SmarterTrack Release Notes and Version History

Build 8367 (Nov 30, 2022)

  • Changed: Bootstrap updated to the latest version. (Used for the portal.)
  • Changed: Community Top Poster list now excludes deleted users.
  • Fixed: Adding a second Event action causes the first action to disappear, even though it is still a part of the Event.
  • Fixed: An issue where the default ticket doesn't display properly on a new installation until the page is refreshed.
  • Fixed: Inconsistent use of animated and plain Loading messages.
  • Fixed: Portal Settings for users and agents in the management interface lacks survey related setting that is present on the portal side.
  • Fixed: Scheduled email reports occasionally open inside of an iFrame.
  • Fixed: Selecting a date in the calendar date picker breaks tabbing.
  • Fixed: The Chat Idle and Chat Duration warnings are not displaying properly.
  • Fixed: When a user re-opens their browser during an active live chat they need to select a department again.
  • Fixed: When importing EML files, SmarterTrack says image encoding is not supported.
  • Efficiency: Added cleanup routines for some logs and user timings to help reduce overall database usage.
  • Efficiency: Updated how certain items are cached to improve overall performance.
  • Efficiency: Updated several Javascript events to help reduce page load and improve navigation speed.

Build 8334 (Oct 26, 2022)

  • Added: OAuth2 POP support for shared mailboxes on Exchange Online environments. (I.e., Office365/Microsoft 365, Hotmail, etc.)
  • Changed: POP failed login events now fire after 3 login failures.
  • Changed: The role permissions page is now dual column.
  • Removed: IP address from the top of the survey results page.
  • Fixed: Cursor jumping around when composing a message.
  • Fixed: Deleted Live Chats still show the delete button, but not the undelete button.
  • Fixed: Hitting enter when composing a message sometimes adds or removes a new line in a wrong/random location.
  • Fixed: Live chat colors are not being used consistently across the Live Chat themes.
  • Fixed: Mobile ticket search by ticket number returns multiples of the same ticket.
  • Fixed: Related Time Logs are now purged from the database along with their associated ticket, chat, etc.
  • Fixed: SmarterTrack Communicator opens call logs in IE, disregarding the default browser.
  • Fixed: The editor's dropdown menu size overflows on smaller window sizes.
  • Fixed: When adding an attachment to a knowledge base article during editing, the attachment link breaks after saving.
  • Fixed: When moving between active, waiting, and closed, the tab counters briefly display a 0.
  • Fixed: While composing a new ticket, editing a comment pops up as a new comment instead of an edit.
  • Efficiency: Improved speed and performance of loading completed live chats.

Build 8312 (Oct 5, 2022)

  • Added: Focus-visible styling to support keyboard navigation.
  • Added: If the browser blocks a popup, a modal appears asking to allow popups.
  • Added: Role configuration options for Canned Replies.
  • Changed: Private, Draft, and Flagged icons now appear on the KB list, and in the article on the portal.
  • Fixed: Confirmation modals are not repositioning properly when screen sizes change.
  • Fixed: Drop-down Custom Field shows blank/empty option when using Advanced Search.
  • Fixed: Insert Canned reply modal list is not updating when trying to search.
  • Fixed: Modals are not sizing/moving properly when the screen is resized.
  • Fixed: Moderated community posts are disappearing even if they're approved.
  • Fixed: Oddities regarding Safari's interpretation of "focus:visible".
  • Fixed: Reports are not translating the Group column if group names use translatable strings.
  • Fixed: The Active Agents area is not properly hiding/showing for Administrator-only accounts.
  • Fixed: The Preview tab that appears when creating a new survey does not properly display a preview of the Questions that are being added/removed until it is saved.
  • Fixed: When a new department is created, the Ticket, Chat and Call Log templates are not properly set to the Default templates.
  • Fixed: When an Administrator account does not have the Agent role, the Live Chats area appears, but is completely blank.

