GpsGate's March release includes a final Tracks tweak that power users and fleet managers will love: toggle between track points using your arrow keys. We've also brought user search administration in-app. Administrators can search for users and filter out billable units directly from an application. With each release, our goal is to help fleet managers work smarter and faster.
Check below for the full notes or read the March blog for an overview.
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New
Tracks
- Enable stepping between track points using arrow keys.
- The Tracks map layer can now be toggled in the map layer selector.
Developer & System Administration
- User search is now in-app! Go to the menu in any app and navigate to Server Administration -> Users-> User Search for access.
Device Plugins
We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.
- Cellocator
- Concox
- ERM
- Eview
- Joint
- Globalstar
- Meitrack
- ORBCOMM
- TopFly
- We also added array to Int and intX to byte[] extensions for multiple devices.
Languages
The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
Improved
Tracks
- Localize values in map track point tooltip.
- Change logic for how filtered tracks are displayed on map and fix various hover issues.
Charts
- Selecting variables has been improved by first showing the variables mapped to the selected vehicles.
User Experience
- UI improvements.
- Adjust colors and icons for mouse tooltip when setting position for simulated devices.
- Add missing localization keys for password criteria text.
- Set consistent size for all Camera plugin icons.
- Add localized strings to camera icon titles.
- Adjust colors for the Camera plugin's Vehicle List icon, so it’s visible for all states of both the camera plugin and the vehicle list row.
Reporting
- Unify file handling for reporting.
- Release the resource after processing the report.
Developer & System Administration
- Add validation for email provider form in Server Administration -> Settings -> Email.
- Security updates.
- User search now allows you filter out users that are Dispatch (deprecated) units.
- Increased time tolerance for MFA.
- Add support for Specialized service.
Fixed
Tracks
- Fix support for adding vehicles not in view to Tracks, Daily Summary and Charts.
- Fix issue with data disappearing from track point list when switching panels.
Developer & System Administration
- Do not fail on HTTP notifier when URL is empty (event rules).
- Remove duplicate lang key.
- Fix bug that prevented SMTP email providers from being saved.
Reporting
- Reports with non ASCII characters in name will work again.
- Fix for importing devices from csv files. Fix covers cases when custom "List" field was producing corrupted data after import.
Deprecated
Dispatch is deprecated with March's release.
Chat is deprecated. SOAP for reporting is now removed. REST API should be used.
Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.
As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.
See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.
Tracks get more interactive with February's release! Track replay lets you replay historical incidents on the map at the speed you choose. We've also made it easier to hover over a track and find individual track points and their details. Security minded? We've added new strong password options at the server level.
Check below for the full notes or read the February blog for an overview.
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New
Tracks
- Add track replay to Tracks.
- Hover over a track on the map to show the closest track point.
Vehicle Status
- Support custom fields in vehicle status templates.
Charts
- Add option to the panel menu to clear selection when closing.
- Settings and variables can be saved to workspace.
Strong Passwords
Added password criteria that can be toggled on/off for the server in Server Administration -> Settings -> Security. These criteria will replace the "Strong Password" setting that was previously found on applications. This includes:
- Minimum password length 8 characters (mandatory for new passwords)
- Require lowercase (optional, enabled by default)
- Require uppercase (optional, enabled by default)
- Require number (optional, enabled by default)
- Require special character (optional, enabled by default)
Device Plugins
We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.
- Concox
- ERM
- Eview
- Globalstar
- Joint
- KingSword
- MicronWireless
- Queclink
- Teltonika
- Topfly
Languages
The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
Improved
Tracks
- Improve performance in the tracks panel when drawing larger tracks.
- Support adding vehicles not in view to Tracks, Daily Summary, and Chart.
- Move map track point drawing code to its own service. Reduces the loading time when opening a track point tooltip.
- Clicking on a track point in the Tracks panel will update trackPoint object in the Script Editor.
User Experience
- Double clicking a window header now toggles maximized and normal mode (as Microsoft Windows & macOS).
- Set consistent size for all icons in the Vehicle List and both Notifier Icons.
- Change icon used by the Panel Menu to FA5 bars.
- Use SVG icons: add regular weight for minus and plus FA5 icons.
- Unify behavior and styling for Panel Menu Button and the rest of the window control buttons. Use same structure in both DOM and CSS.
- Set window bar height to 32px to match pixel grid used in the rest of the UI.
- Convert window bar layout to flexbox for easier and robust alignment.
- Update layout and responsive behavior of the Toolbar component to simplify layout and future development.
- Create variables for semi-transparent greytones #6798.
- Legacy Tracks: localize hover text on export and drawing options arrow down button.
Developer & System Administration
- Add more server Cleanup interval options to the UI in Server Administration -> Settings -> Cleanup.
- Improved logging for HttpExpression failures.
- Make batch update accumulators work with units specified in the application settings e.g. if before accumulator values showed in meters, they should now be in kilometers or miles (depending on the application settings).
