With the new improvements in WebCenter Dashboards, when you have unsaved work on a page and attempt to leave or close the tab, WebCenter will promptly display a warning message, alerting you to the presence of unsaved changes.
Improved UX for Unprocessed MS Office Documents
Creating view data for unprocessed MS Office documents is now easier and more efficient than ever before. Attempting to open an unprocessed MS Office document in the viewer will immediately trigger view file generation, preventing the user from having to re-upload the file.
WebCenter Cloud
Video Thumbnail Improvements
Enjoy visually appealing and accurate video thumbnails that provide a clear representation of your video assets. Video thumbnails now maintain the proper ratio to the original video, ensuring a visually pleasing and accurate representation of your video content.
Audio Routing and Approval in the Viewer
Experience a more holistic review process as Audio Review becomes an integral part of your collaboration. With the ability to review audio files directly within the viewer, you can ensure that all aspects of your creative projects receive the attention they deserve.
Config Simplification
Named Configuration Improvements
WebCenter 23.11 introduces significant enhancements for Named Configurations, which can be migrated to other WebCenter instances (e.g., from a development system to a production system). Admins can include even more configurationitems, including Document Type, Landing Page, Approval Setup, Rule Setup, Document Creation, and Document Rendering. Additionally, a new Boundary Feature empowers users to exclude specific components within a configuration. Gain greater control and efficiency in your configuration management with WebCenter’s latest updates
Scalability & Performance
Select Document Node Enhancement (Speed)
We’ve overhauled the Select Document Node to run up to 90% faster, specifically when working within projects with thousands of assets.
3D Rendering Enhancements
We’ve executed a full-scale transformation of the 3D engine, now powered by our Studio libraries, to redefine your 3D experience. Whether it’s crafting stunning 3D views from ARD files, supercharging CAD+Graphic views, or simplifying component and assembly views, our enhancements deliver unmatched precision and performance.
Color Management
Ink Searching
Powerful new feature that enhances your artwork management. Effortlessly find specific ink names used in your artwork files, as well as identify the total number of inks present in each file. Whether you need to locate artwork files with specific ink colors or gain an overview of the ink usage across your projects, Ink Searching empowers you to do so with ease.
General Enhancements
Move or Copy Node Enhancement (prevent auto-naming)
Experience the freedom of customizing document names during moves or copies within the workflow. By preventing auto-naming, you can tailor document names according to your specific requirements, ensuring clarity and consistency throughout your workflow.
Enhanced User Administration Permissions
WebCenter now empowers administrators to ensure that users can be deactivated, but not renamed or deleted from the system. This added level of control ensures that user profiles are preserved, maintaining a comprehensive audit trail and historical data for compliance and validation purposes.
Enhanced Project History Permissions
This added level of control ensures that all actions are recorded and saved to the audit history, leaving no room for unintentional omissions or gaps in the historical records. Customers can now have full confidence that their audit trail remains comprehensive and accurate, meeting regulatory and compliance standards.
Send Multiple Reference Files for Text Compare
We’ve made it possible to send multiple reference documents alongside your artwork when comparing documents within InformaIT. This flexibility is invaluable, particularly when dealing with diverse language variations or when your content is distributed across multiple word documents.
Expanded SDK Functionality with Flexible Admin Rights
With the ability to query admin rights, developers can create more customized and intuitive interfaces, ensuring that users have access to the appropriate features and functionalities based on their assigned roles and responsibilities.
Save Tasks Progress
In the new functionality in the new UI framework (Dashboards), users can save their work in a task at any point, without field and rule validation, ensuring that no progress is lost. Validation will still occur upon task completion.
What's New in Content 23.11
Content Management for Packaging
Faster Loading of Content Sheets
Up to 2.5 times faster loading times of large content sheets, making your workflow smoother and more efficient.
Content Management for Life Sciences(formerly Structured Content Management)
Improved Support for Reference Content Libraries
Referenced content can now be centralized into area-specific libraries, making it easier to manage, accelerating system performance, and reducing false positives from your version-controlled documents.
InDesign Template Selection Improvements
Linking content for InDesign placement has never been easier. Templates will now be automatically selected when you are ready to tag your content. Your users will breathe a sigh of relief at the less needless decisions they need to make so they can focus more on what matters.
Improve communication between structural and artwork designers
The Artwork Panel and Bleed tools will automatically recognize copy-free areas of 1-2-3 bottom designs when folded in 3D.
Easy Assemblingin 3D
A new Panel Mate tool makes assembling multi-part designs easier than ever before. Automatically align the edge of one panel against the surface of another panel with a single-click using this new panel mate tool.
The Snap Tab/Slot tool now recognizes folded tabs that tuck into a slot, typical on a display shelf, for example. Quickly assemble a multi-part display with shelves snapping into place with just a few clicks.
Promote Consistent and Reduce Errors with Predefined Folders inArtiosCAD Enterprise
Enforce standard operating procedures by configuring predefined project folders for all document types.This feature helps to maintain global consistency while reducing mistakes from human error.
Creating new case sizes for knocked down flat folded cartonshas been added as a new feature in Cape Pack Cloud. This unique feature designed specifically for Folding Carton Converters helpsoptimizelogistics, save on shipping costs, and better protect the product.
Easy sharing with Share & Approve
Send Cape Pack PDF solution reports directly to Share & Approve to enable collaboration with all stakeholders. Start approval cycles directly in Cape Pack Cloud with feedback on the status.
Together with ArtPro+, we’ve added a workflow for circular metal containers with necks that may need distortion. These containers start as a cylinder that gets printed and then formed. The container model is created by revolving a profile in Studio Toolkit. Parameters are then provided to calculate the grid file used in ArtPro+ for artwork distortion. Final ray-traced renderings can be produced in Studio in Illustrator.
Other Enhancements
Usage tracking was already added to the Studio plug-ins but now, we have added it to Studio Toolkit as well. This helps Esko improve the software but also gives you a dashboard to see statistics on your usage.
The menu structure in Illustrator has been optimized so you can more conveniently navigate to the Studio actions. You can now find all the Studio actions in one place via “Window > Esko Studio”.
Extend Renditions Download Feature on External Portal
External Portals are used to share assets via publishing to a public S3 bucket. When creating the external portal, the user is provided with a link that can be shared with external users. External can download the shared assets using this link.
Users are provided with an option to “Allow Conversion Downloads” while creating the External Portal. This option is displayed on both Create and Republish dialog boxes. MediaBeacon users can a link with external users to download existing renditions of the original assets.
Please note a Publish Rendition license is required to have this feature in the External Portals Dialog.
