User Guide library performance

User Guide Library performance

The User Guide library is a frequently used area within SelfGuide. Depending on factors such as the number of user guides, user guide content, content channel usage, and user permissions, loading times can vary significantly between tenants and users.

To improve the user experience, we have optimized the underlying code responsible for loading the User Guide library. In extreme cases, these improvements can reduce loading times by up to a factor of ten.

These optimizations also provide performance benefits across several other areas of SelfGuide.

Image as step (Preview)

Creating instruction steps typically requires the SelfGuide Recorder. However, recording is not always possible or practical, for example when creating instructions for:

• Mobile devices and tablets
• Devices without a traditional display or input method, such as printers, alarm systems, or medical devices
• Non-digital processes, such as operating physical equipment

Previously, these types of instructions required a recording to be created from screenshots or photos before the images could be used in an instruction. The instruction editor has been enhanced to allow images to be added directly as instruction steps, eliminating the need to create a recording first.

This functionality is currently available as a preview while the functionaliy is being finalized. If you are interested in early access, please contact support@selfguide.com.

Image caching

Images are a core part of the SelfGuide experience. As a SaaS product, image loading and rendering are partly dependent on browser capabilities and behavior.

Several improvements have been made to the way images are cached and delivered, taking security, performance, and compatibility into account. These enhancements help improve:

• Image loading times
• Network bandwidth usage and the number of requests required
• Reliability and reduction of image loading failures

Fetch content channels assigned to a user

Automating content channel management has been made easier with the addition of a new REST API endpoint. The endpoint provides a direct overview of the content channels a user is assigned to.

For more information, see the developer documentation.

Bug fix

Fixed an issue where imported exercises added to a course were not visible to users.