Release 2022.005 - Vanilla Success
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="schedule">Schedule</h2><p>Release 2022.005 will be deployed:</p><ul><li>To staging sites, Tuesday, March 8th</li><li>To production sites, Tuesday, March 15th</li><li>To Enterprise client sites, Monday, March 21st</li></ul><h2 data-id="salesforce-activity-sync">Salesforce Activity Sync</h2><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/XO2JYHTTOWI5/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/XO2JYHTTOWI5/image.png" alt="image.png" height="107" width="451" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p>We have made updates to our existing <strong>Salesforce Integration</strong> to now allow you to sync, visualize and manipulate user activity data in Salesforce. Allow Sales, CX and Support to see which accounts or companies are active in your community, and leverage community data to better understand customer needs, areas of interest and level of engagement. </p><p>For each contact and/or company see:</p><ul><li>Registrations</li><li>Discussions and comments added</li><li>Ideas added and upvoted </li><li>Questions asked and answered </li><li>Groups joined </li><li>Event RSVPs</li></ul><p><strong>Please contact your CSM to have the Improved Salesforce Integration set up on your community. </strong></p><p>Read more about our existing Salesforce Integration which allows you to create leads and Cases and to view open cases, below.</p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"Overview This document refers to our salesforce Case Creation and Lead Creation addon (Allow staff users to create leads and cases from discussions and comments.). It does not refer to Salesforce OAuth2 SSO functionality. Requirements You must have SSL enabled on your domain. (Your forum must be served over HTTPS).…","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/VWGAXAF5OFCO\/microsoftteams-image.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/23-integrating-with-salesforce","embedType":"link","name":"Integrating with Salesforce - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/23-integrating-with-salesforce" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/23-integrating-with-salesforce </a> </div><h2></h2><h2 data-id="productboard-integration">Productboard Integration</h2><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/LNKIWAD7H4JS/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/LNKIWAD7H4JS/image.png" alt="image.png" height="98" width="537" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p>Productboard is one of the most popular product-management tools on the market. It helps product managers collect ideas and feedback to understand what customers need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around the roadmap.</p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"Productboard offers a comprehensive product management platform that supports a customer-centric approach and strategy. Click now!","photoUrl":"https:\/\/www.productboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/productboard_social_media_01.png","url":"https:\/\/www.productboard.com","embedType":"link","name":"Product Management Software | Productboard"}"> <a href="https://www.productboard.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://www.productboard.com </a> </div><p>We've added a new integration allowing customers to connect Vanilla to <a href="https://www.productboard.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">Productboard</a> and log:</p><ul><li>Ideas added</li><li>Idea votes</li><li>Idea insights</li></ul><p>This integration allows product teams to leverage the power of community to log insights and further calculate user impact scores to make customer-driven roadmap decisions.</p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"The Productboard integration allows you to sync community ideas (and their votes and comments) into Productboard as notes for your Product teams. 📝 NOTE: The Productboard integration was made available with Release 2022.005. What is Productboard? Productboard is a popular product-management tool. It helps product managers…","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/VWGAXAF5OFCO\/microsoftteams-image.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/522","embedType":"link","name":"Productboard Integration - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/522" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/522 </a> </div><h2 data-id="learnupon-zapier-template">LearnUpon Zapier Template</h2><p><strong>LearnUpon</strong> is a powerful and easy to use Learning Management System designed to streamline and centralize learning, and deliver high-impact training. </p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"LearnUpon LMS is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, Learning Management System. It helps you to deliver corporate training at scale. Schedule your demo today.","photoUrl":"https:\/\/www.learnupon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/futureblue-01-2.png","url":"https:\/\/www.learnupon.com\/","embedType":"link","name":"LearnUpon"}"> <a href="https://www.learnupon.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://www.learnupon.com/ </a> </div><p>This week we have added a new Zapier template for Vanilla and LearnUpon users that will allow you to automate the process of awarding badges to learners when they complete an enrollment in LearnUpon, taking the manual hassle out of recognizing users. <a href="https://zapier.com/apps/learnupon/integrations/vanilla/918240/award-badges-to-community-members-in-vanilla-forums-for-newly-completed-enrollments-in-learnupon" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">Try it out.</a></p><p>Requirements:</p><ul><li>Badges add-on is enabled on Vanilla</li><li>Custom badges for learners will need to be created on Vanilla before this template can be configured. Learn more about <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/15-badges#creating-your-own-badges" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">creating badges. </a></li><li>Learners must be members of your community to earn a badge</li><li>Community members must be registered to the community using the same email address used in LearnUpon to receive the badge</li></ul><h2 data-id="rybbon-zapier-template">Rybbon Zapier Template</h2><p><strong>Rybbon</strong> is is a digital gifting platform made for marketers and researchers, and an all-in-one solution for sending, tracking, and managing digital rewards programs.</p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"Send digital e-gift cards as marketing incentives & rewards with Rybbon. Prepaid Virtual Visa, Mastercard, Amazon. Integrates with Marketo, HubSpot, SurveyMonkey & Qualtrics.","photoUrl":"https:\/\/staticwp.rybbon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/hm-banner.png","url":"https:\/\/www.rybbon.net\/","embedType":"link","name":"Digital E-Gift Cards, Prepaid Virtual Visa, Mastercard, Amazon | Rybbon"}"> <a href="https://www.rybbon.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://www.rybbon.net/ </a> </div><p>We have added a new Zapier template that will update user points in Rybbon when new points are earned in Vanilla either by answering questions, earning badges or through Reactions. This allows you to capture all user points without slowing down for manual updates. <a href="https://zapier.com/apps/rybbon/integrations/vanilla/908095/update-user-points-in-rybbon-when-new-points-are-earned-in-vanilla-forums" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">Try it out.</a></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/99HBU4V5P4GX/screen-shot-2022-03-09-at-8-10-37-am.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/99HBU4V5P4GX/screen-shot-2022-03-09-at-8-10-37-am.png" alt="Screen Shot 2022-03-09 at 8.10.37 AM.png" height="212" width="2444" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="option-to-include-emails-in-webhook-deliveries">Option to Include Emails in Webhook Deliveries</h2><p>We have added a new optional configuration setting for Webhooks allowing you to enable emails in webhook deliveries. This can allow you to more easily configure integrations that may require an email address. </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/SYHSYU2S3ZH2/screen-shot-2022-03-08-at-4-01-29-pm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/SYHSYU2S3ZH2/screen-shot-2022-03-08-at-4-01-29-pm.png" alt="Screen Shot 2022-03-08 at 4.01.29 PM.png" height="1646" width="2880" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="improvements">Improvements</h2><ul><li>Improved user expansion options across all API endpoints <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4247" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4247</a></li><li>Strengthened Password Security Policy <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4268" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4268</a></li><li>Added missing namespace.