Version 1.8.143

Content editor/displayer

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug regarding displaying Custom fonts.
• Fixed a few bugs regarding datasources and data binding.

Other

New feature

• System emails are now changing based on the white label settings.

Change/remove

• Added modifications and bug fixes for the new request license menu.
• While creating a datasource, the system will now require to select a Client if the system-wide option is turned off.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug regarding dropdown icons in a few menus.

Version 1.8.133 – Released

Content editor/displayer

Change/remove

• Added small text and button height modifications in the Base data picker modal.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug regarding the Youtube widget.

Other

Change/remove

• Added modifications and bug fixes for the new request license menu.

Version 1.8.132 – Released

Content editor/displayer

New feature

• Added an option to translate image widgets, same as text widgets.
• Added internal datasources.
• Custom widgets (n8n) can now be private, only available to selected customers.
• Datasource now supports additional HTTP settings.

Bugfix

Other

New feature

• Added translation synchronization. New translations will be automatically downloaded and added to the server every hour.
• Added a new License request menu where administrators can request more licenses for their server.
• Added JDBC datasources.

Change/remove

• Changed user and customer last activity and usage time calculations.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where users were not able to create a webhook API key in some cases.

Version 1.8.111 – Released

Content editor/displayer

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug regarding removing external stream players.

Loop editor/displayer

Change/remove

• Removed the option add Custom font families in loop editor as the loop displayer never supported this feature before.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where the clock widget in loops was not working.
• Fixed a bug where the font family of the clock widget was not saved and did not change on devices.
• Fixed a bug where assigning a loop, that contains a layout with an empty video source, to a screen threw an Internal server error.
• Fixed a bug where the font family dropdown was missing the Recent category, populated by your most recent choices.

Interface

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where the context menu of devices disappeared when the device uploaded a new preview image.

Version 1.8.108 – Released

Content editor/displayer

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where some custom font families were not working properly.

Loop editor/displayer

Bugfix

• Fixed the fallback language of the Loop date picker. In some cases, the date picker appeared with Russian translation.
• Fixed a bug where some images had no preview in the loop editor.

Interface

Change/remove

• Duplicate content function is now visible again if Create content is forbidden for the user. This hide option will be added separately in a later version.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug regarding translate widgets in content dialog.
• Fixed a bug regarding the clear automatic reboot function.
• Fixed a bug regarding typing automatic reboot interval.

Version 1.8.106 – Released

Content editor/displayer

New feature

• Table widget text type cells now support HTML.
• Added new field types for “sent fields” (filtered datasource, automagical next data row, device info, file URL).
• Evaluation rules can now compare data to other data fields or widgets’ values.
• Added content wide “Execute action batch” actions for reusability.
• Added content wide table with all translatable widgets in one place to make translate text widgets easier.
• Re-arranged the Table widget data picker.
• Desktop Broadcaster app settings/show/hide from content (Static sensor or device output action).
• Added new page change action type: Repeat.
• Added “Ellipsis” option for text widgets with a max character limit.
• Added Ctrl+Shift+E hotkey to instantly edit widget touch events.
• Added “Call function” as evaluation type, sent field, value origin, and more.
• Table row touch event call function has a second parameter now and it has rowIndex on it.
• Added call displayerReady function on devices after sensor interface is ready.
• Added screen on/off as device output action type.

Improvement

• Batch actions can now be delayed.
• Popup open/close now run page change events.
• Simplified view checkbox for event/action modals.
• Custom widgets (n8n based) got more customizable with data pickers and custom settings modal options.
• More places can use sent field values in texts like this: {fieldName} (text type data binding, interact with text widget, …).
• Datasource events can now subscribe to “any” change in a datasource, not just specific fields.
• Reworked the page Only play function. Now the feature only depends on the time zone of the devices and works properly.
• Reworked the services of periodically changing widgets like Weather and Gallery widgets.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where sometimes the Clock widget showed a delayed time on devices.
• Fixed a bug regarding timestamp-based filters of the Table widget.
• Fixed a bug where Video and Videos widgets disappeared on the Overlay page.

