Release 2021.024 - Vanilla Success
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="schedule">Schedule</h2><p>Release 2021.024 will be deployed:</p><ul><li>To staging sites, Wednesday, December 1st</li><li>To production sites, Monday, December 6th</li><li>To Enterprise client sites, Monday, December 13th</li></ul><h2 data-id="analytics-exportable-csvs">Analytics Exportable CSVs</h2><p>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. </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/MIY4B596UI0H/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/MIY4B596UI0H/image.png" alt="image.png" height="268" width="951" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2></h2><h2 data-id="analytics-per-user-drill-down">Analytics Per User Drill Down</h2><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-medium float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/XIQQT4NUHVIY/screen-shot-2021-12-02-at-4-48-29-pm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/XIQQT4NUHVIY/screen-shot-2021-12-02-at-4-48-29-pm.png" alt="Screen Shot 2021-12-02 at 4.48.29 PM.png" height="549" width="302" loading="lazy" data-display-size="medium" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p><br></p><h2 data-id="new-zapier-triggers">New Zapier Triggers </h2><p>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;</p><ul><li>Earns a Badge </li><li>Achieves a Rank</li></ul><p><br></p><h2 data-id="kaltura-embed-custom-domain-support">Kaltura Embed - Custom Domain Support </h2><p>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. </p><p>You will find the Embed settings under Posting in your Dashboard.</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/Y7DCJ3VG44II/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/Y7DCJ3VG44II/image.png" alt="image.png" height="540" width="1247" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p><br></p><h2 data-id="reinterpret-posts-as-rich-format">Reinterpret Posts as Rich format</h2><p>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. </p><p>You can enable this setting in your Posting settings as seen below.</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/H80UHFICVIV9/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/H80UHFICVIV9/image.png" alt="image.png" height="376" width="1028" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/NUXAN3GBVK20/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/NUXAN3GBVK20/image.png" alt="image.png" height="575" width="891" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="-1"></h2><h2 data-id="updated-webhooks">Updated Webhooks</h2><p>We continue to add new data to our webhooks so that you can leverage this in 3rd party tools.</p><ul><li><strong>Event RSVP responses added to Events Webhook </strong>-<strong> </strong>Know when an Event has received an RSVP from a community member.<strong> </strong>Log Event RSVPs in 3rd party tools.</li><li><strong>Tagging added to Discussions Webhook </strong>-<strong> </strong>Know when a tag has been added to a discussion.</li><li><strong>Group info added to Discussions & Events Webhooks </strong>- Know which Group a Discussion or Event was added to. </li></ul><p><br></p><h2 data-id="improvements">Improvements</h2><ul><li>Move extra locale loading to later in the bootstrapping process - VNLA-834<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3947" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3947</a></li><li>VNLA-826: Basic CRUD endpoints for layouts resource<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3942" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3942</a></li><li>VNLA-787: Add tooltips for fallback community cell content<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3938" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3938</a></li><li>Add “Discussion” data stream for when a discussion is moved // VNLA-821<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3937" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3937</a></li><li>Set Kaltura's embed custom domains default value to an empty array<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3934" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3934</a></li><li>VNLA-780: Make advanced table columns sortable<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3930" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3930</a></li><li>Add discussion type to reaction tracking data<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3915" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3915</a></li><li>Add Tags data for post data streams // VNLA-604<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3902" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3902</a></li><li>VNLA-560 Updating to log exceptions to internal logging, and not to php logging.<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3901" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3901</a></li><li>Optimize elastic search by only mapping for required fields.<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3897" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3897</a></li><li>Write unified discussion status when corresponding columns to be superseded are written (Ideation)<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3892" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3892</a></li><li>VNLA-706: Adds rank name field to QnA catalog<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3885" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3885</a></li><li>Updating to track RSVP for keep.io<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3880" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3880</a></li><li>Add "Reinterpret post as Rich" option in the dashboard - VNLA-650<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3878" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3878</a></li><li>VNLA-365: Add CSV downloads to charts<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3874" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3874</a></li><li>Reorganize posting settings page <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3869" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3869</a></li><li>Write discussion status when ideation status written<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3856" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3856</a></li><li>Add webhook events for ranks <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3828" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3828</a></li><li>Add Kb and Category ids to subcommunity response<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3803" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3803</a></li><li><br></li><li>Add community event data to analytics<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3881" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3881</a></li><li>Add trackable methods to core for use with analytics tracking<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3896" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3896</a></li><li>Add Analytics Drilldown by user <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3913" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3913</a></li><li>Record Status Data for Analytics<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3910" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3910</a></li><li>Add error messages for incomplete queries<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3903" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3903</a></li></ul><p><br></p><h2 data-id="bug-fixes">Bug Fixes</h2><ul><li>Fix questions answered preset<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3935" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3935</a></li><li>Fix preset values for