04/27/2010
April 2010 Release
Posted by
Joel Varty
First, the Bugs
93 bugs were killed in the making of this release. The funeral was short and teary.
User Generated Content Module (UGC) Updates
Some of these updates, you can see, and some are under the hood. Here are a few highlights:
Item counts on listing tabs
The number of items under each tab is now displayed, and will update on demand as the tabs are clicked through, or if you perform searches in UGC.
Send Comments, Publish and Decline with Comments
You now have the ability to send comments to a user when their content has been published or declined. This notification will, by default, be sent to the website user who created the record.
You can also create custom templates for these emails in the User Generated Content Definition. So, you can have unique emails go out for French and English for example.
Moderation Improvements
There are several new moderation features, such as:
- a new Role for Moderator and Senior Moderator
- an Escalation state and action on UGC records. Escalating a record sends it back to the "Awaiting Review" list for the Senior Moderator to review
- an Illegal Words list and setting that allows you to block a list of illegal words from some or all of the UGC and user profiles in the system.
- Abuse flagging: any record can now be flagged as abuse and will be pulled from the site after a configurable number of abuses have been reported.
Field Types
- You can setup a field to be an "Email Field", designating it as a destination for an Email Address. An email field can be specified as an "Alert" field, meaning that it's value may be used to send moderation notifications to the user.
- Tweet fields: you can now designate and UGC field as a 'Tweet field'. When the UGC item is published, the text in the Tweet field will be posted to your designated Twitter account.
An Improved History Tab
The new history tab on every UGC record keeps track of each and every state change that the record may go through. Comments may be inserted into the history as well.
Import and Export from UGC Lists
You can now import and export CSV files to and from any UGC list. You will be prompted with the file format based on the content definition of the list.
Content Management System Module (CMS) Updates
The CMS updates have been more "under the hood" than normal. Lately we've worked on making content entry faster and easier rather than adding features. One of the nicer tweaks that I find useful is the ability to lock an attachment field to a specific file size, height and width. This works for attachments stored in Agility itself, or in Amazon S3.
That's all for now - we'll be back soon with more!
Joel
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