Content Enablement 9.3

New Features & Improvements

Suite

• Sync Queueing: The backend now has a mechanism to cooperatively prioritize and schedule synchronization requests from clients to reduce load and blocking when many clients try to synchronize data from the backend (e.g., after an update).
• Industry-standard authentication management: As part of our Secure Software Development Lifecycle, the user login component Identity Server 6 has been updated to the latest version so that empower® continues to meet the highest possible IT security standards. In the same course, the login workflow has been updated to the latest version.

Suite (Windows)

• Terminal Server Support: We introduce a special mode for running empower® in terminal server environments (e.g., Citrix, etc.). In this mode, communication, caching and (local) data storage strategies are optimized for terminal server environments and roaming profiles.

Suite (Web)

• Permission management: Permission management in the Web Library has been revised and now also supports the management of inherited permissions.
• Search service: The performance of the search service and the stability of the search indexer have been significantly improved.

PowerPoint (macOS)

• SharePoint Integration: Presentation/slide libraries in SharePoint can now be integrated directly into the empower® library to search within PowerPoint presentations, preview results, open presentations directly, or insert individual slides from those presentations without leaving PowerPoint/empower®.
• Support for Conditional Access: Support for user login to empower® via Azure Active Directory with the conditional access feature enabled. This ensures that only client devices that are authenticated by Azure Active Directory can connect to empower®.
• Bynder Integration: The Bynder integration plug-in is now included in the general installer package.

Word (Windows)

• Tags for Library Elements: empower® Docs elements in the library can be tagged (like elements in empower® Slides), making it even easier to find thematically relevant content.

Solved Issues

Suite

• We fixed an issue that caused the Web Library to stop working correctly when opening a presentation from the recycle bin.
• We fixed an issue that caused the authentication validity period to be too short.
• We fixed an issue that caused the creation and deletion of folders to take a disproportionately long time when the folder structure in the library was very large.
• We fixed an issue where an incomplete update installation that could not be rolled back could not switch to configuration mode the next time the installer was launched.
• We fixed an issue that caused a large number of error messages to be erroneously output in search service log files in certain constellations.
• We closed a potential security vulnerability that could allow content to be uploaded to folders without permission.
• We closed a potential security vulnerability in the way paths are stored in the Windows Registry.
• SharePoint Integration: We fixed an issue where folders with a very large number of subfolders were not retrieving or displaying the names of those folders correctly.
• SharePoint Integration: We fixed an issue where TextContents were not retrieved successfully for a very large number of folders.

PowerPoint (Windows)

• We fixed an issue where presentations that contained layouts without names could not be uploaded to the Library.
• We fixed an issue where the “Go To” function did not scroll the selected item in the library to the visible display area.
• We fixed an issue that caused the selection of items to be discarded when scrolling in the Library window.
• We fixed an issue where slides with SlideZoom saved to the library with empower 9.0 or an older version could not be retrieved.

PowerPoint (macOS)

• We fixed an issue that prevented the user interface from being displayed in French on some systems.
• We fixed an issue that caused the search in the sidebar (Quick Access Pane) not to work.
• We fixed an issue that caused an error when copying files during installation in certain environments.

Word (Windows)

• We fixed an issue where when using the “Update Fields” feature in certain constellations of sections and fields in headers/footers, not all of those fields were updated.
• We fixed an issue that caused some label printing templates to wrap to a second page.
• We fixed an issue where on very slow systems or when there are large delays in starting an Office application, communication between empower® and empower® Sync cannot be established if it is not yet running.
• We fixed an issue that caused the display to refresh very often when opening or filling out a document.
• We fixed an issue where, when the user library was disabled, the “Save to Library” function was not displayed for users who have at most editor permissions on the company library.
• We fixed a problem that caused additional breaks or paragraphs to be inserted in some constellations when inserting content modules.
• We fixed an issue that caused a technical folder to appear in the library after updating from a very old version (< 8.4).
• We fixed an issue that caused day and month to be swapped in date fields in mixed language Windows and Office installations under certain circumstances when the date was between the 1st and 12th day of the month.
• We fixed an issue that caused an error message to be displayed when filling templates that were built according to a certain structure, even though no problem occurred.
• We fixed an issue that caused Word to repeatedly stop responding to input when using a specific volume license version of Word with the Revision Summary sidebar for change tracking.
• We have optimized the retrieval of profile data so that there is now considerably less load, especially in environments with a large number of profiles.

Outlook (Windows)

• We fixed an issue where on very slow systems or when there are large delays in starting an Office application, communication between empower® and empower® Sync cannot be established if it is not yet running.
• We fixed an issue that caused a technical folder to appear in the library after updating from a very old version (< 8.4).
• We have optimized the retrieval of profile data so that there is now considerably less load, especially in environments with a large number of profiles.

Excel (Windows)

• We fixed an issue where on very slow systems or when there are large delays in starting an Office application, communication between empower® and empower® Sync cannot be established if it is not yet running.
• We fixed an issue that caused Excel to stop working properly when the display unit label element was selected for charts.
• We fixed an issue where, when the user library was disabled, the “Save to Library” function was not displayed for users who have at most editor permissions on the company library.