Great news – the modern view of the Acrolinx Dashboard and the Acrolinx Sidebar are accessible according to WCAG 2.1 Level A! For the Dashboard, this means the modern view with all its current and future sections. We’ll continue to make more areas of the Dashboard accessible as we migrate to the modern view. We know you've been waiting for this, and we're happy to celebrate this improvement with you! Read the detailed Acrolinx Accessibility Conformance Report.

By default, a Sidebar card shows for 3 seconds after you ignore an issue or all occurrences of an issue. This is so you have time to undo an action if you change your mind.

But there were some cases where the wait time interrupted your workflow. To help with this, we've given you the option to turn off the undo action. When you want to turn it off, go to the slide-out menu in theSidebar>User Profile>Advanced. Then, switch the toggle next to Hide the choice to undo. This way, the cards won't linger after you've made decisions.

Performance metric dropdown- We've added a dropdown that lets you select KPIs directly. The performance metric dropdown is available for both the latest performance and past performance data.

Zoom function for content city- You could always click and drag to get a closer look at the content city. But now, you can use your keyboard to zoom in on specific areas of the city. Just hold the control/command + scroll keys.

Moved content city dropdowns- To streamline your experience, you can select goals and KPIs from the group of dropdowns above the content city. This makes for a more visually appealing experience.

We've introduced two ways to visualize data in the daily performance section. If you only want to see how your content scores for the certain goals, you can toggle the content city in 2D.

If you track performance metrics, you can use the content city to see how these relate to your goals. When you combine these dimensions, the content city switches to 3D. To interact with the content city in 3D, just select a performance metric from the dropdown.

We've added some new functionalities in the content library that should make it easier for you to check your content. You can now add a new domain to Content Cube directly from the content library. This means you won't have to switch to the data center every time you want to add a new domain.

On top of that, we've made it possible for you to recheck pages in your library. If you've made a change to your blog, for example, you can select the affected page and run a recheck directly in the content library.

The next time you sign in to Acrolinx, you might notice that the built-in administrator button is missing. No cause for concern! We're working to improve this feature for Cloud, so stay tuned for more updates.

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Acrolinx works best with the software listed in the "Recommended" column, but you can use it with all of the versions listed below.

If you use Standard Stack, you can install RHEL system updates at any time. For all other software, you'll need to use the versions listed.

You'll notice this change in your download area and across all Acrolinx components. This has also led to some changes in the documentation. We've made sure that the updates won't affect you in any way – you'll just have to get used to a new name.

Tokens aren't for everyone. It’s no longer possible to create an API token for the built-in admin user, and the built-in user can't create an API token for their own account. There's simply no use case that would make this necessary.

We've merged the old Discover and Track tabs to create a new Overview tab within Content Cube. With this tab, you can get a high-level understanding of how your content is doing.

The tab offers 2 ways to view content:

To learn more, head over to Track Content Quality.

We've improved how you can interact with your data. In the Overview tab, we've added a more detailed guideline analysis table in the Latest Performance view. Use the guideline table to pinpoint the most common types of issues.

Additionally, you can create new collections directly from the details cards list. This is useful if you want to segment collection content based on performance results.

We've added a search box to the Admin Console. You can now do a full-text search in every tab of the Content Library.

In some cases, the modern view of the Dashboard didn't inherit the interface language setting of the classic view. We thought we'd fixed this with 2022.05, but it looks like the bug made itself at home. We've tackled this for good, so the language that you select is consistent for both views.

This bug occurred when you used a guidance package version older than 2022.07 with an Acrolinx Platform version newer than 2022.07.

You weren't able to add a value to the Sentence Length guidelines in the Clarity goal. When you clicked the guideline, the value would switch to 0 (not a good length for a sentence). This caused a lot of issues because it also affected your custom guidelines. We've fixed this to make sure you can use a guidance package older than 2022.07 with this release.

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Acrolinx works best with the software listed in the "Recommended" column, but you can use it with all of the versions listed below.

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Content you want to check and analyze might live behind a sign-in. With this release, you can crawl these password-protected pages as long as you have the credentials. To do so, add your sign-in details (for authentication via HTTP form) when you set up a crawl. You can also specify custom request headers in the Advanced Crawl Settings. You'll find these in the admin console under Data Center > Web Crawling. Learn more in our web crawling documentation.

