Vanilla Release Notes

Release 2022.008

Schedule

Release 2022.008 will be deployed:

To staging sites: Tuesday, April 19th
To production sites: Monday, April 25th
To Enterprise client sites: Monday, May 2nd

Analytics Tracking for Search

We have added a new data source for search terms. This allows you to create charts to see how many times the search has been used within a given time period, what terms are being searched most often within your community, which user roles may be using search most often, etc.

See the example below to get started.

We will be adding a new Search Dashboard very soon to show you how you can leverage your search analytics even further.

Snap Kit Log In

We have added a new SSO plugin that allows users to sign into your site using their Snap Chat account. Reach out to your CSM or Support if you would like to have this enabled.

Manage User Sessions via API

We have made changes to how we manage user sessions and these can now be managed via API by querying our database. This will allow Admins to clear user session(s) to log a user out of the community using our API.

These API endpoints will allow you to GET all valid sessions, GET a user's sessions and DELETE a session.

*This is also available on our Hub/Node multi-site setups.

Zapier Triggers

We will be adding 4 new Zapier triggers with our 2022.008 release. These will show on the Zapier page after Monday May 2nd.

Event RSVP

Setup a Zapier trigger to notify an external tool when a user RSVPs to an event. You will be able to specify whether you would like this to trigger on all RSVP responses or just to a single response type, ie Going.

Article Added, Article Updated. Article Deleted

Setup a Zapier trigger to notify an external tool when an article has been added, updated and/or deleted. We will have individual triggers available for each of these.

https://zapier.com/apps/vanilla/integrations

Improvements

Layout Editor bugs- vanilla-cloud#4540
Adding JSON-LD metadata values to article widget data- vanilla-cloud#4534
Use formatUrl for subcommunity api calls.- vanilla-cloud#4531
Update the zap templates that display on our Zapier settings page- vanilla-cloud#4529
Events Widget preview- vanilla-cloud#4528
Articles Widget Preview- vanilla-cloud#4527
Add validation/error to Zendesk URL input- vanilla-cloud#4525
Optimize LegacyIPs update query - vanilla-cloud#4522
Add edit widget functionality - vanilla-cloud#4519
Added function to remove user PII from post via API- vanilla-cloud#4518
Add Layout Editor Leaderboard Widget Preview - vanilla-cloud#4511
Add layout editor preview for the discussions widget - vanilla-cloud#4510
Add search data stream and filters to analytics catalogue- vanilla-cloud#4509
Improve search page behaviour when changing search sources- vanilla-cloud#4508
Snap Chat: Add an add-on to allow admins to use Snap Kit Log in to SSO into the forum.- vanilla-cloud#4507
Add widget configuration/settings modal - vanilla-cloud#4501
Add user sessions APIv2 endpoints - vanilla-cloud#4499
Add TwoColumnSection support for secondary column on the left - vanilla-cloud#4483
Analytics tracking for search sources- vanilla-cloud#4492
Truncate tab labels in tabbed search results- vanilla-cloud#4498
Change action name for when status of article is changed- vanilla-cloud#4496
Add "subcommunity" as a valid recordType for Layouts - vanilla-cloud#4482
Split Idea status updates into its own Webhook event- vanilla-cloud#4470

Bug Fixes

Fix dashboard build process- vanilla-cloud#4535
Fix widget settings modal footer height- vanilla-cloud#4530
Fix TwoColumnSection display secondaryColumn in LayoutOverview - vanilla-cloud#4521
Updating grammar in QnA settings modal- vanilla-cloud#4517
Fix keen backfiller not working due to incorrect timestamp type - vanilla-cloud#4513
Fix access to federated search settings from subcommunities- vanilla-cloud#4512