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Release Date |
Main Features |
| 6.3 |
Jan, 2005 |
This was an architecture focused maintenance release which addressed many of the defects with ARS 6.0. Contained no significant UI enhancments
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- Improved ARS Mid Tier
- Business Time enhancements
- Development/Production cache mode for ARS Servers
- FTS Depreciated
- Approval Server now bundled as part of Core AR System
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| 7.0 |
Oct, 2006 |
This was a UI focused release with several key features which improved the web experience and a improved Mid Tier
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- LDAP Enhancements, AREA & ARDBC
- Auditing
- Next ID blacks
- Improved native web reporting and Business Objects XI support
- Improved ODBC driver
- Business Time 2.0
- UI Enhancements
- Horizontal and Vertical
- Navigational Fields
- Tree Fields
- Table Fields
- Data Visualization fields
- User customisable Table Fields
- Special Web Views no longer required as Mid Tier supports native views correctly
- Custom CSS Styles for fields on web
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| 7.1 |
Aug, 2007 |
This was a architecture-focused evolutionary release, building on the previous architecture and focused on solving key problems, particularly the licence management headache for both customers and BMC. This helped reduce software administration overheads for BMC. Along with some backend changes and a much needed overhaul of the Java API were a handful of UI features; but nothing revolutionary.
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- Customer-driven license enforcement (server-only licencing)
- Forcing and enabling password changes
- Multiple escalation pools
- Mid Tier pre-fetching
- Java plug-in server and plug-in API & sensible AR S Java API
- Filter error handling & Service workflow
- Disable status history recording
- Join Forms now use Database Joins
- User Tool for AR System & Licence Administration
- UI Enhancements;
- Tree field results colours
- Locale
- Auto refresh & row background colour for Table fields
- rounded corner boxes on web
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| 7.5 |
Jan, 2009 |
This was a revolutionary release with a huge list of features. Abandoning the Remedy Administrator Tool in preference for a Java Eclipse IDE as well as the announcement of the end-of-life for Remedy User Tool after version 8 signalled BMCs intention to move towards industry standards of Java and web based technologies.
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- BMC Remedy Developer Studio - Eclipse Java IDE replaces the Remedy Administrator tool
- UI Enhancements
- Auto-completion in menus
- Tool tips
- File-system browsers for character fields
- Cell-based table fields
- Tree-view sorting enhancement
- Drop-down list character field enhancements
- Panels
- Text formatting template and rich text formatting
- Buttons and URLs in tables
- Transparent images
- Field effects for state transition and highlight focus
- Quick reports in a browser
- Flagging fields and views for translation
- Flashboards uses Flash rather than Java technology
- Identifying rows selected in a table field to non-vision users
- 64-bit UNIX server support
- Image server object
- Querying multiple forms at run time
- Version control changes
- Workflow debugger
- Java plug-in server and Server Group improvements
- Including view forms in join forms
- Active-link firing condition on table refresh
- Character counts for character fields
- Service action added to filters and escalations
- Exporting views based on locale selection
- License management (Current and historical license usage)
- Session timeout clock & licence release for browser client
- Database consistency checker
- Logging to a form
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