Schedule Board Card Release Notes

These release notes provide information on the new features, enhancements, resolved escalations, and bug fixes completed in each release for the Schedule Board card ideal for displaying and viewing room schedules for multiple rooms and spaces, in a calendar view or map view, on large digital boards.

v 1.31

Release Date: 5 Dec 2023

FEATURE IMPROVEMENTS

• As part of the Reservation service improvements during event syncing on the Room Schedule and Schedule Board card, the device property, the “player.reservations.events.pollingintervalseconds” device property was introduced allowing administrators to configure the events polling interval.
  In conjunction with the Orion release, both the Room Schedule and Schedule Board card will include the Status Refresh Interval drop-down menu, available in the Booking Options section via the card editor, for a better user experience when configuring the events polling interval.
• We have defined that All Day reservations start from the time of booking till the end at 11:59:59 pm the same day.

v 1.30

Release Date: 30 Sept 2023

FEATURE IMPROVEMENTS

• Support for Multi-resource reservations.
• Support for displaying Reservation Rules in the label.
  • In the event info panel on the Schedule Board card, both individual and all reservation rules are accurately displayed within the label. Additionally, the scrolling behavior of the event info panel remains consistent, ensuring smooth navigation. Lastly, the resource status colors correctly reflect the current state, providing users with accurate and up-to-date information.

v 1.29

Release Date: 10 Aug 2023

FEATURE IMPROVEMENTS

This improvement is specifically designed for Appspace providers and is not applicable to the existing non-Appspace providers, including Google Calendar and Microsoft Office 365.

• Support events polling interval configuration.

  • Administrator should have the capability to configure the events polling interval using the player property (player.reservations.events.pollingintervalseconds).

Patch Updates

v 1.29.1

Release Date: 29 Aug 2023

Resolved Escalations

• AE-9598 – Schedule Board card still displays QR Code, even after it has been disabled in Reservations.

v 1.28

Release Date: 1 Aug 2023

FEATURE UPDATES

The following improvements have been released for the Schedule Board card:

• Rename Extended Meetings
  • Users have the ability to rename the meeting name when extending the duration of the reservation.
  • This improvement is supported on both Appspace and external calendar providers such as O365 and Google calendar.
• UI Updates
  • The Side panel action controls remain visible (pinned) when scrolling the resource section:
    • Back button
    • Close button
    • Confirm button
    • Check-in, End, Extend, and Reserve buttons.

v 1.27

Release Date: 6 March 2023

FEATURE UPDATES

Two new features for the Schedule Board card have been updated and improved:

• Display of Point of Interest (POI) on the resource panel. This improvement applies to all Schedule Board layouts currently available.
  • The resource panel will be displayed when a user selects a POI on the map. On the resource panel’s header, the relevant POI name and image (if available) will be presented. The POI type with an icon, the POI type name, and the location will be displayed below the header. If the name of the POI is lengthy, it will be displayed on a maximum of two lines, followed by an ellipsis. If the selected resource has no image, then the POI type icon will be displayed as the background image instead.
• Support additional checkpoints conditions.
  • The checkpoint is populated for instant meetings and bookings in advance.

RESOLVED ESCALATIONS

•  AE-8513 – Checkpoint waivers are showing up for room check-ins when they are configured to affect.
• AE-8825 – Checkpoint for “visitors only” is also displayed on Room Booking and Schedule Board cards when it should only appear for visitors who are entering the building and checking in at the visitor kiosk.

v 1.26

Release Date: 7 Feb 2023

FEATURE UPDATES

Updated Schedule Board Card UI

• The Schedule Board card has been updated and enhanced with the same design cues available on the Employee App, allowing for a better and more consistent user experience when making meeting room reservations.
• Below are some of the more noticeable UI changes that have been made:
  • The Resource (Meeting Room) information is now displayed in a panel, similar to that when viewed from the Employee App.
  • The Create Reservation, Check In, End Reservation, and Extend Reservation workflows has been optimized, doing away with pop-ups, and having everything seamlessly incorporated within the side panel, similar to the Employee App.
  • The Attendees’ information now is now displayed with an avatar, aligned with the Employee App.
  • Improved Map view where the location of the map is rendered correctly, and focuses on the selected resource without blur or zoom, when changing orientations.
  • In the Current Events view, a maximum of 4 upcoming events will be displayed.
  • The Resouce (Meeting Room) information panel now displays upcoming meetings up to 7 days now, from the prior 3 days before.
  • Standardization of design elements, such as font, color, size, background masking, and many more.

v 1.25

Release Date: 13 Oct 2022

FEATURE UPDATES 

• Private reservations are not displayed as Private Meetings, with the organizer’s name being hidden from the meeting details when displayed on the Schedule Board card.
• As part of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for user interfaces, the status colors of the Schedule Board card now match the colors that are configured in Space Reservations.
  • A new User theme colors toggle switch has been introduced in the Design tab, allowing users to select between the Space Reservations theme colors (Default ON), or the ability to customize the status colors according to their preferences, when configuring the Schedule Board card.

