We're very excited to announce a powerful new feature, Widgets! CloudShow Widgets allow you to overlay extra information on your content frames. You can add clocks, weather information, custom text/HTML, background audio/music, and more. To get started with Widgets just click the App icon for your content frame to open the radial menu.

Widgets

Once the radial menu is open, click the Widgets icon and you'll be presented with a list of all the currently available widgets. Select the Widget you would like to add, then adjust it's settings and position.

Widgets

Voila, you're all set! In the preview below you can see a clock overlaid on the News app. You can customize the look, location, size and more for each widget.

Content Frame with Clock Widget

Try out the new Widgets feature today!

The CheckCentral API provides an endpoint for creating checks programmatically. All of the configuration options are available through the API, detailed below. To create a new check through the API, you will require an API token for your organization with Read/Write access. Organization administrators can create tokens through the API portal on your dashboard.

The endpoint is located at https://api.checkcentral.cc/createCheck/?apiToken=APITOKEN where the APITOKEN placeholder is replaced with your valid token. The request must be made with the Content-Type header set to application/json. The body of the request should contain as many of the properties listed below as required to define the check. Any properties not passed will be set to their default value.

For example, to create a new check that:

• Receives messages at the address "demo+apicheck@mycheckcentral.cc"
• Expects messages every two hours
• Expects messages only on weekdays
• Is set to Failure unless the message subject is "Message Success" or the message body has the text "No Errors Reported"

you would send the following json in the body of the request:

{
  "name": "An API Check",
  "email_alias": "apicheck",
  "interval_type": "hour",
  "interval_value": 2,
  "active_days": [
    "mon",
    "tue",
    "wed",
    "thu",
    "fri"
  ],
  "success_conditions": {
    "required_conditions": "any",
    "conditions": [
      {
        "message_field": "subject",
        "matches": "exactly",
        "value": "Message Success"
      },
      {
        "message_field": "body",
        "matches": "contains",
        "value": "No Errors Reported"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The check data must include a name property, as well as at least one of email_alias and matching_conditions to allow the check to be matched against incoming messages.

The complete list of possible properties for check configuration are as follows:

Check Structure

We're very excited to announce that ClipboardFusion 5.5 is now available for download! We've fixed a few bugs, improved the way our servers talk to ClipboardFusion, and added a new Macro function for a listview box with filtering capabilities!

ClipboardFusion 5.5 Highlights

• Change: Push syncing improvements
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• Fix: General fixes and improvements

Updating ClipboardFusion

We encourage everyone to update to the new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please view the ClipboardFusion Change Log. We would also like to thank all of the translators who have helped translate ClipboardFusion to their native languages.

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CloudShow now supports uploading content from 3 new online sources: Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive! Using the all-new upload source selector you can choose where you upload your content from.

Upload Selector

Your Computer

As before you can still upload content from your computer, and CloudShow now supports multiple file uploads at once. Just ctrl+click multiple files to select more than one and upload them at the same time.

Upload from Your Computer

Dropbox

If you store your files in Dropbox for work or personal use, CloudShow can access them now. You just need to authorize CloudShow to connect to your Dropbox account (as read-only) then just browse to the files you need.

Upload from Dropbox

Google Drive

If you use Google Drive to store your media files, CloudShow can now download them into your content section. Once you authorize CloudShow to connect to your Google Drive account (as read-only) your files are just a few clicks away.

Upload from Google Drive

Microsoft OneDrive

If you're a Microsoft OneDrive user, you're in luck! CloudShow can now pull content from your OneDrive account into your CloudShow content. Simply authorize CloudShow to access your OneDrive files (as read-only) and you're all set.

Upload from Microsoft OneDrive

Start Uploading Today!

Uploading files to your CloudShow content area is now easier than ever. Check out the new upload providers today!

• Name the Check. It can be whatever you like, for example

  Website Certificate Expiry Check

  .
• Select an existing Check Group or create a new one by clicking

  

  Add Check Group

  .
• Select an existing Label or create a new one by typing the name in the text field of the dropdown. (optional)
• Add a description (optional).
The Asset ID is used exclusively with certain ticketing systems and is not required for Checks. Asset ID details and ticketing systems are more fully covered by other documents (e.g. Halo Integration (asset ID).)
• Leave the Asset ID blank.

• Leave "Scheduled" selected as we will be running the script regularly.
• Assuming you'll run the script daily, leave the Expected Interval on "1" "Day(s)." If you plan to run the script on another interval, adjust accordingly.
The initial expectation time is set by the first email message that is received and processed by its Check. (For example, if a notification email arrives at noon and its Check is set for every half hour, it will expect another notification email at 12:30.)
• Leave the Set as Overdue setting at "After 30 Minutes." If the script notification email is not received after this amount of time has been exceeded, the Check will be marked as a failure.

• Leave the default selections enabled.
• Copy the unique email address for later use by clicking on the Copy icon

  

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• Set the rule to "Subject contains WARN" by leaving the default dropdown selections and typing

  WARN

  (all caps) in the empty text field.

• Select the desired means of Notification. If in doubt of the selections here, leave the defaults.

• From the Save tab, click the "Save Check" button.

• Download the script: CheckWebsiteCertExpiry.zip.
• Extract it somewhere on the computer (e.g. C:\Scripts). There will be three files: CheckWebsiteCertificateExpiry.ps1, createScheduledTask.ps1, and websites.txt
• Edit the websites.txt file to contain the list of websites you want the script to check. Save it. Make sure to put one URL on each line.
• Open a PowerShell console and run the script to make sure it works. For example:

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  .\CheckWebsiteCertExpiry.ps1 -Websites (Get-Content websites.txt) -EmailFromAddress {Email From Address} -EmailToAddress {Check Email Address}

• Refresh the Check page or Dashboard to see the new Activity for your Check.
Scheduling
You're ready to set up the Windows Scheduled Task so the script will automatically run each day.
• First, edit the parameters at the top of the CreateScheduledTask.ps1 script and save the changes.
• You'll see the new Scheduled Task in the Windows Task Scheduler. Run it and verify that a second Activity shows up in the CheckCentral Check.