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Distro Release 2.1 (June '18)

Open Social
Open Social Open Social • 3 July 2018

New Features & Enhancements

 

Users redirected to the group page after joining a group

When you joined a group, you used to be redirected to your own group overview page. We changed it so that you are redirected the group homepage instead. This way, you can check out the group content right away!

 

Featuring landing pages with images

Landing pages are awesome, aren’t they? They let you feature groups, users, and other landing pages. When you choose to feature a landing page (by adding a featured block), the image from the landing page hero will be chosen as the representative image.

Also, when you choose to feature a page or a book page, the featured image is now also clickable and leads to the page content item.

 

Activity stream pagers are now consistent

When you scroll through your activity stream, the method used to go to the next page was not always consistent. Sometimes it was a numbered list (full pager) and other times there was a button leading to  “older items” (mini pager). No one needs that type of inconsistency in their life. All the activity streams are now mini pagers, making it consistent.

 

Site managers can search for users using e-mail addresses

Looking for a user? We’ve just made it easier for you! When you add users to a group or select users for a private message, site managers can search for them using their email address (providing that they added it to their profile).  

 

 

 

Bug fixes

 

Page title block is fixed 

The ‘Page title’ block would be displayed when a landing page was configured for either the 403 or 404 page (these are error pages). This, however, was not meant to happen and the block no longer appears.

Comments in groups are fixed

When users comment on nodes in groups, it was previously not displayed in the activity stream. We fixed this!

The embed button in the WYSIWYG editor is fixed

The popup that should appear when clicking on the embed button wasn’t visible. The embeds in the editor were still working, and now this button works again as well!

Editing a post in a closed group is fixed

It was previously not possible to edit a post placed in a closed group due to a bug in the visibility field. Instead, an error appeared. This has been fixed.

Scheduled notification emails are sent more predictable times

We used to send notification emails at varying times (either every 24 hours or 26 hours) since they partially depended on when the associated content was created. However, a regular re-occurring time for notification emails is handier; they are now sent independently from content creation time every 24 hours or 7 days depending on your notification settings (OCD satisfied).

Sitewide JavaScript module is fixed

In some cases JavaScript code that was added sitewide was not working properly. Now any valid JavaScript code is working as intended.

Landing page spacing is fixed 

When a landing page was created using a specific order of blocks (“hero", "featured", "hero", "featured", etc.), this resulted in a missing space between the blocks. We made sure the spacing is correct!

The display of the Activity Statistic Overview block is fixed

The Activity Statistics Overview block was only meant to be usable on the right side of an activity stream. However, it was also selectable for the primary region of landing pages. This caused display issues. This has now been fixed by making this block no longer selectable in the primary block region.

Text alignment for data usage blocks corrected

There are blocks in Open Social that explain how your data is being used. The text in these blocks was aligned to the center. However, this did not look attractive, so we aligned it to the left.