The purpose of this article will be to list the release of new features and to provide links to documentation of how to use them. Please contact support@enplug.com with any questions!
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January 24th, 2023
Feature Release: Power BI App
Features:
- Allows users to showcase Power BI reports
- Alternative application to showcase Power BI instead of the Web Page App
- Supports 2FA and allows Public and Private Reports
September 26th, 2022
Feature Release: Using Enplug on Sony Pro Bravia Displays
Features:
- Can now use Sony Pro Bravia as an Enplug Device
- Android App now live to support Enplug
- Automatically turns on Enplug App when TV turns-on
February 18th, 2022
App Update: Templates App
Features:
- New "Auto Scroll Mode" allows text that are longer than the template to scroll automatically so all text is visible
- Scrolling speed is based on the amount of text
April 20th, 2021
App Release: Teams
Features:
- Connect your Microsoft Teams workspace to Enplug.
- Display content to your displays from channels from your Microsoft Teams.
- Display text, image and video content.
- Pre-approve content and set profanity filters.
- Select image settings and theme layouts.
March 26th, 2021
App Update: Templates App
Features:
- Pull display group specific content from your APIs using custom display group parameters
- Show specific content based on your display groups parameters to your displays
March 11th, 2021
App Update: Templates App
Features:
- Create a list view to show a list of content or data on your screens
- Connect your list view to a data source
- Customize the appearance of your list view to the desired look
January 14th, 2021
App Update: Zoning App
Features:
- Customize the size of your zoning configuration
December 22nd, 2020
App Update: Zoning App
Features:
- Create your zoning layout using a variety of default zoning configurations provided
- Add up to 2 tickers to your zoning configuration
- Further edit your zones by adjusting their dimensions
- Add content to your zones with a variety of widget options
- Preview your content before creating your zoning configuration
November 12th, 2020
App Update: Template App
Features:
- Drag to select multiple elements on your canvas and optimize your work time
- Easily swap an image with a different image
- Switch the formatting of your images between fit, fill and stretch options
- Quickly align selected elements into the desired positions
- View the timeframe for your assigned templates
October 2nd, 2020
New App: Work From Home
Features:
- Display signs when working from home with best suited content.
September 28th, 2020
App Update: Zoom App
Features:
- Support for Webinars
August 19th, 2020
App Update: Graphics App
Features:
- Upload files from MS One Drive
July 13th, 2020
Dashboard Update: Monitoring
Features:
- Updated Monitoring page device details
July 13th, 2020
App Update: Art App
Features:
- Show artist name for each artwork
- Edit content in bulk
June 8th, 2020
App Update: Graphics App
Features:
- Adjust aspect ratio as needed for each of your uploaded images
June 8th, 2020
New App: Screen Cast
Features:
- Broadcast content from your device to your Enplug Display
June 8th, 2020
Dashboard Update: Content Approval
Features:
- Approve content submitted for approval as an Admin User (User with Content Publishing User Role Enabled) to your Account
- Submit content for approval as a Limited User (User without Content Publishing User Role Enabled)
- Request changes on submitted content as an Admin User
May 11th, 2020
App Update: Template App
Features:
- Use Web Data connection to configure push/pull configuration with API
- Refresh frequency, and mapping JSON properties with Templates fields
April 9th, 2020
New App: Coronavirus News App
Features:
- Show news related to the Coronavirus epidemic on your displays
- Stay up to date with news worldwide or the USA
April 7th, 2020
App Update: Template App
Features:
- Find your templates with ease with the use of thumbnails
- Easily snap components on your canvas with the snap to grid feature
March 31st, 2020
Player Update: Screensaver
Features:
- Set your Enplug Content URL as your Windows screensaver
March 20th, 2020
New App: COVID-19 Safety App
Features:
- Share information about the Coronavirus quickly to your displays
- Show important health and safety messaging across your displays
March 10th, 2020
Dashboard Update: Activity Logs
Features:
- View and monitor activity on your account
- Filter activities by Date, App, Display Group and Activity Type
- Use the Activity Types filter to see which assets have been added, deleted or modified
Feb 25th, 2020
Dashboard Update: Home Page
Features:
- Customize your personal Home Page with our Widgets
- Choose from widgets such as Recently Viewed Content, Featured Tip, Buy Devices and more.
