What's new at GatherContent

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People and Groups has had a complete makeover! 💄

It is currently in beta mode, so all user have the chance to test out the fab new features and functionality and share any feedback with us.

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Click here to learn more about the brand new people & groups layout.  

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• The calendar widget was playing hide and go seek with your due dates, displaying them in the wrong position off-screen. 🔎 This bug is now fixed, and you can add one or multiple due dates to all workflows within an item. 📅

Cue the party!! 🎉

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All accounts will be upgraded to the Content Hub, which is the latest version of GatherContent, in February 2020. 🍾

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You can find out more about the content hub by clicking here.

• 🔗 Hyperlinks can now be added to tables, hooray!
• We've fixed the character counter used in item fields and the welcome message. 💯
• Changes made using the bulk select bar in the all items view will now be applied automatically without having to refresh the page. 👍

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📂 📂 📂 You asked us to bring back the hierarchy view to the Content Hub, and we listened!

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Currently, a user can see either all items or items within a single folder, but in the hierarchy view, you can view every folder and every item, all in one list. We’ve now opened up the doors to a limited number of users to join the Hierarchy BETA Program. 🔥

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Once we are full, the doors will close, and the option to join the Hierarchy BETA will no longer be shown on that page, so be quick ⚡⚡⚡ and sign up here to be a part of the action!

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🔗 We’ve added editing and commenting to our Shareable links BETA feature! If you want to get in on some shareable links love, click here while the doors are still open, to sign up and get early access to this excellent feature!

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Work on API v2 is well and truly underway!

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‍Using the brand new version of our API, you will be able to do the following;

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> Items: Get a list of Items.

> Structure: Get & edit structure; you will also be able to save a structure as a template.

> Folders: Get a list of folders for projects; create, delete, restore, rename, and you will even be able to move folders around!

> Templates: Get a list of templates for a project; create, delete, restore, rename, and even duplicate templates!

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How do I stay up-to-date with the changes to API v2?

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Easy, just click here to head over to our API guides (where we’ve tagged our API v2 BETA release) to stay tuned with what’s going on.

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• We fixed some issues around duplicating projects
• The 'Last updated' time was sometimes showing as incorrect, with users on different timezones than as set in their Personal Settings. This now is correct 👍
• 🗺 Diacritical characters used in profile names such as Noëlle, for example, were preventing some accounts from loading. Inclusivity is a core value around here, and we want users from all over the world to use GatherContent with ease, so we've fixed that! 🖋

We've expanded our shareable links BETA features, from just 'view only' to include the ability to comment on shareable links 🔥 If you want to get involved with the BETA, sign up here.

We now share which product BETA's were currently working on. If you'd like to get involved shaping new features through a BETA, you can sign up here:

https://gathercontent.com/product-betas

• GatherContent's alignment when using Safari was wandering off the path. Now things are as they should be 🦏
• We've stopped assets from voluntarily resizing themselves inside assets fields 🙌
• Commenting on assets is no longer being temperamental. Good stuff!
• We've introduced great performance boosts for items with lots of content, specifically when loading and using comments. That means, you can get things done much quicker ⏩
• Sometimes, archived project notifications were still included in your emails from GatherContent. Those projects just didn't want to be over! We've sorted that now 👍
• You're now able to drag folders to the very bottom of the folder list, without trouble!
• Due dates should now show in the same timezone, between the content hub and inside an item 🕐
• Bulk actions on the content hub weren't playing fair. We've set things straight 📏
• ✍️ Resolved comments will no longer leave a yellow underline, (aka the mark tag) on your item's text content. Yay! 💫

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We've introduced filters to the content hub ☀️ You can now search items by assignee, item name, for items that are overdue and by item workflow status.

Not only that, but you can now combine filters, making your content management duties even easier!!

"Search for items that are assigned to Sally, at the 'Review' status and are overdue." Amazing 😍

Check out the help docs: https://help.gathercontent.com/en/articles/3209139-filtering-items-in-the-content-hub

We've created an awesome setup guide, to help you when you create your first project in GatherContent 🙌

Here is the shared wisdom for reference 😎
http://help.gathercontent.com/en/articles/3197426-setting-up-your-first-gathercontent-project-start-here

We've created six new project types that appear in brand new GatherContent accounts. These are filled to the brim with accurate example content, templates, workflows and even user assignments. That means you can see exactly how projects like yours work in GatherContent 🤩

If your account already exists but you'd like to see one of these example projects, just drop support@gathercontent.com a note and we can move a copy over to your account 👍

We've also included some videos of the GC team, walking you through the most important things to know when getting started with GC. So a more pleasant, interactive getting started experience!

• We squashed a bug with duplicating projects getting stuck 🏋️
• Item titles are no longer displaying centred and truncated 🐘
• In some cases, updating the workflow status of items, and creating items didn't trigger a page refresh and show your changes. We've fixed this 🤓
• Project and item exports weren't properly reflecting folders and hierarchy. We've shuffled things back into the correct order 👍
• We fixed inconsistent loading of items when scrolling down the 'All items' view

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• We've created better separation of the folders inside your project, and other pinned options in the sidebar of the content hub. This should make it clearer to navigate 👍
• There's more on-screen help when creating folders for the first time.
• You can now take the content hub on-boarding tour again, if you accidentally clicked it away in the first instance. So no need to worry if you missed anything!

• Due to some improvements we’d made to assets, PDF thumbnails weren’t showing correctly. We’ve fixed that now though, so they’re again
  P roperly
  D isplaying
  F iles! 🤓
• Assets were really dazed and confused this week. We also fixed:
• asset thumbnails appearing distorted
• asset filenames that had gone walkies 🚶🏽‍♀️
• assets not showing up in asset fields

Want to skip a workflow status? Now you can 🙌 Inside an item, hover over the status you want to move to 🤩 Simple!

