Release notes for BackOffice
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March 2024
Tenant admin & user
- Improved user experience with editing PIM products. You can now stay on the product page after publishing a product.
BackOffice API
- Added the possibility to create projects based on a custom scenario for processing pipelines with the endpoint
/api/storefront/v1/projects/by-scenario/specific-pipeline
. - Now, if the product has linked design and mockup, then the endpoint for getting design variants returns information about the mockup used for the resource preview of the PIM product variant.
- Added the possibility to filter the projects by their processing status in the endpoint
/api/storefront/v1/projects
.
February 2024
Tenant admin & user
- Improved user experience of creating data schemas and data sets.
BackOffice API
- Added an endpoint
/api/processor/v1/designs/{id}/calculate-count-per-sheet
to estimate the number of designs that can fit a given page. - Added the possibility to filter product links by tags and custom fields.
- The
render-vdp-hires
task now supports the print area filter.
January 2024
Tenant admin & user
- Improved the structure of the main menu.
- The Website entity has been renamed to Integration.
BackOffice API
- Added endpoints that render private designs with preview mockups into an image and save this combined image in assets storage.
- Added an endpoint for getting information about the specified product variant.
- You can now apply a filter by design name in endpoints getting product variant designs.
December 2023
Tenant admin & user
- Added support for custom fields in PIM products. This linking tool allows you to add some information to a product in the key-value format. You can now specify arbitrary named properties in the product customization form.
- Added support for tags in PIM products. You can now mark products by tags to organize their binding. For example, using tags, you can calculate the price, assign discounts, organize a grouping of products by assigning the same tag to your favorite products.
- Added description of camera positions to metadata of 3D mockups.
BackOffice API
- You can now define how images should be inserted into placeholders when rendering mockup-based product previews through the
FitMode
parameter of therender-image-preview
task in DesignAtoms Api. - Now missing extensions of downloaded files will be added automatically depending on their format.
- Improved the text rendering. The
draw-crop-marks
,render-hires
, andrender-vdp-hires
tasks can now save text as text in print files. To do so, set thePdfTextOutputMode
rendering parameter totext
. By default, these tasks output text as vector outlines. - Added the possibility to retrieve the source of image items by using the DesignAtoms API.
November 2023
Tenant admin & user
- Improved the loading performance of PIM products.
BackOffice API
- The
render-image-preview
task now supports images from Asset Storage and 3D mockups. - Added the possibility to copy resources in Asset Storage.
- You can now refer to Asset Storage resources when creating a project.
- Added the possibility to render project previews.
- Added the possibility to search product references by SKU.
October 2023
Tenant admin & user
- Improved user experience of editing SKU in the PIM module:
- Added the possibility to mass select SKUs when editing products.
- Returned the possibility to enable multi-selection when filtering options.
- Added the possibility to specify the workflow and pipeline when importing products.
BackOffice API
- Added support for multiple API keys in BackOffice APIs.
Storefront
- A more secure architecture was implemented in StorefrontJS 1.2.16. if you are migrating from earlier versions, you should change the storefront initialization and the way to get the integration model in your code. For more details, refer to the Getting started topic.
September 2023
Tenant admin & user
- You can now generate mockups for packaging based on the model name and a set of related parameters. You can also create a design that matches this 3D mockup.
- Added the possibility to start processing projects when they move to different statuses, and not immediately after creating the project.
- Predefined the order of the main menu items. Now, the menu only depends on the edition type.
BackOffice API
- Added support for private mockups to the DesignAtoms API.
- Added the possibility to create rendering jobs without starting them automatically.
- You can now omit the
customers-canvas
namespace when defining rendering tasks. It will be used by default.
August 2023
Tenant admin & user
- Both product specifications and PIM products now support processing pipelines.
- Improved user experience with displaying project data and details of its processing pipeline on the same screen.
- Improved user experience of editing SKU in the PIM module:
- The SKU tab has been renamed to Variants.
- Added the option filters to the Variants tab. An option value for a single selection will be displayed as text. If you have selected several values, their number will appear in the option filter.
- A new button Clear all will appear if at least one filter is selected.
BackOffice API
- Added support for private mockups to the AssetStorage API and AssetProcessor API.
- Added the possibility to search products and variants by SKU.
July 2023
Tenant admin & user
- Added the possibility to enable processing pipelines for product specifications. Now, the Pipelines tab will be displayed in the Customer's Canvas tenant.
- Added support for importing PIM products and options from CSV files.
- Added a confirmation dialog when closing an account.
- Improved user experience with editing PIM products. You can now change the link to e-commerce product.
BackOffice API
- Changed parameters of the
invoke-url
task. You can now define an HTTP method, HTTP headers, and query parameters.
June 2023
Tenant admin & user
- Added visualization of the current usage of rendering credits and tenant storage.
- Added the possibility to reset the tenant password from the login page.
- Added the possibility to remove projects through the user interface of BackOffice.
- Added support for PIM metadata used to display product options.
- Improved user experience with editing options of PIM products. The former tab Variants was renamed to Options. The preview or product variants was removed from the user interface.
- Improved user experience with editing product links in the PIM module.
BackOffice API
- Added support for authorization through tokens.
- Added tenant ID information to all endpoints.
- Added support for the Order Desk. You can now use
export-to-order-desk
andchange-group-in-order-desk
tasks to export and arrange project artifacts.
Storefront
- Added a new integration of the
ShopifyCustom
type based on a Shopify Custom App. - Added the possibility to disconnect Shopify integrations to remove subscriptions to webhooks.
January 2021
Added an API Gateway with Swagger UI client. See API Reference for details.
Initial Release
This is a first release which includes not just the Design Editor, but also:
- BackOffice application
- Back-end services (as explained in What are BackOffice services article).