- Sidebar menu makes it easier to navigate through the dashboard
Jan 16th, 2020
New App: YouTube Live
Features:
- Show YouTube Live content on your displays
- Specify the amount the YouTube Live content should remain on the display
- Loop YouTube Live content when content is no longer live
Dec 18th, 2019
New App: Art
Features & Improvements:
- Display a growing library of over 1,000 pieces of artwork from world renowned institutions and independent artists
- Turn you digital displays into artworks by adding frames
- Change the duration, repetition, and specific times to display the artwork
Dec 10th, 2019
New App: Zoom
Features & Improvements:
- Deliver the benefits of a video conference to your digital signage network. Enplug’s Zoom App lets communicators connect to a large audience instantly with live video stream presentation
- Activate your meeting on multiple devices instantly when the host joins the conference
- Join an already scheduled meeting. Just paste the meeting url into the Enplug dashboard
Oct 11th, 2019
App Update: Holidays
Features & Improvements:
- The Holidays app provides pre-configured holiday themed templates for building simple, fast, and attractive signs. Use the templates as-is, or edit them to reflect your company's designs.
- Countdown to a Holiday - using selected templates (or adding your own countdown timer), you can create signs that count down to a holiday
App Update: Emergency Alert
Features & Improvements:
- Alertus: we now support Alertus as one of the alert sources.
Sep 25th, 2019
Dashboard Update: Display Groups
Features & Improvements:
- Adding a New Display Group without Enplug Devices – now we support adding a display group solely for browser web player
- Searching based on tags or regions – you can now search a display group by its tags and/or regions in the deployment dialogue
Dashboard Update: User Setting
Features & Improvements:
- Notification - you can now choose to receive notifications via webhook
Sep 6th, 2019
App Update: Countdown (read more)
Features & Improvements:
- The Countdown app provides pre-configured templates for building simple, fast, and attractive signs. Use the templates as-is, or edit them to reflect your company's designs.
- Countdown to an Event - using the templates, you can create signs that count down to a special event like a holiday or meeting.
- Days Since an Event - choose a past date and use this app as a "days since" counter to track events such as days since last job site injury.
App Update: Templates and Web Page
Features & Improvements:
- Tagging - add tags to your existing signs to better identiy, manage, and group your assets.
- Bulk Action - new list view UI for better managing and editing you assets in bulk.
- Search and Filter - you can now easily search and filter your assets based on name or tag(s).
- Multi-select - you can now multiselect by holding down "Shift".
- Reordering - you can now reorder items by dragging, clicking the up/down reordering buttons, or entering the exact order (position).
- Page Navigation - you can now more easily navigate across different pages by selecting how many items to display on each page.
August 9th, 2019
App Update: Graphics & Video, Corporate Graphics and Ad Scheduler
Features & Improvements:
- List View - list view is now supported for better managing and editing you assets in bulk.
- Multi-select - you can now multiselect by holding down "Shift".
- Reordering – you can now reorder items by dragging, clicking the up/down reordering buttons, or entering the exact order (position).
- Page Navigation - you can now more easily navgiate across different pages by selecting how many items to display on each page.
August 7th, 2019
App Update: Templates (formerly Sign Builder)
Features & Improvements:
- Create a Template (Admin) – as an admin of your organization, you can now design and deploy your own custom, branded templates.
- Company Templates – a special version of the Templates App that limits the end-user’s access to only templates approved by the company's admin users.
July 1st, 2019
App Update: Sign Builder
Features & Improvements:
- Templates – new templates in the following categories are released: lobby, birthday, healthcare, holiday, restaurant, and retail.
- Resizing and Moving an Element – you can more easily resize and move an element in Canvas; the edge of the Canvas is always visible.
- Cut, Copy, and Paste – cut, copy, and paste are supported in the Canvas via hotkeys “Command or Control + X, C, V” depending on the OS.
- Undo and Redo – you can now undo and redo your actions in the Canvas via the buttons in the design toolbar, as well as through hotkeys “Command or Control + Z” and “Command or Control + Shift + Z”.
- Esc – you can now cancel the selection of an element(s) on the canvas by hitting the Esc key.
- Uploading an Image – now you can upload an image from additional sources: Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Instagram, and Google Photo.
- Fonts – new fonts, such as Lato and Open Sans Condensed are added.
June 28th, 2019
Dashboard Update: Display Groups (read more)
Features & Improvements:
- UXUI Improvements – new layout for better navigation, setting adjustment, and Display Group Tagging.
- User Access – you can now view the User and the User Role setting (permission level and region access) assigned to each Display Group.
- Device Management – from the General Info tab, you can now add in the address, a short description, and a photo of your Display Group, so you can easily identify it later.