Since Microsoft dropped support for Windows 7, it's time for us to say goodbye, too. That means no support for Windows 7 in all Integrations Farewell, Windows 7 – we’ll miss you!

Good news! With this release and the new guidance package, you can now tailor certain guidelines to your needs even more. In Targets, it's possible to choose the exact word count that you want to optimize your guidance for. For the guideline "Is the length of the first paragraph appropriate?", for example, you can set the appropriate number of words.

We’ve also improved the UI of our guidance by adding number parameters. That way, you see what a number represents and what limits apply to it. For example, the "Could you shorten this list item?" guideline now shows that the number relates to words, and gives the maximum and minimum values for the field.

We're big fans of consistency, and that starts with a consistent UI. We wanted to make sure you know what's what in the term domain selector for the Words and Phrases and Inclusive Language goals. So, it now mirrors the structure of your Terminology domains. This will help you tell the difference between domains and subdomains. Plus, you won't have to select subdomains one by one anymore. Instead, you just have to select the primary domain.

When you created or edited a Target in the Dashboard, you couldn't always scroll down in the "Create New Target" or "Edit Target" slide-out menus. This meant you couldn't see or select all of the goals available to you. But now there's no more trouble in paradise – the scrolling behavior works as expected.

We gave you a username search field in Targets Assignments, but you couldn't use it to find anything. In short: it wasn't working. It now works as expected, so no need to scroll to find your users!

Acrolinx didn't give you the right results when you checked with certain term filters. The culprit? Filters with "+" characters. This is all better now.

In rare cases, you couldn't create a terminology backup. Don't worry, we've got your back. We've identified and fixed the issue.

The Guidance Wizard lost its magical fuel and couldn't finish any updates. This meant you'd receive an error message when you made changes and tried to save them. Our developers did their own magic, so all is back to normal.

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Acrolinx works best with the software listed in the "Recommended" column, but you can use it with all of the versions listed below.

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Sometimes you'd see a "Sentence can't be processed warning" for content with the "_NO_CHECK" context in your Outlook Content Profile. This is fixed. If you use "_NO_ CHECK," you won't run into this warning.

In some cases, the modern view of the Dashboard didn't inherit the interface language setting of the classic view. With this release, you won't get lost in translation. The language settings that you make in the classic view will also apply to the modern view.

There was an issue in the Sidebar where you weren't able to select a Target within our FrameMaker integration. We've taken care of this.

When the order of the Content Groups changed under Analytics > Administration > Content Groups, you might've ended up with many Content Groups with the same name. The more the merrier? Not in this case. We've removed any duplicate Content Groups, and only the oldest of the duplicates will stay.

Starting in 2022.04, the term filter dropdown showed a mysterious filter called abc. It was a term filter that you hadn't defined. You might've seen this in both the Words and Phrases goal and the “Inclusive language terms” guideline. When you tried to select this and save the Target, it would revert to “Select a term filter.” What did it do? What was it for? We don't know, but you won't see this anymore. Your term filter selection in Targets should work as expected.

Before Acrolinx can start tracking content, you need to add web content to your organization's content library. Careful, you can only do this if you have the privilege "Use Content Cube". If you don't yet have this privilege, read on anyway to find out how Content Cube works.

In the content library, Acrolinx reviews in two steps: a crawl and a check. To identify checkable text on your website, Acrolinx uses a crawler with the user agent Acrolinx-bot. All an administrator has to do is provide the Acrolinx-bot with the domains and subdomains that your team wants to track.

After Acrolinx crawls your content, it starts an Acrolinx check. Like other Acrolinx products, Content Cube communicates with the Acrolinx Core Platform. This means that the Targets that you create in the Core Platform also affect how your content gets reviewed in Content Cube. Content Cube will automatically crawl and check the content library weekly. Once checking is complete, you can create content collections to start tracking content.

Content collections are the building blocks of Content Cube. When you create a new collection, you'll use the Discover tab to review the current state of your content. Content Cube then gives you the option to funnel content in need of improvement into your review list in the Schedule tab. That way, you can store it in one place while you make plans to boost its fitness. You can then follow your content's performance via three different chart views in the Track tab.

In each tab of your collections, there’s a slide-out menu with a list of goals. Every goal that you see in the slide-out menu acts as a filter. You can display all of the available goals or choose just a few that you want to focus on. You can also sync external analytics data to track additional metrics.

To learn more, visit our Content Cube documentation!