up & down vote<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3931" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3931</a></li><li>Fix search results date value<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3929" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3929</a></li><li>Fix chart panel dropdowns from opening off screen<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3924" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3924</a></li><li>Fix advanced editor toolbar appearing when forcing a rich format<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3923" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3923</a></li><li>Fix score card time format<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3922" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3922</a></li><li>Fix casing of user response data keys in RSVP event<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3921" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3921</a></li><li>Fix discussion page crashing from analytics<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3920" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3920</a></li><li>Fix ranks user decorator<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3919" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3919</a></li><li>Switch default search operator applied from OR to AND<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3916" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3916</a></li><li>Optimize elastic indexes and stop querying comment "names" <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3908" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3908</a></li><li>Fix analytics rich cells rendering inconsistently<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3907" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3907</a></li><li>Fix analytics dashboard title <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3905" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3905</a></li><li>Correcting jsconnect filter<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3904" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3904</a></li><li>Fix rich editor crashing from bad lists <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3900" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3900</a></li><li>Fix mobile format not respecting ranks<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3899" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3899</a></li><li>Don’t allow custom domain config when hub/node is enabled <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3898" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3898</a></li><li>Fix date format on discussions widget <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3894" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3894</a></li><li>Fix data aggregations when keen data value result is an array <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3890" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3890</a></li><li>Fix announce options not displaying for users with valid permissions<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3883" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3883</a></li><li>Avatar file keep getting deleted<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3879" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3879</a></li><li>More SSO to Zendesk tweaks<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3876" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3876</a></li><li>Fix ideation test corruption<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3875" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3875</a></li><li>Add email view permission check to welcome email<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3872" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3872</a></li><li>Fix simple embed regression<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3870" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3870</a></li><li>Refactor Elastic plugin into addon classes<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3868" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3868</a></li><li>Fix discussion moves being called discussions merged <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3867" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3867</a></li><li>Fix discussions widget breaking the request content type<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3863" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3863</a></li><li>Fix post tick error<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3862" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3862</a></li><li>Fix Soundcloud embeds error checks <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3861" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3861</a></li><li>Add security_denied logging events on unhandled 401, 403 exceptions <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3859" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3859</a></li><li>Add tests for keen query generation<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3858" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3858</a></li><li>Add category following email notifications by default in dropdown config flag <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3857" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3857</a></li><li>Don’t let unconfirmed emails SSO to Zendesk<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3854" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3854</a></li><li>Don’t let exceptions in theme variable providers kill sites<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3853" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3853</a></li><li>Fix analytics data keys being array in specific cases<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3852" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3852</a></li><li>Add "Followed categories only" to Pocket (List - Discussion) <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3848" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3848</a></li><li>Fix "_New" field appearing in user badge event payload<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3847" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3847</a></li><li>Update user Agent used for page scraper<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3846" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3846</a></li><li>Changing to use logger, for error log.<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3842" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3842</a></li><li>Fix QnA unanswered count not getting correct subcommunity counts <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3839" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3839</a></li><li>Fix Q&A tag return for translations<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3821" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3821</a></li><li>Fix discussions never updating comment watches<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3820" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3820</a></li><li>Fix restore discussion error by correcting bad log values<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3819" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3819</a></li><li>Fix theme preview crashing on deleted themes <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3792" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3792</a></li><li>Create new ways to configure addons<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2940" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2940</a></li></ul> </article> </main>