Hi all,
Apologies for the issues you’re all experiencing with v4, there are definitely use cases we did not think of / know about, and in hindsight we needed to do more work on the replacement HTML/CSS/JS tools before removing them from the editing experience.
4.0.5 is due to be released on Tuesday 14th, and fixes 48 issues:
We will test this example feed to make sure its working in 4.0.5
The no data error is by far the most common issue we’ve seen and is usually because the Widget Sync Task is not running. Please make sure that your tasks are running successfully and finishing with a tick as their last status.
We’re happy to look at any specific problems you’ve got to make sure the use case is solved.
Overwhelmingly we were told that HTML/CSS/JS in the layout editing experience was too complicated for users and “Xibo’s layout tools are too complicated to use, so we just use images/videos”. This is why we removed those options from the editor.
Instead we have a new set of developer tools which you can use to do the same thing, and more, but they are more “developer focused”. In 4.0 you need to edit XML files in your installation to access them.
We now have a vastly different set of feedback which is that these tools need to be accessible from inside the CMS. We will make these changes in 4.1 (you can read more out the thinking here: Improving Developer Experience in v4).
If the way version 4 is not workable for your use case, the please continue using 3.3 (which we still support/release updates for). If you do that it would be really useful to continue the dialogue here so that we can understand where the pain points are and make sure they are addressed in 4.1.