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A long notification\nis shortened to its first few lines with a Show more to open it, so one wordy notification no\nlonger pushes the rest of the list out of sight.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a narrow window the sidebar becomes a drawer you open when you need it. On a wide one it stays\nopen, since collapsing it saved a few pixels and cost you the labels.\u003c/p\u003e\n","description":"The dashboard has been redesigned, and everything that used to sit in the top bar now lives in a single grouped sidebar.","title":"A new look for the dashboard, with navigation in one place","type":"improvement","url":"https://www.screenly.io/releases/screenly/26.8.0/new-navigation/"},{"areas":[],"breaking":false,"content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThe top bar held a search box that looked across screens, content and playlists at once, and a\nNew menu for creating things from anywhere. Both are gone with the bar, and neither has a\nreplacement in the sidebar.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach section still has its own search, which is where most searching happened: Screens, Content\nand Playlists all filter their own lists, and those searches know about the things particular to\nthem, such as labels on screens. Creating things still starts from the section you want it in.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you leaned on the global box to jump between sections by name, this is a step back for you\nspecifically, and worth telling us about.\u003c/p\u003e\n","description":"The search box that spanned screens, content and playlists is gone, along with the New quick-create menu, both of which lived in the removed top bar.","title":"Global search and the New menu have been removed","type":"removed","url":"https://www.screenly.io/releases/screenly/26.8.0/global-search-removed/"},{"areas":["content-management"],"breaking":false,"content_html":"\u003cp\u003eUploading a large video meant staying on the Content page until it finished. Uploads ran in the\nbackground there, but moving to Screens or Playlists loaded a new page and cancelled every upload\nstill in progress. For a long video over an ordinary connection, that is a real chunk of\nsomeone\u0026rsquo;s afternoon spent not using Screenly.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContent is now part of the same single-page dashboard as the rest of Screenly, so uploads keep\nrunning while you go elsewhere. Close the upload dialog, go set up a playlist, and the upload\ncarries on. Reopen the dialog to see its progress and an estimate of the time left, or start more\nuploads.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving between Content and a single item no longer reloads the page either, so browsing your\nlibrary feels like one place rather than a series of loads.\u003c/p\u003e\n","description":"Uploads keep running when you leave the Content section, and pages no longer reload as you move around Content.","title":"Uploads keep running while you move around the dashboard","type":"improvement","url":"https://www.screenly.io/releases/screenly/26.8.0/content-rebuilt/"},{"areas":[],"breaking":false,"content_html":"\u003cp\u003eSettings were laid out their own way, with a list of pages down the side, so moving between a\nscreen\u0026rsquo;s settings and your workspace\u0026rsquo;s meant adjusting to a different arrangement of the same\nkinds of controls.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorkspace and account settings now use the horizontal tabs that playlists and screens use, and\neach tab has one save bar, so it is clear what a save applies to. Branding moved into the\nWorkspace tab rather than standing alone, and saves together with the workspace name.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn old link or bookmark to the branding page now opens Settings \u0026gt; Workspace, where branding is.\u003c/p\u003e\n","description":"Settings pages now use the same horizontal tabs as playlists and screens, with branding folded into the Workspace tab and one save bar per tab.","title":"Workspace and account settings work like the rest of Screenly","type":"improvement","url":"https://www.screenly.io/releases/screenly/26.8.0/settings-pages-aligned/"},{"areas":["apps"],"breaking":false,"content_html":"\u003cp\u003eApps can now work with Slack through your workspace\u0026rsquo;s Slack connection, and an app that needs a\nchannel can ask for one directly. Its settings show a picker listing the channels available to\nthat connection, so there is no channel ID to look up in Slack and paste in.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Slack is not connected yet, the setting shows a Connect to Slack button that takes you to\nSettings \u0026gt; Integrations, rather than failing later.\u003c/p\u003e\n","description":"An app that works with Slack can now use your workspace's Slack connection and offer a channel picker in its settings.","title":"Apps can ask you to pick a Slack channel","type":"release","url":"https://www.screenly.io/releases/screenly/26.8.0/slack-channel-picker/"},{"areas":[],"breaking":false,"content_html":"\u003ch2 id=\"improvements\"\u003eImprovements\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlaylist transitions are shown as animated preview cards, so you can see what each one does\nbefore choosing it. The option previously called \u0026ldquo;None\u0026rdquo; is now \u0026ldquo;Instant\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA playlist with no screens assigned now shows a \u0026ldquo;Select screens for your playlist\u0026rdquo; prompt\ninstead of an empty table, and explains how assignment by label works.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe dashboard has a new typeface, which also loads faster than the one it replaces.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n","description":"Transitions are animated preview cards, a playlist with no screens explains how to assign them, and the dashboard has a new, faster-loading typeface.","title":"Playlist transitions show a preview, and other improvements","type":"roundup","url":"https://www.screenly.io/releases/screenly/26.8.0/fixes-and-improvements/"}],"json":"https://www.screenly.io/releases/screenly/26.8.0/v1.json","product":"screenly","product_label":"Screenly","url":"https://www.screenly.io/releases/screenly/26.8.0/","version":"26.8.0"}],"title":"Screenly 26.8.0","url":"https://www.screenly.io/releases/screenly/26.8.0/","version":1}