Update Log

2024.5 in Numbers

Admin

• Insights

  • Usage insight - Understand how users use Light My Way

  • Platform insight - Understand how users use 3DEXPERIENCE (e.g. popular apps)

  • Subscription insight - Licenses use (%) and trend

Author

• Improved popup context functionality

• Custom select contexts for Tours and Links

• More Highlight types

• Instruction rich text

  • Control font sizes

  • Embed images

  • Embed video

• Quality improvements

3DEXPERIENCE/TVC/Helium

• Improved app support for 3DDashboard & 3DSpace Support Maturity Overview

Consumer

• Quality improvements

Security

• Vulnerability scan reported on a few new minor issues affecting the development setup only. All resolved and back to ZERO vulnerabilities.

Privacy

• Privacy policy has been updated to cover subscription, usage and platform insight

Performance

• Improved context evaluation process

• Technical improvements

Distribution & Cloud

• Delivery precision - preparing for client hosted on lmw.TECHNIA.cloud with no dependencies to Chrome or MS Store lead time.

2024.4 in Numbers

Distribution & Cloud

• Release server testing improvements

3DEXPERIENCE/TVC/Helium

• Improved app support for 3DDashboard & 3DSpace Support Maturity Overview

Author

• Blocks - Reuse common instructions over multiple guides

• Tours - Intro walkthrough of UI by clicking next

• Recommendations - Just in time, encourage users to use high value content

• Parent offset - Placement of callouts tied to elements higher up the hierarchy

• Callout size - Make the perfect size by pulling the corner

• Set callout direction and anchor independently

• Improved Author UI - Sort, filter, clean up etc

• Author notes / flags - E.g. Indicate and comment on certain recording content for later fixing

• Bug fixes

Consumer

• First time intro tour to LMW

• Minimize callouts when near

• Bug fixes

Admin

• Consumer preferences, admins can control defaults (on/off)

Performance

• Configuration structures - E.g. 3DSPACE targets or contexts are not looked for in 3DDASHBOARD giving a great boost (up to 50% reduced evaluation time) to performance and scoping (enables scalable growth)

• Technical improvements

Security

• 0 vulnerabilities

Technical

• Upgraded Node version to latest LTS

2024.3 in Numbers

Distribution & Cloud

• Extension installation improvements

• Hosting extension from TECHNIA Cloud

3DEXPERIENCE/TVC/Helium

• Improved app support for 3DDashboard Support Maturity Overview

Author

• Documentation guide type

• Input validation / rules / data quality

• Default active & always active guides

• Highlight callout type

• Bug fixes

Consumer

• Persistent dismissal of instructions

• Improved search feature

• Bug fixes

Admin

• Improved Usage Insight

• Platform Insight (based on context, no instructions needed - only an active LMW extension)

• Optional “User feedback”-button in extension

Performance

• Improved cache implementation

• Technical improvements

Security

• Sanitize all user added html

Technical

• Upgraded Node version

2024.2 in Numbers

Author extension retired

• Moved to toggle feature in consumer extension (simplify installation and usage) Light My Way - Product Documentation | Enabling Author

Distribution & Cloud

• On-prem hybrid concept using extension self hosting and guide export Hybrid on-premises

• (Internal) Delivery precision using terraform

• (Internal) Health check improvements and self healing

• (Internal) Scaling refinements for robustness and self healing

3DEXPERIENCE/TVC/Helium

• Improved app support for 3DDashboard Support Maturity Overview

• 3DSpace improvements

Consumer

• Chapter polish

• Multi tab synch

• Stability improvements

• User selection persistence

• Quality

Admin

• Usage Insight (log and visualize guide use, TECHNIA report required but will improve make available to customers directly)

• Soft delete to avoid removal of definitions used in guides (caused problems for users)

• Quality

Author

• Prevent multi click execution and feedback

• Quality

Performance

• Server cache distribution (improved authoring performance)

