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We are pleased to announce the release of openMAINT 2.4, a version that introduces major innovations and significantly improves the user experience. This new release is based on the updated CMDBuild 4.0 core and includes numerous technical enhancements that strengthen the platform's capabilities.

Key new features in this release:

• Advanced SLA Management
  The SLA configuration has been extended, offering greater flexibility and more robust calculation algorithms for more efficient service level management.
• Enhanced KPI and Execution Logs
  A new system for logging and tracking execution times at each process step, easily accessible and ideal for KPI monitoring.
• Integrated Surveys in Corrective Maintenance
  A final approval step by the requester has been added, with the option to activate customized surveys for collecting customer satisfaction feedback.
• Improved Process Usability
  New inline widgets for faster quote management and to trigger corrective actions directly from Preventive Maintenance tasks.
• Enhanced Knowledge Base
  A new knowledge base dedicated to Configuration Items (CIs) is now available and fully integrated into processes and classes.
• GIS-Based Selection in Corrective Maintenance
  A new widget allows users to quickly select the location of the issue directly from the GIS map.
• Smart Notifications
  Real-time notifications, both in-app and mobile, are now available for all maintenance processes.
• Import/Export of Checklists
  New tools for managing the import/export of Preventive Maintenance checklists, with smart filters for building, floor, and room.
• Maintenance Dashboard
  A new visual dashboard for Corrective Maintenance, featuring key indicators such as MTR and MTBF.
• Quick Navigation
  The new “Go to resource” button allows immediate access to the related resource from any notification.

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We are pleased to announce the new Release of CMDBuild 4.0.0, a version that introduces significant innovations and improvements to provide an increasingly advanced and efficient user experience. This new application version also includes the respective cores of openMAINT and CMDBuild READY2USE.

This new release includes new features and improvements designed to deliver a more innovative and high-performance platform, enriching the user’s experience even further. Moreover, graphic restyling has been implemented to improve usability and optimize the user interface, making it even more intuitive and easier to navigate.

Here is the list of relevant changes:

New Features:

• Plugin Manager: the new component that allows centralized and graphical management of plugins, thus allowing greater modularity of the solution. All new connectors will be managed via the Plugin Manager. 
• Initial implementations for Kubernetes support in CMDBuild: exploring its integration within modern Kubernetes architectures.
• Offline Mobile App: to consult the data of the application in offline mode and to be able to perform a series of actions on the data that will then be uploaded to CMDBuild when the application returns to online mode. 
• Data Model Synchronization: Functionality for massive updating of the database structure without the use of SQL. 

Improvements:

• New Plugin: LDAP integration, VCenter, AWS manager, AzureRM, AzureAD, OCS Inventory, HDA and BIG4IT 
• Other optimizations and new features: improvements to maps, relationship management, attachment management, security, and availability of Widgets even on completed processes.

In addition to the new features and improvements, version 4.0.0 also includes several bug fixes to ensure greater platform stability and reliability.

As part of our ongoing commitment to innovation, the team is already working on release 4.1, which is scheduled for release in July 2025. This future version will bring additional improvements and new features, with the goal of making CMDBuild an even more comprehensive and advanced solution.

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We are pleased to announce the release of CMDBuild version 3.4.4. This new release includes new features, some improvements and bug fixes that will improve the overall user experience. Here is the list of relevant changes:

New Features:

• Added management of foreign keys in classes and processes.
• Added the ability to create and use standard filters when adding or modifying relations.
• Permissions management on waterWAY gates.
• Added error handling in waterWAY plugins.
• Added “selected only” button in some grids.
• …

Improvements:

• Added the ability to use parameters on CQL filters in domains.
• Added the ability to define an export model on superclasses.
• Added attributes available in the deletion script in waterWAY imports.
• Improved CSV print time for classes with tenants and large amounts of data.
• Formula attributes are now correctly visible even in superclasses.
• Improved full-text search when there are lookup array attributes.
• …

Several bug fixes.

To download version 3.4.4, please follow the instructions provided in the project website.

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On February 29th 2024 at 4.00 PM CET time (UTC+1) we will present the main new features of CMDBuild 3.4.3 version.

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We have released the new version CMDBuild 3.4.3.

Here below you can find the main innovations:

• improvements to the view configuration function;
  
• restoration of the possibility of managing hierarchical BIM projects (IFC format);
  
• extension of “autovalue” management (automatic field valorizations), at form level as well as individual attributes;
  
• possibility to automatically add all the class attributes in the import / export templates;
  
• improvements to the service management page in the Administration Module (possibility of starting internal services);
  
• module to analyze CSV files in waterWAY;
  
• persistence of notifications on the mobile APP;
  
• compatibility with PostgreSQL 15;
  
• other minor improvements;
  
• bug fixes.

