What's new?

LaunchPad Version Number Change

This version, following LaunchPad 2.7, is called LaunchPad 16.6 to align with the other OpenText products.

Application Templates

The system updates the application template list every 30 minutes. This means if you create a new application and wish to use it as a template, you may need to wait up to 30 minutes for that application to appear in the list. The system will display detailed messages related to the last 30 minute synchronization.

Application Timeout

The timeout for application creation was increased to ten minutes (from five minutes).

Camunda version 7.9

Camunda was upgraded from version 7.8 to version 7.9. Optimizations as a result of this upgrade include:

• Auto-cleanup of history and runtime tables.
• Auto-cleanup of time-to-live for history data based on configuration.
• Optimizations in execution and resource/memory utilization by Camunda internally.

Bulk user account creation

The 100 user limitation has been removed for the bulk creation of user accounts. Additionally, during a bulk user account import, you will receive notifications as the system completes the various stages of user account creation. When account creation completes, you are instructed to refresh your browser to see the new users in LaunchPad.

Camunda version 7.8

Camunda was upgraded from version 7.6 to version 7.8. Camunda allows LaunchPad to talk to other systems. There are no functionality changes associated with this upgrade.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA)

LaunchPad now allows you to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for specific users (you must have a contract with OpenText that includes MFA). Once the system is configured, those users must confirm their identity using Duo, a two-factor authentication (2FA) platform, before they can access Axcelerate 5 and/or before they can access the server hosting LaunchPad / CORE Administration via Remote Desktop. To enable MFA for a user, see: Create a Single User Account and Add/Edit User Profile Details. For information on Duo, see Duo Support.

 

To help you track which active and inactive users have MFA enabled, an MFA Enabled column and Smart Filter were added to the Users page. Additionally, an #MFA Active Users column was added to the Clients page, so you can quickly see the total number of active users with MFA enabled.

Note: To see this column on the Clients page, you must add it. See: Personalize LaunchPad.

OpenText Directory Services (OTDS)

OpenText Directory Services (OTDS) has replaced OpenAM for the management of users. All LaunchPad users will now access LaunchPad via a new OTDS login page. If you use Single Sign-on (SSO) or MFA, you will also access Axcelerate 5 via the new OTDS login page.

OTDS login screen

Note: If you have LaunchPad bookmarked in your browser, it is recommended that you update the bookmark to the new direct URL: https://launchpad.rmcloud.recommind.com/.

The reset password option is not available on the Axcelerate 5 OTDS login screen; however, the forgot password link, which is also now managed by OTDS, is available for password resets. Password resets are synchronized every ten minutes; therefore, a user may need to wait up to ten minutes after a password reset before they can log in.

Important: LaunchPad reset password link tokens are normally valid for one week; however, reset password links generated by OpenAM in the week before the upgrade to LaunchPad 2.7 will not be valid after upgrade.

Bulk Creation of User Accounts

You can now create user accounts in bulk by adding the required user information to a provided Excel template and then importing the file to LaunchPad. See: Create User Accounts in Bulk

Export to Excel

The content of any LaunchPad landing page can now be exported in Microsoft Excel format. See: Export Page Content to Excel

Pod Assignment

If you use multiple pods, you now have the ability to specify which pod will be used for each new project you create. See: Create a Project Profile

This release contained no end-user changes, only minor performance improvements.

Native Conversion Settings

Newly created Axcelerate 5 matters will have updated Microsoft Word conversion settings for dynamic fields, other than date and filename. The new settings will improve the readability of Microsoft Word documents that contain dynamic fields as the fields will now display the actual values entered by the author of the document instead of the field codes. These settings are preferred over field code display as they are more informative for document review and production. Date and filename types of dynamic fields will still display the field code.

Important: If you use templates to create new matters, you must update the templates to use the improved settings for new projects. To do so:

• Cloning from template applications: update the native conversion settings in the document model of the template application in CORE Administration.

  

• Using published specification templates in LaunchPad: re-create the specification templates in LaunchPad with the new conversion settings.

  

This release contained no end-user changes, only minor performance improvements.

Create Options Moved

The create task options have been moved out of the Task Box to the page level where they are now available just to the left of the Task Box icon.

 This change applies to the following tasks:

• Create Client on the Clients page
• Create Project Profile on the Projects page
• Create Processing Template on the Administration > Templates page
• Create User on the Administration > Users page

Task Box Options

Users assigned a UserLaunchPad role now see only those options in the Task Box that they have permission to access. Previously other menu items were disabled instead of hidden.

Template Names

When you setup a project and opt to clone from a template application, the drop-downs where you select the source applications now auto-size so you can see the full template names.

• LaunchPad Client Administrators can manually reset the password of any user whose user account was created in LaunchPad.

See: Forgot Password Help

• LaunchPad Client Administrators can generate a password reset email to any user whose user account was created in LaunchPad.

See: Forgot Password Help

• The ECA Administrator project role has been suffixed with (SaaS Parent-Client Only) to remind LaunchPad Client Administrators to use caution when assigning that role. ECA Administrators have rights to see items such as global saved searches, which are not restricted to specific matters and which may present a confidentiality risk if exposed to unauthorized users.

• Ability to manually set a password for a new user.

See: Create a Single User Account

• The Created By field is available on the Client and Users pages as a Smart Filter.