Flow Release Notes 7.x and Older

Owned by Jonathan Schmale
Last updated: Jul 22, 2020
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Since the main release notes page is getting very long this page will archive some of the older notes.

Version 7.12.4.3

Elections

  • Add tables required to support the new Rundown Editor app.

Media

  • Enable a generic URL based media selection.

    • Can be enabled via Media Bin preference key: EnableExternalUrl

    • Can be customized to suit by setting 

      • the URL label with the Media Bin preference key: MediaBinUrlSourceLabel

      • the URL icon with the Media Bin preference key: MediaBinExternalLogoUrl

Version 7.12.3.2

Elections

  • Show party in the results

  • Show lead in the results

Stories

  • If a source is given then identify it as an automated datafeed item

  • when sorting/filtering don't allow modifying the topic order

BLADE

  • Add Logo URL to teams and leagues

  • Add office type details and main party flags

Version 7.12.2.1

Elections

  • Improvements to BLADE output

  • Enable filtering results by using a playlist

  • Fix: office type saved for an office failed to display when editing the same contest again

Version 7.12.1.3

General

  • Use thumbnail versions of uploaded images in Super Ticker as much as possible to improve responsiveness.

  • Update new install database scripts

    • Update with latest version update scripts

    • Removed unnecessary weather data (inserted by the associated weather parser upon first use).

Elections

  • Don't show a choices tooltip in the election choices grid when there are zero choices.

  • Interface implementation improvements.

  • Allow user to view full size choice image when editing the contest.

BLADE

  • Revised Election output options to better support new election data format

  • Add support for League output

Version 7.11.4.3

General

  • Remove duplicate rundown topic from new install script which caused errors later in use.

  • Avoid error when media file has no extension

  • Have our website open in a new window instead of replacing the Super Ticker content

  • Use a nicer login button

  • Drop the measurement units text for the Ski Reports snow base field label

Elections

  • Improve performance of the election module

  • Introduce a contest grid for election events as the default module

    • Add new contests

    • Edit existing contests by clicking the office/name column

    • Enable multiple select and delete for quick removal of multiple contests

    • Save filter selections until the election event selection changes

    • Display a popup of choices upon hovering the count

  • Fix: Don't remove a party assignment when updating an existing candidate and party is not officially enabled by the event type.

Version 7.11.4.2

General

  • Enable automatic online error submission via fogbugz.

Elections

  • Tweak some labeling

  • Avoid error when optional office is not assigned.

Version 7.11.2.4

General

  • Hide status bar when editing dynamic fields in the media module

Elections

  • Add basic source support for election events

  • Prevent error when an election type has not been assigned

Weather

  • Improve the layout of the weather data

  • Make sure location requests are deleted when removing a location from the requested list

Version 7.10.4.3

Scores

  • Fix for error preventing the update of league code/abbreviations.

Weather

  • Fix for cities without state/province assigned not displaying used in the selectable location list.

General

  • Improve date-time dynamic field handling

  • Requires Windows Installer 4.5 or greater

Version 7.9.2.2

Installer

  • Enable installing on a Windows 10 machine.

Show Scheduling

  • Add ability to select the startup layout when scheduling the show.

Version 7.9.1.2

Elections

  • UI consistency improvements

  • Remember the last selected election event for the session.

  • Fix headshot not previewing when a new one is selected

  • Enhance DB to better support data feeds by adding a datafeedChar column to the elc_area and elc_office tables.

Weather

  • Improve weather module loading performance.

Version 7.8.4.2

Serials

  • Now compatible with serial v7.2 

    • supports unlimited channels 

    • fixes for serial decode error

Elections

  • Enhance DB to better support data feeds by adding a datafeedChar column to the elc_event table.

Version 7.8.2.6

RSS Mapping

  • Allow the expiry time to be blank

  • Add support for new Exclusive Sync feature that instructs the RSS Reader to delete items from the Super Ticker topic when it sees they are removed from the RSS feed.

Media

  • Add support for adding dynamic fields to media items.

Elections

  • Allow past elections to be used in playlists

  • Better searching and filtering when selecting contests

Installer

  • Fix to correctly locate the update report when no virtual directory is used.

General

  • Reduce wasted space in the top header region

  • Move the text indicating the currently logged in user to the footer.

