1. General Framework & Tools: What's New

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1. International Language Support

Designer 3.0 now has support for the following languages (the same as Designer 2.1.1):

  • Chinese Simplified
  • Chinese Traditional
  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

2. Improved Performance

The performance of several aspects of Designer has been improved. The biggest improvements were in the following areas:

  • Import/Deploy - 5 to 40% faster, depending on what you're doing
  • Save Operations - At least ten times faster in most editors
  • Delete Notification Templates - At least ten times faster
  • Delete Items in Modeler - Five times faster
  • Copy/Paste Items in Modeler - Twice as fast
  • Java Memory Management - Approximately twenty times faster
  • Editor Tab Switching - Several times faster in many cases
We will continue to enhance performance as an ongoing effort.

3. Support for Identity Manager 3.6

Any new Identity Vault, driver set, or server you add into Designer projects will default to the new Identity Manager 3.6 engine version. This enables several new features as you configure those systems.

If you would like any pre-existing objects in your projects to take advantage of the new Identity Manager 3.6 features, you can upgrade the engine versions by editing the properties of your servers. In the Outline view, right-click server icon and select Properties.



Also, you can configure default behaviors for a number of items by selecting Window > Preferences > Novell .

4. Disable/Enable Projects for Performance

To enhance performance, if you have a lot of projects, you can now disable and enable projects. This cuts down on the overhead of the behind-the-scenes processing that Designer does to keep projects up-to-date.

When a project is disabled, you cannot open it and Designer skips all processing on it. To disable a project, right-click on the project in the Project view and select Disable Project, or Enable Project if the project has been disabled and you want the project to be enabled.

 

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