Release Notes for Assets Server

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16867 Management Console: The 'Used in' and 'Send e-mail' check boxes on the Users page are incorrectly enabled for a basic and standard license user.

LVS-16960 Processing on Linux: All processing on the node is blocked when processing RAW files of which one is corrupt.

LVS-17015 Processing: Error in log file and no thumbnail and preview created when processing an SVG file created with Inkscape.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.87

Assets Server version: 6.87.1.1074

Release date: 11 October 2022

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16959 E-mail notifications are not sent because of a Java security error.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.86

Assets Server version: 6.86.1.1069

Release date: 20 September 2022

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Various improvements for working with Webhooks. The following improvements have been made to working with Webhooks:

Note: For detailed information, see Working with Webhooks in Assets Server.

Webhooks can now be disabled, either manually or automatically. When a Webhook is temporarily not needed or should temporarily not be running (for example during a period in which maintenance is performed), the Webhook can now be disabled. Also, Webhooks for which too many failures within a 10-second time frame exist can be disabled automatically.

Disabled Webhooks are clearly indicated as such in the Management Console by a banner at the top of their page, and by a label in the list of Webhooks.

Webhooks are disabled manually by clicking their Disable button in the Webhooks page in the Management Console, and disabled automatically by setting the webHooksFailuresBeforeDisable option either on the Cluster properties page of the Management Console, or directly in the cluster-properties.txt file.

Webhooks can be enabled again by clicking the Enable button on their page in the Management Console.

Disabled Webhooks are clearly indicated by a banner and label.

The number of attempts before a Webhook is marked as failed can now be defined. The number of attempts before a Webhook is marked as failed can be now configured through the webHooksRetryMaximumAttempts option in either the cluster-properties.txt file or through the Cluster properties page of the Management Console.

Returned data that is superfluous can now be filtered out. When an event occurs, it usually comes with a Changed metadata section containing any metadata that was changed as a result of the event. Typically, not all of this data is needed. A new option named 'Changed metadata' has now been added to the Webhook configuration with which only the metadata for the fields that you are interested in can be defined.

This section appears on the Webhook page in the Management Console when any of the Asset_ event types is selected.

Together with the other filtering options, the amount of data that is returned can now be more finely controlled.

Example: A Webhook is set up to capture when the rating of a file is changed:

Event type: Asset_update_metadata
Trigger on changed metadata: rating

With this configuration, superfluous data (here, the assetModified values) is also returned:

Event {
  "timestamp": 1661341074284,
  "type": "asset_update_metadata",
  "setadata": {},
  "assetid": ""06VX3jnZ4h99Vx5nW7hQe2",
  "changedMetadata":  {
    "rating": {
     "oldValue": 0,
     "newValue": 3
    },
    "assetModified": {
      "oldValue": 1661244736169,
      "newValue": 1661341067943
   }
  }
}

To make sure that the returned data only contains the rating data, the following is also set:

Changed metadata: rating

Now, only the data that we are interested in is returned:

Event {
  "timestamp": 1661341074284,
  "type": "asset_update_metadata",
  "setadata": {},
  "assetid": ""06VX3jnZ4h99Vx5nW7hQe2",
  "changedMetadata":  {
    "rating": {
     "oldValue": 0,
     "newValue": 3
   }
  }
}

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16729 Management Console: 'Uncaught (in promise) Error: null' error when automatically refreshing the Server status page.

LVS-16854 Webhooks: Implement various improvements.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Working with Webhooks in Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.85.1

Assets Server version: 6.85.1.1066

Release date: 23 August 2022

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

New 'Delete' Capability to control the availability of the Delete command in the context menu of a file. When users have the Delete Permission set as part of their Rule setup, they are allowed to permanently delete files by making use of the Delete command in the context menu of a file. When disabling the Delete Permission in a Rule, the Delete command is still visible in the context menu for the user but grayed out and can then not be used.

When the Trash Can plug-in is used, an option to move a file to the Trash Can is added to Assets. As the name suggests, this moves the file to the trash can but does not delete it. In such a scenario, also seeing a Delete command in the context menu of a file (even when that command is grayed out), can be confusing for users.

To resolve this, a 'Delete' Capability has been added. This controls the availability of the Delete command in the context menu. When the Delete Capability is disabled for example, the Delete command is hidden from the context menu.

Observe the following differences in behavior when setting both options:

Scenario	Delete Capability	Delete Permission	Behavior
1	Enabled	Enabled	The Delete command is available and enabled in the context menu; files can be permanently deleted.
2	Enabled	Disabled	The Delete command is available in the context menu but grayed out; users can see the command but cannot use it.
3	Disabled	Enabled	The Delete command is hidden from the context menu; users are unable to see and use it. Files still have the delete permission assigned, which can be useful for the requiredPermissionMask setting (the D permission) of Action plug-ins.
4	Disabled	Disabled	The Delete command is hidden from the context menu and the delete permission is removed for all files; files cannot be deleted by users or Action plug-ins.

Note: When upgrading from a previous version of Assets Server, the Delete Capability is automatically enabled so that the Delete command is available in the context menu of a file and therefore consistent with the behavior in the version of Assets Server that is upgraded from.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15577 Studio Server integration: Changing the license breaks the connection to the Studio Server tenant.

LVS-16769 Management Console: Add a Delete capability to better support the Trash Can plug-in.

LVS-16772 Management Console: Wildcards in Rules not working correctly for directories containing an ampersand '&' in their name.

LVS-16773 Transparent TIFF images have a preview with a white background regardless of the configured defaultBackground color.

LVS-16782 APIs: Creating a Download Preset via API without rendition settings breaks the download preset page.

LVS-16800 Image synchronization: After replacing a JPEG image with another JPG image, not all metadata properties are synchronized.

LVS-16813 Plug-ins: When a user with a Basic license tries to directly access an Action plug-in, the Brand portal is loaded instead.

LVS-16820 Remove superfluous xs:sequence from the assetinfo.xsd file.

LVS-16872 Webhooks: Fields that are deselected in the field selection dialog are not removed from the metadata list.

LVS-16888 Users are unable to log in when the user group contains certain special characters.

LVS-16899 Indexing: Trigger reindex on upgrade after startup is complete.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Assets Server 6.84.1

Assets Server version: 6.84.1.1058

Release date: 12 July 2022

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Webhooks: The length of the 'name' field has been increased. The total number of characters that can be entered in the 'name' field has been increased from 30 characters to 255 characters.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16780 Indexing: pixelUnits, pixelPerUnitX, or pixelPerUnitY information extracted by the Exiftool is not added to the index.

LVS-16790 Licensing: A large number of e-mail notifications are sent out when the license reaches its maximum number of allowed assets.

