The new year is underway and along with it comes Standards v11.13. This release includes many small enhancements, fixes, and quality of life updates as well as some major backend overhauls to bring you a more refined and reliable experience in Standards. Learn all about the details below.

Performance Enhancements

Collaborative undo / redo

We hope you’ve never experienced the moment while editing with your team where you accidentally delete a meticulously designed section and hit cmd+z only to remember that undo doesn’t work if editing collaboratively. If you do know what that’s like, same. As festive gifts were being shared over the holidays, the Standards team had only one wish, and we’re proud to say it came true; you can now edit with a friend and undo.

Speed Improvements

Put simply, we’ve overhauled the way Standards saves project data while editing. One result is that Standards should run much faster in general when adjusting settings, components, adding new layers, or using automations. Essentially, any action you perform in the Editor should be a bit quicker.

Component Stability

Our Components system has seen one of the most comprehensive refactors since the feature was debuted. We’ve fixed a large handful of bugs related to nested components, component editing, resetting instances, etc. We hope you continue using components with even greater confidence in the new year.

Sidebar updates

Tabbed Pages, Contents, Menu UI

Perhaps the most apparent update in this release is the new design of our left sidebar. We’ve applied tabs to the main sections: Pages, Contents, and Menu to help keep you focused on what you’re actively doing in the sidebar. This enhancement is especially noticeable when editing in larger projects with many pages, comprehensive menus, and lots of layers.

Hidden Pages

One frequently requested feature has been the ability to “hide” certain pages in a project while they’re still in progress, under review, or no longer relevant. Previously, this was possible by manually removing all links to the page in question. Now, we’re glad to announce pages can be easily hidden/unhidden, which will automatically block any link to that page once published.

More enhancements

• Added ‘Ungroup’ layer action
• Added text editing hotkeys for bold and italics
• Password field on access page now auto focuses
• Text formatting toolbar how only appears when mouse button has been released while selecting text
• New color swatches start with tooltip and ‘copy hex’ behaviors enabled
• Added ‘Copy to..’ option to in-body context menu when clicking on groups and rows
• Improved the design and updated the content of project 404 pages
• Editors can now edit workspace avatars
• Added a way to reset project cover images
• Added ‘auto’ aspect option to media automations
• Added an order indicator to automation content selections
• Added contextual text when adding components to make it more clear where you’re adding and why no components are visible.
• Updated ‘choose component’ list UI to match component library
• Trial and Plus users can now test drive access page customization (only appears in live published projects on Pro and Enterprise)
• Updated component settings group UI
• Added ‘max width’ setting to tooltips
• Added internal vertical alignment setting to buttons
• Replaced most ‘range slider’ controls with number inputs
• Added ‘Reset component’ action to in-body contextual menu
• Added text alignment settings to custom project access pages
• When selecting ‘Link to page’ in widget, it will pre-select the current page
• Blocked AI bot crawlers from scraping published sites
• Improved Microsoft SSO compatibility when using Azure AD