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Changelog & Release Notes

New releases, improvements, and notable changes to Flexopus.

2.6.0

General

  • Added: Assign QR codes to bookables
  • Added: Quick book option via QR codes
  • Added: Get live information about bookables via QR codes
  • Added: Google SSO support
  • Fixed: Various styling issues, minor usability improvements

Admin Side

  • Added: Publish/unpublish locations
  • Added: Better booking search by date
  • Added: Sort bookings by any column
  • Added: Show location for bookables in the search-by-bookable drop-down

Client Side

  • Added: Automated time selection for easier booking
  • Added: Show progress as steps for the booking process
  • Added: Possible to search for bookables by tags
  • Added: New search layout
  • Added: Show checked-in icon for bookings
  • Added: Profile picture cropping
  • Added: PWA loading screen and various PWA improvements
  • Fixed: Saving the user profile two times in a row is allowed without providing the password

2.5.0

General

  • Added: Email addresses of new users are now verified correctly with an email. The status is displayed in the status column in the user overview (active, unverified, disabled).
  • Fixed: The "Ghost User" used for statistics is now excluded from all search results.

Admin Side

  • Added: There is a new user role "Location Manager". Users can use this role to manage locations, view statistics and bookings of this location.
  • Added: A global timezone setting is added. Changing this, is currently disabled. The default timezone is "Europe/Berlin".

Client Side

  • Added: In addition to the list view of the bookings, there is now also a new calendar view for a better overview of the bookings.
  • Added: The booking location name is now visible in listings.
  • Added: Users can disable check-in notification emails in their profile settings.
  • Added: Installed Flexopus apps as PWAs now show a notification when there are new updates.
  • Fixed: Blocked parking spots are now visible on the map.
  • Fixed: The date picker in the mobile version is now consistent with the desktop version.
  • Fixed: The live map now correctly displays bookings in the future.

2.4.0

General

  • Added check-in notifications
  • Added fixed bookings to bookable objects. Administrators are able to assign users to bookable objects.

Client Side

  • Fix timezone time difference when searching for available bookable objects
  • Application will compress avatars before uploading
  • Bookable search result details are now refreshable
  • User bookings now shows booking count for each category
  • Application version upgrade now displays a popup

Admin Side

  • Fixed bookings
  • Add missing translations

2.3.0

  • Add custom domain hosting for instances. Instances can be hosted on any domain, not just Flexopus subdomains.
  • Fix “Save as Desktop App” feature.
  • Add status page: https://status.flexopus.com/

Client Side

  • Add booking editing function for existing bookings
  • Add colored tags for bookable results
  • Add number of bookables for settings/groups tables
  • Add empty results messages
  • Improve stability and usability of bookings
  • Improve map positioning for the “Show on Map” feature
  • Improve UI & Usability
  • Fix header jiggling on mobile resolution
  • Fix minor bugs

Admin Side

  • Add SVG map update for locations (only handles new bookable merge)
  • Add FAQ questions for better support
  • Add release notes for admin users
  • Add language selector
  • Add German, Russian, French, Hungarian, Romanian, and Turkish translations
  • Add CSV export for filtered bookings on the booking page
  • Add show password feature
  • Add meeting room size input for meeting rooms
  • Improve UI & Usability
  • Fix minor bugs and improve stability

2.2.0

  • Increase session lifetime from one day to one week
  • Change US based SMTP provider (SendGrid) to a Germany based SMTP provider (RapidMail - https://www.rapidmail.de/)

Client Side

  • Add password change feature for the profile settings
  • Add button to switch between admin and client side
  • Change calendar and location selection step in the booking workflow
  • Add delete avatar image feature
  • Add show password feature
  • Add black full screen confirmation page for delete booking.
  • Add error / success notifications
  • Move search button from the Top Navigation to Side Navigation
  • UI & Style changes
  • Password need to have at least 8 characters
  • Check for Email validity at the Reset Password input
  • Add language selector
  • Add German, Russian, French, Hungarian, Romanian and Turkish translations
  • Skip Location Selection if only one location exist
  • Table style fixing for Safari browsers
  • UI & Style changes

Admin Side

  • Add Microsoft Single Sign On
  • Add email whitelisting for SSO logins
  • Add default booking times for bookings
  • Add a different sidebar to the admin panel for better visual navigation between the admin and the client side
  • Do not allow other bookable select if there are unsaved change at the current selected bookable
  • UI & Style changes
  • Add app intern Data Policy and Imprint pages
  • Add last email sent info to the users table
  • Add delete user avatar feature for the user editing
  • Fix: past bookings switch is switching to the default value after the search.

2.1.0

Client Side

  • Add LIVE map module with timepicker, list view and map view.
  • Improve bookings conflict handling to display the red notification screen
  • Fix Login page alignment
  • UI & Style changes
  • Add date range booking
  • Add notification page for the not supported Microsoft Internet Explorer

Admin Side

  • Add CSV based user imports
  • Users invitations can be turned off and triggered manually by the admin --> Click on "Send User Password Reset"
  • Admin can not delete himself
  • Add available bookbales table to the location editing screen
  • Add last login info for the users table
  • Add anonymization of bookings after certain dates
  • Add resource groups for client access restriction for bookings
  • Activate analytics screen (space utilization / top and lowest performing places / overall seat usage, Heatmap)
  • Activate CheckIn & CheckOut functions with grace period
  • UI & Style changes

2.0.0

  • Initial release of Flexopus Version 2 including the client side and the admin side function to provide all Version 1 functionalities with improved usability and style
  • Introduce tenant based software architecture with separated databases for every client

Client Side

  • Improve Booking workflow (single days). location > time picker -> location selection -> booking
  • Add search for users and bookable objects
  • Add User and bookable detail screens
  • Add User settings (avatar / name / function / department / about me)
  • Responsive design (mobile / tablet / PC)

Admin Side

  • Location management: Name / SVG map with detailed SVG object handling (tags / description / names / status - free/blocked)
  • User management: Add new users / Edit existing users, List all users, grand app and admin rights
  • Booking management: All bookings in a interactive list table, assign booking to a specific user without restrictions
  • App settings: Add Logo, Company working hours