Release notes 2023

2023-12-31

New: New IMPORT functionality (first version)

• import API added
• new background import option available
• reliable upload of large files with a progress bar
• only 10 sample rows checked
• import "device types" revied (basic, movebank, ornitela, ecotone)

Note the functionality is still work in progress. Comprehensive user interaction and interface still to be added. user guide section will be updated for the final version

Improvement: POI management (for Red kite winter count)

• "by geography" drill path fixed
• drill down remember till the page reload
• area section fixed
• POI menu opening and closing independent of map use
• map legend slides with POI menu
• POI loading into the map optimized
• night clusters visibility in "by group" and "by project" drill paths added

Improvement: Various improvements

• main map user preferences added, device code and project code preferences adjusted
• separate preferences for device/tracking profile map
• option of invites for non-user persons added
• filters by note hashtags
• graph labels simplified
• graph type block charts improved
• full-text search optimized
• API extended
  • column selection over API is now available
  • animal list added
  • API documentation updated

Bugfix: Various fixes

• outh error fixed
• user country saving fixed
• outlier mark fixed for users

2023-11-30

New: New export functionality user interface (UI)

• Export UI completed.
  • Export progress bar added
  • (CSV) export settings available
  • links to export column mappings integrated into the wizard
• Export of large (KMZ) files finished
• Export time range reviewed (empty start date exports data from the first record)

see the updated user guide section

New: User preference functionality added

• User preference UI (screen) for a comprehensive management of user application settings
• Existing preferences listed and grouped into categories
• New preference for managing Device Aliases overriding the Device Codes

see the updated user guide section

Improvement: Various improvements

• Public maps caching added - maps are loading faster now
• Tracking bulk note added
• Global search behavior improved - "Enter" behavior
• Movebank out monitoring checks added
• API fixed and extended

Bugfix: Map fixes

• Public maps missing borders fixed
• POI map menu adjusted
• Preference-based map last tooltips
  • Project code visibility fixed
  • Items ordering fixed
  • Visibility of missing field resolved
• Maximum default map zoom with few items defined, map vertical size in narrow screen altered

Bugfix: Various fixes

• Configuration preset fix (application of mortality parameters)
• Progress bar fixed for graphs
• Age calculation in the tracking form adjusted
• Deployed-delayed filtering added

2023-11-06

Improvement: Data export functionality engine redesigned

• Maximum row count limits and timeouts removed
• Even the data for devices/trackings with milions of records can now be exported
• Export UI modifications in progress (more follow up works to be done)

Improvement: Device and Tracking statuses

• Last data color categories in the maps modified ("last 3 days" and "last 7 days")
• Device and tracking status structure adjusted
  • Existing status deployed-active newly contains devices/trackings active in the last 3 days
  • New status deployed-delayed was introduced (no data within the last 4-7 days)

Improvement: Improvements in POI functionality

• POI create and edit flows improved
• New "target" / "bulls eye" shape available
• "Arrow" shape improved

Bugfix: Bug fixing

• Species multi-select in the main map fixed.
• Fixes in the graphs functionality
• Various minor fixes accross app applied.

2023-10-04

Improvement: Map-related improvements

• Species multi-select in map filter
• Rectangle tool selection improved
• Tooltip behavior unified
• New three-state group checks logic for the tracking selection
• Active item selection adjusted

Improvement: Improvements in POIs menu

• POI menu opening
• POI menu filtering ("apply filter" fix)
• POI in more projects
• POI/Event drill paths adjusted

Improvement: Improvements in POI map display

• Optimized loading of many POIs in the map
• POI context menu behavior
• POI tooltip behavior
• POI deletion controls

Bugfix: Bug fixing

• Various minor fixes accross app applied.

2023-08-31

Improvement: Map-related improvements

• Track loading/unloading adjusted
• Sleep cluster visibility, interval filtering
• POI create gui fixed
• Tooltip visibility improved
  • connector lines
  • tooltip behavior in profiles
  • tooltip showing vs. right tracking menu
• Tooltip management adjusted

Improvement: Animal/tracking metadata management

• Create and edit animal forms unified
• Unlinked animal clean-up available for the user
• Conflicts explained in mouseover

Improvement: Various improvements

• Device/SIM discard flow reviewed
• Pitch roll dimensions in the map unified
• Config presets save/load finetuned

Bugfix: Bug fixing

• Various fixes applied.