Version 7.7.5.3

Scheduler

  • Introduce watershed time coloring instead of "business hours"

    • Uses 2 new preferences

      • Scheduling > Watershed (Safe Harbour) Start Time

      • Scheduling > Watershed (Safe Harbour) End Time

  • Fix error when no rundown assigned to selected show

  • Fix errors with scheduler not working properly for

    • delete

    • direct insert new

    • cancel updates

  • Auto-fill the end date after selecting the start date if there is no end date or the start date is after the end date

Dashboard

  • Display the dashboard in a column-first alpha order with configurable # of columns

Configuration

  • Allow entering time-spans greater than 24 hours

  • Convert the StoryExpiryHours to StoryExpiryTime for greater flexibility

  • Order the feature list by name

Version 7.7.3.3

General

  • New fluid and compact dashboard item layout

Spelling

  • Improve support for adding new languages

  • Add Spanish as a default available language

  • Add new preferences to set Provider and Edit Distance

BLADE

  • RSS Writer Updates

    • Add xml:base attribute

  • Add id to json and xml

Version 7.7.3.2

General

  • Installer improvements.

BLADE

  • Add Guid, PubDate to RSS items

Stories

  • fix bug where changes to topic when editing story would not save

Version 7.7.2.4

General

  • Some changes to module names to be less wordy (drop the word Control from many module names)

  • Move the Media module from Additional Data Control section to the Content Control section

  • By default - disable the MediaBeacon option when selecting new media (can be re-enabled in System Preferences for a client install).

Media

  • Remove option to assign captions

Show Rundown Preview

  • Add support for displaying election selections in the rundown preview

    • it caused an error otherwise to include elections in rundowns

Spelling

  • Add preference in System Configuration to allow setting of a default language for spell checking.

  • Add ability to select the language when spell-checking stories.

Version 7.7.2.1

Dynamic Fields

  • Add support for a date-time value in addition to the already existing number, text, toggle

Elections

Ongoing improvements to the election module.

  • Parties

    • Can assign party colors

    • Added support for flagging main parties

    • Added support for specifying zero vote sort order of parties

  • Event Types

    • introduced event type to help customize the UI to hide unnecessary components for a better user experience

    • Only Sys Admins can edit the event type definitions

    • Add a summary contest by default when creating a new election of that type (if enabled)

  • Clear results

    • Add support for clearing/resetting the results of an election.

  • Playlists

    • Now support contests instead of candidates

    • Lists may be renamed or deleted entirely

  • Contests

    • Improved ability to add and edit:

      • Offices

      • Areas

      • Candidates

      • Parties

Media

  • Add option to assign up to 2 text captions to media

  • Enable editing of media item names

Financials

  • Improve layout for display and editing - particularly for longer stock symbols and names

Weather

  • Display the forecast code in the weather data module (useful for troubleshooting and player reference)

  • Fix bugs related to editing and adding icons and code associations now that multiple weather sources are supported.

  • Allow for longer icon file names - up to 127 characters from 45.

  • Supports the new TVA Weather Reader (custom app)

Version 7.5.5.6

Serial Control

  • Now using version 7.1 serials

    • includes support for specifying the maximum number of supported channels

    • re-purposes the product expiry to be a maintenance plan expiry instead

BLADE

  • Add support for Promos

Version 7.4.1.3

REQUIRES ST PLAYER 2.5.270.xxx TO BE INSTALLED AFTER THE FLOW UPDATE!

Weather

  • New support for multiple weather sources

  • Support for Weather Underground as a weather data source

  • Requires COMPATIBLE Weather Agents to be installed AFTER the Flow Update!

    • WSI => 2.4.0 or greater

    • Bell Weather => 1.0.6 or greater

    • Weather Underground => 1.0.2 or greater

Version 7.3.4.6

Elections

  • Fixed notes not attaching to candidates

  • Fixed contest preview not working

Stories & Scores

  • Fix to resolve random text appearing in score reports and stories after clicking save.

Version 7.3.4.5

Stories

  • Enhanced debug logging option added.

Scores

  • Enhanced debug logging option added.

BLADE

  • Restore access the the BLADE module

    • was broken in build 7.3.3.6

Elections

  • Not available in the rundown in this build.

Version 7.3.3.6

WARNING This update deletes all existing election data.

This update requires an updated Player if you are using the elections module - these player changes are not yet available. (April 9, 2015)

Elections

  • Complete replacement of election schema

  • Not yet available in rundown

    • Actually the presence of references to old election tables here breaks the rundown editor.

