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Flow Release Notes 10.x

Flow Release Notes 10.x

Version 10.12.3.1

Weather

  • Save time zone with weather locations - for new Weather Company reader compatibility.

Database

  • Added new field

    • wsi_city.timezone

Version 10.12.2.5

Branding

  • Use 24 hour time format in branding modules for scheduling (assets, programs and shows)

BLADE

  • Add support for Media Bins and playlists.

Media

  • Save height, width and file format of URL sourced images.

  • Reject uploads that are too large to successfully store in the database.

  • Fix to allow deleting a media bin.

Twitter

  • Fix that was causing the available language list to display the languages twice.

  • Use new language list.

Query

  • Fix error when trying to import query items from another Chameleon Community source.

Version 10.12.1.1

Rundowns

  • Add support for selection election events instead of individual election contests.

    • NOTE: Requires Chameleon PLAYER VERSION 3.0.189 or greater

  • Remove support for adding election contests.

Media

  • When adding new URL based images - it now downloads and saves a copy of the image into the database.

    • KNOWN ERROR: media bin will not display after adding a URL item that isn't an image (youtube link or video)

      • fixed in build 11.1.2.3

  • Improve load performance.

  • Improve content group filtering.

Version 10.11.5.2

Blacklist Words

  • Added ability to Import and Export words using .txt or .csv files.

Custom

  • Add the ability to add selected custom fields to the results grid.

Weather

  • Change the default time waited before the Hours-Before-Old warning is shown from 3 hours to 24 hours.

Version 10.11.3.2

Blacklist Words

  • Formerly known as Bad Words

  • Add delete-selected functionality to allow deleting multiple words at once.

Elections

  • Enable displaying and setting the Manual Only option in the results module.

Events

  • Handle html related characters better in the Event modules.

BLADE

  • Promos - rewire the data retrieval using a different data access method.

Version 10.11.2.2

Sponsors

  • Fix for known issue that displayed a new an unwanted sponsor group on the dashboard.

Passwords

  • Add support for warning users when they are changing their password to a common password.

    • based on a list of 1,000,000 common passwords

    • as suggested by current NIST guidelines

Version 10.10.5.2

Sponsors

  • Add campaigns and clients to the sponsor nav group tabs.

  • Display image dimensions in the sponsor grid and edit form.

  • KNOWN ISSUE: there is a new Sponsor group added at the bottom of the dashboard with a Campaign link in it - this is unintended and will be removed in the next build.

    • Fixed in the next build - 10.11.2.2

Version 10.10.4.5

BLADE

  • Custom: fix for CSV output not containing all the defined data from the custom records.

Elections

  • Delete an image associated with a candidate when the candidate record is deleted - if it's not assigned to a media bin.

  • Enable sorting the results grid by clicking on the column names in the results grid.

  • Add a search feature to the playlist module for finding contests within the available election events.

  • Use the label "choice" instead of "candidate" in the UI more consistently.

Traffic

  • Improve traffic record management auditing.

  • Fix for editing a playlist grid item from a report group out of the currently selected content group.

Version 10.10.4.4

Elections

  • Add a manual results flag option for contests - to prevent compatible result readers from overwriting manual results.

  • Fix for error that occurred when a duplicate area name was used in an election event.

Events

  • Fix for known issue preventing the removal of events with images.

    • issue created in build 10.10.3.5

Media

  • Improve media logging data.

  • Fix for issue that caused a media item to lose it's extension and/or url values when editing in the media module.

  • Fix for being unable to save changes made to media items in the media module playlist grid.

Stories

  • Fix for known issue preventing the removal of stories with images.

    • issue created in build 10.10.3.5

Database

  • Added new field (10.10.4.1)

    • elc_contest.manual

Version 10.10.3.6

Elections

  • Don't auto-convert elected candidates with zero votes to be acclaimed or vice versa.

  • Don't allow acclaimed candidates to be edited in the results module.

Version 10.10.3.5

BLADE

  • Elections - add UI option for selecting skipFields (fields that are selected will not be included in the result)

  • Stories - fix for media count not working

Elections

  • Improve Setup - Offices editing UI

    • filter the list of offices by the selected election

    • ensure a name is provided with new/updated office records

    • make text boxes in the edit form wider

Events

  • Add support for images/media attached to events.

    • KNOWN ISSUE: cannot  delete events with images

      • fixed in 10.10.4.4

    • NOTE: Requires Chameleon PLAYER VERSION 3.0.184 or greater to display Event Images

Error Logs

  • Include flow version in some error log messages when captured by the global error handler.

