New features in version 9.2.0

When you create a canvas, you can now select multiple objects to include by choosing object types and filters. You can also choose the fields and colors for the canvas.

You can now mark canvases as favorites and display them in a new dashboard panel called Favorite Canvases.

For more information, see Adding a Favorite Canvases panel.

A new Canvas settings page is available for administrators where new canvas templates can be created and managed.

For more information, see Canvas templates.

You can now view PDF, text, and image files directly in OpenPages without downloading them. Files are rendered in an OpenPages tab to ensure content is no longer accessible when the session expires.

This preview feature improves document accessibility and security by allowing users to preview attachments without leaving the OpenPages interface or downloading files to their local system.

For more information, see Adding and managing all files (attachments).

You can now resize the Quick View side panels that open task views by using the mouse. The panel size is retained across different object types during your session.

For more information, see Opening a Quick View.

Administrators and end users can now hide workflow dashboard tabs that contain no data. When this option is enabled, tabs are hidden by default unless they contain items, reducing confusion for users who see multiple dashboard tabs.

Quick View behavior is improved for better usability.

For more information, see Open quick view on row click settings.

Date fields are now displayed in the user's time zone. This is different than timestamp fields. This enhancement follows the system date time zone support and ensures consistent date display across the application.

For more information on date fields, see Understanding system and non‑system date fields

For more information on configuring the setting, see Time zone conversion for non‑system date fields.

Local time zone settings are now reflected in workflow expressions for date variables such as [$TODAY$], and system workflow fields, ensuring consistent date display across workflow operations and activity logs.

You can now provide files as input to Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) AI operations. This capability allows supported AI models to analyze document content and use it to populate fields or perform analysis based on the uploaded files.

You can now access an embedded watsonx Orchestrate chat within OpenPages, enabling quick and intuitive interaction with AI Agents that can use tools from the OpenPages MCP Server, among others — without leaving the platform.

A new test page is available for custom AI model configuration to improve usability and validation. This feature addresses the challenge where clients previously had to wait until runtime to see model outputs and validate their JSONata mappings.

The MCP server is open source and can be deployed either locally or remotely. It provides a standardized interface that enables AI agents to perform operations on OpenPages objects, such as issues, risks, controls, and more.

Questionnaire templates now support multiple languages, allowing template authors to translate content and users to view questionnaires in their preferred language.

A possible use case is organizations with global operations can create questionnaire templates once and provide translations for different regions, ensuring users can complete assessments in their native language while maintaining consistent data collection across the organization.

This enhancement significantly improves accessibility and usability for international organizations using OpenPages questionnaires.

Questionnaire templates now support up to six levels of dependent questions, increased from the previous three-level limit. This allows you to create more complex assessment flows with deeper question hierarchies.

Questionnaires now support email and URL field formats as answer types. You can select these options when you configure question types. You will not be able to associate answers with email and URL fields.

Questionnaires now support user, group fields or user/group fields as answer types. You will not be able to associate answers with the user or group answer types.

You can now add, remove, or disable child relationships for both parent and children by selecting relationships in the grid. Multi-select is supported.

When enabled, tags are now available in Cognos reporting. You can add tags to your reports for better organization and categorization.

You can now schedule entity and non-entity move jobs for a custom date and time.

For more information, see Scheduling move and rename jobs.

System maintenance mode (SMM) is a new capability that provides an administrator with the ability to control “maintenance windows” allowing only a subset of users access to the system.

For more information, see System Maintenance Mode (SMM).

Simplify deployment and configuration management through the NEW configuration packaging capability.

Configuration packaging is a new capability that provides greater control over the existing Import/Export Configuration. It provides a grouping and lifecycle for managing selections of configuration changes from a source environment that can then be promoted and deployed to a target environment.

A new Sync feature has been added to the Workflow Instances page. When edits are made to stage‑level workflow properties, users can manually sync the workflow to ensure that the updates are applied to all active workflow instances currently in that stage.

You can now save records directly from helper applications without exiting the task view. This feature enables interim saves while working in helper applications, preventing data loss if sessions are unexpectedly terminated.

A use case can be when working in a helper application that collects extensive information, you can save your progress periodically without interrupting your workflow, ensuring data is preserved even if the session times out or other issues occur.

This enhancement significantly improves the user experience for helper applications by allowing users to save their work incrementally rather than risking data loss by having to complete all work before saving.

Keyboard accessibility is improved in the View Designer, ensuring better compliance with accessibility standards.

For more information about navigating in the View Designer with accessibility, see Defining and publishing views with the View Designer.

A new database function URL_REPLACE_FROM_REGISTRY is available for report authors. This function replaces relative URLs with fully qualified URLs, making links clickable in Cognos reports.

OpenPages 9.2 supports only Cognos 12.1.0 and higher 12.1.x. Support for Cognos 12.0.x and Java 8 on the report server is removed.