• Prevent parallel processing when invalid cache

• Avoid parallel requests for multi tabs

• Large table evaluation (improved authoring specifically)

Security

• AccessToken was evaluated for open repos causing denied access

2024.1 in Numbers

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 Support Maturity Overview

• Better and more support for common TVC/Helium

2023.5 in Numbers

Distribution & Cloud

• Horizontal scaling

Author

• Group guides using Chapters Light My Way - Product Documentation | Chapters

• Clone individual Guides and Instructions Light My Way - Product Documentation | Cloning Guides

Consumer

• Chapter view Light My Way - Product Documentation | Chapters

Admin

• More advanced (xpath based) target formulas Light My Way - Product Documentation | XPATH based target formulas

• History tracking Light My Way - Product Documentation | History

• Evaluation of toggled guides only (without available now) Light My Way - Product Documentation | Settings

3DEXPERIENCE

• More apps for 3DDashboard Support Maturity Overview

2023.4 in Numbers

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 Support Maturity Overview

• Quality improvements

2023.3 in Numbers

Distribution & Cloud

• Improved scalability

Author

• Tooltip callout type https://technia.jira.com/wiki/spaces/TSD/pages/4031971409/Light+My+Way+-+Product+Documentation#Instruction-Type

• Position control (offsets) https://technia.jira.com/wiki/spaces/TSD/pages/4031971409/Light+My+Way+-+Product+Documentation#Callout-positioning-(offset)

• 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 https://technia.jira.com/wiki/spaces/TSD/pages/4007821814

2023.2 in Numbers

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 https://technia.jira.com/wiki/spaces/TSD/pages/4031971409/DRAF+2023.2+Light+My+Way+-+Product+Documentation#Sort-Guides

Security

• Improve security with guide data access validation by access token (secret) distributed with the client install https://technia.jira.com/wiki/spaces/TSD/pages/4031971409/DRAF+2023.2+Light+My+Way+-+Product+Documentation#Access-Token-(Authentication)

Author

• Control guide default toggle state for consumer end users

Theme / Focus

2023.1 in Numbers

Platforms

• 3DDashboard

  • Rout Management

  • Document Management

Consumer

• Sort guides by colour

Technical

• Improved stability & reliability of cloud environment

• Monitoring, logging & predictability

2022.4 in Numbers

Platforms

• 3DEXPERIENCE general

  • Search & Search Result improvements

• 3DDashboard

  • Common- Properties modals & side panels

  • Change Action

  • Route Management

  • Model Definition

  • Lifecycle

• 3DSpace

  • File upload dialog

  • Improved form coverage (edit data forms)

Consumer

• Slim tabs

Author

• New callout types

  • Global info

  • On over info

Platforms

Alot of added support for different platforms. Mainly focused on 3DDashboard.

• 3DDashboard - drag-able items has an app state, many toolbar actions and menus supported, as well as form fields.

• 3DSpace - dynamic, name and owner fields in context pages can now have dynamic callouts.

Consumer

• Performance improvements

  • 3DSpace/3DDashboard - Search results

Author

• Edit icon on callouts in author extension, for faster context editing

• Tooltip on target element text

Admin

• Search bar, for filtering out conditions

2022.2 in numbers

Platforms

• 3DEXPERIENCE

  • 3DSpace

    • More supported (green) target elements and refinement of existing

    • Full change process demo recorded step-by-step, one instruction at a time, using supported and built in configurations only.

    • Default enabled and improvement to conditions / app states

  • 3DDashboard

    • More supported (green) target elements

  • TVC

    • iframe evaluation fix

• Apriso

  • Basic configurations in place making it possible to demo and test drive

Consumer

• Tag filtering improved and UI refined

• Performance improvements

• Reset sequences by toggling guides

• Documentation links from extension

• Bug fixes

  • Sequencing, scrolling etc

Author

• Evaluation status

  • Makes it easy to understand why a callout is not visible

  • Quickly identify instructions for the current view

• Input conditions enhancements

  • Full remake removing the risk of version dependent data

  • More inputs supported - Radio, buttons, multi select inputs etc.

