Thru Server 9.4.0 Release Notes April 05 2017

FRONT PAGE CUSTOMIZATION
Front page can be customized via HTML-style template, graphics and CSS.

For security reasons customers are not allowed to upload customized front pages in the cloud environment, template should be verified and uploaded by Thru operations team.

In on-premise deployments customers are responsible for the security of the front page.

Metadata

CustomFrontPageEnabled Boolean (DataType=64), default set to 0. Enables front page customization.
CustomFrontPageAdminUIEnabled Boolean (DataType=64), default set to 0. Toggles admin UI for the front page customization.

EXTERNAL DOWNLOAD PAGE SUPPORTS JAVA APPLETS UNDER ANY BROWSERS VIA JAVA WEB START
For the browsers that do not support traditional Java applets any longer such as Chrome, Firefox and Edge, Thru external download page offers download option via Java web start.

A file with JNLP extension should be downloaded and started, which in turn starts download java applet. Internet Explorer versions 10 and 11 support traditional web application

FLEXIBLE NAMING FOR DOWNLOAD ARCHIVE

Metadata

New metadata parameter downloadArchiveNameTemplate is added, that defines a template for a name of ZIP archives created by multiple file/folder downloads in the browser.

Template elements:

{UID} – random unique id, length=10
{timestamp} – UTC timestamp in the hardcoded format: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
{parentName} – name of parent folder in Thru file system which contains the files in case all files in the ZIP archive come from the same folder.

Sample templates and names:

General case of Thru server download

Template: Thru-{UID}
Name: THRU-DB37FAC213

CompanyA with folder and timestamp

Template: CompanyA-{parentName}-{timestamp}

Name if all files come from the same parent folder: CompanyA-FLDR1234-20170523184417
Name if files come from different folders: CompanyA-20170523184417