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Roberto Rosario
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Once again the focus for this release in the 0.12 series is including
bug fixes and minor feature. `issue #31`_ has been implemented adding bulk
document tagging and untagging.
bug fixes and minor feature.
What's new in Mayan EDMS v0.12.3
================================
Django 1.3.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~
This release updates the required version of Django to 1.3.3 to take advantage
of the security fixes done to that version of the framework.
Bulk document tagging and untagging
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As requested by issue #`issue #31`_ this feature has been implemented has enabled in this version.
Attaching or removing tag from a large number of documents is now much easier.
Registration
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Based on requests made by the community for greater commercial support and services for
**Mayan EDMS**, a new feature has been added that allows users to register their
copies of **Mayan EDMS** and better help users with commercial support packages.
Registration for non commercial users is voluntary and optional, and in no way
affects the functionality of **Mayan EDMS**. Even for non commercial users
registration offers the advantage of automatically branding the user's copy
of **Mayan EDMS** with their name or the company name in the title area.
Per document type indexing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
**Mayan EDMS** creates a administrator user during the
database creation phase to reduce the amount of steps required for a
functional install. The creation of this account is controlled by the configuration
option :setting:`COMMON_AUTO_CREATE_ADMIN`, the username of the account is
specified with the configuration option :setting:`COMMON_AUTO_ADMIN_USERNAME`
and the password of this account by the option :setting:`COMMON_AUTO_ADMIN_PASSWORD`.
Previously the :setting:`COMMON_AUTO_ADMIN_PASSWORD` defaulted to 'admin' which
created an administrator account of username 'admin' with a password of
'admin'. The new default is to randomize an initial password and show this password
at the login screen until the administrator password is changed.
Index can now be restricted to update only on specific document types, this
greatly increases the usefulness of indexes, and prevents unwanted index
updates.
.. image:: mayan_first_login.png
:alt: First login dialog
Document check outs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As per the feature request filed under `issue #26`_, a new document
check out and check in functionality has been added. Users can now
check out a document and lock new version of it from being uploaded to avoid
editing conflicts. Document check outs have an expiration period after which
**Mayan EDMS** will automatically check them back in to avoid a permanent
document lockout. Only the user who has checked out a document can upload
new versions of it or check the document back in before the expiration period,
unless being granted the ``Allow overriding check out restrictions`` or
``Forcefully check in documents`` permission respectively.
Installation environment app improvements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Diagnosting remote installations of web based applications without access to the
command line can be a bit hard, to alleviate this situation a new installation
environment details app has been added. The purpose of this app is to provide
support staff information about the physical environment where **Mayan EDMS** has
been installed. To avoid possible security compromises only administrators
can access this app.
Bootstrap
~~~~~~~~~
Setting up **Mayan EDMS** after installation has been indetified by users as the
main difficulty when knowledge about **Mayan EDMS** is relatively low. To
address this situation a new feature that provides preconfigured setups has been
added. Aside from including preconfigured setups, the new bootstrap apps
has the ability of dumping an users current setup into a serialized text file
which can be tweaked by hand and sent via email to other users. The possibilities
enabled by this range from company wide defaults setups to consultants providing
their clients with customized setups without having to access their clients'
**Mayan EDMS** instances. JSON, YAML and a custom YAML format
(http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2461/) are supported by this new app.
Translation updates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The translation for all the current languages were synchronized to the
latest transifex project sources.
General fixes
Model updates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unique fields in the DocumentType model, MetadataSet label
Several small fixes to the behavior of some model were added, namely that
the names of some models should be unique. The document type name as well
as the metadata set name were two models that were updated to behave this way.
Navigation updates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There were some additions and changes to the navigation to make it more intuitive
or to add an alternate way to access the same information better. The bulk
attachment of tags was one of these. Previously users were added or removed from groups,
now users can be assigned to groups without leaving the user view. The name of an
existing metadata set can now be edited and what was previously called metadata set edit
is now more aptly named metadata members which adds or removes metadata types into a
single organizational unit. An error that caused a duplicate menu link in the
document type filename view was also fixed.
Metadata set edit
Upgrading from a previous version

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each 'final' release from the one after your current **Mayan EDMS** version,
up to and including the latest version.
Latest version (0.12.2)
Latest version (0.12.3)
-----------------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
0.12.3
0.12.2
0.12.1
0.12