FIXED BUGS

• CT-3163 – Point of Interest markers do not scale correctly on floor plane, when zoomed in or out of the Schedule Board card in Kiosk mode.

v 1.24

Release Date: 1 Sept 2022

FEATURE UPDATES

• Unauthenticated Schedule Board cards now display maps in Preview mode when “Map” or “Map & Listing” layouts are selected.
• When interactivity is disabled on the Schedule Board card, the following improvements have been made:
  • The “Select a room for more information” test is hidden.
  • Maps will not be interactive
  • Maps will paginate between multiple floors when displayed.

v 1.23

Release Date: 26 July 2022

FEATURE UPDATES

• Support for 15-minute and 1-hour time slot options, in addition to the default 30-minute time block now.

FIXED BUGS

• CT-3150 – Floor Level indicator UI issue when filters are applied.
• CT-3163 – Book button UI issue when the Floor Name is too long.
• CT-3181 – The 1st Floor map listing is not displayed when the “You Are Here” option is disabled.
• CT-3189 – The selected floor is not displayed when the map resolution or orientation is changed when displayed on web browsers.
• CT-3235 – Extension time slot options available clash with existing reservations.

v 1.22

Release Date: 22 June 2022

FEATURE UPDATES

• The Schedule Board card has been updated with the following features:
  • The Schedule Board column width (booking time blocks) can now be customized allowing for longer meeting information to be displayed on screen.
  • Ability to display the Docking Station and Kiosk icons in Map view of the Schedule Board card.
  • Standardize the Schedule Board Map Legend colors with the Status colors displayed.

FIXED BUGS

• CT-2932 – The 1st Floor level indicator is hidden when there are more than 15 floors present.
• CT-2997 – UI objects are rendered incorrectly when displayed on web browsers.
• CT-3043 – UI objects are rendered incorrectly when displayed on web browsers and devices.
• CT-3164 – Map layout is not rendered when enabling map from the Configuration drop-down.
• CT-3180 – UI objects are rendered incorrectly when displayed in the Schedule layout in Portrait mode.
• CT-3183 – Switching Map layouts in the card editor do not fully render in the editor preview.

v 1.21

Release Date: 19 May 2022

FEATURE UPDATES

The Schedule Board card is able to truncate and ellipsis text to two lines for the room name.

FIXED BUGS

• CT-2943 – When a new map is uploaded to the Location to be viewed in the Schedule Board card, unexpected behavior occurs in which the map does not appear on the new pointed level however and replaces the existing floor.
• CT-2982 – When switching the layout for portrait and landscape orientation, the map image appeared wrongly rendered in the Map and Listing layout.
• CT-2983 – The click filter icon box is missing and the text was cut off while applying a floor with a long name.
• CT-2985 – An overlay object appeared for a split second when the user attempted to switch the orientation of the Floor Map.
• CT-2987 – The Editor preview did not redraw if set up the room and then follow by pagination.
• CT-2989 – Legend incorrectly renders in Android devices or devices that have a small screen.
• CT-3004 – When the header enabled display option is disabled, the header background appears for one to two seconds at the top of the card.
• CT-3006 – When you click on booking in the Schedule Board card, a portrait overlay info panel pops up from the left side, which is not supposed to happen.
• CT-3007 – When users click on a room or space with the status available, reserved, or check-in, an unexpected scroll bar appears.

v 1.20

Release Date: 1 April 2022

FEATURE UPDATES

A new Map layout option has been added to the card that will display a floor plan map in full-screen with the following features:

• On the upper left of the screen, there is a filter button.
• On the left side of the screen, there is a zoom in/out button.
• The reset button is aligned with the zoom in and zoom out buttons.
• The availability and location of the room are indicated by a legend on the right side of the screen.

v 1.19

Release Date: 17 Feb 2022

Resolved Escalations

• AE-7372 – Unable to display Maps in the Schedule Board card on Android 9 devices.

v 1.18

Release Date: 17 Dec 2021

Auto Scrolling Option Added to Card Editor

• Auto scrolling is enabled by default when interactivity is disabled.
• So the Enable auto-scrolling setting is visible in the card editor, when Interactivity Enabled display option is selected.
• The Enable auto-scrolling setting is hidden in the card editor, when Interactivity Enabled display option is unselected.

v 1.17

Release Date: 12 Nov 2021

Resolved Escalations

• AE-7372 – Schedule Board card (with maps) with between 100-1000 resources has very high load time, while the Appspace App becomes unresponsive.
• AE-7449 – Schedule Board card inconsistently displays meeting rooms in various orders on browsers and devices.

