Meridian Enterprise 2016.1.1 server and workstation update

Background

Meridian Enterprise 2016.1.1S and 2016.1.1W are incremental server and workstation updates, respectively, for Meridian Enterprise 2016 Service Pack 1. They include important fixes that have been made since the general release of Meridian Enterprise 2016 Service Pack 1 in June, 2016.

Description

This update:

  • Is included in and is superseded by Meridian Enterprise 2016.1.2 server update and Meridian Enterprise 2016.1.2 workstation update.
  • Can only be installed on Meridian Enterprise 2016 SP1.
  • May be installed only on the server, only on the client PCs, or on both.
  • Does not require access to the Meridian Enterprise 2016 installation package files.
  • Is for all Meridian Enterprise servers regardless of the license level Base, Standard, or Plus.
  • Includes the Meridian Enterprise 2016.1.1 client components that are also installed on the server. The separate workstation update does not need to be installed on the servers.

Meridian Enterprise 2016.1.1 server update

This update includes the following improvements to existing functionality.

Resolved issues
Component Issue # Description

EDM Server

MRE-1521

Resolves a problem with vaults becoming hidden after a failed attempt to restore a vault to a non-existent database path.

Enterprise Server

MRE-2323

The UserGroupCacheTimeout registry setting now applies to Active Directory groups as well as to Accruent groups.

Explorer

MRE-2336

Search filter lists no longer contain values that are not in scope.

EDM Server

MRE-2477

Resolves a problem with transaction sorting during vault imports.

Enterprise Server

MRE-2482

Reference names created in the destination vault after SolidWorks drawings are imported from a package are now different (ref type name) than the names shown in the source vault

EDM Server

MRE-2567

Detection of variant data types in API calls has been improved.

EDM Server MRE-2571 A new server registry key VerboseEventFlags has been added that can be used to enable or disable specific types of extended messages in the event log.

EDM Server

MRE-2639

The stability of importing large numbers of documents into Oracle vaults has been improved.

EDM Server

MRE-2747

Resolved a problem that caused empty reference names to be shown in the client applications.

Explorer

MRE-2830

Properties of data type Keyword now show values on the property page and filter correctly.

EDM Server

MRE-2925

Reconnection to SQL Server after a network failure and error reporting have been improved.

EDM Server

MRE-2939

The stability of HyperCache when loading very large vaults has been improved.

Enterprise Server

MRE-2948

Improvements have been made to support Explorer for iPad 1.4.0.

Explorer

MRE-2954

The Hide project copies option of view definitions now works for relational searches.

EDM Server MRE-2961 Resolves a problem that caused vault inconsistencies when documents in a quick change workflow were deleted after the workflow had been revoked following a failed attempt to delete the documents.

EDM Server

MRE-3073

The performance of running a workflow transition on documents with many revisions has been improved.

Explorer

MRE-3077

A warning dialog box is shown if more than 1000 items are selected for export to MS Excel. If the user continues, only data for the first 1000 items will be exported.

Enterprise Server

MRE-3105

The Meridian Enterprise Server URL that is used by non-browser clients is no longer updated by the Explorer for iPad app.

Enterprise Server

MRE-3111

Correct pages are shown in the Explorer for iPad app if custom page names are configured.

Enterprise Server

MRE-3115

The Explorer for iPad app is now more compatible with older Explorer servers.

Explorer

MRE-3133

Saving redlines in Explorer after closing the viewer window no longer causes the error Unable to get property 'offsetWidth' of undefined or null reference.

EDM Server

MRE-3147

The installed tools AMMTagLinkSynchronizer.exe, BCSequenceManager.exe, and GCFVaultPrepareTool.exe now launch correctly.

EDM Server

MRE-3183

The performance during long periods of heavy server load is more consistent.

Enterprise Server

MRE-3195

The performance of viewing large audit logs has been improved.

EDM Server

MRE-3226

The performance of creating references from documents that already have thousands of references in a large vault has been improved.

