This release summary includes features added in updates 306 through 317 of the Episerver platform. Updates are cumulative, so the latest update always includes previous ones.
Support having models and templates defined in a separate delivery application.
Support semantic versioning of content types.
End users
Previously, A/B testing listened for LoadedContent and LoadedChildren even when no active tests were running, which could affect performance. This has now been changed so that performance is not affected when there are no active tests.
You can now disable, and re-enable, the A/B testing add-on from the user interface.
A new event called beta/epiReady was introduced in CMS UI 11.11.0. This story removes the beta stamp from this feature.
Removed the beta flag behind beta/domUpdated event and enabled automatic DOM updates for all users.
A beta event beta/contentSaved was introduced in CMS UI 10.12.0, to better support the On-Page Editing (OPE) experience for websites that want to handle the view on the client-side. The beta stamp is being removed.
Episerver Commerce
End users
Rework of the CSR user interface (Order Management screen) to improve usability.
You can quickly access a customer profile and update contact details from the CSR user interface (Order Management screen) by clicking Open Customer.
You can easily find a cart, order or payment plan from the CSR user interface (Order Management screen) by using different search criteria such as customer name, email, or order number.
You can directly create a purchase order from the CSR user interface (Order Management screen) by clicking Create Order in the Orders tab.
You can create exchange orders from the CSR user interface (Order Management screen) whether you have received the returned item.
A customer service representative can now process a return authorization and create a refund for a customer.
Episerver Campaign
Developers
The Shopware integration for Episerver Campaign supports Shopware Professional, Professional Plus and Enterprise 5.2-5.6. The integration covers features such as newsletter subscription and unsubscribes, transactional mails via HTTP API, and export of product catalogs into Episerver Campaign.
End users
Deep Analytics now uses HTML5 for displaying pivot tables. Previously, the built-in pivot table and chart component feature in Deep Analytics required Flash browser support that caused display issues.
In the Episerver Campaign start menu, the Episerver Reach menu item has been renamed to Personalization Portal. The Episerver Insight menu item has been renamed to Visitor Intelligence. In Smart Campaigns, the Insight segment node has been renamed to Segment node.
You can change the URL of the confirmation page the unsubscribe link points to. Open the Episerver Campaign start menu and select Administration > Unsubscribelink. Note that you need administrator rights in Episerver Campaign to use this feature.
The number of custom blacklists used in a Smart Campaign or for a Transactional mail can be configured per client. Customer support can set up a limit between 1 and 10.
You can create a tracking link of a URL within a velocity field function.
With the opt-in processes feature, you can create and manage opt-in processes and opt-in emails in the Episerver Campaign frontend.
You can use the Block node in transactional mails to exclude recipients who are on a custom blacklist.
Barcodes based on a recipient list field. You can use barcode images based on recipient list fields for coupons by using custom field functions.
Filter recipients by Insight segments.
In the Advanced node of the Marketing Automation, you can filter recipients by Insight segments (marketing segments created in Episerver Visitor Intelligence). Only recipients included in those segments are passed through the Marketing Automation campaign.
Episerver Personalization
End users
Addition of conditions/criteria to be able to set up triggers for specific products or categories only.
In the HTML, you can define the default image size sent for empty images that have no products. To do this, go to Email Product Recommendations > Campaign > HTML and preview.
Triggered Messages
You can fire in-session trigger campaigns based on locale. If your site supports multiple languages, you can send emails in the correct language. To do this, go to Triggered Messages > Campaign.
Campaigns using the ESP actions Add-to-Group or Remove-from-group now ignore both the campaign Contact Frequency and the Global Contact Frequency. The only limit to the number of triggers fired using these ESP actions is one per session.
Triggered Messages > Campaigns
Episerver Profile Store and Visitor Intelligence
The dependencies on CMS UI have been upgraded in Visitor Intelligence giving Visitor Intelligence a more consistent look with the Episerver platform.
A new navigation UI is available for accessing and working in Visitor Intelligence (Insight). This UI is consistent with other Episerver products.
You can use all previously tracked events for segmenting visitors based on historical data.
Episerver Forms
When using rich text (with placeholders) elements, the placeholders are often replaced with real form data in confirmation steps. In some cases, this can cause performance issues. Select the new option Disable placeholders replacement in the Settings tab of rich-text form elements to not replace placeholders with entered data in a following step. Instead, the default placeholder text will be displayed.
Form fields with a form field dependency are now hidden by default to make sure that they are not displayed before the Field Dependency Tracker runs.
Improvements made to form elements to fullfill WCAG 2.0 level AA compliance.
Episerver add-ons
A new add-on, Episerver Marketing Automation connector for Delivra, which provides support for Delivra and includes all functionality of other MAI connectors.
Episerver DXP (formerly Episerver DXC)
Episerver CMS
Episerver Commerce
Episerver Campaign
Episerver Personalization
Episerver Forms