Isode Harrier 3.2Major New Features

Isode's Harrier release is a Fully Supported Isode release of Harrier (see the Supported Releases page for more details).

Read on for the major changes that Harrier 3.2 introduced.

Draft Review Phase

The draft and release process is extended to have a review phase, where drafter can send a draft to multiple reviewers at once. This is sometimes referred to as "parallel review". The drafter has a new "Compose For Review" option that allows a draft to be send to multiple reviewers. Following this review, the message can be sent directly or go through a sequential draft and release phase of zero or more approvers and a final releaser. 

This new option can also be used with Harrier in the Internet mode to facilitate message review.

Extended Searching

Message searching is extended with three new capabilities:

  • Choice to search based on SIC (Subject Indicator Code) which can be used on its own or in conjunction with options to search other parts of the message.
  • Option to filter search based on a choice of one or more message precedences, matching against the action or info precedence as appropriate for the logged in user.
  • Option to filter search based on selected security label.

    • Capability Checking

    A number of UI improvements to capability checking made. There are some functionality enhancements and user experience is much improved. Key capability checks made on a per-recipient are:

  • Message Size. Important for use in constrained network environments. Checks made on messages send.
  • Character Set Restrictions (ITA2 or IA5), Line Length restrictions and disallow attachments. Although these are independent controls, they are commonly used together to constrain message capabilities for ACP 127 recipients. The UI prevents sending of messages with lines too long and shows the limit in the Compose window. It also prevents entry of illegal characters and warns if illegal characters were entered before the constrained recipient was added. These controls can be applied globally (in the ACP 127 mode) or if only ACP 127 recipients are used.
  • Access Control checks of message security label against recipient security clearance. Recipients that fail this check are shown graphically.

    • User capabilities are set in the directory and managed with Cobalt. Default Clearance can now be configured, which avoids the need to explicitly configure security clearance for all users.

    Harrier MMHS API

    Harrier Server has a published an API which can be purchased from Isode. Details for this can be found here
    A description in using this API for Command and Control applications is described in the white paper C2 Systems using MTF and Messaging

    Precedence Options

    Harrier now has three precedence options, which can be selectable per domain

  • STANAG 4406 (six values)
  • ACP 127 (four values)
  • ACP 127 + Emergency

    • Message Import and Export

    Options are provided to export messages to a file and to import from a file. This allows convenient transfer of messages between Harrier instances (e.g., by use of USB stick). This is particularly helpful for sharing template messages.

    Automatic SIC Addition

    Rules using Security Label exact match or substring match in Handling Instructions to automatically add SICs to a message.

    Attachment Type Control

    Control using white list or black list the type of file that can be attached to a message based on file extension.

    Product Activation

    Harrier now uses the new Isode Product Activation mechanism, which enables activation in a straightforward manner, avoiding the need to copy files. This uses a new Messaging Activation Server.