  • Input conditions available for conditional element

• Opener conditions for popup windows

  • Useful for small popups that do not carry much state itself, now the opener window state could be included

• Create / edit instruction form restructured to be more user friendly and efficient

• Colors

  • More color options available for guides and callouts.

  • Possibility to set background color on individual callouts.

• Description field is now optional.

Admin

• Deprecate

  • Possibility to phase out conditions and target elements (existing dependent instructions will still work but you cant record new, this way you can improve and create new versions)

• UI

  • Restructure in a more logical way (e.g ignores found under targets instead of conditions)

  • Sorting of configs alphanumeric

  • The action toolbar when scrolling to the bottom

• Server url mapping removed / automated

• Export / import stability improvements

• 3DEXPERIENCE support

  • Official support for specific targets (tabs, categories, toolbars and many more target types are maintained as part of the product, not as customer owned configurations)

  • Overall extended support scope (more targets, app states etc built into the product, customer and R&D driven)

  • Quality ensured with increased test automation coverage for multiple versions

• APRISO support

  • First baseline configurations built into the product (making it possible to demo & sell)

• Admin UI

  • Data view

    • View the recorded guide data (instructions) in the admin ui

    • Indicate / warn xpath (unsupported fallback) based recordings

  • Import

• Author

  • Build guides by supported targets that you can rely work well over time (less dependency to application html and maintained as part of the product)

    • Highlight / spotlight all supported elements will make it easier to spot (by preference/persistent)

    • Indication improved (what was previously green is demoted to yellow, and style improved)

  • Extended possibilities building sequences

    • Target Conditions available for Condition Elements

    • Direct dependencies between instructions (e.g. must be displayed after)

  • Inside of

    • Possible to define in what app state (condition) content an instruction belongs (useful in case there are multiple similar targets, e.g. pointing out the content of a specific widget that is present in multiple widgets)

• Consumer

  • Sorted guides alphabetically

  • Search results with description match highlighting

  • Guide description displayed in accordion (to better support rich descriptions and make it easier to understand how to use it)

  • Guide colors presented directly in list (makes it easier to spot the guide matching a callout)

  • Guide toggle state is a global preference (not by URL, could be a problem when login is in separate domain)

  • Quick disable of the full extension (possible in the top menu where you enter the service URL)

• Stability

  • Bug fixes

  • Focus remake to avoid data dependency (better support additions over time)

• Cloud Server

  • Multi tenant cloud hosting data service included with the subscription

• 3DEXPERIENCE support

  • Built-in configurations as supported product (owned and maintained by TECHNIA, improvements overtime, not copied and branched off to customer data)

  • Expanded built-in configurations to cover more areas (based on customer engagements)

  • Clone, override and extend

• Administration

  • Import / export data and configurations (Admin UI)

  • Focus priority order when multiple focus applies

  • Edit conditions in json view

• Client

  • Easy toggle extension on / off (quick disable)

  • Big performance improvements

Extensions

• Clear data directly after Target switch

• Fixed: Multi Author broken for one browser - multi window

• Fixed: Missing innerText in xpaths

• Fixed: Callouts/Infos get stripped off if container width is too small

• Fixed: URL in Rich Text does not work if it does not start with http(s)

Author

• Author key input password

• Evaluate UI Conditions only while selecting the target
  Fixed: License Key not found after Target Renaming

Consumer

• None

Server

• Authorize author on mutations

• Restrict Access to LMW Server

• Track the current Consumer/Author count

• Improve the log detail if DB Connection cannot be established

• Fixed: Frequent Server Disconnection

Admin UI

• Add Login

• Change innerText to default true

• Illustrate icons for conditions and ignorelist

• Add loader component

• Improve visibility of notifications

• Make Author keys editable from the AdminUI

• Move license.json into DB

• Create new Target

• Create new Target based on existing Target (Clone)

