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The following tabs contain release notes and known issues notes for Version 12 releases. Known issues are problems that will be addressed in later hotfix releases.


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Release 12.00.03

Release Date: December 18, 2020

Content Manager Designer Player

Content Manager

  • The Built in Administrator and any users with administrative privileges can now use the "Used" or "Used by" links to view correctly filtered links for a playlist, media item, or channel.

Designer

There is no release for Designer 12.00.03.

Player

There is no release for Player 12.00.03.

Known Issues

The following known issues are scheduled for an upcoming hotfix release. We have provided:

  • Category
  • An explanation of the issue
  • Workaround
  • Navigation (if applicable) to find the location of the issue.


IssueWorkaround

When turning off the monitor and then turning it back using the Scala Media Player-R, a window frame appears around playback content.

There is currently no workaround.

When you click the "X" icon on the ConfigIC window in the Scala account, it does not close the ConfigIC window. 

To close the ConfigIC window, click the Save and Quit button.

The Reset dialog on the ConfigIC page in the Scala account does not close when you click the Reset button. 

Click the Cancel button in the Reset? dialog.


Release 12.00.02

Release Date: November 24, 2020

Content Manager Designer Player

Content Manager


 Translations

  • Tabs that do not fit in a browser window or tab when using the Network Settings page no longer wrap to the next line. Instead, they display across the window or tab and can be accessed using the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the window or tab.

  • In Spanish, there is a missing translation for "Master with Children" in Campaign Channel "usage" filter.

  • The Campaign Server Distribution server name is translated correctly in the following languages:
    • Chinese
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • French
    • Finnish
    • German
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Norwegian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Swedish
    • Spanish

    • Turkish

  • In Turkish, all filters that contain the word site on the User Activity page are translated correctly.

  • In Japanese, the Dimension field on the Template Infomation tab in template Properties is now translated correctly from サイズ to 寸法.

 UI/UX

  • When updating a User Profile, the Reset link, the Save Changes button, and the Save & Close button now appear when making changes to the page.

  • Removed the Channel, Time Limit, and Completed Files filters from the Media Distribution Monitor tab.

  • When an audio item is the first item in a data playlist, the audio icon displays.

  • When publishing files from Scala Designer that contain large media assets, the correct file size displays in the Content Manager UI.

  • Users with delete privileges and SIA access can now delete schedules from the Schedules page.

 Templates

  • When creating messages from Designer templates in Content Manger, the fields in the template are no longer assigned to a workgroup, allowing all users to create messages without saving the template first.

 Designer Cloud Integration

  • Only users with the Designer Projects Manager role can see the Manage menu.

  • Users with both System Administrator and Designer Projects Manager role can now call Designer Cloud users using the API /api/rest/users/designer and receive Designer Cloud users only.

  • Users can now use the Designer Cloud Projects Manager role to manage Designer Cloud projects. There is only one Designer Projects Manager role per Content Manager network. For more information about the Designer Projects Manager role, see Manage.

 Playlists

  • Playlists with an unknown (null) health status are now considered false and will show a warning instead of a null pointer exception.

 Campaign Management

  • Users with view network only permissions cannot change Campaign Management network settings.

 Server

  • If associated with a category, Remote Publish Locations are included in the category delete modal. Users can use the link to delete. Remove any associations before deleting the category, thereby avoiding a server error.

  • Media with a "#" in the name now downloads to players without error.

  • Upgraded JavaMelody to version 1.83.0. This bings back the missing %CPU percentage statistics.

  • Windows 2019 and MSSQL Server are now certified for use with Scala Enterprise.

 Player Authentication

  • The Player Authentication Account password no longer expires. Using the API /api/rest/users/mustChangePasswordAtNextLogin/{id} to change the Player Authentication Account password returns a 400 server error.

 API

  • Users with media_upload and tempate_edit permissions can no longer delete media via the API call /api/rest/directory. This call is limited to users with administrative permissions. 

