Releases

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.

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.

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.

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

• When viewing a trip on the map, click anywhere on the trip to show the closest track point to that location.
• Click on a track point in the track points table to show it on the map.
• It’s now possible to sort the columns in the track point list.
• Show confirm dialog when selecting a large dataset in the Tracks panel. This can help prevent you selecting a dataset that will take a long time to run.

Maps / ArcGIS

• ArcGIS Map can now handle maps hosted via enterprise Web Adaptor Portal URL:s.

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
• Fifotrack
• Galileosky
• Globalmatix
• Meitrack
• Suntech
• Teltonica
• TopFly
• Xexun

Languages

No language updates this month.

User Experience

• Selected/visible columns will always be sorted to the top of the context menu (table component improvement).
• Menu component now supports enabling a search/filter function for narrowing down menu options.

Maps / ArcGIS

• Updated to use ArcGIS API v4.21 for noticeable performance improvements. https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/4.21/.

Developer & System Administration

• Remove deprecated legacy mobile fleet settings page from Site Admin.
• Don't kill the connection to RabbitMQ server when RabbitMQ fails to confirm all messages.

User Experience

• Multimonitor bug fixes: Saving workspace which resulted in not being able to remove a popout from the workspace when using the multimonitor plugin; popout not being loaded in Safari.

POIs

• Re-add the ability to search custom POI fields.
• Fix infinite loop when using map search and using PointsOfInterest as Geocoder.
• POI fix version check for JSON column.

Tracks

• Fix playhead moving incorrectly in the tracks timeline view when dragged.
• Fix so that exports should now include data from visible columns.
• Fix Tracks API issues that made interactions between Tracks and Panels like Reporting, Events & Area Search stop working.
• Fix a case when User and Track Cleanup fails because some legacy unused tables are missing.
• Fix: add Address column to Tracks track point table if the _LiveAddressTrackPoints privilege is enabled.

Reporting

• Fix issue when rendering reports as PDF.

Vehicle Status (beta)

• Fix issue where the Vehicle Status popover is still visible even if the vehicle layer is hidden.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix a bug that caused SiteAdmin -> Maps -> Geocoders page to be empty or display an error.
• Do not show _Master role since it is not a user manageable role.
• Fix the device model-selector not showing properly.
• Fix settings issue when having EmailNotifier and/or TextNotifier causing failure for processing incoming device data.
• Replace occurrences of obsolete settings.

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.

Developer & System Administration

• Server administration is now accessed in-app! Site Administrators will have access to a new 'Server Administration' menu inside the application. Most settings found in Site Admin -> Settings have moved.
• New main menu design in tracking applications.
• Always show new Tracks version on page load. Changing back to Tracks (Legacy) version won't persist after a reload.
• More security in user creation: allow operators (or another role) to add new users of only pre-approved roles. Remove Empty (Advanced) user type and add option to create user type if none are available.
• Enable automatic updates of client resources: faster bug fixes and less downtime due to updates.
• REST: Add Device Last Activity to User Status REST.

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.

• Teltonika
• Queclink
• iStartek

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

POI

• Improve address lookup performance when having many POI Groups. Previously POI address lookup ignored "Use In Geocoding" settings and used all POI Groups as address source.

Tracks

• Localize tooltips in Tracks.

Developer & System Administration

• Improve the startup time of the service.
• Add translation for 'Under Construction' Information in Site Admin.
• Add "end" column to User Activity table in Site Admin.
• Expose OriginalApplicationID in Reporting Users query.
• Expose tasks under Commands Click Script.
• The default application branding color has been updated to a slightly darker blue.

User Experience

• Fix bug where the Vehicle status panel appeared empty in certain cases when switching applications.
• Fix bug where the events table isn't loaded due to an error with the columns order.

Maps

• Publish view works again (applies to Google Maps only).

POIs

• Fix missing POI geocoded address in the vehicle list in /m mobile site.
• Fix issue causing Archiving to fail when exporting POI data.
• Fix duplicated POI groups under POI related privileges in roles.
• Fix fetching shared POI categories through REST.
• Re-enable Save button on POI category.

Tracks

• Fix issue with tracks sometimes failing when entering large time intervals.

