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CMDBuild Newsletter n. 59

January 2017

SUMMARY

Work in progress

CMDBuild 2.4.3

Attachment versioning

openMAINT reference

Next webinars

Let's meet at CeBIT (Hannover Germany)

Work in progress

Cluster

Following the news of last fall, we are now planning the work for the next few months.

The first event is scheduled for the middle of February, with the release of CMDBuild version 2.4.3. Although this is a "minor release", it will include several new important and useful features, which are described more in details in the following news.

Meanwhile it continues in parallel the work for CMDBuild 2.5, which will be released before the summer and will include, among other things, the much-awaited feature of the application "clustering" at server side, as described more in details in the previous Newsletter.

We are then beginning the analysis of what will become CMDBuild 3.0, collecting the inheritance of the current application to bring it into the next decade. We are working on a list of requirements, to be then able to make a schedule, but in any case we have set ourselves the goal of having the version 3.0 available by the end of next year.

CMDBuild 2.4.3

The new CMDBuild version 2.4.3 will be released in mid-February and will include the following main news:

introduction of a versioning mechanism also for the document content; this activity has been commissioned by Staffordshire & Shropshire Health Informatics Service of the British Health Service, as described in more detail in the next news;
GIS map printing, with all available controls (polygonal, symbols, scale, thematism legend, etc.);
possibility of a map address research with OpenStreetMap;
integration of new filtering possibilities in the Relation Graph;
improvements in the user interface (ability to specify the attributes to display in the widget createModifyCard, user list paging in the Administration Module);
improvements in system authentication and logout (ability to manage accounts in "case insensitive" mode, ability to specify a redirect URL at the logout);
bug fixing.

Let's meet at CeBIT

Tecnoteca will be present at CeBIT 2017, from 20^th to 24^th March, in Hannover, Germany.

You will find us at stand D36, Hall 3, within the Open Source Park.

In the stand, will always be present in our staff, of both commercial and technical department.

We will have the opportunity to present all CMDBuild and openMAINT news and features, even with personalized demo.

If you wish to plan an appointment, please fill out this form. We will be pleased to explain you our projects and to answer all your questions.

We will be able also to provide you a free complimentary entrance eTicket!

Useful links

CMDBuild

SourceForge Project

Twitter @cmdbuild

Twitter @openmaint_org

CMDBuild and openMAINT are open source software developed and maintained by Tecnoteca and released with AGPL license.

Attachment versioning

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This new feature provides the possibility of versioning of documents, through the CMIS interface already supported by CMDBuild, when a file attached to a data card or to a process is uploaded or updated.

Will then be possible to:

Update a document already uploaded;
Specify whether the new version of the uploading document should be numbered as "minor version" (1.1, 1.2, etc.) or as a "major version" (1.0, 2.0, etc.);
Display in the Attachment TAB of CMDBuild a new icon which will open a pop-up window, where it will appear the list of the already uploaded versions of that document;
Check in the pop-up window, for each version of the document, the creation, last modification and end of dates, the author, the version, the name and the file description.

The implementation of this new feature has been commissioned by the Staffordshire & Shropshire Health Informatics Service, one of the main organization of the English Health Service (NHS UK), which has already been using since years CMDBuild extensively.

In particular, they support 5 different organizations with 40 IT users and manage a large number of items (for the most part automatically updated) including more than 80.000 people, 1.300 locations, 700 telephone lines, 500 network links, 1.700 servers, 8.200 telephones, 12.500 PCs, 8.900 laptops.

openMAINT reference

In this Newsletter, we host the testimony of Juan José Rosas, Head of Technology & Maintenance of the Mexican Company CCL Label Mexico, which operates in the packaging and labeling industry:

"A global specialty packaging pioneer, with more than 20.000 employees, 156 production facilities in 35 different countries, CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions to the Home & Personal Care, Premium Food & Beverage, Healthcare & Specialty, Automotive & Durables and Consumer markets worldwide.

CCL Label is also the world’s largest converter of pressure sensitive and extruded film materials for decorative, functional and information labels. Customers include major global corporations in the consumer packaging, healthcare and consumer durable segments. CCL Label produces a wide range of specialty label products, including expanded content, WashOff™, RFID, specialty electronics (CCL Design / CCL Design Electronics), promotional games and long life pressure sensitive films to protect or replace paint. It also produces highly-decorated extruded plastic tubes for premium brands in the personal care, cosmetic and healthcare markets.

In CCL Label - Mexico, we adopted openMAINT to track our machineries and manage their maintenance activities. OpenMAINT is not only quite sophisticated and complete tool but also open source and it fits our need because it is customizable which is a great feature."

Next webinars

The next 23^rd February 2017, at 16.00 PM CET, we will have a webinar to analyze the main differences between CMDBuild and CMDBuild READY2USE.

In particular, we will explain the main features of the two solutions, with case histories, and we will explain in which contexts it is preferable to use CMDBuild or CMDBuild READY2USE.

The participation is free, the registration is required through this form.

The webinar will be held in English. At the end there will be a question and answer session