Build 8290 (Sep 14, 2022)

  • Added: [%TICKETNUMBER%] variable can now be included in the message shown after a ticket is submitted via the Portal.
  • Added: Portal colors can now be easily modified on a Brand's Portal tab.
  • Added: Sorting button for advanced search results when not searching by a "Search String".
  • Changed: "SmarterTrack Mobile App" in the avatar menu updated to "SmarterTrack Mobile".
  • Changed: Buttons that "save" or "add" settings now named consistently across the Management Interface.
  • Changed: Community post titles can now be up to 150 characters.
  • Changed: Custom messages now display default text, which can be changed as needed.
  • Changed: Light and Dark mode setting is now stored completely on the browser, and switching between them is significantly faster.
  • Changed: Miscellaneous dark theme changes to improve usability.
  • Changed: Multiline translatable text areas are now styled more consistently with HTML editors.
  • Changed: Renamed several tabs across the Management Interface to be more descriptive.
  • Changed: Reports section now default to a blank placeholder page on initial navigation, similar to other sections.
  • Changed: SMTP and POP Test buttons now notify a user that a test is being performed.
  • Changed: Tab-dependent buttons were moved to the ends of button lists, making them easier to identify.
  • Changed: The size of several content popups was increased to fit better when using Safari.
  • Fixed: "Agent is typing" message does not appear properly on command-line live chat link style.
  • Fixed: Administrator-only users currently see a global New menu without elements.
  • Fixed: An Event for when a ticket is transferred doesn't trigger if the transfer was initiated by a Ticket Created Event.
  • Fixed: Conversation tab popup for editing custom field values is not formatted properly.
  • Fixed: Deleting an agent completes successfully, but the modal does not close.
  • Fixed: Enabling Detailed Logs causes the logs tab to lose contents until the page is refreshed.
  • Fixed: In Groups, the first user in the list can not be edited.
  • Fixed: In Who's On events, Conditions and Action variables related to live chat invites were still showing, even though that functionality has been removed.
  • Fixed: Issue where it's not possible to un-delete chats.
  • Fixed: Marking a community comment as a resolution is failing.
  • Fixed: Mobile link images should not be user-selectable.
  • Fixed: Modals for related surveys and time logs were not always showing.
  • Fixed: New Live Chat Links were not setting default colors properly.
  • Fixed: New Live Chat Links were selecting the wrong default images.
  • Fixed: News item does not enforce a subject being required in order to be created.
  • Fixed: No message appears if a department disallows tickets submitted via the portal when live chat is in offline mode.
  • Fixed: Saving a new custom Role without a name shows a persistent spinner.
  • Fixed: SMTP/POP modal buttons flicker when the modals load.
  • Fixed: Some live chat link styles do not show up as the hyperlink colors when sent through chat.
  • Fixed: Some setting and search controls were showing misaligned in Safari.
  • Fixed: Subject is being changed/truncated when "re:" is in the subject.
  • Fixed: Survey and Form pages have extra margins around their settings.
  • Fixed: Tags will not save for Community posts when using MySQL Server 8.0.30.
  • Fixed: The Custom Field > Template setting for "Required for Agents to close tickets" is being enforced when deleting tickets.
  • Fixed: Ticket numbers sent through chat are not hyperlinked properly.
  • Fixed: When a chat in Queue is ended because the last available agent goes Unavailable, the chat can only be found in the management interface when using Advanced Search by Queue.
  • Fixed: When clicking on the Chat in Queue menu bar alert, the live chat shows in the list and preview panes, but the nav pane shows "My Active" selected, not the "Queue".
  • Fixed: When selecting a specific brand when adding a Knowledge Base article, it will now save properly.
  • Fixed: When sending a ticket reply, embedded videos do not show in HTML view or in the ticket reply, even though it does get sent.
  • Fixed: When you change the POP > Encryption setting to TLS and click on Test, it takes too long time to return the result.
  • Fixed: Who’s On button bar was improperly resizing when switching tabs.

Build 8277 (Aug 30, 2022)

  • Fixed: An issue where live chat displays an empty chat interface when chat is offline.
  • Fixed: Default offline message for live chat is incorrect when only one department is configured.
  • Fixed: KB Search isn't navigating correctly when live chat is offline.
  • Fixed: The submit button that displays when submitting a ticket via live chat link isn't consistent with other pages.

