This page includes the release notes for both client-installed products, whose releases are identified by version numbers:

• Composer
• Player

as well as for Intuiface's cloud-hosted infrastructure, whose updates are identified by the month of availability:

• Share and Deploy
• API Explorer
• Analytics
• Headless CMS
• Hosted services
• Intuiface licensing
• User and account management

We maintain a separate Known Limitations page for Composer and Player on Windows. The technology used in Player on Windows differs from that used on all other Player-supported platforms. See our release notes for Player running on other platforms for details of platform-specific updates to Player.

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Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - October 2024

Headless CMS

• Greatly improved performance when browsing large data collections.

• Correct a bug during import that prevent completion of Step 3 (media upload) after a page refresh

• We've redesigned the images and illustrations used across all of the messages/popups/warnings/guidance panels. Is this a big deal? It's like a fresh coat of paint. You may not notice it, but everything just feels a bit nicer.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - September 2024

Headless CMS

• Fixed problem preventing media drag-and-drop from the local file system to a Headless CMS collection.

Player v7.5.12 on all platforms but Windows

30-Sept-2024

Enhancements

• For a select few, we have made our Player Next Gen technology available on Windows. It’s a beta version of what you’re already using for Player on all other of our supported platforms. At this point, it’s a don’t-call-us-we’ll-call-you beta. So why announce it here? Because we’re probably just a couple of months from general availability.
• Our Share & Deploy Console now enables you to force the reboot of BrightSign devices running Player. Hopefully, it’s not something you’d have to do much, if at all, but should something not be working, a reboot can save you travel time.
• Interface assets creating using API Explorer can now work with XML-formatted responses. This joins existing support for JSON-formatted responses. It does not support MUG-formatted responses because I just made that up, there is no such thing.
• We’ve made some native behavior more intuitive. When popped-out of a collection, the following now have a Pinnable (but unpinned) container. Everything else continues to have a Free container.
  • Document Asset
  • Book Asset
  • 3D Model Asset
  • Web Browser Asset
  • HTML Asset
  • YouTube Asset
  • All collections, except Group

Bugfixes

• Share via Email Interface Asset
  • Items added to the sharing queue can now be removed.
  • When using web-deployed experiences, Excel files sent as an attachment were sent in their original format, before any changes made to them during the experience run. Think of it this way. We were keeping an original copy and an updated copy - and then sent the original copy. Our mistake!
• We fixed experience download errors if those experiences contained resources (e.g. images or videos) whose names had one or more special characters. That was treating them a bit too special. Now we’re not bothered.
• Web Browser Asset
  • Fixed navigation problems when manually typing a URL in the navigation bar.
  • Corrected the accidental truncation of navigation bar. We were cutting it off for no good reason.
• Offline web-deployed experiences (thanks to Player licensing) will now attempt to reconnect automatically when their devices come back online and will try to reconnect (check for connectivity) every two minutes. We should have to wait for you to manually attempt a reconnect. You’re a busy person. Places to go, people to see. You don’t have the time!
• Fixed loading problems for experiences using old interface assets. I honestly couldn’t figure out if there as a good definition for “old”, but I’m guessing it means “super rare”. So let’s not even worry about it!

Composer and Player v7.5.5 on Windows

12-Sept-2024

Enhancements

• We’re smarter about the storage of Composer logs, the files we use to troubleshoot issues on our users' devices. Needless to say, we won’t take up nearly as much space as we used to.
• We’ve introduced iOS support for the Webcam Asset, which also means we’ve updated the list of the asset’s “Camera” property options to include mention of iOS as well.

Bugfixes

• We’ve greatly improved the loading time for both Composer’s Experiences panel and the creation of a new experience right after Composer is launched. The more experiences you’re managing, the more you’ll notice the improvement.
• The Text Input Asset wouldn’t show a cursor or fire the “Loses focus” or “Is given focus” triggers when the Intuiface virtual keyboard was disabled in the Composer and/or Player settings panels. Fixed!
• The master collection within a data feed template didn’t play nice with triggers and actions. Now, if you target this element with a trigger or action, you won’t see an incorrect name, and you’ll be able to delete actions after creating them. Feels edge-casey, sure, but it still needed to be fixed.
• Corrected a bug preventing the Whisper Interface Asset from working on iOS and MacOS-based devices. Just because it’s a whisper doesn’t mean it should be shy!
• Removed the following API Explorer limitation: “A JSON-formatted response with blank [empty] content inserted before data will not display when using Composer or Player for Windows“
• Fixed an issue that prevented debugging of the Web browser Asset via localhost:8088 port.
• We’ve corrected an issue preventing Intuiface Tech Support from creating offline licenses. Running in a deeply firewalled or air-gapped environment? We’ve got you covered!

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - August 2024

Analytics

• Added Count and Delete endpoints to the data point management REST API

Licensing

• Corrected bug that was counting web views when using Player licensing for web-deployed experiences.

Player v7.5.11 on all platforms but Windows

28-August-2024

Enhancements

• Underneath the covers, Intuiface uses a few pretty fancy third-party code bases to support and enhance everything we do. This release updates some of these frameworks and streamlines others. It’s not a small exercise but the result is both improved stability today and a foundation for further extending Intuiface in the future.

Bugfixes

• Since we were mucking about with the code anyway, we improved our recognition of a double-tap on an asset or collection that also had a tap trigger. Was that two taps or one double-tap? We’re better at this.
• It seems the Text Concatenation Interface Asset wouldn’t generate a value for the “Output” property using input values set before the experience was played. That’s not fair, so it’s fixed.

Player v7.5.10 on all platforms but Windows

6-August-2024

Bugfixes

• Fixed “Scene to scene” navigation in Experience B after using remote deployment to exchange it for a running Experience A. Very strange, but we got it!
• Eliminated some edge case memory leaks when navigating between scenes. This means most people would never come across it - but for those who did, the experience would eventually crash. Awful - and won't happen again.
• Video Assets set to display the last frame were still choosing to display the first frame when the video ended. Not good, so we corrected it.
• Fixed Group scaling issues when the group’s current size and minimum size were equal. The items in the group would allow themselves to be scaled below that minimum size, which defeats the purpose of minimums. This could actually happen a lot because a group's default size is its minimum size.
• Exclusive to Player on iOS: Corrected a bug causing a black transparent layer to appear behind a Button while it was being pressed. Bad button! Fixed.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - July 2024

Licensing

• Essential and Premier accounts can now use Player licensing for web-published experiences. Previously, only Enterprise-level accounts could use Player licensing. All platform tiers can continue to use Views licensing for web-published experiences.

User and account management

• Streamlined handling of bad passwords and locked accounts, including improved audit trail reporting

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - June 2024

Headless CMS

• Added a drawer on the right side of the Home view displaying all bases. This drawer includes:
  • A search section, which enables you to filter bases by matching the title/description/owner's first name/owner's last name/Base ID
  • Several sorting choices, using Creation date/Last publication/Name/Owner
  • Filter options, “My bases” / “Bases shared with me”

• The drawer open/close state and the sort & filter choices are saved across sessions.

• Some bug fixes and enhancements.

Player v7.5.9 on all platforms but Windows

24-June-2024

Bugfixes

• Fixed issues related to autoscroll behavior for ordered collections
  • Auto-scroll would stop when its content was filtered to a single item. We had a talk. Now, it restarts scrolling when the filter is removed.
  • Media will no longer play twice if navigating to it manually.
  • Autoscroll ignored manual scrolling if the manual scroll reached the last item. It would just send the collection to the first item. Never again.
• Fixed "Adapt font size" issues when running on Android, Raspberry Pi, or Tizen-based devices.
• Eliminated text cropping and sizing issues on Android devices.
• Visual effects are no longer applied to the control buttons within Assets. They are not permitted freedom of expression, which is a very uncomfortable thing to say.
• Using the "Update row" action with 0 in an Excel spreadsheet will no longer break any associated data feed for that spreadsheet.
• Fixed the "Equal/Does not equal" conditional trigger when working with ISO dates. Have you tried comparing ISO dates? It's not easy!
• Fixed manipulation behavior when binding the 'Scroll offset" property of two Scroll Collections to each other. It should be a one-way binding, but they were mirroring each other, so the actual scroll would just go on forever....
• Eliminated a memory issue that occurred when fast scrolling through a collection containing multiple pdf files. Speed kills.
• Fixed iOS issues when using the HTML Frame Asset with binding converters on the HTML source.
• Fixed an issue blocking any asset's "Show" action after interaction with an HTML component.
• "Is tapped" and "Is manipulated" triggers, if placed on the same asset, will no longer be called at the same time. In Intuiface, "manipulation" means the asset experienced some kind of swipe gesture.

