| # What's New in Designer 3.0 M2
This release contains numerous enhancements, bug fixes, updated driver configs, and improved help across the board - all built on a new patent-pending architecture that allows you to share and version your projects in a team environment. Because the change was so large, we have been unable to provide a converter in this milestone, but we provide steps to get your old project data. Click this What's New link to see the overviews and screenshots of the following, plus much more:
| Version Control |  |
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
| Live DS Trace |
| Hex Editor & Octet List for Simulator |
| New Look for All Application Icons |
| Browse History Throughout |
| Server Map Dialog for Copy Operations |
| Quick Way to Set Drive Trace Level Live |
| Better Field Validation and Checks Throughout |
| Can Set Tracing on Multiple Policies |
| Numerous Policy Builder Enhancements |
| Schema Map and Filter Editors Are Synchronized |
| Can Export/Import Schema Map and Filter to File |
| All Enhancements That Went into Designer 2.1.1 Identity Manager 3.5.1 Support Enhanced Workflow Activities Provisioning Team Editor Lots of Provisioning Enhancements Policy Linkage and Import Enhancements Support for ADAM & ID Provider Driver |

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!