Configuration improvements

The following improvements have been made to the Meridian Enterprise configuration:

• A new option Flexible depth view has been added to navigation views. If enabled, the branches of the view can be different lengths, depending on the presence or absence of the property values of documents. This makes the views appear more like the Explorer view and documents can appear at any level of the view. If disabled (default), the view appears as in previous versions. All branches of the view are the same length and all of the documents that are included in the view appear at the last level of each branch.
• The Release Quick Change For Others privilege is no longer required to unlock documents in a briefcase created by others. The Unlock from Briefcase privilege is still required.
• A new option Disable all notifications has been added to document types to prevent the sending of workflow notifications.
• A new privilege Can Execute has been added to custom commands and can be assigned to security roles in the vault.
• A new privilege View Rendition Properties has been added to control the visibility of the Rendition property page.
• The same property may now be used in more than one location in the Field-Path definition.
• The default folder type of a level may now be set by the Change Field-Path Definition command.

• If the Advanced Project Workflow Module is enabled, a vault can now be configured to automatically create project folders and subfolders by setting the following options:

  • Configure the Field-Path Definition with one or more subfolders below a project folder level.
  • Assign a default folder type to the project folder level in the Field-Path Definition.
  • Configure the default folder type to only be used for project folders.
  • Assign only one project definition to the default folder type.
• Meridian security roles can now be granted read-write, read-only, or no access to the branches of the configuration tree in Configurator .
• New options Select this group of privileges for this role, Deselect this group of privileges for this role, Select all roles for this privilege and Deselect all roles for this privilege have been added to the Roles and Privileges dialog box in Configurator.
• The behavior of workflow transition equivalence has changed. In prior versions, when releasing a batch of documents in different workflows or different states of the same workflow, any documents in the batch would be released if there was any eligible transition to an end state. They would be released even if a transition had the transition equivalence option No other transition set. This was by design to make releasing batches of documents more forgiving. However, this could be undesirable in some configurations. This is no longer possible and all transition equivalence options are now respected when releasing documents.
• A new parameter -S has been added to BCReminder.exe. It may be used to specify the name of a Meridian group to send reminders to for the documents in a saved search. This allows them to receive notifications without subscribing to the documents. Also, the -Q parameter now works with private saved searches so that the collection that is used with reminders can be hidden from users.
• A new security privilege Create Document from Script has been added. This privilege can be granted to users who do not have the Create Document privilege to create documents manually. The privilege is available for custom folder types only.

For more information about these improvements, see the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Configuration Guide.