2021 Release Notes

You can now Configure translation layer rules that determine how layers in documents are converted when a PDF rendition is created from a document.

You can now delegate application management to users on local sites. This is done by creating sites and adding groups to those sites. Users with privileges to manage a group in a site can use scopes to restrict access to views, reports, and repositories.

The Configure Views security permission was added so that the permission to create views can be restricted by site.

The Configure Views and Reports vault privilege was added so that access to navigation views and views can be controlled by site.

You can now use the LogTimeStampFormat registry value to specify that the date in a comment log for a workflow action or other action is shown as the full month name.

The new hotspot extraction options allow you to determine whether hotspots are to be extracted for the rendition job. Additionally, you can choose whether to:

• only extract hotspots only when the rendition is out dated

• trigger the Meridian script event once hot spots are successfully updated

You can now configure the properties shown when users hover over a hotspot on a PDFTron rendition.

You can now configure a view to download a document with redlines.

You can now create an Aspose rendering profile that uses the Aspose render engine. This allows you to create rendering profiles that output to these formats:

Word – .doc, .docx, .docm

Excel – .xls, .xslx, .xlsm

Powerpoint – .ppt, .pptx

Visio – .vsx, .vsdx

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You can now View hotspots on a PDFTron rendition and navigate to additional information from a hotspot in PowerWeb and Meridian Explorer.

When you view a rendition, you can now:

• delete a hotspot in edit mode

• move and resize hotspot in edit mode

• change the target document of a hotspot

• show and hide redlines.

Multiple engineers can create project copies of a document and edit the document when it's their turn in the queue. Waiting lists can now be used to manage waiting project copies.

Write title block now works in PowerWeb when a document is created from a Template or the Copy, Derive, or Replace command.

Previously, in PowerWeb, it was not possible to make multiple copies of a document in another folder. You can now use the Copy Multiple option to make multiple copies of documents in a different folder.

When you release a project copy as a new master document, the outgoing references are now processed the same way as PowerUser. The environment setting to include references on release is now honored.

You can now set the print quality to be used in PDFTron on a document and a rendition.

In PowerWeb, when you print a document in PDFTron, you can zoom to a particular part of the document and then you can use the Print view button on the Print dialog box to print that view.

When you view a rendition, and the document has hotspots, you can move the cursor over a hotspot to view properties of the target for that hotspot such as:

• target identification number

• tag type

• tag number

• target filename

• name and values of properties in the Hotspot Properties column. Properties with no value for the target document are hidden.

In PowerWebApply to All in wizard pages now works for transitions in ActiveX mode.

In PowerWeb if a user selects a Word document, the Vault has title block synchronization configured, and the rendition job is configured to update title block properties, the document properties are updated when the user updates the rendition. The existing fields in the Word document are updated, including fields in headers and footers.

In Meridian Configurator, you can now create a document type that determines the way in which documents are locked when multiple people are to work on the same document. The Concurrent Engineering tab has been added to enable you to specify the option you want. If Allow concurrent Engineering is selected, you can choose from:

• Merge workflow — current behavior for merging with master

• Merge project — allow multiple project copies to be created

• Serial change with release — allow your organization to use waiting lists for project copies

With the Update Hotspots document privilege, you can now allow users to manipulate hotspots.

In Meridian Configurator property sets, you can now apply input restrictions to memo properties that are enabled for scripting.

When you create and edit scopes, you can now select or deselect these commands on the Command Filter tab:

• Transfer to Next

• Create For Info Copy

An issue was resolved where importing packages failed with the message "There is not enough space on the disk"

The Include to a Portal package option was added to reference types so you can specify that references belonging to the reference type should be included when a package is sent to Portal or an export package is created.

The Watermark property now supports two lines.

The ConcurrentEngineeringRuleProperty property was added to the Document object. This allows you to specify the way in which documents are locked when waiting lists are in use for project copies. The constant AS_CE_Rule was added to the Meridian API Types. This contains enumerations of behaviors that you can specify for a project copy:

• AS_CER_DEFAULT — default behavior

• AS_CER_MERGE_WF — current behavior

• AS_CER_NOT_ALLOWED — allow only one project copy.

• AS_CER_SERIAL_WITH_RELEASE — allow multiple project copies.

• AS_CER_SERIAL_WITH_RELEASE — reserved for future use.

The publishing and rendering option _PRINTING_QUALITY was added. This allows you to get and set the print quality to use with PDFTron. You can set a value between 1 and 15.

The PublisherDestinationEvent_HotspotUpdated event was added so that you can implement a script event after tag information is extracted. The event occurs in the destination vault after publishing has ended if the Hotspot Extraction option Publisher will invoke Meridian script event when update succeeds is selected.

The DocProjectCopyEvent_ValidateTargetFolder event has been added to the Document Project Copy Events. This allows you to validate the target folder when an attempt is made to create a project copy.

You can use the Document.CreateWaitingProjectCopy method to add a document as a new waiting Project Copy to the waiting list if the document is a master document with concurrent engineering options which allow creation of a waiting Project Copy.

These new methods were added to link a Meridian project to a Meridian Portal project:

Folder.LinkToPortal

Folder.UnlinkFromPortal

These methods use ProjectFolderPropertySet.ProjectNumber and ProjectFolderPropertySet.ProjectName property values for current project folder.

In addition, the new Folder.LinkedProjectID property returns the ProjectFolderPropertySet.ProjectID value for current project folder.

You can use the Folder.HasDocuments property and Folder.Delete method in an event handler to determine whether a folder and its sub folders contain documents before deleting it.

Document.ContentFromReport allows you to replace content of the document with the output of the report with the specified name, scope, and template.

ImportPackage_AfterImportedFromPortal event has been added to the BCES Import Package events to allow you to implement validation when a document is returned by a contractor.

You can use the Document.AttachWaitingProjectCopy method to attach an existing document as a waiting project copy.

You can also use the Document.AddReorderingComment method to add a reordering comment to the Project Copy.

You can now View hotspots on a PDFTron rendition and navigate to additional information from a hotspot in PowerWeb and Meridian Explorer.

When you view a rendition, you can now:

• delete a hotspot in edit mode

• move and resize hotspot in edit mode

• change the target document of a hotspot

• show and hide redlines.

You can now View hotspots on a PDFTron rendition and navigate to additional information from a hotspot in PowerWeb and Meridian Explorer.

Without installing extra components on your computer, you can now select a batch of documents and:

• download renditions
• download renditions with redlines
• download source files

The selected files are added to an archive that you can download.

You can now print renditions for a batch of documents.

In Meridian Explorer, when you print a document in PDFTron, you can zoom to a particular part of the document and then you can use the Print view button on the Print dialog box to print that view.

In the PDFTron Viewer Settings you can enable XOD viewing, which allows users to view XOD files instead of native PDFs in PDFTron.

You can now configure the properties shown when users hover over a hotspot on a PDFTron rendition.

When Enable XOD Viewing is not selected and instead, the streams of the document are stored in SQL, and Meridian Enterprise Server does not have access to the Meridian stream. The PDF is now shown correctly in PDFTron.

In PowerWeb if a user selects a Word document, the Vault has title block synchronization configured, and the rendition job is configured to update title block properties, the document properties are updated when the user updates the rendition. The existing fields in the Word document are updated, including fields in headers and footers.