LVS-16809 Webhooks: The 'name' field length should be increased.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.83.1

Assets Server version: 6.83.1.1056

Release date: 21 June 2022

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Metadata: Suggestions for the standard multi-value fields and custom multi-value fields now support tags with a mix of lower case and upper case (again). The release of Assets Server 6.73 contained a fix which involved the conversion of tags with text in a mix of lower case text and upper case text, to text in all lower case.

This unfortunately broke the autosuggestion functionality: suggestions now only appeared under certain conditions, or did not appear at all. This is especially problematic for the creatorName field because users typically type names by starting it with a capital letter.

Support for mixed cases is now available for the standard multi-value fields and custom multi-value fields by setting the data type of the field to 'completion'.

Example:

<field name="cf_myCompletionField" group="General">
	<storage storeInMetadata="true" />
	<compass index="tokenized" store="yes" excludeFromAll="false" />
	<data editable="true" datatype="completion" multivalue="true"/>
	<description>
          My custom field with tag completion suggestions.
	</description>
</field>

To restore this functionality after upgrading from a previous version, datatype="completion" needs to be set for the creatorName field and any custom multi-value field, followed by a re-indexing of the system. For details, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16626 Studio Server integration: When copying an image on a layout in Studio, the metadata of the image does not contain all pages of that layout.

LVS-16654 Metadata: Suggestions for multi-value fields should support mixed case.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Upgrading Assets Server - updated
Creating a custom metadata field in Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.82.1

Assets Server version: 6.82.1.1055

Release date: 2 June 2022

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Indexing: Additional options for reducing the load on the Search index. To improve performance, additional configuration options as well as a new API parameter have been added to reduce the load on the Search index.

The following options have been added to the Management Console > Server Configuration > Cluster properties:

logSearchStats. Controls if search logging in the stats index should be enabled.
logSearchStatsExcludedUsers. Prevents logging of searches that originate from users listed in this config property.
logActivityStats. Controls if activity logging in the stats index should be enabled.

For more information, see the comments for these options.

The following parameter has been added to the REST API - search:

logSearch. When set to true, an entry for this search is written into the Stats index. For repeated searches from an API endpoint, logSearch=false can be added to not log these. This parameter is optional and its default value is 'true'.

Analyzer for French now analyzes without accented characters. The French analyzer now analyzes without accented characters, making it possible to find words such as Téléphone by searching for telephone and the other way around.

To make use of this, customers with either locale or analyzerLocale set to fr_FR require to reindex their Asset and Version indices.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15906 Management Console: Folder paths can be set up with a space at the beginning or end of a folder name.

LVS-16426 Indexing: Provide additional options to reduce the load on the Stats index.

LVS-16700 Analyzer: Unexpected search results when the search term includes accented characters.

LVS-16702 Management Console: When filtering the list of Groups on the Groups page, a maximum of 10 results is always shown.

LVS-16711 Rules without folders as used in previous versions are not working correctly.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Assets Server REST API - search - updated
Upgrading Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.81.1

Assets Server version: 6.81.1.1044

Release date: 10 May 2022

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16552 The assetPathExists option does not respect user rights.

LVS-16613 Parse error in Assets Server logs when performing a group search using unbalanced quotations in the Management Console when SSO is enabled.

LVS-16672 The 'Recover Misplaced Asset Files' tool does not move assets that have more than one version.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.80.1

Assets Server version: 6.80.1.1036

Release date: 20 April 2022

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16464 UTF-8 characters are not displayed correctly in taxonomies and metadata reports.

LVS-16537 Imported files are left open resulting in a 'Too many files open' error and an unresponsive cluster.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.79.1

Assets Server version: 6.79.1.1032

Release date: 29 March 2022

New features

The following has been added in this release of Assets Server:

Studio Server integration: Files used in Studio Server are by default prevented from being deleted. In Assets Server 6.79 or higher, files that are stored in Assets Server and used in Studio Server are now by default prevented from being deleted from Assets Server.

For such files, the Delete option in Assets is not available.

This is done to avoid that the link between the two files is broken, which could result in issues where it was not possible to work with the file in Studio Server anymore.

In previous versions, preventing such files from being deleted needed to be done by setting op Permission Rules, which could be very complex.

Note: Files that are stored in Assets Server and used in Studio Server have the sceUsed flag and the sceSystemId set in the metadata (see also Verifying if a file stored in Assets Server is used in the Studio Server workflow).

‘Master’ files that were the original uploaded files have the sceUsed flag set when a copy is stored in Studio; they do not have a sceSystemId set.

If needed, this functionality can be changed through the following option in the cluster-config.properties.txt file of Assets Server:

sceAllowDelete

Possible values:

false. Files with the sceUsed flag set cannot be deleted.
master. Files used in Studio Server cannot be deleted, but the original uploaded file can be removed, even when one of the copies is used in Studio Server.
true. Files used in Studio Server can be deleted.

Example:sceAllowDelete=false

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Search Presets have been replaced by Bookmarks. Bookmarks have replaced Search Presets as the way for users to save often used searches. Bookmarks can be created by users and can be shared between users by system administrators.

Bookmarks appear in Assets in the same place as Search Presets. In the Management Console, the Search Presets tab of a user group has been replaced by a Bookmarks tab.

The Bookmarks tab in the Groups page.

For information about creating Bookmarks, see Searching for files using Assets.

For information about sharing Bookmarks, see Sharing Bookmarks in Assets .

Note about upgrading: Bookmarks replace the Search Preset feature, but existing Search Presets are not removed from the system.

When upgrading to Assets Server 6.79 and higher, Search Presets are available as Bookmarks and are still shared with the same user groups as before the upgrade.

Take note of the following:

The multi-folder selection that was available for Search Presets is not supported for Bookmarks. To keep it working the same, the Search Preset folder selection is rewritten to a query which returns all items of the previously selected folders.

Unlike Search Presets, Bookmarks also save selected filters and applied filter values, metadata fields shown in various panels and thumbnail tiles, and selected view modes and zoom levels. If a Search Preset that is upgraded to a Bookmark requires any of these to be specifically set, then this needs to be done as an extra step after upgrading. Without resaving the upgraded Search Preset, the settings from the user’s own view are used. For more information, see Upgrading Assets Server.

APIs: The server version is no longer returned in unauthenticated API calls. For security reasons, the serverVersion is now returned as 'null' in unauthenticated API calls (such as a failed log-in action) instead of the full version number of Assets Server.

Example:

{
      "loginSuccess" : false,
      "serverVersion" : null,			
      "loginFaultMessage" : "Invalid username or password"
    }

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-12293 Studio Server integration: It should not be possible to delete a file that is used in Studio Server.

LVS-16423 Metadata: The Asset ID can be modified through an API call.

LVS-16553 APIs: Remove serverVersion from unauthenticated API endpoints.

