What's new at the Spring 2020 Release?

2020 Release Highlights!

InVision 2020 is a productivity release focused on the day to day needs of our users. Based on your priority feedback we’ve developed a brand-new Move Scenarios capability for creating and evaluating complex what-if scenarios. Across applications, we’ve added more drag-and-drop interaction to make things easier without so many button-clicks. And we’ve also added KPI targets to help you better track the things you care about.

Overall, this release will help you work faster and better through highly interactive visual features across the system. Thanks for all your feedback along the way!

Move Scenarios

Overview: Move Scenarios is a tool built to help explore what-if scenarios by visually supporting easy drag and drop assignments of people to spaces across one or multiple floors. These might be scenarios to explore a building restack, find where to move people temporarily during a renovation, or larger departmental defragmentation (consolidation) across an entire campus. In any of those scenarios, space managers and planners need to be able to try out different ideas and determine what the best fit is. This new addition to Move Tools will help simplify complicated move questions through highly interactive drag-and-drop tools.

• Create Scenarios – Quickly create simple or complex move scenarios by adding as many people and floors as you want. These draft scenarios are a safe place to try different test-fits until you find the best one.
• Drag & Drop Assignments – We’ve enabled even more drag & drop interaction to make it as easy as possible to quickly perform assignments, un-assignments, and simple space shuffles.
• Analyze Scenario – Run a validation check for any scenario, which shows you where there may be items which need your attention.
• Commit a Scenario – Once you’ve created a scenario that works, you can commit those moves in order to execute assignment changes. This includes exporting a move manifest and updating production data.

Tech Requirements: These features require the 2020 release of the Foundation to be installed.

KPI Card Targets

Overview: KPI Cards let you keep track of the things you care about, and at the 2020 release you can now define Targets for your KPI Cards. These configurable targets let you specify a threshold or acceptable zone, so you can quickly see when something you care about needs your attention.

• Configure Targets – An optional new setting for any of your KPI Cards, where you can define the range or threshold values for where you want your data to be.
• Visual Indicators – When you log in to InVision, those KPI Cards where you’ve defined a target will visually show you where an exception is occurring. You can then click through the KPI to see the data in an app where you can drill down further.

Tech Requirements: This feature requires that InVision 2020 is installed

Spherical Image Support

Overview: The Image Galleries in InVision provide an attractive way to share multiple photos of a record, but at 2020 you can now share interactive spherical photos in galleries as well. This support for panoramic images means users can immerse themselves in a location and pan around to find what they are looking for.

• View Panoramic Images – When you share a panoramic image, users can pan and zoom around the image to understand the entire 360 context of a photo. This interactive experience helps convey the entire environment as opposed to one limited shot.
• Easy Management – Managing panoramic images is handled exactly like normal image management, except the system automatically detects spherical images and uses an interactive experience when viewing it.
• Understand Context – This feature is great for everything from construction photos to classroom layouts, not to mention asset management and emergency preparedness.

 Tech Requirements: This feature requires that InVision 2020 is installed

Drag and Drop Enhancements

Overview: InVision users spend a lot of their time managing data, which typically means a lot of mouse clicking to get the job done. Based on your feedback we’ve brought more drag & drop interaction to common application workflows, so you can easily shave time and mouse-clicks from the things you do most!

• Space Assignments – Want to move a person from their current office to one down the hall? Simply drag and drop them into the new space, and the system does the rest. The Move Workspace also now uses drag and drop in multiple ways.
• Document Uploads – Instead of clicking Add, browsing to a file location, clicking a file, then clicking ok, users can now drag a file into InVision to upload it. This can be done with single files, or multiple files if you want to bulk upload.
• Move Scenarios – The brand-new Move Scenarios capability has advanced drag and drop capabilities which use your context to determine logic when you drag a person or floor to a scenario. Drag people into spaces to assign them, drag them between spaces to move them, or drag them to the scenario to unassign.

Tech Requirements: This feature requires that InVision 2020 is installed

Asset Manager Updates

Overview: Used along with Explorer, Organizations can quickly inventory and assess the assets they care about in the field, and then use Asset Manager to begin to analyze, report, and plan for the future of those assets. Enhancements at 2020 make it easier now to also understand records related to those assets, such as individual field assessments done in InVision, or historic work orders from an external system.

• View Spherical Images – Understanding the context of where an asset is located is important, and now you can understand the complete picture with immersive photos. These are great for complex equipment rooms, all kinds of indoor assets, or even outdoor asset locations .
• Drag & Drop Documents – When adding documents to an asset, you often need to add more than one document at a time. Drag and drop lets you select multiple documents, and then upload them without any extra clicks or dialogs.
• KPI Card Targets – For assets you manage, you can now fine tune your KPI Cards to focus even more on the qualitative bounds of those assets. KPI Card targets let you define critical thresholds and ranges with variance, and get quick visual feedback when an exception occurs.

Tech Requirements: Requires InVision 2020 along with the new Asset Manager template

Explorer Updates

Overview: The Explorer application template is the swiss army knife of the InVision system and has been configured for an impressive array of highly diverse needs across problem types and industries. Because this template gets used by so many different types of users, we have added some additional core capabilities at 2020 which should make it even more valuable across the board.

• Spherical Images – Understanding the context of where your data is located is important, and now you can understand the complete picture with immersive photos. These spherical images can be added to any entity, enabling you to quickly explore environments with interactive visual fidelity.
• Drag & Drop Documents – When adding documents to your data, you often need to add more than one document at a time. Drag and drop lets you select multiple documents, and then upload them without any extra clicks or dialogs.
• Performance Enhancements –...

Tech Requirements: Requires InVision 2020 along with the new Explorer template

Space Manager Updates

Overview: Focused on the core needs of users managing and assigning space across their organization, the Space Manager application has added a couple major enhancements at the 2020 release. These features focus on rounding out the already robust capabilities in the application today based on end-user feedback.

• Move Scenarios – Optimizing space usually involves evaluating multiple test-fit scenarios, and at 2020 the brand new Move Scenarios delivers that capability by visually supporting easy drag and drop assignments of people to spaces across one or multiple floors. These easy to use Move Scenarios can help explore different options, and can also be Finalized into an actual move.
• Spherical Images – Spaces are much more than just an area on a floorplan, and now with spherical image support users can understand what a space actually looks like with an immersive image. These interactive images give you a sense of what it’s like to be in the space, and can be panned and zoomed to explore complex questions.
• Drag & Drop Documents – When adding documents to your space data, you often need to add more than one document at a time. Drag and drop lets you select multiple documents, and then upload them without any extra clicks or dialogs

Tech Requirements: Requires InVision 2020 along with the new Space Manager template

Foundation Updates

Overview: For the Administrators setting up and configuring InVision, the 2020 release includes baseline enhancements to underlying security and optimization.

• Security Enhancements – InVision Foundation has added additional support for whitelisted markup content enforcement in Admin defined messages in Home and Login, which can further prevent XSS attacks.
• LDAPS Support – For organizations that use SAML, InVision now supports Secure LDAP (LDAPS) in addition to LDAP.
• Image Management Optimization – InVision Foundation API’s have been updated to detect large spherical images and optimize them for display. This supports standard primary image view, gallery view, and individual interactive detail view.

Pre-requisites: These features require Foundation 2020 be installed.