We're very excited to announce the official release of Proarc 7.5, available for all Proarc EDMS customers. Highlights of the latest release include an integrated collaboration solution, massive gains in efficiency for intensive document processes, and search performance enhancements.
Controlled Collaboration with Proarc Collaboration Room
With this latest release, Proarc Collaboration Room is available to Proarc Online customers as an optional add-on.
Proarc Collaboration Room provides a secure, separate online environment, integrated with Proarc Online, where you can invite supplier users to work on specific documents and workflows. This avoids uncontrolled copies of documents circulating via email, and controls external reviews on official document revisions.
Figure 1: Proarc Collaboration Room integration
Using configurable mappings, the solution seamlessly synchronizes documents and comments and triggers workflows between systems.
Power User Boost with Document Lists
Working with lists of documents is among the most intensive daily operations for Proarc power users. Lists are essential for everyday planning, development, and distribution. Proarc 7.5 offers a Document Lists feature that can save an hour or more each day for critical activities such as client delivery, supplier requirements, and work packaging.
Building upon time saving Proarc features such as Favourite Documents, Recent Documents, and Checked Out Files, Proarc Document Lists now allow you to create and retain multiple lists of documents so that you can build up your own document lists, with selected documents from different sources, by dragging and dropping documents from other lists into the new document list.
Mass Export
Download Metadata and Files for Sets of Documents to Use Outside of Proarc
The new Mass Export feature provides one-click generation of a set of documents, including all related files and metadata, that can be shared outside of Proarc EDMS.
Figure 2: Set of documents collected for Mass Export in Proarc
Supporting large document sets, such as those used in offshore installations, Mass Export has configurable templates for defining export locations and layouts in comma-separated value (CSV) files. Metadata can be updated on the exported documents to 'tag' which documents have been exported for a specific purpose. An optional document lock and unlock option prevents changes in Proarc Online where documents are used in an external project. The configurable layouts can be used to import the documents and metadata when users are ready to return them to Proarc.
Configurable Dynamic Stamps in ProView
ProView Markup, the add-on for annotating files, provides flexible custom stamps for engineers to satisfy each of your client’s unique requirements.
Your administrators can create a library of stamps with imported SVG images and dynamic variables to insert Proarc metadata and user-entered values.
User-defined stamps can contain system variables like Document Number, Revision, User Name, etc., and free text variables that are added by the user when the stamp is added to the PDF.
Figure 3: Configure custom dynamic stamps in ProView
Auto-forecasting in Planning
Proarc Planning, the add-on for planning, calculating, and reporting progress on documents, now saves you time by auto-calculating forecast dates for subsequent milestones when you manually update a forecast date. With the new auto-forecasting feature, forecast dates in subsequent milestones will automatically update when changing a forecast date on a document. The forecast dates will be calculated based on the difference between the original forecast date and the new date. Several documents can be updated in one operation by using copy/paste.
Global Quick Search...quicker
Proarc 7.5 extends achievements in the last feature pack for faster searching. Flattening of permissions and improved information storage in the database are now applied to the Global Quick Search feature.
Proarc Customer Webinar
This article provides a brief summary of what’s included in Proarc 7.5. Proarc customers are invited to watch our recent Proarc 7.5 Sneak Peek Webinar for more details and in-depth software demos to help you get started with the latest version of Proarc EDMS. Watch it today!
In addition to the items above, Proarc 7.5 offers several other enhancements and new features for both Proarc On-premise and Online users. For more information about this release, please reach out to your support team member.