Player v7.5.8 on all platforms but Windows

28-May-2024

Enhancements

• Added support for Ken Burns Effect collection. This completes our addition of all collection types to Player. Ken says it’s about time.
• A collection-detached item (via “Tap item to open” and “Drag and drop item to open”) will now have the same property values - appearance, button state, etc. - as the original item in the collection

Bugfixes

• Player engine optimization
  • TypeScript-based Interface Assets now place less of a burden on the CPU. In marketing-speak, we call that “enhanced processor usage”.
  • Items can now be detached from collections while animations execute elsewhere in the scene
  • Animation effects with “Reverse at end” behavior will not be blocked when free assets are manipulated in the scene
  • Enhanced transition performance during scene-to-scene navigation. It’s smooth, like butter.
• Excel related bugfixes
  • “Update cell” will now work even if there is no pre-defined value in the targeted Excel cell
  • Scroll Collection’s “Offset” property, and the Group Collection’s “Width” & “Height” properties will now tolerate being bound to values in an Excel spreadsheet
  • Fixed an issue where Player considered some Excel cells as empty even though they weren’t
• Take a seat for this description: Imagine an item with multiple drag-and-drop triggers located inside an ordered collection. Dragging that item out of the collection (using “Drag and drop item to open”) will no longer create an asset for each drag-and-drop trigger if the item is not dropped on a target identified by one of those triggers. We questioned whether or not to mention this bug but cherished the challenge of explaining it.
• Moved into/out of focus triggers for ordered collections
  • Unfocused items of an ordered collection will no longer raise the “Moved out of focus” trigger when the collection is initialized (such as when its scene is entered).
  • “Moved into focus” and “Moved out of focus” triggers will no longer be raised for the assets outside of focus when the collection has its “Index in focus” property bound to some other property.
• Fixed Inactivity timers not working after interacting with ordered collections.

Composer and Player v7.5.4 on Windows

13-May-2024

Enhancements

• We’ve updated the Chromium web rendering engine used by the Web Browser and HTML Frame assets in Player on Windows. This engine, identical to what's inside the Chrome browser, has been bumped up to Version 122. You may not notice a difference if your websites were already loading in Intuiface, although the overall reliability of the browser will have improved. But for some of you, it’s time to surf your site!
• AI fans, we’ve added support for a fourth OpenAI model: Vision. Use the Vision Interface Asset (IA) to upload and then ask questions about an image. Examples of how to use it include image description for the virtually impaired or combining with our Whisper and ChatGPT IAs to collect spoken questions at a museum or trade event and return answers in native languages. NOTE: The Vision IA will work in Player on all supported platforms, not just Windows.

End of Life

• We are bidding farewell to four collections and one interface asset. If you’re one of the very few using them, they will still work. We just won’t be updating them anymore and will no longer offer them inside Composer.
  • Collections
    • Helix
    • Circular Panel
    • Timeline
  • Asset 
    • Deep Zoom
  • Interface Asset
    • Tablet Orientation

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - April 2024

Licensing

• Fixed batch license activation for Players that are already running.

Player v7.5.7 on all platforms but Windows

30-April-2024

Enhancements

• We’ve added batch license activation support for BrightSign. It works by entering a list of BrightSign device serial numbers in a CSV file. Intuiface can read that file and remotely license every corresponding device that’s running Player. It’s a lot quicker than licensing one device at a time!
• Nobody said you couldn’t use binding converters on conditional triggers. In fact, you can. But for those of you who even understand what that means, you may have noticed that the experiences containing this arrangement were not opening in Player. Sorry! Fixed.

Player v7.5.5 on all platforms but Windows

9-April-2024

Enhancements

• The Experiences panel in Player is now much more informative when you’re doing stuff. It’s like holding your hand while you cross the street.

Bugfixes

• Lots of asset tapping-related fixes
  • “Is tapped” triggers placed on assets in ordered collections will no longer override the “Tap item to open” mechanisms of those collections. This means a single touch will activate both triggers. In other words, “Is tapped” was a selfish hog.
  • Corrected the “Tap item to open” behavior of the Swap collection. Pretty straightforward problem. It wasn’t working, and now it is.
  • Tapping on a video nested inside an Asset Grid with “Tap item to open” behavior enabled will now play the video instead of opening a copy of that video.
  • Documents with the ‘Book’ style were stubbornly refusing to respond to “Tap item to open” for any collection. Now they do!
  • The Carousel and Asset Flow collections were stealing taps even when they were set to “Not visible to interactivity”. They’ve been put in their place and will let the taps through to whatever is under them.
  • Asset set to Free within Pinboard collections were refusing to act free if the Pinboard was nested inside a Scroll Collection. Sorry assets. All fixed.
  • All unfocused items in an Asset Flow are no longer interactive. You need focus to be interactive!
  • Here’s a bug we never would have found without a customer trying something funky... Asset Flows nested in Groups that are invisible to interactivity` will now respond to taps to move the next or previous item into focus.
  • Ok, this one’s pretty funky too: “Tap item to open” for an ordered collection inside another ordered collection will now only open the tapped item, not the entire collection.
• The “Scene is being entered” trigger will now fire all possible actions after the scene is entered. Previously, not every trigger was fired.
• The “Is tapped” trigger now reports the correct coordinates for items in a Group. The coordinates should be in relation to the Group location in the scene, not relative to the item collection location inside the Group.
• For some reason, if an asset was assigned content using a URI with no value, the entire experience couldn’t be published in Composer. Ok, shame on you for the empty URI value - but still, that shouldn’t have prevented publishing.
• The Image Button “Pressed” state will revert to the “Released” state if a finger is dragged off the button instead of lifted.
• Exclusive to iOS: The “Share via email” feature would fail to work if an email had attachments and was created while the tablet was offline. Now, the email with attachments will be sent when the device comes back online.
• Conditional triggers for the “Scene to scene navigation” action were always evaluating to true even if they weren’t. We unconditionally fixed that bug.
• Fixed an issue preventing changing the Web Camera's source through bindings.

 

Composer and Player v7.5.3 on Windows

27-March-2024

Fixes

• Sheesh - sorry. Player on Windows (and Composer) converts PDFs into images before display, but our most recent release of Player on Windows (Version 7.5.2) accidentally broke this feature. If you’re using PDFs coming from Headless CMS or adding new PDFs into a project using Composer, you should upgrade Player on Windows.
  • This problem is exclusive to Player on Windows v.7.5.2. Composer is fine.
  • If you’re not running the latest release of Player on Windows, then you won’t have the PDF problem, but you’re also not benefitting from the enhancements and bug fixes introduced by later releases. Meaning: you don’t have to upgrade, just be aware of the trade-off.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - March 2024

• Share and Deploy

  • Experience snapshots are now returned using the WebP image format instead of PNG. This has even sped up the loading of the Experiences panel in Composer and Player.

• User and Account Management

  • Secondary Accounts can now change the Company name in their profile

• Hosted services

  • We have end-of-lifed the ability for customers to sell their own work in the Intuiface Marketplace - now renamed the Examples Catalog. However, third parties are still able to post free experiences to the Examples Catalog.

Player v7.5.4 on all platforms but Windows

12-Mar-2024

Enhancements

• As with last week’s update to Composer and Player on Windows (see the Release Notes entry just below this one), we’ve added support for the AVIF image format. Definitely try to use it for web deployments, but even consider using it in non-web deployments, since it looks great and has a light touch on every device.
• We’ve added support for the “Take snapshot” action, which is available for all assets (except the YouTube and Web Browser assets), all collections, and the active scene. Think of it as a selfie. Originally, this was only possible on Windows.
• The Player view in the Share and Deploy Console will now show thumbnails for experiences on Android and iOS. We’ve also enabled them for BrightSign’s XC model devices for BrightSign OS Version 9.0.133.
• Web-deployed experiences used to download fonts even if those fonts were already available on the hosting device. Experiences are now smart enough to use the locally installed font, speeding up experience download times.
• A couple of you really wanted to use the Excel formulas MAXIFS and MINIFS. Ok, sure, Your Highness. Now you can!
• The keyboard language Japanese Hiragana now has a new Katakana layout option on BrightSign and Raspberry Pi, accessible when pressing the ALT key. (For iPadOS, Android, ChromeOS, and Samsung Tizen, you’re using the device’s native keyboard, not ours.) The ALT key is acting as a toggle, so there is no need to hold it down. Let it go .… let it go.…
• The Marketplace tab in the Experiences panel of both Composer and Player has been renamed to “Examples”. Back in November 2022, we stopped permitting customers to sell their experiences. Using “Marketplace” to refer to what is now a list of only free experiences was very confusing. We’ve eliminated all confusion with the genius new name, “Examples”.
• We updated our Nexmosphere support on Android to include all of their latest controllers. If you’re intrigued by the idea of working with sensors - such as motion and gesture - check them out. Their products are far easier to use in Intuiface than to say their name!
• We’ve added a ‘Sync in progress’ trigger for all Headless CMS bases. The existing triggers - Sync started / Sync completed / Sync failed - required you to wait until failure or completion. Now, you can keep an eye on progress.

