Starting in Version 1.57.0 the contagt API extends its support for two factor authentication.

Before this update, only email second factor was supported, now you can also register an App such as 2FAS or Google Authenticator to secure your admin account on our platform.

See How to setup twofactor in our documentation.

Changelog (1.50.0 ➔ 1.55.0)​

Dokumentation aktualisiert​

Zu vielen RPCs wurde die Dokumentation verbessert und ausfürlicher gestaltet.

Großes PHP Update​

Mit Version 1.55.0 wird PHP 8.3 die neue Grundlage für die contagt API. Mit diesem Update können viele neue Funktionen von PHP für die Weiterentwicklung der Plattform verwendet werden, es gibt aber auch Sicherheits- und Geschwindigkeitsvorteile.

Viele Funktionsverbesserungen​

Die contagt API kann nun deutlich mehr Daten auf den einzelnen Instanzen Cachen und die Caches zwischen den Instanzen teilen. Damit können API Requests noch schneller bearbeitet werden.

Näher an die OSM​

Die contagt API integriert für Suchen und Routings jetzt mehr native OSM-Konforme Features um das Indoor- und Outdoorerlebnis noch nahtloser zu verbinden.

The new API Version allows a, iterative, request chaining mode.

While in the current versions of our API it was already possible to chain requests you can now use iterative and wildcard accessors.

Therefore there are multiple Modes and Options. One can either execute a subrequest for all responses of earlier staged requests

↪ Request

{
    "0": {
        "building_id": 19
    },
    "1": {
        "building_id": 19
    },
    "2": {
        "tag": "$GetBuildingInfo.*.roottag"
    }
}

↩ Response

{
    "GetBuildingInfo": [
        {
            < ... >
        }
    ],
    "GetBuildingInfo": [
        {
            < ... >
        }
    ],
    "LoadTag": [
        {
            < ... >
        }
    ],
    "LoadTag": [
        {
            < ... >
        }
    ]
}

and/or apply the wildcard operator to array data on the response of a function like

$<MethodenName>.<Idx> or <*>.<ParameterName>.<Idx> or <*>.<SubparameterName>.

Here is an example for iterating an array response where three different contagt-IDs loaded from a request result in three resonses for LoadTag.

↪ Request

{
    "0": {
        "building_id": 19
    },
    "1": {
        "tag": "$GetBuildingInfo.0.allTags.*.tag_id"
    }
}

↩ Response

{
    "GetBuildingInfo": [
        {
            < ... >
            allTags: [
                {
                    tag_id: "..."
                },
                {
                    tag_id: "..."
                },
                {
                    tag_id: "..."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "LoadTag": [
        {
            < ... >
        }
    ],
    "LoadTag": [
        {
            < ... >
        }
    ],
    "LoadTag": [
        {
            < ... >
        }
    ]
}

Wildcard request chaining is only functional in strict mode and can lead to undefined behavior sending it on non-strict api calls. You should be very careful with the wildcard feature, since it gets very easy to generate an excessive amount of api load with a single request, especially when using function and parameter wildcards.

Other Changes​

• Rooms and POIs now have a spacial interface allowing to load items more efficiently, especially on large guides.

In Version 1.47.0 it is mainly about caching.

Multiroute Caching​

With this update we introduce the dynamic multi route caching feature which will allow all apps to drastically improve the speed of calculating predefined multiroutes.

This cache does not only improve the reoccuring calculations of entire multiroutes, but also will share equal subroute-caches between multiroutes to reduce the overall expense on cache maintenance.

Exporter Caching​

The Delta-Cache for Exporter Data has been upgraded and is re-enabled within this version. It allows all nativly caching apps to only download the delta-changeset of the the guide data since the last update and will therefore spare some of your prescious traffic volume. At the same time the caching strategies will still be applied to all non-changed data to provide the output to the apps at maximum speed.

Other Changes​

• A new option is made available, that allows the terminal load quicksearch item sizes for the operating user.
• An issue, where the historical movement data would not be loaded correctly from the CE, even when the user is correctly entitled to the asset.

An Hotfix Update has been released, fixing the issue that Webapp loads were not part of the Guide-Access statistics. This is now changed and also affects past entries. All Statistics should now be correct again.

A new Update is available, with the following new features.

• Bumped PHP to the latest Minor Release (8.2.7)
• Accessibility Reporter Admin Interface can now interact with the map in CE.
• News and Info do not export their content in the definitions.
• Campaign-Category templates can be loaded without the campaign for faster suggestions.
• Room and Panorama Images are now part of the Savepoint bundle.

A new Update is available, with the following new features.

• ForceSession SuperUser feature to allow enhancing the default session period.
• Altering Useraccounts as SuperUser will emit warnings for non-changed values.
• Mapfiles can now have more complex roofs on extrusion structures.

Changelog (1.44.2 ➔ 1.45.0)​

Dokumentation aktualisiert​

Die Loginmaske sowie der Two-Factor Prozess für diese Dokumentationsseite wurden aktualisiert und sind nun auch im Dark Theme korrekt ablesbar.

Großes PHP Update​

Mit Version 1.45.0 wird PHP 8.2 die neue Grundlage für die contagt API. Mit diesem Update können viele neue Funktionen von PHP für die Weiterentwicklung der Plattform verwendet werden, es gibt aber auch Sicherheits- und Geschwindigkeitsvorteile.

Alternative Übergänge​

Mit Version 1.45.0 gibt es eine erste Version die es erlaubt die relationTypes hill und gondola für Übergänge ohne Stockwerkwechsel zu verwenden. Damit können z.B. kleinere Rampen oder alle Arten von Sesselliften in Zukunft in der App korrekt dargestellt werden.

Grayscale Outdoors​

Mit einer einfachen guide-spezifischen Einstellung kann die Umgebungskarte um den Guide nun als entsättigte Version für jedes Stockwerk dargestellt werden.

Navtive App Banner​

Die Web-App verlinkt regulär auf die native contagt app für die jeweilige Zielplattform. Dieses Verhalten lässt sich nun in den globalen Guide-Settings ändern, sodass ein Guide nur in der Web-App Variante angeboten wird.

Changelog (1.42.0 ➔ 1.43.X)​

Bundled Guide Images​

With the newly introduced API Interface LoadImageBundle all offline available guide media can be downloaded within a single zip file from the API.

Docs now easier to access​

Also, introduced with 1.43.0 this reference and blog will be available from within the content editor without an extra login neccessary.

Changelog (1.41.1 ➔ 1.42.0)​

PHP Process Manager​

With this update, the old php process manager fpm will be replaced by the more universal, stable and faster nginx unit (https://unit.nginx.org/).

Regular nginx will still be used as the frontend webserver, because unit does not allow for complex configurations such as ldap authenticaton and others.

In future unit will serve all php related contents aswell as internal tcp based redirects. All unit logs will be appended to stdout.