Vanilla Release Notes

Release 2021.024

Schedule

Release 2021.024 will be deployed:

To staging sites, Wednesday, December 1st
To production sites, Monday, December 6th
To Enterprise client sites, Monday, December 13th

Analytics Exportable CSVs

You can now export CSVs of chart data when viewing an Analytics Dashboard. Export analytics data to integrate into other reporting tools for further analysis and data manipulation.

Analytics Per User Drill Down

User Cards and Profiles have been updated to include an Analytics link where you can now visualize a community member’s activity and metrics using our new Analytics Dashboards.

This will help better understand the activity and engagement level of specific users, which content are they viewing, which discussions they’ve participated in, how they are reacting to content, and how their content is being received.

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New Zapier Triggers

Integrate your Vanilla community with Loyalty platforms such as Sendoso, GiftUp, SwagUp and more to log user activity and send rewards. The following Triggers have been added to notify 3rd party tools when a user;

Earns a Badge
Achieves a Rank

Kaltura Embed - Custom Domain Support

You can embed videos hosted on custom Kaltura domains by configuring them in our Posting settings page. This allows your team and community members to share videos hosted on any Kaltura site regardless of domain.

You will find the Embed settings under Posting in your Dashboard.

Reinterpret Posts as Rich format

You can now enable post format reinterpretation for Rich Editor. If you have migrated content, or upgraded from Advanced Editor to Rich, this setting will automatically convert posts from HTML, Markdown, WYSIWYG or other formats to Rich upon edit.

You can enable this setting in your Posting settings as seen below.

Updated Webhooks

We continue to add new data to our webhooks so that you can leverage this in 3rd party tools.

Event RSVP responses added to Events Webhook - Know when an Event has received an RSVP from a community member. Log Event RSVPs in 3rd party tools.
Tagging added to Discussions Webhook - Know when a tag has been added to a discussion.
Group info added to Discussions & Events Webhooks - Know which Group a Discussion or Event was added to.

Improvements

Move extra locale loading to later in the bootstrapping process - VNLA-834- vanilla-cloud#3947
VNLA-826: Basic CRUD endpoints for layouts resource- vanilla-cloud#3942
VNLA-787: Add tooltips for fallback community cell content- vanilla-cloud#3938
Add “Discussion” data stream for when a discussion is moved // VNLA-821- vanilla-cloud#3937
Set Kaltura's embed custom domains default value to an empty array- vanilla-cloud#3934
VNLA-780: Make advanced table columns sortable- vanilla-cloud#3930
Add discussion type to reaction tracking data- vanilla-cloud#3915
Add Tags data for post data streams // VNLA-604- vanilla-cloud#3902
VNLA-560 Updating to log exceptions to internal logging, and not to php logging.- vanilla-cloud#3901
Optimize elastic search by only mapping for required fields.- vanilla-cloud#3897
Write unified discussion status when corresponding columns to be superseded are written (Ideation)- vanilla-cloud#3892
VNLA-706: Adds rank name field to QnA catalog- vanilla-cloud#3885
Updating to track RSVP for keep.io- vanilla-cloud#3880
Add "Reinterpret post as Rich" option in the dashboard - VNLA-650- vanilla-cloud#3878
VNLA-365: Add CSV downloads to charts- vanilla-cloud#3874
Reorganize posting settings page - vanilla-cloud#3869
Write discussion status when ideation status written- vanilla-cloud#3856
Add webhook events for ranks - vanilla-cloud#3828
Add Kb and Category ids to subcommunity response- vanilla-cloud#3803
Add community event data to analytics- vanilla-cloud#3881
Add trackable methods to core for use with analytics tracking- vanilla-cloud#3896
Add Analytics Drilldown by user - vanilla-cloud#3913
Record Status Data for Analytics- vanilla-cloud#3910
Add error messages for incomplete queries- vanilla-cloud#3903

Bug Fixes

Fix questions answered preset- vanilla-cloud#3935
Fix preset values for up & down vote- vanilla-cloud#3931
Fix search results date value- vanilla-cloud#3929
Fix chart panel dropdowns from opening off screen- vanilla-cloud#3924
Fix advanced editor toolbar appearing when forcing a rich format- vanilla-cloud#3923
Fix score card time format- vanilla-cloud#3922
Fix casing of user response data keys in RSVP event- vanilla-cloud#3921
Fix discussion page crashing from analytics- vanilla-cloud#3920
Fix ranks user decorator- vanilla-cloud#3919
Switch default search operator applied from OR to AND- vanilla-cloud#3916
Optimize elastic indexes and stop querying comment "names" - vanilla-cloud#3908
Fix analytics rich cells rendering inconsistently- vanilla-cloud#3907
Fix analytics dashboard title - vanilla-cloud#3905
Correcting jsconnect filter- vanilla-cloud#3904
Fix rich editor crashing from bad lists - vanilla-cloud#3900
Fix mobile format not respecting ranks- vanilla-cloud#3899
Don’t allow custom domain config when hub/node is enabled - vanilla-cloud#3898
Fix date format on discussions widget - vanilla-cloud#3894
Fix data aggregations when keen data value result is an array - vanilla-cloud#3890
Fix announce options not displaying for users with valid permissions- vanilla-cloud#3883
Avatar file keep getting deleted- vanilla-cloud#3879
More SSO to Zendesk tweaks- vanilla-cloud#3876
Fix ideation test corruption- vanilla-cloud#3875
Add email view permission check to welcome email- vanilla-cloud#3872
Fix simple embed regression- vanilla-cloud#3870
Refactor Elastic plugin into addon classes- vanilla-cloud#3868
Fix discussion moves being called discussions merged - vanilla-cloud#3867
Fix discussions widget breaking the request content type- vanilla-cloud#3863
Fix post tick error- vanilla-cloud#3862
Fix Soundcloud embeds error checks - vanilla-cloud#3861
Add security_denied logging events on unhandled 401, 403 exceptions - vanilla-cloud#3859
Add tests for keen query generation- vanilla-cloud#3858
Add category following email notifications by default in dropdown config flag - vanilla-cloud#3857
Don’t let unconfirmed emails SSO to Zendesk- vanilla-cloud#3854
Don’t let exceptions in theme variable providers kill sites- vanilla-cloud#3853
Fix analytics data keys being array in specific cases- vanilla-cloud#3852
Add "Followed categories only" to Pocket (List - Discussion) - vanilla-cloud#3848
Fix "_New" field appearing in user badge event payload- vanilla-cloud#3847
Update user Agent used for page scraper- vanilla-cloud#3846
Changing to use logger, for error log.- vanilla-cloud#3842
Fix QnA unanswered count not getting correct subcommunity counts - vanilla-cloud#3839
Fix Q&A tag return for translations- vanilla-cloud#3821
Fix discussions never updating comment watches- vanilla-cloud#3820
Fix restore discussion error by correcting bad log values- vanilla-cloud#3819
Fix theme preview crashing on deleted themes - vanilla-cloud#3792
Create new ways to configure addons- vanilla-cloud#2940