Changelog - August 2021

Link: https://support.brilliantdirectories.com/support/solutions/articles/12000093715-changelog-august-2021

New Features:

  • We created a new setting called "Select Transaction Types to Track" in order to control which types of transactions are tracked by integrated affiliate software. To use this new setting navigate to the Admin >> Settings >> General Settings >> Integrations tab >> Affiliate Program Integrations section.

  • We added the ability to clone individual form fields when editing forms in the Admin.

  • We added the ability to display the total count of pending items on the Dashboard page in the Admin.


  • We created a new Advanced Setting called "Show Member Position in Member Search Results". When the setting is active, it will show the member's position on member search results pages.

  • We updated the Default Website Language setting in order to include Dutch as one of the options. 



Enhancements / Fixes:


  • We added a new set of default Smartlists to the Admin of all sites.

  • We updated the Web page Builder and SEO Templates page on the Admin in order to support code text coloring on the Advanced tab.

  • We fixed an issue which was causing the system to allow Site Admins to save a custom member profile page URL even if the same URL already exists for a Web Page in some cases.

  • We added a clickable link to the "Membership Plan Search URL" field when editing Membership Plans in the Admin.

  • We updated the logic of the Private Member Chat Add-On in order to display an error message when a member tries to send a message but does not have the "Active" status.

  • We are now validating that a "/" is not in any Member Category URL field when saving the Member Categories page in the Admin.

  • We updated the the Transaction History page in order to include a link that displays information about a coupon code that was used for the transaction when applicable. We also updated the signup and upgrade message in the Activity Tracker to identify if a member used a coupon code for a transaction.

  • We updated the Web Page Builder validation in order to prevent multiple post search results pages from being created using the same combination of Post Type and Post Type Category.

  • We fixed an issue with the Export Member logic which was preventing the system from exporting accurate member data after selecting the "Select All Fields" option in some cases.

  • We implemented a security update in order to further secure the "Invite Admin" workflow.

  • We updated the logic of the Free Trial Period Add-On in order to make it fully compatible with all available payment gateways.

  • We updated the Lead Match logic in order to change the status of leads that have already been matched to members when a Site Admin manually changes the status of a lead on the Member Leads page in the Admin.

  • We updated the layout of the Payment Gateways dropdown on the Payment Settings page in the Admin to categorize them as "On-Site" and "Off-Site" Payment Gateways.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from correctly saving the "Select What Displays in the Overview Tab" setting when editing Membership Plans in the Admin in some cases.

  • The Member Database, Web Pages & Posts, Toolbox, Recent Member Logins and Install New Updates modules on the Admin Dashboard are now compatible with Admin Role Permissions.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the Insta-Load Search Results Add-On from loading results on the Map View in some cases.

  • The "Used" data in the Usage column when viewing Coupon Codes in the Admin is now a clickable link to see all of the transactions that used the linked Coupon Code on the Transaction History page in the Admin.

  • We fixed an issue which was causing the "Upload CSV File Here" box on the Import Member page in the Admin to overflow off the page when the import file has a long filename.

  • We fixed an issue which was affecting the ability to search by Text Label title on the Text Labels page in the Admin.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from displaying videos marked as favorites in the Member Dashboard area in some cases.

  • We fixed an issue which was causing the Breadcrumb links on member profile and post search results pages to link to a category URL rather than the URL of the post type or member search results page when the names of those elements were the same.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from displaying the placeholder value for select dropdown fields powered by the Form Manager on the front-end of sites in some cases.

  • We fixed an issue which was causing the system to mark the "Listing Details" tab in the Member Dashboard as incomplete when there only content to edit is Sub Categories.

  • We fixed an issue which was affecting the ability to search members by Counties which have an apostrophe in their name.

  • We updated the Member Quick Edit form on the Search Members page in the Admin in order to hide the "Top Level Category" field in order to support customizations to the content of the profession_id field in the users_data table.

  • We fixed an issue which was affecting the ability to display "Sub Categories" on search modules when the Ad-Block Detector Add-On is active in some cases.

  • We added the "Belarusian Ruble" as a supported currency.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from displaying some special characters in the Search Description field on member search results pages and recent member homepage widgets.

  • We fixed an issue which was causing page breadcrumbs to link to the wrong URLs when displayed on member profile pages in some cases.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from displaying the Account Profile Statistics page in the Member Dashboard area when a member does not have any statistics to display in some cases.