 Miscellaneous

  • Content Manager channels now support up to four displays when using the Player.ChannelDisplay item condition.

Designer

  • When selecting the thumbnail page that appears in Content Manager, users can now select pages bound to variables, even if they are not the first page in the ScalaScript. The selected page will display as expected in Content Manager.

Player

  • There are no release notes for Player.

Known Issues

The following known issues are scheduled for an upcoming hotfix release. We have provided:

  • An explanation of the issue
  • Workaround
  • Navigation (if applicable) for find the location of the issue.
IssueWorkaround

When turning off the monitor and then turning it back using the Scala Media Player-R, a window frame appears around playback content.

There is currently no workaround.

When you click the "X" icon on the ConfigIC window in the Scala account, it does not close the ConfigIC window. 

To close the ConfigIC window, click the Save and Quit button.

The Reset dialog on the ConfigIC page in the Scala account does not close when you click the Reset button. 

Click the Cancel button in the Reset? dialog.


Release 12.00

Release Date: September 17, 2020


Content Manager Designer Player

Content Manager

 New Features

  • Campaign Management integrates with the X2O Campaign Management Tool, allowing users to create and manage campaigns. 

  • Content Manager is integrated with Designer Cloud.

  • Performance improvements for plan generation.
  • General performance improvements.
 Updates to Technical Specifications
  • Content Manager now requires PostgreSQL version 10.11.x.
  • Playback audit reporting for Content Manager now requires MongoDB 3.6.18.
 Performance Improvements

  • Improved speed of plan generation by pre-caching messages. Pre-caching can be disabled through features.xml PlangenPreCacheMessageFields. Default for this feature setting is true.

  • The method checking for circular playlist performance has been improved.

  • Added two new features.xml settings to improve inventory building in plan generation. Use PlangenEnableBuildInventoryThreads default is 1 and can set to maximum number of players to control optional threading for player inventory building in plan generation. Use PlangenCalculateMediaItemUsage to control the availability of the Channels and Time Limit on the Media Distribution Monitor tab and is disabled by default.

  • Importing a new license, where one of the subnetworks has expired, no longer requires a restart of Tomcat in order to restart generating new plans. 

 Security

  • Users with View Users permissions in multi network instances of Content Manager, can now only view users in their network. 

  • Default cookies setting for Content Manager is https. 

 API

  • New parameter added to api/rest/playlists/all named includeNullValueWithNe. When set to true and used in combination with the ne value in the filters parameter, it will include null values in the results. 

  • Improved visibility of deprecated items in API.

  • Updated API documentation for api/rest/players/multi to read: Update more than one player. 

  • The category API /api/rest/categories/ no longer allows users to create duplicate sub-categories in one request. 

  • The category API /api/rest/categories/ now allows users to create multiple sub-categories in one request. 

  • Deprecated API /api/rest/users/current/{id}. Now use api/rest/users/current/ to update the user settings for the currently authenticated user. 

  • Deprecated API /api/rest/media. 

  • Updated the API usage filter for media items to obtain faster performance.

 User Interface/User Experience

  • Improved UI in Audiovisuals tab to mark a frame as "Custom" when the parameters are manually changed. 

  • When searching for a player and deleting it, the search field now clears and all players are visible. 

  • Updated UI translations for Content Manager. 

  • Added server type icons to the Distribution page.  

  • Users can now delete multiple sites without error. 

  • Users can now change both regional settings and password in their profile at the same time without error. 

  • When adding an email address to a user profile, if the email is not valid, a message displays identifying the email is not valid in all invalid email situations.

  • The Save button is now active when users are forced to change their password and they meet all password criteria. 

  • Users with administrative view privileges are able to view recently uploaded images without error.

  • New filter named "Usage" added to Channels page which allows user to filter Channels by "Used" and "Unused".

  • Duration is calculated correctly for playlist that contains a message which has another sub-playlist as an element.

