Release Notes
5.2
Applications
- Video Review Application
- Simulive Video Training Application
- Quiz after videos to validate users engagement
- Media Manager tool for Video production teams
Client Transfer Engine
- JWPlayer Support
- Very robust 2 way integration with Widen
- Scheduled Publishing
Gamification Engine
- Ability to award coupons and certificates
- New milestone concept award when a defined set of criteria is achieved
- Ability to control the order of processing of game actions.
- Ability to grant rewards based on % of video watched.
Platform
- SAML Support, you can now login to the platform or applications using SAML Compliant identity providers such as Google, OKTA, AUTH0
- MFA, Ability to validate your logins using SMS, or Code Authentication Applications
- Audit log improvements, allowing you to see the changes made to media, before and after by affected fields
- Extensive widen integration
- JWPlayer Integration
- Tagging of videos with the most frequently appearing tags
- Ability to generate custom template code based results in getFiles
- X265 Video Generation
- Ability to generate clips that expire from existing videos
- Media positioning within groups
- Simulive Video - ability to schedule when a "live" stream begins
- Better time zone support for users
- Many performance and UI improvements
- Shopify product integration
5.1
Platform
- PHP 7.4 Migration
- Ability to archive media by user, channel or group
- Improvements to caching system
- Survey and Quiz Ability added to the custom meta data
- Asset Manager improvements
- Ability to generate WebP thumbnails
- Better embed codes, support VTT/SRT Subtitles if provided
- Filter options on bulk edit metadata page
- Image resizer support for PNG images
- Encryption improvements
- More UTF8 Improvements
- Customizable CSV media report
- Ability for admins to add their own Platform level users
- Ability for admins to schedule deletion of users
- Support for CR2 Raw files
- List View on Media Overview
- Notice if original file is not available
- Locale/Language selection at Template Level.
- Fix for videos with watermarks failing if video had no audio track.
- Ability to set YouTube Thumbnail and Subtitles
- Fix to YouTube playlist additions, to ensure to remove the video from the playlist before adding it, if it exists already, avoiding multiple copies of the same video in the same playlist.
- Sharing Media Action
- Redesign of meta data configuration page.
- Fix to friends list.
- Empty Trash option to permanently delete content.
- Ability to Queue Users for deletion.
- Slack integration
- Improved password reset
- Contest Launcher Application.
White Label Improvements
- Better translator integration
- Survey support post video
- Ability to control video ability based on survey completion
- Mouseover previews in contest.
- Quiz support added to Video Portal
- API Trigger Option
- Ability to link notifications to game actions
- More system variables available for use in templates such as parentmedia and user2
Template System
- IfCanDisplay Logic applicable to media
- Improvements to DefaultMetaData component to support Survey's and quizzes
Gamification Engine
- Points logic can be customized using template logic
- A slew of new actions supported
- Ability to link to mobile notifications
API
- groups.createGroup - Ability to associate cost
- media.getFiles - Retrieve children and their children.
- media.getFiles - support for 'shuffle' order
- media.insertTextFile - Ability to associate cost
- users.getConnections - ability to discover existing project users by email or phone list
- Ability to choose between empty Objects or Arrays when using json services.
- vhost.validateSurvey - Ability to send user answers, and receive a response providing incorrect answers
- users.inviteUsers - Allow users to invite other users to enter challenge or contest, and receive a notice when invited user joins
5.0
Some new features, and minor fixes the previous major launch.
API Changes
- users.followUser and users.unFollowerUser
- imFollowing, and followMe filters added to users.getUsers
- Ability to exclude media by media id from getFiles calls
- Ability to specify and control the fields returned when request parent information from getFiles
- Apple, Twitter, Youtube, and Instagram added as external provider types for users.register
- Widen added as an external filetype for Media
- Ability to report users as offensive using users.reportOffensive
- users.blockUser, users.unblockUser functionality
- Ability to request if user is following a specific user during getFileInfo
- Improved WYSIWYG Editor
- media.getFiles allows for an array of group ids within filters
- users.getUsers allows for an array of group ids within its filters
- Support for Photos with much larger dimensions
Platform Changes
- Ability to configure custom media metadata, that appears on the uploader page, or the bulk edit section of media items.
