News & Updates

February, 2024

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We are already two months into the new year and are getting up to speed with our new development focus area: Agenda & Session Management. We are also very excited about releasing a whole new way of communicating with participants. We hope you like it! 🚀

Session Categories 🗂

• A new kind of Widget has been released: Session category cards. Using this widget you can select a set of session categories and display them as cards anywhere on the public pages or in the logged in views. The cards can either be displayed as floating cards in a grid, or horizontally with a side scroll. The cards contain the session category name, description, and a button leading the participants to a pre-filtered view of the sessions in the category.
• Session categories have been updated with a frequently requested feature. It is now possible to group categories using Main categories. Adding main categories allows you to sort your session tracks, themes, or, blocks hierarchically, creating an additional level of categorization for your sessions. Sessions can’t be directly assigned to a main category, they are connected via a sub-category. Main categories can be used together with the Show categories in a menu? setting or without it. When adding main categories, a new search filter will appear in the sessions list and schedule.

The Event App 📱

• A new long-awaited feature has been released: Notification batches. You can use this function to send out notifications to event participants. Notification batches work similarly to Email and SMS batches. The notifications will be available for participants in the Event app and are also sent as push notifications. A new Event page type Notifications is available and can be added to the menu in the Event app. On this page, all notifications sent to the logged in participant are listed.

Company Management 🏢

• The email notification functionality for Internal files and messages between administrators and company administrators has been updated. In addition to company administrators and regular administrators who joined the discussion, now also all Exhibitor Administrators will receive notifications about new files and messages. It is possible to add an extra role Exhibitor Administrator to any administrator who needs to receive notifications for all Internal files and messages updates.

Access Control & Security 🔒

• We have updated our Password Policy to enforce longer, and hence more secure passwords. The minimum number of characters for passwords is now 12. Passwords now have to be between 12 and 64 characters long and contain at least one uppercase letter, one digit, and one special character.

Export Updates 📊

• The Email invites export has two new columns: Message and Updated.
• The Finished payments export has a new column: Paid to account.
• The Invoices export has three new columns: Bank payment date, Paid to account, and Marked as paid by.