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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. Although it’s summertime, our product and development teams have still been busy bringing you new features and functionality.
More efficient link management
This month, we rolled out a new, more efficient way to manage the links between different entities in your PIM. In response to many requests via our Ideas Portal in Community, this new functionality allows you to bulk-remove link relationships between entities.
This Community article offers more information about this new feature.
Workflows getting more powerful all the time
When we launched our new workflows functionality at PIMpoint, we pledged to continuously add new features, and this month we’ve followed through with a range of enhancements.
For workflow users, it’s now possible to view their assignments in a table format for easy sorting and management of workloads. In table view, assignments can be viewed by due date, priority, status and associated entities. They can also get an automated email whenever their assignments list is updated to help them keep on top of their workload. This personalized email aggregates and summarizes their new and existing workflow assignments.
There have also been enhancements to the options available to admins who are creating workflows. Evaluate, our advanced digital shelf analytics solution, is now a standard workspace. This means that when a user needs to do something within Evaluate, the workflow can be configured to take them directly to the Evaluate interface to complete their assignment. Workflow creators can also take advantage of a range of new triggers for automation. Workflows and assignments can now be triggered by additional internal system events within inriver. These include activation, deactivation and entity sort updates as well as changes to entity segments.
Syndicate Plus enhancements
We continue to enhance Syndicate Plus to improve the user experience and add functionality. This month we’ve added new filtering options in collections, the ability to delete system-generated collections, and clearer field naming in the pre-flight validation process. We’ve also added a confirmation step when deleting collections and A+ templates to avoid unwanted errors.
Users can set values for fields including Access Token and Secret, Consumer Key and Secret, and Store URL.
Improved performance in Print 2.0 and Brand Store
Users of Print 2.0 can now enjoy improved performance and efficiency thanks to enhanced error handling, an optimized debugger for custom tables, and improved tracking of IDs that ensures better management of the system under high load.
We’ve also made some improvements to ensure end-users of Brand Store are able to successfully download branded PDFs, even when they’re including larger numbers of products. We’ve achieved this by moving PDF generation to the browser, so users will need to accept pop-ups to enjoy this functionality. The processing of HTML templates has also been moved to the client side to reduce the possibility of pages crashing.
New Metrics for Optimizing Data Management
Finally, admin users may have noticed that there’s a new feature in the Control Center dashboard that allows them to see a range of useful information around the data usage in their environment. The goal here is to help our customers and partners keep their PIM environments as clean and efficient as possible, as well as helping them to identify areas that need attention to improve both the maintainability and performance of their PIM.
To achieve this, we now provide visibility of many key metrics for your data footprint. For example, you can now see the total blob size and blob count per environment, as well as the number of channels, entities, languages, roles, content stores, suppliers, syndications, specifications and extensions.
Here’s an example of how it looks:
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.
Comments
4 comments
About that database size overview, I guess it's not 900 GB? But 9 GB? This is the most confusing way to display it. It should be rounded to 2 numbers so it's clear what the size is and we don't have to guess if it's a thousands separator. :)
Bas van der Veeken - you are correct, unfortunately, the screenshot was old and we will update it to the most recent view. Thanks!
Ah, I see it has been changed to MB lately 👍
I like these new metrics but I can find no explanation of this. What is happening here?
And my Test environment
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