OSD release notes

Version 4.0 - October 2024

Online Standards Development - stage coverage

• Online Standards Development is now available for Approval and Publication stages for a limited number of pilot projects
• Improved submission process when the committee works in an online draft: Asset Library now available in Projects with all graphics, including display and revisable files. Committee Manager no longer need to submit graphics at submission stages.

New Asset management System

• For each graphic, the user can now upload in the online document its Display file (= the image uploaded in the online draft) and its Revisable files (the source file from which the image has been produced)
• The list of supported file formats have been extended
• New tab in Projects called Asset library allowing to view all the assets of the project
• Assets now follows the lifecycle of the online document, i.e. past versions of the online document will show the corresponding past version of the assets (i.e. images)

For more information view: New Asset Management System for OSD - FAQ

Commenting

• Ability to edit an existing comment and add or remove the proposed change
• Add the possibility to draft a resolution in the "Comments to resolve" panel
• Comments’ number included in the export report

Member commenting – Option A

• Improved mapping between the developing committee and  NMC in the Global Directory. NMCs no longer need to map the WG to get access to the online document during member commenting process (CD Consultation, DIS and FDIS ballot: NMC mapping with ISO Committees

Content Quality:

• Structural checks, such as hanging paragraph, are now in the content quality module.
• It is now possible to ignore a rule from the Content Quality module (only for ISO CS Editors)

Other improvements and bug fixes

• Bibliographic and normative reference:  
  • Bug fixed when converting a bibliographic reference to normative triggering a misleading modal 
  • Bug fixed in references containing ":" preventing to display reference details
  • Warning modal when deleting the last link to reference in the "delete reference" modal Modal references normative/biblio - updated query based on projects (avoiding duplicate lines)
• Update formulae's key table layout in OSD editor (from 50%/50% to 20%/80%)
• Search  (Ctrl+F) bug fixed  in the editor
• Comment card may submit text field with null value
• Auto-numbering shows ERROR if document is not loaded and sibling is overwritten  (SD)
• Bug fix with comment number in the export of comment
• Integration of Fonto release 8.9 https://www.fontoxml.com/blog/fonto-8-9-short-and-sweet/
• ISOCS Editors can remove a section containing not supported element

Version 3.70 - May 2024

Authoring

• New: dimension attribute on figures: Add and Manage figures
• Improved workflow to add references: Add or modify normative and bibliography references
• Cross-references now possible on notes and examples: In-document (cross-) references

Member Commenting

• New: Voter can pause the commenting phase during CD Consultation and DIS ballot: Pause Commenting

Create and manage Project team

• Improved process to set up project team by leaders: Setting up Project Team

Bugs fixes

• Performance improvements
• Improved import of comments process "upload from file"

Version 3.60 - December 2023

Authoring

• Improvements to tables
• Improvements to numbered paragraphs behavior
• New formatting options for text
• Improve search features
• Review of labelling to reference to Directives Part 2
• Performance and bug fixes

Editing

• Improved integration of OSD with ISO/CS editing processes

Version 3.50 - October 2023

Authoring

• New behavior for headers of tables, with a default bolding, formatting now possible including line breaks
• New attribute for landscape layout for specific elements (table-wrap, fig and fig-group)
• New element / configuration : Inline code
• Table footnotes won’t appear anymore in overview
• It is now possible to cross reference figure groups and sub elements.
• New type in term addition/part of speech = Not set which will be now the new “default” option

Document history

• Change of the label "Milestone" to "Version" in interface text
• New feature enabling major and minor versions in the versions panel.

Commenting

• Voter can now save draft resolution in Comments to resolve tab

Bugs fixes

• Abbreviations list sorting improvement
• Numbering improvements
• Performance improvements

Version 3.40 - June 2023

Online Standards Development - stage coverage

• Online Standards Development is now available for Enquiry stage for a limited number of pilot projects

Document history and versioning

• New document history feature to enable drafters to save and compare versions of the document throughout the development of the document
  • Save snapshot(s) at any time during a specific stage
  • Automatic versioning of the document when project change stage

Commenting

• Label change for supporting /not supporting a comment or proposal

Authoring improvements and bug fixes

• Improvement in managing clauses:
  • New warning message informing that removing a clause will also remove all related sub-clause
  • New warning message informing that a clause containing un-resolved comments cannot be removed
• Box text are no longer available
• Bug fixes

Version 3.30 - April 2023

Online Standards Development - stage coverage and project activation

• Online Standards Development is now available for preliminary and proposal stage
• Committee Managers can activate the Online Document mode for new project directly from ISO Projects
• New Online Document tab available in ISO Projects 

Member commenting: Improved access for NMCs managed in GD

• Automatic access to the Online CD draft by NMCs managed in GD
• Improved support for ISOlutions members during member commenting process

