Schedule
Release 2023.013 will be deployed
- To staging sites, Tuesday, June 27th
- To production sites, the week of July 3rd
- To Enterprise clients sites, the week of July 10th
Updated User Managements Dashboard : Filtering Users
It is now easier than ever to find users based on custom criteria thanks to the new filters modal in our updated Users dashboard. With this you can filter users by:
- role
- rank
- date of first visit
- date of last visit
- any custom profile field you've created
Our new Users dashboard can be enabled via your community's Labs page. Learn more about filtering and our new User Management tools here -
Tracking where Community Traffic is coming from
We now expose referrer data and UTM parameters within our analytic solution’s Page Views data stream; which allow you to understand how people get to your community so you can optimize your engagement strategy.
Referrer data will reveal information about the website or page from which a user came to reach your community. With these updates you can now group and filter page view data by
- Referrer’s URL: The specific URL of the page the user was on that linked them to your community
- Referrer’s Source: The broader source or channel from which the traffic originated
- Referrer’s Medium: The category or type of source that directed users to your community. Example of referrer mediums include - social, search, internal.
We have also added the ability to track UTM parameters, which are tags that can be added to the end of URLs. Marketers often add UTMs to links within their campaigns (e.g., social posts, emails, etc.) to track what channel or type of content is most successful in driving traffic.
With these updates you can now group and filter page view data by:
- UTM Source: a website or search engine, Google, Facebook, Twitter
- UTM Campaign: this may vary depending on your campaign
- UTM Content: an image, paid ad, white paper, etc.
- UTM Terms: this may vary depending on your content
- UTM Medium: organic search, social, CPC, and email
For example, when adding CTAs on my community pages that link users to an Event I am promoting I can use UTM parameters to measure the success of each of these by creating a URL that looks like this:
https://example.vanillaforums.com/events/56-hlv-connect-zapier?utm_source=community&utm_medium=ctawidget&utm_campaign=vanilla-connect
Here are some resources to help you learn more about UTM parameters and how to use them:
Finally, with these updates we have added some new out of the box charts to get you started
- On the Traffic Dashboard you can now see Page views by Referrer URL
- On the per-discussion Analytics dashboards you can also see Page view by Referrer URL
Configure Default Notification Preferences for New Users
You can now self-manage the default notification preferences that are applied to new users from the Admin Dashboard's User Preferences Settings page.
Learn more about managing notifications below
Bug Fixes & Improvements
Subcommunities
- VNLA-3168 Updated subcommunities logic to ensure private message, profile and group links remain in current subcommunity
- VNLA-4475 Fix subcommunity navigation for API items without a canonical subcommunity
SSO
- VNLA-3716 Fixed sever error on cancelling signup during OAuth Registration process
Salesforce
- VNLA-3718 Fixed Duplicate Webhooks and Solution Instances in Salesforce Activity Sync
API
- VNLA-4463 Added ability to sort users by posts & points using the /users endpoint
- VNLA-3917 Fixed [PUT]
api/v2/discussions/$id/type failing - VNLA-4459 Updated Access Tokens to prevent reading and writing of System access tokens
- VNLA-4457 Added logging for access token usage
- VNLA-4521 Updated users and discussions endpoints headers so we can see that we have more results than our count limit
Notifications & Category Following
- VNLA-4390 Added ability to configure Default Notification Preferences
- VNLA-4369 Updated Category Following Notification Preferences
- VNLA-4238 Fixed missed notifications for Group discussions
- VNLA-4452 Fixed categories remaining followed even after the category is deleted
- VNLA-2359 Updated custom plugins that add notification preferences
Accessibility
- VNLA-4283 Fixed meta icons and their content not working with Screenreader
Managing Users & Profiles
- VNLA-3967 Added ability to filter User Lists
- VNLA-4514 Added ability to sort users by posts and points
- VNLA-4400 Fixed newly created profile field does not immediately appearing in the profile fields list
- VNLA-4461 Fixed pagers in new Users Management page
- VNLA-4466 Fixed sorting userID as string instead of integer
- VNLA-4517 Fixed issues with auto assigning roles by email domain
Posting
- VNLA-4402 Fixed layout issues caused by posting long code blocks
- VNLA-4538 Fixed "User Not Found" error when clicking @mentions in posts when user names are not unique
Customization Tools
- VNLA-4490 Fixed Category dropdown missing from Pockets configuration
- VNLA-4519 Updated custom layout pages to surface top level server-side errors
