We’ve been working hard to make Host Building better! Here’s the new and improved features, integration updates and resolved bugs you’ll find in this release.

What’s new

Minimum Operating System

On Apple we have increased our minimum supported version to iOS 14. On Google have increased the minimum support operating system to Android 9. 

New forced update screen

We have updated the automatic update screen shown to app users. App users will be shown a screen prompting them to update their app if the admin has set the minimum app version to be higher than the version that is currently installed on the user's device.

Shown below is an image showing the default header and text for the forced update screen, both of which Admins can customise at a client level. By default, the icon shown will be the current app icon; however, this can also be customised at a client level. A different URL can be configured for iOS and Android to ensure all app users are taken to the correct app store then they tap “update now”.

New data extracts in preparation for migration to VTS

We’ve created new data extracts that will allow clients to better leverage their historic Host data as they transition to VTS.  These extracts will be provided to clients by the digital team at the time of transition to VTS and will contain information from each section in the admin portal. The new extracts created this release were:

• Offers
• Events
• Stripe Subscription

What’s improved

Homepage

Quick-link labels will now run over 2 lines of text, allowing for more text characters to be displayed on the button.

On Android, when a video is set to display in the banner carousel, it will now include the text prompt “Play Video” next to the play button. On Android devices, font weights have been updated to bring the UI to match what is existing on iOS.

Success state screens

When an app user submits a Service request, we have updated the success state screen, for both iOS & Android to ensure a consistent look and feel across platforms.

Empty state screens

When no content is available for a feature, we have updated the messaging shown to an app user to create a consistent look and feel across features. The empty state screens have been updated for the following features:

• Events
• Offers
• Spaces
• News

Policy UX Fixes

As part of this fix, event policy screens will display translated page headings for both iOS & Android.

In the admin portal, the Client-based ‘Edit Policy’ modal has been updated so that the section headers within the modal now have more detailed, descriptive text.

Client data API report

The Tenant API data export has been updated to ensure the data fields ‘display name’, ‘floor’ and ‘display directory’ (yes/no) are added to the report.

Office RnD integration

When an app user taps on the OfficeRnD tile, by default, it will show which rooms/spaces are available for the next 24 hours. This default time frame of 24 hours can be adjusted by, by Super & Instance Admins, as part of the integration configuration.

Offers

• On iOS, the “Redeem” button for the ‘Offers’ detail view has been updated to match the big button properties outlined in the stylesheet.
• On iOS, the heading on the default page for offers has been updated to “Offers” rather than “Redeem your offer”.
• Offers that have a limited number of redemptions per app user, this limit can no longer be circumvented by app users deleting and recreating their account with the same email address

Analytic Events

A new analytics event has been created to record when menu tiles are tapped.

Amenities images

On the iOS app, the overlay for Amenities showcased under ‘My Building', has been changed from brown to black.

Integration updates 

• Kastle updated to v3.7.9 on Android
• Kastle updated 3.7.10 on iOS
• HID updated to v 1.9.1 on Android

Resolved bugs

App

• On iOS devices, the homepage event pill has been updated to ensure its maximum width is the same as the related image, minus the required padding.
• For iOS users, the app footer was not always changing font weight when icons where no longer selected, this has been resolved.
• On iOS devices, when the homepage configuration was updated to change from one offer, to display three or more, the display would not show the additional offers on the homepage offers carousel.
• For iOS users, the photo picker library “Done” and “Cancel” buttons were 'invisible’ when button text was white against a white background.
• For iOS, suppressed Service tiles were not being linked to the homepage banner carousel.
• On iOS, only one poll was able to be displayed depending on start date of existing Polls.
• iOS app users who were using Buddhist Calendar settings were being shown an incorrect expiry date format for offers.
• For Android devices, splash screen error messages were not decoding and displaying correctly.
• On Samsung Galaxy A53 devices, the footer text was not displaying fully and was being cut off.
• For Android, the keyboard was blocking app users from seeing step 3 of Registration.
• On Android, the footer indicator was remaining on ‘Home’ when screen was showing ‘Menu’ page.
• For Android users, the small header logo wasn’t filling to scale and remained very small.

Admin portal

• Thai characters were not being supported in the Client Admin Service Request data report.
• Once an offer had been created, but before it had been redeemed, Admins where unable to edit the commencement or expiry date.
• Once an offer had been made with set confirmation & expiry dates, they were unable to be removed and saved with the new dates refusing to clear.
• Error messages were appearing when an Admin attempted to delete app users in bulk.