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Announcing Carousel 5.1.0
Greetings!
We're very pleased to announce the release of Carousel 5.1. This release represents a large effort to improve the scalability and reliability of Carousel, and we can't wait to start building on this new foundation.
Here's a quick overview of what's new.
To request this update,>Your name and organization Your> If you haven't>We won't be able to issue an update until we have a registration form on file.
If you have any questions, please let us know!
Thank you
-John
Release Notes - Carousel v5.1.0
New - 2516: Clock bulletins display without fading when they are the only bulletin in a zone
the DisplayEngine is smarter about displaying clock bulletins when they are the only bulletin in a zone. They will now be displayed continuously, rather than fading up and down as the bulletin "finishes."
New - 2755: DisplayEngine can now span multiple monitors
A new interface exists for configuring how a DisplayEngine is shown on multiple-monitor setups. You can select which single monitor will be used, or span multiple monitors.
New - 1503: Carousel represents all timezones
It is now possible to assign any timezone in the world to each zone via the zone configuration screen.
New - 1291: Bulletins have a 'Last Updated' field in the database
Greatly reduces the amount of processing needed to update dynamic bulletins. IMPORTANT NOTE: You will need to re-edit any bulletins with Web Pictures so that the database gets the "IsDynamic" field set. Otherwise the pictures won't get updated by the service.
New - 1325: Optimized file downloading in DisplayEngine
The DisplayEngine downloads smaller files from the server first, saving the larger files for later. This is so the DisplayEngine can display content as quickly as it can, rather than waiting for larger files to finish downloading.
New - 1374: More efficient "caching" of data in service
The Carousel service is much faster when procuring data from the database, which allows Carousel to scale to larger installations.
New - 1494: Bulk adding of tags to Zones and Media
You can now add several tags to zones/media in a single field by separating them with a comma, rather than adding them one at a time.
New - 1515: A zone's RSS output can be enabled or disabled
The RSS feed for zones can be disabled to prevent subscriptions to that zone. You can find this setting in the Zone Settings screen, under the "Other Zone Outputs" area.
New - 1516: Transition Previews appear in setup menus
A small preview of the transition can be seen in the zone transitions list, and when selecting the default transition for a zone.
New - 1525: More robust Housekeeping options
Allows users to delete bulletins in bulk by bulletin type, including Active, Stale, Saved, and Waiting bulletins. You may also specify deletion for all users, for all zones, for a particular user, or for a selected zone.
New - 1532: DisplayEngine versions reported in WebUI
The version of each connected DisplayEngine is visible on the "Display Engine Registration" web page. Now you can quickly determine which of your players need to be updated.
New - 1595: Repeating bulletins now obey the proper repeat interval
Repeating bulletins will now intersperse themselves between each and every bulletin, rather than only between groups of bulletins. This works even when the repeat interval is greater than the total number of bulletins within the list.
Bug - 2193: Crawls are allowed as Full Screen Alerts
A small bug in the WebUI allowed the creation of crawl bulletins on full-screen alert zones, which isn't supported elsewhere in the software.
Bug - 1962: Media Packages are difficult to create and upload
The WebUI now contains a link where you can download an example media package. You can use this sample zip file to create your own media packages.
Bug - 2067: Date and time disappears permanently when Text Outline is disabled
A small bug prevented the date/time overlay from being displayed when the text outline was turned off. You can now disable the text outline property, and the overlay will continue to be displayed.
Bug - 2805: Multiple Clock or LiveVideo bulletins can't be displayed at the same time
A race condition caused the playback of clock/live bulletins to be stopped early if more than one was being shown at the same time. We now track the bulletins correctly so they are shown in their entirety.
Bug - 2737: Error message when uploading an invalid image is confusing
If you upload an image file that Carousel cannot process, you are presented with a friendly message containing a list of supported file types, rather than a nasty COM error message.
Bug - 2279: The zone selector cuts off some zones in certain browsers
Scrolling through a large list of zones in the zone selector screen would "cut off" the bottom end of the zone list in some browsers. Now, all zones are properly displayed.
Bug - 2394: Active bulletins get set to queued between 11:59:00 PM and midnight
Added a fix to the WebUI that correctly formats the dates when saving bulletins.
Bug - 2463: Stale/Saved bulletins reappearing in groups that are still active
Saved and stale bulletins will no longer reappear when their group is edited.
Bug - 2859: Weather Bulletins aren't updated regularly
Weather bulletins weren't respecting the "LastUpdated" field that was introduced in Case 1291.
Bug - 2863: Dynamic pages stop udating
We were using the wrong ID number to identify dynamic bulletins, so they would never get updated during the update cycle. After changing the code to use the correct ID number, dynamic bulletins are updated as expected.
Bug - 2882: Removed the QuickTime and DirectX installers from the Carousel Framework installer
The Carousel Framework installer is installed on servers only, which don't need DirectX or Quicktime to be installed as they won't be running the DisplayEngine.
