These release notes provide information on the new features, enhancements, resolved escalations, and bug fixes completed in each release for the Account Management Portal.
13 May 2022, Friday
- CS-4316 – Unable to change JIT User group in the User Provisioning tab.
1 April 2022, Friday
- CS-4353 – CSS UI issue causes the the JIT User group drop-down to break on IE.
- CS-4317 – JIT User group field not populated when JIT settings are changed.
- CS-4318 – JIT User group field not populated when SSO configuration settings.
17 Dec 2021, Friday
- CS-4172 – The VIEW DOCS button does not redirect to the Appspace Knowledge Center site.
The Support portal can only be accessed by the Appspace Cloud Services Account Owner, or by users that have been granted Support portal access permissions. However, these users are only limited to being able to create, view, and manage cases that they have created themselves.
With the latest update, the Support portal now introduces a new Support Admin permissions option, allowing users to create, view, and manage cases that have been raised by other users as well, similar to that of the Appspace Cloud Services Account Owner.
30 April 2021, Friday
FEATURE UPDATESUI Updates
With introducing a new licensing framework, the following improvements have been made in the Account Management Portal.
Overview
The Overview page has been updated with a new user interface. The donut charts for individual entitlements have been removed and replaced with summarized entitlements and usages in table form.
License Management
The License Management page also has been updated with a new user interface to reflect the new licensing framework. The donut charts for individual entitlements have been removed and replaced with entitlements and usages in table form. Compared to the Overview, the License Management page displays each registered Appspace server deployment in detail, while including the new User (Premium and Platform Users) and Device (Device and Content) licensing allocations.
Mar 20th, 2021
Resolved Bugs
- CS-3980 – The invoice status tooltip does not support HTML text formatting on the Account Management Portal Billing tab.
- CS-3982 – User is not redirected back to the Guest Billing Portal when the session ends due to inactivity.
- CS-3985 – Unable to continue with Advance Licensing due to loading issues after the country selection screen.
Mar 5th, 2021
Support for Auto Pay
An Auto Pay feature has been introduced for customers that are making payments with a credit card from the Billing tab.
The Enable Auto Pay link to enable the feature will only be displayed if the payment method has been added. The link disappears once enabled, and to disable the auto pay feature, the account owner or administrator would be required to contact their Customer Success Manager requesting to disable the feature.
Oct 16th, 2020
ReCAPTCHA Security
Appspace introduces the reCAPTCHA security service to prevent spam and abuse during Appspace signups, reset of user passwords, and resending the activation email.
Sept 25th, 2020
Payment Method Improvement
Users can now add their selected payment method, for all subscription plan types, even if it’s the Appspace FREE plan. Previously, the option to add and save a payment method was only available for users subscribed to the Appspace Express plan.
Users may select either a credit or debit card as their desired payment method, and this will be added to the Appspace Billing system.
May 27th, 2020
Improved Security
The Appspace security tokens have been updated and improved against XSS attacks.
Jan 4th, 2020
Resolved Bugs
- Users with pass-though authentication enabled, incorrectly appear in the Permissions tab when the account owner is trying to select users to grant permissions for the Support tab.
Dec 6th, 2019
Resolved Escalation
- Login via SSO redirects users to the Appspace maintenance screen, due to a header and footer present in the X509 certificate.
Nov 2nd, 2019
Just-In-Time Provisioning
Introducing Just-In-Time provisioning for SSO, which enables automatic user creation via SAML assertions as soon as they log in, without having to manually create user credentials initially in Active Directory.
This feature can be enabled in the Settings tab in the Account Management Portal, if SSO is configured.
Updated Settings UI
The following UI updates have been made in the Settings tab.
- Added Login URL address in the SSO configuration page.
- Added Just-In-Time Provisioning option in the SSO configuration page.
Sept 14th, 2019
Settings page
A new Settings page has been created in the Account Management Portal, which would allow Account Owners to configure various Appspace platform settings from a single location.
The following tabs will be moved to the Settings page.
Permissions tab
- Account Owners can grant access permissions to specific users who are non-Account Owners, to the Support Portal page.
Account Authentication tab
- Account Owners can configure SSO for Appspace and enable pass-through authentication.
July 20th, 2019
Entitlement UI updates for Cloud Storage and Bandwidth Users
Account Management Portal users will now be notified if they have reached their threshold limits for cloud storage and bandwidth via a notification message, and visually through color changes to the doughnut chart.
Below is a list of threshold percentages that will trigger an alert notification action.
| Alert Level | Alert Cloud | Threshold Percentage | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Informational | Blue | 0% - 74% | Log information in the system. |
| Warning / Hazard | Yellow | 75% - 89% | Alert customer with notifications. |
| Critical | Red | >= 90% | Alert customer with notifications. |
June 1st, 2019
License Management UI
A UI bug in the License Management page that displays the warning text in blue instead of white, has been fixed.
April 27th, 2019
Customer Support UI
A UI bug in the Customer Support page has been fixed, allowing browsers with screen widths less than 768 pixels to display the Call to Action briefcase icon when no support tickets are present.