Fixed
User Experience
- Fix Dashboard and Dispatch not displaying items in Edit windows.
- Fix a bug that causes Dashboard panel and Dispatch Add Job window to crash.
- Fix: If using a white theme color, the window's close and maximize buttons could become invisible... not any more!
POI
- Fixes to POI panel layout which was causing content overflow in narrow column widths.
Driver's Journal (Deprecated)
- Cleanup scheduled tasks for deprecated Drivers Journal plugin.
Developer & System Administration
- Fix WFS Geocoder compatibility.
- Fix a rare case of failing to load the license page in server administration settings.
- Events exporting: fix the case when a date part of an export file name might be different from a selected start date.
- Events exporting: fix the case when exported events might be different form those are displayed on UI.
- Remove strong password setting from Basic one template.
- Remove some forgotten old Strong Password usage.
- Batch update users: Improve the UI with an example telling what units are expected. Fix an error message displaying. Make errors show correct info.
SMS Providers
- Add missing Listener URL form field for Twilio SMS provider.
- Fix sending a test SMS for a case when an SMS provider has application tags selected.
Deprecated
Chat is deprecated with February's release.
SOAP for reporting is now removed. REST API should be used.
Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.
As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.
See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.
The Daily Summary gets some great new features with this release. We've added bounding boxes on the map: as you scroll over a vehicle, you see a box on the map enclosing its tracks for your selected time. For larger fleets, this lets you quickly view general track locations without loading lots of data - it's snappy and fast. You can also add a route geofence directly from the Daily Summary. Vehicle Status and Charts received some new additions for a great user experience.
Check below for the full notes or read the blog for an overview.
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New
Tracks
- Display bounding boxes on the map for the Daily Summary.
- Add an option to create a route geofence in the Daily Summary.
Vehicle Status
- Add a tooltip that shows when data was received and last changed.
- The vehicle context menu is now also available by right-clicking the panel header.
Charts
- Charts will now has tooltips showing the selected track points on the map.
- Add toggle to hide interpolated data when an asset has been offline (select Hide offline data menu option).
Device Plugins
We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.
- Atlanta
- Concox
- Meitrack
- ORBCOMM
- Queclink
- Teltonika
Languages
The following languages have been updated over the past month: Chinese, Hindi.
Improved
Tracks
- Enable localization on variable names in track point tooltips on the map.
- Added new keys for Daily Summary panel and track filters plus a few missing keys.
Vehicle Status
- Update UI for the widget rows with highlighting.
- Update default icons for action buttons.
User Experience
- Update the chip component for better "responsive" behavior, like great resizing.
- Update the header background color for the Device Simulator panel- it now matches the rest of the UI.
- Update the Tooltip component so that animations follow the direction the tooltip is pointing.
Fixed
Tracks
- Fix exporting issue that in some cases exported the wrong time span.
- Avoid triggering actions when dismissing the Daily Summary map context menu.
- Fix issue with the tracks vehicle context menu not setting predefined date intervals in the correct time zone.
User Experience
- Fix highlight (background color) on the selected item in the vehicle list.
Developer & System Administration
- Fix an issue that prevented server cleanup settings to be saved if the previous value was Keep forever.
Deprecated
SOAP for reporting is now removed. REST API should be used.
Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.
As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.
See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.
Tracks now features a great data overview plus a way to drill down to the data you need. The Daily Summary panel provides a bird's eye view of historical fleet data over longer periods. The track filters let you narrow down the data to see exactly what you need.
Check below for the full notes or read the blog for an overview.
Learn how to update your server.
New
Tracks
- Introducing the Tracks Daily Summary panel! You can quickly get a brief overview of historical fleet data over larger time spans. The Tracks panel now handles multiple time spans to support selecting multiple tracks from different days and vehicles in a daily summary and viewing them in the Tracks panel.
- Tracks can now be filtered! We added a track filter window for filtering track point data. It also filters the data in the Timeline view.
- Tracks time info is more detailed. The track point table now shows seconds when viewing times.
- Add support for opening trips with multiple, separate timespans in Charts from Daily Summary.
- Print detailed short time formats in tooltips.
- When inspecting a track point on the map, the tooltip now shows all available signal values.
Developer & System Administration
- Add SFTP support in the timer click script with username/password authentication. Note: we support username-password authentication. Host-based authentication is NOT supported.
- Add REST API to update basic properties of an application such as Name, Description, License limit, Localization, and more.
- Add REST API methods to check status and cancel a sent command.
- Add a privilege that controls the ability to Export POIs. (_ExportLocation).
- Indoor Positioning System moved to Server Administration -> Devices -> Indoor Positioning System. The menu item background color is now blue as the other options.
Device Plugins
We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.
- Concox
- DigitalMatter
- GalileoSky
- Globalmatix
- iStartek
- Queclink
- Ruptela
- Teltonika
- TopFly
- Ulbotech
Languages
The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, French, German, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
Improved
Tracks
- A vehicle(s) selected in both a Tracks panel and Charts will be the same color.
