[00:00] Ignition 8 is the largest and most comprehensive update in Ignition's recent history, overhauling many facets of the Ignition platform and offering some powerful new tools for Ignition developers. In this video, we'll broadly outline the most critical changes and features introduced in Ignition 8. These changes haul broadly into four categories, the brand new Perspective Module, Tag System updates, security improvements, and project system changes. We'll start by discussing visualization changes. For one, Vision components have received an overhaul in their look and feel without altering their underlying functionality. However, we've also introduced a brand new visualization module that works alongside Vision, designed to run in a web browser without any pre-configuration needed. This visualization module is called Perspective. So, because I have the Perspective Module installed, I can scroll up in my Project Browser and we see a Perspective heading. Now in Perspective, I created a simple test view. If I click on a component like this table, we see a Property Editor on the right-hand side. Not unlike the Property Editor in Vision. I won't go to deep into this example. Let's try seeing Perspective in action. Clients we launched in Perspective are called Sessions and unlike a Vision client, which runs as a standalone application, a Perspective Session is designed to be run in the web browser, see what I mean? I'll pull up a web browser here and I'll open a new tab, and I'll paste in a link to our Perspective demo project. It's just demo.inductiveautomation.com. Since Perspective Sessions run in the web browser, they can be run anywhere that a web browser can including a mobile device or a tablet. In fact, Perspective is well suited to running on small screen devices because it provides many ways of changing your project's appearance based on the size of the Session. To demonstrate, I'm going to go into the Real-Time Status section here and then to HMI, and I don't have a mobile device here to model, but what I can do is shrink down the size of my web browser. So, we see here that our Perspective Session has a menu bar and a good collection of components here. Now, if I shrink down the size of my web browser, so, I'm going to make it very narrow here, we see that the menu bar disappears and the components stack on top of each other instead of displaying in a diagram. And then, if I expand the browser again, we return to our initial layout. Perspective is built specifically to accommodate this design strategy, which we broadly refer to as responsive design. Now, with the introduction of Perspective comes a redoubled focus on security. To provide secure web-based data transfer, Perspective Sessions are secured using cutting-edge encryption technologies and communication protocols. In furtherance of the goal of improved security, Ignition 8 also heralds the introduction of federated identity providers and support for SAML and OAuth technologies. So, in the Configure section of this gateway, under Security, I can select Identity Providers, and from here, if I click Create New Identity Provider, we have the ability to run an Ignition-recognized identity provider using an Ignition User Source, OpenID Connect, or SAML. These tie-ins allow Ignition to better interface with existing authentication schemes with wide industrial support. We've also introduced the concept of a security level. This is a rework of Ignition's role system. Before, when configuring security on a project or a window, we might have selected a required role that a user would need to have. Now, we can select one or more nodes in a hierarchy. For example, if I require a security level of Authenticated, any user that can authenticate against my identity provider can access the resource, or if I'd like, I could require that they belong to this Upper Management security level. Because this security level falls under authenticated, this is a stricter requirement in simply having the authenticated security level. Now, let's get in the changes that were made to Tags in Ignition 8. So, I'll pull my designer back up, and it may have been apparent that the look and feel of the Tag browser has changed here. In fact, the look and feel of the entire Tag interface has changed a bit, but working with Tags in Ignition 8 should feel very familiar to longtime Ignition users. In addition to changes to the interface, Tags in Ignition 8 have received an overhaul on the back end with the goal of improving their performance and functionality. We can see some other critical changes as well. Let's say, we right click on a Tag and go to Edit Tag. Now, this is an OPC tag but if I wanted to change it to a memory tag, all I would have to do is expand the value source drop down and click Memory. Tags are now extensible as well. I can click the plus icon to add my own property to my Tag. Now, let's talk about changes to the project system in Ignition 8. I'm just going to exit out of this and if I scroll down in my Project Browser, we can see that some of my project resources are grayed out here. This is because these resources are inherited from another project. In Ignition 8, we can configure projects as inheritable so parent products can share resources with child projects like windows, templates, and scripts. So, I can create a new window here. Let's make it a main window and I won't change the title for now and let's try again one of my shared templates. So I'll drag in the Double Gauge and I can use this template just as if it were a template local to this project. One other major change has been made to the project system particularly for Perspective resources, Ignition 8 exposes the project resources in the file system at a granular level to allow changes to these resources to be more easily tracked. The goal behind this change is to be more compatible with version control schemes. This wraps up our brief overview of changes made in Ignition 8. Again, we've only briefly summarized the changes that have been made. Inductive University videos and user manual content offer deep dives into all of Ignition 8's changes and new features.