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Flow Release Notes 8.x

Flow Release Notes 8.x

Version 8.12.4.5

Events

  • Add new Events iCal Mapping module.

Closings

  • Improve error handling around missing and invalid data.

Configuration

  • Don't display Flow connection details when updating the database.

Stories

  • Improve handling of manageable errors.

Version 8.12.4.2

BLADE

  • Improve handling of empty traffic reports.

  • Improve handling of empty closing groups.

  • Improve handling of empty event calendars.

Version 8.12.4.1

REQUIRES MYSQL 5.6.5 OR GREATER TO BE INSTALLED BEFORE THE FLOW UPDATE!

TRAFFIC CHANGES: REQUIRES PLAYER VERSION 2.5.427.X OR GREATER TO BE INSTALLED AFTER THE FLOW UPDATE

Closings

  • Improve auditing of changes made.

  • Fix to prevent the dynamic field editor from resetting other form entries after saving its own changes.

Events

  • Fix to prevent the dynamic field editor from resetting other form entries after saving its own changes.

Login

  • Fix for users who sign-in with google and then are unable to sign-out. Now the can sign-out when necessary.

Financial Playlists

  • Fix for bug when deleting an already removed items.

Traffic

  • Introduction of a new Traffic Report grouping of traffic incidents.

Note that the MySQL version has to be 5.6.5 or greater to support the timestamp initialization used.

Version 8.12.3.1

Closings

  • Add support for a valid until time which indicates when it should automatically be disable from output by DMan.

  • Add ability to assign a user a time zone to use to interpret the Closing Valid Until dates.

  • Allow new status messages to be entered when inserting or editing closings by anyone instead of only admins.

  • Add support for dynamic fields.

  • Handle duplicate closing status names more gracefully (use the existing one instead of just having an error).

  • A support for a new Content Editor security group (also applies to Events, Traffic, Stories, Scores, Teams and Leagues)

Events

  • Add new Calendar style display of events.

Version 8.11.5.3

Facebook

  • Fix to better handle missing media data.

Version 8.11.4.3

Community

  • Show the auto approve option for Community mapping records.

Users

  • Allow emails to contain trailing spaces when entered but clean them before saving to the database.

Version 8.11.3.3

Twitter

  • Update UI to more clearly indicate the tweets with links included option.

Database

  • Add datafeedLastModified to score and story for community reader.

Version 8.11.3.2

BLADE

  • Fix for incorrect interpretation of the timestamp parameter option.

Closings

  • Auto create a playlist when none is created yet and avoid errors.

Events

  • Added support for showing Data Source for both calendars and playlists.

Weather

  • Default to using the png version of default graphics for Weather Underground data.

Version 8.11.2.4

BLADE

  • Events - only return events that are enabled for air.

Rundowns

  • Filter all the available topics by the selected content group.

  • Fix known issue started in build 8.10.6.1 related to the use of Closings.

Version 8.11.2.3

BLADE

  • Add modifiedDate attribute to BLADE dynamic fields.

  • Correctly filter the closing group list by the selected content group.

  • Correctly filter the event calendar and playlist lists by the selected content group.

Closings

  • Fix online help button links.

  • Fix for error that occurred on a double-click of a playlist item.

  • Fix to allow dropping new playlist items into a playlist via the grid footer extension area without error.

Community

  • Fix online help button links.

Version 8.11.2.2

Closings

  • Fix bug that allowed list from other content groups to display on first display of the page.

  • Fix for the out of place focus box of the grid.

  • Add a refresh button to the grid.

  • Enable editing the closing group Broadcast Name.

  • Enable a default button action of saving the edits.

  • Improve auditing logs of changes to closings.

  • Use the word remove instead of delete.

Events

 

  • Fix bug that allowed list from other content groups to display on first display of the page.

  • Fix for the out of place focus box of the grid.

  • Add a refresh button to the grid.

  • Enable editing the event calendar Broadcast Name.

  • Enable a default button action of saving the edits.

  • Use the word remove instead of delete.

Version 8.10.6.2

Closings

  • Editing with empty status no longer blocks the Editing Control from appearing.

  • Fix for the delete-all button not working.

  • Add institution type to the playlist grid.

Community

  • Handle missing topics without crashing.

Rundowns

  • Known Issue: in this build there are errors encountered if the Closings module is enabled when accessing the Rundown module.

    • This issue is fixed in 8.11.2.4. In this build Closings can be enabled again while using the Rundown module.

Version 8.10.6.1

Closings

  • Limit closing status and institution types access to unrestricted Admins.

