Release Notes 2022.1.2.0

The March 2, 2022 release of the GlobalLink Vasont Inspire CCMS is available!

What's in this release?

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Enhancements to component management

See completeness report updates

You can submit a request for Inspire to provide details on:

  • Approval state
  • Lock state
  • An invalid state
  • Invalid XML
  • Comments or track changes

You can now also see:

  • Filtering of conditional text
  • Electronic signatures

This is helpful to see before you publish a component or send it for translation.

For more details, read View a completeness report.

Find components for cancelled translation jobs
If you need to find components that are part of a cancelled translation, you can now use Advanced search and the new State of Needs Translation  .
For more details, read:

Enhancements to translation management

Confirm you want to cancel a translation job

When canceling a transport integration job, Inspire confirms if you want to cancel the job in Project Director too, even if the job was never sent to Project Director. Now, you won't be asked to cancel a job in Project Director if that external application isn't being used.

For more details, read Cancel a translation job.

You must provide a Name for a translation job

When creating a translation job, you could click Translate without entering a required Name.

  • The translation is created and completes without entering a required Name.
  • The component's name is used as the translation Name.

Now, you can't click the Translate button until you enter a Name.

For more details, read:

Enhancements to content authoring

Report a problem in the Oxygen Editor

While developing content in Inspire using the Oxygen XML Editor, if you encounter a problem you can write the description of the issue while still using the editor.

After you Send a Frown, Inspire sends to the Oxygen technical support team:

  • Your comments
  • The Oxygen editor's current configuration

For more details, read Report a problem in the Oxygen Editor.

Compare and merge changes to content in the Oxygen Editor
While developing content in Inspire using the Oxygen XML Editor, you can compare the latest content with its history of changes and merge any changes you want to add back.
  • You can only compare the current version with its historical snapshots. Inspire takes a snapshot when a component is created, updated, published, or reviewed. You can also Create a snapshot on demand.
  • You can only move content from a previous version into the current version.
  • You can't move content from the current version to a previous version.
  • Any snapshot you compare to the current version remains unchanged, even if you click Merge.

For more details, read Compare and merge versions in Oxygen.

Enhancements to review management

Use advanced search to find a review

For greater search flexibility and to search for structural conditions, you can use the query builder to find a review.

For more details, read Use Advanced search to find a review.

Enhancements to project management

Create a component while creating a project

When you're creating a new project, if you know you'll need a placeholder for a topic, you can create a new component during project creation.

On the Create project dialog, on the Components tab, there is now a Create component button.

For more details, read Create a project to complete a goal.

Add components to a project from the Components browser
To add one or more components to a project, you can now select the components in the Components browser and then specify which existing project you want to add them to.

For more details, read Add components to a project from the Components browser.

Use the Dashboard updates in My Assignments
The Dashboard tab gives you quick access to projects and components that you've recently opened.
The My Assignments pane gives you quick access to the components in projects where work has been assigned to you.
It now also provides more actions for you to take.
  • Open the View Assignment screen to see more details.
  • Open the Update Assignment screen to a make changes.
  • Set the State of the assignment (such as To Do, In Progress, Completed, Cancelled).
  • Remove the assignment and let the person who assigned it to you know that you removed it.

For more details, read:

Enhancements to publishing

See updates to publishing profiles

You can create publishing profiles to make it easier to publish content. You can see the following updates when you use publishing profiles:

  • From the top menu, select Publishing. On the Publishing Profiles tab, Search now allows you to find a keyword in any of the columns.
  • On the Create Publishing Profile dialog, you are required to select a component. The Component section is now outlined in red to indicate that it's required.
  • From the top menu, select Publishing. On the Publishing Profiles tab, find the profile you want to update. In the profile's row, click the context menu , and then select Update. On the Publishing Profiles dialog, the components grid now displays the components in the profile.

For more details, read:

Enhancements to administration

Save a list of user accounts

After an account has been assigned an Inspire license, you can view the user account information and update its roles.

If you want to save the list of users and their details in a comma-separated-values (CSV) file, you can export the users list and download the file.

  • All users in your Organization are exported to the CSV file.
  • Even if you search or filter the list, all users are exported.
  • You can sort and remove users from the list you download if necessary.

For more details, read Save a list of users.

Save a list of roles for each module
As an administrator you can add roles and users and set permissions for the role or user to access a specific module.
Now, if you want to download a list of roles and how they are applied to modules, you can save the information as a CSV file.
For more details, read Save a list of user roles.

Save a list of user roles
In Inspire, you use user roles to manage access to content, set permissions to perform actions on the content, and grant privileges to use specific features.
Now, if you want to save a list of the roles and their details, you can save the information in a comma-separated-values (CSV) file and download the file.
For more details, read Save a list of user roles.

Transform content you import and export
You can import and export component content to use in other applications.
  • If you want to use only specific parts of an XML document you're importing you can use stylesheets.
  • You can also take content out of Inspire and re-format it so that other applications can use or display the content. You can now use an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) to define a transformation when importing or exporting XML contents.
  • Dependencies are not imported into Inspire, even if you create an import configuration. Only selected files are imported.
  • When importing or exporting a map, if there are unresolved links, Inspire tells you the map is Invalid.

For more details, read:

See UI updates on Create a custom schema
As an administrator, you can define a custom schema standard for Inspire to use when an author chooses the Validate XML, Export, or Publish options in the Components browser.
On the Create Component Schema dialog, the Framework (zip) label has been changed to Schema zip.

For more details, read Create a custom schema.

Manage attribute-only changes for translation jobs
When you send English versions of your topics to translation, Inspire compares the newest version to the last version translated.
  • If there are any changes in the topic, Inspire flags the topic for translation.
  • There may be cases when you don't want to send a file back to translation, specifically when the content hasn't changed but the attributes did.
  • You can configure your preferences using ignore rules that specify the attribute and when to ignore it as a content change.
  • The list of attributes available for you to select is defined on the Attribute management tab.
    • From the Administration menu, select Advanced settings, and then Attribute management.

For more details, read Manage attribute-only changes.

Add and delete groups to a language without errors
If you added or deleted a group for a language multiple times, you may have seen errors. You no longer see those errors.
For more details, read Update translation language groups.