Alerts

  • Fix group filtering

Stories

  • Improvements to story interface

    • show text for missing on-air and expiry times instead of blanks

Scores

  • Improvements to score interface

    • show text for missing on-air and expiry times instead of blanks

    • fixes for default expiry handling

General

  • Agent status shows countdown to next execution for agents in red status

BLADE

  • KNOWN ISSUE: access to the BLADE module is broken - fixed in the next build.

Version 7.3.3.5

Remote Player Control

  • Improved button state for online and offline player control

Installer

  • Fixed error on 7.1.3.5 update

BLADE

  • Add file path to candidates in elections

  • Add option to generate unique candidate IDs in elections

  • Add file path to visitor team, home team in scores

  • Add price changed percent and price changed percent short to financials

General

  • Default feature support

Version 7.3.2.4

Remote Player Control

  • Increased connection and player status speed in interface

  • Fix to drop downs not loading existing settings

BLADE

  • Improvements and fixes to Score, Events and Twitter output

Version 7.3.2.3

Requires ST Player 2.5.259.3078 to be installed AFTER the Flow Update!

Remote Player Control

  • Fixes for connecting to offline and online players

  • Improved connection timeout duration controlled by preference key

  • Channel / Show / Layout drop downs load existing values

  • Switching players now prevented during remote search

BLADE

  • Nested Weather elements fixed

Media

  • Show image name for all team and league icons

  • Show distinct icon for images brought in from MediaBeacon

Version 7.2.2.4

Social Media

  • Update to use new Facebook API

Promos

  • Grid sorted by newest added, first to see most recently added promo after addition

  • Editing a promo now appears as popup for easier viewing

Readers

  • Critical updates required for DMan 1.2.2.4

Events

  • New events support added

Player Control

  • Improved status detail when searching for player

  • Added support for offline player show, channel and layout assignment

  • NOTE - online player support not available in the build. Offline only.

Financials

  • 4 digits displayed for currencies

General

  • Improved overall product navigation

  • Fix so installer no longer needs 32 bit support added in Application pool

Version 7.1.4.4

Users

  • Fix to resolve reported error when adding new users.

Scores

  • Prevent the league drop-down list from repeating leagues in the score playlist module.

General

  • More dashboard re-organization and naming improvements.

  • Add default DB users for Ace and Player access.

  • Fix to prevent a build-up media files related to deleted tweets.

  • Use a more standard alert message box size across modules.

  • Enable ability to remove registered players from Super Ticker.

  • Updated icons for some elements.

  • Add option to revoke/remove the assigned serial number.

Elections

  • Allow more then one candidate to be in a given party.

BLADE

  • Add extensions to the media urls to allow more third-party applications to read them correctly.

  • Enable the user to set a fixed number of media elements to be included with each story. Provides a simpler access to story image urls.

  • Improvement to reduce the number of open connections from growing too large and causing errors.

  • Fix to correct the AvatarLocalUrl address for the avatars of tweets in playlists.

Version 7.1.3.3

General

  • Minor dashboard improvements.

Version 7.1.2.4

Installer

  • Fix for database scripts being run out of order causing errors.

  • Addition of navigation tabs at the top of modules for quick access to related modules.

Channel Control

  • New feature allowing you to enable and disable channels.

Story Playlists

  • Improve performance

  • Only load the first topic of stories by default instead of all stories.

Promos

  • Fix to editing a promo with a disabled channel.

Version 6.12.5.1

Twitter

  • Fix for language list in search definition being empty.

General

  • Add navigation tabs to a number of modules such as stories, scores and traffic.

  • Add an online help button in the navigation tabs to link direct to the relevant help articles.

Version 6.12.3.1

BLADE

  • Twitter: Add option to set a fixed number of images to be output from BLADE and add a local url for avatars.

Version 6.12.2.6

General

  • Rundown preview removed from dashboard for non broadcast versions of product.

  • Fix errors when using a backslash in the login field.

Elections

  • BLADE support for election data

Version 6.12.2.3

Elections

  • Initial support for Candidate Playlists

Version 6.12.1.5

Requires ST Player 2.5.241.3064 or higher

Elections

  • Polls Reporting update support

  • Elected Candidate update support

  • Additional module improvements

General

  • Enhance password security.

Version 6.11.5.5

Elections

  • Headshot output fixed

  • Incumbent flag output fixed

  • Additional interface fixes

  • Support for province and state tags added

  • Support for extended candidate bio added

  • Support for region details added

Installer

  • Critical fix to installer for customers coming from any version 6.2.x.x or earlier

Version 6.11.5.2

BLADE

  • Enable output of dynamic fields for stories and scores.