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We have released CMDBuild 3.4.2 version.
We report here below the list of news:

Webhooks
Webhooks are user-defined HTTP callbacks to invoke the execution of external code when a specific event occurs in the controlled system. The new version of CMDBuild supports this mode, which is configurable from a specific function of the Administration Module.

Tasks for the management of the waterWAY “gates”
The possibility of configuring a new type of task in the Task manager for the programmed execution of the waterWAY “gate” (Service bus) is added.

Personalized management in the authentication phase
Two entry points are made available, programmable in a personalized way in Groovy language, to obtain custom behavior during user authentication. The first entry point is executed before the “get” of the user (for example to create non-existent users, to update some information, etc.), the second before the “get” of the group (for example to intervene on the CMDBuild permissions by updating them with those of the authentication system).

Limited Administrators
You can refer to the in-depth analysis published in the newsletter n. 95 .

Mobile APP setup page
In the user menu there is a new function for the registration and simplified configuration of the Mobile APP, using a special QR Code generated by the system according to the settings entered by the administrator in a new page of the Administration Module for mobile configurations.

Email improvements
It is possible to add attachments in the email templates, both by recalling (even with filters) an attachment of a CMDBuild form, and by executing and attaching a report. When configuring the template, it is possible to choose the type of attachment and preset any parameters.
Another improvement allows from the Administration Module to view the list of “error emails”, solve any problems and then try to send again.
Then new functions is added to the email task for ignoring auto-generated emails (e.g., autoresponders) and for executing data imports from email attachments or executing waterWAY “gates”.

Improved display of the History TAB
It is possible to request the display of only the modified attributes instead of the entire form, and it is possible to select one or more attributes and view only the sequence of changes to those attributes. It is also possible to download a CSV file with the information reported on the History TAB in the selected settings.

Improvements in the display of the Attachments TAB
It is possible to define which metadata of the document models to include in the grid-type view. The grid has a new “Extended data” button which shows the configured metadata for each document category, in a similar way to the Relations TAB.

Navigation menu: favorites folder and search
It is possible to view a “favorites” folder in the navigation menu that each user can populate with the functions of interest (right click with the mouse to add / remove).
In the same navigation menu, you can also find an item of interest using a special search box.

Language management
Language management is improved so that the language chosen by the user in the preferences configuration page is maintained on each device from which the user connects to CMDBuild, regardless of the language used in the login page.

Mobile APP push notifications
An important improvement in the functioning of the APP is available in CMDBuild 3.4.2, which allows the reception of “push” notifications. You can find a technical insight into this new feature in the newsletter n. 96.

More improvements
In CMDBuild 3.4.2 it is also be possible to:

• define a filter to be applied when creating new relations (Relations TAB);
• add the tenant column in the export templates, and associate the data loaded with the import templates with the indicated tenant;
• manage encrypted passwords when accessing external systems via waterWAY connectors;
• disable the use of REST V2 and SOAP webservices that have been deprecated in previous versions;
• assign permissions to groups directly from the management of the different types of objects (classes, processes, views, filters, dashboards, reports, custom pages, import/export templates), as well as from the centralized permission management function;
• disable some attributes from loading on the grid through a dedicated setting on the attribute and to disable the global search on some objects (in both cases in order to improve system performance);

Moreover there are improvements to the initial dashboard in the Administration Module and the revision and completion of optimizations for the support of cluster architectures (see in-depth analysis in the newsletter n. 97).

The changelog is available for the complete list.

On July 13th 2023 at 4.00 PM CEST time (UTC+2) we will present the main new features of CMDBuild 3.4.2 version.

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On february 16th 2023 at 4.00 PM (CET time) we will present the main new features of openMAINT 2.3 version.

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We released the new openMAINT 2.3 version. Here below you can find the main innovations:

Integrations and improvements to Maintenance Processes:

• introduction of a Knowledge Base to help maintenance technicians in resolving fault reports and planned maintenance activities;
• possibility of automatic opening of a Corrective Maintenance if a problem is identified during the execution of a Preventive Maintenance;
• possibility of indicating a specific assignee in addition to supplier and team;
• new types of checklists, considering the main standard types (date, time, number, value list, flag, etc.);
• dynamic generation of emails with the possibility of viewing and possibly modifying the notification
  information.

Extensions to other modules:

• new document types “Photo” and “Signature” and management of a preview image for locations and personnel;
• improvements of the Energy Management module (reference to the asset and improvements of the graphs in the summary dashboard);
• extension of the class of Consumables with new descriptive fields;
• new “Attachments list” report with the list of all files uploaded in the system divided by reference class.

Other implementations made possible by the new features made available by the CMDBuild “core” platform:

• several improvements to visualizations on the map: info window, file fields on the form, navigation tree of the layers, etc.;
• configuration of context-dependent and localization-dependent dynamic email templates;
• management of checklists as custom widgets, allowing for dynamic visualization based on the step of the process;
• activation of consistency validations in the compilation of data cards.

Bug fixes