Terminalfour: 8.4.2

General

Overview

We're delighted to introduce Terminalfour 8.4.2. This release brings some exciting new product improvements including an all new accessibility reporting tool; improved security; Handlebars improvements; and improvements to the External Content Sync Tool.

Keep reading below to learn more about what's involved.

All New Accessibility Reporting Tool

RDSM-38769

We're introducing an all new Accessibility Reporting Tool to Terminalfour. This report allows you to check your pages to ensure they meet the WCAG guidelines, giving you the peace of mind that your pages can be accessed by all users. These checks happen against your pending content, so you can be sure you meet accessibility requirements before publishing your site.

The detailed report can be run from the Site Structure, Direct Edit, and even from the Content listing page for Fulltext content.

When you run the report it will instantaneously provide a detailed breakdown of all accessibility issues on the page broken down by severity.

Your page will be displayed inline next to the report and you will be able to jump to directly the part of the page that contains the issue.

Reports can be shared with colleagues and include a link to the published page.

Handlebars Improvements

RDSM-37704

Since the release of Handlebars in Terminalfour 8.3.19 the feedback has been fantastic. Each release of Terminalfour since then has added improvements and enhanced functionality based on your feedback.

This release of Terminalfour introduces a new UI so that you can quickly and easily generate Handlebars Expressions via the UI.

If you're familiar with the T4 Tag generator, you'll know exactly how this works.

We've also introduced some new Helpers to give you even more functionality. Check out our new guide to see what's the powerful new possibilities enabled by the new linkTarget Helper.

Multi Factor Authentication for local and LDAP users

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While Multi Factor Authentication has always been possible in Terminalfour if you were using your own Identity Provider, this release of Terminalfour allows you to require MFA for local/LDAP users as well.

If you use the Terminalfour login page to access Terminalfour your admin can now enable MFA and an additional code will be sent to your email when you log into the Terminalfour Platform.

To enable Multi Factor Authentication for all local/LDAP accounts, go to "Administration > Settings > Users and Workflow" and make sure "Enable MFA" is checked. 

External Content Syncer Enhancements

RDSM-34339

The external content syncer is a great way to pull content in from a source of truth that is outside of the Terminalfour Platform and keep it in sync.

However, it's always been harder than it should have been to schedule these syncs. Separate Syncs were required to Add new content and Remove or update existing content.

Now, from 8.4.2 there's a new sync type called "Full sync" that will do exactly that, ensure the content in Terminalfour matches the content in the data source, all in a single sync operation.

Improved Ellucian Ethos Syncing

RDSM-39109

This release also improves the Ellucian Ethos Integration with the External Content Sync tool.

The external content sync can now paginate over all results returned by Ethos meaning everything can be synced in a single action.

Preview Restrictor

RDSM-34339

We now give you more control over which logged in users are allowed to preview pages. You can restrict preview on Access Controlled sections, or restrict preview on all sections to just those users with edit rights.

By default this new Preview Restrictor is disabled by default. It can be enabled by visiting: Administration > Settings > Preview & Publish.

Performance Improvements

Media Library Performance

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Media Library Performance has been significantly improved when users are in lots of groups. We've seen improvements of up to 40% in page load time for these users.

Reset Content Performance

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When choosing to Reset content from the channels listing page, this modal now opens up to 10 times faster than in previous versions

Other Improvements

• Many accessibility improvements including improved screen reader support.
  • See the table below for full details
• RDSM-39107 - HTML Package improvements. A number of small improvements to make HTML migrations easier
• RDSM-37633 - We now record more information in the Audit Trail when a Assets are deleted (such as its ID)
• RDSM-38960 - Inserting new Media into content can cause hidden elements to display when they should be hidden
• RDSM-38511 - Lists can sometimes become uneditable if they were originally created by a Form that is no longer in use
• RDSM-37907 - Quotes in section names can break section links in TinyMCE

Deprecation Notice

We're announcing that Clustering is being marked as deprecated from this release. You can learn more information by visiting our Deprecation page.