July 4th, 2022
Security improvements:
What this means for you:
- When you upgrade to V1.22, you will need to reset your password.
- When you upload a new scenario, your players will need to reset their passwords too.
- If you choose to use email registration without 2FA, your players will require to enter a 12 characters password.
- Telegraph: Now you can have a channel that simulates Telegram messaging app. You can post content to this channel via the MEL. Your players can subscribe to the personas' Telegraph feed and see news and content. Also, players can post content when they are impersonating or role playing. (Please note the Telegraph channel doesn't have chat functionality, so players can not talk with other players via this channel).
- Relative creation date for personas' social accounts: Now you can indicate a social account creation date relative to the exercise upload time. For example, you can have a persona's Twitter account with a creation date 1 hour before you upload the exercise.
Bug fixes
- Several bug fixes.
Jun 9th, 2022
- Schedule news articles: Now your players (impersonating or role playing), can schedule news articles to be posted in the future. They will be able to see all their scheduled articles, review them, edit them or delete them.
- Bulk editing of personas in personas management: As the facilitator, now you can filter the list of personas and bulk edit their details: change their dispositions, tag them, change the permissions and so on.
- Contact list: We have added the ability to copy the email addresses of the personas in the Email contact list.
- Historic comments: Now you can add historic comments for both session and team messages.
Bug fixes
- Several bug fixes.
April 13th 2022
Bug fixes
- Bug fix related to uploading teams and TeamChat Plus.
April 4th 2022
- New Exercise report : We've redesigned the exercise report so the information is easier to read, find and analyse. We have also included the exercise background information and all the players' activity (which includes all open text communications such as emails, tweets, etc).
- Improvements in the MEL export and import: Now the MEL spreadsheet includes tags and engagement numbers. Also, the serials are contained in a second tab inside the file so you can import them easily or export them with the MEL.
Bug fixes
- Several bug fixes
Feb 27th
2022
| IMPORTANT After
updating
to this
release,
two-factor
authentication
(2FA) will
be
enforced
on
facilitator
and
observer
logins.
Please
ensure you
have a
real and
accessible
email
address
for your
facilitators/observers |
- Enforced 2FA on all facilitator and
observer logins (you'll get a one-time
use passcode emailed to the address
you're using to log in)
- Ability to log out from the Scenario
Editor. See how
here.
- Article-based websites can now be
"hacked" via a new action in the
MEL. See how
HERE.
- Bug fixes.
Jan 20th 2022
Jan 11th 2022
- New features: webpage details.
- Bug fixes.
Improvements
- New features: webpage details.
- Bug fixes.
November 3rd 2021
- Now AirApp exercises will go to MEL view
as default unless the exercise was last
opened in Flowchart view
- Injects in a new serial will continue
timings
Bug fixes
- Fixed Send to (requires latest
air app)
- Fixed TeamChat
notifications
- Fixed Websites notifications
for RolePlayers
September 13th 2021
New
features
- Email drafts: Now players
can save email drafts and access
them at any point during the
exercise. Just like a regular
inbox, they will have a draft
folder were all unsent messages
will reside and can be edited,
sent or discarded.
- Email classification: We
have improved how tags work in the
email channel. Now players can see
tags as folders to categorise
their emails. They can drag and
drop emails from the inbox to
certain folders, or multi-tag
them.
Improvements
- Reset exercise live
configuration: Now you
have more granularity when
resetting your exercise. You can
decide to replay the exercise
keeping the live configuration or
resetting it: zoom video
conferencing settings, contact
lists created by players, and
social watch settings.
- Contact lists improvements: Now players can drag and drop
contacts into different contact
lists. We have also made some
usability improvements.
- Twitter impersonation: Now
players can use impersonation for
Twitter direct messages and in the
social following.
- Facilitator: Polishes on
the new facilitator
dashboard.
August 18th 2021
August 17th 2021
Facilitator redesign
We have made a complete redesign of the
facilitator
dashboard, increasing functionality, and
making it easier to use.
Here’s a list of the main improvements and
changes:
- Menu: The facilitator offers a
new menu which
makes navigation easier and provides
better access to the different
functions.
- Sectioned
view: You can have the screen
divided
in 3 sections, which allows you to
have any two items of the menu in
parallel for
a more detailed view of the
exercise.
- Player view: Now the
facilitator always includes
the player view, in which you can
login as any player.
- Player activity: We have
created a new section
in the “Review” area that shows all
the open texts sent by players. This
replaces the previous Inbox. You can
still export all the open texts in a
csv.
