What’s New in LiveCycle ES3?

Since we released LiveCycle ES3 we have received a tremendous response; a common question is what’s new since the last major release of LiveCycle; my goal here is to answer that question. Every major release includes a great deal of valuable sustaining and customer oriented updates too detailed to list but in themselves valuable in terms of keeping your systems up to date; what everybody wants to hear about however are the new features, so here goes.

LiveCycle Workbench & Foundation ES3

• CRX (Content Repository Extreme) is included with LiveCycle and licensed with Foundation.
• Workbench includes Services & Operations for writing to, managing and reading from CRX.
• Capability to import LC ES (v8.0) resources model assets into the LC Application model that was introduced in ES2.
• Improved dependency management and “where used analysis” for managing application assets used in multiple contexts.
• Improved database integration, allows a database backed application model to be used to define native CRUD operations and queries that can be used in an orchestration.
• Improved web service integration, allows a WSDL to be used to define a native operation that can be used in an orchestration.

LiveCycle Designer / Forms / Output ES3

• Create and apply styles to objects in LiveCycle Designer ES3; allows for fine control and consistency of fonts, colors, borders, etc. in a form and across sets of forms.
• Support for Bulleted, numbered and nested lists in text objects.
• Change the flow of sub-forms and tables for right to left languages (Arabic and Hebrew)
• Add bookmarks to generated PDF documents
• Add flash objects to forms and communicate between the form and the SWF to display form data – Requires Reader/Acrobat X.

LiveCycle PDF Generator ES3

• The Windows-based PDF to PDF OCR service is now multi-threaded.
• Supports Acrobat 10 allowing for conversion of Office 2010 files.

LiveCycle Common Services ES3

• Assembler has improved use case support for dynamic XDP assembly; for advanced document and package generation.
• Doc Converter extends PDF/A support to the new PDF/A-2b standard.

LiveCycle Process Management ES3

• Tracking UI has been improved and now also supports tracking into sub-processes.

LiveCycle Digital Signatures ES3

• Support for XML encryption/decryption of all or part of form data – Requires Reader/Acrobat X.
• RSA libraries have been updated for better performance and reliability.
• HSM (hardware security module) support on Windows 64-bit systems.

LiveCycle Rights Management ES3

• Microsoft Office plug-ins for Windows 64 bit systems and Support for Office 2010.
• Customize and private brand the authentication dialogs, including capability to implement multi-step wizards.
• Additional single-sign-on capabilities through SAML security assertion mark-up language and federated identities.
• Support for a wider variety of authentication mechanisms; header-based SSO (like SiteMinder) and verification of third party SAML assertions.
• Portable protection Library – a lightweight library for developers to build management for rights and rights managed documents into their applications.
• Expanded event tracking capabilities.

LiveCycle Reader Extensions ES3

• No new features; works with Reader X and earlier versions.

LiveCycle ECM Connectors ES3

• IBM FileNet connector now supports FileNet version 5.
• Microsoft SharePoint connector, support for SharePoint farm deployments.

LiveCycle Data Services ES3

• Compatible with Flash Builder 4.6 and latest Flex SDK
• Adds an SAP Connector and Managed remoting.
• Expanded client support for mobile applications; HTML5/JavaScript, native iOS and Java/Google Android
• Enhancements to model driven development and the offline synchronization framework.

LiveCycle Production Print ES3

• Updated to support the new features in LiveCycle Designer ES3 including styles and bulleted lists.
• Enhanced support for LiveCycle repository based templates; complete fragment resolution.
• Workbench Service updated to fully resolved fragments in repository based templates at runtime.
• Enhanced error logging.

LiveCycle Correspondence Management ES3

• The Correspondence Management UIs have been substantially updated to make them more intuitive and efficient to use through features such as spell checking and keyboard entry for quicker navigation.
• Support for richer Correspondence templates and editing; bulleted, numbered and nested lists as well as tables.
• Built around the CRX repository, improving performance and enhanced auditing of assets.
• Enhanced support for complex conditionals and inline conditions in text modules for smarter templates.
• More control of template assets; publish or retire templates on a given date, retrieve templates that were active on a given date, easier deployment.

I hope this has been helpfull, for more information on LiveCycle ES3 visit the product web pages or for detailed capabilities, the overview document.