Loop editor/displayer

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug regarding file folder picker, where if the user clicked the “Choose selected folder” button the system thrown an error and did nothing.
• Fixed a bug where file changes in folder did not appear on devices.
• Fixed a bug in layouts, where the background type always changed back to color type.
• Fixed a bug in layouts where text appeared without line breaks.
• Fixed a bug where duplicated layout slides got bad preview pictures.
• Fixed a bug where if the background of a new slide was set as an empty image, saving the loop stuck.
• Fixed a bug where the preview image of some layouts was empty.

Interface

Change/Remove

• Duplicate content function is now hidden if Create content is forbidden for the user.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where extra-wide templates appeared badly under the Administrator tab.

Other

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug regarding schedule repeatable.

Version 1.8.79

Content editor/displayer

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where the image gallery widget was not working if synchronization was turned on.
• Fixed a bug where Brightsign devices did not cache folder connected image gallery files.
• Fixed a bug regarding multi-select widgets in the editor.
• Fixed a bug where the image gallery widget did not load in files from folder in the editor.

Loop editor/displayer

New feature

• Added Custom NodeJS script widget to loop layout.
• Added a new layout with a full-screen box.

Change/Remove

• Reworked the WebSocket connections regarding loops.
• Embed contents in loop layouts are now deprecated and cannot be selected as a type anymore.

Device manager server (DMS)

Change/Remove

• Improved the performance of the DMS.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where Windows, Samsung, LG, and Brightsign devices could not update the application if they were connected to DMS.

Interface

Change/Remove

• Temporarily removed the active screens tab in the Server nodes sub-menu under the Administrator menu.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where wrong button icons appeared on the Handled screen tab under Server Nodes sub-menu in the Administrator menu.
• Fixed a bug where screen info appeared empty on the Unassigned screen and Server nodes sub-menu in the Administrator menu.
• Fixed the name input focus of creating content and loop modal. Now the spinner will not steal the focus.
• Fixed a bug where search fields were not working in the Server nodes sub-menu under the Administrator menu.
• Fixed a bug where content, loop, and device menus were not working in the mobile view.

Version 1.8.67

Content editor/displayer

New feature

• Added bearing and pitch options to Mapwize widget.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where the Facebook widget was not appearing if the content had multiple pages in the playlist.
• Fixed edit mock data binding windows sometimes opening behind other windows.
• Fixed datasource path to preserve in embed content widgets.
• Fixed image widget with empty source not showing file picker in the right-click menu.
• Fixed a bug where navigating between the content editor and the summary caused multiple request sending.

Device manager server (DMS)

Change/Remove

• Optimized the communication between DMS and the Master server.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where weather data were not refreshing on DMS.

Server application

New feature

• Added automatic distribution function for customers, which automatically move the customer under a public DMS, that has enough limit to take all the device the customer has.

Change/Remove

• Optimized RSS processing.
• Optimized device metric data storing.
• The server application now caches the weather data for 15 minutes.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where file folder change socket messages were not sent out if the file was moved to the folder and not uploaded.

Version 1.8.56

Content editor/displayer

New feature

• Added new image gallery control actions: swap forward, swap backward, and change folder.

Change/Remove

• Image gallery and Carousel widgets now refresh when new images are uploaded to the connected folder.
• Improved on-screen keyboard and input fields.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where requests for datasource could be too long if it contained hundreds of data.
• Fixed the design and functionality of the translate widget modal.
• Fixed a bug where the animation was played on the first image in the image gallery widget.
• Fixed a bug where the displayer was not sending events to the devices.
• Fixed a bug where background audio was not played after saving the content.
• Fixed a bug where synchronization was not working in schedules.
• Fixed a bug regarding external video player appearing on Brightsign devices if the video was in an embed loop.
• Fixed a bug where the Content widget could be stuck on the last page of the embed content.
• Fixed a bug where the displayer was not subscribing to embed loops through WebSocket.

