Flow Release Notes 9.x

Owned by Jonathan Schmale
Nov 20, 2020
7 min read

Version 9.12.4.5

Scores

  • Added support for team player records.

  • Improved access to Global content group predefined dynamic fields.

Version 9.12.4.3

Rundowns

  • Add support for adding Query items to the rundowns. 

    • Player support is pending at this time...

Version 9.12.3.4

Branding

  • Delete programs when removed by the user instead of only marking them unavailable.

  • Improve program and episode editing layouts - better support for arbitrary long amount of dynamic fields with auto-scrolling.

  • Integrate content group filtering with episodes.

Rundowns

  • Improvements to allow assigning the max display count value correctly.

Story

  • Allow the story and alert header text boxes to be configurable in height and character length.

    • Related system preferences:

      • Story > Header Box Edit Lines

      • Story > Header Maximum Length

      • Alert > Header Box Edit Lines

      • Alert > Header Maximum Length

Weather

  • Add support for UV Index values up to 20 (previously only 11).

Version 9.12.3.2

Branding

  • Add program schedules to BLADE output.

Community

  • Add new Time Adjust field to the mapping entries.

Version 9.12.2.5

Branding

  • Improvements to the program and episode editing modules.

  • Initial implementation of the Client Campaigns modules.

Closings

  • Enable closing playlists to show closing groups for assigned user access content groups.

Scores

  • Enable score playlists to show leagues for assigned user access content groups.

Elections

  • Set election types to not create summary record by default for new installs.

Version 9.12.1.3

Rundowns

  • Allow rundown module Available Topics list to include content from all user's assigned viewable content groups.

  • Make the rundown page html content safe.

Weather

  • Allow the editing of weather location display names in the main weather module.

  • Improve playlist search filtering behaviour.

Themes

  • Update themes to use common Flow icon and text.

Version 9.11.2.2

Stocks

  • Better handling of invalid dates.

Twitter

  • Enable tweets to be unlimited in length. 

    • Completion of work intended in 9.9.4.4.

Version 9.10.3.2

Shows

  • Add an optional description field. 

    • Displays in show management

    • Displays in the rundown show details.

    • Displays in scheduled show tooltips.

Weather

  • Remove the Add/Remove location features since that's all done in compatible readers now.

Version 9.9.4.4

Twitter

  • Enable tweets to be unlimited in length.

    • this is incomplete becasue the db script couldn't run. Fixed in build 9.11.2.2.

  • Add preference key to set the desired limit of tweets when editing them.

Weather

  • Add option to disable custom sorting in weather playlists and instead sort by location name automatically.

  • Added a search box or available weather locations in the playlist module.

  • Change the label name from Part Name to Forecast Name.

  • Add missing fields in XML BLADE output.

Widget

  • First draft of a score widget for testing.

Version 9.9.3.2

Community

  • Add a abbreviation field to the Sources.

Weather

  • Display the state and country fields in select lists and playlists.

  • Improve weather blade output to support weather as a community source.

Version 9.9.1.4

Community

  • Add support for Alert Groups.

  • Add support for Election Events.

General

  • Apply security patch for Telerik component used (yes again).

    • NOTE: UNINSTALL THE EXISTING VERSION OF FLOW BEFORE RUNNING THIS UNSAFE-ONE TO ALLOW THIS PATCH TO APPLY.

Stories

  • Fix for new stories not being able to successfully attach images/media when created with the Add New form.

    • bug caused by changes introduced in 9.6.4.2

Weather

  • Add a Powered by... link in the weather details to indicate the source of the data and link to it's source when possible.

Version 9.8.3.2

Community

  • Add support for weather playlists.

  • Enable using improved blade urls based on id values instead of only names.

Weather

  • Reduce dependence on the weather_city_details.locationID - now allowed to be null

Version 9.8.2.1

Community

  • Enable the community mapping list to display all records instead of requiring the user to select a single type.

  • Add a field to define the update frequency (minutes) for each record instead of having them all run at the same frequency based on a setting in the reader.

BLADE

  • Rename the IconText option for Alerts to be Text.

Agent Status

  • Add option to remove all red status agent records at once.

Version 9.7.4.4

General

  • Apply security patch for Telerik component used.

    • NOTE: UNINSTALL THE EXISTING VERSION OF FLOW BEFORE RUNNING THIS UNSAFE-ONE TO ALLOW THIS PATCH TO APPLY.