If you tried to edit a context for a guideline in version 2022.03 of Targets, you might've hit a snag. When you searched for a specific context and clicked "Select all," Acrolinx might've deselected existing selections that weren't in your search. We’ve fixed this. Context selections, new and old, will now stay put.

We know it’s super handy to upload multimedia files to terminology fields, but a bug might’ve kept you from making the most of this. When you restarted Acrolinx, files uploaded via the Terminology API might’ve gotten deleted. We’re happy to announce that you don’t have to worry about this anymore. Images uploaded via the API will be exactly where you saved them.

Every now and again, your writers couldn’t contribute terms via the AEM Sidebar. When they tried, they’d see an error message. This works again — go forth and contribute terms!

When you use the request validator to debug, it helps to see the issues that a check creates. But these weren’t showing up in the Request Text with Context tab. This now works as expected, which means you can use it to debug issues again.

We decided to remove the "Changes that you made may not be saved" browser warning from the classic view. This appeared when you closed a tab.

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Acrolinx works best with the software listed in the "Recommended" column, but you can use it with all of the versions listed below.

Do you already work with inclusive alternatives to non-inclusive terms? Or do you have your very own list of non-inclusive terms that you want Acrolinx to find?

If so, you can use our new Custom Inclusive Language Terms guideline group to add these terms to the Inclusive Language goal. That way, your writers know which terms to use and you avoid contradictory guidelines. The issues will also count as Inclusive Language issues. So, you can trust your Analytics when differentiating between Words and Phrases and Inclusive Language issues.

For more details, look at the Inclusive Language section of our Targets documentation.

If you want to get email updates about terminology changes, you're in luck. When combined with support for time-based exports from our cloud platform, our new HTML export style sheet lets you do just that. Now, you can set up weekly email updates about terminology. Is this what you're looking for? Get in touch with your Customer Success Manager.

Good news! We’ve broadened the scope of guidelines that provide clickable suggestions in the Sidebar cards. Acrolinx combines issues that occur in one area of your content and belong to the same guideline in one Sidebar card. We call these "cards with subcards". In the past, Acrolinx couldn't suggest replacements within subcards, but now you'll see some clickable suggestions, too.

This means you'll see more suggestions that the Sidebar can directly insert into your content. Hello, faster corrections!

When you search for users in the user table, you might want to find all users associated with a specific role. To help you do just that, we've added the `roles` parameter.

In the users table, some fields are associated with multiple users. When you tried to find an individual user in one of these fields, you might've had some trouble. We've improved this. Now when you sort by a general field, like checking frequency, the users you see for the categories Frequent, Infrequent, and Regular get sorted in ascending order within that field.

To give you more flexibility when you want to find a user, you can now search by username or full name. All you have to do is use `username` and `fullName` to query the user database.

To export the list of users from the User API, you now need edit rights for the Users section.

Starting with 2022.08, we'll sunset support for Windows 7.

To keep track of which Windows versions Acrolinx supports, check out our Integrations Compatibility Guide.

Core Platform Compatibility

With the Sidebar 15, we present the brand-new Sidebar batch checking feature. With this feature, you can use the Sidebar to batch check directly in your editing environment. Learn more about how it works in Batch Check Your Content with the Sidebar.

Log4Shell

Core Platform version 2021.12 contains a Log4j version update to 2.16.0 in order to remediate the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046) vulnerabilities without the need for further mitigation steps.

If you're a Cloud customer, you don't need to worry. We’ve already taken the necessary steps to secure your instance.

For Standard Stack, you’ve already received steps to remediate the vulnerability in your current deployment.

If the Acrolinx Private Cloud isn't an option for you, this is the combination of software that we support for Acrolinx installations. It's tested, supported, and works best in production.

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Acrolinx works best with the software listed in the "Recommended" column, but you can use it with all of the versions listed below.

Good news for Targets users: we've improved the German guidance package. We've added highly requested guidelines for Clarity (Verständlichkeit), Consistency (Einheitlichkeit), and Tone (Ton) to our standard guidance package for German.

We’re happy to announce that you can use the first version of the Inclusive Language goal in Japanese. This goal covers guidelines for Respectful Language and Accessibility.

New and experienced Acrolinx users alike might need a refresher every now and again. That's why we've created the Acrolinx Walkthrough. This handy tool helps you navigate the wonderful world of Acrolinx–whether you want more background on your setup or wonder how Acrolinx even runs a check.

