10/29/21 - Software Updates

Link: https://support.brilliantdirectories.com/support/solutions/articles/12000083315-10-29-21-software-updates

We made updates to several Default Widgets this week. If you have customized any of these widgets and would like to update your customized widget, you can find the latest code in the corresponding Default Widget. Please remember that if you have a custom version of any of these widgets, our latest updates have not been pushed to your website.


  • We updated the documentation links on the Manage Add Ons page in the Admin.

  • The manage leads datatable in the Member Dashboard area is now fully compatible with text labels.

    Widget Involved:

    Bootstrap Theme - Account - Leads - New Lead System DataTables

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from saving the Member Quick Edit form on the Search Members page in the Admin when using the Safari browser in some cases.

  • We fixed an issue with the Member Quick Edit form which was preventing the system from properly encoding special characters in the "Customize Listing URL" field.

  • We updated the Send Newsletter page to add a link to the Smart Lists documentation when creating a newsletter campaign.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from displaying results in the Recent Events homepage widget when the Auto-Recurring Event Add-On its not active in some cases.

    Widget Involved:

    Bootstrap Theme - Display - Recent Events

  • We updated the logic of the Send Newsletter page in order to prevent the system from getting stuck when sending newsletters with high numbers of subscribers or a large unsubscribe list.

  • We fixed an issue which was affecting the ability the enable/disable forms in the Form Manager in the the Admin in some cases.

  • We updated the logic of the RSS Feed for Posts Add-On in order to make it compatible with RSS readers like Feedly.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from bulk-deleting the Member Chat Messages from the Admin in some cases.
  • We fixed an issue with the Manage Leads datatable in the Member Dashbaord which was showing an alert message after using the "Show Text Labels" functionality when visiting the site as an Admin.

    Bootstrap Theme - Account - Leads - New Lead System DataTables

  • The "Sub Category Groups - Member Categories" widget is now compatible with the "Display Categories With No Members" Search Setting.

    Widget Involved:

    Bootstrap Theme - Sub Category Groups - Member Categories

  • We created a new Post Type setting called "Allow Live Links In The Post Body". Enabling this setting will allow members to include links in the body of posts of that type. To use this new setting, navigate to the Admin >> My Content >> Edit Post Settings >> Edit >> Details Page Design tab.

    Widget Involved:

    Form - Froala Editor Javascript

    Post Types Involved:

    Classified
    Community Article
    Coupon
    Digital Product
    Discussion
    Event
    Job Listing
    Photo Album
    Product
    Property
    Souncloud
    Video
    Website Blog Article

  • We improved the Footer Banner Ad widget to only display the HTML inside the widget when there is banner content to display.

    Widget Involved:

    Bootstrap Theme - Banner - 970_90

  • We fixed an issue with the Tax & VAT Manager Add-On which was preventing the system from including tax on invoices in some cases.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from adding some specific counties as Service Areas from the Service Areas tab in the Member Dashboard.

    Widget Involved:

    Bootstrap Theme - Account - Select Locations

  • We fixed an issue with the "Min/Max Characters" form field validation which was triggering the validation error even when the character limit hadn't yet been reached.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from loading the SEO data on post details pages after editing the "Post URL Structure".

  • We deprecated the /photos SEO Template, which was no longer being used by default.

  • We updated the logic for "Pretty URL" search results pages in order to return the same results of using the member search results pages.  Activate the "Enable All Location Features For "Pretty URL" Search Results Pages" Advanced Setting to enable this functionality.  Please be aware that enabling this setting will require an additional Google Maps API query when these pages are loaded.

    Widget Involved:

    Search - Member - Search Query