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Ver. 11.5.0.14 Maintenance Release Notes

We are pleased to introduce DeskAlerts maintenance release 11.5.014, featuring key enhancements and defect fixes for an improved notification experience.

Enhancements​

  • Introduced a “Select All” recipients option in the select-audience pop-up, streamlining the process of sending alerts to large groups and eliminating repeated and tedious manual selections.
  • Expanded user policy functionality to control visibility and access for content created by members of other user policies/roles. This supports organizational hierarchies by giving individual departments comprehensive control over the content they create.
  • Enhanced the desktop agent for Mac to support seamless Active Directory authentication, simplifying the login process and boosting productivity for Mac users.
  • Added the ability to set horizontal alignment (left, center, right) in Alert Skins, allowing greater customization for alert titles.
  • Introduced German localization for the web application, enhancing the user experience and accessibility for German-speaking users.
  • Changed the default screensaver timeout value from 60 seconds to 300 seconds, reducing interruptions for users.
  • Added protection against deleting any Alert Skins flagged as “Default,” ensuring crucial default skins remain intact.
  • Refined the skin deletion process by introducing a soft-delete for skins. In previous versions, skins used even once to send alerts could not be deleted.
  • Restored the option for quizzes, polls, and questionnaires to collect anonymous responses, reinforcing confidentiality where needed.
  • Brought back the "a user must complete" checkbox to ensure recipients fully complete quizzes, polls, or questionnaires before being able to close them.

Resolved Issues​

  • Corrected an issue where computer's online status was not displayed on the server side after successful seamless AD authentication.
  • Fixed a defect that replaced names of deleted publishers with “Sender is deleted” in the alerts grid. Deleted publishers now retain their original names.
  • Resolved an issue where the default acknowledgment flag didn't apply when a user created a new pop-up alert.
  • Addressed an intermittent issue that caused some users’ wallpapers to revert to a black background.
  • Restored functionality for Do Not Disturb (DND) buttons in the Windows Desktop Client, which were previously inactive.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented SMTP logs from being recorded when SMTP logging was enabled, improving mail-related transparency and troubleshooting.
  • Addressed an intermittent issue where a skin was not applied to a scrolling ticker.
  • Fixed an issue where the selected skin was not displayed in a drop-down in the scrolling ticker details view.