What's New in Designer M1

This release of Designer adds in several new capabilities and dozens of enhancements, while putting a major focus on increasing quality and stability. It also makes strides in simplifying some processes and allows you access to more help and information than ever before.

Some of the key highlights you'll see in M1 include:

More powerful and simplified Import/Deploy

Recent Customer Quotes

“I'm at [a very large] customer this week...it is a really huge and difficult IDM installation and I used Designer the complete week and it is really fun and it rocks!”

“I don’t know how we did it before Designer!!!”

“Designer makes designing an IDM solution easier. It speeds up our complete project.”

"Designer has shortened my driver
deployment by twenty percent. And the improvement in the logic of my rules doubled…"

“Just want to let you know designer is
seriously looking good. You ... have written an
incredible application.”

“Can’t believe how awesome this tool is!”

"...the Eclipse-based tooling is a strategic advantage, because [we] want to develop our own identity-integrated applications, [Designer] is a big stepping stone to getting there."

Fan-Out and NIS integration, Fan-Out Editor

Improved development speed with new time-saving copy capabilities

Improved XML Editor with code folding, validation, and line numbering

Support for the native XP Theme (on Windows)

Separating application schema from vault schema in documentation

New links for Feedback, Bug Reporting, Community Resources

Over 500 new pages of help and on-line search to all of Novell's resources

Enhanced format support in the Schema Management tool

Several new systems and resources for the Modeler

To see all of the new features,
check out the What's New Details!