ApplicationXtender 8.1 Document Management Now Available

Version 8.1 of EMC ApplicationXtender (AX) is now available.

ApplicationXtender 8.0 was released in November 2015 and included a dramatically improved user interface as well as improved performance and scalability with RESTful services.

8.1 further builds on the momentum achieved by the 8.0 release with numerous enhancements detailed below, allowing AX to further streamline AP, HR and all other document-intensive workflows.

AX 8.1 New Features

Administrator

Provides a comprehensive report of privileges assigned to a user by group or by application
Allows mixed CM or Windows Security users in the same data source
Allows to add Active Directory users into CM group when configuring DLS
Introduces a security option Submit to Workflow to enable or disable user to submit to workflow
Provides a new global User Defined List (UDL) that can be shared among applications
Provides the option to generate an audit event report
Enables the set password policy
Enables to configure the queue for application (full-text and OCR)
Enables to cancel check out a document

Web Access

Provides keyboard shortcuts to enable users to perform operations without a mouse device
Enables users to save the Document Viewer configuration when viewing subsequent documents
Highlights full-text search results in open documents in Document Viewer
Provides a zoom slider to specify the zoom percentage in Document Viewer
Supports dragging and dropping electronic content from the desktop into ApplicationXtender Web Access to append to batches and documents, and to create new documents
Enables opening a batch in a separate window
Supports new query expressions (Within and Older Than) for the date and timestamp fields
Enables users to save mail to client as MSG or EML format and in this email mode, user can download the generated email message without sending them immediately
Renders documents as PDF files in a new browser tab or window from which to print the documents
Supports document retention and retention hold functionality, as well as a retention administration wizard
Supports document query by retention status
Displays the timestamp field using the local time zone

RESTful Services

AX 8.1 provides new resources for:

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Create (post) new document
Cross-Application Query (CAQ)
Open Document Management API (ODMA) fields
Auto index
Select index
User Defined List (UDL)
Configuration
Application field’s primitive type and native value

Workflow Manager

Integrated with Skelta BPM 2014 R2
Enables lists and the Expression Editor for ApplicationXtender Document Workflow Activity
Enables Event Dispatch Broker (EDB) alert emails to administrator
Introduced ApplicationXtender Web Service Session Pool in Workflow Engine to improve performance

Other Enhancements

Native support for files in PNG format: ApplicationXtender now supports files in the PNG format as image files in ApplicationXtender Web Access, Web Services, and RESTful Services; all the ApplicationXtender components can import the PNG files as image files and also allows the annotation and redaction operations
Admin queue selection configuration: all the Full-Text/OCR queue selection related UI and functionality is moved from ApplicationXtender Web Access to ApplicationXtender Administrator