Hi all,

We have been working diligently on the next update to GroupShare 2017 based on your feedback and I wanted to give a heads-up in terms of what's included, as it's a big one. Find below a draft.

We are hoping to release this update within the next few weeks, depending on testing.

This update includes the following:

• New functionality: The Online Editor now displays Term recognition hits from server-based termbases that are used in the project.
• New functionality: You can now create projects that prevent project file downloads for certain users. There is a new permission called Secure Project File Download. Users assigned this permission are the only ones who can download the project files in SDL Trados GroupShare, SDL Trados Studio and SDL Online Editor. Furthermore, users in the Online Editor are prevented from copying text. This feature enforces customer data confidentiality by restricting data access to authorized personnel only.
• New functionality: The Online Editor has been updated and now provides a better user experience based on customer feedback.
• New functionality: Introduced a undo check-out mechanism to allow check-in of files when conversion from Online Editor to SDLXLIFF fails.
• New functionality: Added the ability to select/de-select all status in Background tasks view.

 Performance enhancements for SDL Trados GroupShare:

• Optimized the performance of TM lookup operations, which in our testing provide a ~20% performance increase compared to CU07 and earlier.
• Optimized the performance of TM confirm operations when confirming segments.
• Significantly overhauled the TM Maintenance search algorithm, which is now significantly faster when not using RegEx. This now also prevents the timeout that caused an "An error occurred when searching the Translation Memory. The TM may contain invalid Translation Units." error.
  Note: For this fix to apply you also need at least Studio 2019 or a future Studio 2017 CU as it involved changes on both ends.
• Opening the settings page in SDL Trados Studio is now significantly faster especially with many server resources
• SDL Trados GroupShare displays a neater web UI, by hiding dynamically generated libraries
• The default timeout for server farms was increased from 30 seconds to 10 minutes to avoid timeout issues with long-running operations.
• Updated the online documentation with supported browser information.

  Resolved issues for SDL Trados GroupShare:

• Removed validation from due dates fields in assignment view to allow more flexibility
• Resolved an issue where searching for TMs by name in the Web UI would throw an error
• Optimized the way Studio sends files to GroupShare to prevent Application Service from locking the file in certain scenarios.
• Resolved an issue where the Default layout in MT Online would not show all available buttons
• Fixed an issue related to applying a soft filter instead of a hard filter when full text search is performed in MultiTerm.
• Resolved an issue where Studio was checking out too many MultiTerm Server CALs
• Temporary files no longer accumulate on the server when performing TM import/export operations, which means users do not have to free up space manually.
• Resolved an issue where importing TMX.zip into server-based TMs would fail in the Web UI.
• Added the possibility to import more than one TMX into server-based TMs as long as they are on different language pairs. The ability to concurrently import into the same LP will be enabled in a future update.
• Resolved an issue where certain TM related background tasks were not displayed when sorting
• Resolved an issue where background task table had too many items.
• Resolved an issue where TM re-indexing failed in certain scenarios.
• TM field values are now displayed alphabetically for server-based TMs.
• Resolved an error when using complex filter conditions in a TM.
• Resolved an issue where upLift processing would not start in certain conditions
• Fixed a Web UI issue with username and password fields not being displayed in the create server dialog.
• Resolved an issue where SDL Trados GroupShare Console settings cannot be changed when not deployed on C: drive.
• Resolved an issue with date filter validation for Japanese and Korean UI
• Resolved an issue with TM-Service high CPU usage, occurring when it contains a large number of background tasks.
• Fixed an issue with Analysis reports not displaying the correct values for files with many tracked deletions
• Resolved an issue where a user without delete termbase permission was able to remove the termbase from the list of termbases

 Resolved issues in the GroupShare installer:

• The Termbase Migration Wizard now has the option of just allowing the movement of termbases to an Organization. The wizard no longer forces users to assign/create roles upon termbase migration if this is not wanted. Users can then define permissions and access to termbases manually using the GroupShare Web UI.
• Resolved an issue where the Termbase Migration Wizard created a duplicate root organization in certain scenarios.
• Resolved an issue where installing MT Server module only would not allow you to login properly.
• Resolved an issue where the Chef portion of the installer failed due to certain domain names while trying to add a user to a Windows group.
• Resolved an issue where the Chef portion of the installer couldn’t add URL reservations when a username had special characters.
• The performance of checking the project store file system is now optimized especially for large file stores.
• Fixed an error when performing an SDL Trados GroupShare 2017 upgrade using SQL authentication for TM containers.

 Resolved issues for SDL Online Editor:

• Resolved an issue related to SDL Online Editor not being able to open documents properly when the SDL Trados GroupShare hostname is less than 4 characters long.
• Resolved an issue where users may get disconnected from Online Editor after a certain time period
• Fixed an issue where comments added in SDL Online Editor would be deleted if new comments were added.
• Resolved an issue where Online Editor could cause Application Service to crash and show no lookups.
• Custom .xml files containing embedded content are now processed correctly when opened in SDL Online Editor from SDL Trados GroupShare.
• Fixed the keyboard shortcut which controls Track Changes when SDL Online Editor runs on Chrome or Opera.
• Fixed a file check-in/check-out issue when the process is repeated 20 times in SDL Online Editor for the same file.

Thanks,
Luis