Release Notes - iconik Help Documentation

2018-11-19

ISG
- Windows version could hang on transcode
- Windows version could not rediscover missing files in subdirectories (Caused duplicate entry)
- Better error handling for failing Backblaze uploads
- Just enabling Local Keyframes and not Proxy will now actually only create a keyframe
Deleting collection trees was very slow
Group Scan options correctly on the storage admin page
Backblaze storages with spaces in the root path was not verified correctly
Notifications for marking comments as done was not sent

Web upload did not keep original file name with some special characters
Saving metadata in timed metadata did not work correctly when using the same dropdowns as in the Asset metadata view.
ISG
- Better support for growing files
The cloud storage scanner could hang in some special circumstances.
Transfers could fail or cause duplicates when the filesets were missing components

View playlist of new features

Now hides create placeholder functionality if the user doesn't have that role.
Respect required fields in Time Based Metadata.
Allow adding options to dropdown fields that contain spaces and commas
Fixing download original link in the asset page
ISG
- Clean up of temporary files now works correctly
- Performance improvements
Ctrl/Command-click on the search result view now opens a new tab as it should
An issue where the API Gateway could get stuck when the Redis server was restarted has been fixed

View Playlist of the new features

New Formats panel.
Archive support (Amazon S3/Glacier, Google Coldline, Backblaze B2)
Storage browser (See files on your storage in the UI)
New Audio player
- Play audio clips from the search result page
- UI improvements
- Support for time based comments and metadata
ISG
- Sidecar metadata import
- Support for Red video files through Redline
SAML users have more configuration options regarding groups and user types

Perfomance improvements for Bulk ACL operations
A bug where browse users could not see metadata was fixed
It is now possible to turn off the role can_read_acls to disable the ACL list without losing all access to assets

View Playlist of the new features

Support for Backblaze B2 as Cloud storage, including scanning.
Billing page improvements for user billing
Admin pages are more aligned from a UX perspective
- Delete and Edit has moved to a Right-click context menu
- Create new has a new more clear button
Custom logos for system domains and primary groups.
iconik Portal Sync
- Uploads of large files are now queued to improve performance
Adobe Panel
Generic SAML provider support
- Can integrate with e.g. Google Apps authentication and ADFS
Custom actions can now also open new web pages.

View Playlist of the new features

Multiple downloads from the web
Billing page for admins.
Possibility to choose default storage, and select storage to upload to
Support for Okta as identity provider
Timed metadata can now have full metadata views
Filter comments and Timed metadata on colours
Custom actions can now have metadata associated
iconik Storage Gateway
- A mode where identical files are detected and assigned to the same asset
- Support for the Export feature.
- Mac and Windows versions now include the version number in a file to be able to identify installed version easily
Adobe Panel
- Upload in to Collections.
- Much improved download and clip locations.

An issue where a very long transcode queue for one customer could cause delays for other customers is fixed.
The Adobe Panel could not open some files from the Asset page.
Transcoding of some MPEG Transport streams failed due to the lack of duration information.
When changing some group attributes, caching caused the changes to not take effect immediately

View playlist of new features

API to get file_sets from formats now works
Download URLs for files on Google Cloud Storage with spaces in directory names did now get encoded properly
Better support for Adobe Photoshop in the Adobe panel

Video playlist of new features

Upload assets directly in to collections or the search page
Create placeholders, and upload assets in to them
Bulk edit metadata and ACLs
Asset history
Full elasticsearch query language support in free text search (On permitted fields)
UI improvements
iconik Storage Gateway
- Mapping of directory structure to collections
- Configurable proxy resolution and bitrate

When sharing to internal users using their email, comments and approvals showed up as the wrong user
Boolean operators in free text search did not work correctly