Viz Mosart NCS Plugin Release Notes

NCS Plugin 1.2

These are the release notes for the component Mosart NCS Plugin 1.2. This document describes the user-visible changes that have been made to the software since version 1.1.

This release addresses several shortcomings of the previous release, providing additional user features.
Your feedback is appreciated, as are feature requests and any comments about both the product and its documentation.

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New Features and Improvements

Visual redesign

  • The UI has a compact style, making it easier to operate.

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List all templates

  • To improve searching among your templates, selecting ALL option displays the entire set.

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Auto-suggest search

  • Additional improvements to searching; While you type, the hit list automatically populate with results.

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Compact mode

  • Create a comfortable working space in your NCS by collapsing the the Template Types panel of the Mosart NCS Plugin.
    The panel auto-collapses when the width of the UI prevents all template details from displaying.

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One time client configuration

  • The Mosart REST API host and the MosId can now be configured through the URL. You no longer have to perform this configuration in each client.

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Help menu

  • A new Help menu provides quick access to documentation, these release notes and access to a feedback mail address.

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Bundle installer

  • A new bundle installer makes it easier to install required component.

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Bug fixes

  • Template drag and drop was limited to iNEWS. Now works in other NRCSs.

  • Major performance improvement when using the plugin with Internet Explorer.

  • Switching a template set could prevent accurate selection of template type. That is now corrected.

System Requirements

General

  • ASP.NET Core 3.1 Hosting Bundle

  • Microsoft Windows 10

Supported NRCS

The NCS Plugin supports connections to

  • ENPS 9.0 or later.

  • iNEWS 4.0 or later.

Note:
- Initial investigations show that the NCS Plugin also works with OpenMedia. However this connection is currently not officially supported by Vizrt.

- The NCS Plugin does not currently support connections to the Octopus NRCS.

Documentation

Documentation for Mosart NCS Plugin is available at the Vizrt Documentation Center: http://docs.vizrt.com/viz-mosart.html
and in the UI under the Question mark icon.

Support

Support is available at the Vizrt Support Portal.