Release notes for BackOffice

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April 2025

Tenant admin & user

  • Introduced significant changes to PIM products and product links. A self-sufficient product will no longer contain a product link, which in turn becomes a separate concept in the PIM module. Although previously created products will work as before, they will be displayed in a new way in the BackOffice panel. Key changes:

    • The Products section no longer contains product links, which are moved to a new Product links section.
    • Added saving of the workflow and pipeline name within a product and a product link.
    • Added validation for products and product links and display of the conflict icon (!) in the BackOffice panel:
      • Missing persionalization workflow.
      • Missing processing pipeline.
      • When a product link refers to an outdated version of the product.
    • Updated e-commerce product binding scheme:
      • Enabled creating bindings for multiple products or product links.
      • Allowed setting custom names for references.
      • Prioritized handling orders: product specification > product link > product.
    • Adapted project processing to the scheme with separated product links.

  • Preview Preparation Improvements:

    • Different smart objects in a PSD mockup can now represent different pages, allowing users to view all of them whithin a single mockup image.
    • Introduced markers for smart objects, which are applied during the preparation of preview images. The marker format is [<name> <key>=<value>, ...].
    • Added a [bind] marker to preview a design or an image. For example, adding [bind surface="Front", container="UVB"] to a smart object's layer name renders the "Front" surface into that smart object, using only the "UVB" container.
    • Added an [embossed] marker to preview a design or an image. For example, adding [embossed effect=deboss, angle=45, depth=10, strength=20] to a smart object's layer name applies an embossing effect to the content of that smart object.

  • Bulk Deletion Support:

    • Added support for bulk deletion of table records.
    • Introduced mass deletion capability for products.

Personalization Platform API

  • Introduced significant changes to PIM products and product links. The Storefront API will now contain controllers for both product specifications and PIM products. Key changes:

    • Deprecated the Storefront Products API and moved ProductsController to the Storefront API.
    • Marked ProductReferencesExtController and certain methods in ProductsController as Not recommended.
    • Added a separate ProductLinkController to the Storefront API with methods for retrieving product links and summaries.
    • Updated ProductDTO to include Image and default StorefrontId, StorefrontProductId, and StorefrontProductName based on the first ProductReference.

  • Improved API Client Functionality:

    • Generated API clients now support different Content-Type headers for various response codes.

  • Rendering Task Enhancements:

    • Added the PdfKeepOriginalColors parameter to the render-hires and render-vdp-hires tasks.
    • Added a render-design-preview-with-mockup task to prepare a design preview with using a PSD mockup. This task implements the POST ​/api​/atoms​/v1​/designs​/render-preview endpoint.
    • Added a render-image-preview-with-mockup task to prepare an image preview with using a PSD mockup. This task implements the POST ​/api​/atoms​/v1​/images​/render-preview endpoint.

March 2025

Tenant admin & user

  • Added support for working with containers and their palettes in Personalization Platform services. If a palette UID is set when defining an image, the new image item is automatically recolored and image effects are applied with the selected palette. When an image is added to a container, the image will also be recolored to the target pallete.
  • Now, palette previews can be viewed in the file manager, and their UIDs are displayed in the Properties panel.
  • Added the possibility to export all PIM products and options to a CSV file. In the Products section, use the Export button.
  • Improved user experience with table operations. Multi-select feature was added, allowing users to select and delete groups of table rows, simplifying the process of deleting items from the database. Bulk deletion is now available for projects, product specifications, personalization workflows, and processing pipelines.
  • Improved user experience with personalization workflows and processing pipelines by adding an ID column to their lists.
  • Added a project owner update when merging users.

Personalization Platform API

  • Improved the Design Atoms API for working with the product model:
    • Implemented ​/api​/atoms​/v1​/designs​/{id}​/print-product​/containers endpoints for manipulating surface containers.
    • Implemented ​/api​/atoms​/v1​/designs​/{id}​/print-product​/items endpoints for manipulating surface container items.
    • Implemented ​/api​/atoms​/v1​/designs​/{id}​/print-product​/print-areas endpoints for creating a print-area and updating its parameters based on the description.
    • Added the possibility to add custom headers to the request when creating an image item using URL to simplify working with client storages.
  • Added the /api/rendering/v1/jobs/update-project-owner endpoint for batch updating project owners in rendering jobs in the Rendering Service API.
  • Added the hiResOutputRotateMode parameter to the render-vdp-hires and render-hires tasks to rotate output images.

February 2025

Tenant admin & user

  • Added a new type of assets, palettes. Сurrently the functionality is limited, but you can already import color palettes to the Palettes section to link them to your design files later.
  • Added the possibility to create a new blank design based on template. To create one, navigate to Designs, click New > Design file > Template, and select a design template.
  • Added the possibility to preview different workflow types for a singe product.
  • Improved user experience when working with tables.
  • Improved invalidation of Design Editor tokens.

Personalization Platform API

  • Implemented ​/api​/atoms​/v1​/designs​/{id}​/print-product endpoints for manipulating a product model in the Design Atoms API: surfaces, surface mockups, and print areas. For more details, refer to the Working with product model topic.
  • The render-hires and render-vdp-hires tasks now support BMP output format.
  • Added endpoints to the Asset Storage API to delete asset folders by ID.
  • Added the ​/api​/storage​/v1​/resources​/namespaces​/{namespace} endpoint to the Asset Storage API to delete resources by namespace.