Reporting

• Fix slow loading of the Reports menu in VehicleTracker.
• Remove misleading information in dispatch import.
• Fix System.ArgumentNullException in Reporting Field Scripts.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix various upgrade routines not applied when updating from a version older than 5.0.0.1815.
• Fix privilege check for scripted message fields.
• Fix an issue that caused the login branding color to not be applied.
• Fix System.ArgumentNullException in Field Scripts.
• Fix Offline Expression event start time in cases the last send report from the device was invalid.

New Feature Fixes (recent beta)

• Fix missing search field for reports menu.
• Fix bug where the unlock button looks cut off in Server Administration Settings.
• Settings -> Localization -> Geocoding address format can now be edited again.
• Fix a bug that caused the "Leave page" popup to appear even after saving the Localization form in Server Administration Settings.
• Fix localization key for “Trigger time” in Server Administration -> Settings -> Cleanup page.
• Disable add SMS/Email button before unlocking.
• Add missing punctuation in settings and update some copy.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with last month's 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.

Maps

• ArcGIS layers can now also run on top of Google Maps! (previously, only the Native Map supported ArcGIS map layers) To use ArcGIS with Google Maps, you have to register for a Google "Map ID." Configure and read more under Site Admin > Maps > Google Maps.
• Map "peek" tool (press and hold "P") dims the ArcGIS layer and now also all Map UI to show the underlying map.

User Experience

• Add English UK measurement file.

Developer & System Administration

• Now you can select multiple outputs for a single device mapper script! Cases like a single long string of data needing to be split into many variables should be simpler to handle and have better performance if implemented with one script.
  To set: return { 'Var1': 12.3, 'Var2':false, 'Var3':'textabc' }
  Setting a single field works the same. Setting multiple outputs requires enabling the new script engine if not already enabled, in SiteAdmin>Settings>Scripts.
• Update .NET Framework from 4.7 to 4.8.
• Change library for serializing Avro data to the official Apache.Avro library.

Tracks 2.0 (beta)

• The default workspace is updated to use the new Tracks panel! Existing workspaces with a Tracks (Legacy) panel have also been updated to use the new Tracks panel. The legacy Tracks panel is available until its removal.
• We updated the naming to reflect the change: the former Tracks is now Tracks (Legacy) and the former Tracks 2.0 (Beta) is now Tracks.
• Updated the copy in the Tracks trip list summary.

Vehicle status (beta)

• Add Vehicle Status Templates. You can now customize the new Vehicle Status feature!
• Add an option to Edit/Create Vehicle Status templates by right-clicking the Vehicle Status.
• Clicking the event count in Vehicle Status now opens the Event panel.

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.

• Teltonika
• TopFly
• CalAmp
• ERM
• AstraTelematics
• Anytrek
• ATrack
• Queclink
• Joint
• WirelessLinks
• ORBCOMM
• Concox

Languages

The following language plugins have been updated over the past month: Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Maps

• Login session expire time is extended to 24h for ArcGIS Maps.

POI

• Add back bitmap icons to POI groups.
• Improve performance when getting POI.

Reporting

• Add geofence description as an event report argument.
• Rename reference "geofence tag"to "geofence group" in event report arguments.

Developer & System Administration

• Security improvements.
• Performance and stability improvements.
• Ensure RabbitMQ message backlog doesn't exceed 50k messages. Once limit is reached, messages are being disregarded.
• Geofence kml import improvement.
• Log the request when there is an exception (Geocodefarm).
• Make the Event Rule Wizard more resilient to lock timeout exceptions.
• Add SmsMessage to the iOS Tracker device mapper.

User Experience

• Fix bug on color picker.
• Fix MultiMonitor in Safari.
• Fix bug where action buttons referencing a click script wouldn't show.

Tracks

• Fix track export for tracks containing invalid altitudes.

POIs

• Fix possible NullReferenceException in Poi EventRules when a POI has been deleted.
• Fix POI service startup.
• Fix custom fields for POI categories shared between applications.

Reporting

• Fix (a tiny one!): fix one cell with the wrong border color in the FU1005 Fuel Refill Report (Detailed).
• Fix the Time On Site Report (TS1009) not rendering on some servers.

