I work for a university that relies on your services and our users are having trouble with the embedded CSS and HTML features. We migrated to version 4.0.12 and realized the embedded CSS and HTML feature was removed as of Xibo Version 4. We read that you guys will be reintroducing that feature back in Xibo 4.1 and that you guys closed that case within the last month. Since most of our users did enjoy this feature and had layouts that relied on this feature, we are wondering what the timeline is for the Xibo 4.1 production release, so we’ll be able to explain to our users what is happening.
4.1 should be along soon, we’re finalising our timeline for that now. Everyone will be able to try 4.1.0-rc1 by the end of July (4.1.0-beta is already available too via Docker).
Just to clarity, the feature wasn’t removed, the embedded HTML widget is available from the toolbox as before, and any existing widget templates which had “Override Template” selected are available to continue editing. We did remove the user interface customisation of HTML/CSS templates (“Override Template checkbox”) and replaced it with the new Elements system for a better user experience. You can create almost anything you used to be able to create with HTML/CSS using elements instead.
The ability to customise templates is still available via developer tools; which is the functionality we’re exposing via a developer page in the CMS UI in 4.1. A user with access to the developer tab will be able to copy a template and supply HTML/CSS/JavaScript in a structured way, which will be applied to any Layout where that template is in use.