Loop editor/displayer

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where users could not add static background images to loops.
• Fixed a bug where the preview image of a duplicated layout slide was missing.
• Fixed a bug where the loop editor was not saving the font family of the weather widget.
• Fixed a bug where the loop displayer spammed stomp error if the device lost the internet connection.

Other

New feature

• Added option to install devices by their serial number.

Change/Remove

• Changed the error message when the user tries to log in via SSO but he/she does not have a user in the system.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug regarding moving a file to a folder in the file manager.
• Fixed a bug regarding adding tags to files in the file manager.
• Fixed a bug where online/offline indicators on device groups showed the total number wrong.
• Fixed move to content group function for contents that are already in a content group
• Fixed device info not refreshing on clicking the device info menu.
• Fixed a bug where after creating a new customer, the create modal did not disappear.
• Fixed a bug where the save button was not working on the unassigned screen menu under the Administrator tab.
• Fixed a bug where removing a customer was not doable in some cases.

Version 1.8.38

Content editor/displayer

New feature

• Added new data binding and external event related features.

Change/Remove

• Added new RSS mime-types which the server accepts.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where content appeared black on Samsung screens.
• Fixed a bug where saving a content freeze the browser if it contained text and scroll widgets with a lot of text.

Loop editor/displayer

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug regarding the pause loop function.
• Fixed a bug regarding processing font-families.

Other

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where synchronized contents sometimes could not load in and showed black screen instead.
• Fixed a bug where navigating to logs from the context menu of a device, content, or loop did not set the filter.
• Fixed a bug where scrolling on the summary page was not working on the mobile view.
• Fixed a bug regarding remove customer and user.

Version 1.8.31

Content editor/displayer

New feature

• Added video flip option for external video players.
• Added duplicate hotkey to the editor (CTRL+D).

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug regarding the Scroll text widget, where the server did not accept a few RSS URL Mime types.
• Fixed a bug where if the image gallery widget contained thousands of images it caused device crashes.
• Fixed a bug where videos with 4K resolution appeared in 720p if they were not on the default page and were placed in the background.

Loop editor/displayer

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug when removing an image from a layout and saving the loop caused infinite save process.
• Fixed a bug regarding font families.

Other

New feature

• Time thresholds of removing historical data are now configurable under the Administrator menu.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where the Contact us menu was not working.
• Fixed a bug where loops did not appear alphabetically sorted on the Home page.
• Fixed a bug where the Root screen group option appeared as “undefined” in the selector of the Remove screen group popup.
• Fixed a bug where the version of the server nodes appeared wrong in the Server nodes menu under Administrator.
• Fixed a minor bug regarding the delete license order popup of a network member.
• Fixed a bug on the Invoicing sub-menu, when searching for a customer sometimes did not find random customers.
• Fixed a bug regarding device and content paginations on the Home page.
• Fixed a bug where assigning content from search results to a screen hid the search results.
• Fixed a bug where enforce password change popup was not disappearing sometimes after a successful password change.

Version 1.8.19

Content editor/displayer

New feature

• Added scroll widget and content widget jump on end functionality.
• Added getContentProgressInfo function for clients, which response with which page the displayer is playing currently and for how long.
• Added keep aspect ratio option to image gallery.
• Added interactive option to the Youtube widget.
• New widget added: Mapwize.
• New notification added when page duration and animation duration conflicts.
• Added randomize order option for galleries.
• Added current state report of content to devices for audience measurement.
• Users can now set certain pages of a content to only play on selected days, or hours.
• Added limit access to an action in the displayer by requiring a PIN code authentication first.
• Added “each data row” option to contents widget which appears if the child content contains datasource, and “different data rows” is turned on.
• Added datapicker button to call API events, to include a data field value with the API call.
• Added time-based event actions to content.
• Added custom widget support to the editor.
• Added custom format (moment.js) format options to clock widget.
• Widgets on the overlay page now can be targeted by sensor events.
• Added animate widget as an external event action type.
• Added dual relay as new supported sensor type.
• Added option to turn off overlay page on specific pages.
• Added new touch and click sound.
• Added hide widget sections and hide content/page properties sections function.
• Added no line break option to text widgets.
• Added clear button to content and contents widgets data row picker.
• Added Before and After values to regexp type data text format options.
• Added new touch sound options.

