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• Added push-based support for external calendars — After a long implementation phase, we are pleased to announce availability of our 'external calendar' support. MyTimetable is now able to offer push-based synchronisation to Microsoft Exchange, Office 365 and Google Calendar. Push-based synchronisation offers a more stable calendar integration than the iCalendar feeds, integrates well with the Exchange availability information when planning appointments and is really easy to set up for the user. Since this is a major new feature that also requires some infrastructure changes and set up on the Exchange/Google side, implementation of this feature is done on a per-customer basis and involves some additional consulting and support hours. Please contact us for details.
  

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   Incremental sync — at the moment we only offer a daily 'full sync' of a timetable, but the final MyTimetable 3.0 build will also offer incremental synchronisation, where changes in the timetable will be synchronised almost instantly.
  
• Pexip / conference integration — Together with Pexip, MyTimetable now offers the perfect distance learning solution. Virtual classrooms are automatically created from your timetable, and users are able to join the classroom with one click, from any device, everywhere. More details are available in this blogpost.
  
  
  
• Dialogs redesign — The dialogs in the desktop interface have been redesigned and offer clearer feedback on success or failure. The event details dialog was also redesigned, and now includes the event type color and draft styling.
  
• Introduced separate button for downloads and synchronisations — To further emphasise the difference between a one-time download and a constant synchronisation of your timetable, we have introduced separate buttons for downloads and synchronisations. Of course the buttons have a handy tooltip to assist the user in choosing the right option.
  
• Selective sync support — Not every user wants to see each of his added timetables in his or her personal calendar feed. Often users lookup a timetable of a colleague or a classmate's course, and do not want to synchronise that timetable to their Outlook or Google Calendar. For this reason we have introduced selective sync: when adding a timetable a user can indicate whether or not the timetable should also be synchronised to other devices and clients. These settings affect both iCalendar feeds and the new push-based synchronisation options.
  

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   New help page — We are currently working on a completely revamped help page, which offers better navigation and more guidance for both simple and more complex tasks. Each calendar integration will be discussed separately and in more detail.
• MyTimetable data provider added — The backend of a new MyTimetable data provider has been added. Often not all timetable information is present in the timetabling systems, e.g., deadlines or holidays may not be available from the timetabling system. The MyTimetable data provider offers the possibility to create these events directly in MyTimetable. At the moment the back-end is present, and we are still looking for a sponsor for the the front-end, please contact us for details.
• Mobile interface timezone and locale improvements — Events in the mobile interface are now always shown in the time zone of the institution, which prevents any problems in case the user's device is set to the wrong time zone.
• S+ activity size improvements — The activity size can now use planned size, real size or actual size.
• Encoded iCalendar timetable keys — The timetable key in iCalendar feed URL's is now encoded, which prevents errors if the customer uses merging (i.e., separate databases for semester 1 and 2) and the timetable object contains non alphanumeric characters in the name or host key. StatuscolourYellowtitlePlanned
•  CSV export improvements — The CSV export includes more fields and features a user-selectable separator to maximise client compatibility.
• Draft activity styling update — The readability of draft activities has been improved by using a darker font and wider stripes.
• Mobile interface supports 'show-all' property — For smaller customer installs this will mean the 'add timetable' list will show all timetables by default, no search necessary.
• API: timetable type details call added — A new call has been added to the API (/api/v0/timetabletypedetails) which provides some more details on the configured timetable types.
• API: subscription type information added — The API subscriptions call (/api/v0/subscriptions) now contains information on the timetable type of each subscription.
• API: verify timetable existence when adding a subscription — When adding a timetable through the API, the existence of a given timetable key is verified against the data source. This prevents user profile corruption if the API calls are invalid.
• Timetable existence is now verified each time a subscription is retrieved — This prevents errors in the interface if a timetable is removed from the source database, and generally improves performance because a separate existence check is no longer necessary.
• Export dialog shows more details about events in the past or distant future not being included in iCalendar feed — If the customer has chosen to exclude events in the past or future from the iCalendar feeds, the export dialog will now show a message to the user that describes the set limits.
• Unsupported browser page improvements — The warning page that is shown if a user uses an unsupported browser now includes a logo and a link to download a better and newer browser. Microsoft IE7 users will now also receive an unsupported browser warning.
• Status page improvements — The MyTimetable monitoring URL (/status) now provides a consistent data and time format.
• Provisioning API added — The provisioning API provides the possibilities to create and remove user profiles from the database, and initiate push-based synchronisations.
• Admin interface added — A basic admin interface has been added to MyTimetable. Using the admin interface it is possible to view the state of push-based synchronisations and configure logging levels on an application-wide or per-user basis. More features will be added in the future.
• Error page improvements — A friendly error message is now shown if a SAML authentication request fails due to a timeout. StatuscolourYellowtitlePlanned
•  API OAuth improvements — The OAuth library has been updated and MyTimetable now supports various OAuth scopes. Using the scopes it is possible for a user to give read-only access to their timetable, instead of read-write.
• As usual, many small bug fixes and changes are included in this release. 416 issues were fixed in 701 commits.

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