sections in the article
To empower user efficiency the interface has a seamless look and feel when switching between Enrich, Plan & Release, and the Dashboard.
The inriver dashboard
The Dashboard provides easy access to inriver functionality and applications. The top navigation bar and the dashboard widgets give you an overview of your content. Read about the inriver Dashboard in this article.
Top navigation bar
In the new inriver user interface, the top navigation bar is always visible at the top of the screen, no matter if you're in the Dashboard, in Enrich, or in Plan & Release. 
From the top navigation bar, you can access the inriver core and add-on functionality as well as custom-built applications. The available inriver functionality depends on your license.
If you have access to a lot of custom-built applications or if the browser window is too narrow, the functionalities and applications are listed as a collapsed menu.
In Enrich and Plan & Release, the top navigation toolbar contains additional feature shortcuts to the Query Editor and the Create new entity view.
Read about the top navigation bar in this article.
Tasks
From the top navigation toolbar, you can now access the tasks that are relevant to the currently logged-in user, no matter if you're in the Dashboard, in Enrich, or in Plan & Release.
Read about tasks in this article.
Enrich
Notifications
In Enrich, it's now even easier to access and get an overview of your notifications from the Enrich dashboard. Tasks and notifications have their own widget on the Enrich dashboard where all your notifications are listed. Notified notifications are indicated in red in the widget.
Starred entities
You can now access your starred entities from the Starred entities widget on the Dashboard as well as from Enrich.
Read more about starred entities in this article.
Dashboard
Enrich
In the Starred entities widget in Enrich, you can select to show a list of all the starred entities in a work area.
When you want to return to the Enrich dashboard, simply click Enrich in the navigation bar.
Entity navigation menu
The navigation menu on entity cards now has an Open in new tab option. This allows you to open an entity in a new browser tab.
Work areas
In Enrich, you can now open an empty work area from the work areas widget on the Enrich dashboard by simply clicking the Open empty work area icon in the top right corner of the work areas widget.
Completeness
In Enrich and Plan & Release, the completeness level is now indicated in red, yellow, and green.
- Red: Less than 25% of the completeness criteria are fulfilled.
Yellow: 26-99% of the completeness criteria are fulfilled. The percentage indicates how much is complete. Completeness rules that are met are indicated with a green dot.
Green: 100% of the completeness criteria are fulfilled. Completeness rules that are met are indicated with a green dot.
Entity toolbar
When opening the entity overview in Enrich, the toolbar is always visible and easy to navigate.
You can use the toolbar options to modify an entity in several ways.
- Star/unstar entity
- Lock/unlock entity
- View and create comments
- Create tasks
- Copy entity
- Delete entity
Entity overview
The entity Overview tab in Enrich has been restyled. Media is shown to the right of the product information and the Used In, Includes, and Included In sections have been moved down, below the Details section.
Entity details
The entity Details tab in Enrich has been restyled.
- Media is now shown to the right, just like in the Overview tab.
- The Revision history and Edit local string icons are now easily accessible to the right of each product information field.
- When you click Edit local string, the local string fields have been restyled and are now presented one after the other instead of side by side. The local string field can also be adapted to the size of your screen, to make it easier to work on a small screen.
Entity media
The entity Media tab in Enrich has been restyled. The Add media option is always listed fist, to ensure easy access even if there are a lot of resources.
Entity includes and included in
The entity Includes and Included in tabs in Enrich have been restyled. To make it easier to get an overview of linked entities, the list of linked entities is now growing horizontally instead of vertically.
Expand or collapse category
In Enrich, you can now switch between entities and keep the same categories expanded or collapsed. This makes enriching your content a lot faster and easier.
Plan & release
Plan & release dashboard
On the Plan & Release dashboard, channels and publications now have more space.
- The dashboard adapts to the size of your browser window, to ensure the best possible view of the information.
- Tasks are available on the Plan & Release dashboard, as well as from the top navigation toolbar. They can now be accessed from the Dashboard, Enrich, and Plan & Release.
Get an overview of the restyled Plan & Release in this article.
Channel and publication toolbars
When opening the overview of a channel or publication in Plan & Release, the toolbar is always visible and easy to navigate.
To prevent users from accidentally removing a channel or publication by clicking Delete in the toolbar, the delete function is now only available from the navigation menu on the Plan & Release dashboard.