<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4322" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4322</a></li><li>Replace hard deprecation with soft deprecation<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4319" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4319</a></li><li>Fix legacy storybook stories not running<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4318" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4318</a></li><li>Add error logging identifying header content when it contains a newline character<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4317" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4317</a></li><li>Increase category description limit to 1000<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4316" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4316</a></li><li>Fix autoloader static properties array access error<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4315" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4315</a></li><li>Fix missing profile url from payload<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4314" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4314</a></li><li>Add user fragment to group and rsvp events<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4312" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4312</a></li><li>Fix sections modal title on LayoutEditor page<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4311" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4311</a></li><li>Fix layout editor bugs<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4310" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4310</a></li><li>Fix cache pollution with range expression<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4309" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4309</a></li><li>Add the POST /articles/{ID}/translations OpenAPI def<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4308" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4308</a></li><li>Add reactions to psalm<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4306" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4306</a></li><li>Fix style guide editor preview<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4305" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4305</a></li><li>Adding support for Keen leaderboard for post count leader type<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4303" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4303</a></li><li>Fix /dashboard/menus/ API output for compatibility's sake <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4302" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4302</a></li><li>Add, save and delete sections for custom layout <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4299" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4299</a></li><li>Temporarily hide the /users/leaders API endpoint <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4298" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4298</a></li><li>Consolidate multiple product board event notes API with logging for any errors returned<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4296" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4296</a></li><li>Remove advanced editor build files and dependencies<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4290" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4290</a></li><li>Remove & upgrade vanilla analytics dependencies<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4289" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4289</a></li><li>Remove dependencies and build files from groups<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4288" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4288</a></li><li>Feature/userfragment data structure<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4287" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4287</a></li><li>Remove build files from triple-a theme<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4286" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4286</a></li><li>Remove build files from deflector theme<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4285" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4285</a></li><li>Add badges to psalm<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4284" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4284</a></li><li>Add trait for mocking keenio responses<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4283" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4283</a></li><li>Add subcommunities to psalm<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4282" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4282</a></li><li>Add a README for the vnla tool<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4281" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4281</a></li><li>Fix articles widget container options (demo feedback)<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4278" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4278</a></li><li>Update get /layouts query in front end to expand user info<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4277" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4277</a></li><li>Remove side effect that changes content type in internal request.<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4275" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4275</a></li><li>Moving advertisement validation to HTML widget.<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4274" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4274</a></li><li>Add retry handler to CI elastic client <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4273" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4273</a></li><li>Add layout sections modal <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4270" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4270</a></li><li>Resolving array_filter, using array_values to make sure its an array<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4269" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4269</a></li><li>Add middleware to specify widget as advertisement<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4267" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4267</a></li><li>Fix article widget sorting in storybook<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4265" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4265</a></li><li>Fix performance and functional regressions in the /api/v2/categories endpoint<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4264" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4264</a></li><li>Low-Fidelity Layout Overview <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4262" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4262</a></li><li>Add Events Widget to custom layouts <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4261" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4261</a></li><li>Fix RSS feed parser schema for some fields not to be required <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4260" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4260</a></li><li>Add /users/leaders API endpoint <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4259" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4259</a></li><li>Refactor filter kludge & add additonal filters for discussion|type<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4255" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4255</a></li><li>Fix console error from autosave<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4253" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4253</a></li><li>Fix themingapi dependency with new section<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4251" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4251</a></li><li>Layout overview page demo feedback <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4250" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4250</a></li><li>Add tests to validate analytics events data<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4224" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4224</a></li><li>Product board integration for ideation events<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4222" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4222</a></li><li>Add the groups addon to psalm<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4204" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4204</a></li></ul><h2 data-id="bug-fixes">Bug Fixes</h2><ul><li>Fix /api/v2/dashboard/menus API output when the vfdeploy plugin is enabled & configured <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4295" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4295</a></li><li>Fix performance issues with the online plugin<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4293" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4293</a></li><li>Remove extra semicolons from invitations page<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4280" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4280</a></li><li>Fix category picker for drafts<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/4249" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#4249</a></li></ul><p><br></p> </article> </main>