Highlights

• FROK: Updated to v4 (https://frok.ui.bosch.tech/)
  • !!! WARNING !!! FROK 4 uses a new color system --> if you created any extension, you need to check compatibility befor go live
  • Performance increase: Instead of using one large main.css file, the main.css was split into various parts. Eight FROK 4 files and one smaller main.css
  • O_Form: Form design now based on FROK 4
• Search:
  
  • Images on search results (used from page - stage image or alternative image)
  • NLQA: Natural language questions and answer. If active, on top of the search results there is the most fitting KI generated answer to the search term. Check out: https://www.bosch.com/search/?q=Who+is+Robert+Bosch. There is a special endpoint needed you get from search team.
  • Reorganized search result page
• SEO: Added more Icons for Android, Apple and other devices. IMPORTANT: For non Bosch brands, edit icons: Projectsettings --> Technic --> Core settings
• M_AggregationExpandable now supports more than 12 items. On mobile the "load more" is done via pagination
• Performance: Separated main.js into three parts and reduced JS overall size of more than 40% of the original file
• Consentless tracking: New template for setting up a consentless tracking including event tracking is available

Further information

• New global data values available for changed M_AggregationExpandable and social share icons/social channels. Download here: feature_global_data_v6_2_0
• DOCK 4.3 is now default

Bugfixes

• Navigation: Focus states look correct now
• M_Navigation_Tabs: Optimized space to the first item inside of each tab

Highlights

• Content Creator supports now a wide variety of direct edit options without opening the edit mode of a module
• Skeletons (placeholders) will be displayed for dynamic content (images/text) on slower connections.
• Some headlines are now mandatory due to accessibility reasons, check generation step for warnings to identify the affected pages
• Tab order in navigation and search (also flyout) updated due to accessibility reasons
• Icon font updated to 2.14
• M_CarouselSimple: Added lazyloading to hidden images
• M_Navigation_Tabs: Updated to FROK code including FROK < > to scroll
• Search in footer has been removed
• Title attribute on all icons has been removed
• Update to FROK 3.9
• Subresource Integrity for JS and CSS files and inline codes can be activated in project settings --> technic

Bugfixes

• Content Creator: Execute Deployment action is visible again
• External link icon now available on all external links

Further information

• FROK changed icon names, change if used
  • arrow-left-end-frame1 --> arrow-left-end-frame
  • arrow-right-end-frame1 --> arrow-right-end-frame
  • arrow-up-frame-check1 --> arrow-up-frame-check
  • arrow-up-frame-error1 --> arrow-up-frame-error
  • stop-frame1 --> stop-frame
  • fork-lift-big1 --> fork-lift-big
  • air-condition-spot-vertical-airflow-swing1 --> air-condition-spot-vertical-airflow-swing
  • head-speach-speaking --> head-speech-speaking
  • speachbubble-user --> speechbubble-user
• New global data values available for changed M_Navigation_Tabs. Download here: feature_global_data_v6_1_0

Highlights

• Angular JS is no longer part of the templates in main.js file. Frontend now based on REACT.
  If you still use Angular JS in you code you should consider replacing it as well.

v6 is already in development. Main feature will be under the hood. Angular JS will completely be removed. Templates will be based on the state of the art REACT framework. So if you did any extension to the templates that relies on Angular JS you should also consider replacing it!!

All other websites will have to do minimal changes that will be announced later here.

Bugfixes

• Extended Carousel - Thumbnails will be displayed if 2 or more items are available. If there is only one item, no thumbnails will show up.

Bugfixes

• M_Teasers_TeaserGrid2Col (slider version) - Images of the slides are back again
• Extended Carousel - Thumbnails are back again and slider is working

Highlight

• Item Teaser Group: now supports multiple filters to an item. So an item can appear multiple times when selecting different filters.

Bugfixes

• Small fix to a bug in the new navigation that only occurs on websites that have no language selector and no other icons except for the burger menu icon.

Highlights

• new YouTube Data Protection Layer (with optional preview image and play button) see here: Reworked YouTube Integration
  
  • image has to be added manually
  • data protection notive has to be altered to fit into the existing frame that is smaller than before
• DOCK 4 officially released
• Contact form: New version has been installed and is now availaibe.
  
  • new E-Mail templates are available: e.g. Bosch Design
  • internal Links can be set
  • layout improvments for editors
  • date validation

Bugfixes

• Minor bugfixes and improvments

Outlook 2024 and beyond

RB Master Templates -Release v6 is already in development. Main feature will be under the hood. Angular JS will completely be removed. Templates will be based on the state of the are REACT framework.
So if you did any extension to the templates that relies on Angular JS you should also consider replacing it!!

Highlights

• new X (previous: Twitter) logo, see in footer

Bugfixes

• Burger navigation flyout:
  • image size in flyout teaser was optimized for better page load performance
  • clickable area of navigation entries is increased
• Search:
  • Searchterm no longer disappears when deactivating search field
  • Search flyout now closing when clicking outside
  • Search flyout teaser now clickable

Information

• horizontal navigation now combined with existing mobile navigation

Highlights

• New Navigation --> click on the menu (burger) icon
  • teaser for initial view and 1st level navi can be configured (see "Global Header" config in global content area)
  • full screen flyout
  • direct links to open menu in a deeper level
  • icons without labels
• New search flyout with more data and customization options
• webP now the only image compression method, no more jpg and png
  • To activate only webp and transfer jpg and png to webP see documentation
• Imagezoom: Can be activated on most of the images. E.g. see here: M_Image or M_Carousel_Simple

Bugfixes

• WCAG: some minor fixes

Information

• DOCK 4: due to open bugs DOCK 4 is still not released (legal issues) --> only preview/testing

Bugfixes

• CAAS Language was changed from ISO to abbreviation to better match language code in CAAS data.