Bug - 2385: Entering in too much text in a standard bulletin throws an error
A bug in the text-resizing code would cause an error when trying to resize text beyond the smallest possible font size. In this case, we simply use the smallest size.
Bug - 2757: RSS Feeds with no content should create no jpgs
If an RSS feed which previously had content eventually becomes "empty," Carousel would continue to display the previous set of content from the feed. Now, the bulletin is "skipped" from display if the feed is empty.
Bug - 2853: Crawl zones aren't migrated properly
Some data wasn't being transfered over from older versions, causing erratic behavior on channels with crawls. The database script now correctly migrates crawl data.
Bug - 2896: DisplayEngine reports "NOT LICENSED" if there are no channels on the system
On systems with no channels created, the DisplayEngine assumed it wasn't licensed. Now, the DisplayEngine will report that there are no channels available, which better reflects what is going on.
Bug - 2185: Error when long crawl is created
If a crawl is made with no spaces in the text, an error was thrown as Carousel tried to truncate the string on a word boundary for displaying a preview. Now, Carousel will forcibly truncate after 100 characters if there isn't a space available.
Bug - 2275: After editing a zone's name it will no longer display on the public web
A bug in the WebUI was mistakenly overwriting a setting in the database, which caused the public output options to always be disabled, no matter what you've selected.
Bug - 2186: Previews of Crawl Bulletins do not contain the entire message and runs off the page
In the Bulletin List screen, crawls are now wrapped in a scroll box, so you can see the entire crawl without it destroying the page layout.
Bug - 1939: Event Display bulletins: word count is divided by zero
A division by zero error occurred when an EDS bulletin had no events listed.
Bug - 2879: Bulletin groups not moving from "Saved" to "Active"
Activating a group of saved bulletins wouldn't always succeed, depending on the date/time settings of the group's bulletins. Now, moving the group to Active bulletins should work correctly.
Bug - 2267: When the crawl is moved from bottom to top, an empty space remains on the bottom
Zones weren't being moved correctly when the crawl changed positions.
Bug - 2274: Bulletins which expired before they were approved become inaccessible
The bulletins now become "stale," and should be available in the user's stale list. Users can then "reactivate" the bulletin, at which point it will need to be approved.
Bug - 1540: Bulletin and Cycle Sync Timeouts need to be system wide
Timeouts now apply to the entire system, rather than to individual zones, which effectively made them useless.
Bug - 2195: Zone list in the config menu does not order numbers properly
Zones are now sorted in a more human-friendly way
--
John Reilly
Development Lead
Tightrope Media Systems
We're very pleased to announce the release of Carousel 5.1. This release represents a large effort to improve the scalability and reliability of Carousel, and we can't wait to start building on this new foundation.
Here's a quick overview of what's new.
- Enhanced housekeeping features allow you to purge old bulletins in bulk by type, user, and zone.
- File>
- Multiple tags may be added to Zones and Media.
- The>
- All timezones are represented and can be assigned to various zones
To request this update,>
If you have any questions, please let us know!
Thank you
-John
Release Notes - Carousel v5.1.0
New - 2516: Clock bulletins display without fading when they are the only bulletin in a zone
the DisplayEngine is smarter about displaying clock bulletins when they are the only bulletin in a zone. They will now be displayed continuously, rather than fading up and down as the bulletin "finishes."
New - 2755: DisplayEngine can now span multiple monitors
A new interface exists for configuring how a DisplayEngine is shown on multiple-monitor setups. You can select which single monitor will be used, or span multiple monitors.
New - 1503: Carousel represents all timezones
It is now possible to assign any timezone in the world to each zone via the zone configuration screen.
New - 1291: Bulletins have a 'Last Updated' field in the database
Greatly reduces the amount of processing needed to update dynamic bulletins. IMPORTANT NOTE: You will need to re-edit any bulletins with Web Pictures so that the database gets the "IsDynamic" field set. Otherwise the pictures won't get updated by the service.
New - 1325: Optimized file downloading in DisplayEngine
The DisplayEngine downloads smaller files from the server first, saving the larger files for later. This is so the DisplayEngine can display content as quickly as it can, rather than waiting for larger files to finish downloading.
New - 1374: More efficient "caching" of data in service
The Carousel service is much faster when procuring data from the database, which allows Carousel to scale to larger installations.
New - 1494: Bulk adding of tags to Zones and Media
You can now add several tags to zones/media in a single field by separating them with a comma, rather than adding them one at a time.
New - 1515: A zone's RSS output can be enabled or disabled
The RSS feed for zones can be disabled to prevent subscriptions to that zone. You can find this setting in the Zone Settings screen, under the "Other Zone Outputs" area.
New - 1516: Transition Previews appear in setup menus
A small preview of the transition can be seen in the zone transitions list, and when selecting the default transition for a zone.
New - 1525: More robust Housekeeping options
Allows users to delete bulletins in bulk by bulletin type, including Active, Stale, Saved, and Waiting bulletins. You may also specify deletion for all users, for all zones, for a particular user, or for a selected zone.
