Overview and what's new in Constellio 12.1
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Overview and what's new in Constellio 12.1
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| Major version | 12 |
| Minor version | 12.1 |
Version 12.1: a modernized architecture for more performance and reliability
In addition to the functional enhancements and fixes, version 12.1 of Constellio introduces a major architectural evolution to improve the platform's performance, stability, and scalability.
Microservices: Lean and independent components
Features like conversion and OCR are now deployed as microservices. This approach lightens the back-end application, reduces the risk of crashes, and facilitates system-wide updates.
New tech stack: SolrCloud, Zookeeper, and Redis
Constellio V12 utilizes SolrCloud, combined with Zookeeper, for enhanced index management and a more stable platform. The cache is no longer local, but centralized with Redis, improving speed and consistency across components.
Containerization and orchestration
The platform is designed to work with Docker and Kubernetes, simplifying service management, improving portability, and allowing for better adaptation to different infrastructures (on-premises or cloud).
A more robust base, to be provided in your resources
These developments allow Constellio to be more reliable, modular, and scalable. On the other hand, version 12 requires more resources than the previous version, especially to support new components and services
New features
| Features | Description |
| Modularization | Easy and flexible management of enabling or disabling Office 365 configurations. |
| Image editing and redaction | New action to modify, enhance, adjust, or adapt images according to a specific need. |
| Time entry in tasks and workflows | New component for entering time on tasks. Permissions limit the editing and deletion of time entries to only the relevant users. |
| Prevent the creation of local users | Disabling local account creation causes the Add User button to be hidden on the user management page. |
| Generate a recurring report | Allows you to create reports on recent additions automatically. These reports can be emailed or generated in a Constellio folder. |
| Detailed description in the file audit | Changes to a record will be audited and detailed by comparing old and new values. |
| Password reset and MFA | In the user's profile, it is possible to enable two-factor authentication using either a code or a QR scan. This feature is only available for local accounts. |
| Acces to medatata from the "Complete Task" window | Viewing and modifying metadata associated with a folder, document, and container linked directly upon completion of the Task. |
| Favicon | Uploading the favicon to Constellio allows it to be displayed in the browser tab, next to the page title. |
| Viewing options for selecting new candidates | To ensure smooth task management, it is possible to select new candidates or users when the task to be assigned is not yet assigned and no candidate has been designated. |
| Automated NPS integration in Constellio | NPS survey window configured with the Zoho tool, designed to continuously gauge user satisfaction. |
| Disposition of SharePoint | Allows you to display the desired O365 content on the home by source (SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Exchange) and downgrade SharePoint content via the Records management module using the "Origin" metadata. An option to delete items from their original location is available. |
| Disable inactive accounts | Set the maximum inactivity time of a user account (number of days since last login) to ensure system security and disable inactive accounts |
| Critical audits | Ensure the traceability of each system modification, with the objective of compliance and security. |
Improvements
| Features | Description |
| Research | Allows search at the comment level. |
| LDAP | Synchronization of new user additions. |
Bug fixes
| Features | Description |
| Files | Fixed a bug Folder Edit leads to the creation of a shortcut. |
| Documents | Fixed a bug that prevented you from removing shares from the "Shares" tab. |
| Research | The sorting bug did not keep the search in order when viewing a folder and returning to the search. |
| Documents | Fixed a bug that prevented dragging and dropping a file after adding a document. |
| Tasks and workflows | Fixed a workflow sharing bug that caused the module to drop. |
| Documents | Fixed duplicate document detection in Constellio. |
| Containers | Fixed a bug that prevented slips from being printed. |
| Collections | It is possible to remove the name from the collection completely, which breaks access to Constellio. |
| Containers | Fixed errors in container slips. |
| Emails | Special characters in the email prepared by Constellio. |
| Emails | Fixed a bug that prevented the "Linked Workflow Execution" metadata from being displayed in notification emails. |
| Documents | Fixed the display of sorting file versions in the version history. |
| Tasks and workflows | Fixed an issue where workflow tasks were being sent twice. |
| Batch processing | Fixed an issue in the scroll bar when batching. |
| Documents | Sorting of document version history. |
| Manage security | Removing a person from a group who still sees folders. |
| Personal space | "Extract attachments" and "Organize email attachments in a folder" will only extract email attachments without the embedded images. |
| Research | Prevents entering a negative research boost. |
| Emails | Fixed a bug that prevented alert notification emails from being received. |
| Research | Fixes the use of the question mark in the simple search that could not return the correct result in some cases. |
| Record management | Fixes a bug that occurred during downgrading when the "Separately Unclassable Subfolders" configuration was unchecked, which caused documents in subfolders to not be downgraded. |
| Documents | Uploading a Word document to the office was not done. |
| Audit | All export types are now logged in the audit section. |
| Postponements | We've introduced a new metadata called "Delay Label" that will allow the details of a delay to be displayed in an intelligible way in reports. |
| Interface | Fixed a bug that caused slowdowns. |
| Postponements | When requesting the classification plan PDF report, rules that have not been approved are no longer visible. |
| Document | Fixed a bug that prevented video/audio documents (mp4/mp3) from being viewed. |
| Postponements | Fixed a bug that affected the generation of the user report, which did not work correctly. |
| Manage borrowing | Fixed a bug that caused slowness in the loan management page. |
| Record management | File conversion to PDF-A when downgrading. |
| Postponements | PDF reports are not generated. |
| Office 365 | Viewing the origin metadata for Exchange emails. |
| Briefs | Errors on transfer slips. |
| Postponements | The classification plan was not working well to display and print. |
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