What’s new for your business from inriver? Summary: March 2024

This month’s inriver releases have featured improvements for developers working with the inriver REST API as well as enhancements to Print 2.0, Syndicate Plus and the Enrich and Control Center user experiences.

REST API and IIF updates

The first of our releases in March delivered performance improvements for the REST API, updated documentation in Swagger, and a new description field that should make it easier for developers to identify the purpose of individual extensions.

The REST API can also now be used to manage HTML templates, with support added for the creation, update, retrieval, and deletion of HTML files.

Inriver’s partner community will be particularly interested in the latest version of the inriver integration framework (IIF). Version 1.16.0 was released on 30th/31st March to further facilitate smooth integration of external systems with the inriver PIM. Full details can be found here.

Syndicate Plus enhancements

We’ve made updates to Syndicate Plus in several of this month’s regular inriver releases, including changes that will make it easier to both create and manage Collections for distribution to your sales channels. In addition, users performing pre-flight checks on content for syndication can now filter their results screen to show only those columns and rows that contain errors or warnings. This will help users to more rapidly and efficiently identify content that doesn’t meet the needs of your syndication partners.

There have also been a number of bug fixes applied to Syndicate Plus to improve the user experience, especially when dealing with large volumes of entities and collections. Finally, we’ve resolved an issue with the “success” message that is presented when connecting to the Amazon API. Our thanks go to those customers and partners who have helped us identify these issues.

Print 2.0

Users of Print 2.0 may already be familiar with how custom adapters can be implemented within this capability. As a result of the releases in March, custom adapters can now be used with automation, making it possible to seamlessly generate documentation from your PIM data. We’ve also added new example information into the SDK documentation to illustrate best practice when using custom adapters.

Enrich and Control Center user experience improvements

In March, inriver has continued our ongoing programme of improvements to the Enrich user experience, in particular for organizations managing high volumes of entities. Users should now be able to work more quickly as they experience significantly reduced waiting times to reload a work area after deleting entities. In addition, we’ve added a split-screen view for users working with starred entities which will streamline the UX when linking these to other entities within the PIM.

Color coding has been applied to Control Center to offer a more intuitive user experience for administrators who navigate between multiple PIM environments. Separately, we’ve also updated the way localization features are managed within Control Center. PIM Administrators will now see validation messages for localestring field values only if those values are invalid. Finally, there’s a user-friendly new keyboard shortcut for Control Center that allows administrators to quickly adjust the auto refresh period for logs from the default 10-second intervals to either 1 minute, 6 minutes or 10 minutes.

That’s it for this summary. If you’d like to know more about the details behind these enhancements, you can read our technical release notes at any time.