March 30th, 2019
Customer Support UI
The Customer Support page receives minor UI updates to icons, help text, and the color scheme, that provide a better user experience.
March 9th, 2019
License Management UI
A minor UI update that resolves the instance name in the License Management tab being change to white during a mouse over, on private cloud and on-premises deployments.
January 26th, 2019
Entitlement UI updates for Devices and Platform Users
Account Management Portal users will now be notified if they have reached their threshold limits for Devices and Users usage via a notification message, and visually through color changes to the doughnut chart.
Below is a list of threshold percentages that will trigger an alert notification action.
| Alert Level | Alert Cloud | Threshold Percentage | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Informational | Blue | 0% - 74% | Log information in the system. |
| Warning / Hazard | Yellow | 75% - 89% | Alert customer with notifications. |
| Critical | Red | >= 90% | Alert customer with notifications. |
January 5th, 2019
Display ID Usage for Devices and Platform Users
The GLOBAL USAGE section, in addition to displaying the number of IDs that are allocated, now displays the actual number of IDs that are in use for both Devices and Platform Users.
Instantly View On-Prem Instance Information
The on-prem listing page now offers users the ability to instantly view the following information for each on-prem instance:
Static Server
- Devices In Use
- Devices Allocated
- Platform Users In Use
- Platform Users Allocated
- Last Synced
- On-prem version
Dynamic Server
- Devices In Use
- Platform Users In Use
- Last Synced
- On-prem version
December 15th, 2018
Navigate to Appspace Console
Users can now navigate to the Appspace console from the Account Management Portal via the Appspace icon (next to the profile icon) in the menu bar.
December 8th, 2018
Implementation of persistent login sessions
The Account Management Portal now has persistent login sessions, enabling users that are logged on to the portal to navigate directly to different tabs within the Account Management Portal without having to re-login.
Users also do not need to login to the Appspace console while logged in to the Portal; access is automatic. This works vice versa.
If a user selects ‘remember me’ when logging into Appspace Cloud and then clicks on the ‘Go to Account Management Portal (AMP)’ link from the dashboard, they will be automatically logged in to the Portal.
Managing support portal users
Account Owners will be allowed to grant permissions to access the Support page only to a certain number of people based on their subscription plan.
Oct 6th, 2018
Instance Environment Type
We have now included the environment type for each activated instance listed in the License Management page. Account Owners may now quickly identify their Appspace server instance environment type, whether it is on a public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises.
September 22nd, 2018
Live Chat
Live Chat is part of Support’s latest offering to paid subscription customers, that allow Account Owners and users with access to the Support page, to communicate directly with our support teams via the Account Management Portal.
- Live Chat can be accessed from the navigation bar, or invoked through a case thread when discussing the case specifically.
- When active, the Live Chat window is displayed throughout the Account Management Portal, and a transcript is generated once the session is over.
- Support personnel can create new cases based on a chat session, if the chat session isn’t related to an existing case.
September 1st, 2018
Billing Page
The all new Billing tab allows Account Owners to perform online payments, review current billing information, and change subscription plans.
The Billing page features the following main components:
Billing overview
View the current subscription plan, upcoming charges, payment history, and manage payment methods.
Payment method
- Manage payment methods. Only one credit card details can be stored at any one time, needed for subscription renewals. You cannot remove the details, but may replace it with another credit card.
Upcoming charges
- View future subscription and overages charges.
Billing history
- View history of billings that have been invoiced.
- All billings that have been invoiced regardless of payment type (full, partial, or unpaid) are displayed here.
Changing subscription
- Change subscription plans.
- Only available to Account Owners on an Omni-Free subscription plan.
April 29th, 2019
Account Portal 29th April 2018 is a minor internal release that contains optimizations and bug fixes.
April 14th, 2019
Support Page
Permission management
Account Owners are now able to grant specific users, whom are non-Account Owners, permissions to access the Support Portal page.
- Account Owners are able to view all cases, and have the ability to filter cases based on the case creator.
- Users, whom are non-Account Owners, but have accessed to the Support Portal, have the ability to create, view, and manage cases that they created themselves.
March 19th, 2019
Support Page
The all new Support tab in the Appspace Account Management Portal, allows Account Owners to create and manage their own support tickets.
The Support page features 3 main components, which are:
- Case History – View support ticket history. This page also has a button to create new support tickets, and a button to access the Appspace Knowledge Center.You can view all the cases that you created via this portal or through the phone, including open and resolved tickets. Cases are automatically sorted by “last updated” first, and can be filtered by status.
- Create Case – Create support tickets via a simple and easy form. You can include an attachment (all file types) per new ticket.
- Case View – View case activity for each case.
- You can interact with the Appspace Support team by adding comments or uploading attachments. However, the comments cannot be edited, or deleted once you save it.
- Only the Appspace Support team may resolve or close a case.
- You can upload one attachment for each comment you make for a case.
- All file types are accepted for an attachment.
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