Contentserv Documentation

Release Notes CS20.5

Owned by Helga Schröck (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Nov 20, 2020 by Product Management

Release Date: Nov 19, 2020

https://svn.contentserv.com/development/tags/CS20/stable

We are delighted to announce the new CS20.5 release. In this release, we introduce the new CS Explorer, which provides increased convenience, accessibility and productivity. Below you will find additional information about all the capabilities of the CS Explorer, as well as details on the other exciting features included with the release.

Explorer

Increasing productivity while helping you maintain the best possible data quality is one of our main goals this year. The CS Explorer extends the new task-driven dashboard and couples a modern UI and UX with all the functionality needed to reduce the time necessary to make modifications or corrections. With the Explorer, users can also ensure data meets different channel-specific requirements and can be ready to be published as quickly as possible.

The CS Explorer features that are included with the CS20.5 release include:

  • Seamless integration with the dashboard allows users to find their workload and tasks filtered across different tiles

  • Full integration of Data Quality capabilities, including displaying violations on objects and at the attribute level, while also providing additional information to support users to add the right data

  • Auto-Checkout and Save to speed up daily work

  • A new modern UI and a simple but powerful UX

  • Display data grouped by use-case to guide users according to his/her tasks and role

Enjoy working in a brand new modern and clean user interface.

 

Any Data Quality violations are clearly marked to ensure users can correct them quickly.

 

Speed up daily activities via the intelligent recognition of content changes.

Contentserv Cloud

Help button

The help button is back in CS20.5! As promised in the CS20.4 notes, logged-in users now have write access and can create new requests via the help button. To report incidents or requests, users click the help button and fill in the form.

First, users will be asked to provide a summary of their issue. Then, they need to select the request type (request or incident) and assign a priority (can, should or must). After that, users can select the respective tenant and provide a more detailed description of the issue.

Easily create a request via the help button.

 

Multilanguage support

Since CS20.5, our entire platform is available in German, English, French, Spanish and Japanese. After logging in, users can easily select their preferred language in the top right corner.

The login page, the reset password page and the registration page are also available in each of these languages. To do so, users can choose their preferred language in the drop-down menu on the top left corner.

* Spanish is currently only supported by the Cloud Platform.

Set your preferred language quickly and easily.

 

Launch tenant on a new window or tab

The tenant overview and management page allows users to open the tenant in the same window/tab with a quick left click on the “launch tenant” icon. In CS20.5, users can now right-click on “launch tenant” icon to choose whether they want to open the tenant in a new window or a new tab. If either right-click option is chosen, the platform remains open in the original window.

Open the tenant on a new window or tab while keeping the platform open in the original window.

 

Expiration process for demo tenants

Demo tenants expire automatically after 30 days. All owner users will receive an email 11 days before expiration, informing them of their tenant’s expiration date. This email contains instructions for the owners to extend the demo tenant by 14 days via the “Extend period” button on the manage detail page.
The tenant can be extended by 14 days up to three times.

Easily extend the period for demo tenants.

Connectors

  • Productsup with Dataflow Export

  • Plentymarkets 2.0

  • Big Commerce 2.0

Productsup Connector with Dataflow Export

Productsup offers an innovative, premium product feed management solution to help enterprises manage and enhance their product data flow—from integration to distribution. It empowers the business user to determine channel readiness and to transform, optimize, and distribute high-quality product content to hundreds of online marketing channels such as data pools, marketplaces & marketing channels, Google Shopping, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, and many more.

Contentserv’s Data Flow Export allows any data to be imported into Productsup and from there schedule an export to any of the channels listed at https://productsup.io/platform/integrations/

 

Use FTP to schedule or manually import data from the dataflow export, which was tailored for Contentserv.

 

Easily configure FTP sources in Productsup.

 

Check the overall status of your project and easily estimate channel readiness.

 

Easily identify the data configured in CS in the column headers of Productsup’s Data View tab.

 

Export to over 1500 channels.

 

BigCommmerce Connector 2.0 and Plentymarkets Connector 2.0

New Features for both connectors

  • Attributes, Category, Product, Images, and References are now sent separately  

  • Dynamic Fields from Plentymarkets are mapped automatically via Auto Transformation  

  • Favorite support - Favorites can now be configured and used for Data Quality

  • Filter items based on Tags 

  • Filter items based on Workflow Status 

  • Export items in Multi-Language 

  • Delta export based on the last run

  • Export items on workflow action execution 

  • Advance debugging for understanding issues in case of failed runs

 Bug Fixes for Plentymarkets Connector 2.0

  • CPS-616: Edit Transformation Not Working 

  • CPS-626: Updated Attribute Value does not reflect in product 

  • CPS-627: 'Resource not found' message while deleting a category 

  • CPS-630: Parent-child relationship mismatch 

  • CPS-631: Image not uploading 

  • CPS-633: Cross-selling not getting added

 Bug Fixes for BigCommerce Connector 2.0

  • CPS-629: Field Value mismatch  

  • CPS-635: 'Invalid field value' message 

  • CPS-637: Brand Value not updating  

  • CPS-628: 'Created' message while doing an update

  • CPS-638: Image Delete Option  

  • CPS-639: Attribute option in the source type dropdown

  • CPS-634: Image upload message

  • CPS-615: Empty product type

Technical Changes

Changes on “CSItem::getValues“ - API

A change in the CSItem::getValues API related to the (un)formatted values of standard fields might need some changes in project-specific implementations. Please check the migration information for further details.

