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Khoros Communities 21.4 Release Notes

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AshaC
Khoros Staff
4 years ago

Community 21.4 delivers a new framework that provides downloadable logs to help developers debug and troubleshoot during development or customisation, download ICS files for upcoming events, and enhancements to some of the Community features and APIs.

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New Features 
APIs
Bug Fixes

New Features

Internet Calendar Scheduling (ICS) file support for Events

With the option to download events as ICS files, you can now download and add community events with a calendar of your choice. This file download includes upcoming events only. 

Note: To use this feature you must upgrade Events to version 1.1. Go to Admin > Studio > Events and select Events 1.1 version.

You now have the option to download ICS files

  • for an event

 

  • for all the upcoming events in an Events node from the Options menu:

  • from the email notifications you receive for updates to events you are subscribed to:

Learn more about Events

New permission to hide or unhide videos in video gallery

We've introduced the Hide or unhide own videos permission to hide or unhide videos in your video gallery from other members as and when you upload them. You can find this permission under Admin > Users > Videos.

Members with this permission can hide or unhide the video in their video gallery from other members while uploading a video directly to their video gallery or a post as shown below.

If the Hide in video gallery option is selected, other members can view the video only in the posts it is inserted in and cannot view it in the video gallery. However, Admins, moderators and members with the "Approve Reject, or Recall videos" permission can view all videos, both hidden and public, in the video gallery. 

If this option is not selected, all members can view the video from that member's video gallery.  

The option to Hide in video gallery is not available to members who do not have the Hide or unhide own videos permission. By default, the videos are hidden.

Note:

  • All members can view videos that are public. 
  • If you want to hide all the existing videos in your community from the video gallery, contact the support team. Please note that this request marks all the existing videos as hidden. Once all videos are hidden, we cannot roll back to the previous state. For example, if 20 videos were public and 30 hidden, and we hide all videos, we cannot roll back to the state with 20 public and 30 hidden videos. You can manually make the required videos public.

Learn more about uploading videos

Sorted list of Badge Images 

We have made changes to the order in which the list of filenames for the badge images listed under the Admin>Users>Badges>Create>Badge Image appears. They now appear in alphabetical order, with numbers and special characters taking precedence. 

Feature Logs

With this release, we introduce the Feature Logs framework that can be used to generate feature specific logs in components and endpoints to help developers and administrators monitor and debug during Community customisation.

Create a ticket with Khoros Support to enable Feature Logging in your community. After Support has enabled the feature, you can generate feature logs in the Community in Community Admin. Logs are accessible through Toolbox. 

Learn more about Feature Logging in the Developer Documentation Portal. 

API Changes

We've added two new methods to the utils FreeMarker context object to support our Feature Logs

You Found It. We Fixed It.

  • We've fixed the issue where members other than Admins and moderators could edit the SEO fields while editing posts.
    To achieve this, you must:
    1. Turn off the Allow canonical URL for Idea posts to be overridden settings (under Community Admin > Discussion Styles >Ideas) to restrict members other than Admins and Moderators from editing SEO fields. 
    2. By default, set the Manage ideas and comments permission (under Community Admin > Users >Ideas) to Deny for all users other than Admins and Moderators. This restricts edits to the SEO fields for other members.
  • We have fixed the issue where the date and time of blogs display the revised date. Now, when you edit and publish a blog, the post time doesn't change.
  • We've fixed the issue where there was no option to order TKBs within GroupHubs manually. Manual ordering for TKB articles is now available at the TKB sub-node level for GroupHubs.
  • We have fixed the issue where there were discrepancies in the total number of community users returned by API v2.
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  • RahulHa's avatar
    RahulHa
    Khoros Alumni (Retired)
    4 years ago

    phoneboy  Thanks for the note.

    Yes, agree, we are planning additional changes in the medium term to move in that direction. The immediate enhancements being rolled out in 21.4 is a step towards controlling visibility of videos outside of the message it is part of.  A new permission 'Hide/Unhide Own Videos', if denied, all videos uploaded by the users will be hidden outside of the content it was originally part of. 

  • phoneboy's avatar
    phoneboy
    Director
    4 years ago

    Videos should actually be following the permissions of the space they are uploaded to and not generally available in a global video gallery.
    The change as part of this release does nothing to address that.
    Thankfully, I "fixed" this issue in my own community by developing a simple custom component that basically hides the global video gallery unless you have a specific role. 

  • jeffshurtliff's avatar
    jeffshurtliff
    Boss
    4 years ago

    CarolineS - I discovered the same issue you mentioned about not being able to navigate around the hierarchy with the category navigator in Community Admin, which also affects the page/quilt navigator in Studio.

    I was able to resolve that issue by creating the last_chance_html component and adding the code below to it.

    <#if http.request.url?contains('bizapps')>
  <style type="text/css">
    /* Fix the broken tree toggles in 21.4 modals */
    #lia-body.BizAppsPage .lia-content .lia-list-tree .lia-list-tree-closed>.lia-list-tree-toggle {
      background: transparent url(/skins/images/7E2C175B63339F08141C0CC0BB242AC5/base/images/icon_toggle_closed_list_tree.png) no-repeat top left;
    }
    #lia-body.BizAppsPage .lia-content .lia-list-tree .lia-list-tree-opened>.lia-list-tree-toggle {
      background: transparent url(/skins/images/7E2C175B63339F08141C0CC0BB242AC5/base/images/icon_toggle_open_list_tree.png) no-repeat top left;
    }
  </style>
</#if>

    Hope this helps!

  • jeffshurtliff's avatar
    jeffshurtliff
    Boss
    4 years ago

    The new Feature Logs functionality (and associated FreeMarker additions) sounds amazing!! Can’t wait for this to be rolled out!

  • phoneboy's avatar
    phoneboy
    Director
    4 years ago

    That's good to hear RahulHa.
    Sounds like even this change and a support ticket to hide all videos will probably resolve the major issue I had with the open video gallery. 

  • CarolineS's avatar
    CarolineS
    Boss
    4 years ago

    allensmith81 - where do you go to see the drop in member count?

    I have noticed two weird 21.4 bugs on our production site so far. At least, I believe they are 21.4 bugs because they showed up after our upgrade.

    • Solution leaderboards show crazy high counts
    • In admin, can't navigate around the hierachy w/ the category navigator

    Unfortunately these were not things I noticed in our testing on staging.

  • KrisS's avatar
    KrisS
    Khoros Alumni (Retired)
    4 years ago

    Drew_C correct. The solutions issue is documented and we're aggressively pushing on our engineering and product folks to net a solution as quickly as possible.

  • RahulHa's avatar
    RahulHa
    Khoros Alumni (Retired)
    4 years ago

    Thanks KrisS.

    We are picking this up on priority. Sorry for the inconvenience being caused. Will circle back as soon as we have a fix and will plan for an expedited rollout of the fix. 

  • jamiemccardle's avatar
    jamiemccardle
    Executive
    4 years ago

    I noticed it as well.  I can click the white space where the arrows should be and it works for me for what I needed so far. I reported it to Support.

     

    I also shared that a known issues knowledge base would be productive in Atlas.