What’s New in August: Connect Dynamic Fields with External Data, Expanded Audit Trail and More

Dynamic fields are a useful tool for making your repository metadata cleaner, more consistent, and easier to manage, strengthening data integrity across Laserfiche. This month, we’ve introduced new updates that expand the capabilities of dynamic fields to make them even more powerful.

Previously, dynamic fields were limited to data sourced from static lookup tables. Now, you can configure dynamic fields using data query and web request rules, allowing you to pull live values from external applications directly into your metadata in real-time.

This update allows dynamic fields to display field value options that are based on live business data, reflecting the most current information instantly, no matter where it is stored.

In addition, dynamic field configuration is now available within the template designer, providing a more intuitive place to create and manage these connections.

Together, these updates offer new ways for teams to keep their repository metadata accurate, current and synchronized across their line-of-business systems.

Smart Fields can now use list options supplied by dynamic fields to guide metadata extraction. By checking extracted values against the currently available options, Smart Fields can produce more consistent metadata that aligns with an organization’s approved data. Organizations can continue managing these options in their existing source, without duplicating this information in each Smart Fields prompt.

Laserfiche Cloud Audit Trail is expanding to provide broader visibility into security-sensitive and administrative activity across your cloud environment. Administrators can now better review privileged actions, identity-related changes and account administration activity from a centralized place.

This expansion includes team and project activities along with account-level security and user events. This allows organizations to extend audit visibility beyond the repository into process automation and account-level operations. With a clearer record of what happened and when, it’s now easier to monitor critical account activity and troubleshoot issues for faster investigation and clearer oversight.

Laserfiche Forms Mobile App Update: You can now sign into the Forms mobile app on your iOS or Android device using fingerprint or facial recognition. Biometric authentication now supports Single Sign-On (SSO) for Laserfiche Cloud, including SAML and AD FS authentication. This update also supports a deep linking feature that allows you to open the app directly to a specific form, making it easier to access the right form faster.

Repository API update: The Repository API now supports new capabilities for interacting with documents and metadata, including the ability to manage access rights, document annotations, records management and users’ Recent Documents, Starred documents and personal Collections. See the full changelog for more details.

Idle Session Termination: Administrators can now enable idle session timeout to automatically sign users out after a selected period of inactivity. This gives organizations greater control over session security and helps protect information when a signed-in device is left unattended.

New Toolkit for Developers: Explore the new LF Form Builder, which includes a toolkit of resources and examples to help you modernize how you build, test, and maintain Laserfiche Forms customizations. Learn more about the resource here.