Release Notes

Release Notes http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/263/ReleaseNotes/ information on our latest releases. 2007-10-10 16:53:31 Admin Console 3.0 has been released! http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/6884/ 6884 Highlights Include: General Changes Input fields for Groups, Collections, and Genres now have an auto-complete feature so as you begin to enter terms, matches will be displayed for selection. Instead of putting media into Groups, media assets should now be added to Collections. This will allow you to control the play order of the media more precisely. Groups are still the means in which media will be shared with other partners, but partners will now share Collections containing media with a group rather than sharing the media directly with the group. Media Assets An important addition to managing media assets is the ability to sort and filter videos by plays. This new feature will allow you to see the “most popular” videos in your assets. Search and filtering are now integrated so that the filters that you apply affect search results. You can add multiple terms to a given filter and then use “AND” “OR” and “NOT” to fine tune results. You can also save a search/sort/filter result as a dynamic Collection. This allows you to return quickly and easily to common views of your media either for management purposes or to scope the dynamic Collection into a player widget to play continuously updated media content on your websites. Network We have streamlined the process of utilizing shared media. The Network tab now includes a search feature along with more filter options, making it easier to locate shared media in which you might be interested. Additionally, steps to select and confirm media have been streamlined. Groups Panels for managing groups have been consolidated so that you can perform all group related activities on one list. Pending group invitations will display at the top of the list. After accepting an invitation, you can decide how you want shared media to be added, either directly usable in your Media Assets or available for you to select in the Network List. Manage Collections. Collections are now the preferred way to organize your media assets for easy management. Assets can be organized, using a folder metaphor, by putting several collections into a “container” Collection for classification purposes. You will also be able to see collections that have been shared by other partners on the “Manage Collections” screen. You can set the order of individual media in a Collection or the order of a set of Collections within a container Collection. You can also change the hierarchical structure of a Collection using a drag and drop feature. Known Issues: It may take up to 15 minutes for media filters to show updates to media, or for shared media to appear in your media assets list. Collection details only display the first 250 items in them without pagination. If you want to better manage media in a specific Collection, you must execute it from the media assets list. Admin Console is optimized for IE7 and FF 2.0 or higher. If you are using IE6, you might experience slower performance - we recommend updating your browser. Entering special characters in a form field such as ‘, &, <. >. or html code may result in an inaccurate representation of your data. Shared media currently does not display associated tags. The ‘Owner’ filter in the network tab only displays Collection owners. There may be media from partners with write access in your network list which cannot be filtered by Owner. Manage Collections screen is not sortable. On the Media Assets page, when opening a dialogue window and adding a media asset to a Collection or Genre, you will be taken back to the top of the page once the task has been completed. When adding shared media from the Network tab, you must click the check box and wait for the Asset row to turn blue before Confirming the pending selection. 2008-10-24 23:02:35 chrish <forumuser@vmix.com> Admin Console 3.0 is on Beta http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/6631/ 6631 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Highlights Include: General Changes Input fields for Groups, Collections, and Genres now have an auto-complete feature so as you begin to enter terms, matches will be displayed for selection. Instead of putting media into Groups, media assets should now be added to Collections. This will allow you to control the play order of the media more precisely. Groups are still the means in which media will be shared with other partners, but partners will now share Collections containing media with a group rather than sharing the media directly with the group. Media Assets An important addition to managing media assets is the ability to sort and filter videos by plays. This new feature will allow you to see the “most popular” videos in your assets. Search and filtering are now integrated so that search results are affected by the filters that you apply. You can add multiple terms to a given filter and then use “AND” “OR” and “NOT” to fine tune results. You can also save a search/sort/filter result as a dynamic Collection. This allows you to return quickly and easily to common views of your media either for management purposes or to scope the dynamic Collection into a player widget to play continuously updated media content on your websites. Network We have streamlined the process of utilizing shared media. The Network tab now includes a search feature along with more filter options, making it easier to locate shared media in which you might be interested. Additionally, steps to select and confirm media have been streamlined. Groups Panels for managing groups have been consolidated