440 M1 Release Notes 03/24/2025
New in BBD
- Browser tool which allows users to view the status and extension versions of installed browsers
BB Desktop
3043 – Fixed an issue that could cause errors when System Monitor was open during BBD restart or Exit
3313 – NW region settings will now be reflected without restarting BBD
3344 – Added “Uninstall Complete” message when uninstalling BBDesktop software.
3418 – Updated Genie scripting engine version to 10.52
3429 – Fixed a logging issue that prevented certain Boost evaluations from being logged
3512 – Updated reading CA addresses in Amadeus during the BB Desktop profile process
3516 – Disabled BB Browser on startup with the new default browser being the current system default. Users can still re-enable BB Browser through the Configuration/Settings tab
3520 – Fixed an issue that was causing update failure notifications to appear in groups that did not contain prompts
3552 – Fixed an issue where a grid notification window that included a column that has been removed from the associated lookup table would cause an error
3561 – Fixed an issue that extended the time to fully exit the software.
3704 – Update disable BB Browser language on settings tab
3622 – Modified the Configuration/Prompts tab to retain UI settings when tab is reloaded (for example: keep previous selection and/or sort order)
3631 – Added a Browser tool which allows users to view the status and extension versions of installed browsers to the Configuration/Diagnostics tab
3670 – Fixed an issue where the Include Serving Suppliers setting wasn’t always applied correctly for the yellow notification box (sometimes causing an empty yellow box to appear)
3680 – Updated default reading of phone numbers and card holder name during BB Desktop profile process
3686 – Fixed an issue that sometimes resulted in Genie hotel availability variable values not updating when performing multiple (& different) availabilities in rapid succession
3689 – Added support for Galileo new *EM email address response
3700 – Added support for multiple passenger Filed Fare format options for Galileo
439 M2 Release Notes 01/02/2024
New in Admin Site
- Improved administration web sites authentication options for additional security. JWT authentication has been implemented for SSO. ‘Remember Me’ option must be selected for SSO to be maintained between logins.
- Lookup Tables changes:
- Look and Feel update
- Import/Export from Excel now takes/generates a spread sheet instead of opening an option for copy/paste
- Lookup Tables can be connected to a Google Sheet (and prepare for download done from the Google Sheet)
- The local DB option has been removed
- Look and Feel update
Admin Site
3310 – Notification Window placement options in a combination that would cause the window to appear off screen now cause an error on save
3149 – Prompt Conditions lookup table selection should be limited to the lookup tables available in that group, instead of all lookup tables the user can access.
BB Desktop
3342 – Fixed issue that allowed incorrect group to be used for activity records in a very narrow rare circumstance
3385 – Updated default account number capturing for Apollo
3392 – Grid Notification windows with a column header including a / should now property display its data
3407 – When entering a Multiple Passenger confirmation into the GDS the remarks now enter in the order of passengers in the PNR rather than the Confirmation Web Page order
Boost
3400 – Added genie variable {NumPriorActionsTriggered} to Boost to represent how many times a specific availability or flight sold events have triggered rules to fire a prompt (Starts at 0, for the first prompt being fired)
Unused Tickets
3402 – Altered the logic to use the name exactly as is or the fully cleaned name (using no spaces, no dots and no hyphens)
439 M1 Release Notes
Admin Site
3068 – Fixed an issue when creating a new group would sometimes show the groups for an associated account you were just logged in to
3317 – Revised Look up table behavior so columns now always appear in the same order and implemented a new feature that lets the user arrange columns by drag & dropping them
3327 – Fixed broken Release Notes link on the Edit Groups page
3335 – Fixed an issue that caused errors when saving Lookup Table from Excel when the data in the sheet was fewer columns than the Lookup Table
BB Browser
3346 – Fixed an issue that would allow a browser window to report as open when it was closed.