• Delete Targets

• Rename Targets

• Manage DNS config mappings

• Import and export of configurations

• Enable Caching

• Add success and failure notifications in admin ui

• Add expand/collapse all commands

• Add info texts/description for fields

• Auto-completion for fields

• Fixed: Undefined booleans in Admin UI should default false

Both Extensions

• Toggle LMW Panel state should be stored in local storage

Author

• Allow locked Conditions to be disabled

• Add Drag and Drop support for Instructions

• UI Improvements

• Fixed: Focus Conditions do not work if multiple matches were found

Consumer

• No Changes

Server

• The full Configuration is now stored inside a Database

• The Export Script now supports exporting from different versions

• Added caching mechanism for Requests

• Configurations can now be created and managed using the new Admin UI

• Removed Dynamic and Custom Conditions

• Fixed: A Target/Platform Combination can be created multiple times

Admin

• UI conditions can be hidden from the UI

• UI conditions can be enabled by default

• Added conditions for 3DDashboard

Author

• Color HTML elements during selection

• Allow multiple authors to create/edit/delete groups and instructions

• Added logging functionality

• The callout anchor position will be automatically adjusted to best fit

• If the recordings are changed by other authors, there will be a reload hint displayed

• If a new tag is created, it will be activated automatically

• Improved UX

• Provide a Rich Text Editor for instruction and group descriptions

• Add a search to easily find groups, instructions or tags

Consumer

• Added logging functionality

• The Info Callout is now animated for better identification

Server

• Added logging functionality

• Switched to a GraphQL backend

• Recordings are now stored inside a Database

• Added a DNS Server to allow an easy distribution of the web extension

Admin

• Update nodejs to 14.15 LTS

• Support for 3DX 2014X

• Updated configuration schema files

• Add configuration option to ignore anchors for specific elements

Author

• Improved callout layout control - positioning of the callout

• More callout colors are available

• Add Context Menu to enable/disable Light My Way UI

• Callouts will be rendered behind the Light My Way UI

• Hide Callouts while in select mode

Consumer

• Reposition on scroll

• Callout Display preferences

  • Make non-hovered Callouts transparent

  • Hide Group Label in Callouts

  • Truncate non-hovered Callout description

• Emphasize available instructions

• Server and web extension version compatibility check

Admin

• Built in configs for 3DSPACE & TVC allowing authors to guide users through complex processes (e.g. change process) fully recorded by point and click (without technical configuration)

  • More conditions

  • More targets

  • More target conditions

  • Focus

• JSON Schema to support system admins

Author

• Record future proof guides with the stabilized data and efficient configuration format

• Author validation and password control

Consumer

• Large performance improvements allowing state driven guides with large data

• Consumer Available now indication directly on panel tab

Known limitations / planned

Consumer

• Performance - does not scale well with large number of instructions. (Planned for 2020.5)

• Scrolling some places causes misplaced instruction callouts (Planned for 2020.5)

• Search/filter limited to group (Planned for 2020.5)

• Tag limited to group (Planned for 2020.5)

Author

• Needs help from admin to configure built in conditions to support some/many (50%?) use cases (Planned for 2020.5)

• Data format will change making content data obsolete (Planned for 2020.5)

• No import export tool (Planned for 2021.1-2021.2)

• Change is published immediately without test before publish (Planned for 2021.1-2021.2)

Admin

• Verbose data format (Planned for 2020.5)

• Verbose configuration format (Planned for 2020.5)

• Not yet all configurability to fully support author (Planned for 2020.5)

• No remote admin UI (Planned for 2021.1-2021.2)

Server

• On prem, not cloud yet (Planned for 2021.1-2021.2)

• No authentication (Planned for 2021.1-2021.2)