We think you will like these features and functions in CERF.
- This GUI has three main panels
- Left panel: Document Tree, Checked Out Documents, Local Files, Bookmarks, Saved Searches
- Middle panel: Inbox/Email, Controlled Documents, Notebook, Notifications, Search
- Right panel: Info
- Notebook Entry Types
- Audio File - creates Entries from existing audio files or record and save as a new Entry.
- Mind-Map - uses installed mind-mapping software to create an Entry
- Drawing - drawing tools for free-hand drawing Entries
- Inbox, Email - users can email content and attachments to CERF through regular email
- Saved Searches - there is a default collection called "saved searches." This is a new pane that can be displayed in the left panel
- Network file links
- Logging user 'admin' actions - audit trail
- Advanced Tagging - any resource can be tagged with a combination of text/user-created vocabulary terms
- New User Preferences (Tools > Options)
- General: Double-click action - System Default, Checkout, or View
- Notebook: Change default text Entry font, Show/Hide Full Placeholders
- Applications: Set file types to be opened by a specific application
- Logging: Debug Mode, Log Network Traffic
- Signing initiator can sign Notebook Page that has multiple contributors and co-contributors will get notifications to cosign or cancel/reject
- Users can finalize all their work on a Page, Section, or Notebook, allowing main contributor to initiate signing on a Notebook Page that has multiple contributors.
- Signer can add new signature group at the time of cosigning.
- Edit Metadata inline - user can edit and save metadata within the metadata pane of the right-hand Info panel.
- Filter and add members of another workgroup to current workgroup in the Edit Workgroup dialog.
- The Workgroup Administrator can change the role and admin status of multiple users in a workgroup simultaneously (to the same role or admin status) in the Java client (in the Edit Workgroup dialog).
- MS Word and MS Excel are automatically displayed inline and rendered as PDF (there is usually no need to change display type). In cases such as invoking a template, when documents are displayed as links, there is now a "Show All Inline" action in the Notebook menu.
- There are hot keys to Show/Hide the side panels and other hot keys for the main menu items
- There is a dictionary "as you type" spellchecker in the Notebook text editor
- Metadata are automatically extracted from MS Office documents and images
- There is a new business policy for auto-logoff time setting
- The user can copy more than one Notebook Entry at a time and paste them into another Notebook
- The user can drag more than one document at a time from a File Cabinet to a Notebook
- Deleted, Inactivated, and Archived items in File Cabinets will disappear from view immediately
- JChem Viewer, text entry has been added (resizing entries)
- The System Administrator can grant users the ability to create new Workgroups or manage (create/edit) controlled vocabularies that other users may access as well as grant users the capability to grant capabilities to other users.
- A new business policy System_Manage_Capabilities_Allowed must be set to True for System Admin to grant Users permission to create Workgroups or create/edit controlled vocabularies. Other new business policies are described in the System Admin online manual.
- The person who initiates a Controlled Document can add members from another workgroup (to which they belong). These users are also members of the workgroup that owns the controlled document.
- The printout of a resource that has been struck out will display an X on the text or image. The printout of a resource page, Page, section, or Notebook will show an X through any struckout text or images.
- In addition to PDF printed copies of Notebook resources, PDF printed copies can be created from files in a File Cabinet.
- New labels are used for source and destination relations in CERF.
- CERF displays signatures on printed copies of signed Notebook resources (the user doesn't need to select specific templates with signature printing).
- If a Notebook Page has multiple Entries that are shown as links, these can be changed simultaneously to inline views with the "Show All Inline" action, located in the right-click Notebook menu.