BB Desktop
2885 – Fixed WPF border colors in themes, so that the combo boxes and textboxes share the same border in the default theme
3041 – Updated the BBDotNetInstaller so that the user can choose whether to install/uninstall Amadeus Smart Scripting Bridge with BB Desktop
3274 – Revised parsing for Hotel Property Availability Response Received All to ensure capture of the data particularly the refundable, non-refundable, and guarantee information in Sabre
3315 – It is now possible for suppliers to perform IFQ without displaying and then closing a browser window
Boost
3220 – Fixed an issue with the copy/paste display order to ensure rules paste in the same order they were copied
Genie
3326 – Filling in a browser field by name (instead of ID) has been added (was removed in error from 438-439)
Unused Tickets
3304 – Added logic to allow spacing variation during name lookups
3316 – Unused tickets logging is no longer part of Genie Logging and now has its own settings
3339 – Fixed an issue that caused the TicketPrefix variable to be unset in some cases
439 05/19/2023
New in the Software…
• Optimized handling of Genie Events to improve speed/performance
• New variables for LegCount and LegIndex have been added to BB Desktop
• New variables for Connection Time have been added to Genie
Admin Site
2992 – Revised Administrator permission handling to favor deactivation instead of deletion
BB Browser
3305 – Revised BB Browser logging to match BB Desktop logging
BB Desktop
2216 – Added LegCount and LegIndex variables for Confirmation macros
2671 – Improved leap year handling in IFQ
3175 – Updated Amadeus Interface’s LoggingName to indicate status of JSK and SDK
3225 – Updated Tracker to allow Sabre to sell a single flight from a connection
3302 – Optimized handling of Genie Events to improve speed/performance
3306 – Revised the tool tip text for the Flies Route symbol to now read “… serves route” instead of “… doesn’t fly route” to alleviate confusion
Genie
2455 – Added Connection Time Variables to Genie. Flight Availability Response Origin/Destination and Flight Sold Origin/Destination now have variables for HasConnections ConnectionTime1, ConnectionTime2, ConnectionTimeXXX, MinConnectionTime, MaxConnectionTime, and TotalConnectionTime. Flight Availability Response All and Flight Sold All now have variables for FollowsConnection, PreviousConnectionTime, BeginsConnection, and NextConnectionTime
438 M1 04/04/2023
BB Desktop
2268 – Revised name matching behavior to check all combinations of all the various first name and last name fields for confirmations
3281 – Fixed typo on Configuration/Settings/Browser for BB Browser
3292 – Added a dialog to appear on first run that allows Chrome MV3 to be enabled
3293 – Added new *FOP handling to Sabre parsing
3295 – Fixed an issue that was preventing the warning dialog for the .Net 3.5 prerequisite from appearing during install
Boost
3215 – Fixed an issue that prevented the Add Contracts button on the Manage Supplier Contracts page from functioning
3286 – Fixed an issue that caused the Grid Search field to save between uses
BB Browser
3275 – Added more intuitive logging to BB Browser
438 01/20/2023
This release includes Chrome/Edge extensions that are MV3 compliant. This release also includes the new BookingBuilder Browser. We recommend selecting it in the settings and using it to book.
Admin Site
2822 – Removed Legacy Marquee, Multiple, and Mini Multiple NW types
3128 – Fixed an issue that was preventing copied Look up tables with a prompt from pasting entirely
3148 – Revised behavior of Prompt Tree View page to include display Button names
3151 – Fixed an issue that allowed deleted group prompts to still remain shared
3185 – Added functionality for vertical placement of buttons on Notification Windows
3186 – Added functionality to the Ask User for Input prompt action to allow multiple columns of controls
3184 – Added input validation to the Add/Edit Reports page. Now there must be fields selected in order to Save a report and if anything other than ‘Preview Only’ is selected we look for an entry in the email field
3188 – Updated the browser type dropdown on AddEditLaunchBrowser.aspx to show Default, IE, Chrome, Edge and BB Browser
3216 – Added a reminder when moving a prompt, to prepare for download in both groups
BB Desktop
3259 – fixed an issue that caused duplicate key exceptions for confirmation entry
Boost
3244 – Added Boost variables GroupID, AccountNumber, ComputerID, ComputerName, ComputerNickname and UserName for Genie use
Genie
2785 – Added StateCode to citypair gds tracker/genie events and single city events
2807 – Reimplemented “FireOnChange” for browser fill in
3026 – Added functionality for vertical placement of buttons on Notification Windows
3158 – Added functionality to the Ask User for Input prompt action to allow multiple columns of controls
3252 – Remove the legacy version of WinForms Ask User for Input and references to it from BBD.