CAAS

• Documentation: new CAAS Overview page to show differences.
• CAAS JSON Feeder (recommended) now available and the recommended CAAS solution to be used in FirstSpirit projects (similar setup with deployment and content as with Elastic Search is possible)
• Deploy collection option now available
• CAAS now using Bearer xyz instead of apikey="xyz", this is important because second methode will be switched off soon.

Highlights

• DOCK 4 now available (only as a preview version)
• Icon font was updated to the latest version

RB Master Template Extensions

• Some more new templates:
  • Stage Carousel
  • Feature Text

CAAS

• Major Release for new CAAS integration
• IMPORTANT: 5.4 ONLY uses CAAS, Elastic Search is no longer working
• Before updating to 5.4 you need to activate CAAS in your project

RB Master Template Extensions

• Extensions: Extension of templates has been improoved (ressource files now directly assigned to template)
• A few extensions already come with the newest release, some are rebuilds of older templates from v3 like:
  • O_Extended_Carousel
  • Item_Teaser_Group: The item teaser group was also extended wir a filter function.
• Some templates are new:
  • M_TextTwo (extended version) - optional 2 comuns
• Some are addons for accordion template
  • Accordion - YouTube
  • Accordion - M_Table
  • Accordion - O_Form
  • Accordion - M_Text Extended (2 Columns)

Highlights

• Footer: contrast background is now available and can be activated. Scroll down to footer to see it activated. Default = off.
• Mobile navigation: Cascading menu do now show all above tiers to know in which depth the user is and that he can return one or two steps back. See mobile nav in third level.

Bugfixes

• Data protection layer: WCAG optimizations
• RTL: Some right to left minor bugfixes e.g. with icons or bullet points on texts. See here.
• Stage Image now shows again the copyright imformation.
• Navigations Tabs: A currently playing YouTube video will now be stopped if user switches to another tab,
• Events Teaser: If there are no events to show the error message is now correct. "No events available".
• Data protection layer: After closing the layer, website scrolls to its beginning to show the to be loaded content.

Bugfixes

• JS error in browser console was fixed

Highlight/Fix

• Website Search: new optimized website search page (can be activated)
• M_Accordion: structured data has beed added. If activated this can help search engines to read accordion data.
• Data protection layer: Can be activated to prevent loading YouTube videos and Google Maps directly after page load. The user has to accept sending data to the provider, then video or map will show.

Bugfixes

• Footer links are no longer out of place in some occurances
• Dateformat for multi day evetns has been corrected
• ~30 RTL bugs and a few more

Highlight/Fix

M_Image: Switch to choose between BIG (full width) and SMALL (2/3 width) is back.

Bugfixes

An error while displaying the new Anchor Navigarion on iOS devices was fixed.

Highlights

• NEW OneRES Templates
  • Product slider
  • Product Category Teaser
    • Product Category Teaser (global - with popup to choose country)
    • Product Category Teaser (local - with direct link)
  • Product Highlight Teaser
    • Product Highlight Teaser (global - with popup to choose country)
    • Product Highlight Teaser (local - with direct link)
• Anchor Navigation: has been reworked - no longer on the right side and sticky on top if you scroll
• M_Navigation_Tabs: has been reworked - jump to a tab and open it directly is now possible, see here
• DOCK v3: New cookie manager can be activated. Due to some bugs it is not activated by default (activate it on your own risk). The bugs will be solved by DOCK team soon and will automatically be available without any further change to the templates.
• Perfornamce improvments. Page loads faster than with previous versions
  • preconnect to external sources is in place and can be extended to other ressources: Projectsettings --> Technic --> Core settings --> Ressource hints
  • changes to image sizes to only load what is necessary
• ADA/WCAG compliance was again extended
• Some more minor bugfixes

Highlights

• M_Accordion: Accodrion is now aligned with the FROK version:
  • Multiple Accordion rows can be openned.
  • Accordion rows can be preopenned via configguration in content
• Further ADA improvments
• This review and demo environment has been updated and restructured.

*!! ATTENTION !!

• M_Story_Chapter has been removed and needs to be replaced manually by another template like: M_TextImageTwo

Note:

• DOCK (Cookie Manager replacement) integration is coming soon as long as there is a bug free final version.

Bugfix Release

• Few minor bugfixes

Highlights

• FROK is now the basis of all templates with minimal optical changes*. This makes further developments easy and straight forward.
• M_ImageComparison_Slider: new Template for displaying overlapping before and after images.

*!! ATTENTION !!

• Changed template: M_TextImageJumbotron
  
  • Links in text are no longer allowed, existing links remain but no new ones can be added.
  • If links in text were used they can be transferred to link component below text.
• Removed template: M_Story_TextImage to be replaced with: M-TextImageTwo or M_TextTwo
  
  • Manuelly replacement (if used note more than 10 times)
  • Automated replacement: If you want to use auto replacement please get in contact with the Template Master Team (PDX2):

v4 changelog can be found here.