Build 8271 (Aug 24, 2022)

  • IMPORTANT: Added Microsoft OAuth2 support for POP and SMTP accounts.
  • IMPORTANT: Introducing the SmarterTrack Mobile app, available for iOS and Android devices.
  • IMPORTANT: Feature icons in the management interface consolidated into a dropdown menu for easier identification.
  • IMPORTANT: Management interface better adapts to small monitors.
  • IMPORTANT: Management interface refreshed and more modern.
  • Added: Live chat links now offer customizable colors.
  • Added: Pop out icons to areas that did not already have them.
  • Added: Refresh button for the Spool settings page.
  • Changed: "Forward to" is now "Copy To" when configuring agents for Quality Control.
  • Changed: Active Groups renamed to My Groups.
  • Changed: Adjusted the order of the role options to be more consistent between agent and user roles.
  • Changed: Advanced Search moved back under the various My sections. (I.e., My Tickets, My Tasks)
  • Changed: Arrow navigation replaced with a keyboard shortcut (ctrl + up/down arrows).
  • Changed: Attachments for live chat stored as attachments, not hyperlinks.
  • Changed: Built-in Custom Fields are now indicated on the custom fields page.
  • Changed: Business hours modal now shows the day of the week in the title.
  • Changed: Button styling on the Portal updated to be more consistent with the rest of the new interface.
  • Changed: Dashboards renamed to Active Agents.
  • Changed: Date/time picker icons updated to be more modern.
  • Changed: Default text edited for consistency and conciseness.
  • Changed: Google Analytics Site ID updated to accept either GA3 or GA4 tracking code.
  • Changed: Groups for Agents/Administrators are now sorted in order by Brand/Department/Group.
  • Changed: Live chat end user interface updated to use modern standards with expanded user functionality.
  • Changed: Moved filters (e.g., Active, Waiting, Closed) to top of the ticket/call log/task lists.
  • Changed: Moved the pop out button to the menu bar in tickets, chats, call logs, and tasks.
  • Changed: Pulse effect was removed for warning boxes.
  • Changed: Required fields now prevent the setup wizard from finishing if they are left blank.
  • Changed: Settings pages now utilize wide grids, not side-by-sides.
  • Changed: Setup wizard help links now point to more relevant areas of the help documentation.
  • Changed: Tabs only render when there are items associated with them, where possible.
  • Changed: The "Also viewing" icon now matches the rest of the product.
  • Changed: The "Preview" tab was moved to the end for Forms and Surveys.
  • Changed: The color picker was updated to use the native browser color picker.
  • Changed: The tab dropdown now matches the Actions drop down on a ticket.
  • Changed: The text for pages with no items was updated to "No items to show" or "No items to show for this view".
  • Changed: Updated the embedded live chat to be much more efficient.
  • Changed: User's role moved underneath their name in the management interface avatar menu.
  • Changed: Waiting in queue custom message is now independent of the position in queue message for chat, allowing for more user friendly messages.
  • Changed: When editing Roles, feature tabs are now hidden unless the permission is set to "Custom".
  • Removed: flashing line on Alert/Reminder popups.
  • Removed: Invite to Chat for Who's On.
  • Removed: Queue as an Active Agent, to avoid confusion.
  • Fixed: "No Items To Show For This View" watermark should not be selectable.
  • Fixed: A scrollbar appears when attempting to email a transcript of a completed chat.
  • Fixed: Adding internal attachments to tickets doesn't work.
  • Fixed: Advanced Search for Knowledge Base is not displayed in the correct spot.
  • Fixed: After an upgrade, the CSP isn't adding Google Tag Manager until the Security tab is loaded and saved.
  • Fixed: Agents with read-only permissions for Users/Organizations can still add Organizations.
  • Fixed: An "Invalid Cast" exception when auto-purging tickets from the database.
  • Fixed: An agent is unable to change their password when using the “Change Password” button in My Preferences.
  • Fixed: An issue that can cause the auto-responder images to be broken on delivery.
  • Fixed: An issue that caused too much space to be shown at the bottom of a ticket messages.
  • Fixed: An issue that could list "bad file extension" as the cause for a ticket failing to deliver.
  • Fixed: An issue where chats are duplicated to other instances.
  • Fixed: Attempting to add another event action, after other event actions have been added and saved, results in a permanent spinner.
  • Fixed: Attempting to create a new task from a call log results in a spinning "Oops!" page in the modal.
  • Fixed: Attempting to save a KB article containing inline images causes errors.
  • Fixed: Call log times are not being shown correctly when editing a log.
  • Fixed: Chats show users they are next in line when, in fact, they are not.
  • Fixed: Clicking on the left of an arrow in the navigation tree isn't navigating to that section.
  • Fixed: Dark theme for live chat updated so some items are easier to read.
  • Fixed: Diagnostics page does not show scrollbars appropriately.