so that you can perform all group related activities on one list. Pending group invitations will display at the top of the list. After accepting an invitation, you can decide how you want shared media to be added, either directly usable in your Media Assets or available for you to select in the Network List. Manage Collections. Collections are now the preferred way to organize your media assets for easy management. Assets can be organized, using a folder metaphor, by putting several collections into a “container” Collection for classification purposes. You will also be able to see collections that have been shared by other partners on the “Manage Collections” screen. You can set the order of individual media in a Collection or the order of a set of Collections within a container Collection. You can also change the hierarchical structure of a Collection using a drag and drop feature. 2008-10-10 14:17:15 chrish <forumuser@vmix.com> Admin Console 2.5 has been released http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/5898/ 5898 HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Support for mobile video upload (.3gp formats) Enter an email address to send the video to for upload (will be automatically fowarded to a VMIX email) on the Mobile Accounts Page Configure the email body to be the video description on the Mobile Accounts Page Configure the email address to be listed in the video's author field (or choose the partner name) on the Mobile Accounts Page Email sbject will be the video title Support for existing mobile email accounts to take advantage of these new features 2008-08-07 15:22:36 chrish <forumuser@vmix.com> Admin Console 2.5 has been released http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/5897/ 5897 HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Support for mobile video upload (.3gp formats) Enter an email address to send the video to for upload (will be automatically fowarded to a VMIX email) Configure the email body to be the video description Configure the email address to be listed in the video's author field (or choose the partner name) Email subject will be the video title 2008-08-07 15:20:09 chrish <forumuser@vmix.com> Admin Console 2.4 has been released http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/5777/ 5777 HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Network Media List now has a details link. Clicking on details will take you to a detailed view of the network media. You can change the title and description and add your own genres from the network detail screen. These changes will only apply to your copy of the media and not affect the media owner's version. You can generate embed code for the network media using one of your own VMIX players 2008-07-28 17:30:58 chrish <forumuser@vmix.com> Admin Console 2.3 has been released http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/5738/ 5738 HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: New Player Section in Admin Console Ability to create multiple instances of video players based on the new VMIX Player Platform. Take the embed code for your players and put it into your flash widgets, web pages, scripted programs, etc. Ability to change player attributes without having to update your embed code. Ability to manage your players by editing, deleting and copying them. Keep players current with easy upgrades and updates as they become available. Ability to generate embed code for playing a specific video in a selected player. MultiView Widget Updated Utilizes the new VMIX Player Platform. New configurable options: autoplay, comments section, ratings section, pre- and post-roll advertisements. Updated look and feel. New VMIX Player Platform Flash-based player. Configure all color options for the player, such as buttons, background, fill, text, etc. Support for autoplay, continuous play, advancing forward and back through lists of videos, full-screen and native-size views. Configurable video size. Clickable bugs, pre- and post- rolls, and companion ads. KNOWN ISSUES: Animated gifs are not working as bug images in the player. If you want to use animation, you will need to create a SWF file (.swf). If you are using Firefox 2.x on a Macintosh computer to view a player, the player doesn’t immediately appear after returning from full-screen mode. Clicking on the area where the player is supposed to be will cause it to appear. Occasionally, there may be lag time between taking an action in the Admin Console and the result appearing on the page. Watch your browser progress indicator to make sure the page has updated before repeating the action. 2008-07-23 11:21:41 chrish <forumuser@vmix.com> Admin Console 2.3 is on Beta! http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/5651/ 5651 New Player Section in Admin Console Ability to create multiple instances of video players based on the NEW VMIX Player Platform. Take the embed code for your players and put it into your flash widgets, web pages, scripted programs, etc. Ability to change the player's attributes without having to update your embed code Ability to manage your players by editing, deleting and copying them When upgrades and updates become available, it will be easy to keep your players current Now when you generate embed codes for a specific piece of media, you can choose which player you want it to play in Multiview Widget Updated Utilizes the new VMIX Player Platform New configurable options: autoplay, comments section, ratings section, pre- and post-roll advertisements Updated look and feel NEW VMIX Player Platform Flash-based player Configure all color options for the player, such as buttons, background, fill, text, etc. Support for autoplay, continuous play, advancing forward and back through lists