December 2024

Tenant admin & user

  • Added support for graphics in EPS format. Implemented an EpsConverter service that accepts an EPS file as input and returns the result in PDF format.
  • Improved user experience with displaying tables. Visualization settings are now saved in the user's profile.

Personalization Platform API

  • Added the possibility to upload print files to Dropbox and GoogleDrive. To do so, add the upload-to-dropbox and upload-to-google-drive tasks to your pipeline.
  • Added new endpoints to the Design Atoms API to create multiple images from the following sources:
    • Asset storage by IDs ​/api​/atoms​/v1​/designs​/model​/items​/from-storage​/batch-create
    • Remote Web images by URLs ​/api​/atoms​/v1​/designs​/model​/items​/from-url​/batch-create
    • Input files ​/api​/atoms​/v1​/designs​/model​/items​/from-file​/batch-create
  • Added the possibility to overwrite preview images rendered and saved to resources if they already exist. To do so, use the overwriteExistingResource parameter in the /api/atoms/v1/images/render-preview/to-resource group of endpoints.

June 2024

Tenant admin & user

  • Added support for ECMA A60.20.00.03 mockup.
  • Added animation, faces, and cameras to ECMA B20.01.00.50 and ECMA A20.20.03.03.
  • Added the possibility to generate colors of the background and substrate mockups.
  • Added the ID field to the Info window of color profiles and fonts.
  • Improved the table view layout.

May 2024

Tenant admin & user

  • Added animation, faces, and cameras to ECMA A20.20.01.01, ECMA A20.20.01.03, and ECMA A55.20.01.01.
  • Improved page layouts for projects.

Personalization Platform API

  • You can now retrieve metadata from M3D files through /api/atoms/v1/mockups-3d/{id}/attributes when a mockup was created through the endpoint /api/asset-generator/v1/mockups/generate.
  • Added an endpoint /api/storefront/v1/tenant-info/measure-units for getting tenant measure units.

March 2024

Tenant admin & user

  • Added support for custom fields and tags in pipeline arguments. You can refer to them as {{product.customFields.MyField}} and {{product.tags.MyTag}}.
  • Added the possibility to run processing pipelines in projects manually.
  • Improved user experience with editing PIM products. You can now stay on the product page after publishing a product.

Personalization Platform API

  • Added endpoints that return workflow information for PIM Products to Storefront.Product API.
  • Added endpoints that return workflow information for Product Specifications to Storefront API.
  • Added endpoints that manage processing pipelines to Storefront 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.
  • Added the possibility to filter designs and mockups by folder and custom fields in the endpoints /api/storefront/v1/products/{id}/variant-designs and /api/storefront/v1/products/{id}/variant-mockups.

February 2024

Tenant admin & user

  • Improved user experience of creating data schemas and data sets.

Personalization Platform 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.

Personalization Platform 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.

Personalization Platform API

  • You can now define how images should be inserted into placeholders when rendering mockup-based product previews through the FitMode parameter of the render-image-preview task in Design Atoms 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, and render-vdp-hires tasks can now save text as text in print files. To do so, set the PdfTextOutputMode rendering parameter to text. By default, these tasks output text as vector outlines.
  • Added the possibility to retrieve the source of image items by using the Design Atoms API.

November 2023

Tenant admin & user

  • Improved the loading performance of PIM products.

Personalization Platform 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.

Personalization Platform API

  • Added support for multiple API keys in Personalization Platform 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.

Personalization Platform API

  • Added support for private mockups to the Design Atoms 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.

Personalization Platform API

  • Added support for private mockups to the Asset Storage API and Asset Processor 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.

Personalization Platform 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.

Personalization Platform 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 and change-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.

May 2023

Tenant admin & user

  • Added the possibility to view images in the Designs, Mockups, and Images asset sections in lightbox.

Personalization Platform API

  • Added an extract-project-resource task to rendering jobs for retrieving a resource and placing it in artifact storage.
  • Added an export-to-ecommerce task to rendering jobs for attaching data to an e-commerce order. You can add plain text, comma-separated list, or JSON values to an order.
  • Added a draw-crop-marks task to rendering jobs to draw crop marks and slug.
  • Added the possibility to pass a template name to the produce-imposition task.
  • Added endpoint for attaching data to an e-commerce order Projects_AttachDataToProjectOrder.
  • Now, working with folders in Asset Storage is case-insensitive.
  • Added a ban on creating jobs without a finalize task to the Rendering Service.

Storefront

  • Implemented an interface for adding data to an order in WooCommerceProvider.

April 2023

Tenant admin & user

  • Added support for data retention policy.
  • Implemented auto-formatting when opening and saving files, pasting fragments, and by using the Shift+Alt+F key combination in the JSON Editor.
  • Improved user experience with the Login and Password change dialogs.

March 2023

Tenant admin & user

  • Added the possibility to define settings of custom apps.
  • Added a preview of 3D (2D) mockups to the Attribute manager.
  • For products using the Simple Editor, you can now enable the test and preview.
  • Improved page layouts.

Personalization Platform API

Storefront

  • Added the productLinkId, productVersionId, and productId fields to IntegrationInfo for convenient work with PIM Widgets.

February 2023

Tenant admin & user

  • Add the possibility to edit password settings for default roles.
  • Composed a list of names, for example, host or admin, so that tenants with such names cannot be created.
  • Improved user experience with the folder tree when copying and moving assets.
  • Added section descriptions to the home page of tenants.

Personalization Platform API

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:

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