Unique IDs enable users and integrated systems to quickly identify a Content Item. Picturepark uses GUIDs which are globally unique but therefore rather lengthy. For quick reference, a shorter number will usually be enough, which is why this release introduces new sequential numbers which can be created and applied using a Business Rule action. Applications include:

• Easier referencing of content for users and machine processing.
• Counting up new content and ranking content in the order it was added to Picturepark.
• Automatically generating new product or content codes, when creating a new item.

For creating a new sequential number, that e.g. counts up content and makes it identifiable as “Picturepark” content, the following steps are required:

1. Create a new sequential number by defining the start number and format (e.g. “PP-” for Picturepark, used as a prefix).
2. Create or modify a Business Rule by adding the corresponding action to retrieve a new sequential number and then assign that number to a metadata field of a Layer.

Best practises for creating sequential numbers and Business Rules are made available with the updated Administration manual. Especially noteworthy is that for now, sequential numbers can only be assigned to Content Items (and e.g. not List Items).

• 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.

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: {Link}
• 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.