LVS-16557 Metadata: imageOrientation values cannot be localized.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Sharing Bookmarks in Assets - new
Managing Search Presets in Assets - updated
Steps for integrating Assets Server with Studio Server - updated
Deleting files stored in Assets Server and used in Studio Server - new
Assets Server REST API - login - updated
Upgrading Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.78.1

Assets Server version: 6.78.1.1013

Release date: 15 February 2022

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-14208 Processing: After uploading, images do not have an ElvisID embedded.

LVS-16206 Processing: Metadata embedding fails by the Exiftool for corrupted files.

LVS-16338 Studio Server integration: When editing an EPS image in InDesign, the format in Assets Server is changed to PDF.

LVS-16369 Processing: Space is incorrectly removed from file name.

LVS-16391 Studio Server integration: Metadata value is removed during file check-in.

LVS-16427 Network error when trying to download previews for files in all possible formats in a Shared Link.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.77.2 Quick Patch

Assets Server version: 6.77.2.1008

Release date: 27 January 2022

Fixed issues

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16391 Check in of files with additional metadata provided can remove the contents of provided metadata fields.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Assets Server 6.77.1

Assets Server version: 6.77.1.1007

Release date: 25 January 2022

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Configuring the processing of large images. Processing large images (containing hundreds of megapixels) requires a lot of memory and disk space. Running such a process can potentially result in the processing node running out of disk space or ending up processing infinitely.

To prevent such situations, the maximum disk space and memory used for processing a file can now be configured through the following options in the cluster-config.properties.txt file:

processingMemoryLimit=1GiB

processingDiskspaceLimit=8GiB

Note: The processingMemoryLimit option already existed in earlier versions but its value was empty by default. The default value has now been set to 1GiB.

For more information, see Processing large images in Assets Server.

File replacement: metadata fields are now updated when the value in the source field is empty. When replacing an asset with new file data, the new data is extracted from the asset and metadata fields containing extracted metadata are replaced. This now also occurs for fields which the user cannot write into directly in Assets and where the target field has a value while the source field is empty: the target field is now replaced by the empty value.

The current value will be overwritten by the empty value on replace / check in if the field:

Is set to editable = false.
Has fileFields configured.
Is not embedded in the file.

This behavior can be disabled by setting the following option to false in the Cluster properties file in the Management Console:

clearNonEmbeddableFieldsOnReplace

#
# Clear non-embeddable file fields on Promote, CheckIn operations.
#
clearNonEmbeddableFieldsOnReplace=false

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15525 Do not provide field related custom messages to the welcome controller when the user is not authenticated.

LVS-16138 Processing: Transparancy of previews and thumbnails for TIFF files is not processed correctly.

LVS-16199 Studio Server integration: When checking in a text file as a .wcml article, the resulting file is in .icml format.

LVS-16233 Processing: Introduce a configuration property to change the importPending behavior.

LVS-16260 Processing: Provide a default value for the processingMemoryLimit configuration property.

LVS-16335 Processing: Log file shows runtime errors for scheduled jobs after redeployment of a processing node.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Processing large images in Assets Server - new

Assets Server 6.76.1

Assets Server version: 6.76.1.1000

Release date: 4 January 2022

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16232 Improve user permission check when handling Server Sent events.

LVS-16240 Management Console: When a license gets corrupted, no error message is shown on the Licenses page.

LVS-16250 Studio Server integration: Synchronized metadata in Assets from master to Production zone is not updated in Studio.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.75.1

Assets Server version: 6.75.1.997

Release date: 9 December 2021

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Performance improvements for search results containing Collections. Search results that contain many Collections can result in higher than expected CPU load on the server. This is caused by the four thumbnails that each Collection preview contains. To reduce the performance impact of collecting the thumbnail hits, the following changes have been made:

A new option named containerThumbnailHitsMode has been added. It can be configured on the Cluster properties page of the Management Console and can be set to the following values:

Value

Description

CPU impact

permissionAware

Default value.

Same behavior as in Assets Server 6.74 and lower: permissions are taken into account; regular users should only see thumbnails in the Collection preview for the files for which they have permission.

High

enabled

Same behavior as in Assets Server 6.74 and lower: permissions are not taken into account; regular users should typically only see thumbnails in the Collection preview for the files for which they have permission but may see empty thumbnails in the Collection preview for files for which they do not have permission.

Low

disabled

No thumbnails in the Collection preview are shown for system administrators and regular users.

Lowest

The default value for the returnThumbnailHits parameter in the REST API - search has been set to false. When you have an integration that relies on container thumbnail hits to be returned, add returnThumbnailHits=true to the search.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16129 File store rescue tool may report false positives when changes happen to assets during run time of the rescue tool.

LVS-16156 The process of adding content to a Collection is inefficient.

LVS-16179 Prevent unnecessary thumbnail hit searches within AssetSearch.

LVS-16185 The File Store Rescue tool incorrectly advices an DeleteIndexEntry action when version files are misplaced on a different storage engine than configured.

LVS-16193 Processing: Metadata is always embedded in preview renditions, including when 'Include from original' is not enabled.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Assets Server REST API - search - updated
Upgrading Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.74.1

Assets Server version: 6.74.1.988

Release date: 16 November 2021

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15565 Single Sign-On: Confirmation message after successfully logging in refers to Elvis Server instead of Assets Server.

LVS-15898 Management Console: Icon for closing a Rule window is incorrectly placed when Rule name is very long.

LVS-16069 Processing: 'Thumbnail cannot be generated' error when uploading multiple files.

LVS-16098 Processing: 'Fast Web View' setting is disabled for PDFs during upload.

LVS-16106 Studio Server integration: Placing multiple files on a layout in Studio for InDesign puts a high load on Assets Server search nodes.

LVS-16113 Processing: No thumbnail or preview is generated for PDF files on Linux.

LVS-16132 Thumbnail not correctly generated for PDF files.

LVS-16135 Studio Server integration: The Studio relation handler performs more searches than necessary.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.73.1

Assets Server version: 6.73.1.980

Release date: 26 October 2021

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Internal plug-ins have been deprecated. The use of internal plug-ins has been marked as deprecated. The sample plug-ins that were shipped with Assets Server are no longer provided. Plug-ins and their functionality should now be added in one of the following ways:
Action and Panel plug-ins should be created as an external plug-in.
Scheduled and API plug-ins should be implemented as APIs, Webhooks, or via WoodWing Connect.

For more information, see this announcement.

Note: When upgrading Assets Server from a previous version, the config/plugins/samples folder is cleared (except for some /internal samples). When the samples from the version that is upgraded from need to be maintained, create a backup of this folder first before upgrading.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15836 Indexing: 'Asset no longer available' error when running the Index repair tool.

LVS-15963 Plug-ins: Stop providing sample plug-ins with Assets Server.

LVS-16073 Archiving: Unable to upload content to archived Dossiers.

LVS-16092 APIs: asset_create_from_version with no function is exposed through Webhooks.

LVS-16100 Import: Upload fails for files with a file name ending with a hyphen followed by a large number.