You might use it to:

When you set the checking language to Japanese in the Sidebar, the quotation mark tags didn't render correctly. Instead of「 and 」, you saw " and ". This small hiccup might not have been a showstopper, but it certainly wasn't correct. Now, you'll see the right quotation characters when your checking language is Japanese.

When you tried to open a Scorecard that you didn't create or have the privilege to view, you might've gotten some mixed messages. Our help text was a little misleading and included an outdated link. We've cleared this up for you. Now, if you can't access a Scorecard, you'll have a better sense of why.

We've added some extra checks to the upload process for database backups. This gives you an enhanced layer of security against cross-site scripting vulnerabilities when you upload files.

Now, you see them...now you don't. By some sleight of hand, you couldn't see deprecated variants of preferred terms in the “Deprecated” tab of a Targets Scorecard. This happened when you sorted by "Term" in the Words and Phrases goal. But when you ordered terms by "Occurrence", your terms would be right back where they belonged. This wasn't a ghost but a bug. So, we've fixed it. You'll now see deprecated variants in the “Deprecated” tab when you sort by "Term" in the Words and Phrases goal.

As a Standard Stack user, you might've missed the Configuration Properties page in the Dashboard. We heard you! The Configuration Properties page is available for the built-in user admin again.

We don't like it when you have to grope in the dark, especially when we can shine more light onto something. So, we've decided to give you more information. When you load the classic view of the Acrolinx Dashboard through a reverse proxy with single sign-on (SSO), you now get a shiny message about your connection status. It looks like this:

The Sidebar cards and Analytics shine in every color of the rainbow! These colors help you to identify the goals that your issues relate to. But the Words and Phrases goal was displayed in pink instead of blue. As much as we like pink, it led to some confusion. We've given Words and Phrases a fresh coat of paint. Whether you're looking at your Sidebar or Analytics, you'll see it in a shade of blue. Learn more about the color coding of the Sidebar cards in The Sidebar Card Guide.

There was an issue where Acrolinx didn't exclude terms in specific contexts from your check. For a small subset of contexts, this meant that Acrolinx highlighted terms in the Words and Phrases goal even though it should've ignored them. We took care of this. Acrolinx will exclude terms based on the configuration of the Target.

We usually don't scream at each other, but you might have other reasons to write in all caps. In rare cases, Acrolinx didn't highlight all-uppercase terms as spelling issues even when there was an actual issue. That's fixed now. ALL GOOD!

Sometimes the sign-in page would magically disappear. We thought we'd fixed this with the 2021.07 release, but the blank page issue returned. Spooky! This time, we took proper care of it.

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Acrolinx works best with the software listed in the "Recommended" column, but you can use it with all of the versions listed below.

When you tried to share a term filter with Targets, the Term Browser didn't always play nice. Sometimes you thought you'd shared a filter, but you got an error message when you tried to use it. Because it wasn't shared, Acrolinx couldn't check the terminology that you added to your Words and Phrases goal. But you don't have to worry about this anymore! The next time you try to share a filter with Targets, everything should work as expected.

We're fans of customizability, but in some cases custom fields would steal the spotlight completely. When a custom field was especially long, it would throw off the UI in the "User Information" section of the Dashboard Settings page. We've taken care of this. You won't run into any UI hiccups the next time you try to add a long custom field.

If you use multiple IdPs you can now choose the order of your sign-in buttons on the sign-in screen. Contact Acrolinx Support to get started.

When you deleted a user in the past, the filters they owned didn't get deleted. Instead, the filters continued to exist but no one could edit or delete them. This also made it tough to create a similar filter for an active user because you couldn't reuse the deleted user's filter names. We've improved this. The next time you remove a user, Acrolinx will also delete the filters that the user owns.

With the launch of Targets, we removed the document details heading from the Scorecard. We've brought it back! The next time you open your Scorecard with Targets enabled, you'll see the name of the content you just checked in the top-right corner.

When you tried to look at the charts and detail links on the Content Analysis dashboard, some of them didn't show results. We've fixed this. You can now see the relevant checking data in all charts and detail links.

When you used Core Platform versions 2021.04 to 2021.06 with CCMS integrations like AEM or Drupal, you couldn't always open your Scorecard. This isn't the case anymore. The next time you try to open a Scorecard in one of these integrations, you'll have no problems.

