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1. Select multiple drivers in Outline
2. Click Menu -> Live -> Compare
3. Message appears: "No providers for action "Compare" exist"

Comparing multiple drivers at once works just fine when triggered from the context menu of the selection in Outline, though.

This is annoying on longer running reconcile operations over slow connections, as one has to monitor Designer during the whole process and hit "Restart" every half a minute or so, otherwise reconcile pauses indefinitely.
Would be better to do all the updates in Edir first, then prompt for driver restarts in the end (preferably in a single prompt with tick-box selection rather than one prompt per driver as it is now).

Plain stupid:

Solution: only prompt to overwrite if an update is pending.

Found in: 4.8.4.01

In a project where package development is enabled, open Modeler, then open a DirXML-Script policy so the Script Editor becomes the active tab, Modeler stays open in background. Now create a new package version for any editable package, save and close the Script Editor tab. This will re-activate the Modeler view. In Outline try to find the newly created package version: not there anymore! Also running Package Catalog -> Upgrade Packages... does not show the new package version.

Workaround: close the Modeler view and reopen it: there it is...

Found in: 4.8.4.1

Designer keeps it policy editor DTDs in <designer install folder>/packages/com.novell.idm.policybuilder_*/DTD. Those DTDs are attached to DirXMLScript policies based on the IDM Server version as set in the project.

The 4.8.1 and 4.8.2 DTD are buggy and cannot be loaded, thereby breaking code completion in XML Source editor.

Known workarounds:

1. replace the 4.8.1 and 4.8.2 DTD with the corrected versions in https://github.com/lhaeger/IDM-Designer-Bugs-and-Workarounds/tree/main/Workarounds/%233
2. copy the 4.8.3 DTD over the 4.8.1 and 4.8.2 files
3. set the server version in the project to 4.8.3 for servers that still run 4.8.1
4. manually change the version number in the first line of the XML doc in <!DOCTYPE...> from 4.8.1/2 to 4.8.3