LVS-16111 Management Console: Image controlled by image synchronization has more versions than configured in versionCleanupFilter.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Extending the Assets Server functionality with plug-ins - updated
Routing API requests through Assets Server using API plug-ins - updated
Adding custom functionality to Assets Server by using Action plug-ins - updated
Assets Server Action plug-ins - configuration settings - updated
Assets Server sample plug-ins - updated
Upgrading Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.72.1

Assets Server version: 6.72.1.971

Release date: 5 October 2021

New features

No features been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Synchronizing images. When an image has one or more variants, and the original image is changed, replaced, or updated in some way, it may be that some or all of its variants need to be synchronized with these changes. The Image Synchronization feature that updates the variants now also has support added for synchronizing PDF files.

Search query improvement for Collections. Search queries can increase quickly when users have multiple Permission Rules applied. This is because each rule has a section applied that either makes it a Collection rule or a File rule. This is added as a QueryStringQuery which is then split over all the all_ analyzers in Assets Server. As a result, Collection queries can have a negative impact on performance. To improve this, the Collection query is now treated as a TermQuery and is applied only once for all Collection rules and once for all File rules.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16033 Resolution of a downloaded file does not match the resolution of the Download preset.

LVS-16051 Processing: Add support for the PDF file format in the Image Synchronization workflow.

LVS-16063 APIs: Webhook:session_end event type request is thrown twice when the session of an active user is ended.

LVS-16080 Unable to remove User Groups with a pound character # in the name.

LVS-16081 Simplify permission enriched search queries.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Synchronizing images in Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.71.1

Assets Server version: 6.71.1.963

Release date: 14 September 2021

New features

No features been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-16040 APIs: Possibility of headers not being able to be passed between Server and API plug-ins because of differences in header sizes.

LVS-16052 External processing: service that processes thumbnails receives no commands.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.70.1

Assets Server version: 6.70.1.962

Release date: 24 August 2021

New features

The following has been added in this release of Assets Server:

APIs: cleaning up stats indices. An API named 'Stats cleanup' has been added. It provides multiple ways to clean stats indices or their content, such as:
Removing specified stats indices.
Removing stats entries related to files that are not in the system anymore.
Removing entries from StatsUsage based on the given criteria.
Removing entries from StatsSearch on the given criteria.

GET/POST /controller/admin/stats/cleanup

For more information, see Assets Server API - Stats cleanup.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-14878 Processing: No thumbnail and preview are generated for an RGB image with a CMYK profile.

LVS-15170 Metadata: Asset Info report does not show changes made to the configuration.

LVS-15302 APIs: The 'Remove' API does not return processedCount for containers.

LVS-15467 Processing: Uploading a corrupted video generates a blank thumbnail instead of a broken preview.

LVS-15542 Processing: Image compression is not read from the IFD0:Compression field of a file.

LVS-15672 Plug-ins: Allow any ordering of the settings in the actionConfig section of Action plug-ins.

LVS-15795 Processing: Resolution value is ignored for custom downloads.

LVS-15811 Management Console: Metadata field permissions are not always saved.

LVS-15832 Processing: Video preview is rotated when the orientation has been modified.

LVS-15858 Processing: Importing XML files slows down cluster causing java heap space memory issues.

LVS-15859 Processing: Videos in MTS format are not processed.

LVS-15904 APIs: The 'Browse' API fails when providing an empty path for the root folder.

LVS-15915 Search results of Folder browser are shown instead of the selected Search preset.

LVS-15920 External processing: Unable to remove an External processing setup.

LVS-15969 Continue import without failure on receiving a 504 time-out for the import request.

LVS-15974 Indexing: Add automatic cleanup or safe-archiving of over-time irrelevant stats data.

LVS-15975 Licensing: Unable to activate Assets Server after reducing the available licenses.

LVS-15984 APIs: The 'Move' API creates empty folders when applying a filter query.

LVS-16005 Indexing: Split autoExpandReplicas into a per-index setting.

LVS-16019 External Processing: Providing an unknown domain when uploading renditions breaks the search API.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Assets Server API - Stats cleanup - new

Assets Server 6.69.1

Assets Server version: 6.69.1.955

Release date: 3 August 2021

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15840 APIs: 'relatedTo' search query result depends on authentication method.

LVS-15865 Elasticsearch: Improve operations logic to reduce load per operation and increase throughput.

LVS-15874 Processing: Error 'Unable to assign profile (Colorspace color profile mismatch)' during thumbnail or preview generation.

LVS-15931 Processing: The processing queue pickup should idle when there are no tasks to pick up.

LVS-15960 High CPU load when processing a regular expression to extract autoRenameNumber from an assetPath.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.68.1

Assets Server version: 6.68.1.945

Release date: 13 July 2021

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15843 Management Console: Filtering groups not working when group names contain a hyphen (-).

LVS-15941 Linked files: Directional relations are sometimes stored in the opposite direction.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.67.1

Assets Server version: 6.67.1.936

Release date: 22 June 2021

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15678 Processing: Downloading custom renditions for flipped images gives mixed results.

LVS-15834 APIs: Allow ContentSource user to be configured with an API licensed Super User.

LVS-15851 SOAP Move request moves all assets instead of matching the set date range.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.66.1

Assets Server version: 6.66.1.922

Release date: 1 June 2021

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15806 Unable to move assets that have been rescued using the File Store Rescue Tool.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.65.1

Assets Server version: 6.65.1.917

Release date: 11 May 2021

New features

The following has been added in this release of Assets Server:

Processing: Configuring a Processing node to include or exclude specific file types. A Processing node can now be set up to only process certain files by specifically including or excluding file types. This helps in speeding up the processing and reducing the queue size, especially when files are involved that take a long time to process.

Example: Files for which text needs to be extracted can take a long time to process, such as Word or PowerPoint files.

Setting this up is done through the following options in the node-config.properties.txt file, one for excluding files and one for including files:

processing.excluded.types=

processing.included.types=

Example: A large number of Word files in .docx format are uploaded in bulk. Because text is extracted from these files, they take long to process and will potentially stall the processing queue. By setting up a node for which .docx files are excluded (processing.excluded.types=docx), that node is always available to process all other types of files, while all other nodes can pick up .docx files and other files. The process can be sped up even more by setting up a node on which only .docx files are processed (processing.included.types=docx).

Notes:

Changing either of these options requires a restart of the node on which they are set.

Any included types automatically exclude all other types; when specifying a file type to be included, other file types do not also have to be specified as excluded on that node.

Any excluded type needs to be able to be picked up by another processing node, else the processing requests will remain unprocessed in the queue.

Fully excluding a file type from being processed is not supported.

The processing.included.types option works in combination with the videoProcessing option (see above). When videoProcessing is set to 'only', specific video types that should not be picked up can be excluded, or other (non-video) types that should be picked up by that node can be included.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

External Action plug-ins: assigning keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts can now be set up for external Action plug-ins so that these plug-ins can be easily accessed from within Assets. This can be done on the External Action plug-ins page in the Management Console. For more information, see Working with external plug-ins in Assets Server.