Fixes

• Occasionally, a black square or flash of color would appear while loading images in a data feed after using a filter or scrolling through an ordered collection. We hope you weren’t attached to that bug because we got rid of it!
• The Toggle Button triggers “Is checked” and “Is unchecked” were accidentally raised when the scene in which they appeared was first loaded. We’re now accident-free.
• Swap Collection content was not shown if the value of its “Index in focus” property was coming from - i.e. was bound to - another property AND if the Swap’s “Transition” effect was set to “None. " Now, it’s shown even in this crazy edge case that was also hard to explain.
• Swap Collections set to autoplay videos and automatically move to the next video were stopping after playing the last item. Now, they will restart from the beginning, as if in a loop
• Excel
  • The MATCH formula was getting stuck if the lookup_value was not found. Corrrected.
  • Media added to a spreadsheet using the “Add row” or “Update row” actions are now correctly displayed in an experience.
• Map
  • Dynamically changing the map provider no longer messes with the zoom level.
  • Mapbox maps correctly render any Style URLs you apply
• Corrected some Button issues related to their state, size, and transparency. It’s not really worth spelling out the various conditions. It’s all just better, ok?
• Touch-and-drag on a Toggle Button was not being recognized as a tap so the button wasn’t triggered. Not sure what’s up with these lazy taps but we made sure to accommodate them.
• We fixed a Samsung Tizen-specific bug in which the Play and Delete icons on local experiences in the Player Experiences panel weren’t displayed when the device was offline.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - February 2024

• Headless CMS
  • Info about the number, size, and type of media files stored in a base now appears on each base's Dashboard.
  • Introduced storage support for two new image formats: WebP & AVIF
  • Corrected some browser-related issues affecting the look and function of content import and management in a base.
• Share and Deploy
  • The experience deployment progress bar now shows the actual deployed experience.
  • On the "My Players" tab, Player tags are now properly displayed when Players are shown as a list.
• Licensing
  • Improved speed and accuracy of the while Player license verification process.
  • "Release license" is no longer missing for those (super) legacy accounts still in possession of perpetual Player licenses
• User and Account Management
  • New Secondary Accounts are no longer transformed into Trial accounts after verification of their email address. (What?!?! Sorry!)

Composer and Player v7.5.2 on Windows

27-Feb-2024

Enhancements

• You’ll now find three new AI-themed out-of-the-box interface assets (IAs) in Composer. Use these IAs to send prompts to the OpenAI models GPT, DALL-E, and Whisper, collect the responses, and use the results in your experiences. You’ll just need to supply your own OpenAI API key.
  Use the ChatGPT IA to make decisions, summarize results, and share recommendations. Use the DALL-E IA to generate images based on image descriptions. Use the Whisper IA to capture the spoken word and incorporate those words in the prompts you send to GPT and DALL-E.
• We’ve added support for the AVIF image format. This format is the new darling of the web because it is highly compressible while retaining high image quality, supports transparency, and supports animation. Definitely try to use it for web deployments, but even consider using it in non-web deployments since it looks great and has a light touch on every device.
  Now hold on! Two things:
  • For Composer and Player on Windows, you must pre-install the “AV1 Video Extension” (AV1 Video Extension - Microsoft Apps). The Windows operating system does not natively support AVIF files. Even Microsoft apps like “Photos” needs this extension to display AVIF images. Maybe Microsoft will get its act together and pre-install this thing with Windows - but right now, Windows is not friendly to AVIF when running native apps. HOWEVER, web-deployed experiences are fine on Windows PCs.
  • We’ve found that some AVIF images aren’t loaded in Player on Raspberry Pi. We’re not yet sure why, so be sure to test your experiences on an actual Raspberry Pi device - i.e., don’t just trust Composer’s Play Mode.
• Partly in support of the previous enhancement, you can now store AVIF and WebP images in a Headless CMS base.
• We’ve also added a ‘Sync in progress’ trigger for all Headless CMS bases. The existing triggers - Sync started / Sync completed / Sync failed - required you to wait until failure or completion. Now you can keep an eye on progress.
• Web-deployed experiences are much better at checking whether an experience font is already on a device or needs to be downloaded. Font files can be heavy, so this improvement will speed up download and launch times.
• The Marketplace tab in the Experiences panel of both Composer and Player has been renamed to “Examples”. Back in November 2022, we stopped permitting customers to sell their experiences. Using “Marketplace” to refer to what is now a list of only free experiences was very confusing. We’ve eliminated all confusion with the genius new name, “Examples”.
• The Nexmosphere Interface Asset’s “Serial port path” property for Player on all platforms but Windows now uses a default port value - USB0 - that will work on any device with just one USB port. If there’s more than one port, ok, you’ll still have to make sure USB0 is the correct one.
• The keyboard language Japanese Hiragana now has a new Katakana layout option, accessible when pressing the ALT key. The ALT key is acting as a toggle, so no need to hold it down. Let it go .… let it go.…
• Not sure what version of ‘Player on all other platforms’ you’re using in Composer’s Play Mode? Composer’s Project menu now includes the Player version number.

Fixes

• Composer is supposed to remember all animation parameters if you change the animation's target. And it did … except for a parameter that could represent a specific, finite number of values. Developers call it an enum property; we called it a pain in the a**. Fixed!
• Text copy/pasted from PowerPoint into Composer replaced SHIFT+Enter (a new line) with a vertical tab character (a what??). This prevented the entire experience from being saved. Just really not good. We now use - big surprise - a newline character. Saving works!
• We fixed an issue where the Headless CMS feature in an experience would stop working if a base’s cached manifest files were deleted while Player was running. By the way, there is no need to delete the cache. Apparently, a customer did, so we’re making Intuiface more resilient,  but we suggest leaving the cache alone.
• Changes made in Composer to HCMS variant values using the X-Ray panel are now saved with the experience. We were forgetting your changes, which doesn’t help anyone.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - January 2024

• Share and Deploy
  • Raspberry Pi devices were not showing up on the list of licensed Players. You could say that, in a way, they were blowing us a raspberry. Problem solved!
  • Lots of little things that take too long to explain. Their end result: things are better.
• Fixed registration visual bug for first time users.

Player v7.5.3 on all platforms but Windows

18-Jan-2024

Enhancements

• Added support for the Reload action of a scene. When you call a scene’s Reload action, the scene reloads. It is naming examples like this that really illustrate our genius.
• We’ve improved the Excel Interface Asset so it now supports the column names “Result, “Rows”, and “RowCount” in an Excel spreadsheet. Doesn’t feel like an enhancement? Maybe not, but we put this here in case you skip the bug fix list below. Lots of folks use Excel and we didn’t want you to miss it.

Fixes

• Audio and animated 3D content will no longer stop after the Views licensing renewal period of 20 minutes. A “view” in Views licensing is consumed every 20 minutes while an experience is visible in a web browser. There are other times when a view is consumed, so be sure to read the Views Licensing details in our Help Center.
• When using an Asset Grid collection, items bigger than the viewport are now correctly centered.
• Swap collection items were visually overlapping in an edge case involving scrolled items coming from a datafeed. This no longer happens.
• Asset Flow
  • Eliminated scrolling behavior issues that appeared when using Composer to change some other Ordered Collection type into an Asset Flow.
  • Corrected an inconsistent “Scroll to index” action. Now it’s consistent.
• Text Asset
  • Tweaked the “Adapt font size” property, meaning you can now dynamically change this value through bindings. Binding is the Intuiface mechanism that enables one property/trigger/action value to mirror the value of some other property/trigger/action. It’s super powerful stuff that enables your experiences to be much more reactive to real-time changes.
  • The “Text overflow” property’s Ellipsis mode wasn’t working, but it is now. In this mode, text that goes past the bottom of the Text Asset is replaced by an ellipsis.
• iOS
  • Fixed font-loading issues. This is all the information I got from the Dev team so let’s just label this as ‘good’ and move on.
  • Enabled camera usage inside the HTML Frame asset. Accessing the camera feed is not a native Intuiface function; this fix means we can work with third-party webpages that access the iOS camera.
• Excel Interface Asset
  • Formulas now properly update their calculations when input values for the formula - located in other spreadsheet cells - are changed.
  • Boolean values coming from an Excel formula are now correctly interpreted
  • The “Number” format is now applied when a cell value is updated with a number or when the cell contains a formula returning a number.
  • Fixed the “Add row” action in empty spreadsheets
  • If a cell is Number formatted and the value is changed, the new value is now properly displayed in an experience.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - December 2023

• User and account management
  • Primary accounts can now close all secondary accounts without requiring the intervention of Intuiface Technical Support. This is because the License Dashboard has been updated to tell you why a secondary account cannot be closed, enabling you to make the changes that Support was doing for you.
  • The secondary account lists that appears in the Share & Deploy Console and in the License Dashboard have been updated to display experience counts, license counts, and Player counts for each secondary account. That's a lot of counting....

Player v7.5.2 on all platforms but Windows

19-Dec-2023

Enhancements

• Web-deployed experiences are more resilient when they cannot verify if a previously active license is still active. This happens when our licensing server is somehow unreachable, which will happen just about never - but not never never (blame Amazon AWS). Web-deployed experiences will give you the benefit of the doubt and keep running until our server comes back online. (This doesn't include offline devices, Mr. Sneaky.)

Fixes

• We added backward compatibility to our Typescript CDK for the deprecated function getInstance. If you don't understand what this means, then the bug wasn't affecting you.
• The Random from list Interface Asset was unhappy when receiving null values in a data feed (e.g. from Headless CMS, Excel, or third-party API). It's happy now.

