Welcome to Version 4.18

Welcome to Version 4.18

Major features in Version 4.18

The New Publishing Workflow:

Publishing content within a Collection has been improved to deliver a more intuitive, user-friendly experience guiding your publishing team a step-by-step workflow aimed at greater flexibility and reduced errors. We have also introduced new functionality to support Publication Replace and Withdraw. 

Find out more: The New Publication Workflow


Now you can Withdraw or Replace a Publication:

Whether you have published in error, or you need to create a publication prior to an already existing publication, TimerArc Version 4.18 has you covered with our latest publication management tools, Publication Withdraw, and Publication Replace. These features are part of our continued drive to enable you self-manage your system and content. 

Find out more: Publication Withdraw  | Publication Replace


Editorial Projects:

UI Improvement to Merge Amendment Dialog: The 4.18 release introduces enhancements to the user experience of Editorial Projects. We have enhanced the ‘Update Amendment from Source dialog’ within Editorial Projects to make the merge process clearer and more efficient for editors.

Automatic Deletion of Amendments where Source Document is deleted: Improvements have been made to maintain a cleaner and more predictable editorial workspace within the CCMS when source documents are removed.

Find out More: Watch a full end to end demo of Editorial Projects


Include file metadata in your publication filters:

Prior to TimeArc Version 4.18 you could not target the supplementary files you wished to publish. Now you can! Adding file metadata to publication filters means you can now publish only the relevant supplementary files for that specific publication variant. 


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Performance Improvements

Area Before After
Key Improvements
Create Amendment Requests could take over 7 minutes and occasionally returned errors Requests now complete in approximately 1–2 seconds
Merge Amendment ~12 seconds to load ~1 second
View Amendment Document Up to 25 seconds to load large amendment documents ~1 second
Bulk Edit Section / Document
Open Word Document (Bulk Checkout)  ~3 minutes ~2 minutes (up to 40% faster)
Save Chnages back to the CCMS 2–5 minutes, with occasional timeouts 1–2 minutes
Bulk Check-in 25+ seconds Less than 2 seconds



Resolved Bugs

TIM-1699 

User unable to create new release
TIM-1813 Numbering in bullet lists in the published word output document is incorrect
TIM-1894 Publishes with future effective dates failing
TIM-1850 Publish failing due to broken schema versions
TIM-1594 Fix for Document compare error which builds comparison list from hierarchy rather that all changes in a publication
TIM-2033 Publishes failing due to underlying numbering issue
TIM-2049 Adjust effective date to match creation date
TIM-776 Incorrect performance and functionality on the CCMS portal
TIM-2022 Slow execution of Gen Preview reports