Having worked with IFS Enterprise Explorer (EE) over the past 5 years, I am finding the transition to Aurena very challenging. Many of the features/functions I have come to rely upon in EE don’t seem to exist in Aurena. For example…
- Start pages
- Doc macros
- Structured Docs
- Info Cards
- Send to college
- Sticky notes
- Go-To-Column
- Conditional formatting
- Selections
- Save as template / New from template
- Copy and Paste
- Count hits
- Advanced search (i.e. group, count, sum, etc)
- Quick charts
- Find and replace
- Keyboard navigation (e.g. using cursor up and down in a table view)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Open in new window (via Shift key)
- Save as draft
- Font colour for read only and Edited text (via options menu in EE)
- Expand all on Product Structure Graphic screen
- System info (context panel in EE)
- Output channels (context panel in EE)
- (also, neither field help or page help seem to work, and Aurena search sometimes gives inconsistent/incomplete results)
Aurena offers 2 notable user-facing advantages over EE: The first being the fact that Aurena can be accessed from OSx, IOS, Android, Windows, and Linux , while EE is Windows only (although for personnel who work in a desk based job, the benefits of cross platform support are minimal). The second (less visible to the end user) is the promise of reduced development/deployment times for configs due to the use of modern back-end architecture upon which Aurena is based (e.g. Aurena projections, etc).
I currently don’t feel these advantages compensate for the loss of so many functions, which ultimately have a negative effect on both working efficiency and the overall user experience.
- What is your own experience of transitioning from dedicated EE client to the web based Aurena client?
- Are any items in my above listed incorrect?
- Do you have any Aurena Tips or Tricks to share?
- Do you have any advice which might help smooth out this transition?