Sidebar Navigation: Centralized all system modules and tools.
Home Page: Displays customizable panels with your daily work.
Quick Search: Accessible from the top of the Sidebar or via ‘/’ keyboard.
Recent & Starred: Always accessible at the top of the Sidebar.
Modules: consolidating all your projects and items under a standard central module.
Project Selector: Relocated to the top-left on the left pane, for easier switching.
Tree/List Toggle: Switch between project tree or list view instantly.
Left Pane: where all the lists and trees of work items are displayed.
Enhanced Visualization
The Status, Routing Status, and Priority columns within the grid have been colored for improved visual identification.
Our refreshed icon library now offers a wider variety of item types, allowing you to choose from an expanded pool of icons when creating a work item.
Streamlined Workflow
Action Bar: Contextual shortcuts at the top of each work item.
DMS Items: Show revision and routing state with quick download/edit links.
eForms: Color-coded status bar with inline updates.
Improved Children Tab: Now offers a full grid functionality that supports mass updates and recalculations.
Browse & Edit: Click an item row to open browsing mode, which includes an Edit Mode for quickly editing multiple fields.
Process Flow Enhancements: Visual layout redesigned with color-coded transitions. Arrows now clearly mark available next statuses in darker blue. Signature and completion indicators added.
Home Page
New Shortcuts Panel: direct access into your processes and items in one click.
Admins can distribute Panels to specific users or groups.
From the More Actions menu, on a panel, you will see an option to Distribute panels.
On the open dialogue, you can select where the panel will be distributed to, specific users or a whole group.
New Login Page
The login now has a new and fresh background.
It displays the account name and logo to differentiate environments more easily.
Improved Screen Usage
The Pin Icon now allows users to freeze the first two columns, improving usability and clarity.
To optimize screen space, the Sidebar and Left Pane now feature Collapse Options.
Sidebar Collapse
Left Pane Collapse
Improved Frozen indication.
Increased visibility for the freeze icon when changing a status from the status dropdown and also displaying on the new Action bar.
New Panels of items that are waiting to be signed
There are 2 new panels that list items that need to be signed.
Items to be signed by me
All Items needed to be signed (Admin) - for the admin to review all items that require signing
Multi Start Routing
Providing an easier way to multi-start routing of DMS files from the grid
Admin Enhancements
Module Assignment: Each project must belong to a module; bulk assignment supported.
On the Projects screen in the Admin, select the projects you want to assign a module to. Then, open the More Actions menu and click on ‘Set Module’.
The dialog allows selecting between Design Control or Quality Processes Modules
Color Selector: Replaced with an accessibility-compliant color picker.
Retired & Repositioned Features
Electronic Signature Module: Replaced by 2 new panels on the dashboards that will display items that need to be signed by the user and all items that are waiting to be signed.
Additionally, the DMS Multi start routing was placed under the more actions of the DMS item type grid display, to provide an easier way to start routing of multiple DMS files, which is important during the baseline creation phase.
Work Item / Product Tree Views: Now toggleable from the top of the left pane.
Submit a Ticket: is not available anymore as customers should use Chat with us, which is linked to Intercom chat.
Rich Text Formula Tool: Removed - use an image of the formulas instead.
Fixes
We understand how frustrating it can be to deal with bugs and glitches in software. That's why we're excited to share that the Orcanos 6.0 release includes a variety of bug fixes designed to enhance your experience and ensure everything runs more smoothly.