What's new in Call Flow Studio

1.0.4

A reliability and fidelity release centered on VitalPBX multi-tenant systems: correct live status when extension numbers are shared across tenants, faster loading on busy boxes, and a guarantee that even an enormous or self-referential dial plan renders what it can instead of stalling. Nothing changes about how you install or license — existing installs simply get sharper.

• Correct device status across tenants. On VitalPBX systems where the same extension number exists in more than one tenant, registration status and the device’s user-agent now resolve to the right tenant’s device — so extension 101 in one tenant no longer borrows the status of 101 in another.
• Faster loading on busy multi-tenant boxes. Live status — registrations, do-not-disturb, and call-forward state — is now gathered only for the tenant whose call flow you’re viewing, rather than scanning every extension on the whole system. Large, carrier-style deployments load noticeably quicker.
• Big or looping dial plans never hang. An unusually large dial plan — or one that routes back on itself — now renders as much as it safely can and shows a clear notice that the diagram is partial, instead of spinning until the page times out.
• Idle sessions sign out as intended. A session left unattended now times out on schedule even while a diagram sits open on a box with a pending reload, where background status checks could previously keep it awake.
• Clearer save guidance. When more than one newly placed node still needs a connection, the save bar now tells you exactly how many remain.
• Sharper exports and tidier schedules. Time groups line up correctly in SVG exports and queues are sized more compactly; a time condition with a long schedule now scrolls neatly within its node; and the time-group editor is a touch lighter and easier to read.

1.0.3

A focused refinement release: a new at-a-glance warning for call flows that double back on themselves, a display option for how connection lines are drawn, and a set of export and rendering fixes. Nothing changes about how you install or license — existing installs simply get sharper.

• Spot a loop at a glance. When a destination’s timeout or invalid path leads straight back to the same node — a call that would loop on itself instead of moving forward — that node now shows a small amber warning marker, so a likely misconfiguration stands out without tracing every connection by hand.
• Draw connectors behind nodes. A new display setting routes connection lines behind the nodes instead of over them, which reads more cleanly on dense diagrams. Off by default; your diagrams are unchanged until you turn it on.
• Sharper SVG exports. Nodes with long, scrollable bodies — a packed IVR or a busy time condition — now align correctly in true-vector (SVG) exports.
• Tidier time conditions. A time condition with a long schedule now scrolls neatly within its node instead of overflowing it, and the time-group editor lists calendar entries in order.
• Steadier clicks near connections. Clicking close to a connection line no longer mis-selects the line or swallows a click meant for what’s behind it.
• Better sticky notes. Blank lines you add inside a note — pressing Enter a few times to separate sections — now stay put instead of collapsing when you click away, and a note holding more text than fits now scrolls with the mouse wheel and a scrollbar while you edit it.

1.0.2

A quality-of-life release focused on how connections are drawn and changed on the canvas, plus a recovery path for trials that didn’t start cleanly at install.

• Connect with two clicks. Click a source port once and the connection line follows your cursor — no holding a drag across the canvas. Click a destination port to land it, or cancel with Escape, a click on empty canvas, or a second click on the same port. Drag-to-connect still works exactly as before.
• Smarter rewiring. Wiring an already-connected port to a new destination now clears the old line immediately; discarding a pending rewire puts the original connection back instead of leaving the port unwired; and dropping a connection back on its existing destination no longer asks you to save a change that changes nothing.
• Start your trial from the License tab. If trial setup couldn’t complete when you installed — a network hiccup at the wrong moment — a Start free 30-day trial button now appears in Account & Admin → License, and any problem is reported with a clear, specific message.
• Path highlighting on every queue and ring group row. The No Answer, IVR Break Out, and After Agent Hangup rows now highlight and pin their downstream path on hover and click, matching the numbered rows.
• VitalPBX fidelity. Personal-assistant and diversion destinations that previously rendered as an unknown destination now resolve to the right node.
• Live Asterisk status in About. The About panel now shows whether Call Flow Studio’s live connection to Asterisk is up — the one that powers registrations, DND/forward state, and queue membership.
• Password-manager polish. Autofill no longer pops up on fields that aren’t logins (like adding a user), and signing in now saves your username and password together correctly.

1.0.1

The first update after 1.0 — a batch of fidelity fixes, editing polish, and security hardening drawn from real-world use across the FreePBX family and VitalPBX. Nothing changes about how you install or license; existing installs simply get sharper.

• IVR menus now handle * and # selections. Star and pound options can be created, edited, and are shown alongside numeric selections in their natural order.
• New nodes stay where you put them. A node you create and place on the diagram now keeps its position through a save and reload, and re-adding an extension that’s already on the canvas snaps to the one you placed instead of drawing a duplicate.
• Scrub through recordings. The voicemail-greeting and recording player now supports seeking, so you can jump to any point instead of listening from the start.
• Follow a branch at a glance. Hovering or clicking a row on a multi-option node — an IVR, ring group, or queue — highlights and pins the path it leads to, included free on VitalPBX.
• Protection against losing unsaved work. Actions that would reload the diagram now check for unsaved edits first, so an accidental click can’t discard changes you haven’t saved.
• Cleaner number and status display. Inbound numbers delivered as a plain 11-digit US number now format correctly, and a time condition’s current day / night mode shows accurately the first time it loads.
• Additional security hardening throughout the app, continuing to read and write only through your PBX’s own functions and to require a login for every action.

1.0.0

Call Flow Studio 1.0 is here — the first general-availability release, graduating from more than thirty beta builds. Call Flow Studio is the commercial successor to the free dpviz module: a visual editor for your FreePBX-family dial plan, and a live read-only visualizer for VitalPBX, that shows not just what’s configured but what’s actually working right now. The engine has been hardened across the entire beta line — this is the same tool, out of beta and standing on its own.

• See the whole call flow. Trace any DID from inbound to voicemail as one diagram, with live registration, queue-agent, and Do-Not-Disturb / call-forward status on every node. Simulate any date and time to see which path a call would take.
• Edit right on the diagram. Repoint a route or edit an IVR, ring group, or queue in place — written through your PBX’s own functions, so changes are indistinguishable from edits made in the PBX admin. Full undo / redo and a per-edit activity log, even after an Apply Config.
• Export for the handoff. Branded PNG and true-vector SVG diagrams, with optional one-click redaction of names and numbers for documents that travel beyond the PBX owner.
• Built for teams. Its own login system with admin / technician / user roles, separate from your PBX admin — hand a read-only view to a teammate or customer without giving up any PBX access.
• Free to start. Installs free and runs the full product for 30 days; afterward it settles to a free read-only visualizer on the FreePBX family (your first two tenants on VitalPBX), and a one-time, per-PBX license keeps the full experience.
• Also in this release: the License panel now clearly distinguishes a trial from a purchased license — a Trial badge with the days remaining during your trial, switching to Active once you activate a license — so the panel and the trial countdown always agree.

Call Flow Studio reads and edits your dial plan through your PBX's own functions, and requires a login for every action. As a general practice, a PBX management interface shouldn't be exposed directly to the public internet — keep it behind a VPN or an IP allow-list.