| # What's New in Designer 3.0 M4
This is the shipping release of Designer 3.0. It is internationalized into several languages and has support for the latest Identity Manager 3.6, with the following major new features: Reciprocal Mapping Attributes Health Check Configuration DirXML Trace File Encoding Support Java Environment Parameters Lots of new DirXML Script Support Some of the other key enhancements are the following. Click here for screenshots and more details on these and many other enhancements:
| Faster import, deploy, and compare |  |
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 using IDM Designer for a couple of years now. While it has been an excellent development environment for Identity Manager, it has lacked the ability to track revisions to projects over time, and to easily share project development among several developers. With Designer 3.0 supporting Subversion, these limitations have been addressed. Now I can work in collaboration with other developers, each taking responsibility for one part of the project, and I can keep track of who changed what, when they made the changes, and most importantly, why." (May 12, 2008) David Gersic Information Services Northern Illinois University
| Simulation of entire channel |
| Simulator input doc managmeent |
| Dataflow included in document generation |
| Enhanced UI in several places |
| Direct deploy of filters from key editors |
| Driver set named passwords |
| Several version control updates |

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!