- Reports: New section in menu
that includes all
available reports.
- Data report: raw data of the
exercise.
- Exercise report: Word document
with the exercise
objectives, all the decisions
information, and the AAR comments
(the AAR is licence-
dependant)
- Engagement report: New report with
engagement
information (number of likes,
reposts, etc) for each message in
the exercise.
- Multiple Events Lists: New
ability to upload
several events list that can run in
parallel. You can start and reset each
event list individually or at the same
time. The events list section allows
you
to reset everything from an exercise
in one go (data, configuration,
messages,
and first injects). When running
multiple events lists, you will have
different
filters you can apply: see only active
lists, see only inactive ones, hide
and
unhide events list. You can define the
multiple events lists in the MEL in
the
scenario editor.
New
features
- Personas management: As a facilitator, now you can see a
list of all the personas in your
exercise and change their details such
as
name, location, social handles,
profile images, and so on. You can
also edit
the banner of websites or mark
websites as hacked. You also have a
map view where
you can see all the personas (with a
given location) distributed in a map.
This feature is
licence-dependant.
- Auto-register players: Now you will be able to auto
register players.
In the scenario editor, you have the
option to add a password to the
players
when uploading the teams, which will
register them automatically with the
given
password.
- News articles publication date:
Now players can edit the publication
date and time for news articles.
Improvements
- Forum:
- Now you can add comments to
historical posts in
Forum Communities.
- Now you can send injects with
comments or
replies to existing Forum
posts.
- Now you can export and import
communities in the
scenario editor.
- Search
box for positions: Now you
will be able to search for positions
when you
are assigning them.
- Social
graph: Now
you will be able to hide
certain personas from the
social graph (the
personas won’t show in any
social media channel). Also,
now you can make a persona
follow all other personas in
social media with just a click
(via the scenario
editor).
- Pulse:
- General UI
improvements to Pulse
dashboard.
- Ability to download
reports from Pulse
dashboard.
June 8th 2021
Exercise Report: Now you can get a comprehensive Word report with all the decisions made by players, detailed activity, and AAR observations (depending on license).
- Checklist
channel: Now
you can
set up
your
exercise
training
objectives
and
activate
the
channel
for
participants
to check
items as
completed.
These
activity
is then
shown in
the
exercise
report.
This
channel is
available
from Raven
license
onwards.
- Email
contact list: Players now have
access to a contact
list in the email
channel, which
includes the team or
session participants
that can be contacted.
They can create their
own email groups, and
send them messages
directly.
Improvements
Delete posts: Now your players can delete their own social media posts.
Logic operators in Social Watch: Players can use AND and OR operators in the Social Watch to have a more advanced search.
Custom data in historic articles: Now you can use custom data and smartwords in historic articles.
Likes and shares in social posts: Now you can indicated number of likes, shares and comments in Facebook and Instagram messages in the AirApp (via MEL or Flowchart).
Fixed
Minor bug fixes.
April 29th 2021
After Action Review (AAR): Now players with special permissions can add observations to any messages and link them to an inject. These observations will appear in an After Action Review report that includes all relevant details: who made the observation, response time in reference to inject selected, the original message and the player who wrote this message.
After Action Review is only available on Hawk license.
Improvements
User experience improvements in the scenario editor.
Fixed
Minor bug fixes.
April 15th 2021
April 08th 2021
News Article drafts: Now you can create and edit news articles drafts before publishing them. You can also publish news articles as drafts from the Scenario Editor so players can copy or edit them.
Social drill down in Reddit: Players can now see other profiles on Reddit, see Reddit communities moderators and check their profiles.
Reddit in the Scenario Editor: Now you can create Reddit profiles for personas in the Scenario Editor with historical posts. You can also create Reddit messages (in MEL or Pol) selecting the community or profile where you want the message to be published, and indicating the number of votes and comments.
Reddit communities: New ability to create and define Reddit communities in the Scenario Editor, indicating the personas that will be their moderators. Players impersonating these moderator personas, will have admin permissions for the respective communities.
New messages in Data Report: Now the data report includes several new messages: TeamChat Plus messages sent by players, Reddit posts, comments and votes, Facebook likes and shares, Twitter direct messages, Instagram likes, and Bulletin, BearSocial and Panda posts, comments and likes.
Improvements
Historical comments on Instagram: Now you can create Instagram posts from the Scenario Editor with comments from personas.
