Day: 2 May 2018

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May 2018 Newsletter

May day, Mayday

Festival of Flora Roman goddess of flowers
Floralia

We most certainly mean May Day, not Mayday!  But have you ever stopped to think of the origins?

May day can be traced back to the Roman goddess of flowers Floralia, whose day was celebrated at the end of April. As secular celebrations became more popular, and with the calendar of the day, the 1st of May marked the first day of Summer.

From flowers to maypoles and crowning of the May Queen, a celebration of fertility and new life is now more commonly linked to the early holiday in May. (BTW the UK office will be closed on the 7th May 2018 as it is a bank holiday). The celebration is also closely aligned in the USA with Labor Day, a celebration of workers rights to fair and just working practice.

On the other hand the Anglicisation of the French  m’aider, meaning ‘help me’ is used as a verbalisation of S.O.S. We hope a phrase you never have to use. However, if you do feel your project is having a bit of a Mayday moment, maybe you need to ensure its all in Cradle and you have complete control of your requirements…….

Here at 3SL towers we’re celebrating the ‘New Life’ aspect with the birth of Cradle-7.4!

Cradle Version 7.4

Cradle 7.4 Logo
Cradle 7.4

3SL are pleased to announce the release of Cradle-7.4.

There are some really helpful new features to look out for, so watch the blog posts over the next few weeks.

Those with maintenance agreements may request to receive new security codes by email.

User 3SL30 for a £30 discount see https://www.threesl.com/blog/birthday-voucher-30/ ‎
Discount code

Those with Single User licences for 7.3 or before, or those wishing to purchase extra licences, may want to keep an eye open for a 30th Birthday discount. I can’t say too much but you might want to take note of this code. Ts&Cs apply

 

GDPR

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GDPR

Time is racing towards final implementations for GDPR.

Watch our website for the final policy updates. If you have any comments please get in touch.  social-GDPR@threesl.com !!

Social Media

Twitter

PNNL discover a way to capture Xenon
Xenon Catcher tweet

We love keeping an eye on what’s new with our customers and changing in the engineering community. A ‘vacuum cleaner’ for Xenon caught our eye.

We looked at long distance communication BI (Before internet) #AmateurRadio Day 2018 with a SysML (Systems Modelling Language) sd (sequence diagram).

Hints of the Month

Last month’s blog articles included:

Looking at how to control duplicate expansions on a Hierarchy Diagram (HID). And how to control the rules that allow or prevent those links in the first place.

 

You can read Hints & Tips in the 3SL Blog

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Cradle 7.4 – Now Available

We are pleased to announce the latest Cradle release!

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 7.4 logo
Cradle-7.4

New Capabilities

This release contains a range of new capabilities that are described in its release notes:
https://www.threesl.com/downloads/download.php?version=v7.4&section=documentation&filename=rm00780-V74ReleaseNotes.pdf

Some of the highlights are:

  • SMTP support – Cradle alerts on both Windows and Linux can be sent with a new  SMTP client.
  • Email Alert Templates – More comprehensive and tailor-able SMTP emails for alerts produced by Cradle.
  • Lifecycle Workflows – An extension to the Configuration Management System. This allows items to advance through a number of user defined stages.
  • Attribute Sets – Allows users to define a ‘unique’ identity based on more than one item attribute
  • Web Access Views – Now even closer to those you are familiar with in WorkBench
  • Forms – Collapsible panels, linked item filtering, an run a command button are all new here.
  • Views – Additional commands, linked item filtering get you the actions and items you need more easily.
  • Queries – More fields now support Regex formats for more flexibility
  • Hierarchy Diagrams – More colouring options to highlight the parts of the data you want to draw attention to.

Download

It is available from our website here:  https://www.threesl.com/downloads/software.php

You need a new Security Code for Cradle-7.4, other Security Codes cannot be used. There is a database conversion from 7.3 to 7.4. The converter will run automatically if you install Cradle-7.4 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 7.4. Cradle-7.3 clients cannot connect to a Cradle-7.4 server, and a Cradle-7.4 server cannot serve Cradle-7.3 clients.

We hope that you will welcome the new capabilities in Cradle-7.4!

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Birthday Voucher Discount

Celebrate 3SL’s 30th Birthday Year with a Discount

To help celebrate 3SL’s 30th year we’re offering £30** discounts*.

30th Birthday Cake
30th Birthday Discounts
* terms and conditions apply
** fixed equivalent € and $ available

We hope you’ll agree that Cradle is already a great value package in any of its single user or enterprise versions. It combines a hugely powerful Requirements Management tool for massively scalable requirements engineering, with Model Based Systems Engineering capabilities (MBSE). From the initial inception of  your project through the elicitation, analysis, design, testing and documentation phases of your project, Cradle is there to support you. With this birthday offer we’re giving you even better value, or offering to support a charity – see ‘Enterprise licences’.

Single User Product Discount

User 3SL30 for a £30 discount see https://www.threesl.com/blog/birthday-voucher-30/ ‎
3SL30 – Discount Voucher

Use the special discount voucher code to get £30** off any single user product. If you’re not already on the latest version of Cradle, this is an ideal opportunity to upgrade.

All you need to do is enter the ‘secret’ £30** discount voucher code in the “Discount Code” field  at the bottom of the shop checkout page.

Need help finding a discount voucher? (Look closely!!)

Enterprise Licences

We will offer £30** off EACH licence purchased during the offer period. This may be taken as a discount from your invoice or you can nominate a registered charity of your choice and 3SL will make an equivalent donation. If you find your project is expanding and you add a single REQ licence for another engineer you can claim one £30** discount / donation. If you are buying a new set of licences for a project say 5-REQ, 2-SYS and  1-DASH that’s a total of 8*£30 = £240 off the licence cost, or a lovely donation to a charity of  your choice.

(*) Terms and Conditions

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