What's New

R2022x FD01 (FP.2205)

Finding Content with 3DSearch

You can now find documents, topics, images, and published documents using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform 3DSearch from the top bar.

When you use 3DSearch, results now include Structured Document Editor results for data to which you have access. Search results do not include data that you cannot access through Structured Document Editor.

For any Structured Document Editor search result, you can open the item in Structured Document Editor. For published documents, you can download a PDF from the search results.

You can filter 3DSearch results using 6WTags, for example to identify results according to their maturity or type (documents, topics, images, and published documents).

Benefits: Access to Structured Document Editor data through 3DEXPERIENCE platform 3DSearch improves your ability to find your documents, topics, images, and published documents.

For more information, see Structured Document Management Access to Content Using 3DSearch

Support for Data Topics

You can now manage data and images stored in external systems using data topics.

Data topics can contain external data, such as data tables represented as formatted tables (a dataframe) or images represented as figures (an imageframe). You can add data topics using the Structured Document Editor storage service REST interface with an external data management application such as BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot. You must verify the contents of data topics to validate the representation of the external data in Structured Document Editor. You can always trace the origin of the content of data topics, identify its modifications, review the users involved, and track its lifecycle.

Benefits: Data topics support storage, management, and validation of external data, reducing the need for manual re-entry of data already available in other systems.

For more information, see Working with Data Topics

Managing Maturity, Lifecycles, and Revisions

All objects (that is, document maps, topics, images, data frames, image frames, and published documents) now have an associated maturity state at all times. A defined lifecycle manages transfers between states.

The lifecycle manages the maturity states and the rules that control the available states for any object at a given time. Once an object is ready, you can move it to the Released state along with any other objects that it depends on, in a single transaction. You cannot edit objects in the Released state. When an object is in the Released or Obsolete state, you can create a new revision in the In Work state. When you release the new revision, the previous revision automatically moves to the Obsolete state in the process. If you attempt to release an object but its dependencies require verification, you must first sign off the dependent objects.

Benefits: Control over maturity is essential to managing regulated documents such as for chemistry manufacturing and controls (CMC) and good manufacturing practice (GMP) purposes.

For more information, see Managing Content Lifecycles Working with Revisions Content Lifecycles

R2022x GA

User Experience for Document Editing

When you edit structured documents, the user experience is now aligned with standard document editing tools.

You can now edit all the documents in your map in a single editor with a single change history, scrolling through the entire map content. The editing toolbars now use familiar terms and icons to indicate their actions.

Benefits: Your user experience editing document maps and documents is now more familiar and intuitive.

For more information, see User Interface Document Maps Document Topics

Document Publishing

When you request publication of documents as PDF files, Structured Document Editor can now process a queue of up to 10 documents for each user.

If the publication request limit is reached, a message warns you that the next publication request cannot be processed. You can now view a list of publication requests and cancel requests that you own. Leaders and Repository Managers can cancel any publication requests in their repositories. When publication of a document completes successfully or fails, an alert is delivered in a 3DNotification.

Benefits: You can now view the status of all your document publication requests, cancel pending requests, and access all your generated PDF files from a single view.

For more information, see Publishing Document Maps

Document Map and Document Unlocking

When you start editing a document map or document, it is locked for all other users and displays with a  icon in the content lists.

Leaders and Repository Managers can now unlock document maps and documents being edited, to allow another user access.

Benefits: You can now identify document maps and documents that other users are working on. Leaders and Repository Managers can now release locked document maps and documents left open by inactive users.

For more information, see Unlocking Maps and Topics