This is a minor, but important update for Affino. There are some nice new features in this release, some of which have been frequently requested. The most frequently requested update is without doubt remembering how far down users had browsed on an article list, and when they finish reading an article and click to go back Affino now takes them to the right place in the listing. A nice quality of life improvement.

Client Campaigns now have an activity column on the Leads tab, this highlights what activity the user has been doing based on the conversion event activities they triggered, e.g. read article, downloaded case study etc. A minor update but with major benefits.

The Article Listing DE, Directory Articles, and Advanced Events have important usability enhancements, and the bot detection is further improved. Taken together there are 111 fixes and updates in this release following the 9.0.6 major release, including improving the styling on Directory Articles and across a number of Design Elements.

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. 

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

Article Listing / Prime Content

We have updated the load more functionality to store the position that you’re at on the listing so that you can return to the correct place when clicking the browser’s back button.

Client Campaigns

We have added a new Activity column to the Leads campaigns, showing which conversion event badges the user has acquired. This is also reflected in the export file.

Directory Articles

We have improved the logic around the Live and Save buttons for Directory Articles where there is a Workflow Profile associated. Now, if there is a Workflow Profile used we hide the Live tick box and the editor clicks Save & Publish to publish the article, with the Live tick box automatically set in the background. Where there is no Workflow Profile set, the user will need to select the Live tick box and save the article in order to make it public.

Advanced Events

Following recent improvements to the Advanced Event template hero banner, we now treat the use of video banners in the same way so that an Alternative Image can be displayed on secondary tabs.

Article Listing Design Element

We have enhanced the Design Element so there is a fallback image in place to improve the listing layout - where there is no Image Top, we use the Main Image and where there is no Main Image we use the Thumbnail Image.

Bot Detection

We continue to tweak the bot detection algorithm to better identify and filter out the bot traffic.

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.

Advanced Event - fixed some styling issues on the template.

AI Chat Popup - now defaults to being shown when a user logs in; fixed an encoding issue.

AI Profile - fixed an issue not counting any multi-displayed articles as indexed; added a Text item to display a message when users have reached their question limit.

AI Report - updated the filters to retain their settings when redirecting back to the main listing from the question detail.

Analysis Dashboard - renamed Key Statistics to Key Metrics.

Article - fixed an issue not able to save  the ‘Max. Height For Alternative Hero Banner (px)’ setting; added support for the Embargo End settings to be used on Outgoing Feeds, Content Subscriptions, My Interest Alerts and Message generation; added image dimension meta data to the Article view screen; update the click tracking engine to check for admin users and recognised bots.

Article Listing Design Element - fixed an issue listing more articles than specified in the settings. 

Badge Channel - fixed an error when creating a Badge Channel.

Carousel - fixed some styling issues with the carousel; fixed an issue with the ‘Show Arrows On Mobile’ setting.

Checkout - fixed an issue with the Maximum Lifetime Limit not being recognised with Incomplete orders.

Client Campaign > Leads - fixed an issue with the displayed data not being exportable.

Client Campaign Dashboard - fixed an issue with the date picker not working on some browsers.

Contact Listing Design Element - added support for Gateway Channel type when selecting to show more contacts; added the option to display the View More button at the top right.

Cookie Bar - fixed an issue with the browser momentarily displaying the cookie bar on refresh.

Directory Article - fixed some styling issues on lower breakpoints; fixed an issue adding a new article with a Category Topic; update the logic for creators to add/edit/delete articles.

Forums - fixed an issue not being able to delete forum threads; fixed an issue with the Show Detail checkbox.

Manually Related Design Element - fixed an issue displaying blank space on the popup selector.

Menu - fixed a link issue on Custom Labels; improved the horizontal scrolling of the Menu Design Element; fixed some styling issues.

Redirects - update the logic to accommodate a long string of special characters.

Scoped Search - fixed an issue with URL topic filtering if the Design Object is set to filter by Channel topics.

Steps - fixed an issue where Steps were being displayed despite being set as not live; fixed an issue with saving Multimedia files when editing the Step.

Team Time - fixed some styling issues; updated the Project workflow and calculations on the Account’s project tab.

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 is just one change to the components in this release.

Chart JS updated to - no change

DataTables updated to - no change

DropzoneJS updated to - no change

GrapesJS updated to - no change

GrapesJS MJML - no change

JQuery updated to - no change

JQueryUI updated to - updated JQuery UI Theme

JSoup updated to - no change

flatpickr updated to - no change

FontAwesome updated to - no change

HighCharts updated to - no change

TinyMCE updated to - no change

Video.js updated to - no change

Vue JS updated to - no change