May 17, 2019
Dashboard Update: User Roles (read more)
Features & Improvements:
- User Roles allow you to create customized groups of user permissions that can be saved and applied to current and future users. This advanced feature enables streamlined user management.
Dashboard Update: Device Regions and Map (read more)
Features & Improvements:
- Assign your display groups to custom defined geographical regions for easier device management. This advanced feature also allows you to view regions and display groups on an interactive world map.
May 9, 2019
App Update: Sign Builder (read more)
Features & Improvements:
- Templates - you can now easily create your customized signs from our library of templates.
- UXUI Improvements for editing a sign on Canvas.
Player Update: Browser Web Player
Features & Improvements:
- Shareable Content URLs - you can now easily share your Enplug screen via a URL, eliminating the need for pairing using a setup phrase. (read more)
App Update: Ad Scheduler, Graphics & Video and Corporate Graphics
Features & Improvements:
- Support additional file formats: pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx.
Dashboard Update: Advanced Monitoring
Improvements:
- For accounts with Advanced Monitoring enabled, "More Info" button will now open detailed device monitoring page.
April 18, 2019
App Update: Sign Builder
Features & Improvements:
- Dynamic images – you can now create time triggered, dynamic images on your Canvas. (read more)
- Custom Triggers (formerly Data Tab) now supports dynamic images triggered by a specific date and time.
- UX improvements for creating an image data spreadsheet.
March 25, 2019
App Update: Sign Builder
Features:
- Data Tab - create dynamic signs by linking data triggered by a specific date.
March 5, 2019
App Update: YouTube, Web Page, and Geckoboard
Improvements:
- Add Priority Play option to YouTube, Web Page and Geckoboard apps.
January 24, 2019
App Update: Sign Builder
Improvements:
- User notified leaving page with unsaved work.
- Duplicate/Copy existing signs.
- Key shortcuts for (Bold, Italics, and Save).
- Arrow keys can move components.
- Multi-select items with shift/ctrl/cmd.
- Center elements with snapping them near the center of the Canvas.
- Text size can be inputted rather than pre-selected options.
January 9, 2019
App Update: YouTube
Features:
- Add your own splash screen to replace the YouTube logo.
January 8, 2019
App Update: Graphics
Features:
- Add tags to organize and filter your images, videos and PowerPoint files.
- Upload your files without having to wait for them to finish optimizing.
- Filter graphics to only see the ones that are active within specific periods of time.
- View scheduling information, tags assigned, and the current state of the graphic with the improved list view.
- Sort list view by file name, start and end times, and by the number of graphics assigned to a display group.
- UX improvements to saving order of graphics.
December 18, 2018
App Release: Sign Builder (read more)
Features:
- Sign Builder allows you to create and display your own signs.
- Type in any message, customize its color and font style.
- Add dates with various formatting settings.
- Create countdown or count up from a specified date.
- Add shapes and upload your own images.
- Rotate and scale your elements on a canvas.
November 12, 2018
App Release: Slack (Read more) :
Features:
- Display content from your Slack channels.
- Directly push content from Slack into your Enplug player.
- Display text, images, videos, emojis, GIF files and link posts with their image preview.
- Pre-approve content and set profanity filters.
- Select image settings and theme layouts.
October 29, 2018
App Release:
- Ad Scheduler : (Read more)
Features:
- The Ad Scheduler has the same capabilities as the Graphics app with added functionality.
- Ability to display Ads at a set interval time.
- Ability to set a number of Ads to be displayed at every interval.
September 4, 2018
CMS Dashboard:
- New Display Identifier Feature: (Read more)
- Able to identify devices by their name and display group association.
- Able to identify single devices.
- Able to identify all devices for a display group.
- Able to identity all devices in an account.
August 30, 2018
App Update:
- Calendar: (Read more)
New Feature to connect Exchange Meeting Rooms from Office Account
- Able to enable/disable meeting rooms as an Office Admin.
- Able to only display events that are associated with the enabled meeting rooms.
August 16, 2018
CMS Dashboard:
- New highly customizable permission options to restrict granular permissions: (Read more)
- Restrict access of display groups.
- Restrict access of apps.
- Restrict viewing and editing of display group settings.
- Restrict access to monitoring of a device.
- Restrict permission to set up a display group or to remove them.
- Restrict access to other users' user settings.
- Restrict access to update the billing and payment.
- (Optional) Restrict access to developer settings.
