What's New in Designer 2.0

This is a supported "shipping" release of Designer. It represents the culmination of 14 months of milestones that incrementally filled in the architecture and product plans of the 2.0 vision. Though we've added a few new features and capabilities since the last milestone, the main emphasis on this release has been on internationalization and driving deeper stability and quality into the product.

Click this What's New link to access documentation and screenshots of the new capabilities and key fixes.

Internationalized into 9 New Languages  
   Recent Customer Quotes

“Designer for Novell's Identity Manager has benefited the adoption of identity based solutions in several ways. It has streamlined the adoption of identity based solutions by simplifying solution customization. It has reduced our cost of designing and deploying Identity Manager by about 30%. It has made it easier for customers to manage and maintain a solution after it has been implemented. And it has made Novell Identity Manager the industry choice of both Novell and non-Novell customers for identity management initiatives. We applaud Novell for evolving Identity Manager in such a way that it has created a win/win situation for both customers and consulting organizations.”    (November 9, 2006)

Michael Weaver
Senior Consultant
Concensus Consulting, LLC

“From a consulting aspect, Designer has literally changed the way we work. Our consultants can now take their work on the road and develop drivers while disconnected (such as on an airplane). The ability to work anywhere has increased our efficiency ten-fold! For our customers, Designer has helped ease the burden of learning to develop business rules with Identity Manager. The interface is intuitive and the on-line help is a tremendous source of reference. Other benefits such as inline testing, documentation generation, workflow design, and more, make Designer the obvious development platform for Identity Manager and helps solidify Novell's Identity Manager as a market leader for identity management solutions.”    (October 23, 2006)

Troy Moreland
Identity Architect
iDENTiTYAUTOMATiON
Entirely New Welcome Page and Branding  
New Script Driver and 5 New Toolkit Drivers  
New Schema Creation Wizard  
Import/Deploy Support for DN References  
Enhancements to Policy Linkage  
Better Support for Large Fonts  
Abundant Product Hardening  


  To see full list of What's New:

        Click here for details and screenshots 		 
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 and ideas, keeps you notified, and lets you vote
  • Designer Forum - which we continually monitor
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.