of videos, full screen, native size Configurable video size Clickable bugs, pre- and post- rolls, and companion ads 2008-07-11 14:37:42 chrish <forumuser@vmix.com> Admin Console 2.2 has been released! http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/5519/ 5519 The Admin Console has been updated to include publication start and end dates as part of the media information. Any media uploaded to VMIX's network can now use a start and end date for publication. If you apply a publication start and/or end date/time to your media, it will only be displayed on your website during that period. This feature is separate from the media status which still has to be set to ‘Active’ in order to be available for display. You can then apply publication start and end date/times to media with the ‘Active’ status to specify the time period for which it will be published on your websites. In addition to new uploads, existing media can be updated in the media details view to add a start or end date/time. This is optional however, and without specifying a start or end date/time, media will continue to display on your website as long as it is set to the ‘Active’ status. This means that you do not have to make any changes to your existing media. Also, you can now filter your media assets by publication date/time. When filtering, you can select a publication date range. Any media that is active within that period will display in the assets list. You can also sort media assets by either publication start or end date and time. Media with no start or end dates will be listed after media that does have a date. KNOWN ISSUES: If you apply Start Publication Dates to media that appears in a widget or template, media will appear sorted in the widget by upload date not publication start date. 2008-06-25 15:31:05 chrish <forumuser@vmix.com> Admin Console has been UPDATED http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/5193/ 5193 VMIX Admin Console has just been updated on Beta (admin-beta.vmixcore.com). This update will be live on June 5th. Highlights Include: Report A PostNow you can add links on your site to report media or comments by your user community. From the admin console you can either remove offensive items or ignore items that you want to remain active on your site. Widget WizardWe have added a widget wizard so that you can create widget embed code from the admin console. Just choose the widget that you want, enter the customizable options, and grab the code to put on your site or save to a file for later use. Media Management Media now has a thumbnail display which allows you to better viewing without having to go to the details. You can play multiple videos simultaneously if you want to review more than one at a time. You can now choose how many items to display per page and jump directly to a desired page number. Search results are now editable Updated HelpEach screen on the web site now has a help icon in the right hand side of the main navigation bar. Clicking on this icon will open a PDF popup window (make sure you have Adobe Reader installed) with the help linked to whatever section of the site you are looking at. CommentsComments can now be edited for users who are set up with permission to do so. Known Issues: Group and Genre names over 25 characters with no spaces in them will cause display issues. This will be fixed in the next release. Cannot delete sources. This will be fixed in the next release. Shared media in the Network tab will only be displayed in the Network tab. In the next release media that is added from the Network tab will display in the Media Assets list. The only way to remove genres is to uncheck them in the tree view. The tree might not be expanded to show what is underneath. Both of these issues will be fixed in the next release Image and Play Counts are still being debugged and will be fixed as part of this release 2008-05-27 15:05:34 chrish <forumuser@vmix.com> New VMIX Admin Released! http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/4115/ 4115 The new VMIX Admin Console is now Live on adminv2.vmixcore.com. Release Highlights New Navigation Structure A new navigation framework has been implemented to create a consistent look and feel. The new framework will enable VMIX to add more features while maintaining a consistent user experience. New Information Architecture The new information architecture has been created for better organization and presentation of data. User actions and data manipulation will have a consistent throughout the Admin Console. Foundation for Building New Features The new Admin Console structure will set the foundation for future enhancements such as media sharing, advanced search, report/flag items, widget applications, and playlist management. Data Management New approaches have been added to provide a better experience for group and genre management. In addition, inline editing has been implemented in several areas to minimize the number of user clicks required. New DashboardA new dashboard view will be implemented for client messaging and quick views into the data. Additional enhancements such as activity charts will be implemented in future releases. Tutorials for all Landing Pages Video Tutorials will be available in each landing page to provide a quick overview of each section of the VMIX Admin Console. New Functionality In addition to the global improvements to the Admin Console, we have incorporated the following new functionality to the Admin Console. Media Section Larger text box for description with the ability to adjust the text box size Improved group management and selection Enable single click for text selection for thumbnails/embed code We have reduced the number of status options displayed Reorganized media info, the