Content Quality improvements

• New visual help to identify unsupported structure such as hanging paragraph

Authoring, commenting improvements and bug fixes

• Term entry update - A term and definition is now required at minimum to validate the entry
• Notes for equations are now possible
• Possibility to add sub-clauses in terminology
• A motivation is now required when submitting comments to ISO (accept national comment)
• Bug fixes

Version 3.20 - February 2023

Member commenting improvements: Upload directly as national comments, discard national comments, draft resolutions, enhanced comments dashboard, improved comment card display

• Modified comments and proposal card layout with easier fit in smaller screens
• National comments card classified by a different color in stage 30.20, for easier identification of comments made by national contributors vs comments submitted as "National" comments
• Possibility to discard national comments (make un-national)
• Possibility to submit comments as "national" comments while loading comments from file
• Possibility to save "Drafts resolutions" before submitting final resolution.
• Improved Manage comments dashboard
• Improved filters for searching comments
• Improved UI
  • Visibility of user's role in the online draft
  • Improved drag and dropping
  • Comment bubbles are visible by default in read only mode
• Improved terminology
• Improved feature for reusing resolutions
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 3.10 - December 2022

Authoring and rendering improvements: Sub figures, numbered paragraphs content quality rules, and performance improvement 

• New element introduced: Figure containing sub figures
• Possibility to create numbered paragraphs under clause level
• It is now possible to add notes to figures
• It is now possible to sort abbreviations lists
• Content quality rules
  • Reorganization of categories
  • Implementation of new rules, based on Directives part 2 and ISO IEC House styles
• Bibliographic references of standards now include a label in addition to the reference number
• Performance improvement
• Bug fixes

Version 3.07 - September 2022

Enhancements to member commenting features

• Changes have been made to how national contributors from the same country can engage with one another's comments in the OSD platform
  • National contributor comments are now visible to other national contributors (from the same NSB) as soon as they are placed.
  • National contributors can react to (agree or disagree with) and support (reply to) one another's comments
• Technical upgrade
  • Bug fixes

Version 3.0 - June 2022

New member commenting features, comment resolution features and UI enhancements

Member commenting features:

With the release of this version, the OSD platform can now support the member commenting process on ISO and IEC International Standards during Committee Stage. The OSD member commenting process and options available to members are detailed in the article Member Commenting - Getting Started. New features of the platform includes:

• New National commenting permissions management board for voters
• Voter(s) can submit national comments to ISO (make national) 
• Voter(s) can upload experts comments from ISO/IEC commenting template

Comment resolution features enhancements:

• Edit resolved comment
• Resolve multiple comments/proposal at once (bulk resolution)
• Reuse a resolution for a new comment
• Move comments within the document

Commenting:

• Comments are now directly visible to other members of the WG during the Preparatory stage to improve collaboration.

UI enhancement:

• Outline (navigation menu) now available on the left side of the draft
• Track changes, Comments & Proposals, and Quality check options are now available in a collapsible and expandable “bubble" toolbar on the top right hand corner.
• New resolve comments tab available for leaders
• Content quality check, Comments &Proposals and Track changes are deactivated by default and need to be manually activated by the users at every login.
• Manage comments dashboard can be accessed from new button on the top menu bar.
• New widget in the Manage comments dashboard to display the number of comments per country (only visible at committee stage)
• New icon for comments that have lost their position

Version 2.0.4 - April 2022

UI changes:

• The following options are now available from the Tools menu
  • Manage permissions
  • View commenting mode
  • Export comments and resolutions
• It is also now possible to export comments resolutions into the commenting file for projects in stage 20.60

Version 2.0 - February 2022

Enhanced commenting and comment resolution features and technical upgrade:

• New manage comments dashboard: There is a new Manage comments dashboard available in the platform. From this dashboard, Leaders can get an overview of comments placed on their draft. Leaders can also manage tags, and topics from the dashboard, to classify and group comments in order to streamline the resolution process.
• Enhanced comment resolution
  • Resolve multiple comments and proposals at the same time
  • Select from a list of existing motivations while resolving comments and proposals
• Enhanced commenting
  • Possibility to classify comments by topics
  • Improved display of comments and proposals in the Comments tab to facilitate comments readability and resolution.
• Possibility to set the size for figures, images, and tables
• Content Quality
  • New content quality rule to detect terms not yet cross referenced in the publication
  • New content quality rules based on ISO/IEC dictionaries for pattern recognition
• Technical upgrade
  • Performance improvement
  • Bug fixes

Version 1.6 - December 2021

Enhanced authoring and collaboration features and technical upgrade:

• New alternative numbering scheme: The platform now supports both numbering schemes (default and alternative numbering) defined in the ISO/IEC directives. The numbering scheme needs to be defined at the time of onboarding. To change your current auto-numbering scheme contact helpdesk@iso.org
• Terms and Definitions
  • Quick term creation from any word in the draft along with automatic cross referencing
  • Possibility to link a word in the publication (Cross referencing) to a terminological entry
  • Possibility to create Term entries at 3rd level
• New element: possibility to create Abbreviated terms lists
• Collaboration features
  • Unlock all clauses (for Leaders only) 
  • Unlock all my clauses: users can unlock all clauses locked by themselves.
• Technical upgrade
  • Performance improvement
  • Bug fixes

