This is a minor, but important update for Affino. We have added some nice features for further customising advanced events in Affino, which means you can now leverage advanced events into creating whole event microsites with the minimum of effort.

There are also fixes for issues reported by our clients and through the monitoring of our error logs since the 9.0.6 major release, including fixing some extra padding that can be seen on some design elements. If you do see padding issues, and they are not there from your custom CSS (which does come up quite a bit) then please reach out to the Affino team.

Upgrade Guidance

It is important to liaise with the support team to schedule an update window where they can be on hand to support the update. Another big quality of life improvement is adding the date to all exports, meaning that you can now more easily track your exports.

It is essential that you run through the complete update process starting with the Affino Updater, followed by the sequence of the system and design updates laid out on the Control > Update screen.

Key Features

Advanced Events

In this release we have made a number of updates to events (Advanced Events) that make them more customizable and in particular if you want to build event microsites on top of them. 

This means you can now do things like hide the event navigation, since you will have your microsite navigation; slim down the header on the sub pages or hide it entirely; and add more header information both on the main panel and for speakers and sponsors.

This is a great step forward because now you can really leverage the simplicity and productivity of working with advanced events for standalone event sites.

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

Fixes are elements which didn’t work as well as they should, and have now been made to work better. Minor enhancements provide subtle improvements that most people won’t notice (some will love), but which nonetheless improve on the overall Affino experience.

We also pro-actively monitor and fix low-level errors that occur in the background to ensure it doesn’t affect your workflows and to maintain stability in our platform. On the display-side, we continuously update the CSS and Javascript to support the latest changes on all major web browsers.

Ad Campaigns - fixed an error occurring when clicking Load More.

AI Report - updated the filter to maintain its state when redirecting back to the listing screen.

Analysis - fixed an issue with the dates on a number of analysis graphs displaying incorrectly.

Article Steps - added a Live setting on Steps

Cookie Bar - fixed an issue with the cookie bar when reloading pages.

Client Campaigns - fixed an issue with clients not able to download the exported data.

Directory Articles - updated the editing logic that prevented customers from editing their directory.

Embargo Dates - updated Outgoing Feeds, Message generation, Content Subscriptions and My Interest alerts to support the embargo dates on articles.

Events - fixed a filtering issue when loading more events

Exports - updated the file name of all export spreadsheets to include the date and time.

Forums - fixed an error on the forum listing.

Logins - fixed an issue with simultaneous logins logged incorrectly.

Logout - fixed an issue for users not able to log out on the Safari browser.

Message Campaigns / Messages - added Message Type column for all listings.

Subscription - fixed an issue where customers cancelling their future subscription from My Account would lose access for the current subscription.

Site Search - updated the search query to accommodate the reserved word “Script”.

Removed

No components, filters or columns have been removed in this release.

Integration Updates

There are no integration updates in this release.

Component Changes

There are no changes to the components in this release.

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