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    Posted by Matt Rosen, Feb 08, 2010
    New Features & Enhancements

    Ability to Change Web Addresses/Urls - Administrators now have the ability to change the web address/url of pages or groups within your community as well as the web address/url of the community itself. To change the web address/url of a page, click on manage community or manage group, and then click on the page you want to change in the list on the left. You will see the option to change the web address/url of the page along with the other settings in the center column. You can change the web address/url of the entire community, or of a group within the community by clicking on Community/Group Info & Settings within the manage community or manage group area. Please note that you can only change the web address/url of your community if it is still using the orbius.com domain name. If you want to map your own private domain name to your community you will still need to contact support@orbius.com to do so.

    Ability to Copy and Replace Pages - If you click on an existing content page application from within the manage community or manage group area, you will now see an option to copy that page. That will allow you to copy the entire contents of the selected page either to a new page, or over another existing page. This will allow administrators to make changes to a copy of a live page, instead of directly to the live page itself, and then replace the copy page back over the live page when they are done with their changes.
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    Posted by Matt Rosen, Jan 18, 2010
    New Features & Enhancements

    Updated & Reorganized Community and Group Administration Areas - The administration area for communities and groups has been updated and reorganized. The application and menu item tree will now always be available on the left column since that is the most often used administration page. If you click on an application in the tree on the left you can edit its settings and update its permissions.

    The manage members page has also been updated to have the same functionality as the member directory listing page. You can now search for members by name or by member profile information, you can sort the list of members, and you can export the list of members to excel. This has replaced the old member reports page which was having problems generating reports for larger communities.

    A group administration area has also been added which will provide a similar interface for managing groups as there is for managing communities.

    Updated the File Manager Button - The file manager button that was introduced in the last release in the text editor has been updated to fix a number of issues that have arisen. Administrators can now upload files directly to the text block, as well as to ContentSpace. Files uploaded directly to the text block will be deleted when the text block is deleted, so it should be used for files that are only used in that text block and nowhere else on the site. Non-administrator members will only have the ability to upload files to the text block, and not to ContentSpace since they do not have access to it. There is also the ability to manage the files that have been uploaded to the text block so that files that are no longer used can be deleted.



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    Posted by Matt Rosen, Jan 11, 2010
    New Features & Enhancements

    1. Updated Email Notification Preferences - On the 'My Account Settings' page you will notice that there is now a link to the new email notification preferences page. This page now allows you to subscribe or unsubscribe to each application within the community (or group) separately. This will give users much greater flexibility to choose exactly when they receive an e-mail notification about new content being posted to the community, and reduce email noise. In addition to the notification settings page, there is now a checkbox on comment walls, and discussion forum topics which allows each user to choose whether or not they want to receive an email notification when someone posts a comment or replies to the topic.

      From the administrative side, site administrators can choose which applications will send out email notifications about new content in the 'Applications & Menu Items' page in the 'Manage Community' area. Also, email notifications will no longer be sent to community members when content is edited, only when it is initially published.

    2. Text Block File Manager - A new button has been added to the text editor that can be found within the text block widget and anywhere else that the full text editor appears. The new button looks like the following: and it allows you to add a link in the text block to a file that has been uploaded to the ContentSpace area. It also allows you to upload new files to ContentSpace and organize them into folders. This will replace the old 'Attachments' feature on the text block and it gives the user the ability to modify the file link text and place it wherever they want within the editor.
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    Posted by Matt Rosen, Dec 09, 2009
    New Features & Enhancements

    Directory Application - A new directory application has been added to the platform. The directory application allows you to create a searchable directory of any type of listings. It could be a directory of products, places, or people for example. The directory application allows you to define what the listings are called, and what information is captured for each listing so you can customize it completely to your needs.

    Member Directory Application - The existing members page has been combined with the new directory application to make a more robust member directory application. In addition to showing a searchable listing of all of the community members, community administrators can now also add new members to the list who have not joined the community. This will allow organizations to keep a directory of all of their members even if not all of the members have registered on the online community.

    AddThis.com Content Sharing Support - We have added support for the AddThis.com content sharing/bookmarking service within the Orbius platform. You will now see a "+ Share" button next to most publicly visible content within your Orbius site. This allows users to share or bookmark that content on hundreds of sites around the internet. Doing so will increase the search engine ranking of that content, and your website. If you would like to track the usage of the AddThis buttons on your website, you can sign up for an account on AddThis.com and enter your account name in your Orbius community in the 'Third Party Tools & Services' section within the 'Manage Community' area. You can also turn off the AddThis.com buttons if you do not want them in your site.

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    Posted by Matt Rosen, Oct 22, 2009
    This release contains a number of bug fixes and small system enhancements, and also includes the release of the new video gallery application.

    The video gallery application allows community members to share videos hosted on a variety of third party video hosting sites such as YouTube, Google Video, and Yahoo Video among others. If there are any sites that you want to see added to the list of supported video hosting sites in the video gallery application, please let us know and we will work to support them. You can add a video gallery to your community using the 'Add An Application' link under the 'Manage Community' drop down list.

    Published 22 October 2009 - 0 comments    Bookmark and Share
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