Release notes version 23.3

Owned by Lynn Vercruysse
Last updated: Jul 27, 2023 by Mathilde Lacante
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Zeticon is proud to present version 23.3 of the MediaHaven platform. Please read more info about the new functionalities, improvements and fixed bugs below.

As of the 22.3 release, the old MediaHaven website is no longer active. From now on uploading, searching and downloading/sharing digital assets should be done via MediaHaven 2.0!

The content uploader is still available for managing the settings. We can already announce that this will be available at least until version 23.4

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Mediahaven 2.0 features

In cooperation with our customers, we keep enhancing our MediaHaven 2.0 product. We’ve continued the development of the following functionalities:

Support and visualization of new object type ‘Newspaper’

In addition to the current object types ‘collections’ and ‘items’, we now support new object types: ‘newspapers’, ‘newspaper pages’ and ‘media objects’. These are visualised hierarchically in MediaHaven, allowing you to easily navigate from a newspaper to the underlying pages and from the page to the underlying media objects. Describing, submitting, publishing and downloading these object types is also possible and this works the same way as regular object types.

German language interface

The interface of MediaHaven2.0 can now be displayed in German in addition to Dutch, French and English. This is an extra option that must be activated for your organisation.

Hide some metadata fields or disable to edit metadata fields for specific roles

From this release, metadata fields can be hidden or can be configured as not editable for certain roles. For example, you can ensure that certain metadata may be seen by all users, but editing those fields is only allowed for content managers or admin users. This requires a change in the configuration of your metadata fields. If you want to use this functionality, please contact our support/services team.

Stability and performance of the system

Behind the scenes, our team has been working on many steps towards zero downtime deployments. In the future, this will ensure that there is less to no downtime during an upgrade. Some steps were already done in the previous release but we continued this work in this release.

The full documentation of MH2.0 can be found here: MediaHaven 2.0

Improvements

As with every release, we have made some improvements based on feedback from our end users. You can consult them below.

  • Search We’ve improved the search functionality so that users can search on other words than the first word of a value to get suggestions in the filters and in the thesaurus structure. The autocomplete search is not case-sensitive anymore when searching in the filter values.

  • Performance We’ve reduced the number of API calls in the background when viewing the content of a collection and when opening the (master)detailpage of an object. This results in a more performant and faster application.

  • Embed code From now on, the embed code is always available if the 'public' group has read access to the object. Regardless of the use of the public portal. This is also done for the 23.2 version of MediaHaven.

  • Security Due to security reasons, it’s no longer possible to change the email address of other users than your own user. Also managing roles (create new role, edit existing roles, deleting roles) is no longer allowed. This used to be allowed for admin users only. The roles can now only be managed by our support team. You can contact our team to make changes regarding roles.

Bug fixes

  • [MH2.0] The 'or' relationship within a filter could not be configured correctly. This was fixed in the 23.3 and 23.2 versions.

  • [MH2.0] We’ve fixed a bug so that metadata in a repeatable field (e.g. Keywords, albums,…) can be removed. This was fixed in the 23.3 and 23.2 versions.

  • [MH2.0] Users with Safari as internet browser were not able to login on MH2.0. This was fixed in the 23.3 and 23.2 versions.

  • [MH2.0] We fixed a bug where a value with a comma was displayed as two separate values in a filter. From now on, e.g. keywords with a comma are displayed as one value in the filter. This was fixed in the 23.3, 23.2 and 23.1 versions.

  • [MH2.0] The title get no longer exported from the EXIF metadata when explicit given in the metadata sidecar. This was fixed in the 23.3, 23.2 and 23.1 versions.

  • [MH2.0] We’ve fixed searching with autocomplete in the content uploader (old management module).

  • [Import module] Uploading files in the import module resulted in an error in the back end. The files are now correctly uploaded and processed. This was fixed in the 23.3 and 23.2 versions.

  • [Import module] Deleting files in the import module is again possible. This was fixed in the 23.3 and 23.2 versions.

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