v 1.16

Release Date: 8 Oct 2021

• Once a floor is selected to be filtered, the resource list on the left panel will automatically display all resources within the floor, sorted in alphabetical order.
• When in Map View, the following floor and room order is displayed:
  
  • By default, the map will display the First/Ground floor as the default floor of the building, unless the “You are Here” indicator is configured, then that floor will be displayed on the map when a user first accesses the Schedule Board card.
    • First/Ground floor can be configured as Floor Level 0 in the location setting for the floor plan.
    • If the Floor Level is not set, the First/Ground floor will be sorted (descending) accordingly based on the floor description.
  • The map will display all resources within the floor first in alphabetical order, and then followed by the rest of the resources in other rooms.
  • If there are more than 2 maps with the same Floor Level configured, for instance if the “Level 15” office area, and “Level 15 Parking” space area are on the same Floor Level, then these floors will be sorted and displayed based on their floor names.
• Points of Interest (POIs) labels now display based on the Show Label behavior option in the Locations module. This solves a previous issue where the labels are only displayed if there’s sufficient space for the label to fit, in which case it will be hidden until zoomed in.

v 1.15

Release Date: 30 July 2021

v 1.14

Release Date: 26 Mar 2021

Enhancements

• Support for floor name display for a resource when the card is in grid view, in the following scenarios:
  • • with maps enabled.
    • in Demo Mode, to make it easier for users to find a resource on the desired floor.
    • when configured with the Google calendar provider.
    • when configured with the Appspace calendar provider, including resources that have not been configured as POI (Reservations).Note: Priority in retrieving the floor names will be given to the Maps service followed by the provider service.
• Support for building name display when using the Appspace calendar provider (Reservations), with the following criteria:
  • • Building name will not be shown if all resources are in the same building.
    • Building name will be shown without a comma if floor is not set.
    • Floor name and building name will be shown in the rooms list and room info panel.
• The Enable meeting check-in booking option is automatically hidden if the card is configured with the Appspace provider (Reservations).

Resolved Bugs

• CT-2528 – The “You are Here” indicator does not display after the ASUI version update.
• CT-2542 – The header logo is misaligned when displayed on UWP devices.

Resolved Escalations

• AE-6577 – Schedule Board card with maps does not load quickly in channel browsing mode.

Patch Updates

v 1.14.2

Release Date: 17 July 2021

Space Reservation Support

With the Space Reservations solution becoming generally available in Appspace 8.1-ac.1, users can now authenticate their Schedule Board cards using the Appspace calendar provider.

Resolved Bugs

• CT-2607 – Available room status is displayed for a split second when loading the Schedule Board card, before the correct room status is displayed.
• CT-2606 – The Check-in button is still displayed for a current meeting, when the room has been booked with back to back meetings.

Resolved Escalations

• AE-7003 – Map does not display all available resources in portrait mode.

v 1.14.1

Release Date: 24 June 2021

v 1.13

Release Date: 26 Feb 2021

Resolved Bugs

• CT-2407 – Check-In button not displayed at the defined check-in time set in the resource Rules tab.
• CT-2418 – Resource check-in state is activated immediately, when check-in time is configured to be less than 10 minutes.

v 1.12

Release Date: 11 Dec 2020

This new improvement auto-populates the Room ID and Room Name fields of the Room mapping table when configuring Simple Wayfinding. Previously, users would be required to manually find and enter the room data, which can be tedious when displaying a lot of rooms. Now, users only have to enter the device location and directions to the resource location relative to the device.

Patch Updates

v 1.11.1

Release Date: 18 Jan 2021

Resolved Escalations

• AE-6444 – Map view does not reload after exiting a room without a map from the Schedule Board card.

v 1.11.3

Release Date: 10 Feb 2021

Resolved Bugs

• CT-2480 – Incorrect font used for Point Of Interest labels in Maps instead of the Roboto font.

Resolved Escalations

• AE-6549 – Scrolling issues when Schedule Board is displayed in portrait view.

v 1.11.4

Release Date: 23 Feb 2021

Resolved Escalations

• AE-6570 – The $roomname property value from the Room Mapping table is not reflected on the Room Schedule card.

The booking functions remain the same, please refer to the Book Multiple Meeting Rooms Instantly on Schedule Board article for more information and configuration instructions.

• UI Improvements
  • The gear icon replaces the door icon, when accessing the Settings drop-down menu.
  • The default thumbnail and icon have been updated.
  • Room names are now automatically wrapped onto multiple lines within it’s space.
  • “Show clock and time” in the display options have been renamed for standardization to “Show clock”.
• Schedule Time Blocks
  • A new option to introduce 15 minute time blocks when scheduling a meeting, instead of the default 30 minute time blocks.