Media Uploads

  • New system preference to control whether new uploads are added to the gallery by default or not.

  • New system preference to set the target thumbnail size generated for new uploaded images.

  • Fix error when trying to load a valid image with uppercase file extension.

Twitter

  • Prompt when the user tries to re-order tweets in the approved or unapproved queues. Tweets can only be custom ordered in playlists.

Version 6.11.4.5

Elections

  • Improvements to this module

Channel Control & Scheduler

  • Fix to crash on module launch

Version 6.11.4.2

Elections

  • Election support added

Help

  • Fix to online help links

Version 6.11.3.6

A new serial will be required for Super Ticker and Sports Ticker installations to enable the broadcast features of the product (Rundown, Channel Scheduler, Show Control, Player Control. etc.)

Weather

  • Enabled entering blank temperatures instead of requiring a -999 value.

  • Don't show the -999 values but instead show a blank.

  • Improved context labeling of the condition fields.

  • Add administrator support for managing the weather forecast types which are enabled in the weather setup module.

  • Highlight individual weather location or playlist in the dashboard rundown preview if all data is considered old.

Show Control

  • Enable filtering to search for a show by name by typing in the name to the filter box.

General

  • Unnecessary modules removed from TweetOut, Snow Day

Version 6.11.2.2

Story Playlists

Requires ST Player 2.5.235 or 2.0.x.118 or higher

  • Initial draft of support for story playlists.

  • System preferences control

    • max number of lines to display from story content (header + body)

    • max number of dynamic fields to display for each story

    • ability to turn off dynamic field display in the playlist in Super Ticker

Weather

  • Use generic Temperature 1 and Temperature 2 labels for day-part forecasts.

Version 6.10.4.2

Configuration

  • Now you can control which of the licensed features you want to enable. Simply turn on/off the available features in the configuration section on the Features tab.

    • Disabled features do not show on the home dashboard

    • Disabled features do not show in the BLADE module

Reports

  • Fix: The audit report option for Weather Parser events now shows the audit logged events.

BLADE

  • Fix: for twitter output error (was introduced in version 6.9.3.2)

Version 6.10.3.6

RSS Mapping

  • Story topic list now filters based on the users assigned/selected content group.

  • RSS Map entries are no longer directly assigned a content group but instead will inherit the content group assigned to the story topic it populates.

  • Now users can click on either the label or the radio button or check box associated with it when editing/adding entries.

Weather

  • Only show the -999 weather temp as the low if there are no non-999 values. 

    • The -999 values are intended to indicate that the forecast data has not yet be populated for the first time.

Player Control

  • Fixed connection to players in the player control module

Version 6.10.3.4

Weather

  • Added support for 

    • sunrise

    • sunset

    • forecast date.

Version 6.10.3.3

General

  • Initial election support added

  • Search box available for rundown topic list

  • Search box available for story topic list

Version 6.10.1.1

General

  • Fix for error when logging in after logging out (bug in 6.9.3.2 and 6.9.3.3)

  • Fix for Content Group filtering not working (bug in 6.9.3.2 and 6.9.3.3)

Version 6.9.3.3

Weather

  • New support for additional fields (barometric pressure, dew point, visibility, air quality, humidity)

    • Compatible with the new Bell Weather Reader 1.0.2.0

  • Improved support for day parts (Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night)

  • Improved input validation

  • Open the details for editing when editing the city name

Dynamic Field Editor

  • Allow blank values to be saved indicating the field is knowingly unused.

General

  • Broadcast playlist preview now shows on dashbaord.

Known Issues

  • Errors can occur when attempting to login again after logging out from a previous session.

  • Content group filtering is not working.

Version 6.9.3.2

General

  • Installer now supports backup servers and replication

  • Using latest database drivers for improved speed

Existing Super Ticker / TweetOut customers will need a G2 serial number to replace their existing serial number. Please contact support@bannisterlake.com before you proceed with this installation.

Known Issues

  • Errors can occur when attempting to login again after logging out from a previous session.

  • Content group filtering is not working.

Version 6.8.5.2

General

  • Fix database update scripts to avoid install errors as in previous build.

Twitter

  • Rather then enabling the save and display of avatars separately make this a single Use Avatars option.

Version 6.8.3.2

General

  • Facebook Reader token now properly updated in Super Ticker when pushed from the reader.