Media

  • Remove inaccurate use count field

Password

  • Drop outdated password strength checker that can be misleading

Stories

  • Update labeling - use Summary and Story instead of Header and Body/Content.

  • KNOWN ISSUE: cannot delete stories with images and RSS reader fails to update stories.

    • fixed in 10.10.4.4

Weather

  • Improve audit logging

Version 10.10.2.5

BLADE

  • Elections: enable option to remove standard fields from the output. Using the new parameter in the query string with any or all of the given options

    • skipFields

    • EventNotes,ContestNotes,AreaNotes,ChoiceNotes,PartyNotes,OfficeNotes,PartyMedia,ChoiceMedia

Elections

  • Improve player support for paging of candidates

Database

  • Added new field

    • elc_elector_playlistitem.maxChoiceCount

Version 10.10.2.1

Branding Schedules

  • Improve database data - don't populate an end time for asset schedule items that don't need one.

General

  • Record the version of flow in error log messages.

Version 10.10.1.5

BLADE

  • Election Results: Add a second name field with First Last output

  • Election Results: Add a Position number field to candidate output

    • New system preference controls if ties are ignored or not. (Election Results > Position Number Ignore Ties)

Elections

  • Fix bug that opened incorrect contest when data changed or sorting changed.

  • Improve election result sorting consistency.

  • Enable the office name to hold much longer text - for use with election propositions/questions.

Version 10.10.1.3

Asset Schedule

  • Fix midnight bug that converted a schedule with a start of 12:00 and an end before 12:01 to be an all day event.

BLADE

  • Add output for list of branding players. 

Elections

  • Add support for content group in elector player rundowns.

Database

  • Added new field

    • elc_elector_playlist_bin.hubID

Version 10.10.1.1

Elections

  • Results: Fix - the sorting of results was not working.

  • Results: Improve content group support in saved filter/searches.

Version 10.9.4.5

Closings

  • Fix for known issue:  a required DB update is missed by the installer. (10.4.2.4)

Elections

  • Improve content group security of contest results editing access. 

Version 10.9.4.4

BLADE

  • Fix: elections output did not always include the last modified date for some elements when no time adjustment was required.

  • Fix: elections output did not apply the time adjustment to all dates.

Elections

  • Results: display a count of the records in the list.

  • Results: improve search logic

    • when searching for elected or acclaimed it can be any candidate in the contest - not just the lead candidate

    • when search for not elected/acclaimed - it now returns contests with no candidate elected/acclaimed - instead of only considering the lead candidate

    • when searching for incumbents - look only at lead or acclaimed candidates

  • Mark acclaimed candidates as elected also.

Version 10.9.4.3

Elections

  • Player: Add support for unlimited captions and choices in player playlists

  • Results: Improve usability with multiple open results tabs with different filter criteria on each.

  • Results: Add Acclaimed as a filter option (elected and incumbent already exist)

  • Candidate editing: Fix for incorrect warning/error preventing a user from being acclaimed.

  • Results editing: Fix error when the candidate's vote count box was left empty - assume vote count of zero instead

Database

  • Added new fields:

    • elc_elector_playlistitem.captionCount

    • elc_elector_playlistitem.choiceCount

  • Added new tables

    • elc_elector_playlistitem_choice

    • elc_elector_playlistitem_caption

    • elc_scene_caption

  • Drop fields

    • elc_elector_playlistitem

      • caption1

      • caption2

      • caption3

      • caption4

      • caption5

Version 10.9.4.2

Elections

  • Improved results editing form

    • more compact layout for focused updates

    • improved tab-ordering

    • use the Enter key to save and the Esc key to cancel and close the editing form

  • Improve results loading performance by reducing the amount of data loaded with the page.

  • Fix: failed to add a new choice when an existing choice with the same name already exists.

Version 10.9.3.2

Asset Scheduling

  • Fixed: known issue from 10.9.2.3 - schedules will not load and cannot be edited.

  • Enable filtering the list of assets by the template format used.

Version 10.9.2.5

BLADE

  • Assets: fix for content from content groups not being output.

  • JSON: don't put timestamps in as a comment which is invalid but instead add it as a property when required.

Media

  • Improve performance when loading media from an instance with hundreds or even thousands of records.

Version 10.9.2.3

Asset Scheduling

  • KNOWN ISSUE: schedules cannot be edited because of an error with data retrieval from the database.

    • Fixed in build 10.9.3.1

BLADE

  • Fix for urls generated with topics have a question mark  in the topic name.

  • Add support for output of Assets.

Elections

  • Display the short name along with the contest name of each entry in the playlist module to give better context to playlists with mixed event content.

Sponsors

  • Added to the list of Features in the System Tools - Configuration. This allows them to be enabled and disabled as desired.