2023-07-31

Improvement: Animal/tracking metadata management

• Tracking/animal creation workflow clean up
• Age vs. dates of birth logic finetuning
• Visualization of conflict definitions
  • in the edit dialog in the profile
  • in map tooltips
  • in grids

New: UI/New features in Device/Tracking grids

• New bulk menu added
• New bulk actions
  • bulk add notes from the grid
  • bulk open configuration
• bulk selections while changing filter improved
• editable columns in the tracking grid enabled
• freeze of the first column fixed

Improvement: Various improvements

• More GPS formats available for search on the map
• Centroid calculation in clusters (mortality)

Bugfix: Bug fixing

• Fixes and improvements in the main map
• Config screen bug fixing (save/load preset)
• Global search finetuned
• Device/tracking grid speed optimization, first column freezing
• Various other minor fixes applied.

2023-06-25

New: New global search implemented

• New search algorithms using up to date list of entities and search criteria
• Result relevance (exact match in ID/name fields >> partial match in name fields >> full-text search in all the entity fields)
• New look including
  • Tabs sorting the results by entities
  • Explained search results

Improvement: New map-related features

• Finetuning of new features (map tooltips, map controls, prev/next feature, etc)
• Improved profile interval highlight/filter
• Readded "digital" zoom of the maps (where detail zoom level not available from map provider)

Improvement: UI/UX of the Device/Tracking grids

• Grid feature completely reimplemented
• Pagination removed
• Bulk actions
  • Selection control for bulk operation modified (checks always visible)
  • Bulk operations for the selected available in the context menu and in new bulk actions drop down list
  • Bulk functionality added to the Tracking grid
• Grid updated after modifing filter in editor

Improvement: More UI/UX improvements

• Finetuning in the Note & Tasks (reply form, attachement opening, filtering)
• Project alias and relationship string filtering/searching added
• Manual recalculation of cluster centroids (e.g. for mortality or roost clusters)

New: Tracking start/end area location added

• A new logics which enables area filtering for Tracking/Animals with no data.
• Needed for project sharing by geography

Bugfix: Bug fixing

• Fixes and improvements related to visibility when transitioning between power ON/OF (for Anitra tags).
• Various other minor fixes accross app applied.

2023-05-08

New: New map-related features

• Map tooltips reimplemented
  • Last data and data tooltips improved
  • Data tooltip with short and full (expandable) part
  • Content of all three tooltips ("last data tooltip", "data tooltip short" and "data tooltip full") fully customizable by a user using the context menu!
  • Various possibilities for tooltip content added (icons instead of the names, label suppressing, more formatting and clean-up)
• Tracking preferences including track colors fully adjustable by users ("global" color valid for all users / "user" color valid only for the user)
• Clustered track and sleep clusters added to profile maps
• GPS search added to profile maps

Improvement: Main tracking map adjustments

• Additional color category added to maps (a new light yellow indicates items with data in the last 120 days)
• Different last position symbol for dead animals (mortality cross instead of the circle icon)
• Navigation and highlighting in the main map
  • Mouse over the last point in the map highlights items in the right menu and vice versa
  • Mouse-click on the last point in the map scrolls the menu to a particular item and highlights it
  • Tracking detail drill replaced by the last position tooltip shown in the map
• Right (tracking) menu header freezing and counter of trackings added
• Last movements feature reimplemented

Improvement: Map controls and other general map feature improvements

• Detailed zoom scrolling using mouse wheel added for smoother map zooming (more intermediate zoom levels added)
• Map full screen improved (context menu including all the features such as measure tool available now)
• Map/layer selection control redesigned for more ergonomy
  • Quick switch to the last selected map layer
  • Map switching using previews and more
• Current location control and navigating to the current position feature further improved (graphics and behavior)
• GPS search improved (more input formats available - most of the widely used decimal or degree formats usable)
• Independent map preferences for the main and profile maps
• Various fixes for mobile phone maps

Improvement: Finetuning in graphics and functionality of Notes & Tasks

• Replies can be converted to parent notes
• Updated look and behavior of note replies
• Improvements in the read-only thread and tag management