Change/Remove

• Changed playlist editor in content editor.
• Moved video widget to Basic widgets group.
• Changed the icons of all the widgets.
• Moved connections section to a popup.
• Changed design of the whole content editor.
• Complete rework of the external event handling in the editor side. New GUI, new features.

Loop editor/displayer

New feature

• Added charge advertiser with slide duration for loop slides.
• Added new slide-type to loop: Audio slide.
• Added on scroll loading to loop editor’s slide content manager.
• Added bold, italic, and underline font style options to loop editor template slide text, weather and clock boxes.
• Added getContentProgressInfo function for clients, which response with which slide the displayer playing currently and for how long.
• Added current state report of loop to devices for audience measurement.

Change/Remove

• Loop displayer now notify the device on slide change to create a screenshot for preview.
• Migrated loop editor to angular 9 application.
• Images, videos, loops, templates are now dynamically loaded on scrolling or window resizing
• Changed design of the whole loop editor.

New feature

• Added customer level white labeling.
• Added summary devices list view in settings/devices.
• Added password show/hide icon to log in, sign-up, reset password, administrator/user details, administrator/customer details, and settings/users.
• On home remember which section the user collapsed, and which group the user opened.
• Data picker shows with different background color when a path is not valid currently.
• Added Content and loop analyzer functionality.

Change/Remove

• Changed device info modal design under the administrator tab.
• Extended knowledgeBase link list.
• Help link was removed from the Downloads menu under the Settings tab, instead, it is placed into the Help button.
• Replaced gauge charts with doughnut charts under the Administrator tab.
• Improved template selector when creating new content.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where increasing the balance of an advertiser with a very huge number responded with Something went wrong: 400.

Administrator

New feature

• Added datasource change event webhook to custom reporting.
• Added invoicing and support email addresses to Mail settings under the System settings menu.
• Added Software licenses sub-menu to Licenses menu, which represents the used 3rd party software and their licenses.
• Added PM2 functionality.
• Added template accessibility per customer.
• Added device register rate limiting.
• Added Enforce password change in case of weak passwords option to the System settings menu.

Change/Remove

• Changed the technology and design of System dashboard charts.
• Removed Exit on click option from System settings menu and moved to the settings of contents and loops.

Other

New feature

• Added appropriate error messages to login when the user or client is restricted.
• Added Single sign-on (SSO) only login feature.
• Added LDAP authentication
• Added PIN code-based user authentication.
• Added new role: Device user.
• Added Content assign and Content preview as new configurable webhook actions.
• Added webhook actions by device tag.
• Added calendar type to Google and Microsoft credentials.
• Added calendar type datasource.
• Added password change functionality in case of weak passwords.
• Password policy is now configurable on the backend with properties.
• Added external event (sensor, touch, …) files to export and precache lists.
• Added device registration rule function.
• Base64 images can be uploaded to the system now.
• Added specific screens filter option for custom asset statistics.
• Added reset sensor function to the context menu of devices.
• Added pulsing buttons for collapsed sections on the Summary page.

Change/Remove

• Added default Terms of service form.
• Removed .wmv and .ogg from supported video file extensions list.
• Improved Microsoft credential token handling.
• Optimized the webhook processes on the server-side.
• Optimized the communication process between the Master and DMS servers.
• Install as Brightsign firmware option will not appear anymore for non Brightsign devices on Install application popup.

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where PWA client was pointing to the wrong URL under the Settings tab.