Release 2021.011 - Vanilla Success

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Schedule

Release 2021.011 will be deployed:

To staging sites Wednesday, June 2nd
To production sites Monday, June 7th
To Enterprise sites Monday, June 14th

List Widgets

This release includes a new set of widgets to showcase lists of community content. These include:

List - Discussions
List - Questions
List - Ideas
List - Announcements

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List - Discussions Widget

Use our new Discussions widget to showcase a list of community discussions. With this you have configurable settings to help you curate the widget's content.

You can choose to showcase discussions from a specific subcommunity or category.
You can choose how to sort your content - by most recent, top or trending

With this widget you have the power to build:

A recent discussions list for a category and its children and place it on the top level category page
A top discussions list to showcase the discussions with the highest score based on reactions
A trending discussions list to showcase content that is receiving a lot of attention in terms of comments and reactions

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To configure this widget, go to your Pocket settings and add a new pocket. Select List - Discussions and configure your settings.

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List - Questions Widget

Use our updated Q&A Widget to showcase community questions. With tthis widget you hav configurabl settings to help curate your widget content.

You can choose to showcase questions from a specific subcommunity or category
You can filter the list to only show questions of a certain status - i.e. unanswered, answered or accepted
You can choose how to sort your content - by most recent, top or trending

With this widget you have the power to build:

An unanswered questions feed for a specific subcommunity
A most recently answered questions list for a category and more

N.B. This widget replaces our former Questions & Answers widget. If you were making use of this widget it will need to be reconfigured through your Dashboard's Pocket settings.

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To configure this widget, go to your Pocket settings and add a new pocket. Select List - Questions and configure your settings.

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List - Ideas Widget

Use our new ideas widget to showcase ideas submitted to your community. With this widget you have configurable settings to help curate your widget content.

Filter ideas from a specific subcommunity or category
Create a personalized list of ideas so users can see the ideas they've submitted and/or voted on.
Sort ideas by newest, most recently active, top or trending

With this widget you have the power to build:

A top ideas widget to showcase the ideas that have the highest vote count
A "My Ideas" log to provide users with a personalized list of ideas they've voted on.
A most recent ideas list for a category to allow users to see and vote on the newest ideas

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To configure this widget, go to your Pocket settings and add a new pocket. Select List - Ideas and configure your settings.

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List - Announcements Widget

We've added the Announcements Widget to allow you to showcase discussions that have been announced in your community, subcommunity or categories.

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To configure this widget, go to your Pocket settings and add a new pocket. Select List - Announcements and configure your settings.

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Carousels

This release includes a new setting for our Featured Categories widget. You now have the option of displaying this widget as a carousel once the max number of columns has been met.

Example, here I have 4 featured categories. By enabling the Carousel option, users can scroll through a carousel of my featured caategories on desktop

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When on a mobile device, the widget will respect the allotted space, and become a carousel as my screen size shrinks.

To enable this, edit your Featured Categories widget and enable the "As Carousel" option

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Community Event Webhook

This release includes a new webhook for community events. This allows developers to build integrations that trigger when new events are posted on your community.

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Zapier Trigger for Community Events

We've added a new Zapier trigger to allow you to automate workflows that are triggered when a new event is added to your community.

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Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix permission error when clicking unread notifications in KB - vanilla-cloud#3086
Fix banner image to take category image first - vanilla-cloud#3093
Fix fatal Groups error during no-email registration - vanilla-cloud#3119
Fix duplicated widgets - vanilla-cloud#3132
Fix carousel overlap with search auto-complete - vanilla-cloud#3141
Fix Recommended Article alignment in the KB homepage - vanilla-cloud#3144
Add whitelisting upload domains for leaving redirects - vanilla-cloud#3149
Fix image links having their source rewritten - vanilla-cloud#3175
Add option to disable external link warning - vanilla-cloud#3176
Fix Email normalization: cannot be an empty string - vanilla-cloud#3131
Add filtering badges by type over API- vanilla-cloud#3064
Add translation for "Click here to read."- vanilla-cloud#3015
Add discussions widget- vanilla-cloud#2968
Add carousel functionality to home widgets- vanilla-cloud#2958
Add foundation layout to use grouplist-modern view- vanilla-cloud#3001
Add Salesforce's "Open Cases" to user profiles - vanilla-cloud#2881
Add leaving confirmations to all non-trusted domains' links- vanilla-cloud#2
Fix theme preview dropdown contents positioning in theme dashboard- vanilla-cloud#3082
Fix authentication providers ID collision during hub/node sync- vanilla-cloud#3055
Fix Badges plugin error when editing a user's profile- vanilla-cloud#3054
Fix empty discussion options menu rendering- vanilla-cloud#3040
Fix category list and dropdown position when move or delete- vanilla-cloud#3032
Fix users can delete own comments via API without correct permissions- vanilla-cloud#3031
Fix long discussion titles overflow in category list - vanilla-cloud#3014
Fix double spacing in text area when commenting in legacy themes- vanilla-cloud#3013
Fix comments truncation on user's profile- vanilla-cloud#3004
Fix excluding users with negative points from the leader boards- vanilla-cloud#2998
Fix get users by-name api not returning any result- vanilla-cloud#2995
Fix sites not loading in IE11- vanilla-cloud#2975
Fix redundant discussion type render in dropdown when converting an idea to question- vanilla-cloud#2971
Fix online users duplication from the "Who's Online" widget- vanilla-cloud#2959
Fix Oauth2 saving record when validation fails- vanilla-cloud#2946