437M2 07/15/2022
Admin Site
3162 – Fixed an issue that caused a webpage error when the Export button was clicked on the Boost Rules page
3166 – Fixed an issue that was causing the availability data to be dropped when Ignore (I) command was entered into Smartpoint
3167 – Revised behavior of the Read Itinerary Genie action to better handle parsing of all flight steps in an itinerary 3135 – Updated the Show Boost Rules portion of the client to better handle the display of assigned Rule actions
3170 – Non-Compliant follow-up actions are now automatically pre-empted if an earlier rule (by rank) did fire and match as compliant
Additionally, a variable was added: HadOtherCompliantMatch that can be used to prevent it from firing if there were ANY compliant matches regardless of rank
3171 – Fixed a Reporting issue that was incorrectly logging cryptic commands
437M1 H1 09/23/2022
3182 – Read GDS Itinerary now includes country & continent data for steps (segments)
3183 – Magnatech unused tickets Electronic ticket type updated to also recognize ETICKET. MCOResidual also recognizes MCO
Boost rules now include Contract ID for reporting
437M1 06/16/2022
Admin Site
3037 – Fixed an issue that caused truncation errors when recovering a group whose name was more than 50 characters long
3134 – Fixed an issue that was preventing set up of Unused Tickets to fire by Account Number only
BBDesktop
2998 – Fixed an issue to allow Updater Client file version check to happen on all files not just .Net ones
3012 – Fixed an issue that caused GDS Tracker “Reference not set” exceptions for Supplier DY in IFQ when using Sabre
3053 – Removed obsolete key UseGDSIAmadeusExe from the Configuration/Advanced list
3126 – Updated GDS logging for Sabre to use proper logging version (with queuing)
3139 – Revised Edge browser behavior to launch a new window instead of a new tab from Availability in IFQ
3157 – Revised Ask User for Input controls to allow variables for list options Genie
3140 – Fixed a Genie variable issue with Read Itinerary that was preventing Begin/End airports for each step from being read and corrected a misspelled Airline List title (formerly titled Airport List)
3146 – Fixed a Genie variable issue with Read Itinerary that was preventing the supplier code from being read for hotel steps
437 H1 09/22/2021
Genie
3064 – Fixed an issue with FlightSoldOriginDestination where the EndDateTime of the first Step was parsed instead of the last Step
3065 – Added Variables to genie events: Car Sold: Confirmation Number, Hotel Property Availability command/response: HotelPropertyCode, Hotel Sold: LineNumber
437 09/09/2021
- 437 Supports the Microsoft Edge browser
- BBD 437 is an Installer Only build meaning users must run the installer package to update their software. The is no Auto Update option for 437
- BBD 437 only works with Amadeus Smart Script. In addition to our BBD software, the 437 installer will also install/update the Amadeus Smart Scripting Bridge to version 5.2.1. ( this is the minimum required bridge version to work with BBD)
- This version of BB no longer supports plusScript Amadeus connections
- This does support Amadeus in Chrome
- The UseNewGDSInterfaces default is now TRUE (no value set is the same as true)
Admin Site
2375 – Removed the “Outside, Top” formatting option from the Edit Notification Window page
2988 – Fixed an issue that prevented the “Copy to Clipboard” functionality on the View all Computers page from working in Chrome
3009 – Fixed a Notification Window issue that prevented font colors (other than black) from displaying unless the color’s HEX number was manually entered during creation/edit
3059 – Fixed broken link “Current Training Calendar and Links” on user’s HomePage
BBDesktop
1453 – Added browser support for Microsoft Edge (Suppliers being added individually)
2989, 3055 & 3056 – Removed the defunct “Get Training” options
2995 – Revised default Chrome browser handling to launch a new window instead of a tab
3031 – Updated link to .Net Framework when missing component during installation.
3047 – User Prompt in Confirmation has been updated to a more modern window
3058 – Empty browser pages should no longer appear in the send web page to support window
Unused Tickets
2994 – Revised Unused Ticket handling to better parse the name fields of Group PNR
Fixed an issue where launching Sabre sometimes caused BookingBuilder to stop working with Chrome.
436 M3 H1
BBDesktop
2993 – Revised browser handling for compatibility with latest Chrome update which now installs Chrome to Program Files, not Program Files (x86)
Admin Site
2983 – Fixed a Paste from Excel issue that was causing a crash when more than 25 column fields were pasted 2979 – Revised Grid NW’s behavior to display the data exactly as it appears in the Lookup Table
1838 – Added functionality to the new Ask User prompt to allow for a set window location and amount of time the window appears on screen BBDesktop
2982 – Fixed an GDS Tracker issue that was causing the Airport Code of AKL to return a Country Code of AU when it should be NZ
Unused Tickets
2985 – Fixed an issue that was generating an exception when Get Account Number is checked, but LT column is undefined
2977 – Fixed and issue with the GDS being used for macros not always being the correct one.