Additional changes

Explorer

  • For the Explorer framework, a new dashboard app has been created with a basic structure of navigation, header and editor area. (#CSFDEV-4542)

  • Implemented a Header Area for the Explorer, which provides important information and displays it at any time. This includes: Main image, label, external key, path, tags, the general data quality status, the workflow display, a language selector, the object ID and a multifunction button with submenu. (#CSFDEV-5190)

  • Implemented an Editor Area, which displays all attributes assigned to the object and makes them available for editing. The division of Tabs and Sections was taken from the Studio Editor concept. The attributes were equipped with 3 display modes (if editable): Data preview, hover and edit mode. Editing has been simplified by automatically running the checkout process in the background, and saving the object is now also possible automatically after leaving the attribute. Data quality is now displayed at attribute level, as well as the form validation of the attribute configuration.

    Most attributes have full implementation with the following exceptions.
    Attributes that will be editable in the future, for now have only readonly implementation:
    * Grid, Flex table, Table, Editor Flex table

    Attributes not implemented in 1st iteration:
    * Cross-reference to attribute, users, object (currently PIM, MAM and Classes are implemented), Geographical coordinates, Barcode graphic, Color, QR code, Password, Birthday, Complex Price
    * Project side CSTypes will be shown as "not implemented" (#CSFDEV-5191)

  • We have improved Dashboard integration into the CS Explorer by new (conditional) options available "When clicking on an object" including the following dashboard tile configurations

    * when a PIM or MAM object type is selected, the Object List is avalable
    * when "Check List" or "Thumbnail List" views are selected and the option "Show Task Object" is ON, the Tasks are shown
    * when Display Type "by object" is selected, Data Quality is available

    The new option has 2 possible values:
    * "Show Object in Studio List" maintains the existing behavior.
    * "Show Object in Explorer" activates the navigation from the dashboard tiles into the CS Explorer. (#CSFDEV-5552)

  • We improved CS usability by implementation of User Interface optimizations in OpenSearch, Dashboard and Explorer:
    General
    -- The UI color scheme is now “ColorAccent”
    Navigation
    -- Optimized the preview image position & styling in the circle
    -- Reduced the size of the border from 2px to 1px
    Header
    -- Refactored / Minimized the CSS of the header area
    -- Optimized the spacing & styling of the header elements
    -- Replaced the icons of the ID navigation and the action button with font icons to view the same arrow icon
    -- Added functionality to copy the ID into the ID navigation
    Content
    -- Refactored / Minimized the CSS of the content area
    -- Optimized the styling of the sections
    -- Added new arrow icons to the sections
    -- Optimized fields to avoid field moves when switching from view to edit mode
    -- Adjusted the border of the elements in edit mode so that the border wraps around all editable field elements. (#CSFDEV-6076)

CORE - Active Jobs

  • Enhances usability of Active Jobs in CS by adding and showing the jobs' creation date information to the list of active jobs.

    Please note!
    To begin taking advantage of this feature and see the added data in the active jobs list, please run Update Data Model! (#CSFDEV-6328)

CORE - Attributes & Classes

  • We have improved Dashboard integration into the CS Explorer by new (conditional) options available "When clicking on an object" including the following dashboard tile configurations

    * when a PIM or MAM object type is selected, the Object List is avalable
    * when "Check List" or "Thumbnail List" views are selected and the option "Show Task Object" is ON, the Tasks are shown
    * when Display Type "by object" is selected, Data Quality is available

    The new option has 2 possible values:
    * "Show Object in Studio List" maintains the existing behavior.
    * "Show Object in Explorer" activates the navigation from the dashboard tiles into the CS Explorer. (#CSFDEV-5552)

CORE - Dashboard

  • We improved CS usability by implementation of User Interface optimizations in OpenSearch, Dashboard and Explorer:
    General
    -- The UI color scheme is now “ColorAccent”
    Navigation
    -- Optimized the preview image position & styling in the circle
    -- Reduced the size of the border from 2px to 1px
    Header
    -- Refactored / Minimized the CSS of the header area
    -- Optimized the spacing & styling of the header elements
    -- Replaced the icons of the ID navigation and the action button with font icons to view the same arrow icon
    -- Added functionality to copy the ID into the ID navigation
    Content
    -- Refactored / Minimized the CSS of the content area
    -- Optimized the styling of the sections
    -- Added new arrow icons to the sections
    -- Optimized fields to avoid field moves when switching from view to edit mode
    -- Adjusted the border of the elements in edit mode so that the border wraps around all editable field elements. (#CSFDEV-6076)

CORE - OpenSearch

  • We improved CS usability by implementation of User Interface optimizations in OpenSearch, Dashboard and Explorer:
    General
    -- The UI color scheme is now “ColorAccent”
    Navigation
    -- Optimized the preview image position & styling in the circle
    -- Reduced the size of the border from 2px to 1px
    Header
    -- Refactored / Minimized the CSS of the header area
    -- Optimized the spacing & styling of the header elements
    -- Replaced the icons of the ID navigation and the action button with font icons to view the same arrow icon
    -- Added functionality to copy the ID into the ID navigation
    Content
    -- Refactored / Minimized the CSS of the content area
    -- Optimized the styling of the sections
    -- Added new arrow icons to the sections
    -- Optimized fields to avoid field moves when switching from view to edit mode
    -- Adjusted the border of the elements in edit mode so that the border wraps around all editable field elements. (#CSFDEV-6076)

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