Distro Release 1.9 (Jan '18)

New Features/ Enhancements

There are four (major) improvements in this release:

• Landing pages

A landing page function has been added. Landing pages allows site managers to create visually attractive pages by simply choosing, ordering, and configuring premade sections.

Landing pages can be used to promote a list of content created in the site, a group, event, or it can even be a static content page (like the basic page) but more visually appealing.
 

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• Public groups

Besides making a group ‘open’ or ‘closed’, users can now make a group public in order to promote it outside the community and attract new members. 

All the information in public groups can be seen by people who are not logged into the community. However they need to login in order to post or comment on content. 

• Content tagging

A site manager is able to set pre-defined tags for bookpages, basicpages, events and topics. This feature makes it easier to organise content. If enabled/configured, users can use these tags to tag content. Users can click on a tag to see a list of topics, pages and events that use the same tag.  Users can click the tags which will execute a search for this tag across the platform. Users are also able to filter upon these tags, via the search.

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• Private messaging made easier

You can now send private messages to another user directly from a user overview or from a user’s profile.  This improvement makes sending private messages much easier. 

Bug fixes

none, or too technical to mention:)

Enjoy Open Social!