Meridian Cloud is software as a service (SaaS) that is continuously improved. We deploy these improvements to your account (tenancy) as soon as they are completed and tested.
Some of the improvements are minor and are immediately available to you to use. These typically have little to no impact on your data and processes and do not require configuration.
Some of the improvements are part of a major feature that has not yet been completed. These typically can have an impact on your data or processes and might require configuration.
Partial improvements are typically disabled in your account until the entire feature has been completed and tested. Each quarter, we enable the completed major features either for all Meridian Cloud accounts or for specific accounts after consulting with you.
Release Schedule
Here are the scheduled dates of when the release will be made available to your tenancy.
Meridian Portal
- Not for Production: September 8 (US), September 9(EU)
- Production: October 11 (US), October 12 (EU)
Meridian Cloud Business*
- Not for Production: September 8 - September 13
- Production: October 11 - October 15
*Exact dates will be communicated for each tenancy individually by email and inside the software.
Release Toggles and Feature Toggles
A release toggle is a temporary switch used while a feature is being developed and tested on Accruent-only tenancies. It hides the feature from production releases until the feature is ready for release. We enable all release toggles as part of the release process—first for Accruent-only tenants, second for customer non-production tenants, and finally for customer production tenants. There is 3 to 4 week gap between each step. The functionality enabled by a particular release toggle is noted below.
A feature toggle is used to configure an application depending on a customer's subscription level or unique needs. These can be changed per customer via a Support request.
New Meridian Cloud Help Website
We're transitioning to a new help website. Check out the new site at https://help.meridian360.com/Cloud/ , and add it to your bookmarks! We'll be sunsetting this website by the end of 2021.
Improvements in this Release
The following tables list improvements in specific application or functional areas.
Administration Improvements
The following enhancements have been made to system administration.
| Reference | Description |
|
MPS-32656, MPS-33117 |
We've created new Data Migration Tools that make the process of transitioning from Meridian Enterprise to Meridian Cloud much simpler. These tools export your data from the vault and validate it before you import it to Meridian Cloud. |
| MPS-34069 | If you add a new authentication method to an existing user account, the user’s group assignments will not be changed unless you add additional group assignments. |
| MPS-34940 | TLS 1.2 is now required due to security updates to Meridian Cloud. If you have an integration with Meridian Enterprise, this will also impact your integration. |
| MPS-36592 | The Cloud Connector has been updated to version 2021.1. |
|
MPS-31097, MPS-29343 |
When you add a logo or a link to your email notifications, Portal now scans the logo and URL for malicious content. If your logo file contains a virus or the link contains malware, Portal will not accept them. An event will also be added to the audit log. |
| MPS-32828 | The Meridian Configuration API released in 2021.1 now supports the synchronization of lookup list data from Portal with Meridian Enterprise. |
|
MPS-35154, MPS-35680 |
You can now set a default starting number for your document number syntax definitions. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Cloud_Start_Sequence_From. |
| MPS-35470 | The minimum character length for a document sequence number is now 1. |
| MPS-35273 |
In the New Explorer, you can now create, edit, and delete global saved searches for your users. These filters appear in the Saved Searches menu under the System heading. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_SavedSearches. |
| MPS-35080 |
You can now configure compliance rules for sending and releasing documents. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q1_Cloud_Show_References. |
| MPS-35301 |
You can now add the Reference Type property to the Referenced Documents Column View. This will add the Reference Type to the Reference tab in the slider of a selected document. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q1_Cloud_Show_References. |
| MPS-35896 |
You can now configure reference rules. Reference rules allow you to configure whether Portal will allow documents to be submitted, accepted, sent, or released with missing references or referenced documents. These settings can be configured per document type, and are split between Contractor actions and Document Controller actions. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Cloud_Configure_Reference_Type. |
| MPS-34502 |
The Plant and Region properties are now enabled for generic document types. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Generic_Region_Plan. |
| MPS-33549 |
You can now download templates previously uploaded to Meridian Portal to edit and re-upload them. This is done in Template Management. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Cloud_Download_Template. |
| MPS-34965 | There is now a setting in your Inventor options which allows you to disable automatic upload of drawings when you save or close the drawing. When this setting is enabled, you must click the Upload Drawing button in the Link ribbon to upload your drawing to the vault. |
| MPS-36825 | The ARCH A, ARCH B, ARCH C, ARCH D, ARCH E, and ARCH E1 sheet sizes have been added to the sheet size list. |
Portal Improvements
The following enhancements have been made to Portal.