Player v7.5.1 on all platforms but Windows

12-Dec-2023

Enhancements

• The iPadOS status bar is no longer displayed at the top of the iPad screen when running experiences in Player. (You could say the experience now “covers” the status bar.) This is how it already works on Android devices. We’ve intentionally left the status bar visible when viewing Player’s Experiences Panel. That was no accident!
• The Scene action “Show Asset“ is now supported. Take a guess as to what it does...
• Player can now manage a Text response (in addition to XML and JSON) from REST APIs

Nexmosphere

• Fixed an issue preventing the sending and receiving of Nexmosphere commands at the same time.
• Got Nexmosphere support working again on Android devices. Ooops!
• Added support for multiple Nexmosphere controllers on a BrightSign device. That means more sensors than can be handled by a single controller.
• The Nexmosphere Interface Asset’s “Auto-reconnect” property now actually works.

Fixes

• Corrected an issue preventing fonts with particular variations (e.g. stretch, semi, ultra) from being loaded. Apparently, Player had an issue with cocky fonts.
• Fixed an issue causing the Swap Collection to move in the wrong direction when using buttons nested inside the collection. What are you guys building out there?
• The “Scroll to” actions of the Scroll Collection can be animated but it wasn’t working particularly well - until now.
• Players started while offline can now send emails and upload analytics data once back online.
• The read-only properties of triggers have every right to be recorded as data point parameters for analytics. And now they are.
• YouTube videos are no longer started when using the “Stop” action on a video that was already stopped. Two minuses don’t make a plus.
• Simultaneous use of “Set Size” and “Resize” in animations no longer breaks the animation. Does break my brain for why you’d want to do both at the same time. Redundant!
• The “Timing and Animations” panel enables you to delay the start of an action. If the value of that delay was bound to a data source, the delay wouldn’t work. Sorry!
• Video Assets and Audio Assets in ordered collections who have their “Autoplay” property enabled will now actually play when in focus.
• The Video Asset’s “Reaches time” trigger is no longer raised multiple times.
• Each asset and collection’s “Show” and “Hide” actions are accompanied with an option to do the opposite (hide or show) for everything else in the same layer, Group, or Pinboard. Turning on this option broke the whole action. This problem is now hidden! (Ok, it’s fixed.)
• Audio Asset fixes
  • Improved display of Audio Asset’s volume slider and other controls when nested inside collections.
  • Corrected an issue preventing the audio controls from being displayed when the Audio Asset was nested inside an Asset Grid Collection.
  • Uncorrected: what do we have against audio controls?
• The control arrows for the Asset Grid Collection with Right to Left scroll direction and/or Bottom to Top fill direction will now be displayed properly. You see, the arrows thought the other scroll/fill directions were being used, so they figured the beginning of the collection was actually the end. That is what the industry calls “boneheaded”.
• Fixed positioning of the Carousel Collection’s scrollbar. Personally, Carousels don’t need scrollbars, but you be you.
• For all scrollable collections, the scrollbar will now be displayed when manipulating the collection’s controls. Don’t be shy, scrollbar!

Composer and Player v7.5.1 on Windows

5-Dec-2023

Enhancements

• Added offline support for Player tags. Previously, a running Intuiface experience could not access Player tags if its device was offline. Now, it can!

Fixes

• Eliminated a publishing error that occurred when asking Composer to publish a read-only experience that contains a H-CMS base.
• Fixed an issue causing Video Assets to start playing their media while in Composer’s Edit Mode. Edit Mode is not for play!
• Tooltips for any bindings of a conditional trigger no longer reference non-existant data sources. That was strange…
• Corrected a crash that occurred when attempting to use a custom-built Binding Converter using our TypeScript CDK. If you don’t know what any of that means, you haven’t run into the bug.
• All Binding Converter “help” URLs now accurately point to the Help Center. Previously, they pointed to a Taylor Swift fan page…. Ok, they didn’t point there, but that would be pretty dool.
• Corrected an issue preventing use of the Close button in the “Screen Resolution” dialog box accessed through the Experience properties panel.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - November 2023

• Share and Deploy
  • Deployment scheduling is now available for devices running Player Next Gen. (Remember, with the release of Intuiface 7.5, the name Player Next Gen has been retired. It's all just Player now!)
• Intuiface licensing
  • We've added the Views Licensing option to our Pricing page.

Composer and Player v7.5.0 on Windows

15-Nov-2023

We shipped Player Next Gen today! This technology replaces the existing technology in Player on all supported in-venue platforms other than Windows. Starting today, when you install Player on any platform other than Windows, you're using Player Next Gen technology.

Other Enhancements

• The “Simulate Player on all other platforms (Web, Android, etc.)” option for Composer’s Play Mode now uses Player Next Gen technology. 
• Introduced a new URL Parser Interface Asset (IA) available out of the box in Composer. This IA is used by a web-deployed experience to read parameters attached to its URL. Parameter values become inputs to the experience, which can be used to determine which scene should be viewed first or which information should be displayed.
• Updated Composer’s Marketplace tab filters to identify experiences created for the Web or Raspberry Pi, whose support was made possible with the introduction of Player Next Gen - which is now called Player!
• Renamed the “Autoplay video in focus” property of ordered collections to “Autoplay item in focus”. This is to reflect that not only video content can be auto-played. This property can also be applied to the YouTube Asset, the Audio Asset, and the Document Asset - on all platforms but Windows -.

Bugfix

• Corrected an issue causing web browser drop-down menus to automatically close when using Composer’s Play Mode.
• Fixed rendering issues for the HTML Frame Asset when using the Play Mode option for “Simulate Player on other platforms”.
• Slayed an issue that automatically removed remote action targets after saving an edited experience.
• For Player Next Gen (now known as Player!), multiple data feeds for an ordered collection now respect the order imposed by that collection.
• Removed repetitive popup messages when duplicating (via “Save as”) an experience containing more than one H-CMS base

Player v7.5.0 on all platforms but Windows

15-Nov-2023

Enhancements

• Improved performance for downloading experiences
• Added support for color gradients
• Added support for remote deployment scheduling
• Improved support for the Excel Interface Asset
  • Updates made to the contents of an Excel spreadsheet during runtime are now saved to the file and persistent across runs
  • Excel spreadsheets used by the Excel Interface Asset can be emailed using the Share via Email - Hosted Interface Asset
• Performance improvement of the Experiences Panel

Bugfixes

• Fixed “Scroll to item” action for the Carousel
• Corrected inability to interact with Buttons and Toggle Buttons nested inside a flat Carousel
• Interface Assets bug fixes
  • Corrected ability to set the time for the Chronometer Interface Asset using actions
  • Corrected “Clear” action for the Global Variable Interface Asset
  • Corrected “Time changed” and “Date changed” triggers for the Clock Interface Asset
• Eliminated a memory leak caused by multiple experience switches during the same Player session
• Swap Collection no longer swaps if the “Allow scroll” property is set to false
• YouTube videos will now display at all times when used inside a collection with data feed
• Platform-specific issues
  • BrightSign
    • Corrected an issue preventing video playback on BrightSign devices after multiple navigations to and from a scene containing video
    • Fixed an issue preventing Player launch preferences from being enforced when running on BrightSign devices
  • Tizen
    • Fixed Player Snapshots in the Share and Deploy Console for Player running on Tizen-based devices
    • Player’s “Settings” panel now uses the correct font
  • Android
    • Using the onscreen OS “Back” button on Android based devices no longer causes Player to enter an unresponsive state

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - October 2023

• Intuiface licensing
  • The License Dashboard export now includes the email addresses of Intuiface accounts that have received loaned licenses.

Player v.7.0.31 on all platforms but Windows

16-Oct-2023

Enhancements

• Added support for Non Interactive Player license

Bugfix

• Fixed the "Output Changed" triggers for Global Variable and Text Manipulation Interface
• Fixed ordered Collection unfocused items are no longer touch enabled
• Fix an issues impacting Scroll Collection's offset position.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - September 2023

• Share and Deploy
  • You can now specify the Amazon AWS S3 geographic region used to store your experiences. This is configurable at the account level and, as an override, at the experience level. (Under the covers, Intuiface Cloud Storage uses AWS S3.)

Player v.7.0.29 on all platforms but Windows

4-September-2023

Enhancements:

• Added support for the 3D Model Asset
• Added support for auto-scroll functionality of ordered collections

Bugfix

• Headless CMS items are now displayed in the same order as they were designed in Composer
• Fixed an issue preventing the launch of Composer's Play Mode using Player Next Gen when Composer is offline
• Document Asset will no longer display “thumbnail” text on top when running on Tizen and Android-based devices
• Fixed an issue preventing usage of a Document Asset accessed via an ordered collection's "Drag & drop to open" behavior
• Fixed rendering issue impacting the HTML Frame Asset
• Fixed some Audio Asset issues:
  • Control buttons are now correctly displayed for an Audio Asset opened using an ordered collection's "Tap to open" behavior
  • Audio will now correctly play sounds after changing the source
  • Fixed Audio Asset's "Set volume" action
• Fixed multiple datafeed display problems after using Sort actions
• Fixed lower or equal filters when filtering Date format
• OS version is now correctly displayed in Share & Deploy Console when running Player on RaspberryPi devices
• Carousel Collection’s "Display back of items" property is now correctly taken into account

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - August 2023

• Headless CMS
  • Added support for automatic H-CMS base duplication when performing "Save as" of an experience.
• Share and Deploy
  • Platform Enterprise accounts can change the storage location used by Intuiface Cloud Storage at both the account and experience level.
• User and Account Management
  • Fixed an issue preventing Secondary Account users from updating Player on Windows.

