What's New in UI and Branding

OA-35806 "Add to cart" functionality did not work in the "old" experience.
OA-36560 A modal dialog had to wait for events such as submitPopup, _onHidePopup, cancelPopup, _cancelProcessing before closing.

Requirements

OSS 21.14 or later
BSS 21.14 or later
Payment Management 21.14 or later

UI and Branding 21.12.96 (September 21, 2023)

This release brings internal improvements only.

UI and Branding 21.11.64 (August 24, 2023)

This release includes internal improvements only.

UI and Branding 21.12.95 (August 10, 2023)

This release includes internal improvements only.

Requirements

OSS 21.12 or later
BSS 21.12 or later
Payment Management 21.12 or later

UI and Branding 21.11.60 (June 9, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-35090 Some API requests with OAuth authorization could fail.

Requirements

OSS 21.11 or later
BSS 21.11 or later
Payment Management 21.11 or later

UI and Branding 21.11.59 (May 19, 2023)

This release includes internal improvements only.

Requirements

OSS 21.11 or later
BSS 21.11 or later
Payment Management 21.11 or later

UI and Branding 21.10.124 (April 29, 2023)

This release includes the following improvement:

PFR-6555 UI and Branding now supports direct links for user authentication with an external IDP.

UI and Branding 21.10.123 (April 12, 2023)

This release contains internal improvements only.

Requirements

OSS 21.10 or later
BSS 21.10 or later
Payment Management 21.10 or later

UI and Branding 21.9.187 (March 10, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Features

OA-33651 Resellers who have Calendar Billing enabled can check its settings in UX1, under Settings > Calendar Billing.

Requirements

OSS 21.10 or later
BSS 21.10 or later
Payment Management 21.10 or later

UI and Branding 21.9.184 (January 13, 2023)

This release of UI and Branding brings the following improvement:

PFR-5932 UI and Branding now allows providers to configure a brand icon in the brand settings:

The icon can be used for meta tags and as the brand logo in the UX1 Panel when New Experience is switched on and the left navigation menu is collapsed:

The icon must be in PNG or JPG format with a resolution of 512x512px or higher.

Note: This functionality requires Identity Service 2.2-236 or later.

The following issues were fixed:
OA-31559 A blank page could be shown instead of Public Marketplace on mobile devices after upgrade.
OA-31460 A blank page could be shown instead of Public Marketplace when there was more than 1 locale configured.
OA-32010 Clicking a link for different services that were being activated led to the same service activation screen under Services in the customer control panel.
OA-32441 It was sometimes not possible to proceed to the last step of the UX1 Marketplace checkout wizard with New Experience enabled.
OA-29388 Several critical security vulnerabilities have been fixed in this release.
OA-31405 Subscriptions based on PLM plans were not grouped in the left navigation menu in the customer control panel.
OA-31987 The button to switch New Experience on was sometimes missing from the UX1 panel.
OA-31872 Navigation across different screens of the UX1 panel could be stuck in a loop with New Experience enabled.

Note: This release requires
OSS 21.9 or later
BSS 21.9 or later

UI and Branding 21.8.335 (November 18, 2022)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-32087 When a customer tried to open subscription details in UX1, details of a different subscription opened.

UI and Branding 21.8.334 (October 20, 2022)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-31723 Public Marketplace no longer shows a blank page on Mobile devices.

UI and Branding 21.8.333 (September 27, 2022)

This release brings the following changes and improvements:

Now, end customers with many subscriptions will not need to deal with an overload of navigation items in UX1. Instead, an account with five or more subscriptions will see the Services menu item, which displays a dashboard with all subscription-related navigation items. This significantly improves the left menu and simplifies the interaction with screens of services.

The Services dashboard consists of the following:
- Each item is a subscription navigation item, which was displayed at the top level of the main menu before.
- Items are divided into groups. Each group represents a Product line or a Service template.
- For extra large accounts (with many subscriptions), for navigational convenience, search can be performed on the screen.
The threshold amount for the navigation tree transformation is set by the provider globally for the whole system. If the provider wants to retain the previous behavior, they need to set a maximum value for this parameter.

Resolved issues:

OA-29098 The "Delete Skin" button was missing in the RCP.

UI and Branding 21.7.184 (September 20, 2022)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-31475 UX1 Marketplace was unavailable if two or more locales were configured for a brand.

UI and Branding 21.7.183 (September 9, 2022)

This is a patch release.

Contextual Help in UX1

In-panel contextual help is now supported in UX1 to assist both provider and reseller users in the most complex CloudBlue Commerce scenarios. Contextual help enables you to:

Access relevant help articles with one click,
Search for and read related articles without leaving UX1,
Rate articles and request new ones, and
It is all in your language: contextual help is in the same language as the panel.

Contextual help in UX1 is enabled system-wide by default with the upgrade of UI and Branding to version 21.7.183 and OSS to version 21.7.230. You can manage its availability using the OSS system property "Show context help".

This release includes the fix of the following issue:

OA-30568 Upgrade of a Connect product could not be performed from UX1 with New Experience enabled.

UI and Branding 21.7-177 (August 31, 2022)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-30912 The Branding-UI application version had an incorrect format.

Note: As of this version, PostgreSQL 13 can now be used for the database of this component.

UI and Branding 21.7-165 (August 1, 2022)

This release brings the following changes and improvements:

The ability to hide or display the New Experience toggle in the UX1 panel with the Enable new experience system property.

This release includes the following fixes:

OA-30411 Incorrect additional fonts were loaded from an application after switching to New experience.

UI and Branding 21.7-162 (July 21, 2022)

This release adds support for new features in CloudBlue Store 1.5 and Identity Service 2.1:

UX1 themes can now be obtained through CloudBlue Store. Read more in CloudBlue Store release notes.
You can now authenticate your users with an external IDP. Read more in Identity Service release notes.

