This document discusses recent and upcoming releases of Symyx Notebook software. Recent releases include Symyx Notebook 6.6 SP2 from September 2011 which added cross-experiment analysis and usability enhancements, and Symyx Notebook 6.6 Update 3 from February 2012 which added new synthetic chemistry features and table section improvements. The upcoming also discusses new capabilities for process chemistry, material importing, and table section conditional formatting. It highlights index status tracking being added to AVS 6.6 to provide visibility and automation for indexing states.

1. (ATS3-APP04) AVS and SN 6.6
Update 3 Deep Dive
Mike Wilson
Advisory Product Manager
mike.wilson@accelrys.com

2. The information on the roadmap and future software development efforts are
intended to outline general product direction and should not be relied on in making
a purchasing decision.

3. Agenda
• Review Recent Symyx Notebook Releases
• Notebook Table Conditional Formatting
• Vault Index Monitoring

4. Recent Releases
• Symyx Notebook 6.6 SP2 (September 2011)
– Cross experiment analysis
– Experiment editor improvements
– Requires AVS 6.6 SP2
• Symyx Notebook 6.6 Update 3 (February 2012)
– New synthetic chemistry features
– Table section improvements
– Works with SN 6.6 SP1 or SP2
– Requires AVS 6.6 SP3

5. Notebook 6.6 SP2
Client Application Release • Cross-experiment Analysis and Reporting
• Hosted within NBE
• Reports developed/extensible using PLP
Cross Experiment Reporting Collection Components
• Usability Enhancements
Analysis • Experiment viewing in tabbed layout
• Work Request node in NBE Browse pane
• Recipe execution usability
• Ability to set a Form section as the preview
Usability section
Enhancements • Quick File tool panel for quick access to
desktop folder locations
Notebook 6.6 SP2
Sept 2011

6. Tile Experiments for Viewing

7. Access your Analysis and Reports
New Analysis Pane in
Notebook Explorer Enter Parameters for
Report Graphical and
Tabular Results
Browse for Desired
Report

8. Immediate Access to your Data Files
Assign Quick File to
Local and Network
Folders
Drag into File Sections

9. Notebook 6.6 Section Update 3
Section Update Release • Synthetic Chemistry
• Multiple material lots
Synthetic • Material Import enhancements
Chemistry • SDK access to SN6 libraries
• Customer Enhancements
• Table section row re-ordering
• mol/mol units
Customer • Table section usability
o Conditional row/column highlighting
Enhancements o Ability to pin columns for scrolling
o Column header wrapping/grouping
Notebook 6.6 Update 3
Feb 24, 2012

10. New Capability Highlights
• Process Chemistry  Functionality
– Multi-lot materials  Usability
– Add the mol/mol (LR) unit for use by synthetic chemists
– Import/Search of Materials
– SN6 Structure /Reaction searching for Process Notebook parallel experiments
– Improve usability of Material Import and Auto-lookup dialogs
– Remove duplicates from ChemSeek search results
• Table Section Behaviors
– Table section conditional formatting
– Row reordering in Table-based sections
– Improved table section column resizing, wrapping and header behaviors
– Improved table section copy/paste behaviors; Easier keyboard navigation

11. Table Formatting for Usability
Template section property and ‘rules
editor’ enable conditional formatting
on a ‘per Table section’ basis – rules
saved with section template
Modify font, font color, background
color to columns, rows, or cells
Set precedence of conflicting rules by
reordering

12. Index Status Tracking for AVS 6.6

13. Design Goals
• Provide visibility into the indexing state of a deployment
• Support automation of system management
• Address deficiencies in existing Vault Indexing Utility
• Enable system management reporting of indexing state

14. Index Status Tracking Implementation
• A new status tracking table in each repository schema
• Updated message handlers and processing service that
reports results to the tracking table
• New re-queuing utility that integrates with status
tracking data
• Extensive documentation including best practice
guidance

15. Message Handler Status Table
• New table in each repository schema
• Tracking records are added as VOs are saved
– No records will exist in this table upon install/upgrade
Column Name Data Type Description
VaultId VarChar(255) The VaultId of the item being tracked
HandlerName VarChar(255) The message handler being tracked
Action VarChar(255) Internal field used by message handlers
Status VarChar(255) Queued, Processed, Failed, or Requeued
LastModifiedTime TimeStamp The last time the VO was modified
LastProcessedVersion Integer The version number of the last version that was successfully
processed
LastProcessedTime TimeStamp The last time the VO was successfully processed

