Yate Release Notes

Version 8.3.4 (12475.12468)

      Changes

• We found an issue where it might not be possible to update after installing Yate v3.3
• The issue appears to be server side and this release is simply an effort to get around the issue.

Version 8.3.3.1 (12472.12468)

      Action Statement Changes

• The Validate Files statement can now operate in the previously unnamed Report mode and a new Test mode. Test mode is silent and returns errors and an appropriate action test state.

      Bug Fix

• The patch to View>Validation Errors and the Validate Files action statement made in v8.3.3, did not resolve all error cases.

Version 8.3.3 (12471.12468)

      Rename Templates and Settings

• More and more people seem to be using the alpha method of dividing their collection under folders named A, B, C... to provide easier access.
• There has been a Move to Alpha Actions set of actions on the resources page for a long time now.
• Settings - Rename has new settings to configure an Alpha token which can be included in a template. The token reduces preceding text to a single character.
• Using the Alpha token, you can construct the folders directly in a rename template. This means that the desired folder structure can be used when generating a move action via the Create Move Action Wizard.
• The Get Info and Modify Application Settings action statements can be used to extract and modify the new settings values.

      Resource Actions Updates

• The Move to Alpha Actions suite has been updated to support the new Ignore leading characters which are not alphanumeric setting which is now supported in the UI.

      Bug Fixes

• enabled testing in the Prompt from Container statement was not always handling all criteria.
• View>Validation Errors and the Validate Files action statement were flagging valid URLs as invalid.

Version 8.3.2.1 (12465.12438)

      Bug Fix

• The Contents of Folder statement was broken when no filter was supplied.

Version 8.3.2 (12464.12438)

      Image Get Info Panels

• Whenever a displayed image in the main window has a Get Info context menu item, it will support the display of contained EXIF and GPS metadata in the Container Viewer.

      Action Statement Changes

• The Date Functions statement:
  • now forces 24 hour mode when the output format is compressed.
  • Can now correctly parse EXIF formatted dates.
  • Can now output a date formatted as required by EXIF metadata.
  
  
• The Contents of Folder statement can now specify public.image as a filter for all image files.
  
  
• The Extract EXIF Data from File statement has been renamed to Extract Metadata from Image File.
  
  
• The Get Info statement:
  • can now return a list of the Custom application list names.
  • can now return detailed information on registered droplets.
  
  
• The Indexed Artwork statement has a number of new functions:

  Set Image Metadata

  Set/modify an image's EXIF and GPS metadata.

  Get Image Metadata

  Get an image's EXIF and GPS metadata.

  Copy Artwork

  Copy a specified artwork item to all active files.

  Get Unique Tag

  Compare artwork items across all active files at a supplied index. All different artwork items are defined by a returned tag.

  Resolve Selected UI Index

  Resolve a \sa escape sequence for all selected files.

• The Prompt for File or Folder statement:
  • There is a new option to display a drag target as opposed to a standard system file open/save panel. Sometimes it's just easier to drag files. The new panel can be kept open to allow the successive dropping of files and folders or can automatically exit when a validated drop is detected.
  • There is also a new option to filter the files passed to an action as a list by a droplet.
    
    
• There is a new statement named Revert Fields. It can restore any specified fields from the initial state values, the editing state values or the last values pushed on the runtime state stack,

      Action Resource Changes

• The Display Image EXIF Data action has been updated and will now also display GPS metadata.
• A new action named Remove all Extended Attributes from Files has been supplied.
• A new action named Remove All EXIF Data in Files Using exiftool has been supplied.
• The Remove RTF in Files action has been updated.

      Bug Fixes

• The Date Functions statement was not making a now date time zone agnostic.
• The Move Non Audio Files and Copy Non Audio Files statements were not logging named variable usage.
• Executing an Open URL statement while batch processing could leak memory. This could cause issues within a debug panel.
• The Prompt from Container statement was not setting selectedRow as documented.
• The dimensions displayed in the Artwork Viewer's titlebar could be incorrect. This was a display only issue.

Version 8.3.1 (12435.12429)

      Action Statement Changes

• The Date Functions statement will now parse EXIF format dates. YYYY:MM:DD hh:mm:ss.
• New action statement named Extract EXIF Data from Image File. The statement can extract all EXIF data to a container.
• New action statement named Create Droplet. The statement can be used to create droplets on the desktop. This is primarily implemented so that we can distribute actions which create droplets.

      Bug Fixes

• The Find panel in Action Editor Windows was not adjusting a container menu when all containers were removed.
• Builds contained the incorrect Yate-Droplet.app files. If you have created a droplet on macOS 10.13 or later which has OM in its version number, it is a benign error.
• The Set Open Mode statement was not defaulting to A-X (Album, Replace, No Subfolders). If was incorrectly defaulting to A+X (Album, Add, No Subfolders).

Version 8.3 (12427.12414)

      Settings - Rename

• The advanced configuration panel for a rename template can now force a UNFC (precomposed) or UNFD (composed) Unicode normalization form. Typically this is only required if a remote filesystem requires UNFC.
• The advanced configuration panel for a rename template has a number of new function buttons which allow you to load the current defaults or the values in effect before changes were made.

      View>Credits Invalid for Roon

• The associated Repair Credits Invalid for Roon Suite of actions has been updated to allow you to manually rename credits which cannot be resolved. You can also create aliases for unresolved credits.
• The View menu has a new Configure item used to configure the process.

      The Multi Field Editor's Credits Panel

• The Resolve Non Standard Mappings item (added in the v8.2.4) has been removed.
• A more comprehensive item named CCE Functions has been added. When the function is selected a configuration control is displayed which allows you to set the functions applied by the command.

      Action Statement Changes

• The Involved People/Musician Credits Functions statement can now override the specified sort mode as a runtime override.
• The Lookup Credits statement has been renamed to Credit Database Functions. In additional to looking up a credit, the statement can now also add to and delete items in the credits database. It can also set aliases.
• The Prompt from Container statement has new configuration keys: cropPopupMenuItems, popupDelimiterIsEmpty and popupNoTrimOnAppend. Online help for this statement can be located on the Help>Quick Reference menu.

      Credit Preview

• The credits preview now also displays combined values.

      Bug Fixes

• The Credits table in the Combined Credits Editor would jump whenever the filter was changed.
• The Multi Field Editor's and Involved People/Musician Credits Functions action statement were not always performing the required sort.
• The Combined Credits Editor's Paste Clipboard as Alias function was not working correctly.
• A few Combined Credits Editor's known credits functions were not always updating the display.
• Some statements such as Get Info and Make Numeric which use cascading menu controls were not always indicating the selected function.