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3DSwym

Conversation: Real Time interactions display (isTyping)
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is now enriched with experience of users when it comes to conversation. In conversation, as a member of conversation, user or multiple users are able to see conversations are currently "typing".

In a one to one conversations, text will be "is typing.." and for group conversation, if one user is typing then his/her trigram is displaying (e.g. " anr12 is typing..") and multiple users are typing, then text will be followed by “users are typing…” E.g. “2 users are typing…” also this functionality limited to conversations only.

• One to one conversation: "is typing.."

  

• Group conversation

  

• “2 users are typing…”

  

3DSwym Lightbox - Sketch, Whiteboard & story creation support 
Concerning media creation, Sketches, Stores and Whiteboards are now integrated in the new lightbox, that is currently used for media detailed view and edit.

Filter Swym Content on User Mentions
Now, you can use new Mention Who Tag to refine and reach all that contents, where user name is mentioned.

Mention can be in the content description OR in comments OR in answers of iQuestion.

Limitations:
This filtering is not supported - 

• In Timeline View. 
• In Conversations tab
• For Pseudonymized users.
• For Pending users as we cannot mention pending users.
• Filtering content on User group mentions.

3DSwym Content Forward - New supported content
Forward content is available since a year ago with R2021x FD04.

As a reminder, the Forward function in 3DSwym allows you to forward content that you own to another community or conversation. With this it is now much easier to republish a content in multiple communities without worrying about media display.

Now with R2022x FD01, you can see a new way to forward some content types from a conversation/community to a conversation/community. Following forwards properly supported:

• 3DStory
• 3DSketch 
• 3DWhiteboard 

If the original author of the forwarded content is the same than the one who forwards the content, the mention about “forwarded from” will be removed.

Please note -

1. Other content types like wiki page, survey and wedo still cannot be forwarded (coming soon for Wiki pages).
2. You can select the same source community as a target. All communities listed are communities where the current user has rights to create the given content type.

New UI/UX updates in the left column
3DEXPERIENCE platform Swym communities and conversations are now enriched with a new drop down menu for communities and conversations to :

• follow/unfollow for communities,
• add/remove favorite for communities and conversations
• close for conversation
• removed hide for conversations

Please refer below video to explore new changes:

Supported File Extensions
Benefits: You can now use rtf, xps, mpp, vsd and vsdx files within your communities.

User Groups

Before this upgrade, when User Groups were created they were public User Groups. With R2022x FD01, let's now discover a new type of groups.

Private Groups - Visibility and Privacy
Now , when you create a User Group, they are by default Private. Only group viewers can view and use Private user groups. Platform administrators, owners and managers can view, manage this kind of groups.

Providing different visibility to groups depending on users
By default, User Group creation visibility set as "Private". If you want to change it's visibility to Public , you can do so by editing the group from "Properties" tab.

Giving Responsibilities based on visibility of user group.

Please note that in Properties of user group, Access Rights has been renamed as "Responsibilities".

• Public User Group: 

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• Private User Group:

Continuous improvement in UX New Features

New tool bar introduced for better user experience.

Import Groups/members (Only for Platform Admins)

Select/Unselect all visible groups

Export of groups to csv file (Only for Platform Admins)
You can now export one or more groups as a csv file that you can reuse to import and create new or update existing ones

3DDrive and 3DEXPERIENCE Drive

Content Sharing with Private Groups
Content sharing privacy management when working with groups.

As mentioned above, in addition to standard user groups, you are now able to create private user groups. Please refer to the below video for more details.

Benefits: You can now use private user groups when sharing content to, for example, better manage who can see group information when working with partners on confidential projects.

Recent Files Management
You can now quickly access, and interact with files that you have created, modified, updated opened, and restored in the new ​​"Recent" Files node in the tree. You can preview, download, delete and open the file location directly from this node.

Limitations:

1. Recent is only applicable on files (not folders)
2. We only display the last 100 recent files
3. Last actions displayed must be done less than 10 days
4. External drives (DrivesHub) are not supported
5. Multi-selection not available

Capacity to set file and folder as favorites
Now, files and folders can be added/removed as favorites using the dedicated action "Add to favorites" or "Remove from favorites".

Please note - You will not able to create subfolders in the "Favorites" root folder. also you cannot upload files directly from the favorites view.

Sort items by clicking on columns of the list view
Today, you have the possibility of sorting your content using sorting menu placed on the right in the app top bar.

Therefore, with this function, you can make the list of view even more practical to allow directly sort your content by clicking on the columns of the list view.

As you can also see, there are new icons in the list view header:

• Ascending sorting
• Descending sorting 

3DDashboard

Content Sharing with Private Groups
Content sharing privacy management when working with groups.

As mentioned above, in addition to standard user groups, you are now able to create private user groups. 

