AX1816

New features and enhancements

This section provides an overview of the features and enhancements in this release. All of the client-facing changes in the 2020.4 release are detailed here in the release notes. For this release, there is no separate What’s New document or a release overview video.

Architecture and security enhancements

This release contains various infrastructure improvements to better support scaling and performance within the Axiom Desktop Clients and the Axiom Cloud, as well as general security enhancements and updates to keep all systems current.

New security permissions to control access to Desktop Clients and Office Add-ins

You can now explicitly control which users and roles have access to the Windows Client and the Excel Client, as well as the Microsoft Office Add-Ins for Word and PowerPoint. This change streamlines and simplifies the user experience, so that users only see the client applications that they need to use.

The new permissions are available on the Permissions tab of the Security Management dialog. If a user does not have permission to a particular application, then the application does not display on the Quick Launch menu or the default home page, and the user cannot log into the application using any other launch method.

Example Quick Launch menu where the user only has permission to the Windows Client

For more information on this change, including details on upgrade behavior, see Control user access to Desktop Clients and Office Add-Ins.

Other enhancements

  • When using the Run Scheduler Job task, the status of the target job is now passed back to the parent job when the target job is complete. This means that by default, the parent job will now stop processing subsequent tasks if the target job fails.

  • All users can now log out of the Axiom Web Client using the Sign Out link on the User Information panel. Previously this link was not available in system using SAML or OpenID authentication.

  • When you log out of the Axiom Web Client, you are now directed to a "session ended" page. If desired, you can click the Login button on this page to log in again.