Promos

  • Conditionally disabled 

    • the update will automatically disable promos if there are no non-deleted promos

    • can be enabled in the Features list of the System Tools - Configuration module.

  • The System Preference - Enable Promos has been removed. Instead use the System Config Feature list to enable/disable the module.

Version 10.9.1.5

Promos

  • Disabled - can be enabled by using a System Preference - Enable Promos.

Sponsors

  • Introducing the new Sponsors module.

  • Enabled in the Rundown module.

  • NOTE: Requires Chameleon PLAYER VERSION 3.0.179 or greater to display Sponsors

Community

  • Show the content group in community source dropdown list.

Version 10.8.5.1

Configuration

  • Add a system preference option to allow specifying the database server name passed on to apps connecting from other servers.

    • Database Location for Apps

    • NOTE: this is a fabulous feature because it means you can enter this once in preferences and then continue to use the default value of localhost when installing Flow without affecting the apps ability to request database connection info from Flow.

Version 10.8.4.4

Media

  • Use new media selection control that supports the use of media bins for organization.

Version 10.8.4.2

Custom Module

  • Enable a quick search of 1 or 2 values in a topic. 

Passwords

  • Add an option to enable checking an online data breach database when a user changes their Flow password.

    • Enabled with a system preference setting: Password > Enable Checking Breaches

    • Advise the user to consider a new unique password if their password is found in the breach list

Version 10.8.2.4

Assets

  • Enable the ability to include global templates in the list of asset templates.

Custom

  • Improve loading performance by bulk loading dynamic fields.

Sports

  • Improve loading performance by bulk loading dynamic fields.

Twitter

  • Restore ability to search for locations - uses google geocoding lookup.

Version 10.8.2.3

Configuration

  • Move the Home tab to the left hand side instead of the right.

Media

  • Fix for legacy media selector not working in modules such as teams and team players and stories when adding new media. (Bug created in build 10.7.4.5.)

Sports

  • Add paging support to the team player module to help improve loading performance when there are a lot of players on a team.

Version 10.8.2.2

BLADE

  • Add new blade parameter to control if the standard dynamic field attributes are added to XML output.

  • Add dynamic field output to closings data.

Custom

  • Add basic paging support.

Events

  • Fix error when editing dynamic fields in events module.

Financials

  • Apply security changes to finance module playlist grid to match playlist module

Media

  • Media Importer Control - removed picture box since we can have more than 1 file selected.

  • Media Importer Control - fixed a bug introduced with last rev that caused the OK button to be disabled when files are selected for upload.

  • Media Importer Control - Some cosmetic changes and also a change such that the panel that contains the RadAsyncUpload will scroll to the bottom after files are selected.

  • Media module - Change to the edit forms such that the media name textbox is longer and the extension listbox is in line with the name box.

  • Media module - Fixed a bug with editing a Playlist item where the item's media extension is always blank.

  • Media module - playlist grid - require a bin selection when adding a new item.

Version 10.7.4.5

Financials

  • Playlists now provide access to all viewable content groups when build playlists - primarily Global event calendars.

  • Enable dragging a stock to the playlist side even when no playlist is selected - auto create a new playlist.

Media

  • Add bin and playlist support.

    • KNOWN ISSUE: causes legacy media selector to fail to add new media. Addressed in build 10.8.2.3

  • Allow importing multiple media items at once.

  • Enable assigning keywords and captions to media.

  • Move all existing media into the default bin named General.

Database

  • Added new fields (10.7.4.2)

    • media

      • binID

      • caption

      • keywords

  • Added new tables

    • media_bin

    • media_playlist

    • media_playlist_item

Version 10.7.3.5

Asset Schedule

  • Fix for deleting of schedule items not working consistently. 

    • Tooltips won't popup quite as quickly as before to prevent interference with the delete request.

Events

  • Playlists now provide access to all viewable content groups when build playlists - primarily Global event calendars.

  • Fix for double-click to add to playlist not working.

  • Enable dragging an event to a playlist when none selected - auto create a new playlist.

Version 10.7.2.1

Closings

  • Playlists now provide access to all viewable content groups when build playlists - primarily Global closing groups.

  • Enable dragging a playlist item back to the group list to remove it from the playlist.

Query

  • Add a copy button for creating quick copies of existing queries that can then be modified without affecting the original query.

Traffic

  • Playlists now provide access to all viewable content groups when build playlists - primarily Global traffic reports.

  • Enable dragging a playlist item back to the report list to remove it from the playlist.

Weather

  • Add support for dynamic fields to weather icons.

Version 10.6.5.6

Channel Scheduler