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

It’s time for our monthly review of the most recent inriver product releases, where we delve into the more practical benefits behind the technical details.

Workflows and Workspaces

The biggest news of this month has to be the General Availability of our new Workspaces functionality. As announced at PIMpoint 2024, this exciting new enhancement allows inriver customers to automate and efficiently manage many different PIM activities. Once activated for your PIM, it offers users a brand new, more intuitive way to interact with the inriver platform. This should open up the PIM to a much wider range of users within your organization, including those without specialist PIM training. This functionality is available to all customers on a tiered package (core, professional, enterprise).

As part of our agile development of this new functionality, July has seen several updates to this functionality. Workflow users can now see their assignments in a new sortable Dashboard. The table view highlights clearly whether the assignment has been given to the individual specifically, or if it has been assigned to their team or role.

For workflow creators, it’s now possible to automatically trigger a workflow step when the segmentation of an entity changes. Creators can also configure workflows that direct users to either Evaluate or Plan & Release as workspaces in which to carry out their assignments.

You can find a wealth of information about workflows, workspaces and assignments in these Community articles:  

• Working on assignments belonging to a workflow
• Announcing the first release of workflows
• Creating and managing workflows
• Workflows at a glance
• Handling workflows as an admin in Control Center

There’s also an Academy course ready for you to take: Workflows and workspaces Academy course

Print

There have been a number of updates to the latest version of our Print functionality this month. These aim to improve overall performance, simplify remote debugging, and enable the configuration of developer licenses from within the UI. There’s also been an update that means users will get a more accurate calculation of the estimated print time per job. And we’ve fixed a bug that was causing some print jobs to get stuck in the system.

Syndicate Plus

Thanks to our partners and customers who have provided feedback around some display issues that occurred in Syndicate Plus when handling very large data sets or performing searches that returned zero results. We’ve fixed both of these issues this month.

Have you already tried out the new Enhanced Content functionality that was announced at PIMpoint to see how it can help you publish images and text to Amazon’s A+ Content modules? This month we’ve been working hard to correct some small styling issues, so now’s a great time to give it a try.

Data onboarding

This month, we’ve also made a number of fixes to smooth the data onboarding process and reduce the risk of errors when importing either Excel sheets or CVLs of product information into your PIM.

Control Center

This month we’ve also been making some updates to Control Center that should help our customers to more efficiently manage their environment and users. A new timestamp for account creation will make it simpler to manage user onboarding. We’ve also improved error handline in Control Center logs for a better user experience.

Swagger documentation updates

Finally, if you’re developing against our REST API, it’s well worth checking out the latest updates made to our Swagger documentation, including information on the range of available HTML templates that can be used to enhance your user experience.

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