Workflow boosts and metadata enhancements

DF Studio is pleased to announce that the following changes have been deployed to all accounts throughout this October. Up-to-date information on the latest releases can always be found in the Release Notes listing.

Enhancements

Messengers

• Recipient options have been clarified for greater consistency between the screens for sending or re-sending a Messenger.

Metadata

• The Person/Role metadata field has been renamed to Person(s) Shown for clarity.
• File metadata field mapping configurations can now be adjusted for DF Studio standard metadata fields.
• Metadata fields that fail metadata validation will be made visible even if they are hidden by the current filtering settings.
• For improved clarity, the Full Metadata listing no longer displays synthetic metadata sections such as “Composite” or “MWG.”

Uploads & Assignments

• Cloud-based uploads from Box accounts are now supported.

Asset Workflows & Organization

• The group menu now supports grouping assets by the file types present in the asset stacks.
• Group headers have been updated for improved clarity and alignment.
• The group selector has been enhanced to make it clearer which group is currently selected, and to support type-ahead filtering for navigating to other groups.
• When using the group menu to group assets by attributes composed of multiple values (such as Key People or file types), groups are now sorted by the number of items present.
• The group menu’s setting is now maintained when navigating to a new Project or Collection, provided the new location can be grouped by the selected option.
• The Asset Inspector sidebar has been updated for more efficient loading when navigating through assets.
• The Outline Navigator has been refined so that the first and last group label are always accessible in circumstances when certain group labels are hidden from the navigator due to the overall number of groups.
• Group labels with very long names are now truncated in the Outline Navigator to prevent interfering with other elements in the view.
• Files View has been updated to provide more clarity regarding assets without any original files.
• Keyboard Shortcuts have been streamlined to be more reliable across various contexts and view navigations.

Security & Protection 

• The login page has been streamlined for improved clarity and security.

API & Integration

• DF Studio Share Links can now be used to locate Projects and assets.
• Custom metadata fields can now be modified on DF Studio Projects.
• Uploading performance has been improved for very large files, with support for streaming data to a file or uploading asynchronously from a signed URL.
• Project listings filtered by metadata values will now return an empty result if the queried metadata field is not configured for the account.
• Updates to asset metadata can now be exempted from metadata validation rules configured for the account.

Bug Fixes

Messengers

• Corrected an issue which caused custom-sized Messenger preview images to be unavailable for download.
• Mitigated a bug which caused errors when sending a Messenger to a contact identified only by a company name.
• Resolved a problem which blocked sending a Messenger if navigating back to an earlier screen after adding recipients.
• Fixed an issue which would display the “Send” button in 1-Up View for users lacking the appropriate permission.
• Improved the alignment and clarity of the configuration options when re-sending a Messenger.

Metadata

• Corrected a problem which caused the Star Rating field to be imported unreliably during file ingestion.
• Addressed a bug which prevented some standard metadata fields from being written to file metadata upon updating.
• Resolved a misconfiguration which caused inconsistent spacing around fields in the metadata editing interface.
• Mitigated an anomaly which could cause multiple alerts to appear when attempting to update asset metadata.
• Addressed a misconfiguration which caused type-ahead suggestions to be omitted from search configuration fields in the Find in Project/Collection overlay.
• Corrected a fault which resulted in metadata validation errors during file ingestion.
• Fixed a bug which caused missing values when using the type-ahead menu in metadata fields supported by Metadata Terms in some situations.
• Addressed an issue which caused the Person(s) Shown field to disappear from the Metadata Inspector after certain actions.
• Mitigated a problem which caused People View to appear in 1-Up View after it had been turned off.
• Fixed a bug which caused the interface to become unresponsive after using the “Split” feature in person view.

Uploads & Assignments

• Corrected an issue which caused BMP files to be ingested without creating preview images.
• Patched a misconfiguration which caused the “Ignore” option to be non-functional when configuring a file upload.

Downloads & Transfers

• Fixed a problem which caused timeouts or failures when downloading larger TIF files.
• Addressed a fault which could generate errors downloading larger PSD files.
• Mitigated issues which caused delays or errors initiating downloads under certain circumstances.

Asset Workflows & Organization

• Resolved an anomaly which would show incorrect asset counts in Collections after assets had been removed due to the deletion of their source Project(s).
• Addressed a problem which could cause certain options to be missing from the “New” button for creating new Projects, Collections, or Library folders.
• Patched a fault which caused improper Setup counts to appear in the details of some Projects when viewing folders in Column View.
• Resolved a misconfiguration which would misrepresent slash characters (/) in folder names in some contexts.
• Mitigated a bug which caused the “Move to Setup” button to be unavailable in the Asset Inspector for non-admin users under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a problem which displayed Setup counts for Collections in some Library views.
• Corrected an anomaly which caused the input field for renaming Setups to be improperly sized.
• Mitigated an error which could occur when using the Arrange feature within Collections.
• Addressed a bug which caused the wrong view to load when clicking a folder from the Navigation Path for a Project or Collection.
• Fixed an issue which caused Library views to revert to Column View rather than the most recently selected view option.
• Resolved a problem which caused items in the Navigational Sidebar with long, unbroken names to be displayed without a name.
• Corrected a misconfiguration which displayed confusing results when viewing a Collection or Bin containing assets restricted by a user’s permission settings.
• Addressed an error which could cause awkward scrolling results in the Navigational Sidebar when editing the Recent menu listing.
• Mitigated an issue which caused bookmarks added from the Recent menu to appear in the Bookmarks menu twice.
• Patched a fault which caused the folder restriction to be ignored when configuring an Advanced Search.
• Resolved a bug which caused empty results when searching DF Studio for a Project, Collection, or Library folder.
• Corrected a problem which loaded the root Library folder after closing an overlay in certain situations.
• Addressed a fault which prevented the disclosure states of the right-hand Inspector sidebar sections from being preserved when navigating from one asset to another, or one Project/Collection to another.
• Fixed an anomaly which loaded the root Library folder instead of the most recently visited folder when clicking on the Library tab.
• Resolved a misconfiguration which caused the sorting of Collection assets to become unreliable under certain circumstances.

API & Integration

• Addressed an issue which prevented the Enterprise Asset API from accepting input in the form of a JSON payload for certain POST operations.
• Corrected a misconfiguration which allowed multiple non-image files of the same file type to be uploaded to the same asset stack rather than replacing previous files as expected.