| Reference | Description |
| MPS-34997 |
A Projects button has been added to the landing page in Portal. Clicking this button takes you to the Projects page. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Cloud_View_All_Projects_Icon. |
| MPS-35215 MPS-35216 |
If you are a Tenant Administrator, you can configure the document matching process so that a Contractor can match document uploads to existing documents even if dates in their filenames are different. |
| MPS-35303 | If you are a Project Owner or Document Controller, you can now see Send, Release, and Checks in the Details tab of a document’s Properties page in the Clipboard, according to your configuration of document compliance rules. |
| MPS-37257 | If you are a Project Owner or Document Controller, you can now see For Release and Checks in the Details tab of a document’s Properties page in the Documents list, according to your configuration of document compliance rules. |
| MPS-35302 |
The document compliance outcomes now appear as a colored dot on the Clipboard. When you click the dot, you can view more details about the status of each compliance rule in effect for the document. Additionally, when you view the Properties page for a document on the Clipboard, a new Compliance tab appears in the section in the right. Document Controllers or Project Owners can view the compliance status of the document in relation to the Send and Release actions by selecting the For Send and For Release tabs. You can also select the Checks tab to see the full list of compliance rules which apply to the document. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Cloud_Restrict_Actions_DC. |
PowerWeb Improvements
The following enhancements have been made to PowerWeb.
| Reference | Description |
|
MPS-35579, MPS- 35510, MPS-35723 |
A new workflow lockdown setting has been added for subscribers of Meridian Cloud for Life Sciences. When the workflow lockdown setting is enabled, and the document type is Facility, Transmission, or some type derived from these document types, OR document types where an e-signature is required, the following functionality is no longer allowed:
For customers where the workflow lockdown setting is enabled, and the document type is Facility, Transmission, or some type derived from these document types, AND an e-signature is required, workflow shortcuts are disabled. |
|
MPS-34047 |
You can now perform bulk updates on files by executing commands on search results. This functionality allows you to make changes to your documents more quickly. Learn more about this new functionality. |
| MPS-37382 | Test reports now display the patch level of the tenancy. |
| MPS-36351 | Test reports now use the tenancy internal name instead of the tenancy display name in the file name. This fix will prevent invalid characters from being included in the file name. |
| MPS-34677 | You can now use the IP Level and Importance Level properties when searching in PowerWeb. |
| MPS-34604 | You can now enter rendition properties for a document in import package spreadsheets. If you do not enter rendition properties for a document, the default properties for your tenancy will be used. |
| MPS-36503 | Now, only 5 documents per minute are added to the Queue, and only 10 documents per minute are picked up by the Publisher. |
| MPS-33649 |
The behavior of the Include CAD References setting when sending documents to Meridian Portal has been modified. In PowerWeb, when the user sends the document to Portal with CAD references for revision:
In PowerWeb, when the user sends the document to Portal with CAD references for information:
|
| MPS-36389 | In PowerWeb, when any dependency of the selected document cannot be released as master, the Release as Master action now fails. |
| MPS-32527 | When a user creates an export package type in PowerWeb, and the package includes documents that have a reference with a reference type that has the Include to a Portal package setting enabled, the referenced documents will be included in the export package. References of the referenced documents will NOT be included in the export package. |
| MPS-36744 | Custom properties now display in the All Properties report. This allows you to validate migrated data. |
| MPS-36637 | We resolved an issue that caused documents to be added to the queue twice in some occasions when executing a workflow operation. |
| MPS-36640 |
Renditions included in a migration data set will now always be considered up-to-date and will not re-rendered after migration.
|
| MPS-36772 | You can now print the view displayed in the PDFTron Compare window of PowerWeb or Explorer. |
| MPS-34011 | The warning that appears when you attempt to discard an active project copy now includes the document name. |
|
MPS-37418 MPS-37370 |
We have resolved issues that caused the Copy with References command to return errors in certain conditions. |
| MPS-36765 | Importing a rendition from Portal no longer renames .DWG files to .PDF. |
| MPS-36893 | When creating a project copy with lock, the master document now locks as expected. |
| MPS-36362 | The Copy Multiple command no longer returns an error. |
| MPS-35605 | Occasionally, errors were logged in the Enterprise Server log stating that a package was not sent to Portal due to documents being in the incorrect state, even though the package was transferred successfully to Portal. This has been fixed. |
| MPS-35196 | Synchronizing references and properties from a file at the same time now works as expected. |
Explorer Improvements
The following enhancements have been made to Explorer.
