V205 | Release Notes - December 2024

The alternative for a full calendar filter has always been a more minimal “genres” button style list. This part can be used stand alone on the Homepage, or above the calendar overview. It displays all genres neatly in a row.

This option has received a welcome expansion, and can now also be used to display locations, tags, themes or a combination of these.

Add a new parameter "filter" to the Genres List in Routes & Parts, and set value to “genre” “location” “theme” “tag” (or a combination, no comma’s in between).

The Maintenance module (System > Maintenance) can be used to block access to all website areas that communicate with the ticketing software. This covers login pages, personal accounts, baskets and the purchase path.

By scheduling a message you can prepare this in advance and tell your website visitors about the situation. The message will show up when trying to access all places mentioned above.

We have removed the option “Dashboard maintenance”, as it was never used. The feature is now more simple and is only used for disabling traffic between the website and ticketing system. In Maintenance mode, some extra areas are now blocked that were previously ignored, like retrieving Visitor tags from the ticketing system when a user was still logged in while returning to the website.

Showcase banners now stretch videos to make sure they are full width on wide screens, without black bars on the side.

When adding video to a Showcase banner, the video would stretch to the full width of a screen, but was limited to the resolution of the video. In the new setup, we stretch video to full width always, while limiting the height. No more black bars on the sides on very wide screens. This does not apply to the ‘boxed’ showcase, which has a limited width by design.

You can now show Publication dates on all Story cards. Enable the option in System > Control panel > Core > Publication date on stories set to Yes.

We have added new options for slide transitions within Narrowcasting. Next to the well known “slide” effect, you can now also use a “fade” transition effect. If a transition is too fast for your liking, adjust the speed. The default is 500 ms, this can be increased as you like. Note: 1000ms is 1 second.

For our Courses, the enroll button to sign up for a course is now a lot smarter. It automatically disables when the course status is set to “enrollment not possible”. Also, when the field “End date enrollment” is filled in, the button will no longer be active after that date.

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