July 27, 2018
Dashboard supports domain masking for customers using Whitelabel version
July 16, 2018
App Release:
- Emergency Alert (Read more)
Features:
- Ability to send out alerts that override existing content priority
- Connect alerts via a CAP system (Common Alerting Protocol)
- Support for Blackboard Connect
- Support for Rave Mobile Safety
- Options to add logo and customize theme selection
June 1, 2018
App Update:
- Calendar (Read more)
New Features Compared To Previous Google Calendar:
- Added support for MS Office 365 Calendars.
- Daily and Weekly Agenda view.
- Fine tune the layout of your calendar with various layout options.
- More comprehensive options to create or edit a theme.
- View the preview in the dashboard.
May 23, 2018
CMS Dashboard:
- New Scheduling Option to play content specific number of times when scheduling for later (Read more)
May 22, 2018
App Release:
- Social Media Collage (Read more)
New Features Compared To Previous Instagram Wall:
- Connect a social feed from all major social media including Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
- Fine tune the layout of the images of the collage, with options to change its size, outline, and scroll speed.
- Create multiple configurations and schedule them as you see fit. With the new schedule option, you can limit when your content will be played, schedule the content to be played later, and have the configuration expire after a certain time.
- More comprehensive options to create or edit a theme.
- Create your own Call to action, with your company branding and custom message.
- View the preview in the dashboard.
May 9, 2018
CMS Dashboard:
- Content Preview (Read more)
- View the preview of your Dynamic App Playlist in the dashboard.
- Two-Factor Authentication: (Read more)
- Add an extra layer of security for your login by adding an additional requirement to log in using a security code sent either to your mobile phone or an authenticator app.
April 25, 2018
Today we released 4 new Apps:
- Facebook (Read more)
- Instagram (Read more)
- Twitter (Read more)
- Yelp (Read more)
New Features Compared To Previous Social Apps:
- Fine tune the layout of the posts, including photo positioning and branding.
- Create multiple configurations and schedule them as you see fit. With the new schedule option, you can limit when your content will be played, schedule the content to be played later, and have the configuration expire after a certain time.
- More comprehensive options to create or edit a theme.
- Create your own Call to action, with your company branding and custom message.
- View the preview in the dashboard.
March 23, 2018
CMS dashboard: Single Sign On
February 21, 2018
Apps: improved Graphics upload including much faster upload and optimization of Power Point files and option to crop images during upload.
February 12, 2018
CMS dashboard: Page with the status of Enplug: status.enplug.com
February 6, 2018
CMS dashboard: Proof of Play for Graphics app (Proof Of Play)
CMS dashboard: Moving devices between different display groups (Moving devices)
January 11, 2018
Player: Low bandwidth consumption mode
December 13, 2017
Apps: QR code support on News 2.0 app
November 15, 2017
Improved performance of zoning tickers.
November 10, 2017
Support for subtitles on the Youtube app.
November 6, 2017
We are now accepting payments via ACH (checking account).
Password policy can be configured to prevent reusing recent passwords.
Right clicking on the player on the Enplug device will bring WiFi settings.
October 10, 2017
Branding and customization of email templates for resellers.
October 2, 2017
General updates and bug fixes to Traffic app.
September 28, 2017
General updates and bug fixes to Zoning, Weather, Youtube and News 2.0.
September 18, 2017
Whitelabeling of the dashboard for network users is now available. This includes custom color scheme, branding and contact information.
August 18, 2017
Users can now opt in to receive email notifications when the device goes offline or comes back online and when there are new social items live or waiting for approval.
August 4, 2017
Updated Weather app allows setting custom labels for locations and using custom themes.
August 2, 2017
Directory 2.0 has launched. Notable features:
- Listings can automatically split across several Enplug screens.
- Users can import and export listings from a spreadsheet
- Support for adding tenant logos and customizing themes.
August 1, 2017
Account admins can now configure password policy requirements for users.
July 7, 2017
News app now can be further customized by hiding the date and title of the posts.
June 27, 2017
Zoning app is now available. It allows adding ticker and banner widgets which stay on the screen all the time while the main content is switching as usually. The widgets include: Text, Web Pages, Weather, Clock and News.
June 6, 2017
Our CMS dashboard is now fully translated into Japanese and Portuguese.
March 22, 2017
RSS news app 2.0 is now available on Enplug app market. The app features more layout templates and custom themes.
March 17, 2017
ScoreStream app is now available on Enplug app market. The app allows businesses to show sports scores and photos from their local high school teams.
December 14, 2016
Network users can now manage their private apps through the dashboard.
