually click inside the field to continue editing.

To learn more about focus, see Google's Web Fundamentals article titled Introduction to Focus.

This known issue only impacts IE 11 and Microsoft Edge.