thumbnails, the comments, and the stats/reports ares in tabular form Standardized filtering with sorting available on uploaded date, modified date, type, status, title, and description Provide more data in media index pages Enabled inline editing for title, author and description in index view Added the ability to apply groups and genres in index view Added search term highlight to search result Comments Section Added Tags for display of Venue name Added “Hold” status for reviewed items Added filtering for both Tags and Hold status Blogs Added Calendar to the Blogs Added About Blogger for each blog Improved the handling of the “About Blogger” area to allow for favorite links Increased the font size for blog post titles Added Signature area Added “email” to the viral widget Forums Enabled the display of more content in Forum view Added ratings for threads and authors Admin Console 2.0 Known Issues Global If a string of text is entered into a form field which does not have spaces in it and that length exceeds the the size of the form field, there might be display issues. If you attempt to access a URL that doesn’t exist, you cannot go directly to the homepage Genre selection dialog may expand off screen if ‘expand all’ is selected Description field will show a scrollbar at all times in IE6 Genre Selection will have a line break between the label and its expand / collapse button in IE6 MEDIA > NETWORK and APPLICATIONS > SLIDE are accessible to anyone even without permissions Opening the groups and genres dialogs in media lists concurrently will have overlapping issues Some buttons might not have tool tips on them Permission mapping does not match current navigation. This will be modified once the old admin tool is retired User preference setting will be cookie based, not stored in the user profile. LOGIN If you enter an email that is not in our system and try to ‘send password’ you will get the message saying the password has been sent even though no account exists MEDIA UPLOAD Cannot upload .flv from mac safari browser SEARCH RESULTS Search only restricted to Title. Description will be highlighted even though it cannot be searched on No inline editing of search results MEDIA GROUPS Link on the group name shows the media list filtered by that group along with any other filters that were previously applied MEDIA ASSETS Approval queue will display filter message when no new items are available after an approval. Specifying number of items per page currently not available. 2008-03-19 23:13:05 wayneatvmix <forumuser@vmix.com> New Admin Console now on Beta! http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/4052/ 4052 The new VMIX Admin Console is now on Beta. adminv2-beta.vmixcore.com. The new Console will be released on 3/20/2008. Highlights include:New Navigation StructureA new navigation framework has been implemented to create a consistent lookand feel. The new framework will enable VMIX to add more features whilemaintaining a consistent user experience.New Information ArchitectureThe new information architecture has been created for better organization andpresentation of data. User actions and data manipulation will have a consistentvocabulary throughout the Admin Console.Foundation for Building new featuresThe new Admin Console structure will set the foundation for futureenhancements such as media sharing, advanced search, report/flag items,widget applications, and playlist management. Data ManagementNew approaches have been added to provide a better experience for groupand genre management. In addition, inline editing has been implemented inseveral areas to minimize the number of user clicks required.New DashboardA new dashboard view will be implemented for client messaging and quickviews into the data. Additional enhancements such as activity charts will beimplemented in future releases.Known Issues:We're still cleaning up some areas of the Console. Please let us know via this Thread if you encounter any bugs. Issues we know of that will be resolved in future releases:- Media search does not search descriptions. Keywords will be highlighted in the results list but the search will only be restricted to Title.- Permission mapping is still based on previous navigation. This will be cleaned up in the next release- Genre selection only displays the end subgenre, not the entire tree- Ability to set the number of rows per page on media and other indexes currently not available. - User preference setting will be cookie based, not stored in the user profile. 2008-03-13 22:44:52 wayneatvmix <forumuser@vmix.com> Release notes 2/20/2008 Release http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/3655/ 3655 Greetings all -This release contains more documentation cleanup on the developer wiki page as well as changes and additions to our hosted applications. In addition, we created internal APIs in preparation for the development of future features (Reported Post and Token based authentication) Hosted Media Pages- Full frame feature enhancement for Lee templates (tags,alt/meta,grab link)Widget Development- Widget feature enhancement (alt/meta,grab link, view all button)- Index Player Widget - Need New Buttons- Update widgets to pull png, gif, and css from the image serversDocumentation- getMediaList API document needs returned fields defined- Adding limits to responses in api docs- getMediaList API documentation is missing the total_count response value- getMediaCount documentation has incorrect optional param genre_id- Token not listed in response table or xml for searchMedia- getMedia documentation needs to be updated- Methods not properly alphabetized/capitalizedAPI's - getPlaylists&getPlaylist - Author not being returned in getPlaylist and getPlaylists after executing the script.