• Several small bug-fixes were applied for improving the usability.

• Business Rules can now be triggered by multiple trigger points such as when content is created or updated, the assigned file is replaced or triggered by a schedule (see Scheduled Business Rules above). This greatly reduces the amount of Business rules; which before needed to be created separately.
• Caches are now built in parallel which speeds up the creation of such caches especially in high scale systems, where a lot of List Items are frequently changed. Previously, this resulted in delays when e.g. auto-tagging content using product or other identifiers.
• Search suggestions, display of filters, and search in filters can now be enabled or disabled for fields in the Content Browser and List Item filters. This allows Admins to better control in which fields search suggestions are shown, which fields will be displayed in the Content Browser and List Item filters and which filters will have a search.
• A warning is shown when deleting a user role that is used in a permissions set requiring Admins to confirm the deletion explicitly.

Our next major version of the Picturepark Content Platform is scheduled for release by October this year (TBC), featuring a major overhaul of the current User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) - based on valuable customer feedback.

Customers will become informed in more detail during the summer period and we will offer dedicated webinars for Picturepark Customers and Partners.

New Apps & Connectors are now available in collaboration with technology partners for the Picturepark Content Platform, such as smint.io Content Portals and the MuseumPlus Connector.

Content Portals from smint.io

The Content Portal from smint.io provides a highly customizable web browser-based portal for serving curated content from Picturepark to a target audience, ideal for a wide variety of uses.

• Share content collections: to internal or external stakeholder groups in a branded way; think brand kits.
• Highly flexible: add as many or as few custom pages as you see fit; think campaign landing pages.
• Safe and secure: you decide exactly who has access to specific content; think corporate communication content.
• Share friendly: built-in support for Picturepark’s own share functionality; think ad-hoc press kits.
• Customizable design: borrow from a component SDK or apply your own CSS; think WYSIWYG.

Content use-cases can vary massively, that’s why the smint.io Content Portal is so highly customizable. It allows you to decide on the application you want to use it for and build the web portal exactly the way you want it. Whether that includes adapting it to fit your brand guidelines or including as much, or as little content, as you desire directly from within Picturepark. No more copying files around, no more content scattering.

Open smint.io Content Portals

MuseumPlus Connector

De-mystify the complexities of collection management with seamless integration between Zetcom’s MuseumPlus platform and Picturepark. Combine the strengths of each platform, access Picturepark assets from within MuseumPlus, and benefit from automatically updated previews. Let MuseumPlus’s tailored collection management options synergize with Picturepark’s expertise in digital asset management.

• Images or other media content from Picturepark are directly shown with the corresponding objects in MuseumPlus; no need to change the system.
• No high-res duplicates: the media content remains mastered and stored in Picturepark, it’s always kept in sync with MuseumPlus.
• Object metadata is synced from MuseumPlus to Picturepark, where it enriches all media content and improves Picturepark’s search by using object information.
• Picturepark ensures that only images which meet certain quality and other criteria can be previewed in MuseumPlus.

Open MuseumPlus Connector

Please note that the following list API changes and SDK`s are not final and thus they can change until the release date.

With the upcoming Picturepark Release “San Salvatore” (10.9) we will also introduce some API Changes. Please find details here: https://picturepark.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/API/overview

Please check if those changes will affect your integration and adapt your Source Code. If you use our SDK`s or samples like the Content Portal, we recommend to update to the latest version:

• Picturepark.SDK.DotNet
• Picturepark.SDK.TypeScript
• Picturepark.SDK.Samples (including Content Portal)

If you want to test your changes in advance, we can provide a test account which runs already on the new version, for free or a charge, depending on your subscription plan.

From April 2021 on we will no longer support Microsoft Edge browser (version 18, non-Chromium version) for which support will be cancelled by Microsoft by the end of March 2021. See additional information on Edge support by Microsoft: Consult our documentation to see which Web Browsers are supported for the Picturepark Content Platform.

Aside from various improvements to the overall stability of the system, bug-fixes have been applied in the backend, as well as updates made to versions of components we use. The following bugs have been fixed with this release:

• Fixed a bug that resulted in video and audio files only being played back once until the page was refreshed.
• Fixed a bug which resulted in text overflow in the sidebar of the user management, when text was too long for shown fields.
• Fixed a bug which prevented Monaco editors from loading when editing a Content Item with a video or audio file preview.
• Fixed a bug which occurred when scrolling multi-line text fields.
• Fixed a bug where multiline text was cut in the trace log for Business Rules, preventing information being seen.
• Fixed a bug that meant the contents of nested tagbox fields were not exported via the Excel Roundtripping App.

Fixed a bug which prevented importing data via the Excel Roundtripping App, if only the target Layer had non-indexed tagbox fields configured.