| Reference | Description |
| MPS-34677 | You can now use the IP Level and Importance Level properties when searching in Explorer. |
| MPS-35269 |
You can now save searches and update existing saved searches in the New Explorer. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_SavedSearches. |
| MPS-35268 |
You can now open a saved search in the New Explorer. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_SavedSearches. |
| MPS-35272 |
You can now share a saved search in the New Explorer. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_SavedSearches. |
| MPS-35271 |
You can now delete a saved search in the New Explorer. This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_SavedSearches. |
| MPS-35037 | You can now filter by the Status field on the Assets page in the New Explorer. The available filter options are All, Active, or Inactive. |
| MPS-36772 | You can now print the view displayed in the PDFTron Compare window of PowerWeb or Explorer. |
Known Issues
The following known issues are in this release.
- Customers have reported that the Audit Page is not loading in several browsers. This is a known issue that will be addressed in the a future update of Meridian Cloud.
In the meantime, review our KnowledgeBase article for workarounds. - In search, lookup lists are listing combined values of the code and description. Executing a search with these values returns no results. To use lookup lists in search, modify the value manually.
Meridian Cloud is software as a service (SaaS) that is continuously improved. We deploy these improvements to your account (tenancy) as soon as they are completed and tested.
Some of the improvements are minor and are immediately available to you to use. These typically have little to no impact on your data and processes and do not require configuration.
Some of the improvements are part of a major feature that has not yet been completed. These typically can have an impact on your data or processes and might require configuration.
Partial improvements are typically disabled in your account until the entire feature has been completed and tested. Each quarter, we enable the completed major features either for all Meridian Cloud accounts or for specific accounts after consulting with you.
Release Schedule
Here are the scheduled dates of when the release will be made available to your tenancy.
Meridian Portal
- Not for Production: September 8 (US), September 9(EU)
- Production: October 11 (US), October 12 (EU)
Meridian Cloud Business*
- Not for Production: September 8 - September 13
- Production: October 11 - October 15
*Exact dates will be communicated for each tenancy individually by email and inside the software.
Release Toggles and Feature Toggles
A release toggle is a temporary switch used while a feature is being developed and tested on Accruent-only tenancies. It hides the feature from production releases until the feature is ready for release. We enable all release toggles as part of the release process—first for Accruent-only tenants, second for customer non-production tenants, and finally for customer production tenants. There is 3 to 4 week gap between each step. The functionality enabled by a particular release toggle is noted below.
A feature toggle is used to configure an application depending on a customer's subscription level or unique needs. These can be changed per customer via a Support request.
New Meridian Cloud Help Website
We're transitioning to a new help website. Check out the new site at https://help.meridian360.com/Cloud/ , and add it to your bookmarks! We'll be sunsetting this website by the end of 2021.
Improvements in this Release
The following tables list improvements in specific application or functional areas.
Administration Improvements
The following enhancements have been made to system administration.
Reference Description MPS-32656,
MPS-33117
We've created new Data Migration Tools that make the process of transitioning from Meridian Enterprise to Meridian Cloud much simpler. These tools export your data from the vault and validate it before you import it to Meridian Cloud. MPS-34069 If you add a new authentication method to an existing user account, the user’s group assignments will not be changed unless you add additional group assignments. MPS-34940 TLS 1.2 is now required due to security updates to Meridian Cloud. If you have an integration with Meridian Enterprise, this will also impact your integration. MPS-36592 The Cloud Connector has been updated to version 2021.1. MPS-31097,
MPS-29343
When you add a logo or a link to your email notifications, Portal now scans the logo and URL for malicious content. If your logo file contains a virus or the link contains malware, Portal will not accept them. An event will also be added to the audit log. MPS-32828 The Meridian Configuration API released in 2021.1 now supports the synchronization of lookup list data from Portal with Meridian Enterprise. MPS-35154,
MPS-35680
You can now set a default starting number for your document number syntax definitions.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Cloud_Start_Sequence_From.
