What's New in Grooper 2024

WIP	WORK IN PROGRESS!! Please excuse our mess. This article is under construction.

Welcome to Grooper 2024!

Grooper version 2024 is here! Below you will find brief descriptions on new and/or changed features. When available, follow any links to extended articles on a topic.

Moving Grooper fully into the web

Deploying Grooper over a web server is a more distributable, more secure, and more modern experience. Version 2022 started Grooper's foray into web development with a web client for user operated Review tasks. Versions 2023 and 2023.1 expanded our web client to incorporate all aspects of Grooper in the web client. Version 2024 fully cements our commitment to moving Grooper to a web-based application.

Thick client removal

In 2024, there is no longer a Grooper thick client (aka "Windows client"). There is only the Grooper web client. This opens Grooper up to several advantages for cloud-based app development and cloud-based deployments.

All thick client Grooper applications have an equivalent in the Grooper web client. Most of these are now pages you will navigate to from the web client. For those unfamiliar with the Grooper web client, refer to the table below for the web client equivalent versions of thick client apps in version 2024.

Former thick client application	Current web client equivalent
Grooper Design Studio	The Design page
Grooper Dashboard	The Batches page
Grooper Attended Client	The Tasks page
Grooper Kiosk	The Stats page (displaying stats queries in a browser window)
Grooper Config	Grooper Command Console (GCC) See below for more information
Grooper Unattended Client	Replaced by "gcc services host" command in GCC

Grooper as a document repository

Moving away from "Batch oriented processing". Moving away from "delete Batches as soon as data is out of Grooper".

Search Page & AI Search

Job oriented processing Indexing Behavior (and related indexing object commands to add and update search indexes) Indexing Service Generators

Miscellaneous

Azure-based text analysis extractors

Key phrase, named entity, and PII extract