Feature Spotlight
Revamped Tracks UI [Improvement] [Tracks]: Hasta la vista Snippets. Maintainers are now able to include content from the Catalog directly in their track, including articles, videos, event types, and courses so that they can build a richer blended experience. A new Track Summary page will help bring context to the track so that their audience knows what each of their tracks is about. We're building an intuitive creation/editing experience, easy, and consistent with other content types so that maintainers are encouraged to expand their use of tracks on the platform. End-users will also have an improved experience consuming these tracks. No longer will users scroll through content. Tracks will now have a paginated UI that will focus users on the task at hand. Complete buttons will now be front and center so users can more easily confirm they have completed their tasks. Talk to your PlusPlus Customer Success Manager if you're interested in activating it or viewing a demo.
Special Attention
Removal of Additional Locations [Deprecation Warning] [Platform]: We launched Is Friendly To My Time event filter on March 23 to make it easier for the end-users to discover online events that better fit into their time-zone-aware schedule, regardless of their physical location. Similarly, we're launching in the upcoming week the same filter for Mentorship sessions. With that in place, we find little value in having the organizers and hosts manually curate the list of additional locations where their events/sessions show up in. As a result, we will be deprecating the Additional Locations feature on September 28. If you have any concerns/suggestions, please reach out to your admin or your PlusPlus Customer Success Manager.
Minor Improvements
Add ability to hide/show user testimonials: Now mentors who receive a user testimonial are able to hide it if they wish to. Please note that the sender of the testimonial will know you’ve hidden it. [Users]
Replace Access & Restriction input site-wide: The Access & Restriction section has been renamed to Access Control and the component has been updated to better reflect how each option works. [Platform]
Replace checkbox input site-wide: The checkbox component has been updated to a toggle-like component. [Platform]
Performance improvements when fetching enrollments: Pages that consume from our enrollments endpoint should now experience a speed increase. [Events]
Make past events obsolete in Degreed: Now past events won’t be pushed over to Degreed. [Integrations]
Adds Date field for the event_type_requests object in API: You can now pull date information related to event_type_requests in our GraphQL API. [API]
Bug Fixes
We fixed a bug that prevented organizers, co_organizers, and presenters who were regular users from seeing the waitlist tab on the event roster. [Events]
We fixed a bug related to automatic rules, in which the force_enroll parameter was being ignored. [Provisioning]
We fixed a bug in the Content Assignment notification in which some of the template tags weren’t working properly. [Notifications]
We fixed the event poster page. [Events]
We fixed a bug that affected the ordering of events created through the “Make multiple copies” feature. [Events]
We fixed a bug that made the total number of tracks not appear in the catalog. [Unified Catalog] [Tracks]
We fixed a bug that made the automatic check-in flow not work for "Join Online" on the event details page. [Events]
We fixed a bug that was causing a timeout in our track rosters. [Tracks]
We fixed a bug that caused notifications to be sent out when bulk enrolling users. [Events]
We fixed a bug that was causing the event capacity to change whenever someone enrolled. [Events]
Upcoming
Light-weight editing of existing surveys [New Feature] [Platform]: Admins will be able to perform a few light-weight editions to existing surveys. Within the range of available edition options are: title; description; questions; requirement status; addition and deletion of single/multiple-choice options; and reordering of both questions and single/multiple-choice options.