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Release Notes for Version 7

  • Updated

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:

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 iPad, Android, ChromeOS, BrightSign, Samsung SSP, and LG webOS for details if there are platform-specific updates to Player.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - August 2023

Composer and Player v7.0.12

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.

Intuiface Cloud and Infrastructure - July 2023

  • Share and Deploy
  • Headless CMS
    • You can now store audio files and 3D models in a Headless CMS base.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

Composer and Player v7.0.9

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.

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.

Composer and Player v7.0.8

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 - October 2022

  • Share and Deploy
  • Analytics
  • 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.

Composer and Player v7.0.7

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!

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.

Composer and Player v7.0.6

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 - 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!

Composer and Player v7.0.5

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!

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.

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

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

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

  • 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're not going to know which card to use until the last minute.

Composer and Player v7.0.3

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 - 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!

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

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

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

Composer and Player v7.0.0

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 have access to 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, both critical for agencies and integrators managing their own 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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