  • Fix to old Facebook posts appearing when editing new ones.

  • Support for XpressionTick-it

  • KNOWN ISSUE: may encounter an error during the database update phase. (fixed in 6.8.5.2)

Version 6.8.1.3

General

  • Playlists now support their drag-n-drop functionality again that had been broken in versions 6.7.x.x

Dynamic Fields

  • Fix to allow automation names of fields to be updated.

Twitter

Requires ST Player 2.5.217 or higher

  • Fix error where an old saved tweet was added to a playlist instead of a new selected tweet.

Version 6.7.3.6

Scores

  • Fix editing of game reports - was adding extra blank lines.

  • Fix playlist module to allow drag-drop of scores in the playlists.

Alerts

  • Enable hub support for Alert Types.

Weather

  • Update layout and improve labels when editing weather forecasts.

General

  • KNOWN ISSUE: drag-n-drop playlist functionality is broken. (fixed in 6.8.1.3)

Version 6.7.2.4

Channel Scheduling / Show Management

  • Improved interface and handling of shows when no layout states exist in the project or when on default layout is defined in the show

General

  • Fix to allow enter key to submit log in

  • KNOWN ISSUE: drag-n-drop playlist functionality is broken. (fixed in 6.8.1.3)

Version 6.7.2.2

Channel Scheduling

  • Improved auditing of user actions

  • Access restricted to only producer or higher security clearance

  • Improved view of layout, rundown in mouse over

  • Improved occurrence editing for redcurrant series

General

  • KNOWN ISSUE: drag-n-drop playlist functionality is broken. (fixed in 6.8.1.3)

Version 6.7.1.6

Requires ST Player 2.5.3027.204 or higher

Channel Scheduling

  • Support for channel scheduling added

Zone Management

  • Fix to occasional crash in module

Media Import

  • Allow importing directly into library

Rundown Module

  • Improvements to drag and drop

Story Module

  • Improvements to copying stories, tags,

User Management

  • Support for international numbers

General

  • KNOWN ISSUE: drag-n-drop playlist functionality is broken. (fixed in 6.8.1.3)

Version 6.6.3.7

YOU WILL NEED TO RESET THE CHANNEL OF ALL YOUR PLAYERS IF YOU HAVE NOT RESTARTED YOUR PLAYERS SINCE UPGRADING TO FLOW 6.1.5.6

Version 6.4.3.2

Alerts

  • Allow the link to show on the dashboard when enabled by the product serial.

Stories

  • Copy dynamic tags when copying stories.

  • Enable support for copying stories with rich text styles.

  • Fix incorrect style information in pre-configured rich text styles.

Version 6.3.4.4

Player Control

  • Fix to Player Control

Version 6.3.3.2

REQUIRES ST PLAYER 2.2.2701.198 OR HIGHER

Show Control

  • Add support for the new lite switch fields for enhanced player control

  • Remove support for the URL field

  • Add Content Group selector for filtering shows

Rundown Control

  • Add support for Show selection and setup directly in this module

Weather

  • Add support for basic editing of the weather icon mappings in Super Ticker

    • Allows you to define the possible weather codes coming in from your datafeed and map them to your set of custom icons for display in broadcast

    • Accessible to System Administrators only

Version 6.3.2.2

REQUIRES ST PLAYER 2.2.2701.197 OR HIGHER

BLADE

  • Enable ski report output

  • RSS output now respects the timestamp parameter

  • Improved CSV options UI

Security

  • Cleanup security group documentation notes - only applies to systems initially installed as version 5.8.5.3

Version 6.2.5.3

BETA RELEASE - NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PRODUCTION

Twitter

  • Allow the moderation queues to expand to full window height by selecting the "Just Tweets" view mode.

Facebook

  • Allow the moderation queues to expand to full window height by selecting the "Just Posts" view mode.

BLADE

  • New layout - show 1 module at time selected by tabs at the top

  • Enable default settings for time-stamps, newlines and pretty printing

Version 6.2.4.6

BETA RELEASE - NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PRODUCTION BASED ON CHANGES FROM 6.2.4.5

General

  • Improved UTF8 support for a broader range of characters.

Version 6.2.4.5

BETA RELEASE - NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PRODUCTION

Multiple Channel Promo assignment requires a matching player update - please contact BL for details

Promos

  • Promo can now be associated across multiple channels

  • Spot Nickname now supported provides additional context in rundown

  • FIX: remove campaign time limits now supported

  • FIX: remove captions now supported

  • Improved grid layout for long notes and file names

Rundown

  • Improved player and show rundown preview from dashboard

Version 6.2.3.2

General

  • Fix for issue with Chrome 32 and drag-drop control.