  • Removed 'All Institutions' playlist

  • Removed use of Content Groups in Closing Institutions

  • Use the 'New' button to add Groups and disable typing in the Groups drop-down to add new Groups

  • Playlist - Allow creation of Groups by typing a new name into the Groups drop-down list control

  • Playlist - Allow editing and creation of new Events

  • Playlist - Allow showing or hiding of playlist items

Events

  • Removed 'All Events' playlist

  • Removed use of the Content Groups in Events

  • Use the 'New' button to add Calendars and disable typing in the Calendars drop-down to add new Calendar

  • Playlist - Allow creation of Calendars by typing a new name into the Calendars drop-down list control

  • Playlist - Allow showing or hiding of playlist items

Query

  • Fix query items added with ALL content group not being visible by other content groups.

  • Fix query wizard join with column\table selection not refreshing query string.

  • Fix query wizard ordering of join tables.

  • Add closing groups, event calendar table.

  • Remove ski reports from query wizard.

Rundowns

  • Known Issue: in this build there are errors encountered if the Closings module is enabled when accessing the Rundown module.

    • This issue is fixed in 8.11.2.4. In this build Closings can be enabled again while using the Rundown module.

Version 8.10.5.3

BLADE

  • Update closing group url query tag to use group instead of topic.

  • Fix closing group error if a status is not assigned.

  • Add Institution Type to closing data output.

Closings

  • Allow Institution Type to be unassigned.

  • Enable adding a new institution type or status when editing a closing.

Community

  • Show only source, target and enabled in each record.

Version 8.10.4.6

BLADE

  • Add Closing Group support to BLADE output.

  • Fix sorting of event calendars.

Version 8.10.4.5

REQUIRES ST PLAYER 2.5.416.XXXX OR GREATER TO BE INSTALLED AFTER THE FLOW UPDATE!

Closings

  • Added support for Groups as mandatory containers for Closing Institutions.

  • Added support for Institution Types.

  • Added new Management UI that allows managing Closing Institutions in Groups or Playlists.

  • Playlists by default sort institutions by ascending name order unless the Custom Order setting is used. When enabled, drag and drop reordering is permitted.

Community

  • Simplify to use only topics or groups instead of playlists.

  • Enable removing it from the available features via the system configuration module.

Elections

  • Fix: clear the party selection when changing candidates if no party selected.

  • Fix: enable removing a party and image from a candidate.

  • Allow changing the area and office in contests but not the shared details of areas or offices.

  • Allow content admins access to election setup with no delete options and no event type access.

  • Enable editing area notes in election setup module.

  • Enable editing office notes and type in election setup module.

  • Improve audit log record generation to prevent display errors.

  • Limit the number of leaders shown in results for contest with multiple positions.

    • This can be configured via a new system key in System Preferences (Max Contest Leaders).

Rundowns

  • Add support for Closing groups.

  • Add support for Event calendars.

  • Add support for Alert groups (separated from stories).

Users

  • Filter the list of recoverable users based on the logged in users content group.

  • Enable permanently deleting users in the logged in user content group.

  • Filter the Audit Report by the logged in user content group.

Version 8.10.3.4

Users

  • Added an option to use Google to login with.

    • A user account must be created in Flow first with the e-mail address of the user matching the intended google e-mail address and the login type set to Google.

  • Filter the user management module by the user's assigned content group.

    • no access to system configuration module for content group admins.

  • All sysadmins with access to all content groups to disable unused security group types.

Version 8.10.1.2

BLADE

  • Elections: calculate the polls reporting percent.

Elections

  • Avoid error when refreshing the party setup grid and the insert item form is open.

  • Apply a new default-headshot / no-image graphic.

  • Show only 1 name field for election types like polls and questions that don't use offices or parties.

Rundowns

  • Allow shows to be copied without a switch code error.

  • Ensure a project is assigned before selecting/creating a new rundown set.

Scheduler

  • Don't allow start items to be after end times when resizing schedule items.

Version 8.9.4.5

Ski Reports

  • Removed.

Users

  • Fix to allow user passwords to contain any characters without error.

Version 8.9.4.3

BLADE

  • Add calendars to events.

Community

  • Make the exclusive Synch option and Expiry time mutually exclusive.

LDAP

  • Enable creating multiple user bind DNs for a single LDAP server setup.

  • Allow user records to select LDAP as the login mechanism

Media

  • Enable hiding the media bin on the dashboard by using a new system preference key.

    • Media Bin > Display on Dashboard

RSS Map

  • Make the exclusive Synch option and Expiry time mutually exclusive.

Query

  • Add checkmark to parent node if a child node is checked when selecting tables and columns

Users

  • Allow each user to be assigned to a login method instead of forcing all users to use the same login method.

    • Can currently choose from LDAP and default login options.

    • If using LDAP then no password needs to be defined in Flow.

Version 8.9.3.6

Community

  • Added an Exclusive Synch option.

    • It means we keep the community feed and the target container synchronized.

  • Removed the explicit content group assignment and instead will filter using the content group of the target topic/playlists.

Version 8.9.3.5

Community

  • Renamed the ST Map module to Community.

  • Avoid errors when changing type and grid is in edit mode.

