Sportal365 v3.6.0

Release name

3.6.0

Release date

02.04.2020

About this release

This release builds on top of the previous one by introducing improvements on the Social feeds feature as well as preparing APIs for our new “Automatic tagging and linking” feature.

New Features

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Football API

Expose API for events/markets/selections

This allows the links inside the odds widget to be connected to the event itself on the bookmaker’s website.

Social feed

Allow following of Facebook profiles

Journalists can now follow Facebook profiles. Works only with public data.

Content API / CMS

Field for generic data

This allows clients to insert custom data format inside the API the platform. Can be used for (among other things):

  • manual mapping of data

  • importing legacy data

Auto tagging and linking content

The first APIs of the upcoming feature are available.

When released, this feature would allow the CMS to automatically link and tag players, teams, coaches, etc. Manual journalistic override will of course be available.

Improvements

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Social feed

Improved support for Instagram profiles.

Some Instagram limitations regarding the number of requests to their servers were resolved.

Social feed

UX improvements for Social feed browsing

Such as:

  • Clicking outside the UI closes it

  • Clicking on any source opens the UI

  • Reloading the page is no longer required when adding a new source. It becomes instantly available.

Widgets

Introducing new setting for links

 

Betslip

Configurable URL for data submission

Clients can specify a URL where the betslip data will be sent.

Content API

Eager loading of creator info

Performance improvement for every content API endpoint that exposes the information of the user who created the piece of content.

Search

Improved results for searching content

Searching for content now, e.g. articles, now returns much more accurate results.

CMS

Display time in specified timezone

Each project can be configured so that it displays timestamps in particular timezone, not GMT as it is by default.

Widgets

UI improvements

For the following widgets:

  • odds widget

  • player profile

  • standings

  • match

Fixes

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Content API

500 Server Error on Content-API when searching for articles

 

Severe

CMS

Select Bookmakers list in Fixture Widget blocky is empty

 

Normal

CMS

Default author is not saved in content items

 

Normal

CMS

CMS crash because of badly configured Lists

 

Normal

CMS

User is not able to remove Generic data in article/video/gallery

 

Minor

CMS

Allow indexing/following not being saved

 

Minor

CMS

User is not able to select related content in some cases

 

Minor

Widget

Squad/Team Players: Missing placeholder for players' avatars in Firefox

 

Minor

CMS

Statistics: When searching by Category, all images within the timeframe are displayed as a result

 

Minor

Widget

Match Widget Block - market drop-down sometimes appears blank

 

Minor

CMS

Fixture block - TypeError: Cannot read property 'id' of undefined

 

Minor

Football API

500 Server Error on GET request to non existed player

 

Minor

CMS

Login form misalignment

 

Trivial



Other minor or trivial bugs