Benefits: You can now use private user groups when sharing content to, for example, better manage who can see group information when working with partners on confidential projects.

Dashboard stories annotations
Now, you can use this feature to enrich your dashboard comments with annotated screenshots of widgets highlighted during a dashboard story. This feature is active when reading a story, so it needs to already have been created for it to work.

The feature contains three parts:

• Widget annotations: the ability to draw and type over widgets
• Screenshots: the ability to take a screenshot of an annotated widget and crop it
• Image attachment: the ability to attach a cropped screenshot to a dashboard comment and visualize it later.

All the dashboard members can able to see this Dashboard annotation stories, comments and their attachment.

3DSearch and 6WTags

Suggest Tags already defined in a community
While adding user tags on 3DSwym data (e.g. a Post, Question, Media etc..), 6WTagger is now proposing the existing user tags used across the community of the content.

This allows you to reuse the existing tags, avoid spell mistakes or same tags with different case (e.g. duplicates) making the efficient use of tagging.

Detailed limitations: 

1. The “swym” source has limit of 50 tags under a predicate so the suggestion scope is limited to set of tags retrieved from there.
2. This new feature is not applicable to 3DSwym data which are not part of a community, e.g. a Person (a swym user)

3DCompass & 3DNotification

3DCompass and 3DNotification are now in context of current platform

Until R2022x GA, 3DCompass and 3DNotification were ‘Platform Agnostic’ (a user has access to all his roles or notifications from Platforms he is member of in the same place).
This led to some complexity and was misleading in some cases for the user

Now, in R2022x FD01, this is managed in the current platform

• 3DCompass

Now, users can filter Roles and Apps based on the current Platform selected in the Top bar.

They can also choose to enforce the platform selection at App launch

• 3DNotification

Notifications are now in context of Platform the user is working on.

3DSketch

Horizontal / Vertical shape alignment

• Plane axes have now a higher priority for creating parallels
• It is now easier to create concentric circles and ellipses
• Snapping a circle or ellipse to a plane axis on which there is a drawn line is now supported

Sketch Extrude

• New user Interface, more intuitive and simplified
• The « extrude mode » button is now a selector instead of a checkbox

Navigation gestures are now aligned with 3DExperience mouse profile. Navigation becomes more intuitive and you can draw with the left-click drag while zooming with the scroll wheel.

Possible gestures:

• Left-click drag : rotate or  draw/erase
• Middle-click drag : pan
• Right-click drag : zoom
• Wheel : zoom
• hold middle-click + right-click (or left-click) + drag : zoom
• hold middle-click + right-click (or left-click) drag : rotate
• All CATIA gestures are still available

Undo / Redo

• Images manipulations and resizing can now be undone / redo
• Better management of undo / redo of sketches
• Note: Undo of image insertion / deletion is not yet possible

3DWhiteboard

Layering

• Texts can now be layered exactly like images and videos
• They can be layered with the images and videos for complex compositions

Web url links

• URL links inside textbox are automatically generating a preview
• « Open URL Link»  to navigate into the content

Insert content in 3DWhiteboard

• Insert panel now allows to add one or several medias from 3DDrive

Undo / Redo

• Images / Videos / 3D Models / Texts / Sketches manipulations are now undoable
• Less bugs with undo / redo of sketches
• Note : Undo of Images, Videos, 3D Models, Texts insertion / deletion, texts edition is not yet possible

Navigation gestures are now aligned with 3DExperience mouse profile. Navigation becomes more intuitive and you can draw with the left-click drag while zooming with the scroll wheel.

Possible gestures :

• Left-click drag : rotate or  draw/erase
• Middle-click drag : pan
• Right-click drag : zoom
• Wheel : zoom
• hold middle-click + right-click (or left-click) + drag : zoom
• hold middle-click + right-click (or left-click) drag : rotate
• All CATIA gestures are still available

3DPlay

3D Experience improvements

• Annotation tools

User Experience is improved to create and edit existing annotations more easily.

• Visualization panel

Visualization options are now grouped in one same panel with a better user experience to easily customize the visualization of content.

Document Experience improvements

• Reading mode

New user experience developed to facilitate the reading of document content.
Capability to hide all 3DPlay user interface to have a clear reading space.
Automatic best layout detection depending of Document orientation.

Have a look on the video to discover this new mode.

• Annotation Tour

As you know Annotation Tour feature is already available for 3D content and now this feature is now available for document experience and give capability to user to navigate quickly through all existing annotations made in the document based on the order of creation.

You can see a short demonstration in the video below and see where you can access to the command on mobile.

• Text Aware Highlighter

The feature available in document experience is improved to get an experience near of a regular pen and have an automatic detection to recognize the text size to adapt the highlight to this size. 

In addition, if user press and hold after highlight end, the shape will be recognized.

