Release Notes VueLink for SAP PLM Interface for AutoVue Web Edition Cimmetry Systems Corp. - Introduction VueLink for SAP PLM provides an interface between SAP PLM Server and AutoVue Web Edition. This interface enables users to add powerful viewing and markup capabilities to following SAP GUI Front End clients: ----------- ----------- ---------- | AutoVue | | VueLink | | DMS | | | <------> | | <------> |SAP PLM | ----------- ----------- ---------- - System Requirements for this release of VueLink - AutoVue Web Edition v19.2 (with any service pack for 19.2) Note: if you have installed AutoVue Web Edition v19.2c1, copy 'jvue.jar' from the AutoVue installation directory to the 'jVue' folder in your VueLink deployment on the application server. - SAP JavaConnector (JCo) 2.1.7 for mySAP ERP 2005 and ECC 6.0 + SAP Front End 6.40 patch level 22 or 7.10 (GUI for Windows) for mySAP ERP 2005 and ECC 6.0 + The following Application Server / Servlet Engine with Sun’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE) v1.5 - Tomcat 5.5.20 - SAP J2EE Engine 7.0 - One of the following SAP backend server installation - mySAP ERP 2005 / ECC 6.0 - One of following client installation - SAP GUI For Windows v6.40 or 7.10 on Windows platforms + One of following Web browser - Microsoft IE 6Sp2 or higher - Firefox 2.0 or higher - What's new in this release of VueLink? - support for mySAP ERP 2005 with ECC 6.0 - support for automatic language support for SAP client - support for read-only markup - support for overriding default master markup behavior - default timeout for connection to SAP system is reduced to 20 minutes - performance enhancements with redirection to distributed SAP Content Servers and prefetch of some of document attributes - List of features added in earlier releases: - customization of Display Document Page for SAP GUI For Win/Java/HTML - support for viewing original files attached to documents stored in SAP repository either as object links (Product Structures) or Document Structures for 2D/3D CAD assemblies/parts - support for external reference files - XRefs attached to base documents either as object links (Product Structures) or Document Structures - support for markup/redlining with markups being stored inside SAP repsitory - support for normal/master/consolidated markup types - support for opening markups which belong to previous revisions of base document - support for automatic markup promotion - support for international (korean, japanese...) characters in markup filenames using UTF-8 - support for document attributes to be printed in footer/header/watermark - support for print notification messages from AutoVue server - support for file conversion to tiff stored in SAP repository as viewables - support for file compare among revisions of a document stored in SAP repository - support for online caching of metafiles into SAP repository - support for Real-Time collaboration of original files attached to documents checked into SAP Vaults - Setup Program for win32 for automatic installation of VueLink - support for HTTPS/SSL environment - support for search of files stored in SAP PLM repository - support for batch print of files stored in SAP PLM through search - support for cross probe of ECAD files stored in SAP PLM through search - support for digital mockup of ECAD & 3D files stored in SAP PLM through search - support for multiple SAP Content Servers & Cache Servers - new flag to enable/disable metafile checkin - enhanced VueLink installer to detect whether JCo is installed - more attributes added in document properties (e.g. document status) - customizable markup authorization policy - What's contained in this release of VueLink? - dms_customization This folder contains a list of files that have been customized to provide a mechanism for firing up AutoVue applet from within DMS pages. - dms_extension This folder contains a list of files that have been developed to extend DMS functionality. These files are called by VueLink servlet to run various queries inside DMS. - vuelink_documentation This folder contains VueLink manual which contains - user guide describes various features supported by VueLink such as file viewing and opening/ saving markups. - administrative guide describes step by step procedure for VueLink installation and configuration. - vuelink_servlet This folder contains the following files: - vuelink.jar : VueLink Java package - vueservlet.jar : VueServlet Java package - commons-httpclient.jar : Apache HTTP Client package - commons-logging.jar : Apache Logging package - vuelink.properties - etc This folder contains the following files - release.txt : this document - filelist.txt : list of files and folder structure - version.txt : build & build date information of this release - 3rdParty : this folder contains licenses of all third party components that have been bundled with VueLink e.g. The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). - Acknowledgements.pdf - vuelink_setup This folder contains install shield setup programs for installing the VueLink. - jVueApplet This folder contains the following files - csiApplet.html - gluegen-rt.jar - jogl.jar - jvue.jar - vuelink_war This folder contains two sub folders: META-INF and WEB-INF - List of issues in this release. - Deploying VueLink on web application server running as windows service is not supported. - After installing the ABAP module, the version of the module is shown as "19.1". - SAP GUI for Java is desupported in this release. - before installing VueLink ABAP add-on module in ECC 6.0, upgrade SAINT/SPAM of ECC 6.0 server to at least patch level 22. Version= 19.2 Build= 6435 Build Date= 2007-08-15