Terminalfour: 8.4.5

General

Overview

We're excited to announce the release of Terminalfour 8.4.5. This release enhances the flexibility of HTML element configurations, introduces significant new capabilities for automated user provisioning, as well as many quality of life improvements and bugfixes.

Choose the right HTML editor configuration for the job

RDSM-38875

We have overhauled how HTML editors are managed within Content Types to give developers and editors more control.

Granular Editor Assignment: You can now choose a specific HTML editor configuration for each HTML element in a Content Type. This allows you to restrict formatting options (e.g., bold/italic only) for specific fields like "Teaser" while allowing full rich text for "Body" content.

Live Editor Preview: A new interactive preview in the when managing elements on a Content Type allows administrators to see exactly how the selected editor will appear to users before applying changes.

Usage Tracking: A new "Assigned to" column in the HTML Editor configuration list provides a detailed breakdown of which Content Types and elements are using each editor.

Automatic User & Group Provisioning

RDSM-37749

A major milestone in user management, allowing organizations to automate the creation, update, and deactivation of users and groups directly from Identity Providers like Microsoft Entra and Okta.

Instead of having to manually add or remove users (or relying on a sync with LDAP) you can now let your existing Identity Provider control who should get a Terminalfour account (and more importantly, who shouldn't!). 

Automated Lifecycle Management: Support for creating, updating, and soft-deleting (deactivating) users and groups via standard SCIM endpoints.

Conflict Detection & Claiming: Intelligent "soft-match" logic allows your Identity Provider to take ownership of existing Terminalfour users based on username or email, ensuring a smooth transition from manual management.

Attribute Mapping: Support for mapping standard user attributes from your Identity Provider as well as custom Terminalfour extensions, including User Type, UI Locale, and custom fields added with the Extended User Profile.

Last Login Tracking

RDSM-35012 - A new "Last login" column and field have been added to User Management, allowing administrators to identify inactive accounts at a glance .

You can sort by date and filter for suers who have never logged in.

Handlebars Improvements

RDSM-39744 - New Handlebars helper contentTypeId to access the currently processing Content Type ID.

RDSM-40102 - Manage Media Attributes with the new mediaAttribute Handlebars Helper.

RDSM-39637 - New helpers to output details about the currently processing Microsite and/or channel: siteId, siteName, siteDescription, sitePublishURL

Performance Optimizations

Significant improvements to Content Syncer execution times and more efficient file I/O operations in the content store.

Bug fixes and accessibility enhancements

Accessible Pagination: Navigation Objects (Pagination, Keyword Search, Publish to One) now generate fully accessible markup with appropriate ARIA labels and roles RDSM-39672.

Contrast Improvements: Updated UI elements, including drop-zone text and modal close buttons, to meet WCAG AA color contrast standards RDSM-38832, RDSM-38830.

Publishing: Fixed an issue where image variants could sometimes overwrite parent images or fail to publish correctly when using CDN RDSM-40219, RDSM-40206.

Content Syncer: Fixed a bug where stale mappings were retained after a column or table was removed from the external data source RDSM-40132, RDSM-40095.

Media Library: Fixed an issue where media category names containing ampersands would incorrectly display as "amp" in the UI RDSM-27468.

Deprecations Notices

XML API Payload: The XML payload for Web Services API is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Users are encouraged to migrate to JSON RDSM-40360.

Legacy Handlers: Several unused/legacy v7 handlers and brokers have been marked as deprecated in preparation for removal in version 8.4.6 RDSM-40272, RDSM-32771, RDSM-33941.