In brief: Version 1.1.0 is a rollup version, with numberous optimizations and improvements. In particular, this version offers better help to track down device network, content server and logging server challenges.
Added, changed or removed feature | Requires changes in MDM data? | Importance |
Requires minimum iOS 16.1. Please contact us for a version that can work with version 15 or 14. | – | – |
Changed: Login to device settings password field is moved on top of the admin login popup, to avoid virtual keyboard covering the field on smaller iPads during password entry. A show/hide button is added to the password field, for check of password entry before logging in. A standard popup shake is included to signal invalid password entered. (1) | * No | * MEDIUM |
Added: Detection of blank pages in case of missing response from server page, for instance in case of network outages and empty page cache (restarted iPad, or dynamically loaded content). The blank page alert is presented in a locally loaded web page. User is informed using a defineable replacement web page, with overrideable default definitions in up to five languages. The default is as usual: English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Hindi and Bengali. Please refer to key/value pairs ErrTitl0-1 and ErrText0-1 up to ErrTitl0-5 and ErrText0-5. (2) | * Yes | |
Added: Display of IP address information & stats summary in settings login popup (see screenshot below) (2) | ||
Added: Transfer of heartbeat statistics via heartbeat messages, covering both absolute numbers (since start of app) for successful and failed heartbeat message transfers, and relative to last failed or successful message. (3) | * No | |
Please see Release notes for ManagdWALplus, version 1.0.67 for important information still valid for version 1.1.1. | No | Low |
* New key/value pairs are introduced, but sensible defaults are present, unless languages other than English, Chinese, Spanish, Hindi or Bengali are needed to localize any help texts and similar.
(1) Please remember that the default password can be overridden using the MDM-system, see key/value pair key/value pairs ErrTitl0-1 and ErrText0-1 up to ErrTitl0-5 and ErrText0-5)
(2) The detection of blank pages helps users and admins understand act on missing content. The page (see sample below) will surface when there is no content visible to the user, and the error message may be customized to different languages. The prepopulated default languages are: (1) English, (2) Chinese, (3) Spanish, (4) Hindi (India) and (5) Bengali (Bangladesh). Titles and texts for languages (1), (2) .. (5) can be overridden using the key/value pairs ErrTitl0-1 and ErrText0-1 up to ErrTitl0-5 and ErrText0-5. A replacement parameter is given for optionally and automatically inserting network status in the status message. For more info, please see the information page of these key/value pairs, with examples of local translations to German and Norwegian.
(3) Heartbeat statistics are shown in settings login popup as well as in heartbeat payload, and come in both absolute numbers (delivered, and failed, since start of app) as well as in incremental statistics (delivered since startup or failed, and failed since last delivered).
Date: November 2024. Text version: 1.0