What's new

The new Control Center is a central web application that monitors the entire KCM installation, providing a unified overview of all registered servers and their components. Starting with this version, it allows users to add multiple servers for monitoring, view the configuration details of registered server or its components, and view the log files from any registered server or its components. Control Center supports OAuth2 authentication and authorization via Microsoft Entra.

This version makes default building blocks available for streamlining the process of creating templates to reduce lead time and effort required for template development. We have introduced the Create communication action, which creates the minimal set of building blocks required to create documents automatically. The set of building blocks created includes the Standard Master Template, one Text Block, a Content Wizard, and a Document Template, all of which are automatically named based on the communication.

This version includes a Standard Master Template that contains script instructions for generating documents based on the specified Content Wizard and using the specified styling. The Standard Master Template is a view-only object that contains a fixed interface of four parameters: Brand, Document Type, NonInteractive, and Data Backbone changes.

In this release, we have introduced a significant improvement to the Text Block Editor by adding support for configurable paragraph styles. This feature enables users to define and manage their own custom paragraph styles that can be used to create a consistent look and feel across the platform. Each paragraph style consists of an identifier, label, and description, providing flexibility and control over how content is presented.

This version adds the PDF format to the supported output formats for the slots of a Document Pack template. Users can now create documents such as cover letters and output as PDFs in addition to Word and HTML. All Word-specific content, such as rich text blocks, is included in the PDF output. The new standard PDF output channel generates PDF and XML.

With the new structure installation approach, a server administrator can prepare a server to determine which KCM components can be installed on the server. The server administrator also provides information about the required resources. This includes, among other things, the internal host name, the user accounts for the services and the port for the Contract Manager. Also, the Java version and the used Tomcat version can be defined. Finally, the server administrator can provide the public certificate for the encryption of external data traffic to the KCM server and the internal certificate for the encryption of internal data traffic to/from the KCM server at this point. Afterwards the components Contract Manager, one or more KCM Instances, the Batch and Output Management, and KCM Control Center can be installed by users with the right of installation.

A new parameter Internal!HostName is introduced to replace the previously hard-coded computer name when setting up secure internal connections. The internal host name of a KCM server can now be configured explicitly.

The installation and upgrade tools verify that the provided user accounts have the Logon as Service right. By adding a section in the KCMTools.ini file with the list of trusted user accounts, KCM can ensure a successful preflight check for users with the Logon as Service right via a group. This customizable feature allows to tailor the configuration to the specific needs and ensures that the system is optimized for maximum security. For more information, refer to the following section of KCM Installation Guide: Adding trusted ServiceAccounts to KCMTools.ini.

When the Text Block editor is opened in ComposerUI, it is now possible to save the Text Block without immediately closing the editor. The Save button no longer automatically closes the Text Block editor after saving. A new button "Save and Close" has been added that still allows combining saving the text block and closing the editor.

Trees have been updated to cater for recursive expand/collapse of subtrees. This applies to all trees in the Content Wizard editor and Form editor, Document Template editor and the Project configuration window. With the new fully collapse and fully expand icons in the toolbar, it is possible to collapse or expand an entire item in Content Wizard and Form Editor. The toolbar buttons offer both non-recursive and recursive expand/collapse. As most other toolbar buttons, they apply to the currently selected node. For all trees the recursive expand/collapse can be invoked by holding the Shift-key while expanding/collapsing a node in the tree.

The Document Pack Template editor is now opened in a maximized window, and the left pane can be resized. The combo boxes in the field set editor now take up all the available space. In addition, the columns in the table can be resized and the table takes up as much height as necessary.

As of this version, it is now always possible to change the name of the data backbone.

The search function in KCM Studio has been improved and now allows searching in CCM_XML_Configuration objects, version labels and scripts of objects.

The ComposerUI API has been extended with new callback events that allow customer applications to receive notifications on data or content interactively updated by users. With this new field change event oncwfieldchanged, you can update texts linked to individual records in your applications with KCM and insert them into their documents without saving the records in KCM. This facilitates the integration of important information from your application into customer-specific documents and optimizes the document creation process.

XML File data input is now also supported for templates other than the data preparation template in the document pack template. Each template has access to the same XML file data.

A version 2 of the CCMCompatibility group of web services is introduced that include preview and DID support as well as setting the environment for DID.

For more information about the new contract type and related API calls, refer to the KCM API Guide.

CCMDistributionV2 and DocumentPackSignV1 now use SignDoc RESTful API v8 instead of v6.

This release supports Oracle Database 21c .