Chameleon/Flow Release Notes

Version 17.12.1.3

• My Closings - when typing a new status, select existing matches

• My Closings - check for a duplicate status before adding it as a new one

• My Closings - enforce the closing status length limit as set in the System Preferences when adding a new status

• Closings - correctly handle the use of html characters in the data

• Closings - allow Institution Types to be up to 255 characters long

Version 17.12.1.2

• Add a System Preference setting to enable using the Global Status List in Closings

• Add system preference option to allow My Closings users to add new Status entries

• Login - Auto adjust user names at login based on a organization or group to help with Community Closing instances using many groups

Version 17.12.1.1

• Elections - improve confirmation messages when removing or clearing the results for an entire event.

• Elections - moved the button to remove Election Events into the Edit Event dialogue panel

  • this makes it less likely someone will use this button in error

• Elections - display the Playlist ID in the Playlist module for easily customizing BLADE URLs with new playlists

• API Keys - enable the display of the number of requests made with an API key since the application started

• AsRun - add support for future use of PlayerName in the asrun report.

• BLADE - Branding Player output was missing time zone ID and the CSV output was formatted incorrectly.

• Community - only show content types that the instance's serial enables access to

• Dynamic Fields - only display default modules that are enabled by the serial

• Query - filter the list of content types to only inlude those enabled by the serial key

• Update supporting packages

Version 17.10.3.4

• BLADE - Financials - fix for displaying the dynamic fields

Version 17.10.3.2

• BLADE - include implicit fields with Assets output

• Stories - fix for missing tooltip on the Copy or Move icon

• Elections - when adding new candidates manually - load the list of previous candidates on demand to improve performance

• Elections - default new contests which use positions to have 1 position when manually adding

• Election Customization: improve orphan data removal

• Election Rehearsal - each contest counts for a minimum of 1 position to win

• Elections - Quick Edit Candidates - add option to display the datafeed Id/Char

• Elections - Edit Contest

  • display the datafeed Id/Char when present

  • limit the height of the list of choices

• General - change wording: serial number becomes serial key

• System Serials - display date with expiry text and improve serial feature naming consistency

Version 17.10.2.1

• Stories - enable better keyboard selection of topics in Stories.

• Scores - enable better keyboard selection leagues in Scores.

• Dynamic Fields - allow the Dynamic Fields module to always be accessible if enabled.

Version 17.9.4.5

• Stories - Fix for issue where deleting a story removes the image for all copies of a story.

• Performance optimizations for data retrieval - use more batch loading

  • Login, Dashboard, Configuration, Elections, Story Topics, Story Playlists, Leagues, Programs, Episodes, Weather, Assets, Shows, Dynamic Fields

• Installation - removed the target location folder (it’s based on the virtual folder)

• Labelling - use the text SSL/TLS instead of only SSL.

• BLADE - enable access to agent status for a specific agent name.

• Logging - improve logout messages

• Update supporting packages (Telerik, Chameleon API, Newtonsoft.Json)

• Serials - improve serial validation order of operations

Version 17.8.4.1

• Custom - fix for the Custom data records not showing their data source when one is associated with the topic but not the individual records.

• Elections - sort the contest choices by putting the ignored candidates at the end.

• Elections - display the last updated time for the entire leader list in the Election Results module.

• Enable the use of newer 40 digit serial numbers.

Version 17.7.3.4

• BLADE - support an auto-series catalog type for the Program Guide output.

• Minor code tweaks

Version 17.7.3.2

• UI - use the word Version instead of Build.

• Ticker Player - check if the selected player has the same remote control address as another player.

• Ticker Player - change the appearance of a channel that's been added when it is assigned to the player but it's not found in the channel list for the user.

• Installer - improve installer database connection attempts.

• Database - update scripts used to create new instances and make them MySQL 8.4.5 compatible.

Version 17.7.2.2

• General - new app icon.

• Asset Management and Trigger - improved method for remembering user selections.

Version 17.7.2.1

• Branding Scheduler - log an error message if the user tries to add a non-program item in the Program Schedule.

• Custom - Bug Fix: the user’s column selections were not applying when changing content groups in the Custom module.

• Custom - Bug Fix: a change to a Custom topic name on the Topics page would reset the selected columns.

• Media - the export of SVG type images would fail.

• Ticker Player - Bug Fix: reset the channel and layout dropdowns when the Content Group is changed.

• Database changes to be MySQL 8.4 compatible.

• Other minor potential bug fixes.

Version 17.5.3.1

• Closing Groups - enable case insensitive filtering/searching.