  • Improve media picker popup window layout settings to reduce extra scrollbars.

  • Disable auto-report errors by default.

    • If you want the system to send error reports to our bug tracker automatically change this key to true: Errors > Auto Submit Errors Online

  • Enable preferences cache to refresh after saving any changes

  • Improve support for the use of HTTPS connections

  • Add preference to enable an HTTP to HTTPS redirect and HSTS

    • HTTPS > Enable redirect from HTTP to HTTPS

    • HTTPS > Strict-Transport-Security Max Age

Preferences

  • Fix for incorrect handling of saved time-stamp preference values.

Work Around Instructions for prior versions

  1. In Flow – go to the configuration module and set your preference to the value you want and save it.

  2. Then fix the saved value in the DB.

  3.  

    1. Open MySQL Workbench

    2. Run: SELECT * FROM superticker.smc_preferences where KeyName like '%Time%';

    3. In the results find the StoryExpiryTime and possibly others with a value formatted like: 0 16:00:00.000000

    4. Add a dot/period after the first zero instead of the space 0.16:00:00.000000

    5. Click apply.

      1. If the apply button is not enabled then click on different row then the one you just edited and it should enable.

Version 9.6.4.2

General

  • Use the same edit and delete icons more consistently through our grids.

Story

  • Fix for story media items not being removed from the story when deleted in the UI.

    • Bug created in build 9.1.4.1.

    • KNOWN ISSUE: new bug created - cannot add images to new stories added with the Add New form.

      • fixed in build 9.9.1.4

Version 9.6.3.2

Community

  • Improved support for mutli-content group support. Filter target content options based on selected content group.

    • NOTE: THIS CHANGE REQUIRES THAT THE COMMUNITY SOURCE WEBSITE USES THIS VERSION OR NEWER TO BE COMPATIBLE.

Events

  • Removed the expires checkbox that was causing confusion. The content expires at the given date - otherwise no expiry when no date.

Login

  • Fix for login error when using Financials as default landing page.

Project Zones

  • Fix for error that occurred when project name for a zone was not found.

RSS Maps

  • Fix for error that occurred when sorting Hours-to-Expiry.

Users

  • Don't default to showing the list of Global users to non-global content group system admins.

Version 9.6.2.2

LDAP

  • Fix for url encoded user DN values from search results.

Rundowns

  • Fixed known issue from 9.6.1.1 with illegal mix of collations preventing loading of rundowns.

Version 9.6.1.1

NOTE: THIS INSTALL WILL TAKE LONGER THAN MOST. THE DATABASE UPDATE AT THE END TAKES TIME. LET IT RUN.

Database

  • Upgrade all tables and fields to full Unicode support (use utf8mb4_unicode_ci)

  • Fix for known issue from 9.5.4.5 with new installs script error.

  • KNOWN ISSUE: Rundowns might encounter errors after installing this build.

    • fixed in 9.6.2.2

Version 9.5.5.1

LDAP

  • Connection tracing enabled.

Version 9.5.4.5

Twitter

  • Simplify content group selection in topic and playlist modules - rely on selector tool value.

LDAP

  • Add support for LDAP directory searching for users via an alternate attribute like sAMAccountName.

Database

  • For new installs - setup the database to fully support Unicode characters.

    • KNOWN ISSUE: New installs - broken on account of script error in comments.

      • fixed in 9.6.1.1

Version 9.5.3.2

BLADE

  • Alerts: introduce a body tag option to specify a dynamic field as the main text output for text output.

  • Elections: use new blade url format using id values instead of relying on names only.

  • Events: use new url format using id values instead of relying on names only.

  • Traffic: sort report list by name.

  • General: avoid errors with special characters in url from item names.

Version 9.5.1.4

Alerts

  • Introduce Intro/Outro options to wrap around Alert BLADE text output.

Query

  • Fix for long queries not being preview-able.

Rundown

  • For for bug causing incorrect context menu items for scene template selections.

Version 9.5.1.1

Rundown

  • Fix for known issue from 9.3.2.2 causing error when trying to change the template/scene assigned to an item.

  • Fix for known issue from 9.2.3.3 causing error when selecting to insert a new story as the first story in the topic

  • Add the Community Theme option.

Version 9.4.3.1

Community

  • Add support for mapping Financial Topics.

