The Agiloft software release model combines continuous deployment practices with major releases about twice per year. This page highlights recent enhancements to the software. We'll also show you previews of features still in development or in beta testing from time to time. The Current Build Number listed here corresponds to the last time this page was updated, not necessarily the latest release of Agiloft.

Current Build Number
release_2017_02-23280-1043-r177821

Recent

You can find the latest Agiloft downloadable installer at https://www.agiloft.com/ewdownload/, or contact Support to request an upgrade if your knowledgebase is hosted in the cloud. The most recent release notes from the last major release can be found here: Release Notes.

Look and Feel Enhancements

The Look and Feel wizard received a number of enhancements, increasing your ability to customize the Agiloft UI.

Home page

A new Home Page tab was added to the wizard, at Setup > Look and Feel > Manage Staff Schemes > edit a scheme > Home Page tab . This tab manages the appearance of the Home Page.

The elements in this tab are:

Home page Background - controls the header and font for the background of the home page.
Widget - controls the backround appearance of widgets, including the border, box shadow, fonts and spacing.
Widget Title - controls the font and background color of the widget title.

For more information, see Look and Feel Wizards.

Email schemes

You now have more control over the look and feel of emails sent from the system. We added a new Email Schemes wizard in the Look and Feel setup, accessed at Setup > Look and Feel > Manage Email Schemes.

The Email Scheme wizard layout includes the following tabs:

Global - contains the base scheme selection, base fonts and colors.
Body - contains the properties for the email text and hyperlinks.
Tables - contains the properties for the table header, rows and other table elements.
Apply - allows you to set the scheme name and apply it to teams.

Each knowledgebase can have one default scheme, which sets the CSS standards for email templates. As with other Look and Feel schemes, more can be created as needed, and applied to other teams. For more information, see Email Schemes. Keep in mind that some email clients still remove custom styles.

Custom fonts

Custom fonts can now be added in a Look and Feel scheme, allowing you to make use of any standard format fonts that are not included by default with your knowledgebase.

Navigate to Setup > Look and Feel > Manage Staff/End-User Scheme > Edit Scheme > Global tab to upload a new font into a knowledgebase.
Once fonts have been uploaded, they can be entered as Base Fonts by typing their name into the fields.

For more information, see Look and Feel Wizards.

Previews update in real time

In the Look and Feel wizard, previews of styles are now updated in real time.

In the Look and Feel wizard, the Previews on the left side of Look and Feel options now refresh in real time when changes are made, without needing to save the settings. In the following example, the table Font Face was changed to Courier:

Additionally, clicking the Preview link to the left of a style element opens a preview window where the user can see the element as it will appear with the current selected look and feel settings.

Usability Enhancements

We've made some improvements in general usability.

Changed Default Export Format

In the Export wizard, the default format has been changed to 'Excel 2007 (.xlsx) spreadsheet.

URL Encryption Function

Created a new secureHotlink(url) function which encodes URLs for action buttons to hide the password from browsers.

The function treats a URL as a hotlink, retrieves the project name from it, retrieves the public key for it and encrypts the URL as secured hotlink.

For example: secureHotlink(" http://localhost:8080/gui2/login.jsp?keyID=0&KB=TESTKB&user=admin&passwd=testpassword&state=Main ") is parsed as: http://localhost:8080/gui2/login.jsp?p=a&genhotlink = Aj3ze1xUTq4FziVPB9W5INENQy1xxpLju4lsfbPOxwlXRB/MPL8VHo+m72uHf34Bb850nT13m+vhPCU41hVmkMfVVj/YGTEbLzsAobYYfHpv6Y

If the target server is unavailable for some reason, or the KB details are somehow wrong, an empty URL will be returned, as the key could not be retrieved for encryption.

Set Record Creation Date on Save

A new variable creation_date_on_save allows you to define the date of record creation at the moment when the record is saved, rather than when the "New" button is clicked, as is the case by default.

This can be useful in cases where time-based rules fail to trigger because the user spent too much time creating the record after clicking New, and the record becomes too old after the first save.

The variable can be found at Setup > System > Manage Global Variables , and has the label "Set Creation Date on Record Saving". The default value is No, meaning that the Date Created field gets its value when the New button is clicked.

Upcoming

The following features have not been finalized, but are in development and may appear in a beta state in the most recent software versions.

Charts/Reports Formatting

The Look and Feel wizard now allows you to define the appearance of charts and reports.

A new Charts/Reports tab was added to the wizard, at Setup > Look and Feel > Manage Staff Schemes > edit a scheme > Charts/Reports tab.

This tab contains the following options:

Report Grouping Header - Defines the font and color scheme for report header groupings.
Chart Plot - Defines the color scheme for the chart background and plot.
Chart Legend - Defines the color scheme for the chart legend.
Chart Series - Defines the color scheme for the chart segments.

For more information, see: Charts and Reports Tutorial.

Append Only Fields and Text Headers

The Look and Feel wizard now has separate options for text headers, which appear in record layouts, and the date/time stamps used with Append-Only notes fields.

The text header options remain unchanged, but new options to control Append Only Entry Stamps have been added on the Forms tab of the Look and Field wizard (Setup > Look and Feel > Manage Staff Schemes > edit a scheme > Forms tab).

Link to Home Page from Company Logo

The company logo in the upper left now redirects users to the Home Page in the Staff Interface, and to the Setup screen in the Administrator Console.

Print Field Documentation Header Information

The header of the Print Field Documentation window, which can be accessed at Setup > Tables > Edit table > Fields > Print Field Documentation, now displays the Server, KB name and Table Name.

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