These release notes provide information on the new features, enhancements, resolved escalations, and bug fixes completed in each release for Appspace Cloud and On-Prem.

Appspace 8.0 is a major release that is built on a new microservices architecture and includes various new features and enhancements, an improved user interface, platform optimizations, and bug fixes.

8.0-ac.42

Release Date: 10 July 2021

Content Licensing for Device Groups

Support for adding premium content licenses to device groups, with the following rules:

• When a new device is added to a device group that has a license assigned to it, the device will inherit the same license type.
• When a license is assigned to a device group, all devices within the group will automatically inherit the same license type.
• When a license is removed from a device group, the license will be removed from all devices within the group.
• If a license is inherited via a device group, an indeterminate “–” checkbox will be displayed.
• If the content license has reached its limit, the devices in the group will be allocated licenses based on a first come first serve basis. Users can still set the license type for the device group, but the license assignment for the devices will be granted automatically based on the limit.

Reservations Update

The following updates have been included in the Reservations module:

• New global reservations settings for administrators:
  • Configuring Supported Reservation Types to enable or disable Workspaces, Building Passes, or both features for the organization.If either the Workspaces or Building Pass feature is disabled, users will notice a slight UI difference, as the disabled feature would be hidden in both the Appspace Employee App portal and mobile app.
  • Enable or disable QR Codes at the account level for all resources or reservations.
• Support for Recurring Reservations for resources using external providers, mainly O365 and Google Calendar.
• New Capacity column added to the listing view in Reservations, allowing for resource capacity to be displayed.
• When adding Attendees for a reservation, external email addresses for attendees will be displayed as-is, while internal email addresses will display the Appspace username.
• Support for email notification to be sent to the organizer and attendees, in the event of a reserved workspace being automatically canceled.
• Support for Customize Status Colors, allowing users to customize the availability state of resources apart from the default Red/Yellow/Green color theme, which are then reflected in the Employee View and mobile app.

Employee App UI Updates

• The Employee View receives a new menu and UI update, allowing for quicker access to view Places, and Reservations (formerly the My Reservations tab). This new improvement also introduces the More section, which will now house the Channels and Videos tabs if Reservations is enabled.
  • Selecting either Workspaces or Building Pass brings the user to the reservation screen, displaying a detailed list view of resources, filters, and search options.
  • The Map View has been completely revamped, and now launches into a full-size screen, allowing for a graphical layout of the resources, while still having the full capabilities for users to directly make reservations from.

    

  • The Reservations section, formerly the My Reservations tab, lists down all reservations made by the user, or meetings the user has been invited to. Users may also specifically search for or use the filters provided to locate reservations. Optionally, users can also create reservations directly from the Reservations section via the + Create button available.

• Completed Checkpoints are now listed in the reservation details panel, allowing users to review checkpoints again once bookings have been made. Checkpoints are presented in a read-only format when clicked.
• Improved Resource Filters, where resource types and sub-types that are not applicable are automatically hidden, displaying only resources based on the user’s query.
  • Users may filter resources based on the resource type, which is Rooms only, Spaces only, or All (both Rooms and Spaces).
  • If Rooms or Spaces are selected, another drop-down menu appears allowing users to further refine the search by filtering based on category.

Support for Batch Editing Home Location

Support for batch managing User Home Locations, allowing for administrators to quickly select and assign the home location for multiple users.

• This feature adds a “Manage Home Location” icon to the batch actions bar (located below) after selecting multiple users.
• If multiple users with different home locations are selected, the Location selection drop-down menu will be empty. Only when multiple users with the same home location are selected, that the Location selection drop-down menu will display the corresponding home location.

Update to Locations

• Support for Alpha (transparency) to the color picker for theme sections in Locations.

Resolved Escalations

• AE-6928 – Unable to delete the “Test Location” location which resides in the same level as the My Network location tree.
• AE-6932 – Account Owner automatically logged out when trying to save after assigning user roles and permissions to a user.
• AE-6953 – Email notification not sent when the reservation is automatically canceled.
• AE-6971 – Unable to withdraw user invitation.
• AE-6988 – Selecting “Trigger Resync” resets the resource listing page, ignoring previous set filters.

8.0-ac.41

Release Date: 30 June 2021

Resolved Escalations

• AE-6722 – Pasting text with line breaks in Card editor, fails to display during preview.
• AE-6907 – Incorrect default time is displayed when making a reservation in Reservations.