The Key bindings section on the External Action plug-ins page

APIs. Search results are now represented as a list of IDs only. In previous versions, parentContainerIds in the search results were represented as an object with a value and a formatted value. For each formatted value a separate search was performed which negatively impacted performance. To stop this behavior, parentContainerIds in the search results are now represented as a list of IDs only.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15336 Processing: '504 Gateway Timeout' errors when uploading PowerPoint files.

LVS-15545 URL referencing a .tif file does not work for a custom rendition of a .tiff file.

LVS-15627 Folder permissions: Options have changed after enabling Watermarking.

LVS-15643 Processing: Allow to specify which file types are processed by a Processing node.

LVS-15761 Searching: Performance loss during search when ROLE_COLLECTIONS is assigned to users.

LVS-15777 Metadata: Changes to metadata are assigned to the incorrect user.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.

Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Working with external plug-ins in Assets Server - updated
Assets Server action plug-ins setting - keyBindings - updated
Keyboard shortcuts for Assets - updated
Installing Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.64.1

Assets Server version: 6.64.1.909

Release date: 22 April 2021

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Scheduled plug-ins: resetting a blocked plug-in. When a server with jobRunnerEnabled=true set is unexpectedly shut down or loses connection to the cluster, a Scheduled plug-in that was running at that time might still have status Scheduled assigned when the server is restarted. While in that state, the plug-in is locked.

Resetting the plug-in so that it can be run again can now be done by clicking Reset plugin. The plug-in is then re-scheduled for next execution according to its configuration, any locks are removed and the plug-in can be run again manually or by schedule.

The Reset Plugin button in the Management Console

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15662 Scheduled plug-in is not re-scheduled on another node if a node which it currently executes on disconnects.

LVS-15679 Storage engine pattern is case sensitive where it should be case insensitive.

LVS-15704 Studio integration: Metadata in Studio is not always updated for metadata synchronized from master to Production Zone.

LVS-15714 Studio integration: Archived layouts and shadow objects do not show 'Contains' and 'Contained by' relations for items archived after October 2020.

LVS-15726 Studio integration: Unable to clear 'Keyword' metadata from Studio for files linked to Assets.

LVS-15740 Management Console: When creating a new rule and only entering a name, the Permissions tab is enabled.

LVS-15754 Plug-ins: the scheduledScriptsEnabled cluster setting is not working correctly.

LVS-15788 API: Parameter filterQuery is ignored on Move API calls.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Note: When making use of multi-tiered storage, an additional upgrading step may have to be performed. See the article about upgrading for more details.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Upgrading Assets Server - updated
Scheduling tasks in Assets Server with Schedule plug-ins - updated

Assets Server 6.63.1

Assets Server version: 6.63.1.902

Release date: 30 March 2021

New features

The following has been added in this release of Assets Server:

Action plug-ins: adding an Action plug-in to the context menu of a folder. Action plug-ins can now be added as a command to the context menu of a folder.

For internal plug-ins this is done by configuring the following menuAssignment parameter:

folderContextMenu

For external plug-ins this is done by enabling the 'Folder context menu' option on the External action plug-ins page in the Management Console.

Note: Users need to have the 'Action plug-ins' permission assigned (ROLE_ACTION_PLUGINS) to see the menu command.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Permissions. Rules are now created separately for files, Collections, and folders. This makes it possible to more finely control permissions, down to individual assets in the system. For example: it is now possible to lock specific folders, or allow to move a file without allowing to move the folder that the file is in.

Setting up Rules in the Management Console

Figure: The Rules window in the Management Console is now split into Rules for files, Collections, and folders.

In addition, when browsing to a folder while setting up a Rule, a new folder can now be created directly from within the Folder browser, and a Folder path field can be used to manually set a path, including by the use of the asterisk wildcard for easily setting up a Rule that matches multiple folders.

Example: Assume that the following folder structure exists with the same structure except for one folder:

/My Brand/Production/2020/Images/

/My Brand/Production/2021/Images/

The repeating folder can then be replaced by an asterisk:

/My Brand/Production/*/Images/

This also makes sure that any future folder such as 2022 is automatically captured by this rule.

For more information, see Controlling user access to folders and files in Assets Server.

The Folder browser

Figure: When setting up a Rule, the Folder Browser now has a New folder button at the top, and a Folder path field at the bottom.

Note about upgrading: When upgrading from a previous release, existing Rules are automatically split into these separate rules. Each Rule covers part of the Rule that existed previously.

After the upgrade, the permissions closely mimic the previous permission setup, allowing a smooth transition for users to the new permission system.

Verify the generated Rules, and tweak or remove them to match the user requirements.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15445 Permissions: Add wildcard support in folder selection for Rules.

LVS-15664 Studio integration: Empty values are not included when sending an update to Studio.

LVS-15665 Permanently locked folder cannot be unlocked.

SPA-2283 Make it possible to trigger Action plug-ins from the folder context menu.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Controlling user access to folders and files in Assets Server - updated
Upgrading Assets Server - updated
Assets Server action plug-ins setting - menuAssignments - updated

Assets Server 6.62.1

Assets Server version: 6.62.1.885

Release date: 9 March 2021

New features

The following has been added in this release of Assets Server.

Support for Windows Server 2019. Assets Server 6.62 has been tested with Windows Server 2019 and found to be compatible.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-11632 Processing: Adobe Illustrator files that are saved with 'Create PDF Compatible File' are up- and downloaded as PDFs instead of Illustrator files.

LVS-13474 When downloading .bmp images that have been rotated, the downloaded images are not rotated.

LVS-15497 'Unable to locate provider for protocol: smtp.:' error when sending out e-mails due to incorrect e-mail dependency.

LVS-15531 Processing (Linux): Previews of Illustrator files appear with a black background.

LVS-15544 'Unexpected service exception' error is logged when logging in or refreshing Assets.

LVS-15549 Processing: Add configuration property for the number of pages created for .xlsx previews (unoconvXlsProcessingMaxPageRange).

LVS-15567 Searching: Unexpected results when using a NOT operator in a search query.

LVS-15611 APIs: Configuring plug-ins with webaccess public set to 'false' still results in the plug-in being public.

LVS-15629 Security: API license types can be incorrectly disconnected when a super user connects without available license seats.

LVS-15634 Processing: XMP metadata structure of InDesign and Illustrator files are rewritten after import or metadata change.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Compatibility of Windows with WoodWing applications - updated
Compatibility of Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.61.1

Assets Server version: 6.61.1.868

Release date: 16 February 2021

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

User role 'Super user' has been split into full access and admin access. The Super User role allows users full access to all client applications and all areas of the server. In environments where there is a split of responsibility between managing the environment and the functional setup, a similar role but with less access is useful.