- Insights/Reports - Summary total of the results, and fixes to the moderationStatus not having any effect.
- Widen as a file transfer option
- AI Usage Report
- Quick download of the Original file or any of its transcoded profiles
- Clone content functionality, ability to copy Title/Description/Tags/Meta data from one piece of media to many.
- Ability to use template variables throughout transfer settings, and custom meta data
- Uploader now supports File Type All, with PDF/Doc/Powerpoint/Excel/Zip icons within media overview.
- Improved WYSIWYG Editor
- Support for photos with larger dimensions
- UTF-8 Improvements
- HLS Geo-Location Bucket Assignment
5
API
- services/upload2,
- media.completeUpload
- media.createMultiPartUpload
- Ability to set media to users Avatar on Upload
- users.register
- Ability to use Phone number as login key
- Ability to send mobile or email verification codes to validate user
- users.generateCode
- Services to generate and validate codes via SMS or E-Mail
- users.setPassword
- With previous password or valid verification code, a users password can be easily set.
- media.getFiles
- Request media’s group membership
- Complete set of gamification API calls
- Complete set of push notification API calls, APNS and Firebase compatible
- media.getFiles support for activeDate, inactiveDate, and children.
Platform Improvements
New
- Mobile friendly and responsive
- Notification bar, to alert clients of current system issues, or upcoming updates
- Consistent UI Changes with Nav bar moved to the left, and breadcrumbs for easier navigation at the top along with most used actions on the top right.
- Gamification Leaderboard
- Gamification Score configuration
- AI analysis of videos, including transcription, and people detection based on avatar of collection of target facial photos, along with celebrity detection.
- Upload complete emails
Updates
- Media List Page
- Mass Download via new “My Computer†transfer option
- Easier to use, media moderation tools with important information at your fingertips
- One click editing of most modified fields
- Ability to set default search filters, as well creating custom search tabs using your own presets.
- Bulk actions, add tags, add/edit metadata field
- Media Detail Page
- Quick view of various types of metadata. (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, User, and System)
- Easy access to Comments, Subtitles and other related content.
- Ability to easily re-convert
- One click editing of most modified fields
- Conversion status
- Ability to transcribe videos, or scan videos for predefined collection of people.
- Member List Page
- Ability to batch disable, dis-activate, and queue users for deletion
- Member Info Page
- Easy access to users gamification log, and ability to remove entries.
- GDPR + Newsletter sign up information easily accessible
- Application Template Pages
- WYSIWYG Editor
- Improved Translator interface with the ability to specify group, channel & collection drop downs, along with yes/no toggle switches, to easily enable or disable features.
- Template history, allowing to roll back to previously modified version.
- Upload Page
- Drag and Drop UI, with progress indicator
- Ability to search users when using Upload As
- Ability to upload to media multiple groups simultaneously
- Ability to specify custom metadata fields, that appear on the upload form
- Translator
- Improved UI, allowing for quick and easy modifications of existing translations, and the ability to easy find missing translations
- Insights Pages
- Easier to understand responsive bar charts.
- Gamification daily points chart.
- Infrastructure in place to allow for more detailed information.
- Account Info
- Developer API key information now added to account info.
- Different colour themes for platform.
- Groups
- Limit field allowing to set a maximum number of pieces of content be submitted to a group.
- Collections
- Ability to mass delete collections
- New drag and drop interface
- Option to flag a collection of people photos for analysis against video uploads.
- Dashboard Page
- UI Redesign with Key Metrics easily available
- Daily Views, Upload Charts
- Recent Gamification Activities
- Latest media, comment submissions with quick moderation buttons
- Platform Components
- LikedList - provides a loop of media liked by User
- For - Ability to create For loop
White Label
- Redesigned Bootstrap Responsive white label Community
- Gamification Support
- Threaded comments
- Drag and Drop Uploading
- Mobile friendly
- Infinite scrolling, Waterfall View, Load More
Uploader
- Multiple Group Suport
- Facebook Login
- Other minor bug fixes