Email notifications for role players: Improvements on email notifications for players who are impersonating and can see different inboxes.
Scenario Editor menu: Minor improvements in the menu including direct links to support and resources.
Fixed
Several minor bug fixes.
March 23rd 2021
March 18th 2021
Impersonation on Instagram: Now players can impersonate personas in the Instamedia (Instagram) channel (based on permissions)
Spoof engagement in Instagram: Players can change the number of likes and comments on Instagram (Instamedia) posts (based on permissions).
Spoof engagement in Reddit: Players can change the number votes and comments on Reddit (Forum) posts (based on permissions).
Improvements
Teams in Scenario Editor: New teams management design to make the author's work easier and faster.
Instagram: Now players can like and comment Instagram posts, follow and unfollow users, and navigate through the network (social drill down).
Reddit: Now players can edit their profile and details.
Email notifications: Email replies now appear at the top of the inbox as new messages. Improvements in the alert system.
Fixed
Several minor bug fixes.
March 10th 2021
January 29th 2021
January 27th 2021
Email channel: We have made a complete redesign of the email channel! Now players will:
See email threads.
Reply and forward all messages like real email.
Search for players and personas by name.
Switch between normal view and split view.
Tag emails.
Search emails.
Filter emails by tags.
Impersonation on email: Now players can impersonate personas in the email channel (based on permissions)
Spoof engagement in Facebook: Players can change the number of likes, comments and shares of Facebook posts (based on permissions).
Exercise summary for moderator: As a moderator, you’ll be able to see a summary of the exercise details, configuration, teams and players, etc.
Improvements
Web search improvements: Now players will be able to use logic operators (OR, AND) in the web search. Also, the web search results will include social media posts.
Content preview when tweeting a link: If you copy the link to a content (within the simulation) and post it on the Twitter channel, the post will show a preview of the content instead of only the URL.
Scenario editor menu: New slicker menu to simplify your work.
Data points and questions in MEL: Now you are able to add questions and data points to your content when you’re using the MEL view.
Security improvements.
Fixed
Several minor bug fixes.
January 20th 2021
December 18th 2020
New
features
Relative publication time: Now you can assign a relative publication time for the content based on the time you upload your exercise. For example: 2 hours before uploading.
Default channel for first login: You can now set up the first channel you want players to see when they enter the exercise.
Link to content: Get the URL to a specific content item from the MEL.
Facebook posts on pages: Now you can publish Facebook posts to organisations' pages from the Scenario Editor.
Quote tweets: Now your players are able to retweet with a comment.
Schedule tweets: Now your players can schedule tweets, edit them and delete them if wanted.
Facebook drill down: Now players can see personas’ friends in Facebook, and navigate through their profiles.
Fixed
Several minor bug fixes.
November 26th 2020
- Social
channels: We have
added a list of new social
channels: Reddit, 4Chan, VK
Streams and Weibo.
- Video and documents: Now players can upload
video files and MS Office
documents to any channel
(dependent on licence
permissions - requires Hawk or
Osprey)
- Twitter pagination: We have
added pagination in Twitter
channel for improved user
experience for clients with
multi-day and multi-week exercises
that generate large volumes of
traffic.
- Styling: Now you can
change all channel icons and
activate or deactivate Social Map
and TeamChat Plus in the scenario
editor.
- MEL: Now you can search
personas by their handle.
- Several minor bug fixes.
November 10th 2020
- Fix on
personas' spreadsheet
export: column name
corrected.
November 9th 2020
- Social Map: This new
channel shows the location of
all social posts. The persona
or player needs to have a GPS
location, and every time they
post on Twitter, Facebook or
Instagram, a pin will appear
in the map showing the
location and the message. GPS
locations can be changed based
on permissions.
- Impersonation on Facebook: Now players can
impersonate personas on
Facebook, write and like posts
on their behalf.
- Comments for Twitter posts: Now you can create tweets
with past comments.
- Serials: Now the MEL is
organised by serials that have
injects. You can give serials
a description, discussion
points, tasks to complete, and
see all assets that are used
in it. You can export all the
injects in a serial and
generate a serial
report.
- "Bulk replace" for
multi-selection of
personas: Now you can
replace several personas in
one go based on the personas
handle.
- Teams: Now you will only see
the teams you have for a
scenario and will get an alert
in the audience members that
haven't been uploaded to the
selected space.
- Several minor bug fixes.
October 19th 2020
- 2-factor authentication with
SMS: now you can require
players to register verifying both
their email and mobile
phone.
