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!