In rare cases, the Acrolinx Dashboard opened to an empty page. You could only view it after a refresh. We've fixed this so that the Dashboard displays as intended when you open it.

Sometimes when you tried to sign in to an Acrolinx Integration via External Authentication, you had to click the sign-in button twice. There might've even been cases where you had to sign in twice before you could use an integration. You don't have to worry about this. When you try to sign in again, it'll work as expected.

If you've enabled Targets, you might've noticed that no license information was available in the "Administrative Information" section of the Scorecard. This is fixed. You can now see your license information in the Scorecard.

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Acrolinx works best with the software listed in the "Recommended" column, but you can use it with all of the versions listed below.

Want to set up a fully automated user management solution? Our new User Management API can help. It consists of the User API and Roles API endpoints and lets you integrate the Acrolinx Platform into your existing user management infrastructure. You can use it to read, create, update, and delete users. Check out the Acrolinx Platform API documentation to learn more.

The guidance wizard can now do its magic with Targets enabled. We've also made a few updates.

You can now use it to configure a lot more guidance! Along with the standard grammar and style guidance, for example, you can also tailor guidance across all goals. Head over to our documentation for more information.

Previously, the issue cards in the Sidebar showed the same required/recommended status as their corresponding goals. While you can usually assume that all issues will have the same status as the overarching goal, this isn't always true. In some cases, a specific issue within a goal can have a different status. For example, analysis issues can be a part of "required" goals, but the analysis issues themselves never count toward the score — they're always "recommended". To account for this, we show the status of the issues themselves. Analysis issues, for example, are now clearly labeled as "recommended".

Before Targets, you could always add the name of a writing guide or Checking Profile to the Dashboard section Content Profiles > Criteria > Advanced. This was a problem with Targets enabled, because there wasn't a place to add the name of your Target. We've changed this. When you use Acrolinx with Targets, you'll now see "Target" in place of "Checking Profile / Writing Guide".

You might want different departments within your company to sign in with different identity providers (IdPs). This is especially useful if you have contract employees. Until now, you couldn't use more than one IdP with the Core Platform. So, we've added support for up to 5 IdPs.

When you tried to navigate to a details table in the Guidance Overview dashboard, you might've ended up with an empty table. We've fixed this. You'll now see summary information for the goal you clicked when you open a Details table.

You might've only seen results for the Clarity goal when you reviewed your Score Roll-Up dashboard. This is no longer the case. No matter which goals you check with, you can now see all of the corresponding results in the Score Roll-up Analytics dashboard.

When you wanted to assign Targets to your content contributors, you could do so based on any custom field. This shouldn't have been possible, so we've fixed it. You can now assign Targets based on a role, username, or custom field set to "List".

On rare occasions, the Core Platform would crash when you used certain invalid XML characters. We've fixed this. The XML characters no longer trigger a crash.

If you use external authentication, you might've gotten stuck in a loop when you tried to grant access to an application after sign-in. Sometimes, you'd get sent back to the sign-in screen repeatedly. We've fixed this. You won't have to sign in again after you grant an application access to your Acrolinx account.

In some cases, you couldn't completely sign out of the Sidebar. When you signed out and signed in again, you'd see a message on the browser access confirmation page that said "You're already signed in as <username>. To switch accounts, sign out". We've fixed this. The next time you sign out of the Sidebar and try to sign back in, it'll work as expected.

It's been a while since we've changed the Acrolinx Findability UI, so you'll see a few updates. The "Discovered Keywords" and "Target Keywords" have new icons, and we've given the keyword card an updated look.

We've adjusted the minimum session timeout for the Acrolinx Dashboard and the Term Contributor. You'll now need to set the timeout to at least 2 minutes. If your current custom setting is below 2 minutes, it'll automatically change to 2 minutes with 2021.06. The default session timeout setting is still 30 minutes.

Instead of loading all Targets/languages into memory at once, we now use stream handling to merge new and existing data when you use Targets . This uses less memory, so you don't need to worry about memory issues when you have a large number of Targets.

The default DITA Content Profile that came with guidance packages before 2021.05 didn't show the name of the topic location in the Acrolinx Sidebar. However, with the release of 2021.05 you can now see the location of the issue, so you can manually change it.

From 2021.05, any guidance packages will include a default DITA Content Profile that Acrolinx uses to check the name of the topic location. So, you can keep an eye on everything. If you’re using a Core Platform version before 2021.05, you'll need to make a little tweak if you have customized DITA Content Profiles. Follow the steps in Acrolinx for Oxygen - What You Can Check to get started.

