Page Comparison

Portal

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• The Portal is fully redesigned with modern UI and enhanced functionality, facilitating better and comfortable user experience.

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• New filters are been introduced for the “Submit Files“ page and the “Files Requested Form you“ page, allowing users to filter the records easily based on the status of each file.

• User Guides for Portal can be obtained from here: https://support.conarc.com/hc/en-us/sections/360005877714-iChannel-Portal-Guides

Workflow

• Workflow Rollover Tool allows to search for workflows from the previous year and to define how new workflows will be created from them, using a combination of data from the previous year workflow and the workflow templates. This feature totally removes the burden of re-creating same workflow over every-year and allows to rollover all/any previous workflows within seconds.

  • Comes with a comprehensive user-guide, which provides all the knowledge to dive through the functionality of Workflow Rollover.

iFetch

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• Introducing iFetch , new light version of iCD that facilitate iChannel Direct mode viewing and editing in Chrome.

iCD

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• iChannelDesk application for Terminal Services and Single users is renamed as follows, in order to eliminate the confusion, which can be caused when installing the application in different environments.

  • iChannel Desk for Terminal Services → iChannel Desk Multiuser

    

  • iChannel Desk Cickonce -> iChannel Desk Singleuser

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iCD/iFetch

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• New options are available in opening files in direct mode in a file area, where user is prompted to select to open the file via either iFetch or iCD. The respective selection is persisted in advanced settings, which will be automatically picked, when direct mode is used next time.

  • The selection can be changed whenever required, through Subscriber details page by changing the respective advanced setting.

  • The feature is compatible with Windows 10 64bit and Windows 7 64bit Operating Systems

Portal/Internal Sites

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• All the Passwords are secured with Passwords Hashing on Portal and Internal sites, enforcing an additional layer of security.

Routing/DPP Server

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• New features are incorporated into the Scanned sheets routing process through DPP service. Now the iChannel is capable of correctly auto-routing the files with scanned sheet ID as file name even though the actual scanned sheet page is not attached into the file.

File Area

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• All incoming documents are validated and corrcted at all points of ingress, in order to identify invalid characters and strip them away from the file name before stored in Ichannel.

File Area

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• New customizable Email Templates are incorporated for the following File Actions;

  • Add

  • Move

  • Copy

  • Rename Title

  • Accept

• New option is avaialble to export File Search Results on the Files search tab into CSV (Excel). This features allows users to use file search results more fruitfully.

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• Shows a warning message when sending Files as Zip attachments, informing users to communicate the respective password with clients via a secured channel.

  

• The Document Options page on file area is updated with below options;

  

• The functionality of accepting Files, which are received via request link sent in an Email is enhanced to apply and display respective tags, which are assigned once at the point of accepting the files.

• Introduced a new feature in File Area to search files by added file tags. File tags are displayed as a search parameter in the Files search section. All the added tags are diaplayed in a dropdown list, which can be multi-selected for the users to search files. The files that are tagged with the selected tag(s) are filtered and displayed as the search results.

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DocuSign

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New DocuSign History Report is added to the ‘My Recent Files’ Dashboard widget via a report icon. The report shows the history of documents sent through the DocuSign integration.

Note: The report is visible only if the new 'DocuSignEnabled’ appsettings key is enabled.

Dashbaord

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• My Tasks widget on the dashboard is updated with Modified Date as an automatic secondary sort.

• My Workflows widget on the dashboard is updated with Due Date as an automatic secondary sort.

• Mltiple users are allowed to be selected to filter records in My Tasks widget and My Workflows widget.

iCD

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• A button “Reload Configuration” has been added to iCD Support tab, in order to reread and update the configuration settings from the webserver.

General

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• Now the users can check-in multiple files in a single zip file. And the system would not accept any invalid zip files with incorrect documents.

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• DTSearch Indexer is optimized and enhanced for .net version in order to index larger amount of files faster and efficiently.

• Now emails can be drag and drop from Outlook to iChannel easily in Chrome and Edge. When emails are dragged and dropped into Channel upload boxes, the function would move a copy of the respective email to iChannel from the mailbox.

• A default Spell-checker is enabled for ckeditor in all relevant iChannle screens allowing users to conviniently type their texts throughout the system.

UI Enhancements

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• Top menu icons are re-designed to match with the new iChannel theme.

• Menu icons and respective tooltip texts for Help & Release Notes are updated

  

• Advanced Query option is moved as a top menu bar icon in Contacts Page and removed from the dropdown menu. The same option is available in Reports sections as well for the eaze of use.

  

• UI and functionality of Contacts Merge Screen is enhanced facilitating more user-friendly and convinient user experience.

  

• All the iChannel screens are updated with the new theme, maintaining consistency through-out the system.

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• New Autocleanup functionality and SQLCleanup functionality are optimized to process smoothly.

• ID field in Linked Sites page, is re-named as “Site ID”

  

• The Modules section in the Systems tab is updated with the new Routing module and not used components are removed for admin users to easily control the access permissions for respective uesr groups.

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• When the Internet Explorer browser is not supported for iChannel Internal & Portal, the system detects the not supported browsers when users are trying to login and displays the relevant message, which informs users to move into a supporting browser to convinitly use the system.

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• File search indexer functionality is optimized, now searching files by file content is enhanced.

File Area

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• "Copy Full File path" option in File area is enahnced, that supports more file types now.

• “Type” column of Activities page, is clickable now, same as the “Subject” column. That shows theActivity information of the respective activity, when clicked on the Type/Subject column.

