Wingframe release notes

Release notes, Wingframe 1.7.0.1 – 1.7.10.7

Feburari 09, 2023 – April 29, 2024

This release period consist of new features, optimizations and code refactoring — needed to remove some unnecessary complexity and speed up rendering and development.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.7.0

Feburari 07, 2023

This release introduced two new exciting products in Wingframe. Airport Sign Management (ASM) developed for the airport operator demanding full oversight of its sign assets and on the other end: the Sign Installation Tracking (SIT), offering manufacturers a detailed perspective of its sign installations. This is a major stepping stone for Wingframe, but rest asure there is alot more to come.

Wingframe Airport Sign Management (ASM)

Airports require significant investment in infrastructure, including airfield guidance signs. Wingframe's Airport Sign Management (ASM) offers a powerful suite of tools to increase the return on investment (ROI) for these assets while decreasing costs resulting from inefficient processes related to sign management. The ASM achieves this by providing the following benefits:

• Accessibility – ASM makes asset data easily accessible, providing an up-to-date and accurate view of sign locations, types, and conditions.
• Life-cycle tracking – ASM tracks the entire life-cycle of airport signs, from installation to maintenance and replacement, making it easier to manage these assets and ensure compliance with safety regulations.
• Simplified communication – ASM simplifies communication around assets, allowing airport operators to quickly and easily communicate changes or issues related to sign management with relevant stakeholders, such as maintenance staff, safety inspectors, or project managers.
• Process flows – ASM provides process flows for common actions, such as reporting, quoting, and ordering new signs, streamlining and automating these processes and minimising the potential for errors.

With ASM, airport operators can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure the safe and reliable operation of airfield guidance signs.

Wingframe Sign Installation Tracking (SIT)

Wingframe's Sign Installation Tracking (SIT) provides a comprehensive suite of tools tailored for manufacturers, contractors or consultants to monitor and manage their installations at airports effectively. The SIT module is designed to enhance value by streamlining tracking and offering insights to support the maintenance and oversight of signs post-installation, yielding the following advantages:

• Accessibility – SIT makes sign and installation data easily accessible, providing an up-to-date and accurate view of locations, types, and conditions.
• Life-cycle insights – By monitoring the complete life-cycle of signs from delivery to installation, and through to maintenance and potential replacement, SIT assists users in understanding product longevity and reliability.
• Simplified communication – SIT simplifies communication around installations, allowing involved parties to quickly and easily communicate changes or issues related to installations with relevant stakeholders, such as maintenance staff, safety inspectors, or project managers.
• Process flows – SIT provides process flows for common actions, such as reporting, quoting, and ordering of new signs, streamlining and automating these processes and minimising the potential for errors.

With SIT, users can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure the safe and reliable operation of airfield guidance signs.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.6.1 – 1.6.19

Mars 08, 2022 – Januari 06, 2023

This release period consist of new features, optimizations and code refactoring — needed to remove some unnecessary complexity and speed up rendering and development.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.6.0

March 03, 2022

This release was a first step towards expanding Wingframe for use by airports. This is huge for Wingframe as a company of course, and something we have worked and planned for from the beginning.

Many of the features implemented this period will be published in the 1.6.0 release later this summer.

New features & improvements

Geographic context

This is the biggest new feature in a while. Wingframe now has GIS support. This means we can give projects, signs and sign messages proper geographic context, and we can query data based on position and area. We have many ideas for Wingframe related to this, which we are excited about. But for now, the following features are available.

• In the editor you can now add latitude, longitude and direction for your sign configuration. If you add a position, Wingframe will automatically detect which airport it belongs to. If you don't have the position, but still want to set the airport, you may do so also. Adding this data will allow us to aggregate valuable business insights for your company later on. We plan on adding an airport map PDF file which displays position and orientation of signs, including visible messages.

• Airport and position info has been added to all sign lists, including the Overview PDF.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.5.1 – 1.5.6

July 13, 2021 – December 03, 2021

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented undo-actions on Windows.
• Fixed missing measurements between characters in the grid.
• Removed some “invalid props passed to element” warnings.
• Removed access to full compliance reports available at public “Draw”.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.5.0

July 07, 2021

This release was mostly optimizations and code refactoring — needed to remove some unnecessary complexity and speed up rendering and development.

New features & improvements

Optimized rendering

So it turns out that – on some rare occasions – software developers can overengineer their solutions. This was the case with our implementation for rendering our sign models. The process had four stages: 1. The base configuration model 2. The secondary “graphic element” model 3. Post-processed element model 4. Rendered React component.