  • Show loading animation when retrieving remote data takes a little longer.

Events

  • Fix bug that occurred when adding a new event.

  • Improve start and end date validation - require both.

Version 8.9.2.6

Events

  • Events Management UI

    • Added support for Calendars as mandatory containers for Events.

    • New Calendars can be created by typing in a new name in the Calendars drop-down.

    • Added selection checkboxes to allow deletion of selected events or playlist items

    • Added a 'Custom Order' checkbox to Playlists which will allow drag and drop reordering of playlist items when checked.

  • Events Playlists UI

    • Added Calendar drop-down on the available events grid on the left side

    • Added a 'Custom Order' checkbox to Playlists which will allow drag and drop reordering of playlist items when checked.

Query

  • Correct BLADE query encoding

  • Html encode the query results in the preview window.

ST Map

  • Enable mapping of data from one Super Ticker instance to another.

Version 8.9.2.2

Query

  • Update the item template to display Name and Description on the same line.

  • Replace new lines with a space when previewing query results.

  • Escape the query string when passing it to the preview window.

  • Ensure generated data key names are unique

  • Sort queries by name

Version 8.8.4.6

Events

  • Add new events management module for easier editing of a larger volume of events.

Query

  • Enable creating custom data queries of all your favorite data types.

Version 8.8.4.2

REQUIRES .NET FRAMEWORK 4.5.2 OR GREATER

BLADE

  • Add iCal format for BLADE events

Elections

  • Scenario Backup & Restore for Events and Contests

  • Fixed bug that prevented rundowns with election data included from be automatically cleaned up when and election event was deleted.

Events

  • Improve the display of event descriptions which include line breaks.

  • Allow dashbaord preview to handle event playlists in the rundowns.

Financials

  • Fix the ordering of playlist items which had been backwards.

  • Added a rename option in a context menu for playlists.

  • Fixed issue caused when trying to drag an item to a playlist when no playlist is selected.

  • Improve handling of financial items being removed and causing errors.

Media Picker

  • Avoid errors by not allowing uploads of images that are too large to be successfully saved.

Scheduler

  • Enable the Agenda view - useful for situations where scheduled items are short and do not display well in other formats.

Ski Reports

  • Warn when trying to add a ski report without a name.

Version 8.6.4.1

Election Contests

  • Fix to avoid error when adding/editing a new contest with no office assigned

  • When creating a new contest, stay on the contest editing page to allow easy adding of candidates after saving initial details.

Election Playlists

  • Improve sorting

  • Enable setting a default option for sorting ascending/descending in system preferences

Election Results

  • Show 2 decimal places for really small vote percentages

Financials

  • Add support for dynamic fields.

  • Enable quick playlist re-naming by double-clicking on a playlist name.

General

  • Fix online help links after online documentation re-org.

    • use tinyurl/permalinks to future proof links

  • BLADE: improve the JSON output with a overall object creation and add ability to output plain json as well as jsonp

Stories

  • Don't allow re-ordering when they are sorted by a custom sort selection.

  • Fix to avoid error that occurred when moving stories.

Scores

  • Don't allow re-ordering when they are sorted by a custom sort selection.

  • Fix to avoid error that occurred when moving scores.

Ski Reports

  • Limit the ski report input fields to numeric values for numeric fields

Traffic

  • Avoid error when adding a new playlist

Version 8.6.2.1

General

  • Added new configuration module for LDAP setup and quick tests.

  • Bug fix for story report

Scheduler

  • Add an enhanced tooltip with better schedule item details

  • Avoid some errors in scheduler.

Stories

  • Fix bug in grid header display when sorting

  • Improve performance of batch deletes

Version 8.5.5.1

BLADE

  • Add support for dynamic fields in Alerts

Election Playlists

  • Add sort controls to sort based on date or name of the available contests

  • Add preferences to set the default sort order

  • Display event date with event item names

General

  • Correctly check if the database server credentials are valid on a new install

  • Initial support for LDAP password authentication in place of Super Ticker password authentication

Version 8.5.4.1

Elections

  • Introducing the ability to load saved LiveList filters

Graphics

  • Widen the project_layout name column from 45 to 255 to support long layout names

Version 8.5.3.4

REQUIRES ST PLAYER 2.5.410.XXXX OR GREATER TO BE INSTALLED AFTER THE FLOW UPDATE!

Elections

  • Removed the election-choice votesLeading field

Financials

  • Supports showing of topics or playlists

  • Change the term market to topic for stocks

  • Add the field Last Trade as an optional field for stocks

  • Enabled filtering on data source

  • Removed the isIndex field from the stock topics table

  • Fixed bug which caused error when trying to remove a stock topic containing stock records

Version 8.5.3.1

General

  • Automatically set permissions on the App_Data and Uploads folder avoiding manual intervention post-install.

  • Detect and notify user during upgrade/install when an incorrect database userid/password combinations entered.