MPS-35470 The minimum character length for a document sequence number is now 1. MPS-35273 In the New Explorer, you can now create, edit, and delete global saved searches for your users. These filters appear in the Saved Searches menu under the System heading.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_SavedSearches.
MPS-35080 You can now configure compliance rules for sending and releasing documents.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q1_Cloud_Show_References.
MPS-35301 You can now add the Reference Type property to the Referenced Documents Column View. This will add the Reference Type to the Reference tab in the slider of a selected document.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q1_Cloud_Show_References.
MPS-35896 You can now configure reference rules. Reference rules allow you to configure whether Portal will allow documents to be submitted, accepted, sent, or released with missing references or referenced documents. These settings can be configured per document type, and are split between Contractor actions and Document Controller actions.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Cloud_Configure_Reference_Type.
MPS-34502 The Plant and Region properties are now enabled for generic document types.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Generic_Region_Plan.
MPS-33549 You can now download templates previously uploaded to Meridian Portal to edit and re-upload them. This is done in Template Management.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Cloud_Download_Template.
MPS-34965 There is now a setting in your Inventor options which allows you to disable automatic upload of drawings when you save or close the drawing. When this setting is enabled, you must click the Upload Drawing button in the Link ribbon to upload your drawing to the vault. MPS-36825 The ARCH A, ARCH B, ARCH C, ARCH D, ARCH E, and ARCH E1 sheet sizes have been added to the sheet size list. Portal Improvements
The following enhancements have been made to Portal.
Reference Description MPS-34997 A Projects button has been added to the landing page in Portal. Clicking this button takes you to the Projects page.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Cloud_View_All_Projects_Icon.
MPS-35215
MPS-35216If you are a Tenant Administrator, you can configure the document matching process so that a Contractor can match document uploads to existing documents even if dates in their filenames are different. MPS-35303 If you are a Project Owner or Document Controller, you can now see Send, Release, and Checks in the Details tab of a document’s Properties page in the Clipboard, according to your configuration of document compliance rules. MPS-37257 If you are a Project Owner or Document Controller, you can now see For Release and Checks in the Details tab of a document’s Properties page in the Documents list, according to your configuration of document compliance rules. MPS-35302 The document compliance outcomes now appear as a colored dot on the Clipboard. When you click the dot, you can view more details about the status of each compliance rule in effect for the document.
Additionally, when you view the Properties page for a document on the Clipboard, a new Compliance tab appears in the section in the right. Document Controllers or Project Owners can view the compliance status of the document in relation to the Send and Release actions by selecting the For Send and For Release tabs. You can also select the Checks tab to see the full list of compliance rules which apply to the document.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_Cloud_Restrict_Actions_DC.
MPS-35304 Depending on your organization's reference rules, there are now three possible outcomes when sending packages:
- The package is sent regardless of whether the referenced document is also included.
- If a referenced document is not included, you will be asked to confirm whether you want to send the package. You can then choose to send the package without including the referenced documents, or to cancel so that you can include the referenced documents.
- If a referenced document is not included, you will not be allowed to send the package until you include the referenced document. All referenced documents should be included in the same upload to the Portal for XRef scanning.
This functionality is configurable by the Tenant Administrator, and is applicable to Project Owners or Document Controllers.
MPS-35305 Depending on your organization's reference rules, there are now three possible outcomes when releasing documents:
- The document is released regardless of whether the referenced document is also released.
- If a referenced document is not released, you will be asked to confirm whether you want to release the current document. You can then choose to release the current document without releasing the referenced documents, or to cancel the release so that you can release the referenced documents.
- If a referenced document is not released, you will not be allowed to release the document until you release the referenced document. All referenced documents should be included in the same upload to the Portal for XRef scanning.
This functionality is configurable by the Tenant Administrator, and is applicable to Project Owners or Document Controllers.
MPS-32716 Depending on your organization's reference rules, there are now three possible outcomes when submitting packages as a contractor:
- The package is submitted regardless of whether the referenced document is also included.
- If a referenced document is not included, you will be asked to confirm whether you want to submit the package. You can then choose to submit the package without including the referenced documents, or to cancel so that you can include the referenced documents.
- If a referenced document is not included, you will not be allowed to submit the package until you include the referenced document. All referenced documents should be included in the same upload to the Portal for XRef scanning.