There were ideas initially that justified this intermediary “element” model, but now a couple of years later we re-evaluated and concluded it's not necessary. We also found a way to eliminate the need for post-processing the model all together. So after the fixes in this release our rendering is much improved and only has two stages: the base model and the rendered React component. Simpler, faster and easier to develop.

While bench-testing the rendering we also discovered some unnecessary cloneDeep calls which have now been removed.

Minor pole fixes

• Added the ability to adjust pole/leg height in the editor.
• Added measurements between poles for some custom hardware sets.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an editor bug that caused the config to lose focus after ALT move.
• Fixed reordering of configs with ALT, which didn't work for extracted panels.
• Fixed incorrect ordering of panels when doing “Extract panels” on the back side of a box.
• Normalized the size of some grid elements.
• Fixed a bug resulting from getConfigContext not being properly recursive.
• Fixed the label of copied signs being “001 copy copy copy” instead of “001 (3)”.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.4.8

June 2, 2021

Compliance

• Added a test for destination/direction messages checking for accurate content.
• Added a test for location messages checking for accurate content.
• Removed a test that restricted sibling information messages for double arrow taxiway direction messages (TDM).
• Added a test that prohibits double arrow TDMs to be combined with other TDMs, but does allow destination messages.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused PDF generation (and package) to fail if panel margin was set to zero.
• Fixed and arrow rotation test that passed incorrectly.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.4.7

March 17, 2021

Bug fixes

• Added Runway Vacated tests missing for new configs (using SymbolConfig).
• Fixed ICAO Amendment 15 padding which was not implemented for Runway Vacated tests.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.4.2 – 1.4.6

March 12, 2021

Compliance

• Implemented ICAO Amendment 15 of Annex 14.
• Implemented a “stretched” version of the Runway Vacated symbol.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an editor keyboard bug.
• Removed an irrelevant grid measurements on back of panel.
• Fixed a grid rounding issue.
• Fixed and invitation form state bug.
• Fixed a “Components” tab error if unitless size set on box.
• Approval doc: make grids for large configurations fit.
• Fixed a dynamic symbol variant bug.
• Fixed an issue with the “Reset password” form.
• Fixed an FAA compliance test for spacing between elements in messages.
• Added some missing details in the Excel export.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.4.1

December 17, 2020

Bug fixes

• Fixed the cookie message rendering when signed in.
• Fixed a dropdown preventing selection of different template lists.
• Fixed missing component details in public sign list.
• Fixed sticky header in public sign list.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.4.0

December 15, 2020

The focus of this release was the project view “Components” tab, as well as improvements in CI/CD workflows.

Components tab

In the project view there is now a new tab named “Components”, which includes tables of data compiled from the configurations in the project. With this new feature Wingframe provides additional data that is needed for quotations and production specifications. It answers questions like:

• How many boxes of size x are there?
• How many poles for size 800 are there?
• How many meters of bird protection is required?
• etc ...

An example table from a project can look something like this:

Product / ordering code	Name / Description	Dimensions	# Units
509063100	FLAT-Light 968×668mm	968 × 668 × 100 mm	32
512063100	FLAT-Light 1268×668mm	1268 × 668 × 100 mm	13
515063100	FLAT-Light 1568×668mm	1568 × 668 × 100 mm	9
512083100	FLAT-Light 1268×868mm	1268 × 868 × 100 mm	1
521083100	FLAT-Light 2168×868mm	2168 × 868 × 100 mm	3
524083100	FLAT-Light 2468×868mm	2468 × 868 × 100 mm	4
527083100	FLAT-Light 2768×868mm	2768 × 868 × 100 mm	5
530083100	FLAT-Light 3000×868mm	3000 × 868 × 100 mm	14

Data relevant for you

As with many other things in Wingframe – which components are included and what data is compiled and/or calculated is completely customizable.

Excel export

Of course, export of this data in Excel format is available in both our Sales and Production package for further processing and calculations.

More to come

We hope this new feature will further simplify your work with quoting or managing AGS.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a rounding issue resulting in non-errors in ILS / Runway vacated signs.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.3.1

November 25, 2020

Bug fixes

• Fixed panel settings not being disabled on the landing pages.
• Fixed failing undo if first action/click in editor is “Extract”.
• Fixed a PDF header layout issue when project titles are too long.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.3.0

November 20, 2020

The focus of this release was the “panels only” feature.

