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- Condensed list view — A new list view was added that shows recurrent activities in one row, together with the week numbers the activity occurs in.
- Month view — A month view was added that shows the activities for the whole month in a compact format. Clicking on an item reveals the full activity details.
- Availability view — In the location viewer, a new view was added that shows the room bookings in a grid format. In this format it is very easy to see what rooms are available.
- List view range drop-down — The list views now feature an option to select the display range. By default it is possible to display a week or a month of activities, and named availabilities from Syllabus Plus can be added to this list.
- Linking timetables --- It is now possible to create a direct link to one or more timetables of the same type. Timetables can be referenced by host key or identifier, the field to be used as host key is taken from the MyTimetable configuration. Contact our support for URL details.
- API — A REST API was added. This is a first draft and the exact specifications will be further refined in cooperation with our customers. The API can return list of possible timetables (optionally filtered by department or study programme) and the activities for a certain timetable. Using OAuth2 it is possible to retrieve the personal timetable of a user and modify the user's subscriptions. Optionally, it is possible to require an API token to access the API. Results are returned in XML or JSON format and a WADL file is available that specifies the possible operations and the data types returned.
- Activity search — A search box can be shown in the interface to give users the ability to search their personal timetable for a certain activity. This feature was already implemented in v1.7 of MyTimetable, but further refined in v2.0. Since the search can have a performance impact on MyTimetable, it is disabled by default. Contact our support department to enable this feature.
- Location viewer tabs rearranged — The tabs in the location viewer were rearranged to match the tab order in the main interface.
- Menu and sidebar redesign — The settings and location view menu options and various other buttons were moved to the top of the screen and are now displayed in a text format for a better user experience. The sidebar was redesigned and now features a drop-down menu to limit the number of buttons that appear in the interface. This redesign is an ongoing process and the interface will be further redesigned in the future.
- Activity grouping — In the settings menu a new option was added that gives users the ability to group concurrent activities of the same module. Locations, student sets and staff members of these activities will then be grouped and shown as one activity.
- Activity notes — An option was added to show up to 3 extra descriptions/note fields for an activity. In the settings dialog the user can choose to show or hide these fields.
- Student sets and sections — The sections linked to an activity can now be shown. In the settings dialog the user can choose to show or hide student sets and sections.
- Add timetable improvements --- Added select/deselect all, search box and multi-select to (almost) all 'add timetable' dialogs.
- Piwik tracking — Added an option for Piwik tracking (instead of or next to Google Analytics). Hosting of the Piwik installation is provided by Eveoh. Privacy-friendly options are enabled and tracking using cookies is disabled by default.
- Department parents — Support for parent/child relations in department listings when using Syllabus Plus was added.
- Feedback form — An option was added to include a feedback form that links to a Google Docs form, to gather user feedback.
- Subscription colouring — All activities shown in the interface are now tagged with a CSS class matching the subscription they belong to. This provides the opportunity to colour the activities based on the subscription. Default subscriptions (from a link with the SIS) have a separate CSS class.
- Child subscriptions — An option was added to select/deselect all child subscriptions option of a subscription (with drop down menu)Option .
- Header message — An option was added to show a header message (from a user text field in the S+ Globals table)New Syllabus Plus institution configuration).
- Expired session warning — A new warning dialogbox for expired sessions was implemented, to overcome issues with auto-reloading clients that keep reloading if cookies are disabled.
- Login warning message — A message was added in the 'add dialog when authenticated as guest
- Warning message from config in add dialog
- Nagios status URL
- Option to show activity size in details dialog
- Custom 404 eror page addedtimetable' dialog to notify the user that the user profile will only be saved if they are authenticated.
- Warning message — An optional warning message was added in the 'add timetable' dialog that displays a custom text from the MyTimetable configuration. An example use of this message is pointing out to users that they should enrol in courses through a separate system before adding them to MyTimetable.
- Nagios status URL — A new url,
/status, was added that can be used for automated availability monitoring of MyTimetable. Eveoh monitors the availability of all MyTimetable instances and can notify the customer of any downtime on request. - Activity size — An option was added to show the activity size in the activity details dialog.
- 404 page — A custom HTTP 404 Not Found error page was added.
- Rework of activity type filtering, the grouping of activity types and the descriptions can now either come from the database or the configuration files, or a combination
- Shorter URLs (/schedule, /module, /ical, /overview)
- Add module_pos provider for Syllabus +, only shows the activities of a module associated to a study programmes student sets
- Improved speed of location and zone subscriptions
- External links (to study guide) are now hidden by default until hovering over an item
- Better subscription management (remove SIS-linked subscriptions when not relevant, better and case-insensitive sorting, does not drop timetables if multiple subs have the same description)
- New activity/loading indicator
- Loads of small bugfixes and browser compatibility improvements.
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