To that purpose the super user role has now been split into two:

Full access to all admin functionality. This is the existing role which gives users full access to all parts of the system.
Access to Assets and admin functionalities. This is a new role which allows users full access to Assets, but limited access to the Management Console of Assets Server. Using this role requires a Pro or API license.

In combination with a Pro license:

This super user has full permissions in Assets.
This super user only has access to the following features in the Management Console of Assets Server:
Server status
Permissions assignment
Branding
Plug-in management (external plug-ins only)
Configuring external plug-ins
Cluster properties¹
Active users (viewing and removing them)
Setting up Webhooks, image synchronization, and single sign-on
Field info
Support tools

¹ To prevent users with this limited role from making breaking changes to the system or from making changes that require a server restart, the configuration options that they are allowed to change are defined in a newly introduced option security.dataAdminClusterProperties.

Features in the Management Console that these users do not have access to are:

Plug-in management (all plug-ins other than external plug-ins)
License management
Bulk import
Studio Server configuration and tenant registration
Tools for setting up HTTPS, index management, file store rescue, asset processing, Studio update, and manual upgrades

In combination with an API license:

An API admin user can perform the same tasks as a Pro admin user with the exception of the following:

Access to clients
Concurrent sessions

For more information, see Controlling user access to clients and client features in Assets Server.

The license and super user options in the Management Console

Watermarks: configuration added for scaling and transparency. The scaling and transparency for watermarks can now be configured by setting the following options in the cluster-config.properties.txt file:

watermarks.scaleFactor. One of the following values:
1. The watermark fits exactly within the image, touching at least 2 opposite sides of the image.
A number between 0 and 1. This leaves room around the watermark; lower values means a smaller watermark.
A number above 1. Part of the watermark will be rendered invisible outside of the image bounds. On Linux and Windows the watermark will still be centered, on macOS it will be placed on the left and/or top edge of the image.

watermarks.opacity. A number between 0 and 1. Applies only to processing on Linux or Windows.

In previous versions, a fixed scaling of 0.2 (20%) was used. Depending on the shape (square or non-square) of the image, the generated watermark could turn out to be very small or very large.

Example: For an image of 1000x1000 pixels the watermark would be within an area of 200x200 pixels in the center of the image: this is only 4% of the center area for square images with a square watermark. The covered area decreased with non-square watermarks, but increased with non-square images due to calculations based on the largest dimension.

By increasing the new watermarks.scaleFactor option, the watermark can be made to cover almost all of the image. To make the watermark more subtle when it becomes larger, it is now also possible to increase the transparency.

For more information, see Showing watermarks on images stored in Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15503 Increase server side timeout while downloading a folder with a large number of files.

SPA-2268 Introduce new data admin role with reduced access to the Management Console.

SPA-2274 Add configuration options for scale and opacity of watermarks.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Showing watermarks on images stored in Assets Server - updated
Controlling user access to clients and client features in Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.60.2

Assets Server version: 6.60.2.851

Release date: 29 January 2021

Fixed issues

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15560 Studio Server related metadata fields are cleared for articles archived from Studio Server.

Details: A change in Assets Server 6.60 related to handling relations resulted in Studio Server placement information to be cleared unexpectedly for articles or files that are created via Studio without a placement relation to other objects.

This issue affects Assets Server 6.60 in combination with a Studio Server or Enterprise Server integration, and affects the following fields:

sceArticleId
sceArticleName
sceChannelId
sceChannelName
sceIssueId
sceIssueName
sceEditionId
sceEditionName
sceLayoutId
sceLayoutName
scePage

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Assets Server 6.60.1

Assets Server version: 6.60.1.847

Release date: 26 January 2021

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following changes have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Indexing: stopping and continuing a re-index process. When an index is updated, the process can now also be paused and continued again. Use this when indexing takes a long time and it affects the performance of the client applications; pause it during working hours and resume it in between working hours.

For more information about re-indexing, see Updating the file index of Assets Server.

APIs: Parameter added to Search API for excluding thumbnails of Collections. When the results of a search performed with the Search API include Collections, an additional search is done to enrich each Collections with up to 4 thumbnails. Depending on the number of Collections found, this can have an impact on the performance of running the search. To exclude thumbnails from Collections, a new parameter named 'returnThumbnailHits' has been added to the Search API. When set to true (which is the default setting) or when it is not passed, Collections will show thumbnails; when set to false the thumbnails are excluded.

Linux Assets Server configuration. The wrapper.conf file for Linux instances has been split into a wrapper.conf file and a wrapper_custom.conf file. This makes automating installations easier and provides a clear separation for custom configurations.

When upgrading Assets Server, the installer will move custom settings starting with wrapper.java.additional.<number> from the wrapper.conf file to the wrapper_custom.conf file. Any further customizations need to be applied from the custom file.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-14433 Processing: Incorrect preview generated for WCML files.

LVS-14824 Processing: Watermark is not positioned correctly when maxWidth and maxHeight are different.

LVS-15332 Metadata: Tooltip for the 'Description' field does not appear.

LVS-15430 Periodical renewal stops from being triggered.

LVS-15513 Enterprise Server: History gets polluted with Enterprise metadata changes when sceRelations is set.

LVS-15523 Sharing: E-mail notifications for a Shared Link are not translated.

LVS-15529 Log the usage stats when (bulk) removing files.

LVS-15533 Processing: Image containing both IDF0 and JFIF metadata results in incorrect resolution.

LVS-15548 SSO: 'Invalid username or password' message when trying to log in to Assets Server in InDesign.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Updating the file index of Assets Server - updated
Assets Server REST API - search - Updated
Setting up HTTPS in Assets Server - updated
Assets Server memory configuration - updated

Assets Server 6.59.1

Assets Server version: 6.59.1.837

Release date: 5 January 2021

New features

The following has been added in this release of Assets Server:

Plug-ins: Action plug-ins and panel plug-ins can now be hosted on an external system — such as Netlify, Amazon S3 with Cloudfront, or Surge — and linked to one or more Assets Server installations as external plug-ins.

Note: This is now the recommended way of making these plug-ins available for Assets Server, as opposed to placing them in the plugins folder as part of the Assets Server installation.

Creating a new external plug-in is done by making use of the Assets Client SDK which is hosted on NPM. Refer to the README of the SDK for installation and usage of the library.

Any existing internal plug-in can also be converted to an external plug-in.

For more information, see Working with external plug-ins in Assets Server.

Metadata: Restricting the synchronization of metadata fields by changes made in the original file only. When synchronizing metadata across file variations, the defined metadata fields can be changed in both the original file as well as in all its variants. For scenarios in which metadata fields that hold sensitive information (such as copyright information) may only be changed by specific departments, such changes should be prevented from being made in the file variants, and only be made in the original file. This is now possible by using the following option:

syncMasterOnlyMetadataFields

Any metadata field that is configured in this option can be edited in the original file but not in its variants; for users this field appears as read-only and API calls to update this field will fail.