Composer and Player v7.0.12 on Windows

31-Aug-2023

Enhancements

• Headless CMS bases will be automatically duplicated when you “Save as” an experience shared with you by another Intuiface account - assuming you have the “Use in experience” rights for that base. Rights are assigned by the base owner, so wear a nice outfit and be on your best behavior.
• Composer knows how to create placeholders for 3D models and audio files when creating templates based on a Headless CMS data feed. These templates are created by drag-and-dropping the Headless CMS reference onto the canvas from the Interface Assets panel. We introduced 3D model and audio file support to Headless CMS last month.
• Local Weather Interface Asset grants access to more languages: Danish, Marathi, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Wu (Shanghainese), Xiang, Yue (Cantonese), Zulu. Still missing? Esperanto!

Fixes

• Player Next Gen option for Composer’s Play Mode couldn’t load a Headless CMS base whose name contained a colon (:). Now it can, which is great news for those users putting colons in base names.
• RGBA colors stored in a Headless CMS base are now correctly interpreted by Player on Windows.
• Composer will no longer swap the “My Experiences” and “Shared With Me” lists of experiences in Composer’s Experiences panel when logging out of one Intuiface account and logging into another Intuiface account. This happened if the two accounts had shared experiences with one another. Bizarro.
• Player Next Gen option for Composer’s Play Mode didn’t play nice with drop-down menus on websites displayed in the Web Browser Asset. All fixed!
• The CSS for content displayed in the HTML Frame Asset was not correctly interpreted by Player Next Gen or the Player Next Gen option for Composer’s Play Mode. Fixed!
• Collections with more than one data feed were displayed by Player Next Gen with a different data feed order than specified in the Scene Structure panel. Not nice but - good news - no longer a problem.

Player v.7.0.28 on all platforms but Windows

8-August-2023

Enhancements:

• For both Analytics and the Share and Deploy Console, on-device Player Next Gen for Raspberry Pi and for Windows now identifies its underlying OS rather than just labeling itself as "Web Player"

Fixes:

• Fixed Scroll Collection triggers when running on iOS.
• Carousel Collection bug fixes:
  • "Scroll to index" trigger was not being fired while the collection was hidden.
  • Eliminated visual bugs when changing a scrollable collection to Carousel while in Composer's Edit Mode
  • "Scroll to index" for collections using a data feed is now working as it should
• Corrected Text Asset vertical alignment problems
• Fixed Simple Counter Interface Asset initialization problems (i.e. occurring when first running an experience)
• Fixed Scene and Pinboard constraint issues for assets/collection elements having a Free container
• Share By E-mail - Hosted now works when using Composer's Play Mode.
• Fixed playback errors when loading an experience with binding converters applied to "Go to scene" actions. In this case, Player was unable to open the experience.
•  Fixed Set Font action for Text Assets.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - July 2023

• Share and Deploy
  • Added Title property for web-deployed experiences.
  • Favicon property for web-deployed experiences now shows a list of previously used favicons.
• Headless CMS
  • You can now store audio files and 3D models in a Headless CMS base.

Player v.7.0.27 on all platforms but Windows

24-July-2023

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue preventing the "Experience update" button from being shown when using in-venue Player, after updating an experience.
• Composer will no longer show the experiences panel after not being able to properly run Player Next Gen preview mode.
• Experiences containing a Data Feed with no defined data template can now be properly loaded
• Fixed experience loading errors when using REST Interface Assets

Player v.7.0.26 on all platforms but Windows

17-July-2023

Enhancements:

• For in-venue deployments, we have added support for temporary offline usage. The Experiences Panel for Player can now be used offline during the license validity period.

Fixes:

• Fixed video playback problems when running a looping video in web-deployed experiences
• Fixed an issue preventing “Tap item to open” from working when “Drag and drop item to open” is enabled on ordered collections
• Fixed an issue impacting Scene inactivity timers with bound values
• Fixed a problem preventing the loading of an experience when using an invalid source for the background image
• Fixed Excel Interface Asset errors after removing spreadsheets from a linked Excel workbook
• Inactivity timers are now correctly triggered when viewing websites with the help of the InAppBrowser function
• Fixed scrollbar rendering for the Text Asset and for ordered collections
• Removed the context menu for Image Assets when running in Safari on iOS
• The experience Update button is now correctly displayed for an experience in the Experiences Panel after publishing an update to that experience.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - June 2023

• Share and Deploy
  • We’ve added additional safeguards to detect and assist in resolving scheduled jobs that are blocked or jobs that never finish executing.
• User and Account Management
  • Resolved an issue preventing Secondary Accounts from remotely updating Player on Windows PCs.

Composer and Player v7.0.11 on Windows

28-Jun-2023

Enhancements

• We’re better at managing jobs scheduled for Player on Windows. Sounds like we made up this enhancement because how can you tell? But we’re serious.

Fixes

• Fixed a rendering issue in the HTML Frame Asset when using the Play Mode options “Simulate Player on other platforms” and “Simulate Player Next Gen”.
• Found and corrected 3D model import problems that were affecting some GLB files.

Saying Goodbye

• We’ve removed the Twitter Interface Asset from Composer. For the backstory, see the discussion in our User Community.
• Player can no longer be found in the Google Play Store. This means all future attempts to install Player on Android involve manually running the apk file found on our Installers page.

Player v.7.0.25 on all platforms but Windows

20-June-2023

Enhancements:

• Added support for Drag & Drop Triggers
• Added support for Drag & Drop to open Property. Users can now enable this property on ordered collections for opening nested assets.
• Improved error messages for media assets
• Added support for "Is tapped" Trigger - this trigger now correctly exposes its parameters

Fixes:

• Default audio no longer displays an error message
• Fixed animation for the "set font color" action on Text assets
• Fixed an issue impacting Trigger/Actions on DataFeed collections
• Fixed video download problems from an HCMS database. This problem mainly affected BrightSign devices.
• Fixed YouTube rendering issues when nested inside Carousel collection
• Interacting with an item nested inside a DataFeed now targets the correct element
• Fixed size problems for Image Toggle Buttons nested inside a DataFeed
• Fixed an issue causing previously hidden items to not be displayed when nested in ordered collections.
• Fixed several problems for the Swap Collection
  • HCMS content is now properly displayed
  • Fixed rendering issues for assets nested in Groups located within the Swap Collection
  • Media content is now properly rendered in Swap Collection
  • Fixed rendering problems for collection transformed from Swap
  • DataFeed content is now correctly rendered when used in a Swap Collection
• Fixed Asset Grid and Asset Flow rendering differences versus Player for Windows
• Fixed Rich Text rendering differences versus Player for Windows
• Rotating an ordered collection by gestures or actions will no longer move the content of the collection

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - May 2023

• Share and Deploy
  • Use a custom slug when creating a URL for any web-published experience. The “slug” is the part of a URL that comes after the domain. For Intuiface, the domain is “web.intuiface.com”, so your experience URL would look like “https://web.intuiface.com/[slug]”
  • We’ve also enabled you to
    • assign a favicon when creating a URL. The favicon is the small icon you see on the left-hand side of a webpage’s browser tab
    • assign a page title. This title appears on the browser tab and in search engine results.

Player v.7.0.23 on all platforms but Windows

15-May-2023

Enhancements:

• Resource download enhancements for web experiences. Enhanced download and playback times for web experiences

Fixes:

• Airtable users were having trouble downloading data. Not any more!
• Fixed a problem that prevented experience deployment if the targeted Player wasn’t running. What should (and now) happen is the deployment job simply waits until Player comes online.
• Corrected some data loading problems related to the Headless CMS
• Composer’s Play Mode for Player Next Gen was playing the previously run experience, not the one currently loaded in the editor, because it was paying attention to the “Play last experience” setting for Player on the same device. We’ve stopped this craziness.
• Data feeds inside data feeds - hats off to you, power users - weren’t being loaded. Until now!
• Web-published experiences with Player Licensing were getting stuck with the loading indicator after the Retention Duration expired. This wasn’t helpful so we’ve corrected it. 

Player v.7.0.22 on all platforms but Windows

11-Apr-2023

Features:

• Added support for the Map Asset.
• Re-designed error messages for experiences running on the web.

Fixes:

• The size of asset controls is now responsive to the size of the asset.
• Fixed a bug preventing deployment of experiences on devices that encounter network connection problems.
• Fixed an issue preventing H-CMS media from loading when opening an experience on the web for the first time using Player Licensing option.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - March 2023

• Licensing
  • We've introduced Player Licensing, enabling experiences to be deployed as Progressive Web Apps. The advantage of PWA deployments is that they can run offline for a predetermined duration. These licenses are automatically retrieved and released automatically, so you don't have to worry about license activation.
    (Player Licensing complements the existing licensing approach exclusive to web deployments, Views Licensing. PWA deployments only support Player Licensing.)
• Share and Deploy
  • All users of Player Next Gen can now deploy experiences as a Progressive Web App (PWA).
  • The My Experiences view can be filtered to show only those experiences deployed to the web.
  • The Description field in an experience's Details panel can now be resized to display more text than the default size.
  • All export options - such as those for tracking PWA license usage - are saved in a user-friendly, localized Excel format.
• User and Account Management
  • We've added three new records to our audit trail feature in support of experience deployment to the web:
    • Creating a URL
    • Editing a URL
    • Deleting a URL

Composer and Player v7.0.10 on Windows

28-Mar-2023

Fixes

• In our last release, we corrected an error causing Player to launch the Experiences panel instead of - when configured - playing the last run experience. However, we decided that fix wasn’t smart enough, so we solved it using a much better approach. Trust us. We got it.
• Experiences renamed and then republished in Composer weren’t deploying successfully. Now they are.
• Eliminated a Composer memory leak that hid in the corner where the Headless CMS was being used by an experience running in the ‘Player Next Gen’ Play Mode.
• Web Browser Assets with a navigation whitelist (i.e. a list of the only domains permitted to load in the browser) failed to open PDFs - but now it works!
• Couple of edge cases causing Composer to crash when opening experiences containing a Headless CMS base have been eliminated.

