frontline.io Version Release 25.3

frontline.io Version Release 25.3


Introduction

frontline.io V25.3 introduces a powerful set of new features and enhancements designed to improve content creation, user experience, and system intelligence across the platform. This release includes:
  1. Migrating from Microsoft Dynamics Guides
  2. Empty Part Creation for Digital Twins
  3. QR Code-based Object Placement System
  4. Updating Metadata to Part Properties
  5. Responsive UI for 3D Procedures
Each feature is built to streamline workflows, enhance precision, and deliver a more intuitive experience across frontline.io.

Migrating from Microsoft Dynamics Guides

frontline.io now supports complete imports of Microsoft Guides files. This update lets you bring existing Guides into frontline.io without extra conversion work, keeping your animations and workflows intact.

Key Highlights:
  1. Import Guides Seamlessly: Upload your existing Guides and have them automatically converted into a format ready for use in frontline.io.
  2. Retain Original Settings: Keep all animations and interactions exactly as they were, with no additional setup required.
  3. Play Animations in Builder: Verify consistency by running imported animations directly inside the animation builder.
  4. Organize Migrated Tools: Find all tools created through Guides migration in a dedicated Migrated Tools category.
  5. Enhance AR Workflows: Benefit from temporary default objects during initial AR setup, ensuring smooth placement even without an existing mesh.
This feature eliminates the need for manual rework when moving from Microsoft Guides into frontline.io, making it faster and easier to reuse your existing content.

AlertThis feature is not enabled by default, but can be enabled within workspaces upon request.


Empty Part Creation for Digital Twins

A new enhancement to the Digital Twin Editor allows users to create empty parts directly within the scene, eliminating the need to import external 3D models. These parts behave like any other scene component, with full manipulation and metadata support, making them compatible with flows and the parts catalog for more flexible content creation.

Key Highlights:
  1. Direct Scene Creation: Add empty parts without importing models.
  2. Full Component Behavior: Manipulate and tag parts like standard scene items.
  3. Catalog Compatibility: Use empty parts in flows and the parts catalog.
  4. UI Menu Access: Found in the ‘Add Models’ menu in the lower UI.
This feature intends to help users build and organize scenes more efficiently, enabling faster setup and better integration with existing workflows.


QR Object Placement (AR)

A new QR code-based object placement system for AR in frontline.io enhances the accuracy and ease of positioning Digital Twins in real-world environments. By generating scannable QR codes linked to specific placement items, users can quickly and precisely align digital content using mobile devices or headsets.

Key Highlights:
  1. QR Setup Button: Enable QR placement for any object target item in the digital twin editor.
  2. Flexible QR Plane: Move, rotate, and scale the QR plane freely in the editor.
  3. Guided Scanning UI: Mobile and headset users receive clear placement instructions.
  4. Interactive Placement: Confirm placement with a “Place here” button when QR is detected.
  5. Mode Switching Support: Re-scan or switch modes to update twin positioning.
This feature helps users when placing digital twins with greater accuracy and less effort, allowing for faster setup and more immediate use.

Updating Metadata to Part Properties

The Digital Twin Editor now features a unified, context-sensitive Part Properties Tab that replaces the previous Metadata tab. Inspired by familiar 3D editor layouts like Unity, this tab consolidates editing tools for transforms, metadata, materials, actions, and other configurable components, enabling support for multi-part selection, precision input, and undo/redo for faster, more intuitive part manipulation.

Key Highlights:
  1. Unified Editing Panel: Combines transforms, metadata, materials, and actions in one tab.
  2. Precision Transform Tools: Edit position, rotation, and scale with input fields and drag UX.
  3. Component-Level Settings: Configure individual components with copy/paste support.
  4. Material Library Access: Apply and manage materials directly within the tab.
  5. Multi-Part Support: Edit multiple parts at once with full undo/redo functionality.
This feature intends to help users work more efficiently in the Digital Twin Editor by simplifying part editing and improving overall usability.


Responsive UI for 3D Procedures (Mobile)

frontline.io's 3D Procedures now feature a redesigned, responsive UI panel that improves clarity and organization. With enhanced layout behavior across all supported themes, users can view media and information more easily, resulting in a smoother and more intuitive experience during procedure execution.

Key Highlights:
  1. Enhanced Panel Header: Displays TTS, warnings, media toggle, and test score.
  2. Scrollable Descriptions: Long text is always visible in a scrollable area.
  3. Theme-Compatible Layout: UI adapts correctly across all supported themes.
  4. Clear Media Display: Media elements remain unobstructed by UI components.
This feature intends to help users follow procedures more effectively by improving readability, accessibility, and overall user experience.

Bug Fixes

  1. Digital Twin Editor - The visibility of Gizmo operation icons no longer defaults to a white box.
  2. Parts Catalog - The export to Excel.
  3. Remote Support - Calls on iOS devices live camera feed.
  4. Knowledge Base - The opening of multiple procedures while checking for updates in the workspace is now blocked.
  5. XR - Video media is now able to be scrolled along the timeline.
  6. XR - Menu locations will now move for steps that define its placement.
  7. 3D Procedures - Tools issue when the view is unlocked.
  8. Animation Builder - Resolved issues with camera movement transitions during animation.
  9. Animation Builder - Fixed UI issues with the save and scale options when animating tools.

Known Issues

Mobile
  1. Viewing Digital Twins and Procedures on iOS requires a new save and publish in the latest version.
  2. Mobile devices with cameras in-built into the screen may have issues with overlap with menu icons in full screen mode.
Guides to Flow
  1. The hand gesture tool used to show interactivity in Guides migrated files is missing.
  2. Parts of models can appear as missing while a user views the model with the X-Ray tool.
  3. The 'Action' button from imported Microsoft Guides files is not supported.
  4. When manually placing models from imported Guides files, the default manual placement box appears instead of the model.
  5. The colouration of UI tools from imported Guides files do not match the original set colour.
  6. Setting models imported from Guides to transparent during operation does not change the visibility.

Upcoming

  1. Quest release 

Warning

Important: To ensure the update is prompted:

  • Fully close the application — including from the system tray. 
  • Reopen the application — the update prompt should appear.



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