• Member Experience
• Spell-check support for Search
• Message Editor anchor tags
• Invite people to groups using email addresses
• Administrator Experience
• Consolidation of Health and Engagement metrics into a single dashboard
• Filtering the Analytics Dashboard
• Turn off specific message editor emojis
• Configure button padding in Theme Editor
• Read-only mode for community places
• SEO optimization: Avoid duplicate title and description meta tags
• Flood controls
• Hide nodes and content from lists, menus, and search
• Developer Experience
• Fixes to core community product

Member Experience

Spell-check support for Search

Aurora Search now performs automatic spell checking from the Search results page. The search engine now performs real-time spell checking and returns results for the most probable, intended spelling. In addition, it provides a link to perform the search on the original search entry.

For example, searching for “mther” on this community returns the results for “mother” with the occurrence of the matching word highlighted in the results.

To perform a search for the text actually entered in the search field, you can click the “Search instead for” option:

Message Editor anchor tags

We have added the ability to create anchor tags in the message editor. Anchor tags are useful to create links to jump to a specific place in a piece of content. 

To create an anchor tag:

1. Open a piece of content to edit.
2. Place the cursor where you want the anchor tag to be. (This will be the destination of any link to this anchor point.)
3. Click Insert/Edit Anchor.
   
4. Enter the name for this anchor and click Insert Anchor.
   
   

    

The anchor location is indicator in the editing view.

To create an anchor link that goes to this location:

1. Highlight the text you want to be a link to that anchor location and click Insert Link.
            
2. Open the Anchors menu and select the anchor you want to link to.
   
   

    

3. Click Insert Link.

When the linked text is clicked in the published content, the reader will be taken to that location in the content.

Invite people to groups using email addresses

In addition to inviting people to join a group using their username, you can now invite people using their email address. Enter the email address in To field just like you do with usernames.

Learn more about inviting people to join a group.

Administrator Experience

Consolidation of Health and Engagement metrics into a single dashboard

We have combined the Health and Engagement Dashboards into a single Community Dashboard. All the health and engagement metrics that were available in the individual dashboards are available in this new, consolidated dashboard.

To view the revised dashboard:

1. Open the Account menu and click Analytics.
2. Click Dashboard.

In addition to the consolidated dashboard, we have added Preset Views for dashboards that display details for specific content types: Forums, Blogs, and Knowledge Bases.

To view one of the dashboard preset views:

1. Open the Account menu and click Analytics.
2. Click Dashboard.
3. Open the Dashboard menu and click one of the Preset Views.
   
   

    

Dashboard filtered for Forum Details

Filtering the Analytics Dashboard

To gain more granular insights from your dashboard, you can now filter the dashboard by:

• New topics
• Role
• User name

To filter your dashboard:

1. Open the Account menu and click Analytics.
2. On the dashboard page, click + Filter.
   
      
   
   
3. Select a filter.
   
   
   
4. Enter relevant values for the filter.
   
       
5. Click Add.

The dashboard displays data for the selected filter.

Learn more about filtering your dashboard.

Turn off specific message editor emojis

In addition to turning on or off emoji character sets, you can now turn off individual emoji characters so they cannot be used on site content. 

Learn more about turning off individual emojis across your site.

Configure button padding in Theme Editor

When configuring the shape and sizing for community buttons, you can now set the Side Padding for the different button sizes, as follows:

• Standard Button: 8px-30px (default 12px) 
• Large Button: 12px-40px (default 16px)
• Hero Button: 12px-80px (default 60px)

To set button padding, go to Designer > Theme > Button and Text Links.

Learn more about configuring community buttons and text links.

Read-only mode for community places

From time to time, you might need to lock down areas of your community for standard maintenance or updates. Or, you might want to temporarily restrict people from creating new content in specific categories, boards, or the entire community.

By putting community places into read-only mode, you can enable members to still view community content for reference but restrict them on making any changes to this content.

Note: Read-only mode does not apply to admins and moderators; they can perform their respective actions as normal.

To enable read-only mode for the entire community:

1. Open the Account menu and go to Settings > Content Features.
2. In the Below General section, toggle on the Read-only mode option.
   

To enable read-only mode for a specific category or board:

1. Open the Account menu and go to Settings > Community Structure.
2. In Community Structure, click the category or board where you want to enable read-only mode.
3. Below Content Features, toggle on the Read-only mode option.
   

Learn more about using read-only mode.

SEO optimization: Avoid duplicate title and description meta tags 

Often, the first impression you make with people trying to find your community content is how that content appears in web search results. Clear titles and descriptions are important factors in attracting more visitors to your site. Effective SEO titles and descriptions help your content achieve higher rankings in search engines.

Khoros Communities offers out-of-the-box SEO metadata for your forum discussions, blog posts, and knowledge base articles to attract more readers to your site.

By default, Khoros communities sets the SEO title and description for a post based on the title and a snippet of its content. The SEO title and description added to your content appears in web search results as shown below:

In some cases, a community might contain multiple pages with the same meta titles or descriptions. These duplications can that confuse search engines and make it harder for them about which pages to prioritize the right content and reduce the search results results. 

To ensure that the make the metadata for your titles and descriptions are unique, Khoros Aurora now enables you to append the topic ID of the individual posts to the your title and description metatags. 

To append the topic ID to title and description metatags:

1. Sign in to the community as an Admin.
2. Go to Settings > System > SEO.
3. Toggle on Append topic ID to title and description meta tags.

Learn more about using this setting.

Flood controls

You can control how often people are allowed to post, upload images, videos, and attachments, tag content, send private messages, and other community actions before triggering flood controls.  Flood controls are in place to help combat potential spam.

The following table lists the default flood rate settings for various actions performed by the member within a specified period of time.

Actions	Flood Controls
Post content	A member can't post more than: 1 post in 30 seconds 5 posts in 10 minutes 20 posts in an hour
Send Private Messages	A member can't send more than: 2 private messages in 30 seconds 10 private messages in 10 minutes 30 private messages in an hour
Upload Images	A member can't upload more than: 100 images at a time 1000 images per day 1000 images in the community
Upload Videos	A member can’t upload more than 50 videos in the community.
Upload Attachments	Members can’t upload more than 100 attachments per post.
Like content	A member can't give more than: 50 likes per minute 500 likes per hour 5000 likes per day
Tag content	A member can’t add more than: 20 tags per minute 500 tags per hour 5000 tags per day
Mention people	A member can’t mention more than 10 members in a single post.

 

To configure these flood controls, contact the Support team. (The ability to modify these settings yourself will be available in a future release.) Learn more about flood controls.

Hide nodes and content from lists, menus, and search

In the community, you can now hide any node (board or category) or posts related to a board (Forum, Blog, and Knowledge Base) from appearing in lists, menus, and search. Doing so hides the nodes and content from appearing in your community structure, however still keeps them available in case you want to provide a link to the content so a member could access it. To prevent search results from boards being directly accessible, you’d need to make the board private.

To hide a place, you can modify the Hide setting for that place in the place's Display Settings.

For instructions on how to hide specific community places, check out Hide nodes and posts form lists, menus, and search.

Developer Experience

To help our developer community hit the ground running Aurora's GraphQL API, we’re rolled out new tutorial content in the Aurora section of the Developer Doc Portal. These new tutorials include:

• Creating a forum
• Working with tags

Fixes to core community product

To keep up to date on other fixes made to the core community product, check out the bug fix section of this month's Community Classic Release Notes.