July, 2011
Version 7.0 - Highlights
New Features
- Trouble Ticket option for online Help that allows the capture and management of issues and requests within an installation of Elements
- Support for Google KML format for importing Location information.
- Native support for United States Department of Defense Common Access Cards (CAC).
- Folder/Filter Export/Import
Improved Features
User Interface and Portal Pages
- Additional Administrative Portal Pages
- Improved Class Detail Report
- Improved Attribute Detail Report
Elements Explorer
- Additional logic options added to Filter Wizard.
- Enhancements to Filter SQL Editor.
- Data listing usability improvements.
- New Drag and Drop functionality allows you to drop a file from Windows explorer into a folder in eExplorer, or onto another Element that supports linking to an Artifact through a link class or SQL picklist.
- eTask elements can now be exported in Microsoft Project XML format.
- Users are now allowed to enter new parameters. A new button with general param edit is now available.
Link Matrix
- Option to suppress from view empty rows or columns.
Class Manager
- List Attribute "where-used" feature allows discovery of all Classes utilizing a given List Attribute definition.
- The State Machine definition user interface now supports allowing transitions only if the user is in the appropriate ROLE
- Export/Import now includes synonym, index, symbol and color information.
- It is now possible to see a report of detected differences between an incoming Class XMI definition file and the local schema. This is available in the Class Manager: File > Compare Schema / Class Definition menu option.
Installer
- The INDX tablespace creation is performed by the installer vs requiring a manual pre-installation step.
- Options related to CAC-enablement are now available .
Technical Updates
- Update of Tomcat version to 6.
- Filter Count reduction and subsequent performance improvements. Parameterized replacements for autogenerated filters are now widely implemented, reducing the number of NAMED_TEXT entries that must be processed and reviewed at runtime.
- A non-SYS user can now be created with privileges sufficient to perform install and upgrade operations.
- Upgraded Chart Library to FusionChart 3.6.
- A command line utility that obfuscates passwords is now available. A standalone jar file that can run from the command line. It accepts a password as input and uses string obfuscation code to obfuscate the output.
Packaged Metamodel
- Elements.Core Package added, containing Classes: Artifact, Organization, Person, Location, Language and Unit of Measure