For more information, see Synchronizing metadata across file variations in Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15404 APIs/Security: Reduce amount of unnecessary information exposed by the Welcome controller.

LVS-15438 Linux: Custom rendition preview is not applying correct width and height when image is rotated 90 degrees.

LVS-15447 Metadata: Synchronize image metadata only from master to variants.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Working with external plug-ins in Assets Server - new
Managing Assets Server - updated
Synchronizing metadata across file variations in Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.58.1

Assets Server version: 6.58.1.831

Release date: 16 December 2020

New features

The following has been added in this release of Assets Server:

Metadata: option added for ignoring the resolution metadata for EPS and AI files. When graphic files are imported, a preview is generated based on the values defined in defaultResolutionPixelsPerInch or fallbackResolutionPixelsPerInch. For EPS and AI files, this can result in a preview in an incorrect resolution. When this is the case, the preview generation can now be forced to use the resolution data that is stored in the metadata of the file itself. This is done through the useResolutionFromMetadata option in the Cluster Properties page in the Management Console:

useResolutionFromMetadata=true

Changes

The following change has been made in this release of Assets Server:

APIs: Duplicate IDs. The log generated by the API for scanning if files with a duplicate ID exist now also shows the duplicate IDs that have been found instead of only the number of duplicates.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15483 APIs: Duplicate ID tool should also show actual duplicate IDs.

LVS-15458 Processing: Remove requirement for external GraphicsMagick dependencies for raw image processing

LVS-15449 Studio integration: Empty custom date-time field is not parsed when uploading an image in Studio.

LVS-15428 Indexing: Handle possible duplicate IDs in the system during index updates.

LVS-15052 Metadata: Add configuration to ignore resolution metadata for EPS and AI files.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.57.1

Assets Server version: 6.57.1.823

Release date: 24 November 2020

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following change has been made in this release of Assets Server:

Integration with Studio Server / Enterprise Server. The metadata selector field group 'Enterprise' has been renamed to 'Studio'. When the 'Enterprise' group is used in the custom-assetinfo.xml file, manually change this to Studio'.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15188 Searching: Date searches display incorrect results when start and/or end date is set to 00:00:00.

LVS-15309 File permissions on Linux are set to 'world writable'.

LVS-15355 Files in .orf format get incorrect MIME type assigned.

LVS-15372 Files are not sorted correctly when sorting by Relevance.

LVS-15403 Stack trace is displayed to end users.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Upgrading Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.56.1

Assets Server version: 6.56.1.812

Release date: 3 November 2020

New features

No features have been added in this release of Assets Server.

Changes

The following change has been made in this release of Assets Server:

Documentation: The Help link in the avatar of the Management Console has been updated to point towards the articles aimed at system administrators. This way, system administrators can quickly access the documentation about installing, configuring, and managing the system, while articles that are less relevant stay out of view.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-14982 Security: Password is displayed in plain text when a HTTPS certificate upload error occurs.

LVS-15111 Processing: Different color quality for JPEG files on Linux compared to macOS processing and Photoshop.

LVS-15258 Exclude view/download counter updates from metadata update events.

LVS-15296 Metadata synchronization can cause a deadlock situation when updating many files at the same time.

LVS-15315 Index revision is not updated when running Asset Processing tool.

LVS-15343 Move of asset to another pattern match within the same storage engine results in missing asset.

LVS-15353 Management Console: Update the default links to the documentation on Help Center.

LVS-15359 Installer: Install EPEL repository before trying to install GraphicsMagick package on Linux.

LVS-14448 Layout can be checked out when Assets Agent is not connected and layout is part of multiple selected files.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.55.1

Assets Server version: 6.55.1.799

Release date: 15 October 2020

New features

The following features have been added in this release of Assets Server:

File formats. Support for the Canon CR3 file format has been added. For more information, see Supported file types in Assets Server.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15295 Processing: defaultBackground 'transparency backdrop color' settings not applied on Linux.

LVS-15273 Prevent that an XML extension is added to unknown files during upload.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Supported file types in Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.54.1

Assets Server version: 6.54.1.791

Release date: 24 September 2020

New features

The following features have been added in this release of Assets Server:

Video processing: Define if a node should be used for processing videos. Processing videos can take quite some resources and time which may delay other tasks such as processing regular image files. In workflows in which many videos are processed, it may therefore be beneficial to dedicate one or more nodes for processing only videos. This can be done by using the videoProcessing option in the node-config.properties.txt file. Use one of the following settings:

yes. The node processes video and non-video files. Use this setting when videos are processed on occasion.
no. The node does not process videos. Use this setting when the video processing is offloaded to a dedicated node.
only. The node only processes videos. Use this setting when the node should be used as a dedicated node for video processing.

Note: The cluster needs to have at least one node that processes videos (setting 'yes' or 'only'), and at least one that processes non-videos (setting 'yes' or 'no').

Example: videoProcessing=yes

Synchronizing images. When an image has one or more variants, and the original image is changed, replaced, or updated in some way, it may be that some or all of its variants need to be synchronized with these changes.

For example: A low-resolution version of the image is replaced by a high-resolution image, or image specific metadata of the file such as width, height, color space, and so on is changed.

Updating the variants can now be done by using the Image Synchronization feature in the Management Console.

With it, a Source folder is defined as the location of the original image and a Target folder is defined as the location of the variants.

When the original image in the source folder is changed, the variants in the target folders are synchronized.

Variants that should not be changed (such as those that are archived) can be left out by not defining their folder as a target folder.

During synchronization, the file itself as well as specific image related metadata fields can be synchronized.

For more information, see Synchronizing images in Assets Server.

The Image Synchronization page

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15197 assetFileModified field is not updated after modifying assets in Collections.

LVS-15229 Allow nodes to not run video processing or video processing only.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Synchronizing images in Assets Server - new
Installing Assets Server - updated

Assets Server 6.53.2

Assets Server version: 6.53.2.772

Release date: 4 September 2020

Fixed issues

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

HTTPS setup for WoodWing Assets

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Assets Server 6.53.1

Assets Server version: 6.53.1.768

Release date: 1 September 2020

New features

The following feature has been added in this release of Assets Server:

Video processing: configuration options for streaming videos. When a user previews a video, the original video will be streamed when possible so that the user experiences it in its maximum quality. A video file is considered to be streamable if all of the following criteria are met:
The format is mp4 or mov.
The codec is h264.
The size is no bigger than 1920 x 1080.

However, whether or not the original of the video is streamed depends on the 'Use original' permissions of the user: if the user only has rights to preview the video, a preview version of the video will be loaded instead.

Options for configuring video previews were already available in the Cluster properties:

ffmpeg.extraPreviewArgsHD
ffmpeg.extraPreviewArgsLD

By default a 10-minute preview is created.

