The school's digital signage system, dubbed the Flyerboard, is officially out of its beta phase. To celebrate, we recently installed a new 55" screen in the rotunda of Sterling Hall of Medicine (SHM) at 333 Cedar Street.
Initially released in January 2014, we've been making steady improvements in stability, functionality and speed. At this point, we consider it polished and ready to begin numbered releases.
We continue to make constant improvements and updates are currently being pushed to the live application once or twice a week. To help keep you informed, we will begin publishing "Release Notes" with each update. The latest release was pushed live on Friday, September 5, 2014.
Release 1.140905
General
- Added loading animation to calendar and people pages when data is not immediately available.
- Improved caching service so that all pages and content are "pre-cached" and updated every 20 minutes. To maximize loading speed, users are always seeing cached data.
Calendar
- Fixed an issue where the "Next Week" button would revert the user to the month in 2014 if used on any month in 2015.
- Adjusted the border around flyers and images in the Calendar popup to be even on all sides.
Shuttle
- Updated the map to use new code from Transloc to display shuttle and route information.
Social Media
- Implemented popups for all Facebook and Instagram posts, and Twitter posts with images or video.
- Corrected errors with special characters and truncated text in Facebook and Twitter posts.
- Added Facebook image galleries to the Multimedia module.
- Corrected image stretching and the aspect ratio in Facebook image galleries.
- Added support for Instagram posts, including video and images.
- Added support for images and video in Twitter.
- Added a scrollbar to Facebook popups with long text descriptions.
- Fixed an issue that resulted in Social Media page scrolling to the top after a user opened a popup.
- Added thumbnail images to Twitter and Instagram videos to display when the popup first opens but before the video begins playing.
- Removed the text "None" when there is no caption on Facebook image posts.
New Haven Guide
- Fixed an issue where some categories were not displaying correctly.
- Added walking directions to venues on the Venue Detail page.
People
- Fixed scroll bar on "See everyone in this location" page.
- Removed section headings from profiles if data is not available (e.g. "Departments and Organizations" heading if the person has no departments or organizations listed).