Latest OBA Production update (10.1.18)

A humongous update with the latest libraries, framework and fixes for our customers.

Approximately 100 Trello cards have been addressed.

What’s New

• No more “Oops!” error messages. From now on, when an error happens on the page, details of the problem is sent automatically to us developers. No personal information is collected.
• New Account Settings
• You can now toggle the landing page (site or user). Requested by @Matt_Rogers quite some time ago.

• With the power of AWS technologies, we’ve improved the way we encode videos, audio and process images. It now faster, more reliable and handles 4K videos as well.
• You can now see what’s being encoded from the admin dashboard.

• This is part of the AWS Elastic Transcoder work, which saves us costs on processing uploaded audio and video to the correct format(s).
• You can now create users via CSV from the site/user admin page.

Changes

• Refine how thumbnails are generated.
• Add “Close” button to the upload layer.
• Updates to how EXIF data is read for images.
• Gender / Date of Birth can be added for e-mail awarding.
• Gender is not defined by default when signing up with SSO. User sets this on first login.
• New buttons to process a new CSV via User Main.
• Present user’s full name as opposed to username when accepting an e-mail award.
• “You have been awarded a badge” now links to the badge’s academy (Request by @Matt_Rogers)
• “Loading…” is no longer appears in the top-right.
• This will just show the pulsating bar across the top, like Makewaves.
• When audio/video is uploaded, an AWS notification is now sent to the Web API to track whether the job has been successful or failed.

Fixes

• Tidied up Web API.
• Critical performance issues for API calls (affecting the iOS App)
• Fixed issues when loading images on a badge submission.
• Fixes for the “too many redirects” issue.
• General fixes for uploading a new profile image.
• General fixes for task support media and the media player.
• Fix an error when trying to edit an academy.
• Fix formatting issued caused by duplicate badges.
• Amend the time taken to auto-refresh task support media.
• Changing the e-mail from admin didn’t send a verification e-mail.
• An issue with a evidence URL displaying as an internal link.
• An issue when adding evidence to a duplicate badge.
• Addressed some connection errors caused internally.
• An issue with the captcha when using verification e-mail (Cognito)
• Fix the terms and condition checkbox when signing up with single sign-on (SSO)
• Various fixes for badge e-mail awards.
• Prevent a site from being listed if joining is not available
• Fixed an issue where changing a username caused reset password to not work.
• Transaction toggle didn’t change.
• Fix small hex around a user profile image.
• When a user is deleted, also remove them from their group(s).
• Ensure users assigned to managers appear in the Assigned to me column.
• Ensure users cannot bypass the terms and conditions agreement when doing a “fast signup”.
• Make dropdown menus more aware of their surroundings. (both vertically and horizontally)
• Fixed an issue with MakeBadges.
• Fix malformed layer for sending back badges.

Subscriptions

• Fix attempts where a user could try and sign up for a Pro package for free.1
• Fix attempts where a user could attempt to obtain a free trial.
• Prevent cancellation emails being sent repeatedly.
• Prevent users from repeating a transaction.
• Fixed an issue when signing up an offline package.
• Ensure the packages page is refreshed to correctly state “Your Plan”
• Fixed an issue where some cancelled subscriptions would not be cancelled at the end of their current subscription period.
• When a subscription renewal was cancelled, the site was immediately reverted back to basic.
• Prevent being able to create a manager account by joining via LinkedIn. (where joining as a manager was disabled)
• Users can edit but not delete email field.
• Updated FancyBox to resolve an error when fullscreening image gallery.
• Deleted users were incorrectly appearing in user list reports.
• Correct the redirection after resetting a password via Forgotten Password.
• An issue when processing date of birth for a CSV upload
• Prevent the same note from being submitted multiple times.
• When editing a badge in Firefox, the badge title couldn’t be seen properly.
• Prevent support media disappearing after adding images when video was added first.
• The upload layer now works in the Microsoft Edge browser.
• When uploading a user profile image, both small and large profile images came in at the same time.
• Fix for adding a post to a task evidence — either selecting one or creating a new one.
• Fix distorted background when opening the People layer.
• A user can now make their email empty.

Technical Stuff

• Upgraded to .NET Framework 4.7 and fixed any regressions this had caused.
• Minification library replaced.
• Updated many libraries to their newer version. Including:
• FancyBox (produces dialogue boxes)
• plupload (for uploading content)
• Move all styling into one “source” file, and fixed any regressions this had caused.