• Financial Topics - fix for a bug that caused the page to crash is selecting a non-global content group.

• Scheduler - fix for incorrect validation error when using recurrence - Daily with Weekdays.

• Score Playlists - fix the spelling of Visitor.

• Traffic Playlist - minor layout improvement.

• Media and Media Playlist - minor layout improvements.

• Media - fix for SVG files not displaying when edited and fix for non-svg images not showing a link.

• Updates to address address CVE-2025-3600.

• UI updates.

Version 17.3.2.2

• Navigation - fix for identifying if the current selected content tab is part of the top content icons.

• UX - some tweaks to the layouts to improve spacing and sizing as reported by the UX team

• UX - significant Ross branding redesign

  • if you use a custom theme - it will not be compatible. It is recommended to select the Default theme in System Preferences.

• Polling - enable editing the Poll publishing parameters to enable custom hosted polling app instances.

Version 16.12.5.4

• Ticker Players - fix for the Player list not correctly filtering or sorting.

• Add support for logging in when Flow is hosted in a frame and the browser is Safari (it blocks 3rd-party cookies unless you use the Storage Access API to get authorization from the user).

Version 16.12.5.2

• Programs - add new description field for use in program guides.

• Program Ratings - add new Rating System code field for use in program guides.

• BLADE - add a beta draft of MMX Program Guide format support.

• BLADE - add some help text that describes how to add a parameter to filter the Asset results by a specific Asset name or House ID.

• Dynamic Fields - when the Dynamic Field Name is changed - cascade the new name to each use of it in the data tables so that it displays correctly in Flow and BLADE output.

• Various minor bug fixes.

Version 16.12.4.2

• BLADE - enable selecting all groups for Alerts.

• BLADE - enable selecting all groups for Closings.

• Financials - add support for dynamic fields with Financial Topics.

• Various minor bug fixes.

Version 16.12.2.2

• Branding Players - enable more than 1 branding player to be assigned to a channel.

• Configuration - some installation situations require the httpcookies.settings.config file to be non-blank.

• Custom - Dynamic Fields - fix reserved key list for custom and custom topics.

• Various minor bug fixes.

Version 16.12.1.2

• Assets

  • Add an option to choose whether the Bugs are automatically refreshed or not.

    • Requires Branding Player 3.1.0.34

  • Enable filtering the Logo list in the Explicit Fields editor.

  • Add tooltip help to describe the difference between a Bug and a Snipe

  • Add support for identifying which Assets have explicit fields that are missing values (i.e. are blank)

  • Prevent users from creating assets with the same House ID within a Content Group.

  • Fix - when using logo fields if the selected logo was removed from the available list, the logo field would display as a URL field instead. Now it will be a blank Logo field.

• Financials - security fix - master control user group should not be able to use the Edit All feature.

• BLADE - Add support for specifying a House ID or Name when requesting Assets.

  • use parameter &name=MyAsset or &houseId=MyAsset

Version 16.11.4.1

• Enable using the site in an iframe where cross-site cookies are disallowed by default.

• Passwords: remove password length limitation on textbox to allow passwords of at least 64 chars.

• Various minor bug fixes

Version 16.11.1.1

• Closings - prevent My Closings users from accessing other parts of Flow.

• BLADE Election Players - Added support for acquiring Choice tags, added reading of tag MediaIDs and also refactored some tag generating code.

• BLADE Election Players - Changed the Getcandidate endpoint to use ChoiceID instead of CandidateID since a candidate can be reused but a choice is more unique.

• Various minor bug fixes

Version 16.10.2.9

• Fix known issue from 16.9.4.5 that prevented database updates during the install/update.

Version 16.10.2.7

• Elections

  • add support for Election Candidate dynamic fields

  • add support for Election Event dynamic fields

  • add support for Election Party dynamic fields

  • add support for Election Area dynamic fields

  • add support for Election Office dynamic fields

• Closings - add a data source field to the Closing Groups

Version 16.9.4.5

• Media - enable support for SVG images - must use the extension svg

• Programs - improve layouts and scroll bars

• Sports Scores - fix for bug that caused the Scores module to return to the wrong league after editing game reports

• Dashboard - add missing encoding of player status and theme in dashboard control

• Various supporting package and security updates

• KNOWN ISSUE: fails to apply any required database updates during the install. Resolved in 16.10.2.7.