Enterprise Server MRE-3235 Data Library synchronization of a file with an empty extension no longer fails if the [Empty] mapping is not set. The file will be rendered with the profile that is mapped to the [Other] mapping.

Enterprise Server

MRE-3237

When multiple synchronization jobs exist with the same source vault and any of them has the Only publish documents from the specified collection option set, any subsequent synchronization validation job will not mark any documents to be deleted. No documents will be marked to be deleted if the synchronization job does not have the Allow automatic deletion option enabled. These changes help to prevent documents from being unexpectedly deleted when the consequences of the synchronization validation job are not well understood.

Meridian Enterprise 2016.1.1 workstation update

Resolved issues
Component Issue # Description
PowerWeb

MRE-2292

Added a scroll bar to PowerWeb for long lists of baselines and navigation views.

PowerUser, PowerWeb

MRE-2355,
MRE-2697

The Value list in the Find dialog box now shows a list of the existing values in the vault regardless of how the Select a value from option is set in the property configuration. This change affects both PowerUser and the Meridian Web Client. Previously, the list showed the values according to that setting, which could include values that did not exist in the vault to search for. The behavior of the value list on property pages is unchanged and reflects the configuration setting.

PowerWeb

MRE-2754

The display of long lists of vault names has been improved in the Meridian Web Client.

PowerWeb

MRE-2763

Invalid argument errors no longer occur when attempting to generate a report for over 2000 documents. The performance of selecting thousands of documents has been improved.

Viewer

MRE-2775

AutoCAD thumbnail images created by AutoVue are now generated from the last saved view instead of the model view.

PowerWeb

MRE-2944

A new setting named CalculateVisibilityPerPage has been added to the Application Link Settings page in the Environment branch of the configuration tree in Configurator. The default setting of 1 or (or if the setting is absent) causes the PowerUser client and the Meridian Web Client to calculate wizard page visibility the same way. That is, the visibility of each page is determined by the property values that have been set in previously shown wizard pages. This was not the case prior to Meridian Enterprise 2017. When set to 0, the visibility of all pages in the Meridian Web Client is determined before the wizard begins.

License Server

MRE-2976

AutoVue licenses are now correctly claimed when the client connects to a different server.

Viewer MRE-2988

AutoVue is now prevented from creating a Logs folder on the desktop.

Viewer

MRE-2998

The Enable AutoVue 3D viewing option is no longer necessary and has been removed. Only members of the group specified for the User group allowed to use 3D option may use the 3D viewer. Also, the Enable AutoVue server connector option is no longer necessary and has been removed. The AutoVue client/server deployment is enabled by the Enable BlueCielo server-based viewer option.

Configurator

MRE-3014

Settings for the property definition options Allow a user to enter values manually, This expression must be True, and Apply input expression are no longer replicated to other settings during definition editing.

PowerUser

MRE-3024

The What’s New item on the Help menu has been removed.

Viewer

MRE-3042

The Acrobat viewer now prints correctly if its Enable Protected Mode at startup and Enable Enhanced Security options are enabled.

SolidWorks link

MRE-3100

SolidWorks title block updates now work correctly if custom properties are set to write-only (WO flag).

Office link

MRE-3126

Synchronizing properties to the document file now works correctly for .DOC files if custom properties are set to write-only (WO flag).

Viewer

MRE-3128

If the Print all in black option is enabled in the AutoVue Print Document dialog box, the document will be printed in monochrome and override the default color settings for the printer. If the option is not enabled, the output will be in the printer’s default color scheme.

Office link

MRE-3192

Saving documents from Outlook with the link in remote mode no longer causes the error No such interface supported.

PowerWeb

MRE-3255

Custom property background colors are now applied correctly to read-only properties in the Meridian PowerWeb.

Note:

If error 1328 occurs during update installation, the original installation has been modified and it must be uninstalled and reinstalled before the update will succeed.