Player v.7.0.21 on all platforms but Windows

23-Mar-2023

Fixes:

• Fixed loading of REST Interface Assets created with API Explorer
• Fixed an issue preventing POST requests with variable parameters from being sent when used on BrightSign devices
• TypeScript Interface assets renamed in Composer are now working correctly
• Fixed a bug on vertical Asset Grid preventing "Scroll to Index" action from firing 

Player v.7.0.19 on all platforms but Windows

13-Mar-2023

Fixes:

• Fixed Document asset crash after multiple scene changes.
• Fixed a bug that caused an offline Player to launch on a black screen.
• Fixed an issue preventing Player on BrighSign devices from correctly loading the Experiences Panel.
• Fixed a bug preventing email sending using Share via email hosted when no "reply" to was present
• When using Player in venue, HCMS content is now loaded even when offline.
• Fixed an issue where the Player Settings window was not closed if opened prior to the deployment of an experience.
• Fixed POST requests when targeting OpenAI.
• Infinite animations are now stopped when leaving a scene.

Player v.7.0.18 on all platforms but Windows

1-Mar-2023

Features:

• New Player Settings Panel - users can now view Player Next Gen settings as configured in the Share & Deploy Console. These settings include Player tags, Player nickname, and more.
• Added support for "Share via Email (hosted)"
• Added support for Document resizing.

Fixes:

• Fixed several issues related to data feeds
  • Filtering no longer causes empty spaces on ordered collections.
  • Changing HCMS variations no longer causes elements to disappear.
  • Fixe Asset Flow animation after applying Excel filters
  • Fixed 'Delete row' and 'Sort' actions for an Excel data feed
• Fixed a variety of issues with Interface Assets.
• Fixed triggers and actions for the Countdown Interface Asset
• Swipe Gestures are now functional once more.
• Fixed an issue preventing the Intuiface Virtual keyboard from displaying for Text Input Assets after deploying an experience onto BrightSign devices.
• HTML frame is no longer cropped when displaying a web experience on different screen resolutions and ratios.

Player v.7.0.17 on all platforms but Windows

15-Feb-2023

Features:

• Added Support for Raspberry Pi

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue impacting the alignment of assets nested in a Carousel collection.
• Swap collection no longer remains stuck on the second to last element when content is coming from a Web API data feed.
• Fixed some edge cases that broke bindings after scene-to-scene navigation.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - January 2023

• Headless CMS
  • Base owners, you can now transfer ownership. If, for any reason - we're sure you've got a good one - some other Intuiface account needs to be the owner of a base, no problem. Just transfer that ownership, and it's off your hands.
  • Secondary accounts now have the ability to create and own bases. Previously, they could only use bases shared by a primary account. You now have the power!

Player v.7.0.16 on all platforms but Windows

26-Jan-2023

Features:

• Pinboard
  • Added Pin-able container for assets nested in Pinboard and on Scene
  • Added animation effects for free and pin-able unpinned assets
  • Multiple bug-fixes related to manipulation of assets on scene and inside the Pinboard container
• Added support for Web Browser asset
• Added support for Web Triggers
• Added Book style for Document asset

Fixes:

• Various bug fixes on Intuiface Virtual Keyboard
• Assets inside data templates are no longer interactive if the parent collection is invisible to interaction
• Group asset now better reacts to "Is tapped" triggers when nested inside an ordered collection
• Animations with "reverse at end" behavior are now correctly performed
• Player's splash screen is no longer displayed when running in Composer
• Video's "Pause when hidden" property is now correctly managed
• Fixed an issue for results not being displayed when coming from certain API calls
• Player for Android is now covering the entire screen of the device.

Composer and Player v7.0.9 on Windows

19-Jan-2023

• A couple of you found uncommon (but legit) scenarios on Windows PCs that caused Player to boot into the Experiences panel, ignoring the launch preference “Run the last opened experience”. Player was sneaky, but we’re smarter; the issues were corrected. What were the Player launch scenarios?
  • Simultaneously launching more than one Player on the same PC.
  • A cold reboot, when the PC loses power, restarts itself, then launches Player (i.e. not a normal shutdown)

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - December 2022

• Share and Deploy
  • Those with Player Next Gen and a Views license can now deploy experiences as a webpage without needing assistance from their Sales or Support contacts. See our deployment as a webpage instructions for details about how to do it yourself, you lazy bum.
  • We've added Raspberry Pi to the list of platforms on which you can natively run Player Next Gen. We don't just mean in a web browser. We mean natively, as an in-venue Player. That makes it the eighth - EIGHTH - support platform for in-venue deployments.
• Headless CMS
  • Base duplication is here! Make a copy of any base, choosing between just copying the structure or copying the structure plus content. A cool thing about this feature? If your Intuiface account is granted permission to duplicate another account's base, the base copy will be placed in your account. Nice!
• User and Account Management
  • We've added two new records to our audit trail feature:
    • Logged: Attempts to log into a locked Intuiface account.
    • Logged: All attempts to log into an Intuiface account with an incorrect password.

Player v.7.0.15 on all platforms but Windows

14-Dec-2022

Features:

• Experiences can now be deployed as a webpage from the Share and Deploy console.

Fixes:

• Web experiences will now work in Safari when embedded.
• Fixed white flashes appearing when navigating between scenes.
• BrightSign XC series using OS9: fixed an issue impacting video playback.
• Fixed a bug preventing the loading of resources from H-CMS.
• Tap to open with scale ratio will now open the asset at the location of the touch point.

Composer and Player v7.0.8 on Windows

1-Dec-2022

Enhancements

• Some under-the-covers changes have been made to improve your use of Player Next Gen (PLN) on the web. If you have your hands on PLN and are using its web capabilities, be sure to upgrade. Want to get PLN? Follow these simple instructions.

• We don’t usually discuss the Intuiface License Agreement, but we wanted you to know about a change. It now specifies that Intuiface is not liable if you choose to collect or store personal information in an experience, nor if you choose to add harmful code. The responsibility is yours!

Fixes

• Lots of corrections to improve your use of Headless CMS (H-CMS). If you’ve been using H-CMS and have had issues with multiple data feeds in a Swap Collection, or having trouble removing media from variants, or unable to use conditional triggers with empty values - this update is for you. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, then great! Keep on keeping on.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - November 2022

We have a couple of service closures to report:

1. It is no longer possible to create Google Analytics connectors for Intuiface Analytics. This is in anticipation of the upcoming end-of-life of our Google Analytics support.
2. We eliminated the ability for Intuiface users to post for-fee experiences in the Intuiface Marketplace. However, the ability to post free experiences to the Marketplace remains.

Player v.7.0.14 on all platforms but Windows

23-November-2022

Features:

• Added support for Visual Effects
• Added Webcam Asset
• Added support for in-app Web Browser
  • Updated autorun.brs file of BrightSign to accommodate Intuiface in-app Web Browser
• Re-organization of locally stored experience content and HCMS files
• Optimized asset manipulation. This optimization enhances perceived performance when manipulating assets on the scene. Notably visible on BrightSign XT series.

Fixes:

• Fixes crashes encountered on iPhone12 devices or above, when loading web-based experiences
• Fixed an issue with tap and gestures on overlapping assets
• Fixed Custom Script problems on Toggle Buttons nested inside a DataFeed collection
• Fixed Share and Deploy API requests not being resolved
• Fixed errors in experiences containing action parameters bound to a Text Input asset
• Fixed Opacity animation duration
• Fixed Fit/Fill/Deform behaviors for Images placed on Experience Background
• Fixed several issues with Custom Script Converter. Variables such as 'result' or 'code' are now working. Custom Script Converter no longer fails when using "INPUT" as a string with double-quotes or other characters 
• Fixed Scene to scene navigation problems when using special characters on Scene names
• Fixed encoding problems for text content coming from HCMS
• Samsung Kiosk
  • Fixed special characters not being correctly displayed
  • Fixed loading of Interface Assets containing special characters
• Fixed loading problems for image files containing special characters
• Fixed "Can't find resources" image errors after deploying experience updates

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - October 2022

• Share and Deploy
  • When specifying an email address for the Share with Account feature, Secondary Accounts are now listed in a dropdown associated with the text field for email address entry.
• Analytics
  
  • The Excel and REST API connectors for data export - and the data point deletion feature - now include the ability to filter by device name, experience name, and event name.
• Headless CMS
  • Each component now has a unique URL for its Structure view and Content view. This makes link sharing for H-CMS collaboration much easier.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - September 2022

• Headless CMS
  • We've added vertical scrolling to the Content tab. Use the scroll direction toggle to switch between the horizontal and new vertical table orientations.

