ResourceSpace Labs is our innovation programme, giving customers early access to the latest features and improvements before they're officially released.

Customers on our Business Cloud package or above can opt in to have their UAT (User Acceptance Testing) instance track our development branch. This means you'll be able to:

Labs gives you the opportunity to experiment in a safe environment — your production system remains stable, while your UAT system stays at the cutting edge.

How to Join

If you're on Business Cloud or higher, just contact our Customer Success team to opt in. We'll switch your UAT instance to track the trunk and you'll be among the first to try out what's next for ResourceSpace.

The Latest Features from our Development Team

r27411 2025-09-10 acota REV: Partial revert of r27185 to allow last TMS ID data to win (and still use previous ID data if the last one is invalid)
r27410 2025-09-10 acota provide type hinting to HookTms_linkEditAftersaveresourcedata
r27400 2025-09-09 dhuby Remove unneeded license
r27398 2025-09-09 dhuby Language update following accessibility changes - new page titles
r27391 2025-09-09 dhuby Renumbered the test list and added the script to do so. Old skool BASIC vibes.
r27385 2025-09-08 abaxter Moved plugin page titles to plugin language files

Development q13449: Accessibility improvements
Blue Frontier have recently completed an accessibility audit for ResourceSpace - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JyVU-39ImG5FJi33FFgfBHP-gks73GY_/view?usp=drive_link

This quote will address the issues raised in this report and fix them where feasible. Focusing on quick wins for the time being.
r27382 2025-09-08 dhuby Update password hashing algorithm to Argon2. Removed legacy support for plaintext passwords.
r27375 2025-09-05 acota Featured collections UX

Development q12910: Featured Collection UI improvements
When I created a new folder in a Featured Collection, it took me a while to figure out how to add existing resources to the collection.

These are the two options presented on screen:

Add a new sub folder or upload to the collection

To add existing resources, I need to go back up, hover over the collection and Select the collection:

Could "Select this collection" be a tile Icon in the folder you create?

I figured it out eventually, but it too me a few times to experiment.
r27373 2025-09-05 abaxter Accessibility improvements

Development q13449: Accessibility improvements
Blue Frontier have recently completed an accessibility audit for ResourceSpace - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JyVU-39ImG5FJi33FFgfBHP-gks73GY_/view?usp=drive_link

This quote will address the issues raised in this report and fix them where feasible. Focusing on quick wins for the time being.
r27372 2025-09-05 cevans quick messsaging modal

Development q12023: Envelope icon in header for messages
Envelope icon appears in the top bar next to the user icon when there are new messages

Clicking it gives you a modal with a briefer list of just the last few messages (only needs a couple of the columns from the main table).

Existing link in the menu becomes "message archive" and loses the pill count capability.
r27360 2025-09-04 dhuby Language updates
r27359 2025-09-04 dhuby Tesseract OCR plugin (based on Whisper)
r27347 2025-09-02 cevans fix remaining issues from SVN review for r27261

Development q12909: Consent and License plugin improvements
  • Ability to Configure fields, per customer, on the consent plugin - and decide which fields should be visible to which user groups.

  • Ability for Consent expiry dates to be changed/ moved on.

  • Ability for admin to be informed when consent expiry is approaching (set period of time) and have a system similar to Action Dates to archive all resources associated with that consent form automatically when the expiry date is reached.

  • Ability to apply multiple consent expires where multiple people are featured in an image. The resource is archived each time a date is reached. The resource can be moved back to active as normal if consent is re-obtained but the image is un-usable as soon as one person's consent is permanently expired.

  • Ability to link resources to consent on upload

  • Ability to view all related resources in a results set

  • Ability to set permissions to allow different user groups to create consent records

  • Ability for Consent expiry dates to be shown on the linked resource

  • Ability to product consent report - showing consents and dates
r27345 2025-09-02 tpiechowicz Better logging and progress tracking.

Development q12927: Better logging and progress tracking
Anything that doesn't have a progress tracker should have - so users can easily see that the system is working through a task.

CSV processing (when online) and batch editing in particular.

Having a spinning wheel that can be there all day isn't very reassuring - understandable that if there are a lot of records to update that it'll take some time - but a much easier sell if the users can be confident it is actually doing something.
r27343 2025-09-02 cevans fix issues from SVN review for r27334
r27341 2025-09-02 tpiechowicz Toast style notifications.

Development q13354: Toast style notifications
Raised from task 6823 from Activo report.

  • Use the library "toastify-js" - https://github.com/apvarun/toastify-js

  • Set up custom styling for Success (green), Error (red), Information (blue) and Warning (orange) style toast alerts.

  • Consider areas in the application where they could be used e.g.

    • - Saving changes to resource types, metadata fields, users etc in the Admin / Team area.
    - Making resource edits.
    - Replacing use of styledalert() for short alerts like "Success".
  • Look into removing the use of styledalerts on the Edit page when there are errors to be addressed (e.g. required fields) we already flag them on the page itself under each field. Could be simplified by stating something like "multiple required fields missing" instead of listing them all in the notification.

Suggested styling:
.toastify-success {
background: white;
color: black;
font-weight: 500;
border-radius: 7px;
border-left: 10px solid #47d764;
box-shadow: 0 3px 6px -1px rgba(0, 0, 0, .12), 0 10px 36px -4px rgba(156, 156, 156, 0.3);
}
r27337 2025-09-01 cevans address svn review items from r27261

Development q12909: Consent and License plugin improvements
  • Ability to Configure fields, per customer, on the consent plugin - and decide which fields should be visible to which user groups.

  • Ability for Consent expiry dates to be changed/ moved on.

  • Ability for admin to be informed when consent expiry is approaching (set period of time) and have a system similar to Action Dates to archive all resources associated with that consent form automatically when the expiry date is reached.

  • Ability to apply multiple consent expires where multiple people are featured in an image. The resource is archived each time a date is reached. The resource can be moved back to active as normal if consent is re-obtained but the image is un-usable as soon as one person's consent is permanently expired.

  • Ability to link resources to consent on upload

  • Ability to view all related resources in a results set

  • Ability to set permissions to allow different user groups to create consent records

  • Ability for Consent expiry dates to be shown on the linked resource

  • Ability to product consent report - showing consents and dates
r27334 2025-09-01 cevans allow autocomplete macros to run after CSV upload and after create_record API call
r27333 2025-09-01 dhuby Clip and Faces plugins both support setting of db user/pass via environment variables
r27319 2025-08-27 dhuby Metadata admin area: Disabled display of shorthand name by default. Added ExifTool Field column. Changed ordering so empty values are always last regardless of sort direction.