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Documentation changes for Assets Server made in 2022 and 2023

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This article lists the changes that have been made in 2022 and 2023 to the documentation for Assets Server. For other years, see the articles in this section.

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December 2023

Date Article Change
12 December Controlling user access to folders and files in Assets Server
  • Updated section Permissions per file type > Preview by adding information about previewing Digital articles.
  • Updated section Permissions per file type > Download & Copy by adding information about previewing Digital articles.
5 December Restoring a layout archived in Assets Server to Studio Server Added section 'Troubleshooting'.

November 2023

Date Article Change
28 November Release Notes for Assets Server 6.104 New.
27 November Assets Server API - External processing Updated section 'Rendition upload API' by changing the default rendition names for Document from html to pdf, and from index.html to preview.pdf.
9 November Release Notes for Assets Server 6.103 New.

October 2023

Date Article Change
19 October Configuring the mapping of metadata fields between Studio Server and Assets Server Updated the examples in section 'Custom metadata fields' by changing the names of custom metadata fields in $cfgFieldHandlers[''] to uppercase.
17 October Release Notes for Assets Server 6.102 New.
17 October Upgrading Assets Server Updated section '6. Reviewing optional steps (after upgrading)' with steps for Assets Server 6.102.
16 October The Assets Server query syntax
  • Added section 'Queries and Webhooks'.
  • Updated section 'Additional queries' with a note stating that the use of wildcards in Webhooks is not supported.

September 2023

Date Article Change
28 September Release Notes for Assets Server 6.101 New.
28 September Supported file types in Assets Server Updated section 'Image files' by adding JPEG2000.
28 September Implementing single sign-on in Assets Server using Amazon Cognito with an external SAML identity provider Replaced all references of Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID.

July 2023

Date Article Change
18 July Release Notes for Assets Server 6.100 New.

June 2023

Date Article Change
29 June Release Notes for Assets Server 6.99 New.
22 June Running Assets Server in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud Updated section 'Configuration considerations' by adding information about support for IMDS.
8 June Release Notes for Assets Server 6.98 New.

May 2023

Date Article Change
26 May Installing Assets Agent Changed references of 'Elastic Load Balancers (ELB)' to 'Classic Load Balancers (CLB)'.
19 May Assets Server REST API - create Added the autoRename parameter to the POST example in the introduction and to the table in section 'Parameters'.
16 May Release Notes for Assets Server 6.97 New.
16 May Assets Server API - External processing Updated section 'Rendition upload API' with an overview of the default rendition names.
2 May Hardware requirements and recommendations for Asset Server Updated section 'File Store' with a note about using a volume on which the 'no caching (noac)' option is enabled.

April 2023

Date Article Change
26 April Assets Server API - External processing
  • Updated section 'Rendition upload API' with information about the file that should be uploaded.
  • Added various new POST and GET examples.
25 April Release Notes for Assets Server 6.96 New.
25 April Creating a Metadata report in Assets Server Updated section 'Using Assets' with information about the field name being used as the column header.
21 April Archiving files from Studio Server 10.13.1 or higher to Assets Server Updated section 5 'Testing the implementation' by adding that the demo tool can not be used when Single Sign-On (SSO) is enabled at the server.
6 April Creating a custom metadata field in Assets Server
  • Added a note to step 3 about including the compass tag and all its settings.
  • Updated the code for the examples to include the compass tag.
4 April Release Notes for Assets Server 6.95 New.
4 April Upgrading Assets Server Updated section '6. Reviewing optional steps (after upgrading)' with steps for Assets Server 6.95.
4 April Supported file types in Assets Server
  • Added a footnote about support for thumbnails to section 'Audio files'.
  • Added a footnote about support for previews as a spectrogram to section 'Audio files'.
4 April Implementing single sign-on in Assets Server using Amazon Cognito Updated section 3 'Setting up permissions and users' with information about setting the security.login.userTypeRequired option.
4 April Implementing single sign-on in Assets Server using Amazon Cognito with an external SAML identity provider Updated section 5 'Configuring Assets Server' with information about setting the security.login.userTypeRequired option.
4 April Implementing single sign-on in Assets Server using Okta Updated section 2 'Configuring Assets Server' with information about setting the security.login.userTypeRequired option.

March 2023

Date Article Change
14 March Release Notes for Assets Server 6.94 New.

February 2023

Date Article Change
21 February Release Notes for Assets Server 6.93 New.

January 2023

Date Article Change
31 January Release Notes for Assets Server 6.92 New.
17 January Assets Server REST API - updateAuthKey Removed references of filmstripFields, filmstripZoomLevel, listViewFields, listviewZoomLevel, thumbnailFields, thumbnailZoomLevel, and viewMode.
12 January Release Notes for Assets Server 6.91 New.
12 January Supported file types in Assets Server Updated section 'Image files' with a footnote about PDF previews for Illustrator files in Assets Server 6.91 and higher.

December 2022

Date Article Change
13 December Release Notes for Assets Server 6.90 New.
7 December Assets Server API - Managing Webhooks Updated section 'Call including a filter' by removing the wildcard from the example and adding a note that wildcards are not supported.

November 2022

Date Article Change
22 November Release Notes for Assets Server 6.89 New.
1 November Release Notes for Assets Server 6.88 New.
1 November Installing Assets Agent Updated step 5 '(Optional) Configuring trusted Assets Server URLs' by stating that the configuration option in Assets Agent is only available in Assets Agent that is shipped with Assets versions 6.81 to 6.87.
1 November Compatibility of Assets Server
  • Updated the compatibility of Assets for InDesign with support for Adobe 2023.
  • Updated the compatibility of Assets for InDesign by adding Assets for InDesign version 4.6.x to Adobe 2020, 2021.x, and 2022.

