Available from 25 July, 2024
Explore the latest updates in Digital Samba Embedded. We've added the Session length feature, HD video activation on join, and a role cloning capability in the dashboard. These enhancements, along with other improvements and bug fixes, are designed to streamline your experience. Learn more about these new features and their benefits.
Digital Samba Embedded
Dashboard and API
New Features
- Introducing Session length, a new setting that allows team members and integrators to configure rooms with a set duration, after which the session automatically ends. A notification is sent to all participants 5 minutes before the session ends.
- Added a new Activate HD video on join room setting, allowing team members to configure rooms so that participants stream higher quality video, by default.
- Enhanced the dashboard with a new capability that allows team members to clone roles, helping to save time when configuring custom roles.
- Included upvotes data in the Q&A response to GET a room's questions, in the API.
- Enhanced the questions endpoint of our API with an additional 'votes' property, reflecting the number of votes each question has received from participants in the Q&A panel.
- Updated the Q&A log to exclude the 'votes' param for sessions where upvoting was disabled.
- Updated the description of the 'moderate polls' permission to include downloading poll results.
- Made the System Check page resilient to the edge case where a user visits it with camera and/or microphone permissions blocked in the browser. Such users will receive instructions and a link to browser-specific documentation to help them manage permissions and proceed with the check.
- Implemented rate limiting in our API to prevent server overload, ensure fair usage among multiple teams, and protect the system from abuse. When a request is throttled, the API returns a 'rate-limit' error with a 'Too many attempts' message.
- Added a 'Back to the dashboard' link to the payment confirmation page, allowing team owners to return to the dashboard page they were on before initiating an upgrade or downgrade.
- Standardised labels for context menus across the app.
In-Room
New Features
- Improved recordings to capture the polls panel when there is an active poll, while keeping votes hidden.
- Implemented a toast notification on the side of the participant who clicks ‘live answer’ in the Q&A panel, to confirm to them that they are answering live.
- We reworded the 'Activate HD video' description to clarify that it enables other participants to see the local user in better quality.
- Standardised the layout of the Polls panel by restyling the 'Create new poll' button and moving it to the top.
- Normalised vertical spacing around the custom items section divider in the tile's context menu.
- Standardised breakout rooms panel context menus by adding a header with the participant's name and icons next to each menu option.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where the 'View details' option did not work for attendees after poll results were shared.
- Fixed an issue where users with the 'Answer questions in Q&A' permission could not see the 'Answer live' and 'Type answer' options.
- Fixed an issue where participants with the 'Moderate Q&A' permission but without the 'Answer questions in Q&A' permission could still see 'Answer live' and 'Type answer' options.
- Standardised the style of the 'pin' icon tooltip, on the toolbar.
- Fixed a bug that caused display tiles to appear distorted on large screens by correcting the aspect ratio.