2023-03-31

Improvement: More map controls added

• show background map - holding the right mouse button hides the points and tracks
• reset of map rotation to North added to all the maps
• GPS search added to profile maps.
• current location control improved and added to profile maps

Improvement: Various improvements

• Adjusted behavior of interval selection in device/tracking profiles
• Data loading/performance optimization of tracks and data table in device/tracking profiles
• Inventory & Finance section of customer profile extended
• Improvements to "Project and Groups", project aliases and relations visible in the Tracking grid
• More fine-tuning in "Notes & Tasks"

Bugfix: Bug fixing

• Night cluster filtering in the main map
• Fixes in configuration, preset and geofencing functionality.
• Next comm session calculation improved
• More background map fixes

2023-03-23

Bugfix: Bug fixing

• Broken background maps (maps from Mapbox and Mapy.cz providers) reimplemented. Now working again.
• Various fixes in configuration and geofencing functionality.

Improvement: A new backgroud map from Mapbox added

• Mapbox tourist map added to the background maps list.

2023-03-15

New: Tasks/ToDos capability for Notes added

• Note can be transformed to Task/ToDo by assigning it to someone.
• Tasks/ToDos workflow implemented.
• User Tasks/ToDos overview available.
• The functionality is described here in the user guide

Improvement: Bulk operations in the devices grid

• new multi-select tool in the device list introduced
• certain actions such as open all, apply config preset etc can be run for all the selected at bulk

New: New customer balance overview added

• Summary of costs and payments as a tab in the customer profile
• Customer data fee payment history drill down
• List of the devices purchased, fix, overage, and total charges by devices,
• Actual charges and payment figures will be populated soon.
• The functionality is described here in the userguide

Bugfix: Bug fixing

• Post-release bug fixing and cleanup of new features (Notes, Tagging/Current age, progress bar).
• Various other fixes applied.

2023-02-20

Bugfix: Bug fixing

• Main tracking map date interval filtering fixed.
• Notes post-release clean-up.
• Device status management flow fine-tuned.
• Configuration, geofencing and config presets reviewed. Functionality description updated in the userguide
• Various other minor fixes were applied.

Improvement: A new way of data loading progress visibility in the maps

• New progress bars were introduced to visualize the progress of particular events.
• Loading data and rendering tracks progress bars shown separately.

2023-02-07

Improvement: New way of working with Device statuses

• Device statuses are automatically assigned based on device usage history.
• New device statuses: pool-new, pool-used, deployed-active, deployed-missing.
• Additional extended/long status field introduced to summarize more status information related
• New device closing/discard/termination workflow added for the user to request the device to be discarded (SIM closed, device removed from billing)
• New device statuses and new discarding flow are described here.

New: Added release notes functionality

• A release note notification was implemented.
• The latest release note overview will be shown to the user any time a new release is deployed since the last user's Anitra access.
• The release note from the past 60 days are shown,
• Functionality description added as a new section into userguide

2023-01-14

New: Notes and ToDos functionality introduced

• Note threads available for multiple entities (Devices, Trackings, Animals, and Customers/Organizations)
• Users with access to the entity can create/edit notes or reply to notes created by others
• Complex toolkit including attachments, screenshots, links, and tags
• A single note (thread) can also be linked to multiple items (e.g. a single note attached to 5 devices)
• The functionality is described here in the user guide

2023-01-04

Improvement: Improved user / person creation and management

• added options of reviewing and reinviting users with pending / unconfirmed accounts
• invitation / activation email sent in copy to the user (re)sending the invite (i.e. more control over emails possibly filtered as spam)
• more options and tools for assigning users to project / events (e.g. organization of the red kite wintering census)

New: Map filtering definition stored in URL

• main / tracking map filters are newly stored in the browser tab URL
• allows keeping multiple map tabs open in parallel with different filters (e.g. species or time filter) defined
• See this updated section of the user guide

New: Map controls redesigned to work with clusters

• Map controls reorganised to display waypoints, tracks, and clusters (newly)
• Annotations / clusters can be shown on the map and option of clustered track implemented (drift movements within clusters not shown)
• See this updated section of the user guide