Beta: Monday 30th October, 2023
We are really, really close to the first implementations to go live on the new hosting environment! Next to all the work that that requires, we have an exciting new step for the mailings and offer a sneak peak to the next version of the Dashboard.
Mailings now fully ‘responsive’
Whilst we are designing and implementing the new Mailings for many users, we also continue to work on the template technology itself. By very popular demand, the 2-column parts in mailings now switch to single column for smaller screens!
Also many other additional improvements were made, like better use of white space, new social icons in the footer and the new option of a brief line of text above the header using the ‘Preamble’ field. Place any text in that preamble, or create a ‘view this mail online’-link to direct visitors to the online version of the newsletter when it’s not correctly displayed in the mail browser. Use '[!view!]' in place of a URL to do this. This will automatically create a unique link for every user.
Additionally, it’s now also possible to change the button labels for newsletters via the Template Text module. In this way, the text on your buttons on the site and in your mails will differ.
Sneak preview: New Dashboard
We are hard at work on a whole new version of the Dashboard, which will have several improvements and enhances the working experience with Peppered.
Even though it's still in development, you can take a sneak preview! Enable the beta preview in your dashboard account (just click on your personal icon or name). After enabling it, you can check out modules that have a little ‘NEW’ sticker attached to them. We'll keep working on this in the next couple of sprints and we'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
The plan for this new Dashboard is to first port all current modules and the way they work over, with small enhancements, and later completely rebuild modules and tasks.
Additional updates
- Good to know: Labels (on page parts) are now called Anchors.
- At a Production page on your site, the Event’s date (or the date range in case the Production contains multiple Events) is now visible in the sticky header.
- There is a new parameter to hide the drop-down with all the Events within a Production from the agenda overview. Via ‘Routes & Parts’ > ‘Events (main)’ you can add the 'noSubEvents' parameter and set it to 'true' to achieve this. The Production button would then not fold out all event dates, but it will direct you to the detail page instead.
- It’s now also possible to style the Grid layout of the People Module. Ask us to add different styling to People cards in a grid with images and in a grid without images.
- You can now use square crops for various cards (such as cards for Stories, Suggestions, etc.). This can be easily done by using the new parameter ‘crop’, which then needs to be set to ‘square’.