  • Fixed: Disabling “Allow end users to send attachments” fails to prevent users from sending attachments until the page is refreshed.
  • Fixed: Events for knowledge base articles are not working.
  • Fixed: Global font setting is not being applied properly.
  • Fixed: Grids in popup modals don't follow the background color of the modal.
  • Fixed: Help text that is connected to a grid wraps.
  • Fixed: Highlighting text in the compose area scrolls the window to the top of the composed message.
  • Fixed: If a ticket contains a draft, the "Transfer Draft with Ticket" option causes the transfer and follow-up modals to contain a scrollbar.
  • Fixed: If a tree item has children and no navigation, it should collapse/expand on click.
  • Fixed: In Chrome for Mac, dropdown navigation isn't centered vertically.
  • Fixed: In light mode you can't see the month-change arrows for the date picker.
  • Fixed: In the Autoresponder > Departments tab, departments are listed in the order of creation rather than alphabetically.
  • Fixed: Issue that could cause the priority values of a ticket to not match the selected priority.
  • Fixed: It's not possible to add multiple related items to a ticket, chat, etc.
  • Fixed: It's possible to save a comment with no body text.
  • Fixed: Long ticket subject and narrower resolution causes "active" and "duration" labels to wrap around.
  • Fixed: Message compose text should not be remembered between live chat sessions.
  • Fixed: Modal popup windows have been sized to fit their contents better.
  • Fixed: Multi-line custom fields on the advanced search page are rendering as multiple lines.
  • Fixed: Navigation to some sections are not highlighting the correct views on the initial navigation.
  • Fixed: New User popup doesn't scroll properly on first load.
  • Fixed: Opening a Call Log window from the User Details page shows an empty Call Log page.
  • Fixed: Organization ticket counts displayed on the portal don't match the number of tickets displayed on the management interface.
  • Fixed: Overdue followup text isn't apparent enough.
  • Fixed: Pop out button still shows in a popped out window for Users/Organizations pages.
  • Fixed: Portal user summary is formatted incorrectly on narrow mode.
  • Fixed: Refreshing the page when in the chat queue restarts the whole chat creation process.
  • Fixed: Report selection label on Scheduled Email Reports is incorrect.
  • Fixed: Scheduled email reports don't show an error when saving without require fields filled out.
  • Fixed: Some messages with encoded file names fail to import properly.
  • Fixed: Some of the links/Urls in the site do not handle subwebs properly.
  • Fixed: The "Add" button isn't working when creating a ticket.
  • Fixed: The "Agent-Group Relationship" modal Options header is always visible even when the selected agent is not a member of the group.
  • Fixed: The "Clear" button in Advanced Search for Tasks does not work.
  • Fixed: The agent side of the Live Chat is encoding the username incorrectly.
  • Fixed: The Details tab for a User is not consistent with My Preferences.
  • Fixed: The icons on the portal homepage break when the screen width is at exactly 767 pixels.
  • Fixed: The organization list is not updating when a new organization is created.
  • Fixed: The primary color is not being applied in the live chat link preview when entering the color.
  • Fixed: The sizing of the interface is broken when zooming in, then zooming back out.
  • Fixed: The top tabs sometimes display double their counts until the page is refreshed.
  • Fixed: Time picker is showing the minutes under the hour instead of next to it.
  • Fixed: Timing on the database setup wizard sometimes causes an error on database creation.
  • Fixed: Uploading an attachment to a ticket reply or on a new ticket can fail its upload and is lost when the ticket is sent.
  • Fixed: User details page breaks if there are too many tickets.
  • Fixed: Users count when looking at Roles is not excluding deleted users.
  • Fixed: Various reports were not aligned properly.
  • Fixed: When a user closes their window with the live chat on it, the live chat does not show as disconnected.
  • Fixed: When agents chat with themselves, the chat bubbles are no longer the same color.
  • Fixed: When editing a live chat link on a nested directory the image becomes broken.
  • Fixed: When on the KB page of the live chat, refreshing takes you to a blank page.
  • Fixed: When setting a followup to Waiting, the followup counter on the left doesn't change.
  • Fixed: When you close a ticket and send the survey the "OOPS!" page appears when you click the link.
  • Fixed: When you edit a Task that's related to a Call Log, and use the Agent dropdown to select an agent, saving the task results in an endless spinner in the pop out window.
  • Fixed: When you open a task from the Related Items tab of a Ticket, Call Log, or Live Chat, the modal shows the Related Items field as an editable field.
  • Efficiency: Updated how the ticket and live chat timers work resulting in far less CPU usage.
  • Security: Fixed potential vulnerabilities. It is recommended to update to this version or higher.
  • Translations: Updated the German translations file.