  • Message pagination now matches in page detail and lightbox preview.

  • Users can now search for players in the Player.PlayerName field when adding item conditions to a playlist item.

  • On the Item Properties tab in a Playlist, when Transparency is set to off, the page opacity field is now disabled and set to 100. When Transparency is set to on, the page opacity is set to 0.

 Workgroups

  • If media cannot be retrieved due to a workgroup restriction, the message "Restricted: Insufficient Privileges" appears.

  • When a child workgroup is deleted from a workgroup tree, associated messages, templates, playlists, and smart playlists are now assigned to the parent workgroup.

  • Users without workgroups can now upload, update, and delete Content Manager assets.

  • The Save & Close and Save Changes buttons are no longer visible on a message where the user has view only privileges.

  • A non-administrative user without an assigned workgroup can now upload media.

 SSO

  • Content Manager now checks user authentication method before logging in SSO users.

 Database

  • MSSQL database will no longer deadlock when deleting several sites with associated players at a time.

  • Reports can now be searched if Content Manager is using an MS SQL database.

 Miscellaneous

  • Content Manager now checks to ensure that only allowable special characters are used when updating player and media metadata names.

  • Users can now add players running the Linux Player to Maintenance Jobs.

  • When selecting a media item without a workgroup to be added to a playlist, the playlist modal now displays all available playlists.

  • Implemented Scala Integration Access (SIA) to incorporate outside applications with Content Manager.

  • When deleting a role in Content Manager, both the role name and the ID number are identified in the deletion message in the Activity Log.

  • Added and enabled a new feature setting FileRenameRetryAttemps to features.xml that allows user to enable retry for file rename failures. By default, this feature is set to retry 10 times.

  • Fixed problem that prevents uploading templates or ScalaScript after previous upload failure.

  • Fixed an issue where users were unable to set an alternate playlist when setting up an environment for the first time.

  • Fixed an issue where user roles could not be deleted if the name exceeded 20 characters. Now, user role names must not exceed 50 characters.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented user with Upload Media permissions only to view messages.

Known Issues

The following known issues are scheduled for an upcoming hotfix release. We have provided:

  • Category
  • An explanation of the issue
  • Workaround
  • Navigation (if applicable) to find the location of the issue.
CategoryIssueWorkaroundNavigationFix Version

User Interface

If an audio asset is the first item in a data playlist or smart data playlist, the audio icon thumbnail does not display

There is currently no workaround.N/A12.00.02

When updating a user profile, the Reset link the Save Changes button, and the Save & Close button do not appear. 

Force the Reset link the Save Changes button, and the Save & Close button by "unclicking" and "clicking" the checkbox next to a user's role. This forces the Reset link the Save Changes button, and the Save & Close button to appear and you can save changes to the user's role as normal.System > User Profiles12.00.02
Translations





The Campaign Server Distribution server name may not be translated correctly in the following languages:

  • Chinese
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • French
  • Finnish
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Swedish
  • Spanish
  • Turkish

There is currently no workaround.N/A12.00.02

In Spanish, the Master with Children selection under the Usage filter on the Campaign Channel tab is not translated.

There is currently no workaround.Planning > Channels > Campaign Channel tab12.00.02

In Turkish, verifying that all filters containing the word site on the User Activity page are translated correctly.

There is currently no workaround.System > User Activity12.00.02

In Japanese, the following elements are not translated on the Campaign Management Authentication tab in the Network Settings menu option:

  • Remote Version
  • Manage
  • Cannot change URL/Username while Campaign Targets in use is greater than 0

There is currently no workaround.System > Network Settings > Campaign Management Authentication tab12.00.02

In Norwegian, the following elements are not translated correctly on the Campaign Management Authentication tab in the Network Settings menu option:

  • Remote Version
  • Manage
  • Cannot change URL/Username while Campaign Targets in use is greater than 0

There is currently no workaround.System > Network Settings > Campaign Management Authentication tab12.00.02

In Finnish, the following elements are not translated correctly on the Campaign Management Authentication tab in the Network Settings menu option:

  • Remote Version
  • Manage
  • Cannot change URL/Username while Campaign Targets in use is greater than 0

There is currently no workaround.System > Network Settings > Campaign Management Authentication tab12.00.02

In Japanese, the Size and Dimension fields in the template information tab may not be translated correctly. 

