Affino 5.5.10 Release

This is another essential upgrade for all Affino users. This release sees the introduction of a new Slide Show Design Element, the final roll out of the new Video and MP3 players and a great deal of bug fixes and refinements especially with the ecommerce elements.

The focus for the team continues to be on improving the user experience and smoothing out the experience on all aspects of Affino and there are a lot of nice touches in this latest release.

Upgrade Guidance

This is a seamless update from 5.5.9. When upgrading from earlier releases please check the release notes on the previous releases.

It is essential to re-generate Skins with this release as numerous optimisations have taken place in terms of the generated code. It is also recommended that you run the System Update option, followed by, Re-Initialise Site,

Design Element Update and Skin Update.

Key Enhancements

Arabic (Beta) – new Beta version of Arabic in Affino

CDN – added new option to cache CSS and JS files through the content delivery network, further decreasing the load on the server

Features Panel Presentation v1 – new Standard content template for presenting information in a simple tabbed highlight panel.

New Content Filter – all content can now be browsed more effectively on the Control side with the introduction of a new Zone / Channel / Section filter for content

Related Users – it is now possible to relate users (user profiles) to all content in Affino

Slide Show Design Element v1 – great new Design Element which allows you to create slideshows from any media library. It is slick and smooth and offers a great new way of presenting content.

Other Enhancements

Affiliate eCommerce Tracking – added new option to change the lifetime of the tracking cookie

Application Bar – new logout option, a little change, but saves time every day

Blogs – refined display of blog highlights; added options for managing blog buttons which were previously absent

Detailed Standard Section – new options for displaying content including author images, main images and author details

eCommerce – new URL change on single-page checkout to improve conversion tracking in Google Analytics; we now strip out all special characters from post codes to improve validation; if only one delivery method is available then it is now auto-selected; on the single-page checkout names and email addresses are auto-populated to the main address element (removing the need to re-enter the details)

Forms – all display-side form fields have the same width now, small change but greatly improved usability and simplicity on forms

Forums – new options for post and thread icons as well as fully populated defaults when creating a new forum profile

Newsletters – added new profile options to manage the newsletter subscription messages

Registration – new options for managing the pending approval notifications

Smart Item – new options which allow for more flexibility for the content display, e.g. just show the image and turn off titles

Text Design Element – improved the presentation of the ‘live edit’ function, no longer breaks page layouts

Text Design Element – it’s now possible to hide the guest display

Fixes

Alt Text – special characters now displaying correctly for all languages

Application Bar – now displays media items consistently

Community Tools Design Element – custom links fixed

Contacts – contact ecards no longer error out

Coupon Import – added minimum purchase and maximum value fields to the coupon import

Dashboard – fixed newsletter subscription widget

Design Centre – preview images now generating and being shown reliably for design objects; design object previews now display reliably and much faster; fixed video preview issue, now stops playing when the screen is no longer active; design objects now saving reliably

Design Style – back button now appears on the key templates

Detailed Media Section – title and teaser character limits fixed; layout issues fixed; new option for displaying divider in listing; date now displaying when selected

eCommerce – single page checkout has multiple fixes for different browsers and differing configurations including: delivery is now always checked irrespective of the combination of billing, invoicing and shipping addresses; Country and Region drop-down issues resolved; cart locking issues resolved which in turn fix coupon pricing issues; fixed issue which caused payments not to be flagged correctly; added screen name validation to the new user registration on the single-page checkout; users can now see the coupon help consistently; fixed Euro symbol issue with numerous browsers; coupon discounts now automatically update the total value when applied; single-page checkout registration issues resolved; single-page checkout fix for legacy address details displaying on sign-up; store profile saving errors now all resolved; fixed ‘add to basket’ from the media library; shopping basket now enforces the design style applied

eTests – fixed issue with eTests now only marks multiple correct answer questions as correct if all the correct answers are selected

Feature Scroller – fixed transition effects with latest Flash release

Forums – forum subscription issues fixed

Google Sitemap – sitemap generation issue now fixed (again)

Groups – related content now displays reliably; groups now list correctly in the application bar; no longer error out when no media library has been assigned to the public profile

Images – fixed issue which prevented the uploading of Zip files containing images to the design image folders

Live Editor – Affino no longer loses the thumbnail when making article copies and changing sections; improved formatting so all text can be read irrespective of the page design

Main Multimedia – now displays reliably for all content

Media Editor – fixed issue where the wrong items were being listed in sections; copy asset now creates a new asset, no longer re-sizes or amends or makes it downloadable; all issues resolved

Media Library – removed 30 character limitation in media item names; improved the bulk uploading performance; image assets no longer made automatically downloadable; now automatically searches for and re-generates missing media library thumbnails; control media library search now works without media being enabled on the site search; columns now displaying properly

Member Profile – fixed issue with date of birth field in the profile view; links in the link listing now link through to the actual link location (rather than the Affino page)

MP3 Player – ‘send email’ option now works; ‘Add to Favourites’ now works reliably and invites you to login or shows you a friendly message if you are logged in to let you know that the items has been added; code is automatically highlighted when clicked on; now can play the same song more than once; bookmarking has new StumbleUppon and Twitter options

Music Listing – no longer auto-plays

Newsletters – fixed issue with geo-blocking; improved descriptions and fixed issues with the newsletter signup screen; newsletter unsubscribe issues fixed

Registration – fixed automated user approval issues

Search – optimised the search indexing; fixed search design element so that the search box no longer expands excessively in Safari; search button now displays on IE8

Security – closed a number of security loop-holes in Affino

Security Groups – no longer display comments

Showcase Design Element – now renders apostrophes and other special characters correctly

Site Analysis – fixed drill-down error

Sitemaps – now displaying reliably the number of columns selected (again)

Smart Item – multiple fixes including: no longer breaks with ecommerce items; no longer creates multiple copies of content when organising the layout; no longer generates multiple spacers; improved formatting; new ‘hover’ buttons don’t disrupt the page layout

Super Navigator – resolved errors with Flash and with viewing ‘hidden’ management screens

Syndication – resolved syndication performance issues

Taxonomy Manager – resolved issue in Chrome where the user became stuck on the manual key word approval screen

User Export – no longer limits the number of users exported

Video Player - ‘send email’ option now works; ‘Add to Favourites’ now works reliably and invites you to login or shows you a friendly message if you are logged in to let you know that the items has been added; code is automatically highlighted when clicked on; all default modes now work reliably in the standalone video player design element; improved presentation; no longer display ecommerce video modes when there is no store present on the zone; playlist full-screen view fixed; multiple fixes and enhancements for the video wall; bookmarking has new StumbleUppon and Twitter options

VOD Barker – fixed play-all button; fixed broken frame issue on Firefox; content now expands to fit frame again; fixed repeated error issue