UI and Branding 21.7-157 (July 1, 2022)

This release brings the following changes and improvements:

OA-30092 Support for Kubernetes v1.22 has been added.

UI and Branding 21.7.156 (June 17, 2022)

New Experience

CloudBlue Commerce is moving in line with the latest trends towards a clean and minimalist appearance, following the “less is more” principle. New Experience gives CloudBlue Commerce users negative space in the UX1 panel and helps them to focus on the content.

This is a pilot release of New Experience when providers, resellers, and customers can try the new functionality and share their feedback on our portal. The link to submit feedback will be available to all platform users in their control panel. In the next releases of the UI and Branding component, New Experience will be switched on by default for all CloudBlue Commerce partners.

In addition to a fresh look and feel, New Experience brings the following functional improvements to the UX1 panel:

Collapsible menu to increase your workspace when needed.
Multilevel menu in the left navigation pane. The second level menu in a separate space is gone, to make way for a single space offering a more efficient web experience, better navigation and findability.
Simplified access to your notifications in a unified drop-down menu. Now you can manage all your on-screen notifications in one place.
New control panel style:
- New look and feel
- New SVG icons in the left navigation pane. Now you can use trendy vector-based icons for your in-house built applications that are responsive to your design and provide extensive customization options.
  
  Note: Font Awesome icons are not supported in the new UX1 design. If an application has a Font Awesome icon, a default SVG icon will be displayed instead.

The transition to New Experience is reversible: you can easily switch it on and off at the top of your UX1 panel and come back to the previous UI experience if required.

Settings Menu Item

To offload less popular configuration settings and provide more workspace on the main screens, this release of the UI and Branding component brings the new Settings menu item in the left navigation pane. In Settings, you can now configure CloudBlue Store for Resellers and Exchange Rate plugins. In the next releases of CloudBlue Commerce, more components will be added to Settings.

Multi-Currency Support

This version adds support for new screens that are essential for multi-currency functionality work.

UI and Branding 21.6-85 (May 8, 2022)

This is a patch release.

This release brings some improvements for the Account Overview visualization report of the RDE module. They are required for the report representation. For this functionality, you need RDE version 3.7.39.

UI and Branding 21.6-82 (April 1, 2022)

This release brings the following changes and improvements:

Now, UI Framework supports a new kind of widget, charts. In the future, some CloudBlue Commerce components will have new functionality for visualization and analytics of system data, for which widgets will be used.

This release includes the following fixes:

OA-27136 The Sales Channels menu item was loaded too slow in UX1 for Resellers.

UI and Branding 21.5-255 (March 21, 2022)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-28057 End customers could not log in to their UX1 for Customers from a third-party system.

UI and Branding 21.5-254 (February 22, 2022)

This release brings the following changes and improvements:

Many new widgets were added to UI Kit and will be used to improve CloudBlue Commerce UI. For now, they are available for internal development only.
A number of security improvements have been implemented.

Fixed issues:

OA-23027 Brand update that launches after a hotfix installation could fail.
OA-26911 The Reporting and Data Export menu item did not fit the screen.
OA-27133 Loading of the Sales Channel screen in UX1 could take significant time for some resellers.
OA-27198 The Sign In button was unavailable in public marketplace.

Dependencies

This UI and Branding version has minimum version requirements for these components:

UI and Branding 21.4-174 (February 7, 2022)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-27318 In UX1 wizards, navigation buttons were not visible when resizing a browser window.
OA-27219 The sign-in button was not available in the Public store.

UI and Branding 21.4-168

This release brings the following change:

New capabilities and improvements in UX1 UI Framework.

This release includes the following fixes and improvements:

OA-25796 The icons/ directory of the HTTPD container of the branding-ui-cluster-ui Pod was indexed.
OA-22270 The Apache log format has been extended.

UI and Branding 21.3-10071

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-26380 A payment request that submitted and processed in WorldPay was failed in CloudBlue Commerce.

UI and Branding 21.3-10068

This release brings the following change:

Support for the Product Lifecycle Management component was added.

UI and Branding 21.3-10063

This patch brings new capabilities in UX1 UI Framework and security improvements.

UI and Branding 21.3

This release brings the following changes and improvements:

This component is now based on Red Hat Universal Base Images (UBI). These are lightweight and more secure operating system images as they contain a minimal set of software packages.
Support for the HTTP/2 protocol for existing and new brands has been added.
Users no longer miss notifications they receive while offline: when they log in to their panel, the notification bell indicates that there are missed notifications. Missed notifications appear as unread in the notification bar.
A number of security improvements were implemented.

This release includes the following fixes:

OA-24934 A reseller could not change a service plan for their child account’s subscriptions in UX1 if the subscription was based on the service template owned by that reseller.

UI and Branding 21.2-10005

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-25229 The branding-ui-cluster UI and HTTPD memory consumption has been optimized.

UI and Branding 21.2-10003

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-24899 In UX1, a reseller could not change a service plan for their child account’s subscriptions based on service templates owned by this reseller.

UI and Branding 21.2-4277

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-24767 UI Framework is now optimized.

UI and Branding 21.2-4273

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-24650 Native Integrations screens were not loading.

UI and Branding 21.2-4269

This is a patch release.

Fixes

OA-24371 Improved UX1 screen loading performance when navigation customizations are being used.

UI and Branding 21.2-4258

This release brings the following changes and improvements:

PFR-4652 Hosting CP are no longer supported. All customers must use the UX1 Panel for Customers instead.
OA-23252 Now UI and Branding component consumes less memory resources.