Developer & System Administration

• SAML: fix cross site request, some workspace saving & loading issues, and a typo.
• Fix GetTransientFieldScriptsByUser.
• geofence.find(lon,lat) in scripts without specified group, with group names included in returned geofence objects.
• POI: Fix custom field input rendering.
• Fix POI pagination in REST.
• Fix issue with adding/updating users through REST.
• Fix issue with logging in to Site Admin when still using SOAP services after SOAP deprecation (issue triggered by Db Connection starvation).
• Fix importing application templates with removed and renamed languages (ignore those errors).
• Fix a rare case of GpsGate Service crashing.

The new Tracks experience is now the default experience and Tracks (Legacy) is deprecated.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. We recommend updating your web browser.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Maps

• New Native Map officially replaces the legacy native map.

Developer & System Administration

• Added DeleteUser resource /applications/{applicationid:int}/users/{userid:long}
• Add endpoint for batch deleting geofences to the API.
• REST now supports numerical usernames longer than 12 characters.
• Add ownerId to GateMessageSlim.
• Expose APP_ID as template variable to event expressions.
• Add [OperatorUsername] variable for sending commands to device.

Tracks 2.0 (beta)

Lots of feature additions! You can check all of the great features here or see what's new for this month:

• Historical vehicle markers on the map: you can move historical vehicle markers by clicking and then dragging the playhead in the timeline. You can also click on a track point in the track points list.
• Export tracks from the panel.
• Check the brush chart (scroll bar) in the footer of the timeline to see if you've zoomed in on the timeline. You can also use it to drag and rescale the timeline.
• Select which tracks are visible on the map.
• Selected event rules are saved to the workspace, so you can pick back up where you left off the next time you log in.
• Some improvements and fixes for standstill icons and tracks.

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 device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• ATrack
• WirelessLinks
• Concox
• Astra Telematics
• Pacific Track
• EELINK
• ERM
• Teltonika
• Queclink
• Meitrack

Language Plugins

The following language plugins have been updated over the past month: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

If you have experienced a very slow workspace load, please re-save it after this update. We've been working hard this month to improve your experience and the load times.

We've also updated many report layouts and included some other tweaks.

Reporting

Updated report layouts for:

• BC1000 BreadCrumb
• DI1000 Completed Jobs
• FC1002 Fuel Consumption
• FC1003 Fuel Consumption Exceptions
• FU1004 Fuel Report (Daily)
• FU1005 Fuel Refill Report (Detailed)
• FU1006 Fuel Refill Report (Daily)
• MT1000 Maintenance Service History
• MT1001 Maintenance Service History (per tag)
• SG1000 Signal Report
• SG1001 Signal Report
• SY1000 System Report (Device Connection)
• SY1001 System Report (Device Valid Position)

User Experience

• Faster application loading.
• Faster display of vehicles in dynamic views based on event rules.

Developer & System Administration

• Improved filtering of incoming messages to reduce unnecessary and redundant data.
• Improved logging for database related errors.

User Experience

• Fix: the Custom Icon Select form now indicates which icon is currently selected.
• Fix an issue with using the MultiMonitor popout with Google Maps. Sometimes the vehicle marker text label could become misplaced and lose its background color - but not anymore.
• POIs

POIs

• Allow exporting POIs from all applications - not only the original application.
• Fix import of POI descriptions, fix returning of closest POI in reverse geocoding.
• Fix dragging POI on the map when edited.

Reporting

• Fixed Passenger Manager compatibility.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix a case when workspace would not load.
• Fix assembly redirects in AD and Saml logins.
• Fix issue with [OperatorUsername] variable.
• Do not fail GpsGate Http reports which cannot write back to an output stream due to a nonexistent network connection - this can be caused by delayed processing.
• Fix rare condition that could lead to server crash.

EX1000 Export POI - export POIs directly in applications.

Road Works - please use core GpsGate functionality instead of the Road Works plugin.

The legacy Native Map has been replaced with the new version as detailed in the review notes and blog.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

*Please note, as of August 17, 2021, GpsGate will remove support for Internet Explorer 11. We recommend updating web browsers prior to this date.