New features & improvements

Panels only

It is now possible to quote panels only, with correct properties and appearance of the configuration. In the editor, pull out the settings panel and you'll find an action-button labelled “Extract panels”. Once the panels are free you can set custom sizes (incl. depth) of the panels, but they also keep their relationship to the box hardware set so the design of messages works as expected (selecting appropriate variants).

Undo

The above feature introduced a new major way to make breaking changes in the editor, i.e. changes that you cannot revert by adding new elements. Once you had extracted the panels from the boxes there was no way to wrap the panels in boxes again. To solve this problem we decided to implement “undo”, as this also solves the issue for all other breaking changes – current and future. So now you can simply press ctrl/cmd + z to step back in your editing history.

Bug fixes

• Fixed some DXF rendering issues for “Taxiway ending” and “No entry” messages.
• The editor now always opens with the front view selected.
• Fixed an issue with the Dashboard “Latest projects” list showing no projects.
• Fixed a scrolling issue for configurations that were too wide for the screen.
• Disabled selection of files for trial packages.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.2.2

October 23, 2020

Bug fixes

• Changed the default message type from Location to Information if message contains arrow.
• Fixed Gate sign issue: Can't find default message types if set to auto.
• Fixed missing fallback unit for Gate signs.
• Fix in editor option settings: If no title use value instead.
• Landing page fix: Control bar in EditableSignList not sticky under header.
• Website section “Standards compliant” fix: Incorrect button links in section. Text outdated.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.2.1

October 15, 2020

Bug fixes

• Fixed an incorrect dashboard message shown when paid subscriptions ended.
• Removed unnecessary “you created a signlist” events when creating a project.
• Fixed double cookie messages.
• Fixed a bug that caused an error when clicking the backspace button in the editor's virtual keyboard.
• Fixed irrelevant grid measurements shown for "NO ENTRY" symbols.
• Fixed an issue that caused a 404 message on the “Sign in” page when already signed in.
• Fixed missing cross-over (CAP 168) paths in grids.
• Fixed missing cache of thumbnails that caused some blinking in sign lists.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.2.0

October 11, 2020

The focus of this release was performance and scalability. Most of the work was put into our development environment and services infrastructure.

New features & improvements

• A new iteration of our public website, more mobile friendly and with Bootstrap 4 and Fontawesome 5.
• It's now possible to custom draw the vector representation of the hardware, presenting our clients' specific boxes/cabinets in a more accurate and appealing way.
• More options in the editor "config adder", making it easier to configure messages.
• Added some additional editor settings which were hidden before.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.1.0

March 26, 2020

New features & improvements

• Added export of Approval / Sign-off PDF documents for each sign configuration.
• Export of DXF file containing blocks with rasterized versions of signs.
• Auto set default number of poles in templates.
• Generation of packages were limited in trails due to abuse.
• Added Character height to the editor component details.

Bug fixes

• General component set settings were not visible in the editor settings panel.
• A sign containing incorrect FAA borders caused the compliance report to fail.
• Editor "config adder" options rendered backwards in some cases.
• Message type switched the message on the opposite side af a bilateral sign.

Release notes, Wingframe 1.0.0

March 9, 2020

Today we are proud to announce the release of Wingframe 1.0.0. A version that has been in the works for more than a year, which contains all the pieces we originally envisioned three years ago. We are excited to provide our customers – as well as their customers – with a market leading experience and quality focused software for drawing and ordering airfield guidance signs.

We also want to thank our customers for the incredible feedback we have received. We appreciate it greatly, and we hope you enjoy the result.

Highlights

The main new features available in 1.0 are:

• Hardware configurations – Configurations now include the entire fixture with boxes, panels, bird protection, poles, etc. Support for bilateral / double-sided boxes included.
• Client specific configurations – Our clients with organization accounts now have their specific components/products implemented with options, ordering codes, look and feel, and custom auto-sizing (selection of box size for message).
• AutoCAD/CNC files – Production packages now include DXF files which can be tailored to your production requirements.
• Multi-box messages – Grouping in lists have been removed and multiple boxes are in the same configuration so they can better adapt to each other.
• Improved compliance – Multi-box messages are now tested as a complete message, removing any errors due to the fact that grouped boxes were tested seperately (e.g. missing location border).
• Improved editor – The editor now includes zoom-control, view selection (front, right, back), hardware settings & details, and more.
• Improved lists – Lists are now in blocks and contain more info about the configuration.
• Custom templates – Template lists are now organization specific, so you may have any categories/subsections you like, as well as templates that best suit your product.
• New grid view – The Grid view has been completely rebuilt and is now an edit mode you toggle instead of a static image you load.