Table of contents for this release :

New Portal features

“Where is published my media?” tab

This new icon on the Portal opens a new screen where our DAM users can check where this media has been published on the web.

2 options are offered :

• a reverse search options, that leverages the Tineye and Google Cloud APIs, and present a unified search result tab.

• a DXM-based search, which scans the DXM logs to find which pages have been using this media for publishing using DXM urls coming from the content picker, the APIs, or direct links.

Open

There is a back-office option for the reverse search also (not the DXM option).

This is enabled via the new PACKAGED_ReverseSearch plugin. Additional structures must be added to benefit from this feature, scroll down to the Added structures section for more information.

Sharing without download rights

When sharing a board that belongs to you, that was shared with you, or a public board, a new option offer to create a share link with no download options, only “view” options.

Open

Customisable file names for exported assets

It is now easy to implement a Groovy script in the WXM_VARIATION_API to customize the exported filenames for downloaded files, board files names :

Wedia Baseline appearing in the menu

The Wedia Baseline is now always displayed in the menu :

New Content Picker features

Focus point definition when picking

In order to maintain the subject in focus even when cropping, it is now possible to define the focus point when picking an asset :

New Back-Office features

Dataview i18n language filtering

In order to give our users more flexibility about what they are seeing in the dataview, it’s now possible to show/hide all the i18n field from the dataview. A new button “Translations” is now displayed when i18n fields are present in the dataview. This is totally independant from the security and it’s working on what is already displayed.

New analytics display mode in the datalist

In the datalist, there is a new entry called “Analytic Dashboards”, it enables you to see all the left filters as graphics and therefore see how they are distributed in the current object.

To add a new graphic, just add the tag popinlist_search_group or popinlist_search_tree on any property you want to inspect, it will then be displayed on the left and a graphic will appear.

New dashboards and features on Analytics V2

List of the new features :

• You can now select both “from” and “to” in the period filter.

• A dashboard about search in the back-office has been added.

• A dashboard about filters in the back-office has been added.

• New filters are available for some dashboards.

On top of that, performances has been improved so dashboards loading is now noticeably faster.

New copy / paste values for multi-update

Previsouly, it was only possible to copy metadata from a given dataview and paste them to a new asset.

This copy/paste operation is now available in a multi-update.

A new button “Paste Values” appears when there are copied data in the clipboard.

All the non-empty metadata from copied asset are pasted to the selected assets, it then works as a classical multi-udpate.

The operation is automatically set to “Change”.

External video tracking

To keep track on where this video has been externally published, a new objet “externalvideo” that is linked to the default asset will now be filled by the MediaCloud API when the video is published on a YouTube channel :

Reverse Image Search

The plugin PACKAGED_ReverseSearch offer a new tab in the dataview of an asset, to trigger a Image Reverse search, powered by Tineye and Google Image search.

To trigger a new search, hit “register asset”.

When the search is complete, the list of the matches will be displayed with a line for each domain match :

Clicking on a domain opens a detailed list of matches for this domain :

New Admin features

Plugins list filterable and sorted by activation

Plugins can now expose errors that will be displayed in RED in the plugins list, and reported by the Status Page.

Structure changes

Added structures

Following structures were added to support asset reverse search feature.

• reversesearch

• reversesearchdomain

• reversesearchmatch

• reversesearchpage

Following structure were added to store external video IDs and status on Youtube.

• externalvideo

Updated structures

massimportitem

• itemisvalid (ADDED) Allows to store item validity against its target structure

  • child → activated

  • Not editable

  • default 1

Removed structures

Following structures were related to the Labs_Tineye plugin have been removed from the NAR:

• tineyebacklink

• tineyeresult

• tineyesearch

• wkftineyebacklink

• wkftineyebacklinkaction

• wkftineyeresult

• wkftineyeresultaction

• wkftineyesearch

• wkftineyesearchaction

New operation of the API connection in session mode

The version 2021.4 introduces a new connection mode of the API in session mode. The surfer is no longer created at each invocation (this avoids the execution of surferservices at each invocation).

This mode is called sessionful.

Cookies

The cookie used to maintain the session is JSESSIONID.

The x-wedia-api-token, x-wedia-api-token-so and x-wedia-api-token-tk cookies are maintained.

Session sharing between Backoffice and Portal

The session (the JSESSIONID cookie) is shared between Portal and Backoffice. This means that logging into one connects to the other. And disconnecting from one, disconnects from the other.
Note that when a user disconnects from Portal as a user, he is automatically reconnected to the "Portal" as an application.

Compatibility

There is no change to make in the way the services are called (signin, token refresh, signout). The cookieauth parameter is always used to switch to cookie mode (instead of bearer). However, the sessionauth parameter is no longer supported.

The session/JSESSIONID mode is enabled by default. The operation is imposed on all callers, but it is necessary for them to maintain the JSESSIONID cookie to operate in session mode (including if authenticated by bearer), otherwise there will always be a connection (with execution of the surferservices) at each invocation.

The old modes are still supported. API Authentication & Connection Modes

WXM_RESTAPI_SESSION

The WXM_RESTAPI_SESSION plugin has been put on some environments to force a session connection. It is no longer needed in sessionful mode. The connection being already in session, it will be without effect to invoke its service /api/rest/session/signin. However, it is better not to use this workaround anymore.

Portal development in localhost

The Portal development done on the localhost domain requires a special setup.

Local development with REST API sessionfull mode

Old cookies maintained by browsers

Normally, the server handles old cookies that may interfere with the new system. There may be special unmanaged cases that require cleaning up the cookies in the browser.

Changes to be made to the application tokens