You can see in the picture the different new behaviors.

Drag and Drop from Desktop

User can preview standard exchange format like 3DXML and PDF directly by loading them in 3DPlay from desktop and then decide to upload content in 3DDrive or 3DSwym applications.

User productivity is improved because he can validate the content before to push it to 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Below a video to illustrate this main new feature.

Support of Office files hosted by 3DSpace

The list of supported formats in 3DPlay is enriched to make 3DPlay the application essential to read a document. Office files PowerPoint®, Excel®, Word® hosted by 3DSpace application can now be visualized in 3DPlay application.

User can access to all features available in the document experience, like experience that user has already with PDF (Navigation, Annotation...)

3DStory

Let's discover the new features with a 3DStory

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Functional Value

Speed-up productivity with preview of Office files in 3DPlay for documents belonging to Collaborative Spaces from anywhere.

Improve user productivity for impact assessment by allowing the administrators to configure Relation Sets per role, user groups or app in Relations Control Center.

Improve document approval process impact assessment and audit trail through Route information in Relations.

3DSpace

Content Sharing with Private Groups
Content sharing privacy management when working with groups.

As mentioned above, in addition to standard user groups, you are now able to create private user groups.

Benefits: You can now use private user groups when sharing content to, for example, better manage who can see group information when working with partners on confidential projects.

Ability to search and filter members from accesses tab
Now, you can search members by their name or to filter the member list by access role on a collaborative space.

Here is screen capture and video for reference:

Collaborative Spaces Control Center

Manage members in Collaborative Space Control Center
Now you can see new "Manage members" action added on each Collaborative spaces of ‘Manage collaborative spaces’.

Once the action is selected a new view opens allowing the administrator to manage members:

• Add new member

• Edit the role access of an existing member 

• Remove a member

Customizing Effectivity Display
Administrators can now use the Configuration Management section of the Collaborative Spaces Control Center to manage the XSL file that customizes effectivity display.

You can no longer use the Configured Engineering option under App Preferences or the Configuration tab under Legacy Preferences to customize effectivity display.

Benefits: You can now easily control effectivity display using the Collaborative Spaces Control Center.

Searching and Filtering Members
An administrator can search through a list of several members who have been added to a collaborative space to find a specific member and edit their role.

You can search for members by first name, last name, and full name. You can filter the member list by their role in a collaborative space.

Benefits: It is now quicker and more precise to search for members in a collaborative space who have several credentials.

Configuring Project Management
You can configure triggers and the demotion of completed tasks for Project Management.

Benefits: This helps you configure options for Project Management.

Bookmark Editor

Index Mode and Authoring Mode
You can now view the latest modification of your data by switching from index mode to authoring mode, also you can turn on index mode from "Preferences" and select Use Index Mode.

Benefits: The index mode fetches the data and searches the objects quickly.

Index mode selected:

Edit Preference: 
Use Index mode select/unselect option.

Set Auto switch from Authoring mode to Index mode

Access Bookmark Editor Widget through Web in Win
In the native apps, you can now access the Bookmark Editor widget through Web in Win using the Bookmark Browser command available in the tools section of the action bar.

The Bookmark Browser command is only available when a parent editor is opened.

Compare Structure command and Relations command are unavailable in CATIA V6
You can add content from bookmark browser using command such as Insert Existing Objects, opened in the parent editor.

When working with multiple apps, you can open bookmark browser for each app to work simultaneously.

Benefits: You can drag content from the bookmark browser to the app and vice versa.

Bookmark Naming Convention
You can define a bookmark title and its name is automatically generated.

Benefits: You can also use special characters / " # \$ @ % * , ? \ < > [ ] | : in the title of a bookmark.

Searching Objects in a Fixed Column
You can now search for objects in a fixed column using the Find in Context command.

Benefits: You can also search in multiple columns, selecting from the options available in Find in Context dialog box.

Extension Attributes
You can now create extensions on bookmark types (Workspace and Workspace Vault).

These extensions can be added on a bookmark object from the Properties tab, and are available on the bookmark object.

Specification Documents Tab and Attachments Tab
You can now add and manage specification documents, and reference documents associated with a physical product in the Specification Documents tab, and the Attachments tab respectively.

Benefits: You can store and access all the documents related to a physical product in the Bookmark Editor app.

Toolbar
The toolbar replaces the action bar of the Bookmark Editor app. You cannot view the bookmark and its contents in a graph view.

Benefits: The toolbar commands are context-sensitive, which means only the commands available for the selected object type are shown.

Bookmark Root and Bookmark Title
When you create a bookmark root or a bookmark, you must now provide the title instead of the name. The title you provide is also shown when you view the properties of the bookmark root or the bookmark. The name of the bookmark root and bookmark is now generated automatically, and is not editable.