18.3.8 Cloud Release Highlights

21 Feb 2024

Features

Export Object History to Excel

Download the history of an object to an Excel file to analyze the object history details.

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Export an object’s history to an Excel file to analyze the history in greater detail.

Navigate to an object → History → scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Download as Excel”

When searching for specific changes made in an object’s history use features in Excel such as filter and sort to get detailed insights more quickly.

Video Support in Shape Text

Add videos to the “text” portion of shapes.

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Include videos in shape text to explain the step with a video.

Click into a shape on a diagram that you have checked out
Find and click on the video button in the shape context menu that appears when you can edit the text of a shape
Add a URL to the shape that links to a video
Click on the image of the video to watch the video

Use videos to make your diagrams more engaging and relatable when the process or activity needs to be seen, not read.

New Reporting Properties

New query properties are available to report on which users are Watching objects.

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The new properties are:

requiredGroupWatchers
requiredUserWatchers
electiveWatchers

Find out more about Reporting Properties here

Find out more about Watchers here

API Free Tier

All cloud customers are now granted a free tier of API access that includes 10,000 API calls per month. If you plan to build internal services around our API that might exceed the free tier for API access, please contact us so we can plan with you.

See API details at: Administration → Support → REST API → iGrafx Platform API Documentation

Early Access

How to enable Early Access features

Go to Administration → Server Settings
Navigate to the Early Access tab
Toggle the Early Access features you would like to enable

Audit Data Microservice

When enabled, the audit service starts logging user activity for audit purposes, and may be queried at a later date via API.

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The audit service starts logging user activity in support of auditing capabilities. By enabling the feature, logging of user activity is turned on. iGrafx recommends this feature is enabled as soon as possible so your company can start collecting data. You may not need to query the data for some time, though without logs you cannot review what was done and gain insights.

See audit service API documentation here for instructions on querying the audit service.

Note: iGrafx does not have access to the information in your audit logs.

New Diagram Experience

The New Diagram Experience Early Access feature continues to undergo major improvements. If you turn this feature on and have feedback on where we are headed we would like to hear from you. Please submit a ticket to the Service Desk to do so.

This feature may be turned on or off by users individually while the feature is in Early Access, separately from the Server Setting. Navigate to: Profile Picture in top right → My Profile → Early Access and toggle New Diagram Experience

Note: This update changes left and right mouse button functions when the New Diagram Experience Early Access feature is enabled. Learn more about UI Plans in the Product Blog.

Left click hold mouse dragging does group/lasso selecting
Right click hold mouse dragging does panning