| # What's New in Designer 3.0 M3
This release focused on performance, stabilizing the new architecture, folding in the latest Provisioning capabilities, a strong push in settling and enhancing version control, as well as several touchups and enhancements throughout. There is also a Version Control Best Practices document available. IMPORTANT: Designer 3.0 milestone releases include advanced features such as Version Control. As you test these features, we are particularly interested in feedback on deployment cost savings, productivity increases, or other tangible business value that you see or anticipate from these features. Click this What's New link to see the overviews and screenshots of the following, plus much more:
| Support for openSUSE 10.3 |  |
Recent Customer Quotes
“Designer is the key to helping us successfully model, deploy, document and maintain the Identity Management projects at our customers sites. It allows us to use the power of Novell Identity Manager in an easy way, without the need for base coding and xslt-specialism, and to leverage customer's understanding for complex IDM solutions. A topmost usability feature is the ability to work on the project at a glance without needing to switch between several IDM servers. The development team is open to enhancements, resulting in rich Designer functionality for each step in development, documentation and maintenance of our Identity Management solutions. In summary, Designer is a professional tool for delivering professional solutions to satisfied customers. ” (November 12, 2007) Rudi Synoradzki Teamlead Secure Identity Management DIDAS AG, Germany “I have been working with Novell's Identity Manager since v1.1, and while the early versions were powerful, they were also very time consuming and difficult to develop solutions with. Now, with IDM v3.5 and Designer, the power of the IDM policy engine is exposed and development simplified and made significantly faster and easier. Designer allows me to accomplish in a day what used to take weeks or months, from basic driver prototyping and development through testing, production deployment, and documentation. ” (September 11, 2007) David Gersic Directory Services Engineer Information Services Northern Illinois University
| Improved Open/Save Performance |
| Project History & Tagging |
| Compare & Conflict Resolution |
| Role Based Provisioning |
| Better Modeling of Engine Controls |
| Several Updates to DS Trace Viewer |
| Doc Gen on More Items |
| State Machine Driver Support |
| Project Converter from 2.x |

We would love to hear your feedback, ideas, or bug reports on any aspect of Designer. The main Help menu in Designer has direct links to our:

- Bugzilla - which lets you submit bugs/ideas, keeps you notified with status, and lets you vote
- Designer Forum - which we daily monitor and respond to

We encourage your active participation. We really do consider every piece of feedback and it has great influence on what we do. Our goal is to put as much ease, productivity, and power at your fingertips as possible and to craft the product in a way that really works best for you. At this stage, we feel like we're just getting started!