New - 1532: DisplayEngine versions reported in WebUI
The version of each connected DisplayEngine is visible on the "Display Engine Registration" web page. Now you can quickly determine which of your players need to be updated.
New - 1595: Repeating bulletins now obey the proper repeat interval
Repeating bulletins will now intersperse themselves between each and every bulletin, rather than only between groups of bulletins. This works even when the repeat interval is greater than the total number of bulletins within the list.
Bug - 2193: Crawls are allowed as Full Screen Alerts
A small bug in the WebUI allowed the creation of crawl bulletins on full-screen alert zones, which isn't supported elsewhere in the software.
Bug - 1962: Media Packages are difficult to create and upload
The WebUI now contains a link where you can download an example media package. You can use this sample zip file to create your own media packages.
Bug - 2067: Date and time disappears permanently when Text Outline is disabled
A small bug prevented the date/time overlay from being displayed when the text outline was turned off. You can now disable the text outline property, and the overlay will continue to be displayed.
Bug - 2805: Multiple Clock or LiveVideo bulletins can't be displayed at the same time
A race condition caused the playback of clock/live bulletins to be stopped early if more than one was being shown at the same time. We now track the bulletins correctly so they are shown in their entirety.
Bug - 2737: Error message when uploading an invalid image is confusing
If you upload an image file that Carousel cannot process, you are presented with a friendly message containing a list of supported file types, rather than a nasty COM error message.
Bug - 2279: The zone selector cuts off some zones in certain browsers
Scrolling through a large list of zones in the zone selector screen would "cut off" the bottom end of the zone list in some browsers. Now, all zones are properly displayed.
Bug - 2394: Active bulletins get set to queued between 11:59:00 PM and midnight
Added a fix to the WebUI that correctly formats the dates when saving bulletins.
Bug - 2463: Stale/Saved bulletins reappearing in groups that are still active
Saved and stale bulletins will no longer reappear when their group is edited.
Bug - 2859: Weather Bulletins aren't updated regularly
Weather bulletins weren't respecting the "LastUpdated" field that was introduced in Case 1291.
Bug - 2863: Dynamic pages stop udating
We were using the wrong ID number to identify dynamic bulletins, so they would never get updated during the update cycle. After changing the code to use the correct ID number, dynamic bulletins are updated as expected.
Bug - 2882: Removed the QuickTime and DirectX installers from the Carousel Framework installer
The Carousel Framework installer is installed on servers only, which don't need DirectX or Quicktime to be installed as they won't be running the DisplayEngine.
Bug - 2385: Entering in too much text in a standard bulletin throws an error
A bug in the text-resizing code would cause an error when trying to resize text beyond the smallest possible font size. In this case, we simply use the smallest size.
Bug - 2757: RSS Feeds with no content should create no jpgs
If an RSS feed which previously had content eventually becomes "empty," Carousel would continue to display the previous set of content from the feed. Now, the bulletin is "skipped" from display if the feed is empty.
Bug - 2853: Crawl zones aren't migrated properly
Some data wasn't being transfered over from older versions, causing erratic behavior on channels with crawls. The database script now correctly migrates crawl data.
Bug - 2896: DisplayEngine reports "NOT LICENSED" if there are no channels on the system
On systems with no channels created, the DisplayEngine assumed it wasn't licensed. Now, the DisplayEngine will report that there are no channels available, which better reflects what is going on.
Bug - 2185: Error when long crawl is created
If a crawl is made with no spaces in the text, an error was thrown as Carousel tried to truncate the string on a word boundary for displaying a preview. Now, Carousel will forcibly truncate after 100 characters if there isn't a space available.
Bug - 2275: After editing a zone's name it will no longer display on the public web
A bug in the WebUI was mistakenly overwriting a setting in the database, which caused the public output options to always be disabled, no matter what you've selected.
Bug - 2186: Previews of Crawl Bulletins do not contain the entire message and runs off the page
In the Bulletin List screen, crawls are now wrapped in a scroll box, so you can see the entire crawl without it destroying the page layout.
Bug - 1939: Event Display bulletins: word count is divided by zero
A division by zero error occurred when an EDS bulletin had no events listed.
Bug - 2879: Bulletin groups not moving from "Saved" to "Active"
Activating a group of saved bulletins wouldn't always succeed, depending on the date/time settings of the group's bulletins. Now, moving the group to Active bulletins should work correctly.
Bug - 2267: When the crawl is moved from bottom to top, an empty space remains on the bottom
Zones weren't being moved correctly when the crawl changed positions.
Bug - 2274: Bulletins which expired before they were approved become inaccessible
The bulletins now become "stale," and should be available in the user's stale list. Users can then "reactivate" the bulletin, at which point it will need to be approved.
Bug - 1540: Bulletin and Cycle Sync Timeouts need to be system wide
Timeouts now apply to the entire system, rather than to individual zones, which effectively made them useless.
Bug - 2195: Zone list in the config menu does not order numbers properly
Zones are now sorted in a more human-friendly way
--
John Reilly
Development Lead
Tightrope Media Systems
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