  • Improved support for IE 11.

Tweet Moderation

  • Apply a new more compact layout that allows more tweets to be visible in the view at one time.

  • Introduce new approved icons

Version 6.2.2.3

Player Control

  • Player Channel, Show, Layout, Online/Offline state changes are now audited

  • Fix to ViewMacState error on some networks

  • Widened dropdown fields for Channel, Show, Layout

Version 6.2.2.2

The Player Control module updates in this release requires Version 2.2.2638.183 of the ST Player

Player Control

  • Grid now displays Channel, Show, Layout

Rundown Control

  • Spot ID added to rundown lists

Dynamic Tags

  • Link to the editor now shows on hover in stories

  •  Boolean flag support added 

  • Field values can now be removed

General

  • Style fix to date time picker for IE 11

Version 6.1.5.5

BLADE

  • Fix to null values in CSV output

Player Control

  • Improvements and issue fixes

  • Online / Offline control aded

Version 6.1.4.5

 Rundown Editor

  • Allow copy over existing rundown

BLADE

  • CSV output added

  • Disable timestamp by default for all CSV output

Player Control

  • Link from Broadcast Preview on dashboard fixed

RSS Map

  • Fixed bug from 6.1.4.3 that prevented it from opening.

Version 6.1.4.3

The Player Control module in this release requires the latest ST Player

BLADE

  • Pretty-printing enabled by default.

  • Pretty-printing disabled by adding &pretty=false to any generated URL

  • Allow the use of "t" and "f" for true and false respectively

Dynamic Fields

  • Enable filtering of the dynamic fields by module in the field editor

  • Show only the fields that are assigned to the selected module by default

  • Removed the unused default topic field from the Dynamic Field Group definitions

RSS Map

  • Enable Content Group assignment

  • (unintentionally add bug that prevents map module from opening - fixed in next build)

Rundown Editor

  • Clone rundown sets for a show

Player Control

  • Manual control of player channel / show / layout from Player Control module

Version 6.1.3.2

BLADE

  • Enable CSV output option in BLADE for tweets.

  • Enable option to export stories from all Topics.

  • Enable the datafeed/external ID to be available in the score output.

Stories

  • Enable option to choose to add story images to gallery. If not added to gallery the image added to the story is deleted with the story.

  • Ensure that media is correctly cleaned up when stories are removed.

User Management

  • New layout for user management module.

Version 5.12.3.4

User Management

  • Un-deleted users are also re-enabled

  • Interface fixes

Version 5.12.1.3

Dynamic Fields

  • Improved support for dynamic fields with multiple lines of text like a box score.

  • Allow the editor to remember previously entered fields if opening the editor more then once when adding a new record.

  • Limit the height of the field viewer when previewing fields. Provide a scroll if there are too many to fit in the space allowed.

Scores

  • Enable support for page breaks in the game reports (rich text enabled content only).

  • New preference key created to hide the score tags and odds fields when not needed.

Stories

  • Enable support for page breaks in the body of the story (rich text enabled content only).

Version 5.11.5.7

Dynamic Fields

  • Introducing support for adding and editing dynamic field values to scores and stories.

Promos

  • Fix to promos with start and end time

Version 5.11.5.6

Promos

  • Support for adding a broadcast name to Spot # for use in rundown trains

Version 5.11.4.5

RSS Map

  • Fix bug where the Auto Approve and Ingest Enabled settings do not display correctly and do not correctly set the check-boxes when editing.

    • (bug was introduced in build 5.11.2.5)

Stories

  • Validate if the on air time is after the expiry time in stories.

  • Add auditing for on air time changes.

  • Adjust story layouts to allow on-air and expiry times to have more space both when displaying and editing.

  • Hide the repeat column unless enabled by a system preference key.

Scores

  • If there is only 1 league available then auto-select it when opening the score management module.

  • Tweak the layout of the score records.

User Management

  • Enable phone number entry to be optional (controlled by a system parameter).

    • This allows clients who want to use phone numbers to require them and others to leave them blank.

