What's New in WEBcnx

What's New WEBcnx 2023.2

Modified on: Mon, 5 Feb, 2024 at 1:59 PM

Overview

The Lens Design Viewer in WEBcnx has undergone a significant update, incorporating new visibility controls, more screen space for the design and it's now also fully mobile and touch screen responsive. Additionally, Task Templates have had a new Site option introduced and there are other minor enhancements across user management, search and the administration tools.

Lens Design Viewer Enhancements

Visibility controls for manufacturing information (display of cut/creases, perforation and other combination rule types), palette types and palette text has been added and can be found on the visibility menu in full screen mode.

Enhancements to the rulers give more screen space to the design, allowing you to make the maximum use of the space available. The footer that previously displayed tool hint information has been replaced with temporary tip bubbles that are obvious to the user. Flipping between displaying the inside or outside of the design, now mirrors Impact by inverting the ruler colours to give the user a visual aid in differentiating between the two views. The cursor position is now indicated on the rulers, also mirroring the functionality available in Impact.

The viewer has had a significant update to make it fully mobile and touch screen responsive. All tools are now able to be used on such devices, including the 3D view, measuring and enquire entities tools.

Improved line style support shows dotted, dashed and other default and custom palette line styles at the same visual scale as in Impact, helping users to more easily recognise the palettes used in the design.

For users who make use of graphic solid fills in Impact, support has now been added for semi-transparent graphic areas. The visibility of these can be toggles on and off with the existing Graphics visibility option.

References:

LENS-82, LENS-90, LENS-131, LENS-189, LENS-275, LENS-307, LENS-341, LENS-342, LENS-343, LENS-344, LENS-345, LENS-346, LENS-347, LENS-348, LENS-349, LENS-350, LENS-351, LENS-358, LENS-364, LENS-365, LENS-366, LENS-377, LENS-385, LENS-386, LENS-391, LENS-392, LENS-393, LENS-394, LENS-395, LENS-396, LENS-399, LENS-402, LENS-403, LENS-404, LENS-406, LENS-409, LENS-429, LENS-432, LENS-433, LENS-435, LENS-442, LENS-449, LENS-454, LENS-457, LENS-458, LENS-461, LENS-463, LENS-464, LENS-467, LENS-468

Site Task Templates

Task Templates already exist for Users, User Groups, Customers and Customer Addresses. They allow users to set context default values for any of the fields on the form or the task attributes such as assignee.

For Enterprise installations, the addition of Site Task Templates can significantly simplify workflows that determine how Tasks should be assigned based on the Site of the Task. For instance, for a typical design workflow, it would be desirable to assign the Design Request to the design department of the site selected for the Job. The same for the artwork and quotation requests. It may be that there is no lab at one site so any lab requests can be easily sent to the lab at another site by default. Of course any of these defaults can be easily changed by the user.

Any other site specific fields can be set with default values.

References:

WEB-302456

Search

The widget Search feature has been moved onto the filter bar with an updated look and feel to improve the discovery of the searchable text fields. The behaviour of the search has remained unchanged; an text entered will be searched across all selected fields.

References:

WEB-305659

User Management

"Create User" User Group Privilege - Has been replaced with a Create User custom action that does the same thing but with greater flexibility with granting permissions to use it.
References:
WEB-305372
User Groups Widget - A User Group Privilege filter has been added to the User Groups widget to allow user administrators to more easily display a list of User Groups that have a common Privilege setting.
WEB-305961
User Group - The User Group Impact Field page has been updated in line with the Database Administration table layout to improve usability, especially when there are many tables in the database.
WEB-305360

Other Enhancements

The order of search icons on the Search dialog were not displayed in a logical order. These have been reordered to; Search, Save Current Search, Saved & Recent Searches, Clear and then any Browser Query custom actions.
WEB-305731
Dashboard widget configuration. Renamed Design and Item List widgets to Design and Item Saved Searches for better discoverability.
WEB-306035
The Project and Layer Status functionality allows for a configuration where any design that has not had a status selected, typically from older projects before using this functionality, to be mapped to one of the status options. This "Treat NULL values as" option then displayed the "(null)" after the status, causing some confusion as end users don't need to know this information. The "(null)" has now been removed.
WEB-306111
For administrators, navigate to Edit Dashboard dialog from user/user group Dashboard lists
WEB-305931
The Search Customers user group privilege is no longer required to view the Directory Dashboard. Since moving over to configurable Dashboards, the Dashboard sharing mechanism now governs which users can view them.
WEB-305869
Placeholder text and tooltips have been added to Impact Lookup and External Lookup Custom Fields to describe the formatting for SQL Filtering and table relationships.
WEB-306195
The owner of dialog Custom Pages is now displayed to users, allowing them to better understand why they're seeing those pages. Administrators are also able to change the owner if required.
WEB-305734
The Impact Field Sets user interface has been updated in line with the Database Administration table layout to improve usability, especially when there are many tables in the database.
WEB-305361
The default Tasks page on the Customer address dialog has been converted to a Saved Search Custom Page to allow for more flexibility with who can see this page.
WEB-305597

Administration Features

Search Constraints - The administration > Configuration > Search section has been renamed to Search Constraints for clarity. There are no functional changes.

System Requirements

All system requirements should meet the minimum set out in our hardware and software guide.

Minimum Supported Version of nServer - nServer 2022 (v12.0.2.3)
Recommended Supported Version of nServer - nServer 2022 (v12.0.2.4)

Reported Bug Fixes

Fixed a problem where user administrators were able to create more users with dedicated licences than there were licences available, causing users to be locked out.
WEB-304288
Browser Query search criteria input dialog had truncated labels if there were more than 20 characters.
WEB-306040
Documents with exceptionally long names occasionally caused a crash when attempting to download them.
WEB-306150
The layer tab order when viewing the design at the project level was incorrectly listing the layers. This has been corrected to match the layer order in Impact.
LENS-309

Memo fields were displaying their value twice when viewing an existing task
WEB-305958

Removed Features

"Create User" User Group Privilege - Has been replaced with a Create User custom action that does the same thing but with greater flexibility with granting permissions to use it.
WEB-305372
"Start Manual Workflows" User Group Privilege - The functionality this privilege controlled was removed from WEBcnx in v4. The User Group Privilege was an omission from this older change.
WEB-305870
"Start Testing Manual Workflows" User Group Privilege - The functionality this privilege controlled was removed from WEBcnx in v4. The User Group Privilege was an omission from this older change.
WEB-305870
"Can Finish Other Users Tasks" User Group Privilege - The functionality this privilege controlled was removed from WEBcnx in v4. The User Group Privilege was an omission from this older change.
WEB-305871
"For Use with Customer Groups" User Group Privilege Option - This feature has been replaced with the newer "For Selected Customers" option on User Group Types. Any User Groups that previously had this option enabled have been automatically migrated over to the new functionality so no action is needed on upgrade.
WEB-305872