🚀 Platform Updates | January 15, 2025

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🚀 Platform Updates | January 15, 2025

This week, we’ve introduced exciting improvements across our AI, frontend, backend, and DevOps systems to enhance functionality, user experience, and integration capabilities. Here’s what’s new! 👇

🧠 AI Updates

Mentor Enhancements:

• Enabled seamless migration of mentor data to use unique IDs for consistency.
• Introduced the ability to list recently accessed mentors, enhancing usability.
• Updated mentor session endpoints to include tenant-specific data for better tracking.
• Added image seeding capabilities for mentors to enhance the visual experience.

Azure Integrations:

• Implemented Azure authentication and Logic App triggers for enhanced platform connectivity.

Improved AI Support:

• Enabled OpenAI Assistant functionality for mentor endpoints.
• Enhanced error handling for data seeding and resolved key edge cases.

Bot Updates:

• Added support for Microsoft Teams bots to expand communication channels.

🖥️ Frontend Updates

Mentor SPA:
Search and Filtering:

• Updated mentor search filters to support advanced ordering and personalized recommendations.
• Improved mentor settings to dynamically populate metadata and suggested prompts.

Skills SPA:

• Improved placement and functionality of assigned content for better clarity.
• Integrated the latest updates from shared components for seamless interaction.

Analytics SPA:
Credential Customization:

• Improved handling of icon uploads and background images in credential creation.
• Introduced content unassignment features for flexibility in management.

Components:
General Updates:

• Updated the visibility of earned skills and improved user profile picture uploads.
• Enhanced error handling across key components to improve stability.

🛠️ Backend Updates

Catalog and Pathway Enhancements:

• Improved permissions for pathway queries and allowed updates based on platform associations.
• Added descriptions to resource models and refined API specifications for clarity.

Search and Filtering:

• Optimized mentor category lookup for faster API performance.
• Introduced advanced category-based search and filtering options for mentors and prompts.

Multi-Service Support:

• Enhanced user and tenant alignment through email-based user lookup and validation improvements.

🔧 DevOps Updates

SSO Enhancements:

• Added a new endpoint to retrieve SSO login URLs by platform key, simplifying integrations.
• Enhanced synchronization for Microsoft OpenID and LTI 1P3 providers for broader compatibility.

Configuration and Security:

• Strengthened token authentication mechanisms for secure tenant launches.
• Added flexible configurations for CSRF settings and database port management.