Version 9.4.2.1

Dashboard

  • All the show preview select list to show all shows the user has view access to via content group privileges assigned.

Story Topics

  • Fixed issue preventing the update of story topics in a content group other than Global.

Version 9.4.1.4

BLADE

  • For weather - sort by name when filtering by data source.

Financials

  • Fix for the remove all button on the stock topic grid.

General

  • Enable a new Chameleon theme.

  • Apply new icons for the Chameleon theme

Rundowns

  • Improve content group filtering of available items.

Version 9.3.5.4

BLADE

  • For weather - allow filtering by data source.

General

  • Updated paging controls to use a slider style control.

Story

  • Allow story playlists to set the output status of playlist items.

Weather

  • Enable editing dynamic fields when editing the other details as well as in view mode.

  • Eliminate the weather location grid in favor of a simpler select list in the header of the forecast details grid.

Version 9.3.2.4

Events

  • When deleting an event calendar remove any related rundown items.

Version 9.3.2.3

Content Group Changes

  • Use the new multiple content group model with

    • Elections

    • Player control

BLADE

  • Since support: Add option for filtering based on a date-time

Rundowns

  • Enable a new shuffle toggle for assigned rundown topics

  • Enable a new display limit for assigned rundown topics

Traffic

  • Add display of the last update time and the data source

Version 9.3.1.1

Content Group Changes

  • Improve multi-hub access control UI for adding new users.

  • Allow saving a user assigned to global/all content groups - previously it didn't save.

  • Only auto-assign full access to the main selected content group.

Dynamic Field Editor

  • Enable long textbox values to auto expand for easier reading of longer texts.

    • limited to a maximum height though

Weather

  • Add support for dynamic fields

Version 9.2.4.3

Content Group Changes

  • Apply changes to filter dynamic fields based on selected content group.

  • Use the new multiple content group model with

    • Dynamic fields

    • User mangement

    • Query module

    • Score modules

Version 9.2.3.2

Content Group Changes

  • Filter the rundown sets by content group

    • BEFORE INSTALLING THE FLOW UPDATE YOU MAY NEED TO PREPARE:

      If using content groups with shows and rundowns
      -- if multiple shows in different content groups use the same Rundown Set then you should create copies of the rundown set (one for each content group it will be used in) to assign to the shows in each of the different content groups.

  • Use the new multiple content group model with

    • Financials

    • Traffic

Scores

  • Add content group support.

Stories

  • Fix bug which caused error to be reported when inserting a new story relative to a story that had be deleted.

  • KNOWN ISSUE: add new bug causing error when selecting to insert a new story as the first story in the topic.

    • fixed in 9.5.1.1

League Playlists

  • Removed.

Version 9.2.2.1

Dashboard

  • Add advertising block

Configuration

  • Allow specifying a port in the installer by adding it to the database server name such as localhost:3306

  • Add machinekey value to web.config.

Scores

  • Teams - filter by league instead of defaulting to show all teams.

Version 9.1.4.2

Alerts

  • Don't show the alert widget in the header anymore.

Content Group Changes

  • Use the new multiple content group model with

    • Stories

    • RSS

    • Events

    • Closings

Version 9.1.4.1

BLADE

  • Make the output of media (images,videos) more consistent

    • improvements for facebook, twitter, election, scores, stories

Financials

  • Update the UI with new topic and playlist modules.

Media

  • Allow ExternalUrl media item urls to be edited.

Version 9.1.2.3

Closings

  • Add ability for admins to assign a selected status to an entire set of selected institutions at once.

Navigation

  • Add a set of icons in the header for quick access to many modules.

Version 9.1.1.5

RSS Maps

  • Add the Save Images option to be controlled here rather than in the reader.

    • THIS CHANGE DEFAULTS TO NOT SAVE IMAGES FOR ALL MAPS. BE SURE TO UPDATE YOUR MAPPINGS APPROPRIATELY.

Traffic

  • Fix error when viewing the Traffic Report Types filtered by a content group.

Twitter

  • Topics: Add the Save Images option to be controlled here rather than in the reader.

    • THIS CHANGE DEFAULTS TO NOT SAVE IMAGES FOR ALL TOPICS. BE SURE TO UPDATE YOUR TOPICS APPROPRIATELY.

  • Improve twitter topic quick rename control layout.