However, when the video is mostly or always showing the original, there is less need to process a 10-minute (or longer) preview and you may want to adjust the preview generation to be less resource heavy for streamable videos.

To improve this, streamable video preview generation can now be configured separately via the following options:

ffmpeg.streamed.extraPreviewArgsLD
ffmpeg.streamed.extraPreviewArgsHD

By default they will follow the same values as the non-streamed configuration option, but can be configured by copying the value from those options and changing the necessary parts, for example by reducing the duration of the preview.

It is also possible to turn off streamable videos completely by setting the following configuration option to false:

ffmpeg.streamed.enabled

When doing so, the other ffmpeg.streamed configuration options are ignored and previews will be the same for all supported video types.

For more information, see the Management Console > Server configuration > Cluster properties and search for the options.

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15087 Management Console: Metrics requests are repeatedly triggered when connection is slow.

LVS-15183 Processing: Allow different preview configuration for videos that can stream the original file.

LVS-15199 Import: Unknown extensions on files with application/zip as MIME type will not receive a .zip extension.

LVS-15217 Import: Files without extension but ending with dot are imported through API or bulk import as generic files.

LVS-15226 Creating a Metadata Report fails when selecting more then 900 assets.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Assets Server 6.52.1

Assets Server version: 6.52.1.753

Release date: 11 August 2020

New features

The following features have been added in this release of Assets Server:

Metadata reports. It was already possible to create a metadata report, but this was based on selected files only. It is now also possible to base the report on all files that match the current folder, query, and filters.

When using the Metadata report API, this is done by using the 'q' parameter.

When using Assets, this is done by choosing the option 'All found files' in the Metadata report dialog.

The Metadata report dialog

Metadata: synchronizing file variations. One of the ways of creating a file is by making a copy of an existing file (either directly in Assets or via the integration with Studio).

This creates an exact copy of the original file, including the metadata field values.

When a copied file is updated by changing the values of its metadata fields, it may be that these changes also need to be made in the original file and all other copies of it. Think of metadata fields containing important context or legal information such as the description, tags, copyright details, usage rights information, and so on.

The process of synchronizing metadata fields across file variations can now be automated: when a field is updated for a file of which variations exist, the value of this field is automatically updated for all these file variations.

This is done by configuring the metadata fields that should be synchronized in the syncMetadataFields option of the cluster properties of Assets Server.

Then, when a field is updated for a file of which variations exist, the value of this field is automatically updated for all these file variations.

For more information, see Synchronizing metadata across file variations in Assets Server.

The syncMetadataFields option in the Management Console

Changes

The following change has been made in this release of Assets Server.

APIs. The following change has been made to the Metadata report API:

The 'q' parameter has been introduced. With it, a report can be created for any asset that matches the query.

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-15172 Smart Mover: Fix support for checking in files.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Assets Server REST API - Metadata report - updated
Creating a Metadata report in Assets Server - updated
Working with metadata in Assets Server - updated
Synchronizing metadata across file variations in Assets Server - new

Note: Some screenshots in the product documentation may still show Enterprise products. This will be updated over the coming weeks.

Assets Server 6.51.1

Assets Server version: 6.51.1.741

Release date: 22 July 2020

New features

The following feature has been added in this release of Assets Server:

Disabling the download and view count. When users of Assets download or view a file, the counter that shows how many times that file has been downloaded or viewed is automatically increased.

When keeping track of these counts is not needed, updating them can now be disabled through the following option:

File: cluster properties
Option name: downloadViewCounterEnabled
Value: true or false
Requires Elvis Server restart: no

Example: downloadViewCounterEnabled=false

Changes

No changes have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-14933 Studio server test button on Management console fails to reach a working Studio URL.

LVS-14985 Removed or added permissions of a logged-in user are not directly applied.

LVS-15085 Metadata fields 'additionalModelInformation' and 'modelAge' missing in the default metadata set.

LVS-15099 Index asset revision fails when a taxonomy is added to the 'labels' metadata field.

LVS-15131 Auto-renaming option ignoreNumberPostfixOnCreate is not working when uploading files.

LVS-15136 Disable Download and View count updating.

LVS-15156 Search no longer working after removing a custom field or changing the data type.

Known issues

The following known issue exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

No changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server.

Note: Some screenshots in the product documentation may still show Elvis or Enterprise products. This will be updated over the coming weeks.

Assets Server 6.50.1

Assets Server version: 6.50.1.730

Release date: 30 June 2020

New features

The following feature has been added in this release of Assets Server:

Studio integration: searching for Digital articles based on their components: When a Digital article is archived or uploaded, the names of the default components that it contains are now stored in a new metadata property named 'Article Components'.

This property can be used for finding Digital articles containing a specific component, for example by adding the property to the Filter in Assets.

Filtering Digital articles based on the components they contain.

Notes:

Names of custom components are not stored.

The Article Components field for Digital articles that are already in the system can be updated by running the 're-extract metadata from files' option of the Asset processing tool.

Changes

The following change has been made in this release of Assets Server:

Management Console: All references to 'Elvis' have been replaced by 'Assets' and all references to 'Enterprise' have been changed to 'Studio'.

Fixed issues

The following issue has been fixed in this release of Assets Server:

LVS-14842 Processing: different quality in custom renditions between Linux and macOS processing tools.

LVS-14921 userQuery stats are not always populated and only simple queries are logged.

LVS-14926 Elvis action plug-in API - elvisContext.openSearch creates a clear search instead of performing a proper query.

LVS-14967 Processing: Slow performance experienced on moveGroup and moveBulk operations.

LVS-15002 Security: Pen test results show Medium vulnerability for Jquery 3.4.1 JavaScript component.

LVS-15016 No results in Brand portal filter for pure lower-cased metadata fields.

LVS-15027 Studio integration: Images are not always copied when copying slides from a slideshow from one Dossier or article to another.

LVS-15064 File size mismatches between index and FileSystem.

LVS-15086 Studio integration: Pinned Dossiers always attempt to log in to Content Station instead of Studio.

Known issues

The following known issues exists in this release of Assets Server:

Localization API does not return default messages used in the client. The localization API does not return default messages from the client. However, it still returns field labels and custom messages. If your customization relies on a message key from Assets Server, add the key and expected value as a custom message.

Installing and upgrading

Clean installation: For information about installing Assets Server on a system on which it is not yet installed, see Installing Assets Server.
Upgrading an existing installation. For information about upgrading an existing installation of Assets Server, see Upgrading Assets Server.

Downloads

The download files for this release of Assets Server can be found in the Release announcement.

Documentation

The following changes to the documentation have been made in this release of Assets Server:

Archiving Digital articles to Assets Server - updated

Note: Some screenshots in the product documentation may still show Elvis or Enterprise products. This will be updated over the coming weeks.

Assets Server 6.49.1

Assets Server version: 6.49.1.707

Release date: 9 June 2020