- Ability to activate or
deactivate personas' social
media accounts.
- TeamChat Plus and Social Watch
configuration via the AirApp:
configure whether you want to show
or hide these channels for your
players.
- Export messaging data: Now you
can export all the messages
that have been sent by
players during the
exercise in a convenient Excel
format.
- Export PDF with decisions pie
charts from the facilitator
dashboard.
- Date and time stamp for emails:
now you can change the
publication date of email
messages sent by
personas.
- The facilitator now can add
multiple video conferencing
rooms.
- Several minor bug fixes.
September 11th 2020
- Automatic handles generated
for personas.
- Prevent saving personas
without social handles.
September 3rd 2020
- Fixes
issue with MEL
import.
September 2nd 2020
- Facebook groups: now players with
specific permissions can create private Facebook
groups.
- Change smartword data during
exercise: facilitators can
now
edit the custom data table live to
make exercises even more
dynamic.
- Reveal personas and players who
liked social media posts and
who retweeted messages.
- Ability to add website link in
social media profile: Now
you
can add a website to the persona's
social media profile.
- Ability for exercise control to
manipulate social media
engagement on
individual
social media posts and to modify
the
underlying ranking data which
defines
the order of how messages appear
in
the feed.
- Several minor bug fixes.
August 24th 2020
- Zoom integration to allow
video
conferencing between team
members
during exercises.
- New section in facilitator
dashboard to assign specific
permission to players: create
video conference rooms, edit
social engagement (see
below).
- Social engagement: Now players
(with the respective
permission)
can change the social
engagement
of messages (edit the number
of
likes, re-posts, views,
etc).
- Historic content for websites:
now
you can create historic news
articles for
organisations.
- Share news article via
link.
- Copy and paste images directly
into news articles.
- Generic bug fixes.
August 3rd 2020
- Facebook search and personas
profiles.
- Instagram personas profiles.
- Timestamps: being able to edit
messages timestamps.
- Players are able to impersonate
personas on Twitter (based on
permissions).
- Web search for website
channel.
- Personas Social graph: Create
social
networks and indicate followers in
social channels for
personas.
- Youtube channel.
- Social watch.
- Teamchat Plus.
- Sentiment analysis in message and
Stax.
- Activate and deactivate accounts
in
social channels for
personas.
- Image or video are now mandatory
on
InstaMedia past posts.
- Fixes in team table and team
import/export.
June 1st 2020
- Inject Grid/Facilitator Action can now
trigger single content as well as
inject
sequence
- Issue with emojis in external
email
- Issue with Move to Role
May 25th 2020
- Issue with Persona MEL
- External email header not showing in
Style
tool
May 22nd 2020
- Ability to edit news articles (given
right
permissions)
- Ability to send content to "variable"
(advanced feature for flowchart
users)
- Ability to traverse following and
followers on Twitter
- Ability to pair MEL and Pattern of
Life
library
- About 50 minor tweaks and snags.
May 17th 2020
- Persona smartwords
- Media library now have additional
filters
and classifications
- Ability to peak at password
- Issue with linking to News
websites
- Uploading issues for content with
smartwords and emojis
- team role encoding issue
5th May 2020
Facilitator
- Events List and Excon merged: The
injects timers will be available
in
both views.
- New dashboard look and feel.
- New personas
configuration in scenario
editor:
Handle for author, bio
notes, factions and
tags,
location, personal
details
and accounts
configuration
- Ability to
mark
personas as organisation allowing to create
a
website design for
them.
- Personas
content
history: Check and
edit
all messages for a
personas.
- New generic
channel name:
MicroBlog.
- Twitter
retweets
and
likes.
- Verified
Twitter
accounts.
- Pin tweets to
top.
Other New
functionality
Websites combined with news articles into one channel
News ticker and image overlay available in media pop-up
Publish MicroBlog (twitter) message with likes, comments and retweets.
Add images to inject in the MEL view
Send content to variable
Send content to partner
Injects grid configuration
Persona smartwords: Ability to reference personas in content using persona handle
News articles: Players ability to create and edit news articles
Pairing Stax and Scenario: Ability to pair scenario with a Stax and check for personas duplicates
Styling
GoSocial (Facebook): Ability to edit number of followers and community
InstaMedia (Instagram): new icon and channel name
New default virtual desktop icons
New colour schemes for menu and back buttons
Virtual Desktop
Icons fixed on the left side panel for all channels
Multiple attachments in Mail
Back button removed: now use the browser back button.