There is currently no workaround. Currently, the Size field is  サイズ and the Dimension field is サイズ.Content > Templates > [Template Name] > Template Information tab12.00.02
Queries

When running a query on the Media page with the Usage filter, the query time can be up to 15 minutes. 

There is currently no workaround.Content > Media12.00.02
Templates

When a published template belongs to a Content Manager workgroup, all fields in the template belong to the workgroup as well. Users who are not a part of the owner workgroup, but have access to the template cannot make changes to the message until it is saved and reopened. 

If you are a member of the shared workgroup for the template, create the message and save it. Once saved, you will be able to edit it.N/A12.00.02
Server

An encoding problem, introduced in Apache Tomcat version 8.5.51, results in players being unable to download media with special characters as a part of the name.

If a media file contains a special character in the name, rename it, excluding the special character.N/A12.00.02

JavaMelody no longer computes %CPU usage statistics in the Server Monitoring module, Viewing this feature is only available to the built-in administrator.

There is currently no workaround.System > Server Settings > Server Monitoring > Open Server Monitoring12.00.02

Designer

 General

  • Scala Designer now uses Chromium Embedded Framework 73.

 Fonts and Text

  • Designer now contains a font filter that allows you to identify which fonts belong to the Scala Font Collection.

  • When selecting a font, you will consistently receive the selected font, not a font from the same family.

  • Rotated text boxes now display the text and bounding box at the prescribed angle.

  • Creating a text crawl or text element after an arbitrarily rotated text box displays the text crawl or text element at the nearest 90 degree angle.

  • Kerning default now set to off.

 Templates

  • Templates using an if() option in elements display correctly when a user creates or edits a message. 

 User Interface/User Experience

  • When justifying long lines of text, the page automatically jumps to the location of the insertion bar. 

  • Thumbnails with less than 100% opacity that extend beyond a bounding box are no longer clipped in the page thumbnail. 

  • You can now clone a group of pages and Designer will not crash. 

  • You can now set a variable with an index greater than 32 in a text crawl without Designer crashing.

 Miscellaneous

  • When using the LaunchEX module, if there is a syntax error in the command line, you will receive an error dialog that identifies the problem. The command line with the syntax error will not be cleared, allowing you to correct the error.

  • When the Off Page Elements feature is active, the color picker selects the correct color.

Player

 New Features

  • Linux Player now supports text rotation. 

  • Scala Player now uses Chromium Embedded Framework 73.

 Playback Engine

  • Windows Player now uses Chromium Embedded Framework version 73.

  • The Windows Player and the Linux Player both support Python3 as a scripting language.

 Miscellaneous

  • Picture wipes are now in .gif format and maintain lowercase file names so that they are compatible with both the Windows Player and the Linux Player.

  • Thales (Gemalto) HASP driver included in installer for Windows 10, version 2004. For more information, see the following bulletin:  Windows 10 version 2004 Update and HASP Driver.

Known Issues

The following known issues are scheduled for an upcoming hotfix release. We have provided:

  • An explanation of the issue
  • Workaround
  • Navigation (if applicable) for find the location of the issue.
IssueWorkaround

When turning off the monitor and then turning it back using the Scala Media Player-R, a window frame appears around playback content.

There is currently no workaround.

When you click the "X" icon on the ConfigIC window in the Scala account, it does not close the ConfigIC window. 

To close the ConfigIC window, click the Save and Quit button.

The Reset dialog on the ConfigIC page in the Scala account does not close when you click the Reset button. 

Click the Cancel button in the Reset? dialog.
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