Build 8158 (May 4, 2022)

  • Fixed: Agent/User with email address in all capital letters is unable to submit or reply to tickets.
  • Security: Certain Company Website values were causing the Content Security Policy (CSP) to generate incorrectly and break the portal.

Build 8146 (Apr 21, 2022)

  • Fixed: An issue that, in some cases, caused the Organization page to not load if members were created using a phone number.
  • Security: Fixed potential vulnerability. It is recommended to update to this version or higher.

Build 8125 (Mar 31, 2022)

  • Removed: Unused sort options in Tasks.
  • Fixed: A situation where encoded attachment filenames and split filenames are not being handled properly.
  • Fixed: An issue that could cause spaces being added to attachment extensions.
  • Fixed: An issue that could cause surveys to not send after a ticket is closed.
  • Fixed: iPhone incorrectly identified in Live Chats and is shown as a Mac OSX device.
  • Fixed: Margins are not set properly when using "Tab" as the chat link Display Type and multiple lines of text.
  • Fixed: Some replies are being truncated when sent for tickets that contain certain special characters.
  • Fixed: The Call Log API is not properly handling a call's start/end times.
  • Fixed: The sort order is reset for Canned Replies when the page is refreshed.
  • Fixed: When adding a new ticket to a live chat, the ticket initially has incorrect Custom Fields options.
  • Efficiency: Reduced the frequency of database calls for certain areas.

Build 8102 (Mar 8, 2022)

  • Fixed: Issue with MySQL startup occasionally causing threads not to start.

Build 8097 (Mar 3, 2022)

  • Changed: POP logic to help prevent duplicate tickets when the original email is edited.
  • Removed: Unused tables from the database.
  • Fixed: Clicking Cancel on the "Mark All As Read" dialog in the Community results in loss of button.
  • Fixed: Event action variable "#body#" does not work when the ticket is created from the portal.
  • Fixed: If a live chat is assigned to the Queue, it does not appear on the Live Chats tab in the User Details window.
  • Fixed: Issues with the API call for creating new tickets when the tickets use plain text for the body.
  • Fixed: KB Searches trend report does not group by month correctly.
  • Fixed: KB Searches trend report does not group by quarter correctly.
  • Fixed: Maria DB 10.6.5 does not work with SmarterTrack.
  • Fixed: The portal's "Mark All As Read" modal body text does not use the custom text color set for the portal.
  • Fixed: When the default value is not set for the Date, Date&Time, or Time Custom Fields, nothing is displayed for the Custom Field in the management interface.
  • Efficiency: Increased speed of some of the most common background tasks.
  • Efficiency: Several instances of excessive database queries were removed.
  • Efficiency: Updated database indexes leading to an increase in performance.
  • Efficiency: Updated the auto-clean process to include UserWebSessions.

Build 8075 (Feb 9, 2022)

  • Added: Support for SmarterTrack Mobile. More information can be found in the SmarterTools Community.
  • Changed: Agent Web Sessions audit report will now go back up to 24 months
  • Changed: Chat in queue notification was is now more visible/noticeable.
  • Changed: Enabling lock tracing now takes effect without a service restart
  • Changed: Improved the persistence of Chat sessions during IIS resets.
  • Fixed: "Clear Formatting" button in editor shows as "Cell Formatting" when SmarterTrack language is set to UK.
  • Fixed: HTML styling isn't applied to "AddMessageToTicket" API call for agent messages.
  • Fixed: Number of brand-specific tickets is incorrectly displayed when navigating to the Management Interface from new tab.
  • Fixed: Reassigning a chat when an agent is disconnected does not work properly.
  • Fixed: SmarterTrack Portal is showing ticket alerts even if the ticket section is not available on the portal.
  • Fixed: Submit button for ending a user live chat isn't sized properly in some browsers.
  • Fixed: When closing a ticket using the Send and Transfer option, missing a required custom field does not prevent the reply from being sent, but keeps the compose window open.
  • Fixed: When using two connected SmarterTrack Instances and Transferring a ticket with an Anonymous user the name for the user becomes NA.
  • Security: Fixed potential vulnerability.
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