[INVISION COMMUNITY INSIDER] 5.0.17 is now available!

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Invision Community 5.0.17 SPRINGS into life

This is our monthly updates and improvements release. You can see the full changelog here.

Along with the usual fixes, we've got new features in this update:

Pages

Workflow Manager

(Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise)

This is an exciting one!. Workflow Manager is designed to streamline and automate repetitive actions. This range of Pages updates are designed to save time and reduce repetitive tasks.

Each database has a "Workflows" menu item in the AdminCP. Each created workflow is displayed as a single button. You can define the properties of the button, and you use "Match Criteria" to determine when the button should show, and "Actions" to determine what it does when clicked.

For this series of screenshots, I have two workflows set up, one to approve and one to reject the article. The status field itself is configured so it cannot be changed outside of a workflow.

Available Match Criteria

• Item Status - pinned/featured/hidden/etc.

• Custom Field value (uses OR logic, not AND)

(match criteria is the same for both workflow actions)

Available Actions

• Assign an item

• Post a comment

• Change the item status - pinned/featured/hidden/etc.

• Notify the item author

• Notify specific members

• Change the value of a Custom Field

This configuration gives us two new buttons on the article.

Let's click approve this and send a message to the author.

There's a huge number of Workflows that could be implemented. Let us know what flows you're thinking about automating.

Reusable Template Blocks

This new block type allows you to define a set of input fields and a template to reuse multiple times.

Create your new block with the template structure of your choice.

On the front-end, you can add the new block to the page using the Page Editor. Fill in your fields for this block location and hit save!

You can use the same block as many times as you wish on the same page. This screenshot shows two blocks using the same pre-defined template.

Field Templates

Custom display formats for fields can now be saved as a template. This allows multiple fields to share the same display formatting without copying and pasting the setting on each field.

This also has the advantage of being able to update templates using the Pages template manager.

Status Field

A minor, but time-saving, new feature is the status field. Out of the box, it allows you to specify the statuses and an associated color which are automatically displayed on the record without any further configuration.

Status fields are integrated with the new Workflow Manager, allowing these fields to be automated.

Other smaller, but notable changes:

• We added a new setting to allow archived topics to instruct search engines not to index them (they're also removed from the sitemap).

• Continued modernization by removing reliance on 2 more JavaScript libraries.

• Further improved accessibility on the registration form (password strength is now announced by screen readers).

Focused Beta Testing

We'd love it if you could pay some extra attention to these areas during the beta process.

Removed underscore.js usage in favour of native JavaScript equivalents

• Underscore was used extensively in our code, leading to widespread adjustments to remove reliance. Please let us know if you see any JavaScript errors.

Preparing for jQuery 4.0

• We have made many changes to remove reliance on deprecated jQuery functionality to prepare for jQuery 4.0. Please let us know if you see any JavaScript errors.

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