Enhancements to Assignments, Messengers, and People features

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

Enhancements

Metadata

• Faces identified by People Recognition now default to Named status instead of Key People.
• Named People can also be managed using the Manage People tab in the People dashboard (formerly the Manage Key People tab).
• People Recognition features are now enabled by default on all new accounts created through the signup page.

Uploads & Assignments

• The “Add Assignment” screen now appears in an overlay, preserving context and making use of a more efficient and user-friendly layout.

Account Management

• Trial accounts now require payment when activating, with subscription fees and all costs discounted during the trial period.
• Apple Pay is accepted for trial account payments, making the signup process quicker than ever.

Asset Workflows & Organization

• Asset filters now work more closely with Find in Project/Collection operations, so the find results are integrated seamlessly into the other filtering options.
• If a proofsheet view is empty due to filtering or find results, a message now clarifies why no assets are shown, and offers a button to clear filters and reveal all assets.
• Active asset filter options are always displayed in the same sequence, across filter panels and the filter bar summary.
• Proofsheet group headers now display a count of assets within each group again.
• Selections and navigation have been retooled throughout Library views for greater performance and reliability.
• Icons, buttons, and Inspector layouts have been refreshed across many contexts, for greater clarity.

Security & Protection

• API Credentials are now automatically disabled after multiple failed authentication attempts in a short period of time.

Bug Fixes

Messengers

• Fixed an issue which blocked users from sending Messengers from Shared Collections that they had created.
• Resolved a defect which could cause certain Messenger errors to display the DF Studio login page instead of an error screen.
• Mitigated an anomaly which resulted in unnecessary scrollbars when addressing a Messenger.

Selects & Approvals

• Corrected a misconfiguration which made it impossible to scroll the Edit menu in cases where the list of Edits was longer than the available space.

Metadata

• Resolved a bug which could cause type-ahead metadata suggestion menus to be displayed without their full list of options.
• Addressed a problem which prevented type-ahead suggestion menus from filtering their options as input was typed into the filter field.
• Patched a fault which prevented converting a Key Person to Named if a pre-defined role existed for that person.

Uploads & Assignments

• Mitigated an anomaly which failed to populate the Photographer field on a Project when adding an Assignment from the Project Inspector.
• Rectified an error which did not foreground the list of issues when opening a DF Studio Upload Report link for an upload operation in which some files failed to transfer.
• Fixed a bug which caused unwanted layout artifacts or menu behavior in the Upload Report interface.
• Corrected a defect which navigated unnecessarily to a Library view after creating a new Assignment.
• Addressed a problem which caused layout misconfigurations when uploading to a Project with a very long name.

Account Management

• Patched a fault which caused errors when attempting to store new billing information.
• Improved the clarity and usability of the trial account signup form and billing information input fields.
• Addressed an anomaly which could cause some buttons in the Contacts overlay to appear broken at specific window sizes.
• Resolved a fault which resulted in a confusing presentation of the groups assigned to a contact.

Asset Workflows & Organization

• Corrected an anomaly which could display the wrong asset when following a link or bookmark directly to an asset in a Project where filtering was active.
• Rectified an additional anomaly which could display the wrong asset when following a link directly to an asset from within the People dashboard preview.
• Addressed an error which could appear when double-clicking to view a Project, Collection, or Library folder from the search results screen.
• Fixed a bug which affected the reliability of the “View Asset” button in the Inspector sidebar of the search results screen.
• Addressed an anomaly which omitted the Existing Setups section of the Move to Setup overlay in some cases where existing Setups were active.
• Resolved a fault which prevented scrolling when viewing a full-sized asset preview in its own web browser window.
• Patched an error which caused asset filters to be restored automatically when deleting an asset or assets.
• Mitigated a defect which could cause Column View to display improperly when navigating with specific keyboard shortcuts.
• Rectified a misconfiguration which displayed the Edit menu while the Arrange feature was active in a Collection, with the potential to interrupt the Arrange behavior by inadvertently navigating to another Edit.
• Corrected an issue which could display an empty Delete Assets overlay in certain circumstances.
• Patched an anomaly which caused unexpected results when conducting a search with a hyphen included in the search text.
• Rectified a problem which resulted in “timeout” failures when deleting large numbers of original files.
• Mitigated a defect which incorrectly required the “Write Metadata” permission in order to use the Export Metadata tool.
• Optimized the performance of proofsheet views by deferring the loading of content in unused Asset Inspector tabs until they are opened.
• Corrected an issue which displayed a download link for a watermarked PDF proofsheet before the file was available.
• Fixed a problem which sometimes caused the selected item in a Library view to be scrolled out of view.
• Addressed an anomaly which could interrupt workflows with unwanted confirmation messages when closing certain overlay panels.
• Rectified a defect which caused the icon for the “2-Up Compare” view to disappear under certain circumstances.
• Patched an issue which caused awkward layout artifacts in situations where the Recent menu in the left sidebar was empty.

Publishing

• Resolved a bug which caused failures when loading the Portfolio access history under the Publish tab.