We heard you! It looks like the help text for the administrative sign-in when federated authentication is enabled wasn't too helpful. We've improved the wording to make it clearer.

With our switch to a containerized deployment, the Server ID no longer had any useful information. That's why we’ve removed the Server ID from the overview of servers table in the Servers section.

Since they aren't useful for most scenarios, we've removed the Stop all servers button from the servers overview and the Stop server button from the individual server pages. As a Standard Stack user, you might need to stop or restart the Core Platform in rare cases. Learn how to button up those situations without the buttons.

Ever looked at the Performance Monitoring section in the Acrolinx Dashboard? No? Neither have we. With the launch of our containerized deployment method, we jumped at the chance to remove a few little-used Dashboard sections. Now, less is more in the Maintenance section.

As we mentioned, less is more. If you're a fan of advanced configurations, you might miss the Configuration Properties in the Maintenance section of the Acrolinx Dashboard. We've removed it to adapt to our containerized deployment. But don't worry, we've got you covered! Cloud customers, you can reach out to our Support Team directly for any special configurations. If you're a Standard Stack user, you can still change configuration properties settings manually through the overlay. No need to panic, we’ve only removed the UI.

We've treated this release as an opportunity to streamline the Maintenance section even more. Another little-used section was the Logs section. With the removal of this section, we've taken another step toward a neat dashboard.

With the big cleanup, we've removed two rarely used advanced terminology configuration features. These features are the ability to localize categories, list items, and field names and to view term search logging. We also did this to make the containerization of the platform possible.

We've changed the availability of reporting database backups created via the Database Backups page in Analytics. If you create a backup, make sure to download and save it immediately. Once you restart the Core Platform, the backup won’t be available. Same goes for any uploaded backups. After you upload a backup, make sure you restore it immediately. Uploaded backups won’t be available once you restart the Core Platform. Visit Analytics and Reporting Database Backups for more information.

If you use Standard Stack, you can no longer edit the threshold.xml file via <INSTALL_DIR>\server\www\xsl. Don't worry, it's still possible to overlay this file to access the thresholds features in non-Targets mode. To do this, just create a new version of the file in an overlay in your configuration directory.

You might've seen our 404 page more than usual. Even though we're fond of our new design, we prefer that Acrolinx displays the information you're looking for. We've fixed this so you get all the information you need.

There were several minor issues in the Status Details table, which you'll find linked from the Trends, Content Comparison, and Content Alignment dashboards. Some headers went missing, and the first rows of the table were empty. We caught the little runaways and brought them back to the table.

There were two bugs in the Guidance Overview dashboard in Analytics. The parameter that defined the time scope of the dashboard was set to the beginning of the year. It should've been set to the beginning of the current month to ensure that the dashboard loads faster. There was also an issue where two charts in the Guidance Overview dashboard were always empty. You only saw this in the 2021.03 and 2021.04 releases. We've fixed both bugs, so you can view everything in the Guidance Overview dashboard as intended.

In the past few Acrolinx versions, XML term filters in non-Targets mode didn't resolve in a containerized setup. We've fixed this. You can now use XML term filters again in non-Targets mode. Reminder: we've deprecated XML term filters with the Targets launch! Instead, you can use the term filter setup.

If the Acrolinx Private Cloud isn't an option for you, this is the combination of software that we support for Acrolinx installations. It's tested, supported, and works best in production.

If you run Acrolinx on a combination of these technologies, you can use the Standard Stack releases of the Core Platform.

Acrolinx works best with the software listed in the "Recommended" column, but you can use it with all of the versions listed below.

When you used Targets mode previously, you had to share term filters with the Term Browser to add them to your Words and Phrases goal. We've changed this. You can now choose to share term filters with the Term Browser, with Targets, or with both.

To find this option, go to Terminology > Search Filter and click the actions menu.

The Content Analysis dashboard lets you view the Guideline Details, Issues by Goal, and Content Analysis by Goals charts, but you couldn't filter them by goals or categories. We've improved this. You can now filter these charts by goal or category to take a closer look at the issues in your content.

Sometimes, the style of the "Administrative Login" button was a little misleading. That's why we’ve improved the UI of our sign-in screen when you use federated authentication. We made the administrative sign-in less prominent, but the added help icon makes clear who should use it. While we were at it, we updated the "sign-in" button to better match our color scheme. You'll see this on the Dashboard, Term Browser, and Term Contribution sign-in pages.