Version 1.5.4 - November 2021

WD Study process and Permissions management:

• New WDS ballot introduced
• UI for Leaders to manage permissions at stage 20.00 and 20.60
• Management of transversal and vertical roles
  • Parent committee officers will have read only access to the draft
  • Sibling committee officers will have read only access to the draft

Version 1.5.1 - October 2021

Improved commenting features:

• Unique identifier number automatically applied to comments for easy referencing
• UTC and local time automatically applied to comments placed
• Possibility to Agree/Disagree (via a button click) with comments
• Improved management of comments on locked clauses
• Improved management of tags by leaders
• Automatic resolution of proposed changes when accepted.
• New comment filtering options: filter by commentor's name, date, element type (e.g. table, figure, formula)

Bug fixes and other improvements

Version 1.5.0 - September 2021

Bug fixes and performance improvements

Improved authoring features:

• Improved numbering (Introduction, notes, examples, Annexes, Bibliography)
• New feature to enable cross references to list items
• Improved table authoring and styling
• Improved terminology management

Improved user interface:

• Improved visualization of lock statuses in the sheet frame headers of clauses

Content quality:

• Spell checker now available from the content quality check

Comment and comment resolution

• Export comments and/or resolution to excel

Version 1.4 - July 2021

Commenting | Read more: Add comments and proposals, Manage tags

• Possibility to create proposed change (including motivation field)
• Proposed change available on any element
• Specific proposed changes for equations and figures
• Possibility to tag comments with custom labels
• Feature for leaders to create and manage custom tags
• New filter pane available to review comments

Comment resolution | Read more: Resolve comments

• New resolution types available to reflect directives
• Possibility to apply proposed changed automatically (Text, Equations and Figures)

Export to Word:

• Export to word available for Project Leader

Version 1.3 - June 2021

• Document Structure | Read more: Manage clauses, Add annexes
  • The Structure menu at the top is no longer available.
  • Possibility to create clauses, sub-clauses, term entries, and additional annexes with one button click. 
  • Adding clauses and sub clauses from Foreword, and Normative references is no longer possible.
• Outline: Drag and Drop Clauses | Read more: Manage clauses
  • An appropriate message is displayed when drag and drop action for a clause via the Outline tab is not allowed.
• Removing mandatory clauses | Read more: Manage clauses
  • Mandatory clauses such as Foreword and Normative References can no longer be removed.
• Commenting mode | Read more: Visualization tools
  • A new mode called Commenting mode to view the document is now available. This mode has limited features enabled: 
    • Possibility to view the document in read only mode.
    • The right hand panel is by default collapsed. It contains only the following tabs: Outline, Comments, and Search.
    • In this mode, it is only possible to comment on the document
  • This is the only mode available to users with Contributor permissions.
  • Users with Leader and Author permissions can switch between default view/edit mode and review mode.
• Terminological entries | Read more: Terms and definitions
  • Terminological entries can be inserted from anywhere in the document. 
  • The Term entry will automatically be added under clause 3 Terms and Definitions
• Tables | Read more: Manage tables
  • Enhanced possibility to format tables.
  • Cell(s) selection using mouse drag and drop is possible.
• Normative References | Read more: Normative and Bibliographic references
  • Possibility to filter and search by organization while inserting a normative reference.
• Authoring | Read more: Copy, cut and paste, Add text elements
  • Possibility to copy paste of hyperlinks from external application such as MS Word.
  • Inserting symbols adds the symbol to a list of recently used symbols for easier inserting later.
• Content Quality | Read more: Content quality check
  • Quality check tab is no longer available on the right side.
  • Quality check options are now available under Tools menu.
  • Content quality options are now JIT (Just in time) compatible, ensuring that it is activated for entire document and not just for currently loaded clauses.
  • Content quality can be filtered by categories.

Version 1.2 - March 2021

• Technical upgrade

Version 1.1 - January 2021

• Table styling
  • The options to manage the layout of tables have been enriched with borders, border styles and colors.
  • It is now possible to choose a set of cells / rows / columns on which you want to apply this styling.
  • All options are available via the "TABLE STYLING" menu:
• Outline improvements
  • It is now possible to see in the outline the clauses that you are currently locking.
  • Improvements have been made when moving clauses in the outline. It is possible to move unloaded clauses.
• Improvements to normative / Bibliographic references: 
  • Management of normative/bibliographic references to journals, books, websites,
  • Possibility to delete existing references from the Clause 2 and the Bibliography, with a control on the presence of the reference in the tex
• Minor improvements & Bug fixing
  • Improvements in managing Footnotes, copying and pasting footnotes.
  • Improvements to the search engine.
  • Improvements to lists and lists behaviors.
  • Improvements to the management of terminological entries.
  • Numbering improvements.
  • Bug fixing, performance improvements.