21.6 is a minor release. As communicated earlier, minor releases contain defect fixes and minor enhancements. Minor releases are not made available in production by default. To request an on-demand upgrade, contact Support.
Content
Changes to the community cookie banner
Bulk Download Member Data metrics to consider Events discussion style
Moving events between boards using the Move API
Enhancements
Changes to the community cookie banner
The community cookie banner now shows Accept instead of OK and includes a Reject button.
The banner is displayed on your community site for each visitor until that visitor clicks the Accept or Reject button. Clicking the Learn more link opens the webpage that describes your cookie policy but does not dismiss the banner.
Users must click Accept in the cookie banner and explicitly confirm their consent to activate the community cookies. Once accepted, the cookie banner will not appear in subsequent logins.
If users click Reject, only the Type 1 cookies (“Strictly Necessary”) are set, and all other cookies are held back. Once rejected, the cookie banner will not appear in subsequent signins.
If users do not Accept or Reject and browse the community, only the Type 1 cookies (“Strictly Necessary”) are set, and all other cookies are held back. The banner will continue to show in the subsequent signins.
The table below shows the expected combinations when cookies need to be dropped
| Cookie Banner | LithiumCookieAccepted Value | User Action | Drop Type 2/3/4 Cookies |
| Disabled | 0 | N/A | Yes |
| Enabled | 0 | No action taken | No |
| Enabled | 1 | Click "Accept" | Yes |
| Enabled | 2 | Click "Reject" | No |
Learn more on how to enable site-wide cookie notification banner.
Bulk Download Member Data metrics to consider Events discussion style
The metrics in the Bulk Download Member Data report will now consider Events discussion style along with the existing discussion styles.
Henceforth, when you request the Bulk Download Member Data report for a particular time period(for example, March 2021), the Events discussion style will also be considered for computing the metrics.
This enhancement is already available to all communities using Events and hence a support ticket is not needed.
Learn more about metrics in Bulk Download Member Data.
API Updates
Moving events between boards using the Move API
We have enhanced the existing Move API to now support the moving of events.
You may want to move an event from one Events board to another when you find it more relevant to another Events board.
With this release, using the Community v1 Move API, you can move an event along with its comments, RSVP information and invite data to another board.
After a successful move, the destination board's permissions govern the event's access.
Note: You can move only the event (which equates to a topic message). However, it is required to move the comments along with the event. Hence, always set the move_message.include_replies parameter to true.
You found it. We fixed it!
- Earlier, users without relevant HTML privileges trying to reply with invalid HTML on Forums v5 received errors, and the errors were not being removed automatically. Then resubmitting the post resulted in post-flooding warnings, and the post never got published. With this fix, users will still receive the error message when they submit a post with HTML errors, but the errors will be auto-corrected, and they can successfully submit the post.
- The issue with the events not displaying in the calendar component in the Firefox browser is now fixed.
- We have fixed the Mobile View issues for Events Calendars, where after closing a tab with the details of a particular event, all events in the Calendar disappear.
- There was a dependency on the TKB discussion style to add or remove the list of co-authors in the Blogs discussion. This prevented the list of 'Co-Authors' from being displayed in the Blogs especially in those communities which did not have the TKB discussion style. With this release, we have removed this dependency.
- The performance issue with the media page load time is fixed.
- Previously, using the "message-list" component in Forums v5 and changing the display format for posts from Linear to Threaded displayed the list of articles TKB Page with a broken layout. Also, the avatars shifted to the right. With this release, we have fixed this issue. Now when you use this component, the TKB Page displays an undistorted list of articles.
- We have fixed the issue for communities with the email metrics feature enabled, where opening the invite URL in the email for a topic throws an error. Now, clicking the URL redirects you to the topic.
- We have fixed the issue where the 'Mark all content as spam' option did not work for messages beyond the first 2000 messages authored by a user.
- We have fixed the issue where the ‘Top Kudoed Posts’ widget displayed archived content.
Accessibility fixes
- The issue with using the "tab" key on the keyboard to move focus from left to right between the options on the community page header is now resolved.
- Earlier the role attribute of the help icon “i” was read out as a link instead of a button. This issue is now resolved and will now be recognised as a button.
- The Microsoft Windows-specific issue with the state of a link selected on the Help page not being announced by a screen reader is resolved.