Version 5.11.4.4

Financials

  • Improvements to module

Reports

  • Fixes to accommodate new audit data

  • Fixes to AsRun report

Sports Ticker

  • Rundown Preview now available from main dashboard

Promos

  • Support in Rundown Preview

Version 5.11.4.2

Dynamic Fields

  • Introduces dynamic field support

  • Stories and Scores display the dynamic fields assigned to their records (editing not yet available)

  • Dynamic Field Group management module available

    • Only editable for System Administrators (readonly to others)

Ski Reports

  • Add support for daytime temperature values.

Financials

  • Improved accuracy with support for up to 4 decimal places.

Version 5.11.3.4

Agent Status

  • Fix to handle issue where no next run time is given. In this case status should have been red but was displaying as green.

Rundown

  • Now topics can be dropped in the middle of other topics causing them to split into two parts for a better user experience.

Version 5.11.3.2

Promos

  • Support for campaign start and end date added

  • Support for start of day and end of day added

  • Support for captions supported

  • Channel assignment support added

  • Interface improvements

  • Priority modification support added

  • Promo support in Rundown now available

Snow Day

  • Support for BL Snow Day serial added

Blade

  • Twitter topics can now be accessed via the topic selection using the item which is simply the *

  • Support for the RSS format for closings added

Media

  • Loop field allows indicating if video should loop or not on playout

System

  • Improved handling of incorrect DB settings

Version 5.10.5.4

Media

  • Now providing support for uploading of videos as well as images.

  • Assign videos to stories.

Version 5.10.5.3

This was a special built for the testing of the developing Alert Tracker product variation.

Blade

  • Added iconText output option that generates plain text for use by an IconStation.

  • Adds an option to remove newlines from the output in Stories, Alerts, Tweetout and FB

Twitter

  • Allow line breaks to display as entered.

Facebook

  • Allow line breaks to display as entered.

Version 5.10.4.5

Scores

  • Fix to crash on editing scores if you switch league while editing

Blade

  • Added time-stamp option and fix to camel case for JSON

Version 5.10.1.6

Scores

  • On Air Start Time added to allow games to start later than they are created (on air broadcast must be enabled for each score still)

  • League now supports score type for additional information in the player output including sports trains

Stories

  • On Air Start Time added to allow stories to start later than they are created (on air broadcast must be enabled for each story still)

Version 5.10.1.5

BLADE

  • Add support for score playlists and include team logo URLs in results.

  • Enable indented formatting by default for JSONP results. 

    • Disable it by adding the parameter &pretty=false to the URL of a JSON request.

  • Enable story and alert image support via image URLs in the results.

Version 5.10.1.4



Rundown

  • Add support for the new Score Playlists.

  • Make the rundown editor taller.

Scores

  • Use plain text boxes for scores instead of a numeric only text box.

  • Tweak layout of score records

  • Check for and remove potentially troublesome characters in game reports and remove (control and format characters)

Score Playlists

  • First release of score playlists with support in rundowns. BLADE support not yet available but see next release.

Version 5.9.4.3

Rundown

  • Fix an error where the drag-drop of a rundown item to the top failed.

Version 5.9.4.2

General

  • Allow the version of Super Ticker to be retrieved remotely to allow supporting utilities to confirm compatibility. (e.g. D-Man for Super Ticker)

RSS Map

  • Fix issue where relative times were failing to be saved.

Scores

  • Fix issue where a blank game report would prevent the score from being successfully saved.

  • Prevent <br /> and &nbsp; items from showing in the game reports.

Version 5.9.3.3

Stories

  • Fix to issue with deleting stories and the broken on/off air toggle buttons.

Version 5.9.1.6

Scores

  • Enable the use of styles in game reports E.g. to format text for Players, Stats, Standings

Version 5.9.1.5

Installer

  • Improvements to the Super Ticker installer permits it to patch missing updates as needed

  • New Install Update report generated after database update shows status of database update process

Twitter

  • Ensure the list of language options in the twitter search form is populated and errors are handled.

  • Allow basic use of images in tweets.

Version 5.8.5.2

General

  • Phone number association for users now supported

  • RSS absolute and relative time now supported during mapping

  • Fix to data access for Ski Report, Financials and Promo module

Scores

  • Fix for enter key use in game reports

  • Summaries by type and topic now supported

TweetOut

  • Fix to Facebook token issue

Version 5.8.2.4

Scores

  • Scores now support additional data including odds and detail like base runners and pitch count for baseball when using a data source like StatsInc

Stories

  • Allow moving/coping a story to one or more other topics.

Version 5.7.2.4

Alerts/Stories

  • Allow adding a story to multiple topics at one time by allow multiple topic selection.

