Deprecated, obsolete or restricted in Content Manager
A list of prerequisites and functionality that are deprecated, obsolete or restricted in Content Manager.
Generally, RWS provides platform support for up to two versions of any given platform to provide more flexibility in how organizations incorporate vendor changes. Typically, RWS provides support for the latest and previous version of a third party platform. This previous version is implicitly marked as deprecated.
- Since Content Manager 15.1
- The support for the following software components is deprecated in this release: no software is deprecated in this release.
- Since Content Manager 15
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The support for the following product features has become obsolete in this release:
- The Tridion Docs web client is replaced with the new Organize Space user interface.
- The Batch Import tool has been removed from Content Manager following the recent improvement and development of Content Importer.
- The pre-translation functionality (that is, pre-translating a topic in Content Manager, using previous translations of the topic in its current context, before sending it out to be translated) has been removed from Content Manager.
- The pull translation functionality (that is, Translation Management where topics, Library Topics and images inherit target languages from the maps that contain them) has been removed from Content Manager, in favor of push translation management, typically done on publications by Translation Jobs.
- The DITA-OT reference output format IshHtmlHelp has been removed, because it no longer works with Java 17, the only supported Java version. Use the DITA-OT plugin for HTML Help instead.
- The Collaborative Review feature (previously known as Reach) is now obsolete.
- The Content Editor feature is now obsolete.
- Content Manager 15.0.0 no longer uses COM+ or Classic ASP technology. Apart from the email notification feature, which is now obsolete, all other functionality using these technologies has been reimplemented.
- The User Generated Content (UGC) feature of Content Delivery is obsolete as from Tridion Docs 15. As a result, the Commenting Dashboard on the Content Manager side and commenting in DXA for Dynamic Documentation are obsolete. The Commenting Dashboard that was available in the web client is not available in its replacement, Organize Space.
- Since Content Manager 14 SP4
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The support for the following software components is deprecated in this release:
- DITA-OT reference output format IshHtmlHelp
- Pull translation functionality (that is, Translation Management where topics, Library Topics and images inherit target languages from the maps that contain them)
- Oxygen v20 and below.
- Since Content Manager 14 SP3
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The support for the following software components is deprecated in this release:
- Arbortext Editor
- Condition Management - Synchronize functionality
- Since Content Manager 14 SP2
- The UGC feature of Content Delivery is deprecated as of Tridion Docs 14 SP2. As a result, the Commenting Dashboard on the Content Manager side and commenting in DXA for Dynamic Documentation is also deprecated.
- Since Content Manager 14 SP1
- Integrations to the Collaborative Review component (previously also known as Reach) are disabled in the user interface and configuration. This means no Collaborative Review originating comments in Publication Manager, no possibility to publish or synchronize to Collaborative Review and more. The component Collaborative Review was deprecated earlier. The alternative is Collective Spaces, Review Space in particular.
- Since Content Manager 14
- The Batch Import tool is now obsolete. This feature have been removed from Content Manager following the recent improvement and development of Content Importer.
- Since Content Manager 13 SP2
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Due to the complete removal of legacy code from Content Manager 13.0.2, the earliest version from which you can upgrade directly to Tridion Docs 13 SP2 is SDL LiveContent 2013 (released with Architect 10.0.0). Upgrading from earlier versions requires that you first upgrade to SDL Knowledge Center 2016 (released with Content Manager 12.0.0).
The support for the following software components is obsolete in this release:- Microsoft SQL Server 2014
- Java Runtime 10.0.1 (64-bit)
- Java Development Kit 10.0.1 (64-bit)
- Eclipse Help (output format)
- Since Content Manager 13 SP1
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There are exceptional evolutions for software support in the 13 SP1 release. One of them is the new support for 64-bit versions of XML Editors and at the same time the obsolescence of any 32-bit versions of those tools.
Because of the changes in software support, upgrading to Content Manager 13.0.1 from any earlier version makes the following versions obsolete:- Windows 7 32-bit
- JustSystems XMetaL 10.0 / 10.0 (Japanese) (32-bit)
- JustSystems XMetaL 11 and any 32-bit version
- <oXygen/> XMLAuthor/Editor 17 and any 32-bit version
- Arbortext Editor 7.0 and any 32-bit version
- Since Content Manager 13
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Translation review flow:
- The simple translation review flow, without the approval step, is deprecated when WorldServer and TMS are set with a REST API protocol. It is however possible to maintain the old flow removing the approval steps from the out-of-the-box version of the flow.
- The simple flow without the approval step should be used with the file system or when WorldServer is set with a SOAP API protocol. Whenever 'rejected' objects need to be sent again for translation, however, you need to either submit everything again for translation with the Include items already sent... checkbox selected, or manually change the rejected topics' status to In translation.
- In all cases, it is no longer possible to send Only previously rejected translation items.
- Since Architect 2013 (10.0.x)
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- Reusable Objects are marked as deprecated, Support will be removed from the code base. Please contact SDL Support to discuss your usage and legacy conversion. [TS-4673]
- Index Terms are Obsolete [TS-1232]
- Limited Batch Metadata Operations [TS-768]
- Client Tools using SSL might crash when using a URL that does not match the certificate
- Authoring Bridge for XMetaL on Windows Vista/7 machines you have to have full access to folders C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\XMetaL Shared and C:\Program Files (x86)\XMetaL 6.0 before doing the installation.
- The new WCF Web Services API deprecates the previous ASMX API. Although we continue to support the ASMX API in this release, it may be dropped in the next release. We strongly advise customers using the ASMX API to consider upgrading to the new API.