Version 16.9.3.5

• Score Playlists - fix playlist retrieval bug introduced in 16.7.2.3

• BLADE - fix score playlist retrieval bug introduced in 16.7.2.3

Version 16.9.3.4

• BLADE - fix for Score Playlists not including dynamic fields

• Rundowns - fix layout - the save button here was wrapping to a new line when we didn't want it to.

• Ticker Players - update label to be consistent.

• Installer - enable the serial key to be set by the installer from the command line.

Version 16.9.2.4

• Enable running the installer from the command line with options to configure many of the settings.

• Fix for when a rundown set copy throws an error after first doing a show copy in the Rundown module.

• Add startUtc and endUtc to the asrun table.

Version 16.9.2.1

(currently available as a test build)

• Themes - use the default (XPression Chameleon) theme instead of Tick-it or Superticker.

• BLADE

  • add Endpoint, API Enabled, API Port fields to output for Player records.

  • include the ID in the weather forecast data

Version 16.9.1.5

• Player module - add support for player Endpoint, API Enabled, API Port fields.

• General - assign a larger default width to the Content Group dropdown.

• Weather - update the weather table to make it cluster compatible.

Version 16.8.5.2

• BLADE - add IP Address and Last Report to the ticker player BLADE data.

• BLADE - add support for filtering content group list from BLADE by user login.

Version 16.8.4.4

• Sports - fix glitch in scores ordering with drag-n-drop.

Version 16.8.3.4

• BLADE - Elections - fix for the choice format output not including the newer ContestType field.

• BLADE - Elections Player - add support for contest tags, contest notes, area notes and office notes

• Closings - Add support for a Edit All form to quickly edit multiple entries.

• Finance - Add support for a Edit All form to quickly edit multiple entries.

Version 16.7.4.6

• Sports - fix for when manually adding a league fails - the new league form displays an error and will not save a new league.

• Sports - enable new leagues to be assigned a Shared Team League when they are added/created.

Version 16.7.4.5

• Elections - add support for Election Contest Dynamic fields.

• Sports - Shared Teams Leagues - allow Global content group Shared Teams Leagues to be accessed from non-Global content group leagues.

• Database

  • add table elc_contest_tag

Version 16.7.4.2

• Closings - add support for some address fields in the Closings module

  • Address Line 1

  • Address Line 2

  • City

  • Province/State

  • Postal Code/Zipcode

  • Country

• User Imports - enable importing the closing institution address and improve general import logic.

• BLADE - Elections - add election ContestType field to BLADE output for CSV.

• Database - add fields

  • closing_institution

    • address1

    • address2

    • city

    • province

    • postalCode

    • country

Version 16.7.2.3

• BLADE - Elections - only increment the position number for Election blade output if the candidate/choice is not ignored.

• Elections - add a button option in the Election Results popup to either save and stay open or save and close.

  • Added a System Preference setting to control the default behavior or the save button

    • Election Results > Close After Saving By Default

• Elections - auto scroll the selected contest to the top of the results grid when editing.

• Shows - remove the time zone offset UI from Flow - it's not used by players or BLADE.

• Sports: Added support for Shared Teams Leagues

  • a League can be marked as a Shared Teams Source and other Leagues can optionally use the Teams from a Shared Teams League.

  • BLADE changed to show if a League is a Shared Teams Source and also the Shared Teams League info if it uses one.

  • League Editor has UIs to set whether a League is a Shared Teams Source or not and if not, which Shared Teams Source League's teams to use (if desired).

  • Scores Editor for individual Scores uses drop-down-trees to show lists of available Teams from the Score's League and also the Shared Team League associated with it (if any).

  • Dynamic Scores Playlist - added support for use of Shared Teams Leagues.

  • Known issue: manually adding a league fails - the new league form displays an error and will not save a new league. (fixed in build 16.7.4.6)

• Scores Playlist - Added 'Source' & 'Last Update' columns to both the Score & Playlist grids. In the Score grid, these columns are sortable but not in the Playlist grid.

• Scores - modified League drop-down to allow searching for league via text entry.

• Scores - changed League drop-down template to also show the name of the league for each item. Selected league also shows the league's name in a tooltip.

• Score Playlists

  • modified League drop-down to allow searching for league via text entry.

  • changed League drop-down template to also show the name of the league for each item. Selected league also shows the league's name in a tooltip.

  • modified behaviour of League drop-down to retain selected League if it is one that is created in the Global content group.

  • modified behaviour of Playlists drop-down and grid to clear if switching content groups.

• Leagues - improve image centering layout.

Version 16.6.4.1

• Media - remember the filtering values when refreshing or navigating in the grid.

• Media - fix the filtering error encountered when configured with some datetime display formats.