Player v.7.0.13 on all platforms but Windows

28-September-2022

Features:

• Added support for Group's resize behavior
• Added support for HCMS "Item ID" property.

Fixes:

• Fixed various Group resize issues
• Fixed an issue with the Analytics event name not being logged if using a Binding Converter
• Fixed Analytics send event from Excel, Rest IA or HCMS binding
• Vertically-oriented Asset Grid will now correctly show vertically-oriented control buttons
• Fixed several opacity effect-related issues. Opacity property will no longer be changed when showing an asset using triggers and actions.
• REST protocol will only send one request for all changes instead of one request per change
• Enhanced animation performances on lower-powered devices
• Fixed language binding issue for Intuiface Virtual Keyboard
• H-CMS fixed an issue preventing the loading of media having the "+" symbol in their name
• H-CMS image asset bound on empty values no longer displays an error
• Fixed manipulation issues when using Player on a screen with a ratio different than the experience's resolution.
• Fixed navigating when quickly using a physical keyboard's arrow keys
• Player will now correctly evaluate an action parameter's binding before firing it.
• Color bindings from the Excel Interface Asset are now properly evaluated
• System Info now correctly returns the device's OS version when running experience as webpage

Composer and Player v7.0.7 on Windows

15-Sept-2022

Enhancements

• Headless CMS (H-CMS)

  • Media removed from a Headless CMS base will now also be removed from Player’s local cache storage after synchronization. This reduces the footprint of experiences with lots of content updates.

  • The Item ID property for each item in an H-CMS base is now exposed through that base’s interface asset in Composer and Player. With this access, you can now, for example, display the Item IDs onscreen.

  • Manifest files for an H-CMS base – think of it as a file summarizing the content in a base - are now only downloaded if changes to the file were made. Originally, we downloaded the manifest every time the local cache was synced with the cloud master, even if nothing had changed. Excessive, wouldn’t you say?

• Other

  • The Beacon Detection and Broadcast URL interface assets have been removed from Composer. Beacons were once hugely popular technology, but the low physical profile, long battery life, low cost, and ease of implementation using RFID/NFC have pretty much killed the demand. Good knowing you, beacons!

  • Those with access to Player Next Gen within Composer may have noticed that we automatically update your build of Next Gen whenever one becomes available. Well, now we are removing the older versions of Player Next Gen whenever the Composer version is updated. Yeah, that means we were originally keeping the older versions on your PC. We just couldn’t let go!

  • Composer and Player will now wait longer to download an experience if the connection fails. For example, if you’re downloading a huge experience and the Internet connection dies, we’ll wait longer before telling you that you’ll have to start over. We did this for you!

Fixes

• Headless CMS

  • Media with a “+” character in their name were not downloaded to the locally cached instance of a base. We’re downloading them now!

Player v.7.0.12 on all platforms but Windows

08-September-2022

Features:

• YouTube Asset
• Keyboard Triggers
• Added support for Date Binding Converter
• Added support for Analytics when using Web Player

Fixes:

• When exiting a running experience, all Interface Assets are now properly unloaded
• Fixed an issue preventing button press/release state from properly firing the trigger when running on BrightSign devices
• Text Input now correctly respects min and max values
• Fixed a freeze encountered when Text Input did not had any associated value
• Scene has been entered trigger now correctly fires actions on the Text Input asset
• Document is now correctly rendered on web experiences when loaded from H-CMS
• Multiple bug fixes on Analytics
  • Binding datapoint parameters is now possible
  • Fixed sending correct OS / Application names (also applies to System Info Interface Asset)
  • Fix experiences events (started, stopped...) which were not correctly logged

Player v.7.0.10 on all platforms but Windows

07-August-2022

Features:

• Added Intuiface Virtual Keyboard for in-venue deployments of Player Next Gen
  • NOTE: The virtual keyboard cannot be displayed for experiences deployed to the web. Web deployments assume the presence of a physical or OS-specific keyboard.
• Added Linear Gauge asset
• Added Rich Text asset

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug affecting the Simple Counter Interface Asset
• Fixed several bugs affecting Interface Assets
• Fixed conditional triggers not working in certain cases
• Enter key is pressed (trigger of the Text Input asset) is now working on Samsung Kiosk devices
• Fixed loading problems for experiences with non supported Interface Assets

Composer and Player v7.0.6 on Windows

01-Aug-2022

Enhancements

• Added support for the WebP image format. (Officially pronounced “web-p”, but cool folks call it “weppy”.) Use it anywhere you can run Player - including those of you with Player Next Gen…. Developed by Google, WebP is intended particularly for online use, with the goal of greatly improving load times for websites that were otherwise using JPEG, PNG, and GIF images. It supports animation, transparency, and lossy and lossless compression. For example, a lossless WebP image can be up to 26% smaller than a PNG.

• You may notice that we’ve removed the ‘scene selector’ from the Triggers & Actions panel. The fact is, triggers cannot call scene-specific actions outside of the scene with the trigger. We shouldn’t have implied you could do otherwise. You know what, forget we said anything…

Fixes

• Corrected an error in Composer’s Experiences Panel that made Composer think the online copy of an experience was newer than the existing version already on the PC. If you don’t have to download, why make you go through it again? Farm locally.

• “Link is clicked” trigger for the Web Browser Asset works again in all cases, not just in some cases.

• You may not know this, but there are ways to call Windows system services from within Intuiface. For example, using a PDF-embedded print function - in a webpage - to send the PDF to a printer. The problem is this ability to call system services wasn’t working if Player was launched automatically by the Player Agent. But it's working now! (And yes, launching Player manually avoided this bug. Why? Don’t look at me. I just write the Release Notes.)

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - July 2022

• Intuiface Licensing
  • We added pagination to the License Dashboard, enabling customers with a large number of licenses to jump ahead a few pages rather than having to step through their list one page at a time.

Player v.7.0.9 on all platforms but Windows

13-July-2022

Features:

• Improved Performances
  • Improved loading experience time up to 20%
  • Improved scene transition time up to 66%
  • Reduced CPU usage during idle time by 100%
• Added specific messages for unsupported assets

Fixes: 

• Fixed Excel converting cell values when bound to a number in a property condition
• Better management and conversion of Date in the Excel Interface Asset
• Fixed issues generated by empty rows in the Excel Interface Asset 
• Fixed Excel filtering issues on Date values
• Fixed HCMS filtering issues on Date values
• Asset Grid with REST IA now displays all items
• Fixed color of pressed state for the Button asset 
• Fixed conditional triggers for Interface Assets
• Web Experiences no longer downloads all HCMS media at initialization which caused very long waiting times while launching an HCMS based Web Experience. The content is now loaded incrementally.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - June 2022

• HCMS
  • The menu bar would sometimes disappear when viewing the Content tab. Not intentional, no longer happens.
• Analytics
  • Export requests involving huge data sets would occasionally fail. I thought we should just tell people not to do that, but Dev disagreed and just fixed it.
  • Custom dashboard logos were not displayed after we made some server updates. Fixed!
• Credential Keys
  • Web Trigger key synchronization across Players wasn't always completed successfully. Corrected!

Player v.7.0.8 on all platforms but Windows

28-June-2022

Features:

• Added scrollbar to the Document Asset
• Interface Assets
  • Added Weather Icon converter
  • Clock Interface Asset now displays proper values for Saudi Arabia language
• Enhanced controls behavior at manipulation for Video and Audio assets

Fixes: 

• Fixed issues with the following triggers:
  • Timer triggers
  • Activity / Inactivity triggers
• Fixed "is visible to interaction" propagation problems
• Fix Font related issues
• Fixed scroll issues on iOS based devices with the following collections:
  • Asset Grid 
  • Scroll Collection
• Fixed bug causing inability to load REST Interface Assets named "sendMessage"
• Fixed repeating animations with delay

Player v.7.0.7 on all platforms but Windows

2-June-2022

Features:

• Added support for Collection Behaviors
  • Supports content - container relation
  • Adds support for opening complex elements (when using tap to open)
  • Adds support for fill color
  • Adds behavior for control visibility depending on parent container
  • Added inertia behavior for scrollable collections
• Adds support for the Document asset
• Adds support for Experience Style
• Extended support for Interface Assets
  • Twitter Feed Interface Asset
  • REST Interface Assets
    • Added:  POST, PUT, PATCH

Fixes: 

• Fixed an issue causing control bars to capture touch gestures even when not visible
• Fixed a bug causing manipulation problems on scrollable collections oriented at 90°
• Fixed a bug preventing scene-to-scene backward navigation if not animation effect was selected
• Various Excel Interface Asset bug fixes
• Text Input bug fixes
• Fixed an issue causing delayed animation to fire after leaving the scene
• Fixed a problem in Composer Play mode causing Player to show the Experiences Panel when leaving play mode
• Interface Assets
  • Fixed Two value comparison issue at initialization

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - May 2022

• HCMS
  • The "Clear filter" action wasn't clearing existing filters. Not good - and fixed.
  • Corrected an error preventing the application of variants or sorting after adding new elements to a base.

Composer and Player v7.0.5 on Windows

23-May-2022

Fixes:

• Corrected an issue preventing a launched Composer from properly evaluating whether a locally stored experience is more recent than the last published version.

