Release 2021.002 - HL Vanilla Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="schedule">Schedule</h2><p>Release 2021.002 will be deployed</p><ul><li>to Staging sites, Tuesday, January 26th</li><li>to Production sites, Monday, February 1st</li><li>to Enterprise client sites, Monday, February 8th </li></ul><h2 data-id="quick-links-manager">Quick Links Manager</h2><p>The Quick Links managers helps your community members navigate to essential parts of your community. By default, this menu appears in your side panel, and here we include some helpful links here to things like your Categories list, your Recent Discussions page, your drafts, bookmarks, Group pages, Unanswered queue and more. </p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/Z2ATYPAWBIOQ/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/Z2ATYPAWBIOQ/image.png" alt="image.png" height="1460" width="2838" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p>With this release we are introducing a Quick Links manager to allow you to have more control over which links appear here.</p><ul><li>Hide or rename our default links</li><li>Add your own</li><li>Reorder the menu</li><li>Apply basic theme settings</li></ul><p>To find out more about how to use these features see - </p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"What are Quick Links? The Quick Links menu helps your community members navigate to essential parts of your community. By default, this menu appears in your side panel on most community pages, and here we include some helpful links here to things like your Categories list, your Recent Discussions page, your drafts,…","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/947\/TM5DAO1BWY5V.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/365-customizing-the-quick-links-menu","embedType":"link","name":"Customizing the Quick Links Menu - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/365-customizing-the-quick-links-menu" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/365-customizing-the-quick-links-menu </a> </div><h2 data-id="new-zapier-triggers-actions">New Zapier Triggers & Actions</h2><p>This past fall we launched our Zapier integration - </p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"Instantly connect Vanilla with the apps you use everyday. Vanilla integrates with 2,000 other apps on Zapier - it's the easiest way to automate your work.","photoUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.zapier.com\/explore\/229474f1867ebecb8a6786985c059bd96f733397\/_next\/static\/images\/social.png","url":"https:\/\/zapier.com\/apps\/vanilla\/integrations","embedType":"link","name":"Vanilla Integrations | Connect Your Apps with Zapier"}"> <a href="https://zapier.com/apps/vanilla/integrations" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://zapier.com/apps/vanilla/integrations </a> </div><p>This allows you to take certain actions in other platforms and tools based on triggers in Vanilla, or vis-versa, take certain actions in Vanilla based on triggers in other platforms and tools. </p><p>For example, if you wish to create tickets in Zendesk when new discussions are added in specific Vanilla categories, you can set up a Zap for this. </p><p>We have released a few more Vanilla actions & triggers to help us build out future ready-to-use templates. These new triggers include:</p><ul><li><strong>Report Filed:</strong> Use this to trigger actions in other platforms when discussions or comments are reported using our Reporting add-on</li><li><strong>Reaction Added:</strong> Use this to trigger actions in other platforms when a reaction is added to a discussion or comment. You will be able to configure additional filters for this to configure the trigger based on:<ul><li><strong>Reaction Type: </strong>use this if you only wish to trigger the action based on a specific reaction like "Promote" "Like" or "Insightful".</li><li><strong>Category: </strong>use this if you only wish to trigger the action based on activity in a specific category</li><li><strong>Discussion: </strong>use this if you only wish to trigger the action based on activity on a specific discussion. </li></ul></li></ul><p>New Vanilla actions:</p><ul><li><strong>Close Discussion: </strong>Use this action to close Vanilla discussions based on activity in another app. </li></ul><p>These triggers and actions are available for use on Zapier today, just select the Vanilla app in Zapier, choose the app you would like to connect to and start configuring your Zap. Check out our Zapier Integration documentation for me info. </p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"Setting Up Vanilla in Zapier When you choose to use Vanilla to create a Zap, it will ask you to connect your Vanilla app. You should be able to easily connect your app by following these instructions. Enter your site URL Enter your site's full URL, in this format: https:\/\/{yourdomain}.com. Setting up your Access Token You…","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/947\/TM5DAO1BWY5V.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/329-zapier-integration","embedType":"link","name":"Zapier Integration - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/329-zapier-integration" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/329-zapier-integration </a> </div><h2 data-id="bug-fixes-improvements">Bug fixes & Improvements </h2><ul><li><strong>Improvement exposing custom profile fields in API V2 GET calls</strong>. Use the expand=extended parameter on GET /users calls to fetch this data using the API. Use the expand=insertUser.extended parameter to get this data on GET /discussions or /comment calls. More details available within our API docs</li></ul><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"This document is an up-to-date API reference for all of Vanilla's public APIv2 endpoints.","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/947\/TM5DAO1BWY5V.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/202-apiv2-reference-endpoints#\/Discussions\/get_discussions","embedType":"link","name":"APIv2 Reference & Endpoints - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/202-apiv2-reference-endpoints#/Discussions/get_discussions" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/202-apiv2-reference-endpoints#/Discussions/get_discussions </a> </div><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>Fix Webhook-event options being static in Webhook settings</strong> – <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/issues/1335" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla-cloud#1355</a></li><li><strong>Add paging for Webhook deliveries</strong> – <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/1874" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla-cloud#1874</a></li><li><strong>Add LinkedIn SSO target query parameter</strong> – <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/support/issues/3504" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">support#3504</a></li><li><strong>Fix users being able to update preferences with unsafe inputs.</strong> –<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-patches/issues/710" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> vanilla-patches#710</a></li><li><strong>Fix Resolved Discussions v2 changing discussions name </strong>– <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/support/issues/3463" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">support#3469</a></li><li><strong>Fix being unable to copy/paste using the context menu in Search bar & Pockets editor</strong> - <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/support/issues/3252" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">support#3252</a></li><li><strong>Improved messaging when restoring posts from Spam Queue </strong>– <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/support/issues/3495" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">support#3495</a></li><li><strong>Add Reaction tags to reserved list to prevent them from appearing on user posts </strong>- <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/support/issues/3412" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">support#3412</a></li><li><strong>Improve default behaviour when setting image alignment in Rich Editor.</strong> – <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/1793" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla-cloud#1793</a></li><li><strong>Fix discussions API when type is set to “discussion” </strong>– <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/support/issues/3455" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">support#3455</a></li><li><strong>Fix “Cancel” button on groups Add/Edit Forms</strong> – <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/support/issues/3496" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">support#3496</a></li><li><strong>Remove byLine functionality from configuration class </strong>– <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-patches/issues/719" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla-patches#719</a></li><li><strong>Fix error when reporting a post with no reason select or added </strong>– <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/support/issues/3492" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">support#3492</a></li><li><strong>Fix Quotes not embedding in warnings when embedding was disabled globally</strong> -<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/support/issues/3394" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">support#3394</a></li></ul><p><br></p> </article> </main>