This functionality is configurable by the Tenant Administrator, and is applicable to Contractors.
PowerWeb Improvements
The following enhancements have been made to PowerWeb.
Reference Description MPS-35579,
MPS- 35510,
MPS-35723
A new workflow lockdown setting has been added for subscribers of Meridian Cloud for Life Sciences. When the workflow lockdown setting is enabled, and the document type is Facility, Transmission, or some type derived from these document types, OR document types where an e-signature is required, the following functionality is no longer allowed:
- Quick Change
- Attaching a Rendition
For customers where the workflow lockdown setting is enabled, and the document type is Facility, Transmission, or some type derived from these document types, AND an e-signature is required, workflow shortcuts are disabled.
MPS-34047
MPS-34137
MPS-34803You can now perform bulk updates on files by executing commands on search results. This functionality allows you to make changes to your documents more quickly. Learn more about this new functionality. MPS-37382 Test reports now display the patch level of the tenancy. MPS-36351 Test reports now use the tenancy internal name instead of the tenancy display name in the file name. This fix will prevent invalid characters from being included in the file name. MPS-34677 You can now use the IP Level and Importance Level properties when searching in PowerWeb. MPS-34604 You can now enter rendition properties for a document in import package spreadsheets. If you do not enter rendition properties for a document, the default properties for your tenancy will be used. MPS-36503 Now, only 5 documents per minute are added to the Queue, and only 10 documents per minute are picked up by the Publisher. MPS-33649 The behavior of the Include CAD References setting when sending documents to Meridian Portal has been modified.
In PowerWeb, when the user sends the document to Portal with CAD references for revision:
- editable reference documents are included for revision
- non-editable reference documents are included for revision
In PowerWeb, when the user sends the document to Portal with CAD references for information:
- reference documents are included for information
MPS-36389 In PowerWeb, when any dependency of the selected document cannot be released as master, the Release as Master action now fails. MPS-32527 When a user creates an export package type in PowerWeb, and the package includes documents that have a reference with a reference type that has the Include to a Portal package setting enabled, the referenced documents will be included in the export package. References of the referenced documents will NOT be included in the export package. MPS-36744 Custom properties now display in the All Properties report. This allows you to validate migrated data. MPS-36637 We resolved an issue that caused documents to be added to the queue twice in some occasions when executing a workflow operation. MPS-36640 Renditions included in a migration data set will now always be considered up-to-date and will not re-rendered after migration.MPS-36772 You can now print the view displayed in the PDFTron Compare window of PowerWeb or Explorer. MPS-34011 The warning that appears when you attempt to discard an active project copy now includes the document name. MPS-37418
MPS-37370
We have resolved issues that caused the Copy with References command to return errors in certain conditions. MPS-36765 Importing a rendition from Portal no longer renames .DWG files to .PDF. MPS-36893 When creating a project copy with lock, the master document now locks as expected. MPS-36362 The Copy Multiple command no longer returns an error. MPS-35605 Occasionally, errors were logged in the Enterprise Server log stating that a package was not sent to Portal due to documents being in the incorrect state, even though the package was transferred successfully to Portal. This has been fixed. MPS-35196 Synchronizing references and properties from a file at the same time now works as expected. Explorer Improvements
The following enhancements have been made to Explorer.
Reference Description MPS-34677 You can now use the IP Level and Importance Level properties when searching in Explorer. MPS-35269 You can now save searches and update existing saved searches in the New Explorer.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_SavedSearches.
MPS-35268 You can now open a saved search in the New Explorer.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_SavedSearches.
MPS-35272 You can now share a saved search in the New Explorer.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_SavedSearches.
MPS-35271 You can now delete a saved search in the New Explorer.
This feature is enabled by feature toggle 2021_Q2_SavedSearches.
MPS-35037 You can now filter by the Status field on the Assets page in the New Explorer. The available filter options are All, Active, or Inactive. MPS-36772 You can now print the view displayed in the PDFTron Compare window of PowerWeb or Explorer. Known Issues
The following known issues are in this release.
- Customers have reported that the Audit Page is not loading in several browsers. This is a known issue that will be addressed in the a future update of Meridian Cloud.
In the meantime, review our KnowledgeBase article for workarounds. - In search, lookup lists are listing combined values of the code and description. Executing a search with these values returns no results. To use lookup lists in search, modify the value manually.
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