Update Log

2024.1

Theme / Focus

3DEXPERIENCE, TVC and Helium coverage, extension distribution, improved authoring & security

2024.1 in Numbers

	Domain	#Stories	Story Points

Domain	#Stories	Story Points
3DEXPERIENCE/TVC/Helium	6	17
Admin	3	5
Author	21	23
Security	1	5
Distribution & Cloud	4	4
Performance	1	1
Consumer	5	7

Distribution & Cloud

Same web extension for consumers and authors to simplify installation and usage

Security

Secure rich text editing and rendering

Author

Advanced controls for supported target element innerText evaluation
Improved supported elements highlighting
Added hover highlighting to targets and custom contexts to indicate what is selected/used

Consumer

Guides, chapters and instruction lists made more compact

Admin

Cloning fixes and improve change warnings

3DEXPERIENCE/TVC/Helium

More apps for 3DDashboard https://technia.jira.com/wiki/spaces/TSD/pages/3768615003
Better and more support for common TVC/Helium

Theme / Focus

3DEXPERIENCE coverage, security & authoring

2023.5 in Numbers

	Domain	#Stories	Story Points

Domain	#Stories	Story Points
3DEXPERIENCE	13	27
Admin	9	19
Author	7	16
Security	1	8
Distribution & Cloud	4	7
Performance	1	4
Consumer	3	3

Distribution & Cloud

Horizontal scaling

Author

Group guides using Chapters https://technia.jira.com/wiki/spaces/TSD/pages/4031971409/Light+My+Way+-+Product+Documentation#Chapters
Clone individual Guides and Instructions https://technia.jira.com/wiki/spaces/TSD/pages/4031971409/Light+My+Way+-+Product+Documentation#Cloning-Guides

Consumer

Chapter view

Admin

More advanced (xpath based) target formulas
History tracking
Evaluation of toggled guides only (without available now)

3DEXPERIENCE

More apps for 3DDashboard

Theme / Focus

Working towards maturity level where the product could be sold / bought and used “off the shelf“ with no or very limited interaction with R&D.

There has been an extra effort in 3DEXPERIENCE coverage, quality and usability features (for both authors and consumers), but also key features for new customers.

2023.4 in Numbers

	Domain	#Stories	Story Points

Domain	#Stories	Story Points
Author	16	21
Admin	12	19
Consumer	10	21
Distribution & Cloud	8	13
3DEXPERIENCE	3	12
Performance	1	1

Distribution & Cloud

Improved security & scalability
Read only repository to avoid accidental modification to production (see Read only)

Author

Interactive callouts (see Interactivity)
App state highlighting (see App states)
Control the order guides are listed for consumers (see Ordering Guides)
Quality improvements

Consumer

Allow to resize panel (see Resize)
Manual data refresh (see Refresh)
Guide sorting as defined by author (see Sort Guides)
Tags navigation view (see Tags View)
Quality improvements

Admin

Clone, import and other quality improvements

Performance

All evaluation avoided when extension is disabled

3DEXPERIENCE

Widget support
Process steps
Documented maturity state for the different domains / apps
Quality improvements

2023.3 in Numbers

	Domain	#Stories	Story Points

Domain	#Stories	Story Points
Distribution & Cloud	10	21
Author	8	16
Consumer	8	10
Admin	3	6
Performance	2	6
3DEXPERIENCE	3	5
Security	1	3
Technical	1	1

Distribution & Cloud

Improved scalability

Author

Tooltip callout type
Position control (offsets)
Quality improvements

Consumer

Styling more compact
Default enabled guides persistent dismissal
Quality improvement

Admin

Better tools to carry over built-in configuration to support 3DEXPERIENCE
Import fixes

Performance

Less evaluation while loading (debounce increased)
Avoid evaluation when scrolling or toggling info

3DEXPERIENCE

Widget support
Documented maturity state for the different domains / apps
Quality improvements

Security

All endpoints authenticated

Technical

Certificates

Training

Public self study training & exercises for authors

2023.2 in Numbers

	Domain	#Stories

	Domain	#Stories
	Distribution & Cloud	50
	Performance	11
	Consumer	3
	Security	2
	Author	1

Distribution & Cloud

Web extension manifest v3
- Removal of v2 background scripts (replaced by web workers)
Web sockets removed
Better offline experience (consumers not affected by server maintenance but can work fully on offline/cached data)

Performance

Server reliability & responsiveness by improved caching & optimized DB selects
Smaller network footprint (client get server data once per session)
Quicker admin UI data navigation
Author & consumer more efficient evaluation and rendering

Consumer

Bug fixes & improved colour sorting

Security

Improve security with guide data access validation by access token (secret) distributed with the client install

Author

Control guide default toggle state for consumer end users

Theme / Focus

2023.1 in Numbers

	Domain	Story Points	#Stories

	Domain	Story Points	#Stories
	Platforms	15	3
	Consumer	2	1

Platforms

3DDashboard
- Rout Management
- Document Management

Consumer

Sort guides by colour

Technical

Improved stability & reliability of cloud environment
Monitoring, logging & predictability