• Updated the Player agent on Windows to improve its performance. Did you even know there was a Player agent? Sounds sneaky

Player v.7.0.6 on all platforms but Windows

13-April-2022

Features:

• Added Login capabilities
• Added Player Activation capabilities
• Added support for updating Player on BrightSign and Samsung Kiosk using the Share and Deploy Console
• Added support for Video asset
• Added support for Audio asset
• Added support for HCMS in web experiences
• Added support for the following Interface Assets
  • Random Form List
  • Shopping List
  • Value to Color Binding Converter
  • Three Value Comparison
  • Clock
  • URL Shortener Binding Converter

Fixes: 

• Fixed usage of seconds/milliseconds of Time type
• Issue causing media assets to briefly show error while the resource was loading
• Bug causing wrong propagation of touch on ordered collections
• Various binding issues on Data Sources
• Filtering on Excel Interface Asset and HCMS
• Text alignment problems for hidden assets that become visible
• Time based conditional triggers

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - March 2022

• Share and Deploy / Hosted Services / Intuiface Licensing

  • We duplicated the server infrastructure supporting multiple cloud-hosted functionalities, enabling fail-over support and enhanced availability even during server updates.
• Intuiface Licensing
  • Platform Enterprise accounts can now select which (if any) existing Player subscriptions they would like to extend when extending the Platform subscription. This scenario typically occurs when purchasing new Player subscriptions, necessitating a Platform extension.
• Headless CMS

  • Player uses a local version of each referenced H-CMS base so you’d think network connectivity wouldn’t be necessary - but a bug was blocking local base use if the network was down. Fixed!

  • The Sort action for a collection in a base is no longer tripped up if some of the collection items had no values for the property being sorted

Composer and Player v7.0.4 on Windows

28-Mar-2022

Enhancements:

• In Composer and Player on Windows, we’ve updated the version of Chromium used in the Web Browser and HTML Frame Assets. Guess which version…. Nope…. No, not that one…. Ok, we’ll tell you. It’s now Version 97. That means a lot of enhancements and bug fixes inherited from the Chromium codebase.

• Installer for Composer will no longer insist on the use of an account with Admin privileges. Why was it ever such a snob?

Fixes:

• Scroll Collection
  • Multi-selecting items within a Scroll Collection and then turning them into a Group Collection now creates a well-organized group rather than the mess we’d been creating.

  • Fixed a bug impacting the resizing of assets within a Scroll Collection during Edit Mode

Player v.7.0.5 on all platforms but Windows

8-March-2022

Features:

• Added indicator during experience loading

Fixes: 

• Fixed Asset Grid on Samsung Kiosk and when using Chrome version inferior to 64

Player v.7.0.4 on all platforms but Windows

8-March-2022

Features:

• Added support for HCMS
• Added support for Asset Grid collection
• Added support for Text Input asset

Fixes: 

• Fix button display on dashboard for Safari

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - February 2022

• Analytics

  • We've removed the SQL/NoSQL option for data point storage. We'll be honest, nobody has requested that option in the 3+ years it's been available. There's just no demand so we're removing our commitment to deliver it.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - January 2022

• Headless CMS
  • Corrected base access error that occurred under certain rare circumstances. So rare you should feel lucky to have encountered the error!
  • We were having some issues binding Action parameters to an H-CMS base. Not any more!
  • Though it seemed like an intentional joke, we didn’t really want to say a data feed was named “missing property” instead of the actual name of a base collection. Fixed!
  • You can now run 2+ instances of Composer on the same PC and then open/edit experiences using the same base.
  • Want to “Save as” an experience using an H-CMS base? Now you can!
• User and Account Management
  • Now you can have one or more credit cards on file but choose to have none recognized as the Default. This prevents automated license renewal but is handy if you do not know which card to use until the last minute.

Composer and Player v7.0.3 on Windows

17-Jan-2022

Enhancements:

• Intuiface accounts with base usage rights now have the ability to reinstate base access for a revoked experience while in Composer. Previously, if an experience has its base access rights revoked, the base owner would have to log into Headless CMS in order to reinstate those rights.

• We’ve enhanced the error messages and logged information that can occur when downloading or pushing an experience to a remote device.

Intuiface Cloud - December 2021

• Analytics
  
  • Secondary accounts can now create their own dashboards. Previously, only the Primary account could create dashboards for Secondary account data.
• Intuiface Licensing
  • The "My Invoices" page now includes a link enabling the download of all license keys associated with a particular invoice.
  • We had trouble generating unique Player activation codes for multiple devices with the same MAC address. Fixed!

Composer and Player v7.0.2 on Windows

28-Oct-2021

Enhancements

• Headless CMS
  • Added ‘Sync local copy“ feature to Composer, accessible through the right-click menu of any Headless CMS Interface Asset.
  • Added “Sync local base” action for running experiences, accessible in the Triggers and Actions panel for any Headless CMS base. Requires a minimum of 15 minutes between calls.
• Other
  • New ‘ISO 8601 Date“ property for the Clock Interface asset. We all know what ISO 8601 is so additional explanation is not required. Even my kid knows ISO 8601.
  • Superscript text is no longer ignored by the Excel Interface Asset when that text is retrieved via binding. (Is this really a bug fix? Who’s to say? And did we want to keep the Fixes section focused on the Headless CMS? Maybe, maybe not.)

Fixes

• Headless CMS
  • Launching Play Mode in Composer - which always initiates a local sync for all bases referenced by the experience - no longer forgets to include variant changes.
  • Initial Swap Collection animation is no longer stopped by the unfinished loading of a base.
  • Collection behavior “Autoplay video in focus” is no longer stopped by the unfinished loading of a base.
  • Composer no longer displays an error message while opening an experience if a base was deleted from that experience before Composer was last closed.
  • Data Source property of a data feed (located in the Scene Structure panel) no longer displays a reference to components deleted using the Headless CMS cloud-hosted editor.
  • Conditional triggers bound to base values now work.

Composer and Player v7.0.1 on Windows

07-Oct-2021

Fixes

• Headless CMS
  • Filters and sorting for the Date/Time property now work in all cases. Except for 1-October at 15h GMT. Ok, just kidding, it works then too.
  • Assigning a different base to a data feed no longer breaks bindings if the original and new base have the same data structure. For example, maybe you have a test base and a production base. Now you can actually switch between the two. How nice!
  • Bindings to a base were being lost when used in conditional triggers. This was unconditionally not ok. Fixed.
  • Base synchronization between the cloud and the local copy now starts with the smallest file size and works its way up to the largest. At the end of the day, sync won’t be faster, it’ll just feel better on the soul to see lots of progress as the sync starts.
• Other
  • The Excel Interface Asset is now fine if a column title contains a comma - like “Product, Items”. Previously, you couldn’t filter or sort columns with a comma in their name.
  • Corrected an Intuiface 7 installer issue that insisted on using Intuiface 6 icons. Hey, Intuiface 6, it’s time to let go…. Just let it go…. It’s ok…..
  • We’ve eliminated a couple of Composer crash conditions.

Intuiface Cloud - September 2021

• Intuiface licensing
  
  • We changed the entirety of the Intuiface licensing model so it's sort of a big deal. Includes introduction of Platform licensing, new pricing, subscription alignment and extension options, and a Hibernate plan.

Composer and Player v7.0.0 on Windows

23-Sep-2021

New

For a high-level look at the big news, visit our Launch Announcement page
For a detailed summary, check out our latest blog entry.
Like a no-frills, all text summary? Here you go!

• Player Next Gen
  We've used cutting-edge web techniques to create the most platform-diverse, highly scalable runtime in the industry. It frees your content from the venue, enabling it to be run in web pages or as native apps on personal mobile devices. And its performance - even on Player’s existing list of supported platforms, including BrightSign and Samsung Tizen - is the closest you'll get to writing native code.
  For evaluation, we’re taking a managed roll-out approach. See our rules about how to evaluate Player Next Gen.
  For a lot more feature detail: https://www.intuiface.com/player-next-gen

• Headless CMS
  Our Headless CMS is a cloud-hosted repository enabling content managers to define, store, and manage the media and information consumed by Intuiface deployments anywhere in the world. It’s all about the content, making it possible to define complex data structures with an innovative approach to managing variance based on context. Users can add and manage content before a UI even exists, and Player devices host synchronized, local copies of the data to maximize content upload and to overcome unreliable networks.
  For a lot more feature detail: https://intuiface.com/headless-cms
  Check out our Help Center documentation:

• License packaging overhaul
  All account tiers can access all features, including Analytics and the Headless CMS. The days of separately priced features are gone. We’ve also introduced two very sought-after features: unlimited subscription extensions and subscription renewal alignment, which are critical for agencies and integrators managing their clients.

Other enhancements

(Yes, not so special in light of the big news, but it’s not their fault. And remember, some of your Intuiface-using colleagues asked for these things. Be respectful!)

• Added “Greater or equal to” and “Lower or equal to” filters to the Excel Interface Asset.

• Included direct links to the Analytics Dashboard and My Intuiface in the Composer menu.

Versions before 7.0

Releases notes of version before 7.0 are available at Releases Notes ARCHIVE: Intuiface Version 6.x

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