November 29, 2016
Today we released Youtube app and 6 new curated content apps:
- Market Tracker
- Sports Central
- News in Pictures
- Daily Health Tips
- Motivational Quotes
- Business and Tech News
November 28, 2016
New features this week:
- Touch Screen support on Android devices
- Scheduling added to Web Page, Simple Sign and Traffic
November 17, 2016
We removed the limitation on how long an individual Graphics can play
September 6, 2016
Today we released a major change to our content management system. It is now much easier to quickly deploy the same content across many display groups. Read more in this article.
August 30, 2016
Major improvements to the Webpage app on android devices: support for playing web videos including Youtube videos, WebGL content and smoother animations.
August 2, 2016
New for customers with Advanced Monitoring access! The "More Info" section will now also show the following information for devices:
- IP address
- Wifi & Ethernet MAC addresses
July 27, 2016
New this week:
- We have added support for a few more languages: Thai, Hungarian and Romanian
July 16, 2016
We have updated the Social Media app and Instagram app with more granular social approval logic, which will now allow you to choose whether or not account posts are automatically approved. Please see the article on Social Approval for more details.
July 6, 2016
This week, we released our highly anticipated Calendar app! This app is useful for keeping track of when conference rooms are available, as well as tracking multiple schedules. Read more in this article.
We've also made some changes to the way our Windows player handles webpages, as well as the various web-based apps including Google Trends, Startup Vitamins, Traffic, etc. This should result in a smoother, more reliable experience going forward.
June 15, 2016
We've just released a heavily requested feature for the Webpage app: the ability to set duration per webpage.
Due to high demand, for our Social Media Wall and Instagram Photowall, when Pre-Approval is turned on, all posts from the connected account will now skip the Approval queue and go directly to the Live column.
May 25, 2016
This week, we've expanded our Social Media capabilities.
- The Social Media app now supports adding multiple Twitter accounts
- The Social Media app and Instagram Wall app now support adding multiple Instagram accounts
- For Twitter feeds, you can now choose whether or not to show your own account posts, as well as mentions from other users.
May 3, 2016
Display Group Tagging: This week, we are releasing a feature that allows you to tag your display groups. This will allow for quick and easy filtering in the Graphics app, rather than searching for your desired display group manually. Read more in this article.
April 19, 2016
Simple Sign is here! This week we are very excited to announce the release of the Simple Sign app.
Simple Sign allows you to type in any message, customize fonts and colors, and even add emojis - directly within the Enplug dashboard! Read more in this article.
April 6, 2016
Some very exciting new features come out this week! They include:
- Bulk editing of graphics. Many customers commented that it was inconvenient to go into each graphic individually to schedule or make them priority, so we've added the functionality to edit many graphics at once. Simply click the checkbox in the upper left corner of each graphic to select it, then click Edit in the upper right to begin editing all selected graphics.
See the relevant support article for more info. - Multiple scheduling blocks. Up till now, graphics could only be scheduled for one chunk of time. Now, you can add multiple time blocks - for example, 12pm-2pm, and 6pm-8pm.
- Recurring graphics. Do you wish a certain graphic would show on your screen more often, but still want to play the others sometimes too? Use this feature to repeat a graphic in between every other graphic, every 5 graphics, etc.
- Mini monitoring page. We're really excited about this one - this is a very basic version of our larger Monitoring system, available to Network level customers. Click the Monitoring button on your home page to see whether your screens are on or offline.
See the relevant support article for more info.
Instagram authentication for hashtags: Due to some changes with Instagram's terms, you must now log in via Instagram in order to display hashtags in the Instagram Wall and Social Media Wall.
March 30, 2016
Changes released this week include:
- Copy display groups. The ability to make copies of display groups, allowing for faster and easier setup of unique screens by starting with a templated display group. Read more details in this article.
- Developer accounts are now working properly and ready for use.
- Disable EDID. In case of resolution issues, we have enabled the option to disable EDID. Read more in this article.
March 22, 2016
Changes released this week include:
- Priority Play and Scheduling. Improvements to the Graphics app! We have added a Priority Play feature, as well as improving existing scheduling options. Read more about these options in this article.
- Traffic App. A brand new Traffic app! This is a very simple, straightforward app that will allow you to display traffic in the location(s) of your choice. Read more in this article.
- New dashboard! We have officially retired the old dashboard interface, previously found at app.enplug.com. See an introductory video in this article, and some more detailed instructions and screenshot at this link. Or head to dashboard.enplug.com to log in right away!