BuildFire Q2 Release Notes – 2021
Here’s a closer look at what our product development team and software engineers have been working on during the second quarter of the year.
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Plugin Enhancements and Updates
Community Wall
- Enhanced the ability for admins to ban users
- Enhanced the way that users report posts to the admin
- Allow the Admin to enable or disable automatic subscription to Community Wall push notifications
Media Center Manual
- Added deep linking support so admins can navigate users to specific media (audio and video) from an action item or push notification
- Added support for updated Dropbox links
- Facelifted Media Center Manual’s BuildFire control panel settings
- Added a “Play all” button to auto-play next functionality for audio files
- Fixed the share button
- Allow admins to sort items alphabetically
- Automatically save the last listening position even after closing the app
- Added a language tab for increased wording customizability
User Directory
- Added the ability for admins to show or hide email and phone number of users
- Updated the integration between User Directory and Community Wall
Places 2.0
- Added the ability for the admin to change units from imperial to metric (kilometers vs. miles) for global support
- Enhanced deep linking to allow admins to quickly and easily deep link into specific location detail pages from action items and push notifications
Free Text Questionnaire and Free Text Questionnaire – Geolocation
- Allow admin to toggle on or off required login (users can now answer questions without logging in)
- New Language tab for increased configurability
- Added a new question type: Location. Users can provide a location as an answer to a question by typing an address, providing their current location, or dragging-and-dropping a pin on a map
Dynamic List
- Allow admin to sort items alphabetically
- Updated the integration with Community Wall
Coupons and Deals
- Enhanced deep linking to allow admins to quickly and easily deep link into specific coupon detail pages from action items and push notifications
People
- Enhanced deep linking to allow admins to quickly and easily deep link into specific people detail pages from action items and push notifications
Weight Tracker
- Added a language tab for increased configurability
Other Product Updates and Enhancements
- Enhanced Android APK delivery automation
- Added app icon transparency for Android
- Added new splash screen design with loading screen previewer to show different devices
- Updated iBeacon Google Play Permission Declaration
- Updated declared permissions and in-app disclosures for Google Play policy
- Enhanced show/hide password icon visibility
- Created a new reports page for white label users (view canceled apps, pending requests, and revoked cancellation apps)
- Added a customizable access code placeholder
- Fixed compatibilities with release of iPhone 12
- Added support to handle apps with two signing passwords during the publishing process
- Enhanced the UX/UI of the marketplace
- Reduced several friction points for building an app
- Improved ability to search for features by name or feature type
- Enhanced change password feature
Updates For Developers
- Updated the BuildFire SDK which can be found at https://sdk.buildfire.com/
- Created a new feature diagnostic tool enabled when dev mode is turned on (used for diagnosing features, checking what’s enabled, diagnosing native plugins, retrieving plugin versions, running tests, viewing logs, and more)
- Updated in-app dialogs
- New drawer component
- Facelift, bug fixes, and enhancements to rating component
Updated Marketplace Icons
- Community wall
- Media Center Manual
- Contact Us
- Media Center RSS Feed
- On Demand
- Share App
- Events Feed
- On The Go Push
- Home Page Grid Layout
- Places 2.0
Updated Knowledge Base Articles Linked to Marketplace Plugins
- Free Text Questionnaire
- Free Text Questionnaire – Geolocation
- Action Items Folder
- Weather
- Shopify 2.0
- Menu Order System
- Container Folder
- WebView
- User Directory
- Catalog and Promote Folder
- Digital Member ID
- QR Scanner
- File Manage
- Flashcards
- Purchase Order System
- Dynamic List
- Document Manager Lite
- Drip Notification
- Document Manager Stats
- Customer Feedback
- Weight Tracker
- Up Vote
- On Demand
- Card Manager
- User Profile Action Folder
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