What's New in the 2023.1 Release

Meridian Cloud is software as a service (SaaS) that is continuously improved. We deploy these improvements to your account (tenancy) as soon as they are completed and tested.

Some of the improvements are minor and are immediately available to you to use. These typically have little to no impact on your data and processes and do not require configuration.

Some of the improvements are part of a major feature that has not yet been completed. These typically can have an impact on your data or processes and might require configuration.

Partial improvements are typically disabled in your account until the entire feature has been completed and tested. Each quarter, we enable the completed major features either for all Meridian Cloud accounts or for specific accounts after consulting with you.

Release Schedule

Release Toggles And Feature Toggles

Improvements In This Release

The following tables list improvements in specific application or functional areas.

Administration Improvements

The following enhancements have been made to system administration.

Reference	Description
MPS-37196	You can now customize the columns which appear in the Documents list on the Package Details page using the Package Documents view type. This enhancement is enabled by the 2022_2_Configurable_package_documents_columns release toggle.
MPS-45186 MPS-46563	In Meridian Portal, you can now set a default value for properties per document type and per project type. This enhancement reduces the amount of time your users need to spend populating properties when creating or importing new documents. Default property values can be modified by users as necessary when they create a new document. If the users upload and commit documents as new documents to a project repository, the document properties of the new documents will contain the default values for the selected document type.
MPS-50967	We updated the Meridian Cloud Connector to support the integration with AutoCAD 2023.
MPS-49126	We fixed an issue that caused Title Lines 2, 3, and 4 to appear as selectable when configuring properties for Project and Generic Document Types. Those properties are not available for these document types.

Portal Improvements

The following enhancements have been made to Portal.

Reference	Description
MPS-35275 MPS-44208 MPS-35792	We've made some user experience improvements to search in Portal: We've moved from preset search filters to dynamic search filters. This means that you can click the Add Filter button and select which fields to include in your search. Search filters now appear at the top of the page instead of in the menu on the left side of the page. You can filter documents by custom properties. Property types supported for this feature are text, lookups, and date/time. We've also added our saved search functionality to Portal. Saving a search stores your search filters so that you can return to the same list of items at a later time. This enhancement includes the following functionality: You can save and update existing saved searches on the Documents List and the Packages List of a project. You can open saved searches that you have saved or that have been created for you by your Tenant Administrator. You can easily share saved searches by generating a hyperlink. When a saved search is no longer useful, you can delete it.
MPS-50013	The retract option might not work for a valid reason, when the contained documents have already been processed in subsequent packages. To clarify it to the Document Controller, we improved the message that appears for this case.

Reference

Description

MPS-35275

MPS-44208

MPS-35792

We've made some user experience improvements to search in Portal:

We've moved from preset search filters to dynamic search filters. This means that you can click the Add Filter button and select which fields to include in your search.
Search filters now appear at the top of the page instead of in the menu on the left side of the page.
You can filter documents by custom properties.

Property types supported for this feature are text, lookups, and date/time.

We've also added our saved search functionality to Portal. Saving a search stores your search filters so that you can return to the same list of items at a later time. This enhancement includes the following functionality:

You can save and update existing saved searches on the Documents List and the Packages List of a project.
You can open saved searches that you have saved or that have been created for you by your Tenant Administrator.
You can easily share saved searches by generating a hyperlink.
When a saved search is no longer useful, you can delete it.

MPS-50013

The retract option might not work for a valid reason, when the contained documents have already been processed in subsequent packages. To clarify it to the Document Controller, we improved the message that appears for this case.

PowerWeb Improvements

The following enhancements have been made to PowerWeb.

Reference	Description
MPS-43546	If you have linked a project folder to Portal, you can access the Portal revision history of the documents in the folder by clicking a link on the Document property page. The same link will display regardless of whether you are viewing the current revision or a prior revision.
MPS-50967	We updated the Meridian Cloud Connector to support the integration with AutoCAD 2023.

Explorer Improvements

The following enhancements have been made to Cloud Explorer and Classic Explorer.

Reference	Description
MPS-40322	We updated the creation of dynamic URLs in Cloud Explorer. When searching property values in Cloud Explorer, the provided search values now appear in the search page URL. This URL can be used for integration with other applications.
MPS-49922 MPS-50355 MPS-51548	The Masters API now supports the creation and linking of assets and retrieval of asset-related documents.
MPS-49446	In Cloud Explorer, you can now use a Library filter to search for documents from the Master and Documentation areas.
MPS-50725 MPS-49532	In Cloud Explorer, you can now export all document records from the search results to a spreadsheet.
MPS-49914	We fixed an issue that was preventing properties configured as plain memo field to be synchronized with Meridian Cloud Explorer. We increased the maximum length of these property values from 256 characters to 2,048.