16. Message Handler States
State Meaning
Queued VO is currently queued for processing by the message handler
Processed VO was processed by the message handler
Failed VO could not be processed by the message handler
Requeued VO is currently queued for processing
Ignore VO should be ignored for status tracking
Unknown VO has not been processed by the index status tracking feature
Notes:
• Unknown is an implied state used to describe VOs without records in the status
tracking table
• “Processed” does not imply the presence of data in an index
– The object might not implement that type of indexing
– The object might not contain any data of that type

17. Message Handlers
Message Handler Description
FullTextIndexer Adds any text provided by VO to the full text index
VaultObjectIndexMessageHandler Indexes any Property Set Definition (PSD) data (including
structures and reactions)
PropertyIndexMessageHandler Indexes VaultObject core properties to support Standard Search
and internal querying
WorkflowActivator Enrolls items in workflows based on the active workflow
associations
WorkflowTransitionMessageHandler Indexes workflow stage value after transitions
IndexerObjectHandler Indexes form data for Advanced Search (superseded by PSD
indexing in Vault 6.4)
• Systems may have additional message handlers
– Work Request 2.0
– Custom handlers developed by Accelrys Services
• Message handlers must be based on AVS 6.6 SP1 (or later) to participate in status tracking

18. Re-Queuing Utility
• Submits VaultObjects for processing based on their message handling
status
– Replaces VaultIndexingUtility.exe
– Utilizes the data in MessageHandlerStatus
– Designed for automation
• Can be used to process items:
– That failed to process previously
– When message queues are purged
– For a specific message handler
– To establish their message handling state
– When a new indexing feature is added (ex: Office 2010 documents after the
upgrade to Oracle 11g)

19. RequeueVaultObjects.exe Arguments
Examples:
• Re-queue failed VOs in the Site repository
RequeueVaultObjects -repository Site
• Re-queue queued VOs for full text indexing in the R&D repository
RequeueVaultObjects -repository "R&D" –status Queued
–queues FullTextIndexer
• Re-queue untracked VOs Process Chemistry repository
RequeueVaultObjects -repository "Process Chemistry"
–status Unknown
Argument Description Required Default
-Repository The repository that will be acted upon Yes N/A
-MessageLimit Maximum # of messages that will be created No 100000
-Status The message handling state to be queued No Failed
-Queues List of queues to populate No All

20. RequeueVaultObjects.exe Arguments
Argument Description Required Default
-Repository The repository that will be acted upon Yes N/A
-MessageLimit Maximum # of messages that will be created No 100000
-Status The message handling state to be queued No Failed
-Queues List of queues to populate No All
Examples:
• Re-queue failed VOs in the Site repository
RequeueVaultObjects -repository Site
• Re-queue queued VOs for full text indexing in the R&D repository
RequeueVaultObjects -repository "R&D"
–status Queued –queues FullTextIndexer
• Re-queue untracked VOs Process Chemistry repository
RequeueVaultObjects -repository "Process Chemistry"
–status Unknown

21. Example Queries
• Find items queued for more than a day
• Show the indexing status
• Items that failed to index in the past day

22. Automation Support
• Status tracking + re-queuing enables automation of
message handling management activities
– Task Scheduler jobs
• Re-process all failed items at midnight each day
• Process all unknown items on Saturday each week
– Large jobs can be split across servers
• Ex: queue 25,000 on server 1 then queue the next 25,000 on server 2

23. Summary
• Symyx Notebook is rapidly evolving to better serve our customers. Features such as
tabbed editors and conditional table formatting make the product more usable and index
status tracking makes the server easier to manage.
• Other Notebook sessions that may interest you
– (ATS3-APP08) Building Symyx Notebook dashboards with Pipeline Pilot
– (ATS3-APP09) Integrating Symyx Notebook into an Enterprise Management System
– (ATS3-APP13) Tips and Tricks for Monitoring and Managing Symyx Notebook Server Performance
– (ATS3-APP14) Troubleshooting Symyx Notebook client performance
• Resources
– Notebook IT/Admin forum on the Accelrys Community
• Email support@accelrys.com to join
– Troubleshooting guidance: support@accelrys.com

24. The information on the roadmap and future software development efforts are
intended to outline general product direction and should not be relied on in making
a purchasing decision.
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