New Year, new interface for EDMS!

Some of you may already have made the leap to the new EDMS6 interface and be benefitting from the additional functionality and new design it has to offer. But for those who haven’t, you will be able to do so as of Wednesday 28 January when EDMS6 becomes the default interface. 

EDMS is the de facto interface for all engineering related data and more. There are currently more than 1.5 million documents and over 2 million files stored there. What’s new in EDMS6?

While we have kept the key concepts, we have introduced more functionality and improved navigation within the interface, allowing for better performance to help you in your daily work.

We have also added a personal slant to EDMS6 so that you can now customise your list of favourite objects. Modifying data in EDMS is much simpler, allowing you to view all object data in a single window. For example, files can be added to documents with a simple drag and drop and you can now request access to documents directly from the owner, without going via EDMS support. These are just a couple of improvements among others that you will discover in EDMS6.

More information and tutorials regarding this interface can be found at the EDMS6 website.

The EDMS team hopes you will appreciate the new interface, however for those of you who still want the option to return to EDMS5, you can do so via the EDMS5 link in the top right hand corner of the interface. Please remember that the data in EDMS5 and EDMS6 are identical, so anything created or modified in one interface will be visible in the other and vice versa. For more information, see "How to go back to EDMS5?"

Should you have any comments, suggestions or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at edms.support@cern.ch.