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Cradle is currently available in available in eight English/ English US, Chinese(zh), Dutch(nl), German(de), French(fr), Korean(ko), Russian(ru) and Welsh(cy), languages.
If there is a UI (User Interface) language you would like, please speak to us and we will quote for other translations. Alternatively you can add your own Language, Country or Regional variant. Use the supplied Message Catalogue Manager software tool in Cradle.
3SL Customers with active maintenance have been sent an e-mail notification of this release, and details of which enhancement requests and bug reports are in it.
Cradle-7.2 contains a range of new capabilities that are described in its release notes:
https://www.threesl.com/downloads/download.php?version=v7.2§ion=documentation&filename=rm00776-V72ReleaseNotes.pdf
Some of the highlights are:
Cradle-7.2 available from our website here: https://www.threesl.com/downloads/software.php
You need a new Security Code for Cradle-7.2, other Security Codes cannot be used. There is a database conversion from 7.1 to 7.2. The converter which run automatically if you install Cradle-7.2 ‘over the top of, in the same directory as, the earlier version of Cradle from which you are upgrading.
You must upgrade all Cradle installations to 7.2. Cradle-7.1 clients cannot connect to a Cradle-7.2 server, and a Cradle-7.2 server cannot serve Cradle-7.1 clients.
We hope that you will welcome the new capabilities in Cradle-7.2!
A (PFD) Process Flow Diagram, rather than Pancake Flow Diagram, can be used to model Each Process Flow Diagram (PFD) shows a particular tasks or processes that the system can perform. This is termed a flow. Systems may have many flows each of which may have simultaneous or optional elements.
Modelling the flow before you take action can ensure you have thought about, and documented the expected behaviour(s). It can be clear which parts of the system are operating in parallel and which could be bottlenecks awaiting the outcome of previous operations. However, modelling Shrove Tuesday’s pancakes may be a bit over the top…..
Cradle-7.1 has been certified for Citrix XenApp 7.6 and can be accessed through the Citrix Ready Marketplace: https://citrixready.citrix.com/structured-software-systems-ltd/cradle-7-1.html.
Cradle-7.1 integrates requirements management and systems engineering with full MBSE (including SysML, UML, BPM) for collaboration in agile and phase-based projects.
3SL’s Cradle is a tool to load, create, inter-link and publish information for all stages in a systems engineering project using agile, iterative or phase-based approaches and using any process. It is completely user-definable, scalable, flexible and secure. It can be deployed locally in your organisation or project, deployed to remote sites or partners, or delivered through SaaS from any private or public cloud. Cradle can support all your requirements management and systems engineering work in one tool, including:
Cradle is available as a range of single-user products and the multi-user Enterprise product that adds configuration management, unlimited scalability and floating and dynamic concurrent user licensing. All Cradle products can be customised to your project and to your process. Cradle Enterprise provides additional customisation facilities to replace large parts of the Cradle UI with your own start pages and phase hierarchy that optimise Cradle to your process and your way of working. You can define web UIs for each stakeholder group that present the information needed by each group with the features and controls needed by that group to do their work.
For more information, click here.
Sneek peek of a printout from the new Dashboard Dials coming to Cradle-7.2
Every organisation that deploys Cradle will want to satisfy itself that Cradle is safe to install. One free resource that can help is VirusTotal, at:
You can submit files or URLs to this free checking service and have it checked against a wide range of Anti-Virus (AV) products and resources. An example of a check of the Cradle Database Server (CDS), the file: crsvr.exe, is shown in the figure.
Wishing all a Happy New Year to all from the staff at 3SL.
Hope you all have a great year.
We are pleased to announce that we released Cradle-7.1.2 last month, with some useful new features and some fixes. We have sent announcement e-mails to all customers with active maintenance, and sent e-mails to the customers whose enhancements that have been added, and whose reported bugs have been fixed.
Some of the new features in this release are:
– Equipments in Physical Architecture Diagrams can be expanded to IDEF0 diagrams, as well as the other diagram types
– Faster processing of baseline operations to retire and reinstate items
– You can specify a date range for the change history entries to be shown in views
– A skill linked to an item type can provide RO access to all items of the type
– The External Command Interface includes new events for schema changes and operations on user profiles
If you upgrade to Cradle-7.1.2 anywhere, you must upgrade everywhere, the server and all clients.
Customers who purchased a single-user Cradle-7.1 product can also apply this new release.
See here https://youtu.be/bgiQQ0N8bV4 for a short summary of Cradle!
We are pleased to announce that our September newsletter 2016 is available here:
https://www.threesl.com/pages/news/webletter-September16/index.php
It conatins some useful tips regarding popup blockers and recommends the use of the history sidebar as a productivity aid.
We hope that you find it interesting and helpful!
We are pleased to announce that our August 2016 newsletter is available here:
https://www.threesl.com/pages/news/webletter-August16/index.php
which announces Cradle’s availability as SaaS services on G-Cloud 8:
https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/search?q=3sl&lot=saas
and our new systems requirements white paper, and includes technical notes on topics including login messages, environment variables on Windows 10, and the new anniversary update to Windows 10.
We hope that you find it interesting and helpful!