- createPlaylist - Though the Playlist ‘status’ is provided as ‘0’ in createPlaylist method it is displayed as ‘1’ in the results of getPlaylist method.- please move the partner apis getPartners call to securityInternal API development for ReportedPost and TokenAuthentication- create an API to allow the creation of reports of a media/comment/blog post/ etc- create an API to allow the retrieval of reports of a media/comment/blog post/ etc- create an API to allow the updating of statuses of reports of a media/comment/blog post/ etc- create new API auth handler for domain based token auth- Create APIs to allow the creation of auth tokens with the options of n number of domain restrictions- create APIs to allow the updating of existing token's domain restriction set- create APIs to allow the retrieval and removal of tokens- token created with special characters does not work- On ReportedPost - getReports start does not work without limit- createAuthToken does not reject too long token string- some tokens starting with digit do not work- createAuthToken has inconsistent response formatting- Need auth token to be working with genUploadTokenAdmin Tool- "Upload New Thumbnail" in admin tool not working for firefox 2.0, XP 2008-02-21 15:05:34 wayneatvmix <forumuser@vmix.com> Release notes 1/9/2007 Release http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/2534/ 2534 Happy New Year!This release contained mostly documentation fixes to the APIs on the developer site, in addition to the following changes were implemented:Forums:- Added Message Board Administration to the Admin Tool- enable display of "Description" as part of the forum headerHosted Templates:- Removed /p/video from the URL for Full Page PlayerAdmin Tool:- Fixed cross month issue in reporting. 2008-01-09 17:42:04 wayneatvmix <forumuser@vmix.com> New Items on Beta - 11/29 http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/1997/ 1997 The following items were published to Beta on 11/29. Live date currently TBD.Admin Tool - error message for failed uploads (bad file types) fixed- Added filter by GenresForums - added top level RSS with most recently created forum postsBlogs - removed add image/video links from TinyMCE editor APIs - Added "last modified' in getMediaList response.- added filtering by "last_modified" with date range support Known issue:- reporting issues have been identified and are currently being worked on. 2007-12-02 22:26:57 wayneatvmix <forumuser@vmix.com> Release Scheduled for 11/14.. http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/1806/ 1806 Currently, these items are on Beta getting ready for deployment at 10PM PST on 11/14 Admin Tool - reporting module with graphical display - media level play counts - fixed a bug with deleting a user from a role - display role correctly in admin - display media id upon a successful upload Forums - ability to set sort order by user - ability for admin to view posts by user - added spellchecker to forum editors Blogs - added tag clouds with tag pages - added anchor points to the comments link APIs No Changes 2007-11-13 22:46:07 wayneatvmix <forumuser@vmix.com> Genre API documentation released http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/1720/ 1720 You can find documentation on how to manipulate and query genres here: http://developer.vmixcore.com/wiki/REST_API_Genre 2007-11-05 09:10:10 darren <forumuser@vmix.com> Beta Release Notes. 10/30/2007 into Beta environment http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/1655/ 1655 Beta Release note 10/30/2007 This release contains features and bugs targeted for VMIX Beta environment on 10/30/2007, with the target live date on 11/1/2007. Forums: No Changes Blogs: No Changes Admin Tool: - Upload accepts tags - Added "target_type" to edit media API: No Changes Applications: - VMIX Capture - VMIX Slide - Instory Widget - DART integration to support companion ads on hosted applications 2007-10-29 18:11:01 wayneatvmix <forumuser@vmix.com> Beta Release Notes. 10/10/2007 into Beta environment http://forums.developer.vmixcore.com/forums/thread/1486/ 1486 Beta Release note 10/10/2007 This release contains features and bugs targeted for VMIX Beta environment on 10/10/2007, with the target live date on 10/17/2007. Forums: â¢ Added "report reason" for reporting a post allowing reporters to select a reason (BXE-468284) â¢ Fixed a bug with poll setup when including CAPTCHA in the Forums â¢ Fixed a bug with split thread showing anonymous user instead of the actual user display name â¢ Support admin only created forums, enabling forums to be created for Administrators to post (MSK-534250) â¢ Remove the display of Bozo created threads (ORX-347550) â¢ Email Notification support for reported posts and media uploads (TSL-146427, NMF-106042) â¢ Added Breadcrumbs to forums (NTD-814696) Blogs: â¢ Added Breadcrumbs to Blog admin areas â¢ Create a Tag Cloud for the display of tags on blog pages (ZOQ-395017) Admin Tool: â¢ Modified the create user process to not require password when user is already in the system â¢ Add "target_type" variable to media upload and edit â¢ Added the abilty to search media based on media ID â¢ Add tag support to edit media â¢ Fixed approval queue bug when no media for a media type is available (FOZ-919720, PNF-974714) API: â¢ getMedia API supports profanity filter on the title and description when profanity_filter =1 is passed in the API â¢ Fixed a bug in genre_id filtering for getRatingRankedMedia â¢ Fixed genUploadToken error message with an invalid group ID (ADS-195455) Applications: â¢ Slideshow application available on Beta â¢ Ad integration server to support DART cookies â¢ Addressed a bug with the encoder when a container is uploaded 2007-10-11 21:04:42 wayneatvmix <forumuser@vmix.com>