User Experience
- Improve UI appearance for customers using very dark brand colors.
Reporting
- Add UI support for time spans in reports.
Developer & System Administration
- Security improvements.
- License invoice history is now displayed with the most recent due invoice on top.
Fixed
Tracks
- Avoid closing Daily Summary context menu on vehicle updates.
Dispatch
- Fix a bug in Dispatch that displayed multiple "Pick job location" in the right-click menu.
User Experience
- Fix the Camera column icon not being displayed in the Vehicle list.
- The map is zoomed and positioned to show all your vehicles at first start again (if your Workspace has menu "Map->Zoom to view" enabled).
- Google Maps and MultiMonitor and right-click vehicle list works again for servers running Web UI versions greater than 5.0.0.6098.
- Mobile "/m" login works again.
- "Show on map" in Step 6 in Event Rule wizard works again.
Developer & System Administration
- Fix a bug with application branding color not being applied if no branding logo was uploaded.
- Fix Server Administration windows not getting localized window titles.
- Remove empty parentheses in the Product column for some products.
- Update of MySQL, including stability fixes for Geofence and Points Of Interest.
- Hytera AVLClient Service configuration fix.
Deprecated
Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.
As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.
See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.
The Charts feature is now available in Tracks! With Charts, you can view your data plotted on a graph. Graphed data can be easier for operators and managers to analyze because any outliers are quickly spotted. We've also moved more server administration settings in-app and added updating geofences to our REST API.
Read on for all the details!
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New
Tracks
- Charts is here! Charts is a new tool for visualizing your vehicle data.
- Make it easier to click on a trip on the map by increasing the click area.
Vehicle Status
- Pinned widgets now available in Vehicle Status (beta)! Pinned widgets replace marker attributes in the preview release.
- Background windows now come into focus if clicking the header again.
Developer & System Administration
- Move system messages in-app (previously in Site Admin) so site administrators can access it with the other server settings.
- License page moved from Site Admin to in-app.
- Move Active Directory settings page (previously in Site Admin).
- Add REST API for updating geofences.
- Add language and measurement to the application exposable in scripting.
Device Plugins
We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.
- Concox
- Eelink
- GalileoSky
- Geometris
- Globalmatix
- Meitrack
- Queclink
- Ruptela
- Teltonika
- TopFly
- Twig
Languages
The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Improved
User Experience
- Great UI updates provide a new and more modern look and feel to the entire application.
- Branding color is more prominent in the application.
- Make sure all selected items in report parameters are shown without horizontal scroll.
- Improve the way we calculate column sizes when adding a new table column.
- Improve the way we calculate the position of new table column(s).
Points of Interest
- Make POI search less fuzzy - ensure all search words are considered during search.
Developer & System Administration
- After you unlock server administration settings with your password, we keep the "unlocked" state for the duration of the user session. This removes the need to unlock it each time you open the window.
- The default (first created) Site Admin user gets added to all applications for easy in-app access to server administration settings. The default Site Admin user will also be added to all new applications when they're created.
- Add a check to prevent adding a default (first created) Site Admin user to application templates.
- A mistakenly added Site Admin user will be deleted from all application templates.
- Add IsInitialized flag to application in order to check application creation status.
- Reduce database load spikes when syncing reporting data for decoupled components (e.g. POI and geofences).
- Cleanup reports on disk 15 days after creation.
- Better error logging when an report fails to be emailed.
- Remove Google Maps key from url when generating a share location link.
Fixed
Vehicle Status
- Added missing Inter font. (BETA users have been seeing the wrong font, unless they already had it installed).
User Experience
- Fix slow geocoder that could make the UI not responsive.
- Fix issue that could lead to menus, tooltips, and similar components being positioned outside of the screen.
- Enable .woff2 Mime Type in IIS. Necessary to serve the new Inter font.
- Fix duplicated format options in the Create Report dialog.
- Fix an issue where moving or deleting overlapping polygon geofence vertices could sometimes become impossible, only creating additional vertices. Most obvious case: importing polygonal geofence data that use the relatively common practice of duplicating first and last vertex to close them.
Reporting
- Fix issue causing missing geofences for reporting (rare occurrence).
Developer & System Administration
- Fix issue with foreign key conflict (when changing the "save changes only" value and having multiple device mapper of same type).
- Fix a "Getting Started" toggle switch visual bug that caused it to always be enabled in server administration settings.
- Fix a bug that showed an empty "Admin" menu option for non-admin users. Admin features were not visible or accessible for non-admin users.
- Fix issue where changing sort order in email/SMS provider settings opens the edit window as you release the drag bar (Firefox).
- Fix issue where user could change email/SMS provider rows order without unlocking the page (Note: the changes could not be saved).
- Fix issue where the database connection did not automatically handle failover when using MySql database clusters such as AWS Aurora.
Deprecated
Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.
As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.
See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.