ONTIME DESKTOP

• Added a "Join Meeting" button on the event preview page for online meetings, providing quick access to virtual meetings directly from the event overview.

ONTIME ADMIN

• Added a new feature that allows users to include the company name within the name format display options. This enhancement offers greater flexibility in personalizing name formats and ensures that company names are easily visible where needed.
• New Default Sorting Options for Desktop Views: Added "Email" and "DisplayName" to the alternative sorting possibilities in the default settings for desktop views, providing users with enhanced flexibility in organizing and viewing data.

ONTIME BACKEND

• In version 6.1.8a, multithreading was introduced for directory synchronization to significantly reduce execution time. This improvement was particularly aimed at addressing delays in larger installations where the synchronization task could take longer than desired to execute. Prior to the release of version 6.1.8a, extensive testing demonstrated substantial reductions in execution time. However, these tests did not reveal that in production environments using the Microsoft EWS API, the service would experience throttling under multithreading conditions.To address this, version 6.1.8b reduced the maximum number of threads from 10 to 2. Unfortunately, this adjustment did not fully resolve the throttling issue.For version 6.1.9, we initially planned to make the number of threads manually configurable. However, further testing showed that even with this flexibility, EWS throttling resulted in inconsistent performance improvements or even potentially increased execution times. As a result, we decided to limit version 6.1.9 to a single thread. While this configuration offers some improvement over version 6.1.7, it falls short of our original goal.We recognize that the throttling issues stem from limitations in the EWS API. To address this, we are actively working on replacing the EWS API with the more modern Microsoft Graph API. This update is expected to enable improved directory synchronization with support for multithreading. We plan to release a new version with these enhancements within this quarter.
  We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your understanding as we work to deliver a more robust solution.
• The event list endpoint was previously a heavy load on the system due to performance bottlenecks. For each user ID in a request, a separate database query retrieved events within a specified time range, causing high database load and memory usage due to multiple collections of event data. Additionally, complex queries with multiple joins and inner selects added to execution time, and post-query filtering was required for each user’s access level.To optimize this, permissions are now filtered upfront, creating two user lists: one for owner/author permissions and one for summary-only access. The query was split into lightweight and detailed versions based on permissions. Events are now retrieved for all user IDs in a single query, reducing database connections. Results are stored in a single collection to save memory and avoid data duplication.
• Added additional logging information for directory sync for each successfully synchronized user.
• Removed redundant log entries generated when the dashboard is left open, improving log clarity and reducing unnecessary data.