Version 5.7.1.5

Alerts

  • First draft of Alert functionality allow stories to be flagged as an Alert.

BLADE

  • Now includes a set of generic views that can be accessible via ODBC for accessing tweets and facebook posts and stories.

  • Allow a list of twitter topics to be accessed by specifying topic=* in the request instead of providing a specific topic name

  • Support for JSONP instead of just JSON

Weather

  • Allow editing the name assigned to the weather locations.

Version 5.6.2.3

RSS Module

  • Various tweaks and improvements

Version 5.5.5.6

User Security Groups

  • Expand Browse user access.

  • Add new Demo user group.

    • Like a browse only user but with no ability to change the password.

Version 5.5.4.6

Agent Status

  • Now available! (as previously seen in Super Ticker for Elector)

  • Available only to users with at least Content Admin security privileges.

  • Defaults to refreshing every 15 seconds for reasonably accurate reflection of agent status'.

Stories

  • Fix for issue with Chrome version 27 and listboxes with autopostback=true - would refresh even when trying to scroll.

Version 5.5.1.6

RSS Map Module

  • Allows defining RSS maps to story topics in Super Ticker

Version 5.5.1.4

Blacklist Control

  • Enable option to specify a search type for each bad word. This reduces the number of bad words required in the list and provides more powerful searching options.

    • Equals

    • Contains

    • Regex

Version 5.4.5.3

  • Fix error when search includes the ( or ) or uses the negative/positive operators.

Version 5.4.4.6

Security

  • Allow browse only users view-only access to:

    • Twitter

    • Twitter Playlists

    • Facebook

    • Facebook Playlists

    • Story Topic Control

    • Twitter Topic Control

    • Twitter Playlist Management

    • Facebook User Accounts

Version 5.4.3.2

User Management

  • Enabled changing the password of users when editing a users details.

  • New filtering options for finding user records.

Password Change

  • Add a basic password strength indicator with possible ratings of

    • very weak

    • weak

    • medium

    • strong

Version 5.4.2.6

Rundown Control

  • fix when using Rundown Control as a member of a Content Hub

Version 5.4.2.5

WARNING: This impacts users of the Content Administrator group concerning their module access. Please see User Setup for more details.

User Management

  • Previously deleted users can now be restored. Note that deleted user are disabled and hidden but this new feature enables them to be made visible again.

  • New user security level called "Producer" has same privileges as Content Administrator with the addition of Channel, Show and Rundown control as well as ability to modify on-air Show but does NOT have user modification abilities that the System Administrator has.

  • "Content Administrator" user security level no longer has Channel, Show or Rundown control.

    More on Security Levels - Security Levels

Version 5.3.5.5

Channel Control

  • Display the All Content Group instead of blank.

  • Fix: edits were not saving.

Content Groups

  • Now content displays for selected content group plus content assigned to the all content group.

Rundowns

  • Adding an item from the same topic and scene at the bottom of the rundown puts it into the same topic instead of creating a new topic with the single item.

Version 5.3.5.4

Weather

  • Add a refresh button the city list to allow on demand update of the displayed data - useful when you know the weather datafeed just updated and you want to see the update in Super Ticker.

  • Show a tool tip on the old data icons indicating how old the data must be to display the warning icon.

  • Hide the forecast details when deleting a city.

Stories

  • Fix bug with calendar popup not showing when clicked on.

Version 5.3.5.2

Blacklisting

  • Enabled management of the blacklist words currently used to filter tweets.

  • Allow viewing, adding and deleting of words.

Stories

  • Filter the available topics by the selected Content Group. 

  • Show topics assigned to All and the selected group.

Story Topics

  • Enable support for Content Groups: filter and edit. (DB change)

Promos

  • Support for additional notes on an Ad (DB change)

General

  • Additional system name context available for multi Super Ticker regions

  • User Content Group now visible if Content Groups are enabled

Version 5.3.5.1 

Player V2.0.2249.111 or higher needed at and beyond this revision

ACE V2.0.2249.111 or higher needed at and beyond this revision

Promos

  • Promo architecture now loads faster (DB change) 

  • Fix to promo edit dialog not appearing where mouse is

  • Size and file name of promo now available in list

  • Promo deletion now working

Player Support

  • Scene State architecture added (DB change)

Version 5.3.4.6

Traffic

  • Add fields: Description and Route to Super Ticker interface (DB change)

  • Hide field: Camera name