• Rich Text Styles - fix for bug that didn't allow editing of styles that were not assigned to scores or stories in the Global content group.

• Rich Text Styles - improve error message content to be more accurate and helpful.

Version 16.6.3.2

• Dynamic Fields - enable dynamic tags to display in their predefined groups in the viewer control.

• Events - fix for events not being successfully generated into the player event schedule when an on-air start time isn't given.

• Media - improve media grid last modified date filtering.

• Media - display media last modified times in the user selected time zone.

• My Password - add password strength support and requirements to the My Password form - only allow strength values between 2 and 4 (not 0 or 1) and update known password check to v3.

• Weather - add expand/collapse buttons for the Weather dynamic field tags.

Version 16.5.4.1

• BLADE - fix for handling null/missing contest type values in the Election XML. It would cause an error that would either truncate the results or show a 500 internal server error message.

Version 16.5.3.3

• Shows - Fix for Shows not saving changes to unchecked bug and background selections.

Version 16.5.2.1

• Sponsors - Add BLADE UI support for spot sponsors.

Version 16.5.1.1

• Elections

  • Add election contest type field - to distinguish contests in the same area and office.

  • Fix for ignored candidate highlighting in multi-edit mode of Quick Candidate Edit.

  • Fix for the incumbent toggle button not working in the Quick Edit Candidates form

  • Fix for the acclaim toggle button not working in the Quick Edit Candidates form.

• Database - add field elc_contest.typeName

Version 16.4.3.6

• Elections

  • Rehearsals - Added office names (if available) to the Rehearsal contest names.

  • Events - Fix for Choice tooltips not showing any more once a sub-contest is shown.

Version 16.4.2.2

• Rundowns

  • Fix for rundowns not being able to be created for new shows.

  • Don't allow shows to be added or updated with blank names.

  • Don’t allow shows to be selected that don’t have a project assigned yet.

• Elections - remove choices from any secondary (child) contests when removing a choice from a contest.

Version 16.4.1.2

• Elections - use slanted gray lines in the background to identify ignored candidates.

• Shows - update the Show management module

  • Filter shows by format (Web or XPression)

  • Only web formats show a revision and a Show Code

  • The Show Code now is based on the Show ID

  • Removed the unused Startup Layout field and Lite Switch toggle

  • Display the bug and background scenes separately so they don’t need to be prefixed by their type

  • The Show Code and Disabled toggle are no longer shown on the Add New Show form.

• Client Sponsor

  • Added new security group 'Client Sponsors Upload Only' for use with Client Sponsors feature.

  • Prevent users with Client Sponsors feature from being shown the dashboard after login instead of the Client Sponsor Upload page.

  • Add User/User Management pages: add custom validators to ensure that when the Client Sponsor feature is selected, the security group must also be set to 'Client Sponsors Upload Only'.

  • Sponsor Client Upload page - added automatic keywords for Zone & Campaign for media that is associated with a sponsor (to aid in searching for media assets).

  • Sponsor Client Zones - allow selection of multiple show/real zones when creating client zones so as to allow creating multiple client zones at one time.

• Media

  • Fixed bug caused by attempting to delete too many Media items in a Media Bin.

  • Added showing of loading panel while deleting lots of media items from the DB.

  • Added 'Delete All Unused' button to delete only media items that have no usages.

  • For a user with System Administrator rights, a '[None]' pseudo-bin will be shown in the treeview to allow managing of media items that don't belong in any bin. If there are none such media, the pseudo-bin will not appear.

  • Changed the text colour for the content group node in the treeview of bins to further indicate that this isn't a bin.

• BLADE - Election Player

  • Added support for choice.ignore flag.

  • Added missing support for playlistitemchoices API.

Version 16.3.3.3

• Traffic - sort Traffic Type list by name.

• BLADE - fix for parameter for Events limit not being applied correctly.

• BLADE - fix for blade election event not enabling sub-contest selection.

• Elections - Ignore selected Election Choices - with the option to cascade the value to child contests when saving.

• Election Rehearsals - enable the rehearsal grid filtering to be case-insensitive.

• Dynamic Fields - avoid error when loading a sponsor’s dynamic field value which references a missing media record.

• Database

  • Add field elc_choice.ignore

Version 16.2.5.1

• BLADE - Story - avoid an error when trying to access story topics that no longer exist.

• BLADE - Media - add source and alpha fields.

• Elections - display and filter on the Estimated Expected Vote Percentage (EEVP) or aka Contest Vote Percent values when available in the contests results.