Today is National Mutt Day, apparently. Our team here has a lot of adopted and mixed breed dogs, so I've tucked some of our favorite resident owl-dogs into the bottom of this release note. (Because who doesn't need more pictures of adorable doggos?)
But first, release note business.
We've released fixes for a few bugs this week:
- When you delete an article, the option to redirect to an existing article or category was not actually saving redirects to categories. We've fixed this so it properly saves both article and category redirects. Shout-out to Cindy G. for letting us know about this one!
- Thanks to a report from Helene, we discovered a couple issues with the dates that appear in the Author CSV Export. We changed a couple things about the export:
- The Authors screen shows the author's Last Activity, but the export showed their Last Login. We've updated the export so it includes both the Last Activity and Last Login.
- Sometimes, the dates were being replaced by the date the CSV export was run instead of the actual date we have stored. We've updated this to ensure that both date fields are accurate.
- As a quick note: if you're trying to track which authors are using your knowledge base, Last Activity is a more accurate field, since we allow authors to have KO "remember" them so they don't have to login every time. Last Login is only populated when someone has to explicitly log in; Last Activity is updated every time they do anything.
- After we released the article banners and thumbnails and category icon fields, we realized that if you toggle the setting to add or remove authentication from your file library, those fields weren't being automatically updated. We've fixed this so that they will be.
- Thanks to Travis's keen eyes, we learned that our new unsaved changes/create version pop-up was not requiring you make a selection and wasn't defaulting to one, either. We've updated this so that it defaults to Save changes to the current version.
Not a bug, but some behind-the-scenes work:
We also rewrote a good portion of the Manage Articles interface. This won't look or do anything different, though it was a fairly involved bit of housekeeping on our side to make it easier for our developers to troubleshoot and enhance the features here. This kind of code clean-up project is always a bit hard to fully test, so if you notice any unusual behavior on this page, please let us know so we can get it sorted. But we're hoping to roll out some new additions to this page soon, as a result of having the code base a bit tidier and easier to work with. Stay tuned. 😉
And if you made it this far:
Sally
Goldie
Bella
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