Release notes

Available from 23 July 2024

 

New features

 

Introducing our new security and user management solution, INX Identity

We are proud to introduce our new security and user management solution, INX Identity, designed to centralise how you manage user identities and authentication across your INX Core applications.

 

 

INX Identity is now available for our INX Core products, which include:

• INX InControl and INX InControl Mobile
• INX InFlight
• INX InForm
• INX InHealth
• INX InTuition
• INX+Moodle
• INX+Process

A modern and seamless log-in navigation experience with INX Cloud

We have built INX Identity on the foundations of our cutting-edge, cloud-native platform, INX Cloud, to provide your workforce with a modern and seamless log-in and navigation experience.

Your INX Core solutions can be accessed through a scalable and reliable multi-tenanted platform – hosted by industry-leading cloud services provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS) – while ensuring robust data isolation and security between each environment.

 

Access our next evolution of user security

With INX Identity, you will unlock the following new features:

• Provide simple single sign-on setup and ongoing support for INX Core, INX InControl Mobile and INX+Moodle using a single connection
• Multifactor authentication can be enforced when using usernames and password log-in credentials
• for username-password log-ins.
• A new, cohesive log-in experience with added security and modern authentication standards:
  • Suspicious IP throttling
  • Bot and brute force detection of unauthorised access
  • Breach password protection
• Supports a range of identity providers, including AzureAD and Okta, through OpenID Connect
• Provide a multi-tenanted log-in experience for contractors
• Send or cancel invites to SSO or username and password users, and view their status, last log-in or connection
• View user authentication profiles including email, sign-up date, multifactor authentication enrolment, last IP address and last log-in date
• Access to our cutting-edge INX Cloud application hosted by Amazon Web Services, featuring:
  • New landing page
  • Enhanced navigation experience by using our chevron menu within INX Core products back to INX Cloud
  • Improved log-in and out experience without relying on incognito or using different browsers. A dedicated log-out link is available and visible within the ‘Logged in as’ section.
  • User invitation management – active and pending invitations, URL invites, access management
  • Centralised user management – search, authentication profile management and role assignment

Both INX Identity and INX Cloud are SOC 2 Type II compliant, demonstrating our commitment to implementing and maintaining the best security practices and controls to protect your data.

What will this do?

With INX Identity enabled, you can:

• Access INX Cloud, built on scalable and reliable industry-leading technology with AWS.
• Protect your organisation from unauthorised access with enhanced security features such as single sign-on, multifactor authentication, brute force and bot detection, suspicious IP throttling and breached password protection.
• Centralise how your system administrators can onboard multiple users and manage user invitations.
• Allow users to reset passwords from within the log-in window of INX Cloud, where they will receive an email link to enter their new password.
• Experience seamless navigation back to INX Cloud using our new chevron menu within our INX Core products.
• Simplify how users can log in or out of your INX Core applications.

What’s excluded?

• Ongoing support of old SSO configurations when INX Identity is enabled. Old SSO configurations will need to migrate over to INX Identity SSO as part of the implementation.
• Access to INX Software applications not purchased by your organisation.
• SSO support for SSRS reports. Access is required through your UMT user credentials.

Considerations

When upgrading to INX IGNITION JULY 2024, adding INX Identity is optional if your organisation has an existing SSO solution. You can either purchase the product version upgrade with INX Identity enabled or the version upgrade only.

 

Improvements

 

INX+Moodle username creation within INX+Process

The creation and editing of people profiles within INX+Process now automatically triggers the creation of INX+Moodle usernames. This allows your workforce faster access to complete required online learning and removes the duplication of a task by your system administrators.

You no longer need to navigate back to a person profile within INX InControl, INX InFlight or INX InTuition to manually trigger an INX+Moodle username to be created when the profile is created via INX+Process. 

New Actual Approver field in INX+Process

We have introduced a new field in INX+Process, Actual Approver, so users can see who the actual or assigned approver of the submitted request was.

The Approver Details tab was previously incorrectly displaying the approver that was assigned or selected as part of the workflow.

INX Core application navigation and user experience improvements

We have made a series of improvements to your user and navigation experience within our INX Core products.

With the INX IGNITION JULY 2024 upgrade, you will find:

• Our new, ­printer-friendly product logos
• Consistent descriptive text in our browser tabs so you can easily identify the product you are in and what it does
• If you have INX Identity enabled, you can navigate back to INX Cloud using our new chevron menu from within our INX Core products.

 

Fixes

 

Improved Delete Draft workflow functionality

We had identified a performance issue that was causing the Delete Draft workflow functionality to fail.

A query adjustment has been applied so your draft workflows can be deleted as expected. This workflow can be configured in the System Settings within INX+Process.

Performance improvements on the Workflow Requests page

There have been reported latency issues on the Workflow Requests page in INX+Process.  The latency has been improved by implementing four indices on the Workflow Request and Workflow Request Stage database tables.  This fix has delivered noticeable page performance improvements.

Enforcement of workflow settings

Users reported that assigning security roles specific to individual workflows were not operating as expected. The led to users being able to take actions on workflows outside of their designated security jurisdiction.

We have enhanced the integrity and security of INX+Process, where users will now have the confidence their workflow security settings will be enforced as intended.

Work Port end dates for Standing Flights are now displaying in the Port Selection options

When previously adding a short-term booking, users found that relevant Work Ports with Standing Flights that had a future end date were not appearing in the Port Selection options.

Work Ports with Standing Flights that have future end dates will now correctly display in the Port Selection dropdown when adding short term bookings. This ensures users have a more accurate booking process within INX+Process, allowing you to easily select the appropriate ports for flights.