Several performance enhancements

This version contains bug fixes and several performance enhancements

Utility to start and stop Logging

When a user reports a problem with GLOBODOX, it is sometimes very helpful to receive the GLOBODOX log files from their machine In order for our team to debug the problem.

The current process of enabling and disabling logging was very flexible but cumbersome for users. The Log Utility simplifies this to a single click.

When you stop logging the utility conveniently create a zip file with all the existing logs which you can email to our support.

It also lets you delete all log files in the logs folder.

To launch the GLOBODOX Log utility, click on Windows Start Menu > All Apps > GLOBODOX Desktop > GLOBODOX Log utility.

Customization of Navigation Pane.

You can now hide Document Types from the Navigation Pane for specific groups of users.

This is an experimental feature and only works when every role that a user belongs to has the VIEW permission for the DOCUMENT entity set to GROUP OWNED or GROUP OWNED (RESTRICTED).

This is currently not meant as a security feature. It is only designed to simplify the Navigation Pane for large organizations sharing a single DB between users from different departments.

Several performance enhancements

This version contains bug fixes and several performance enhancements

Auto-login for Globodox Web Client

You can now configure auto-login for the GLOBODOX Web Client. This is useful when integrating GLOBODOX Web Client with other applications.

In some such integrations, customers embed GLOBODOX Web Client URLs in their application. Users of such an application click on the embedded links to launch the web client for viewing or adding documents. By configuring auto-login, you can ensure that these users have a more seamless experience and are not prompted to login to the web client.

More details are available here…

https://helpdesk.www.globodox.com/portal/kb/articles/auto-login-to-globodox-web-client

GLOBODOX officially supports SQL Server 2016

With official support for the latest version, GLOBODOX can now work with versions 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2016 of SQL Server.

Several performance enhancements

Powershell (beta)

Powershell commands are now available for GLOBODOX to enable automation. You can now add documents to GLOBODOX and retrieve documents from GLOBODOX via the Powershell command line. We will post moe details about this on our blog shortly.

Improved logging

This version has much improved and more detailed logging. Also logging is now enabled by default and older logs are automatically deleted every 30 days. This allows for faster problem resolution.

Built-in viewer for Zip files

When a ZIP is selected the preview pane now displays a link. Clicking the link opens the new Zip File Viewer window.

GLOBODOX Registration method changed for Client install

In previous versions of GLOBODOX, users had to apply their Registration key on every single machine on which GLOBODOX Desktop client was installed. This was cumbersome for customers with large installations of GLOBODOX Desktop client. From this version onwards, you will only need to apply or update the Registration key on the Server machine.

Web Client config folder path changed.

Previously, the config folder used to be “C:inetpubwwwrootglobodoxwebresourcesdmssdkconfig”. From this version the config folder is same as that used by the Desktop client i.e “C:ProgramDataITAZGlobodox” folder. That means you no more require to copy the multi-user or the registration files to the Web Client folder.

Ability to turn off automatic search and highlight in documents

We have added a new option in the Options Dialog – Systems Options to control automatic search and highlight in documents after a quick search.

New utility to automatically install and configure SQL Server Express 2014

Previous versions of GLOBODOX required first time users to handle the installation and configuration of SQL Express 2012.

We have highly simplified this process by creating a utility to automatically install SQL Server Express 2014 and configure GLOBODOX to work with SQL Express.

To know more about the utility, click here.

Improved Client server configuration

In a multi-user environment, previously in case of a new install or an upgrade users were asked to either specify the location of the ‘multi-user.gdx’ file or manually copy the ‘multi-user.gdx’ file from the Server machine to the Client machine. This process is now completely automatic.

GLOBODOX will now automatically pick up the multi-user.gdx from the Server installation and replace it in the Client installations.

Determining whether GLOBODOX is installed in Client/Server

Previously it was difficult to find out if GLOBODOX on a particular machine was installed in Server or Client mode. The ‘About’ dialog now displays whether GLOBODOX on a particular machine is installed in Server or Client mode

Changing the Startup Type for ITAZ GLOBODOX Services on Windows 10…

We have changed the ‘Startup Type‘ for GLOBODOX Services from Automatic to Automatic (Delayed Start).

Windows 10 users reported problems related to the GLOBODOX Services being in stopped state after a restart even though the Startup Type was set to Automatic (which means to immediately start the services as soon as Windows starts up) . This prevented GLOBODOX Desktop client from starting.

Windows 10 while trying to load faster seems to be causing some services not to start (or somehow shutdown right after starting). This seems to have affected GLOBODOX Services as well as the SQL Server service.

Setting the GLOBODOX Services to Automatic (Delayed Start) will start GLOBODOX services after giving priority to other services. This solves the problem.