Author: Preston Lee

Content-Only Products! (Beta) Until now, product builds had to be distributed as a container image. This created a problem for products that don’t technically “run”, such as data files, static documents, or small .zip files. As of the May release, Skycapp’s internal product model has been fundamentally broadened to support file-based build distributables. Curators now…

Direct Configuration File Downloads Building on the recent addition of platform-less downloads, we now include all additional download links to files needed by bundled products. Custom JavaScript Injection We’ve added a new ability to customize site and page loading with custom JavaScript, which may also be used for analytics and performance measurement. Note that modern…

Direct Configuration Downloads When running a new product for the first time, users typically download the default curated configuration without any custom modifications. This constitutes the majority of product downloads. While Skycapp’s platform configuration management is a powerful feature, needing to add a product configuration to a platform only to accept the default settings is…

Bundle Product Improvements We’ve fundamentally changed the way product bundles work to enforce that the parent product must reference a child configuration already known to the system. This improves product stability by eliminating the possibility of using an incorrect sub-product build tag or configuration name. When bundling a product, curators instead have a new “Set…

Global Look and Feel Stylesheet Overrides We’ve added support for a much requested feature: customizing the UI look and feel! Operators may set the SKYCAPP_CUSTOM_CSS environment variable of the web client to a minified CSS stylesheet. The stylesheet will be injected dynamically as the website loads. Important: By overriding default styles, you are on the…

Telemetry (Beta) Using realtime product telemetry is like the first time you used a web browser. It can be difficult to wrap your head around the implications, but once you experience well-crafted and integrated content, you won’t want to go without it. Skycapp telemetry enablement is now in beta, with a sample “Skycapp Telemetry Bundle”…

Curation Portal Redesign The curation portal has been revamped to support quick navigation between the same settings pages for different products. This new UI reduces curation time by allowing quicker context switching and alleviating the need to manually refresh the page. Product Management Reporting Administrators and catalog-wide curators now have an interactive product catalog summary,…

Catalog Sorting and Pagination The product catalog now includes pagination and sorting controls. By default, product search results will be displayed with the most recently updated listings first. Direct Search Linking You may now link directly to catalog search result pages by adding parameters to the root URL of your Skycapp deployment. For example, a…

Multi-Badge Filtering Badges can now be placed into a category. When a pinned badge is categorized, the badge will be presented under a corresponding heading in the catalog browser. The category with the highest priority badge is presented first. For administrators, a badge’s category can optionally be set in the badge edit screen, shown below….