Release Notes 221.3

Direct Spaces translates text on the user's device based on the device’s localization settings.

• Browse Locations – Search results sequence

  During search or creating a new booking, rooms in a building appear in order according to the available room parameter sequence. For example, the order may be book sequence or alphanumeric by room description. If you select a sequence and more than 1 room is part of the same sequence, then the order is alphanumeric within that sequence.

• Floorplan file formats

  We added support for the following floorplan file formats: .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif, .svg.

• New Booking – Floorplan view

  In Create a Reservation, you can now use pinch, zoom, and pan gestures to view floor plans.

We revised the dashboard to include widgets and view events. The Direct Spaces widget includes these options:

• Browse Locations
• Create a Reservation
• Scan QR Code

You can now show My Events on the Dashboard and view your schedule, access events, cancel or check in to bookings.

When you select Create a Reservation, one of the following happens:

• If you have 1 Intent, the Create a Reservation screen appears.
• If you have more than 1 Intent, a prompt appears, “What type of Booking would you like to create?” You can then select from the available Intents.

• Preferences

  Direct Spaces retains many user preferences and parameters that you set in EMS Web App. These include:

  • Preferences for default calendar invite statuses like free, tentative, and busy.
  • In template parameters, you can enable or disable sending an invite to a user's calendar. In EMS Web App, select Enable Add to calendar to turn on or clear it to turn off. Direct Spaces retains these settings.
• We updated the default building logic

  • With location tracking turned on, buildings default to the closest longitude and latitude.

  • With location tracking turned off or if buildings are not set up with longitude/latitude, then the building defaults to the highest priority template in the user's preferences.

  • If a user has no default building on any template associated with the Intent, then no building defaults and the user must select a building.

• Scan QR code

  After you scan a QR code, the Create Reservation screen appears with that room added.

• Intent default time

  An Intent's default time appears on Creating a Reservation before you select the next time slot.

  For example, for an 8 AM-5 PM default, if you book at 7:45 AM, the reservation defaults to today at 8 AM-5 PM. If you book at 3:45 PM, the reservation defaults to tomorrow at 8 AM-5 PM.

• Add Teams meetings

  You can add a Teams meeting to the reservation if it's allowed by the template.

Improvements & Issues Fixed

• When you log in on Android and enter your email, a space is not added after the period in .com.
• When you log out of an assistant, no error appears.

Improvements and Issues Fixed

• Navigation
  • When you expand or collapse the Navigation menu, the screen reader announces the state of the menu.
  • When Navigation is hidden, you will not tab through it and a screen reader will not read hidden items.
  • You can use the keyboard space bar to interact with the Navigation menu. The focus lands on the first navigation item when using the space bar. Navigation menu elements will not be identified as links and will be identified by their name.
• Create a Reservation

  • You can use the keyboard for all functions in Create a Reservation > Room Request. The screen reader announces the descriptive message for each item.

  • The screen reader announces a description of each item you can tab to in Create a Reservation > Room Request/Room Reserve.

  • Required fields in Create a Reservation are indicated by an asterisk. The screen reader announces the fields are required.

  • In Create a Reservation > Room Request > Schedule View, when you reserve and request rooms, the screen reader focuses on and announces the content.

  • In Create a Reservation > Room Request > Attendees, the screen reader announces the Attendees header so you know where you are on the page. It also announces the Remove Attendee link.

  • In Create a Reservation > Choose a Template > Room Request, all labels are focused and announced by the screen reader as expected.

  • You can use the keyboard to fully access the Recurrence Modal in Create a Reservation > Room Request > Recurrent Modal.

  • In Create a Reservation > Service User Defined Fields, all elements are focused and announced by the screen reader.

  • You can use the keyboard for all functions in Create a Reservation > Services.

  • In Create a Reservation, you can add a Video Conference to the reservation. The screen reader announces the link and tabbing/shift tabbing work in the order expected.

  • In Create a Reservation > Time picker, all elements are focused using the keyboard and announced by the screen reader.

  • In Create a Reservation, you can access the date and time feature using the keyboard. The screen reader focuses on and announces the content.

• Keyboard and spacebar

  • You can interact with all keyboard elements via the space bar or enter. All elements are focused and announced by the screen reader.

  • When Site Home and My Home are expanded with the space bar, the screen reader announces that they’ve been expanded. For example, “My Home now expanded.”

  • You can use the space bar to remove customer, group, and first contact modal. The screen reader announces all elements.

  • You can act as another user or switch back to yourself using the keyboard.

• When you open a drop-down menu and navigate to the first item, the screen reader announces the number of items in the list so you know how many to expect.

• When you tab to My Reservation Templates, the screen reader announces how many templates are in the list. This helps you know how many there are to choose from.

• We updated the screen colors to ensure the color and focus indicator contrast works effectively.

• UDF multi-select lists are accessible and readable.

• All functionality is available on the page up to 400% zoom. If you zoom more than 175%, the Services tab gets disabled. To skip Services, click Next Step to go to Reservation details. You can also click the Back button at the lower part of the page to go to the Rooms and Attendees page in all zoom levels.

• If EMS uses a custom logo, the screen reader announces that it’s a custom logo and then Link to Home page.

Improvements and Issues Fixed

• The Attendance and Setup Type window tab flow works as expected.
• After you select a room, the Attendance and Setup Types has focus as expected.
• In Create a Reservation, when you cancel the service, the focus is now on the service to be added and works as expected.
• In Create a Reservation, when a service is added, the screen reader now announces the added service and related information.