• History Records Details section of File History section in File area is enhaced to display all the necessary details

  

• Users are alllowed to craete “Portal Requests” from File Area without selecting a file.

• Auto Publish feature for DPP windows service is enhanced, which automatically publishes routed files into the Portal, when the respective categories are selected for Auto-publish. This feature applies for below routing methods:

  • Manual routing files

  • MFR auto-routing

  • Scanned sheets auto-routing

  • File upload

Workflow Module

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• Create Workflow functionality incorporates, Informative notification messages alone with the list of successful and failed workflows, and the respective statuses.

• Workflow modure Reports are redesigned to improve performance and efficiency.

Admin

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• The “Security Groups” section in the Site Settings page is renamed as “Portal Security Groups”, as this section shows the portal/external security groups of the particular group.

iCD

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• Security features if iCD are enhanced, where customers with view access are allowed to open fiels in direct mode (read-only), but editing files directly is restricted.

Routing

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• Auto routing functionlity is upgraded to fully support scanned documents and MFR applied formatted files, now all these files properly get auto routed through DPP Service.

Portal

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• Forgot Password functionality of Portal is enhanced with additional security, that the auto-generated password complies with the iChannel password policy (Contains special characeters accordingly).

General

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• Fixed the issues with My Tasks Report, which is now working properly with all expected details.

• Internal Subscriber advance settings modifications are getting saved properly when updated.

• Inactive users are allowed to be activated when there are valid licenses in iChannel system.

• Fixed the issue in displaying field names in the “Activity tab”, All the field names are properly displayed.

  

• Naming standards are imposed through-out the iChannel system.

• Previously, when creating an email internal users are displayed in Client linked entities section, thoguh they are not linked. This issues is fixed, now only the linked contacts are shown.

File Area

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• Fixed the issue of not generating Barcode when creating scanned sheets. Now Barcodes are available on the generated scanned sheets.

  

• When sending a Secured Link Email, File History is properly updated with secured link email details and as users download file from the link, download count gets updated in the respective history records.

• Both internal iChannel system and Portal supports uploading files larger than 15MB file size.

• Fixed the issues in PDF Compress and Cacompressor functionalities, which now properly check-out files, when the files are checked-in to these processes.

• Earlier emails related history records were not properly displayed on File History, now this is fixed and all the respective history records are updated.

• Access to locked files / files in restricted entities are blocked from File Search tab.

• Resolved the issues in misaligned File Area columns after updates, now all the updated columns are properly aligned in the widget.

  • Columns are flexible

  • The size of the columns are changeable via the Columns option

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• Users are allowed to delete caseware files in the system even the respective folder is moved from the backend.

• When a user drag and drop a file onto another file in the in the firm file area. The new file(s) are automatically added to the Parent category as defined on the source file. The Secondary category and file status as the already existing file.

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• Resolved an issue in the file Check-In / Check-Out Out functionalities which was not properly creating file versions. Now, the function maintains respective versions of the Check-In / Check-Out files through the system as expected.

• Fixed the issue of long File names getting automatically truncated in the system. Now the users are notified with the maximum file length and not allowed to route the file unless the exceeded file length is reduced.

• Resolved issues caused for errors when sending emails with email addreses in CC and BCC fields, now the users can successfully send emails with email addrsses in any category; TO, CC, BCC.

Workflow

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• Functionality for view workflows is fixed, which displays all workflow detals in a new pop-up screen.

  

• Resolved an issue when setting workflows into ‘Private’ mode when updating other fields. Now the workflow mode remains unchanged, unless it is specifically updated by users.

• Resolved an issues when adding contacts of entities to a projects/workflow. Now all the entities and contacts, which are not bound with a site also searchable and properly displayed for adding as primary/secondary contacts to projects.

• When a project/workflow is completed by checking the ‘Completed’ checkbox, the current date (today’s date) is considered as the completion date and displayed next to the completed status.

  

  • When the ‘Completed’ checkbox is unchecked, the completion date is hidden.

    

Portal

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• Previously, there was an issue when uploading requested files in Portal in responding to a Request List. Now, this is fixed.

• Users would encounter an error message revolving around the File name lengths. This issue is now checked and verified when uploading files on the Portal.

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• When files are uploading to the Portal, if the file name is too long, the system would automatically trim the file name to the maximum allowed character length, that system supports and uploads the file successfully.

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• The client number is always displayed next to the client/entity name in Portal, making it easier to uniquely identify clients, specially when the clients are attached with multiple entities.

• Once the portal password is reset via "Forgot Password" option, users are now required to change their password. Ensuring the security in accessing the Portal.

Admin

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• Proper validations are imposed with respective warning messages when perfomring create/activate/de-activate Subscribers and Contacts.

  • Activating/creating a Subscriber: User ID and email address are validated for uniquess and the action is restricted when violating the uniqueness.

  • Deactivating a Subscriber: Uniqueness of User ID or email address is not considered

  • Activating/creating a Contact: Email addresses are validated for uniquess and the action is restricted when violating the uniqueness.

  • Deactivating a Contact: Uniqueness of email address is not considered

Retention Module

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• Resolved the functionality for “To Be Deleted Documents” search results in Retention module. Any documents marked for deletion in the System are displayed when search through the retention module with the flag to be deleted.

  

iCD

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• Fixed the issues in sending email notifications, when publishing files. Now all the internal assigned users in the security group receive email notifications accordingly when files are published.

Routing

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• Page format of the Routing sheet is enhanced, that allows users to conveniently add all the related details and create the routing sheets.

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• Fixed the issues in displaying document previes in Routing preview function in Routing page, now the document previews are displayed properly.

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