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Modeling and Infrastructure
Collaboration
Lock-Free Model Editing
Locking elements prior to modifying them is now a thing of the past with the introduction of the Lock-free model editing mode (a.k.a an optimistic locking). You can continue using locks if that is what suits your team’s needs best; however, the Lock-Free editing mode is a simple yet effective way to boost modeling productivity.
To start using the Lock-free editing mode, first enable it in the project, after which you can work on model elements freely, without locking them. Consequently, there is no need to wait until locks are released by other users to work on the same or related parts of the model. If conflicting changes occur, you can handle them in the Conflicting Changes panel to prevent data loss.
Handling conflicting changes in the Lock-free Editing mode
Learn more about Lock-Free Editing mode >>
Disconnected Team Collaboration Usability
The Disconnected team collaboration UI has been rebuilt from the ground up. The improved feature usability allows distributed teams working on the same server project to update it with the changes from the locally exported .mdzip file more conveniently and with a significantly reduced amount of manual steps.
Not only can you now update projects without having the target ones open in the modeling tool, you can also manage used project changes more easily. Additionally, the newly-implemented smart branch selection algorithm ensures configuration-aware update of server projects and smoother project merging in the future.
Updating a server project from a local .mdzip file
Learn more about Disconnected Team Collaboration usability >>
Further Merge Usability Improvements
Along with improved Merge usability and bug fixes, the 19.0 SP3 release adds adjustments to common ancestor calculation algorithm rules. As a consequence, subsequent project merging iterations can be carried out more effectively without the need to repeat previously made merge decisions.
Learn more about Model Merge >>
Other Enhancements
- For your convenience, we have moved an environment option Support Mount Points of Usages in Teamwork Cloud from Save/Load to the Collaboration node.
When working with change sets, you can now discard both suspended and all local changes in an active change set.
- The Maintain Mount Points of Used Projects option can now be accessed even more conveniently. It has been added to the Update from Local Project and Add Project to the Server dialogs.
- Indirectly used projects can now be hidden or unhidden automatically together with directly used projects when their status changes, such as upon the used project update, remove, or merge.
Other Features
Report Wizard
- The Report Wizard allows selecting first and last hyperlinks in HTML text from cells in XLSX reports to apply them to the cells through a new Report Wizard Environment Option. Learn more how to use template.xlsx.html.link report property >>
- You can use curly brackets with the #else directive followed by text to include. Learn more about this style of code >>
- It is now possible to export images for TXT and HTML templates with or without returning relative paths or absolute paths. Learn more how to handle paths of exported images >>
- The -leaveprojectopen parameter helps reduce memory when loading or closing any large-size project for property files by leaving the project open per property file after generating reports. Learn more how to deploy this command for multiple report generation >>
The new template.docx.ignorechildstyle report property for the DOCX template is now available for ignoring template styles to be included into generated reports and applying matching styles in the main template instead. Learn more about this report property >>
Key Issues Fixed
The following key issues have been fixed with this version:
- An empty PDF was printed even though the diagram was fully filled
- The GanttChart diagram became empty after model obfuscation
- The SVG export did not export IDs for elements in a diagram preview
- The comments panel did not appear when the HTTP Protocol was used
- When it was impossible to create the symbol for DurationConstraint using API
- Project loading from TWC
- The Lost Message could not be created using Open API
- The MBPLE variant overwrite protection did not work on TWC
- Some expressions were not recalculated after reloading the project
Documentation in the Properties tab could be updated only after the project reload
- There was a delay when the element was renamed in the diagram
- The error message (java.lang.IllegalStateException: No UUID map object after save) no longer appears after cloning the project
You can check the list of publicly available issues or your own reported issues fixed in MagicDraw 19.0 SP3.
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