Blog from July, 2017
When editing a webcast, the context menu of presentations in the "Presentations" tab no longer provides the option to "Activate Download", which makes one presentation available for download in the consumer area. This has been moved to the new "Languages" tab so that you can activate download for a specific presentation in each language set.
Publishing date: 28-07-2017
WebcastManagers can now prepare a webcast to be streamed in multiple languages. You will notice changes in the following areas of the software:
- WebcastManager / Streaming Server - When creating or updating a streaming server, you will notice the new "URL Templates" pane. These are the templates used to generate URLs for the webcast. Here you can add a "$language$" placeholder, which will automatically create different URLs for each language you choose to support.
- WebcastManager / Webcast / Presentations - You may now assign each presentation a language. This helps to keep copies of presentations in multiple languages organized.
- WebcastManager / Webcast / Languages - The new "Languages" tab now exists when editing a webcast. This is where you can create and edit multiple language "sets" for your webcast. Language sets consist of the stream URLs and slide presentations associated with the specified language. Each set must contain the same number of presentations and slides.
- WebcastConsumer - If the webcast is set up to support multiple language streams, the consumer will be able to select their desired language from a drop-down menu.
The operator doesn't need to worry about these multiple language sets because cue points set from the default language will be injected into all other language streams at the same time.
Publishing date: 28-07-2017
When editing a webcast, a new "Publish" button now exists. This button will publish the latest saved changes to the consumer, causing their page to reload. The "Save" button was previously used to save and publish the changes, but now it will only save. This enables you to be more selective about when the consumer page should reload for updates.
Publishing date: 28-07-2017
You can now hide all slide components from the consumer if your webcast is intended for live streaming without slides. This option removes the main slide display, slidelister and view-switcher. You can set this when customizing a webcast by using the player's "Layout" setting (renamed from "Position"). Select the new option: "Player only (no slide)".
Publishing date: 12-07-2017
The name and ID of the webcast are now shown at the very top of the page when viewing a webcast. This information could be of interest to the operator.
Publishing date: 06-07-2017
The "Dataminer" webcast option in the general information pane has been renamed to "Registration". If the feature is enabled, customers are required to register their name and email before accessing the consumer area. "Registration" thus provides a more descriptive name for the feature.
Publishing date: 29-06-2017
A yellow preview button now exists in the top right corner of the WebcastOperator view. Click this button to open the consumer view in a new tab. This allows you to preview the webcast from the perspective of those watching it.
Publishing date: 29-06-2017