When you export and import terminology between systems, fields don't always get mapped correctly. This can make some IDs look a little funny when you import them to Acrolinx. The good news? We've added a style sheet to help with this! The “Non-numeric IDs” style sheet helps you find terms with broken IDs. This style sheet will be available in all guidance packages from this release forward Learn more about managing terminology data with Acrolinx..

Lost in translation? Some terms in Targets only appeared in English. We've fixed this. You can now see all menu items in your selected interface language.

You might've noticed that the link to the Acrolinx Privacy Policy was missing from the sign-in app. This was, of course, not intended. We've now added it back.

You can no longer guess the URL of a term import log. This makes things more secure, especially when you don't use an access token to secure your log downloads.

We've updated the Current Avg. Acrolinx Score in the Trends dashboard to more closely match the averages in the Trends chart. Now, you'll always see the average Acrolinx Score for the current month instead of a cumulative average.

You'll still see a cumulative average Acrolinx Score on the Content Alignment dashboard, so we've updated the label to make that clear.

When you edited a role, you'd only see the "Dashboard" privilege group for a short time before it closed and you couldn't expand it again. This happened when you selected the "Edit Targets" privilege. We've fixed this. Now, you can see and expand the "Dashboard" privilege group without any issues.

You might've had some trouble with popup blockers when you tried to navigate between the classic and modern views of the Acrolinx Dashboard. We've fixed this, so you can smoothly navigate between both views.

A few pesky bugs in the Targets Scorecard affected the styling and ordering of guidance. The Scorecard you get when you have Targets enabled is pretty and works as expected.

We've also fixed a link in the request validator, so you can now open the XML Scorecard from the Request Validator.

Did a new tab magically open when you signed out of the Dashboard? That wasn't to motivate you to sign in again. We've fixed that confusing bug. A separate tab no longer opens after you successfully sign-out of the classic and modern views.

Targets bring you the guidance you've waited for! When updating to Targets, you’ll have access to new guidance for Inclusive Language and Scannability. Both are goals that you can set in a Target.

Targets serve the same purpose as Checking Profiles (called Guidance Profiles in the Sidebar) and Writing Guides. Now, it's just easier for you to manage and tune your guidance.

Targets also come with a fresh, new look. We’re currently overhauling the Acrolinx Dashboard UI, and Targets is the first section to live in the modern view. Once you've updated to Targets, you can navigate between the classic and modern views of the Acrolinx Dashboard — without the need to sign in separately. The modern view is responsive across all supported browsers to give you a quality user experience in various desktop screen resolutions. Be on the lookout for more section makeovers throughout the year.

Want to use Targets now? We’ll translate your existing Checking Profiles into Targets. Reach out to your customer success manager to schedule your update. Let's start this together! We look forward to hearing from you.

News regarding our inline tutorials! You might've already noticed that we’ve changed a few things when it comes to our inline tutorial. To make the inline tutorials compatible with the modern view of the dashboard, we’ve moved the inline tutorial icon to the bottom-left side of the Acrolinx dashboard. We’ve also updated the color of the icon to make it all nice and shiny! Unfortunately, we also needed to change the display behavior. The inline tutorials are now only visible on screens that are wider than 1200px. If you’re using a smaller screen device, you can't see the tutorials.

We've added a built-in user for automatic terminology integrations that use the terminology API or the Term Transfer Tool. The termapiaccess user is for use with the Terminology API if API Token or federated authentication isn't possible. This user has the role “Terminology API Access“, which comes with permissions to access API-based terminology applications, sign in to the Dashboard, view and edit terms, change the status of a term, import and export terms, and restore and create database backups.

Was my username upper case? Maybe lower case? It shouldn't matter. Even so, you couldn't always sign in to the Acrolinx Dashboard due to different casing for usernames. More specifically, this happened when you used PingFederate authentication to sign in. We've fixed this, so you no longer have to worry about whether your username is case-sensitive.

Acrolinx has started to phase out support for most of the guidance settings options. The majority of them found a new home in Targets, others won't be available anymore. Reach out to your Acrolinx contact if you have any questions, or visit our Sunset Policy for more specific details.

Starting in 2021.02, we’ll drop dashboard support for Internet Explorer 11 due to low popularity and industry trends.