Release notes for BackOffice
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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.
BackOffice 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.
BackOffice 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.
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 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
, 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 Design Atoms 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 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.
BackOffice 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.
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.
May 2023
Tenant admin & user
- Added the possibility to view images in the Designs, Mockups, and Images asset sections in lightbox.
BackOffice 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.
BackOffice API
- Added endpoints for getting the results of project processing Projects_GetProjectProcessingResults, resuming the project processing Projects_ResumeProjectProcessing, and restarting the project processing Projects_RestartProjectProcessing.
- Added the possibility to create projects based on a scenario with Projects_CreateByRenderHiResScenario.
- Added endpoint ProductReferences_GetAllProductLinks to get a list of product links connected to products in storefronts.
Storefront
- Added the
productLinkId
,productVersionId
, andproductId
fields toIntegrationInfo
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.
BackOffice API
- The endpoints PrivateDesignProcessor_CopyDesignFromPublicDesign and PrivateDesignProcessor_CopyDesignFromPublicResource were moved from Design Atoms API to Asset Processor 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:
- BackOffice application
- Back-end services (as explained in What are Personalization Platform services article).