October 2022

Date Article Change
24 October Assets Server plug-in - Version cleanup
  • Renamed from 'Assets Server sample plug-in - Version cleanup'.
  • Updated the note about the plug-in being deprecated.
24 October Assets Server REST API - createAuthKey Updated section 'Parameters' with a note stating that the value for 'containerIds' should be a comma-separated list.
11 October Release Notes for Assets Server 6.87 New.

September 2022

Date Article Change
20 September Release Notes for Assets Server 6.86 New.
20 September Working with Webhooks in Assets Server
  • Added section 'Disabling a Webhook'.
  • Added section 'Defining the number of attempts before a Webhook is marked as failed'.

August 2022

Date Article Change
23 August Release Notes for Assets Server 6.85 New.
23 August Controlling user access to clients and client features in Assets Server Added the Delete Capability to section 'Managing Capabilities'.
23 August Controlling user access to folders and files in Assets Server Updated section 'Permission types' by better explaining the working of the Delete Permission and by adding the differences in behavior in combination with the Delete Capability.
16 August Overview of a Webhook and its payloads and events in Assets Server Updated the asset_create event by specifying the way it works for specific versions of Assets Server.
15 August Assets Server REST API - remove
  • Updated the description to better indicate that folders can be removed too.
  • Updated the folderPath parameter to better describe what is removed.
  • Updated the 'Parameters' section by better explaining the priority in which parameters are used when multiple parameters are provided.

July 2022

Date Article Change
22 July Installing Assets Server Moved the steps for installing additional nodes to a separate section.
19 July Archiving files from Studio Server 10.13.1 or higher to Assets Server Updated section 'Restoring archived files' with information about Studio Server 10.16.0.
12 July Release Notes for Assets Server 6.84 New.

June 2022

Date Article Change
24 June Upgrading Assets Server Updated the steps for Assets Server 6.83 in section '6. Reviewing optional steps (after upgrading)'.
24 June Changing the default metadata field options in Assets Server Updated section 'Example configuration > Default settings' by adding a caution to indicate that the full_assetinfo.xml file should not be manually changed.
24 June The metadata structure of Assets Server
  • Updated section 'datatype' by adding a description for each type.
  • Updated section 'datatype' by adding 'completion'.
23 June Release Notes for Assets Server 6.83 New.
21 June Metadata mapping between Studio Server and Assets Server
  • Updated section 'Fields that are mapped when archiving a file' by making a distinction between Studio Server fields and Assets Server fields.
  • Updated section 'Fields that are mapped when archiving a file' by adding information about Studio Server 10.15.0.
21 June Upgrading Assets Server Updated section '6. Reviewing optional steps (after upgrading)' with steps for Assets Server 6.83.
21 June Creating a custom metadata field in Assets Server
  • Updated section 'Before you start' by better explaining the different data types.
  • Updated section 'Before you start' by adding data type 'completion'.
17 June Configuring Assets Server session time-outs Updated section 'HTTP / API Interfaces' by changing alive.txt to services/ping in the URL.
8 June Importing files to Assets Server in bulk
  • Added section 'Best practices'.
  • Added section 'Recovering from a failed import'.
2 June Upgrading Assets Server Updated section '6. Reviewing optional steps (after upgrading)' with steps for Assets Server 6.82.
2 June Release Notes for Assets Server 6.82 New.
2 June Assets Server REST API - search Updated section 'Parameters' with logSearch.

May 2022

Date Article Change
24 May Setting up HTTPS in Assets Server Updated section 'HTTPS setup using an existing key pair' with information about the use of the keytool command.
10 May Release Notes for Assets Server 6.81 New.
10 May Various articles To make it easier to copy content from an article (such as pieces of code), Copy to Clipboard buttons have been added to various articles. See for example The metadata structure of Assets Server.

April 2022

Date Article Change
21 April Metadata mapping between Studio Server and Assets Server Added fields Page range and Publication date to section 'Fields that are mapped when archiving a file'.
20 April Release Notes for Assets Server 6.80 New.
5 April Assets Server REST API - createAuthKey Removed references of filmstripFields, viewMode, thumbnailZoomLevel, listviewZoomLevel, and filmstripZoomLevel.

March 2022

Date Article Change
30 March Assets Server REST API - login Added information about the serverVersion not being returned in Assets Server 6.79 or higher.
29 March Release Notes for Assets Server 6.79 New.
29 March Deleting files stored in Assets Server and used in Studio Server New.
17 March Assets Server REST API - promote New.

February 2022

Date Article Change
23 February Creating an external plug-in for Assets Server New.
23 February Working with external plug-ins in Assets Server Updated section 'Creating external plug-ins' with a link to Creating an external plug-in for Assets Server.
15 February Release Notes for Assets Server 6.78 New.

January 2022

Date Article Change
26 January Various articles. Articles and references to the WordPress plug-in have been removed; this plug-in was discontinued in January 2021.
19 January Compatibility of Assets Server

Updated the compatibility for CentOS 8.
13 January Compatibility of Assets Server
  • Added compatibility of Studio Server 10.14.
  • Added end of life dates for macOS.
25 January Release Notes for Assets Server 6.77 New.
25 January Processing large images in Assets Server New.
4 January Release Notes for Assets Server 6.76 New.

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