  • We fixed an issue which was causing the Forms Inbox page to not display checkbox form fields when using the "View Full Inquiry" modal in some cases.

  • We updated the layout of the Status column data in order to support longer IP addresses (IPv6) on the Member Reviews page in the Admin.

  • We fixed an issue which was affecting the ability to show the Saved Member Images in the Member Dashboard area when visiting the site on mobile devices.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the table element in the Froala Editor from displaying correctly on mobile devices in some cases.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the table element in the Froala Editor from displaying correctly on mobile devices in some cases.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing Web Pages with an .xml extension from being recognized, causing the system to redirect to a 404 page when trying to access the page.

  • We updated the wording of the dropdown options in the "Order Results By" setting when editing a Post Type in the Admin.

  • The "Last 7" and "Last 30 Days" data in the Member Snapshot module on the Admin Dashboard are now clickable links to view the members who have joined the site in the corresponding time period.

  • We fixed an issue which was affecting the ability to use the Member Export Data Add-On causing the system to not download the member categories export file in some cases.

  • We updated the display of the "View All" button in the Recent Top and Sub Level Categories widget for mobile devices.

  • We added an icon to clear the selected data in date range input fields in Post Search Modules on the frontend of sites.

  • The "Click To View/Edit Code" buttons when editing Post Types in the Admin are now compatible with Admin Role Permissions.

  • The Events Calendar Description background color is now compatible with the Color Sets found on the Design Settings page in the Admin.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing users from using the pagination functionality when viewing  Smart List results in some cases.

  • We updated the alignment of the Keyword + Location Search module icons when viewing the homepage of a site on a mobile device.

  • We updated the help text to better explain using quotes on the "Block Spam Keywords" setting field in the General Settings >> Integration tab in the Admin.

  • We updated the display of the "Limit To Specific Membership Plans" options to better accommodate long Membership Plan names when editing a Web Page in the Admin.

  • We updated the layout of the Billing Cycles options dropdown on the Transaction History page in the Admin.

  • We updated the Predictive Keyword Search Add-On in order to make the autosuggest image circular.

  • We implemented an update in order to hide the links to the Widget Manager when editing a sidebar in the Sidebar Manager if an Admin does not have permission to view the Widget Manager page.

  • We updated the layout of the header section on the frontend of sites in order to increase the space between the Logo and the Header Top menu when viewing the site on mobile devices.

  • We updated the Form Manager to include "Validation Options" for each field when editing forms in the Admin.

  • We created a new CSS class called ".showcase" in order to highlight a specific pricing option when using the Side-by-Side Pricing Plans Add-On.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from displaying the Member Logged In module in the header when the "Hide Top Header Menu" page setting is active.

  • We updated the Digital Product Restricted Page message to add a button that links to the details page of the digital product to purchase in order to gain access to the page.

  • We deprecated the "Downgrade Membership Plan" module on the Manage Account tab in the Member Dashboard area as the workflow to downgrade and upgrade is the same. In a related change, we updated the "Upgrade" text labels text to "Change My Plan".

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the Listing - Verify Account form from sending email notifications in some cases.

  • We improved the way the system does SQL queries when loading menus on the frontend of sites to reduce queries and improve page load times.

  • We fixed an issue which was causing the system to mark the "Listing Details" tab in the Member Dashboard as incomplete when the only content to edit is Sub Categories and the Upload CV field.

  • We updated the Payment History table in the Member Dashboard area in order to show a message where there are no transactions to display.

  • We updated the recent widgets on the homepage in order to make the image element a clickable link which points to the post details page.

  • We implemented an update in order to display the text label rather than the database variable name when displaying the selected options for checkbox, select, and radio input fields powered by the Form Manager.

  • We updated the logic of the Member Reviews module to not consider "0 star" reviews when calculating the average review score for a member.

  • We fixed an issue which was causing the system to display an empty space at the bottom of the homepage of sites that are using the Homepage Clickable Maps Add-On in some cases.

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from displaying the hero section and custom content when the page is set as the "Post Search Results" page type and "Only Apply to Main Page" is selected.

  • We fixed an issue which was causing custom "visitor-lead-accepted" email templates to reference the lead's name instead of the member's name as intended.

  • We fixed an issue with the image caption feature in Froala WYSIWYG editors which was allowing users to edit image captions on the frontend of sites on Chromium web browsers.

  • In all, over 100 feature enhancements and software updates were released this month.