We have also added a confirmation message when clicking Rebuild channel, Synchronize channel, or Publish/Unpublish.
You can use the toolbar options to modify a channel in several ways.
- Star/unstar entity
- Rebuild channel
- Synchronize channel
- Publish channel
- Edit entity
- Open details in Enrich
- System info
The toolbar options to modify a publication are nearly identical:
- Star/unstar entity
- Rebuild channel
- Edit entity
- Open details in Enrich
- System info
Read about managing channels in this article.
Read about managing publications in this article.
Comments
20 comments
Looks good :-)
Hello! Looks good! Will the restyled UI be automatically upgraded for all clients by the end of Q1 or will we need to request the upgrade as clients?
Hi Vanessa Mercea, thanks for the feedback! The restyled UI will be automatically upgraded for all clients. A detailed plan for the rollout will be communicated to customers and partners and we'll publish plenty of information about the switch on Service Center as well, so stay tuned.
Are there any more specific information than Q1 available? Is this planned for February or March? Thanks in advance.
Hello!
Vanessa Mercea. Today, there will be an invitation to our inRiver Partners to a webinar in early February (February 4). The purpose of this webinar is to discuss the preparation activities for the enablement of the new UI with our shared clients.
Andreas Ström. Client communications about the UI rollout plan will start in early February. Content will be shared via many channels - direct email blasts, service center articles, and our customer newsletter. Stay tuned.
Smiles...Lisa :)
That sounds promising. Looking forward to this. Thanks for the update!
Thanks for the information! Looking forward to the webinar. :)
@... Do you have a location in which you are tracking bugs and issues that are found while user are trying out the new UI?
Hi Aaron Jestrab 😊 , When it comes to reporting bugs you can follow the normal process of contacting support.
If you have any feedback or ideas it is product ideas functional or technical.
There is also The restyled inriver UI: known issues and limitations , that our product owner owns, so if your issue is not yet known send it to support :).
Did that answer your question ?
Hi,
Will there be any new major changes to the layout? Or was those included in the N-2 release?
We are going to do a bunch of instruction videos internally for the editors and wonder if that is something we can start with now or are there any other UI tweaks scheduled in the near future?
Hi Jesper old , you can start creating videos. There were some improvements implemented in N-2 which you can read more about in the release notes.
Of course in every release there are improvements or bug fixes so cant promise you that some things wont improve to the better consequently might look different than on your videos. But as of now there are no major changes in the UI.
May I ask what type of videos you find the most valuable to train internally?
Hi Nicky Lilja
Perfect, thank you!
General "how-to" videos, step-by-step guides, different content/levels that depends on your access rights. Our plan is to create 20-30 shorter videos to decrease the need for individual training and have as much as possible covered.
As we regularly work in both the Test and Production environments, it was helpful to know which environment we were logged into. In the current interface it is displayed next to the user's name in the upper righthand corner.
I foresee removing this visibility will cause issues for our business and development teams.
Hi Denice Tegethoff thank you for your input. In this product idea they discuss different solutions in the "old" UI. However, you can post your input here https://community.inriver.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360010040879-Distinguish-between-different-Inriver-environments
I have repeat reports of users getting stuck in authentication-loops on Chrome after the roll out of the new UI (also Chrome seems to thing the login-pages are in French and continues to offer me translations).
The issue/bug is that users submit their username/email-addresses(SSO), but upon submitting are reverted back to the same screen. Killing off the browser session does not solve the issue.
These users are cheating and getting in by using Edge.
Stefán B. Árnason We have the exact same issue. We instruct our users to use an Incognito Window in Chrome to escape this endless loop.
Stefán B. Árnason We have the exact same issue as well. We have been clearing our cache and that helps.
Hi, the issue you are highlighting is a confirmed bug and our development team is working with priority to find a fix.
So if you have not already, please submit a support ticket and register this issue, so that we can keep you in the loop, and also get you to test a possible fix.
Best
Same here Stefán B. Árnason Kimberly Morris
Only a handful of our users experience it, so far. We use chrome incognito & edge to battle it.
Clearing cache and history bought us 1 day of normal chrome use, after that the loop was back.
Ticket has been made Nicky Lilja
Great to hear Jesper old. And thanks to everyone else submitting a ticket! It really helps us to move forward with this issue.
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