Six months of intense work lie behind us. A whole bunch of bugfixes and tweaks to existing features (as well as an extensive refresh of a bunch of stuff under the hood) are joined by two new features to the host of abilities sklera offers: Master Layouts, as well as a history function for layouts and playlists!

The difference to templates: where a template is simply loading all the widgets and settings into your new layout where you are free to alter and move everything on a whim, Master Layouts are truly linked to your new (or existing) layout. The widgets and settings are added and frozen in place - and every single change you make to the Master Layout will automatically propagate to all linked layouts. This way you won't be on the hunt for that one elusive layout anymore which you need to update with a new master design!

Master Layouts also have the option to lock content permanently on top - much like screen layouts would. Any content you add to derived layouts will never obscure widgets you place in the Master Layout. Combine this with user permissions, and you can set up a system where only select people are able to change the master layouts!

This feature is now available to all our sklera professional users at no extra charge!

Now every time you make a change to one of your Layouts and save it, or make changes to a Playlist in a 10 minute time span, a new version is automatically saved.

You'll be able to view this history via a new entry in the Save dropdown menu (Layout composer) or directly as a button while editing playlists. These open a dialog showing the version history of this layout or playlist, and enables you to preview older versions, add a comment to them, or entirely restore an earlier state of your layouts or playlists - all it takes is two clicks!

Note: this list includes a couple of changes and fixes from 4.0.2 which hasn't received its own newspost.
This list, as usual, is only a brief overview - the tweaks and fixes are too numerous to list them all!

Tweaks to existing features in 4.1.0

• Room Manager: The rooms management was extended by a number of new fields: Building, Building Wing, Floor, Room Capacity. These new fields are available for Display in the Room Manager Upcoming Events widget of the Layout composer as well. The Text Editor in the composer was extended by new placeholder fields for these additions as well.
• The Upcoming Events Widget in the Composer now has a new feature in the column configuration: You can highlight columns with the colour of the room as defined in the Room Manager.
• Samsung Tizen (4.0) Screens have received additional configuration options via the CMS relating to NTP (Time server) usage and setting of system time.
• Layout Composer, Websites: added several new options. You can now optionally suppress scroll bars, prevent user interaction with the embedded website and suppress PDF toolbars when opening PDF files from within embedded websites.
• We added two additional portrait mode preview aspect ratio options: 9:32 and 9:48.
• The Media Library now remembers the most recently opened folder and item type filter when navigating away from it and coming back.

Bugfixes in 4.1.0

• Drag and Drop functionality of items in the Library was broken for a while - we have fixed it now.
• HTML5 Apps on occasion were visually cut off vertically. We've implemented a fix to prevent that from happening.
• We've remedied a problem with the date format while exporting proof of play / screen reports.
• Importing events to the room manager via iCal sources didn't always account for daylight savings time. This should be fixed now.
• Channel Setting 'Default Owner of Content' was not applied to new items in all cases.
• Event Logs: The user who triggered the event will now always be visible, no matter if the user has added a name to its profile or not - and not give the impression that no user was logged.