Check out the help article

Workflow update notifications in an item now work in the same way as @mentions in comments. So, you can remove an assignee from a workflow status update notification!  You now type '@' to choose other people to include in the update.

Switch to another GatherContent account you're part of with two clicks! You can also now star accounts to appear at the top of your list.

Check out the help article

Find the content difficult to read? You can now change your font! 🤓

Check out the help article

We've made it clearer when your permissions are limited on an item, to explain what you can and can't do 🙌

View-friendly images 😎 You can now preview an asset on an item without downloading it.

Subscribe to conversation threads to keep in the loop. No @mentioning required!

We've cleaned up our ＜p＞lain text fields! Fields switched from rich text to plain text now correctly strips any HTML 👌

We've been busy improving our export and import functionality:

• Content exported from GatherContent as a spreadsheet can now be directly uploaded as an import spreadsheet!
• We've improved the interface of the content export screen via the 'Migrate' tab
• We've improved how the content import via spreadsheet works. It's more robust and can support multiple content templates per spreadsheet.

Worry no more! You'll now see a friendly message when you try to leave a template that has unsaved changes.

We've improved our error messaging when adding users to groups. Less confusion = better.

Creating templates just got easier.. Converting custom structures to templates is back!

Love files? Downloading all files from an item is back baby! ⬇

Accidentally resolved a comment? No worries, just undo it 😎 So you can stay ❄️ as a 🥒.

You can now copy items from one project to another in the new Content hub 👯‍♀️

The new Content hub is live for all new trial accounts. Find out more. We're rolling it out to existing customers soon 👀

• Comments were getting a bit squashed at the bottom of an item, which made them hard to interact with. They've now got the breathing room they need 💨
• We've stopped the Revision history tripping up when moving between there and an item.
• When switching between tabs inside an item, the footer now keeps up - moving forward on the right 🦶

All GatherContent CMS integrations now migrate your content as a flat structure (no hierarchy). This change is to make way for some upcoming goodness! 👀

• Your item now checks itself before it wrecks itself ❄️📦 - Items no longer refresh themselves after resolving a comment.
• Project delete. Complete. We tightened up hard deleting projects.

We've successfully launched a new on-boarding flow for account owners during their GatherContent trial. This paves the way for on-boarding flows for new users opening GatherContent for the first time, for a better on-boarding experience 🙌 👀

Our Craft CMS plugin is open source and free to use, but is no longer actively maintained.

Check out the blog post

Re-sending welcome emails was causing some confusion  🤷 We've now added a 'pending invite' section to People & Groups, making it easier to see who still needs to accept their invite.

The GatherContent font has changed to a serif font 🔤 Fonts will always be subjective for us, so let us know if you have any font feedback!

• Getting users into some groups was proving difficult. We’ve opened the windows to help – Give these people air!

• New template tabs didn’t want to change, but now they’re thinking ‘New Year, New me’ 🎆
• Some assets went spinning instead of showing up. Now they’re all present and correct 👍
• Some character counts were wrong by ten, now we’ve re-taught them their 1, 2, 3s 🎓

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Pay close attention - hyperlinks may now take you to another dimension.. We've added the option to open your hyperlinks on the same page OR in a new window.. 👽

Check out the help article

You're now able to copy both raw and formatted item HTML 💥

Check out the help article

Happy new year and welcome to 2019!

• Who made that change in revisions? For a short period, the name appearing on hover wasn’t working when trying to see who made an edit in the revision history. It’s sorted now 👍
• We fixed an issue where new users weren’t receiving their invite emails to GatherContent 📩

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Two-factor authentication (2FA) is now available 🔐

Check out the help article

We've just made it easier to enter a URL from the formatting bar. You can now hit enter or click off the toolbar to confirm it 👌

• People’s roles went on strolls, but now they’ve come running back 🚶‍♂️
• Some comments were hiding away, but they’re out in full force now
• Revisions went on an early vacation but we’ve made sure they’re back working hard again now 👩‍💻
• Some of our notifications just really wanted you to take note and were sent more than one once. Now they know once is effective  📥

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You can now search for content within items with advanced search! 🔎 Advanced search is available to all customers on the Pro Plan or above.

Check out the help article

We now have a festive mode for the content editor ❄️ Click the Christmas tree in the bottom left-hand corner of an item to reveal the magic! You can also find some seasonal jokes in the bottom right-hand corner of an item 🎄

Long comment threads now show the first and last comments to give you a snapshot of what's been discussed. You can always expand the conversation to see the full detail 💬

You're now able to un-group your email notifications! Instead of receiving an email with your recent activity, you can receive separate emails for each notification 📫

Our AEM integration now supports AEM 6.4 👏

You will now be notified by email when items are overdue 📨

You can now move your content from Wordpress to GatherContent! Hooray for two-way migrating! 🔛

• Some assets that had been deleted were sneaking through using the API. Now, when it's gone, it's gone 👋
• Empty groups were trying to stay in GatherContent - we've said goodbye to them.
• Hyperlinks were having a freaky Friday, but now they take you exactly where you need to be
• Whether you open or close it, the item list side bar will keep the items you expanded, open and the ones you left closed, closed 👏
• Completed items were showing as overdue, but now they're completely completed ✅
• Templates didn't want to change, but now they're flexible again
• Some items didn't want to pack up and leave home (export), but now they're on their merry way 🚀
• Some revision were playing hide-and-seek, but they’re well and truly visible now 🕵️‍♀️

We've updated the look and feel of the Comment history - you can now choose if you want to see resolved, unresolved or all comments 👍

• Some workflow statuses were being a little lazy, and not moving. We've got them up and running again now 🏃‍♀️
• Hyperlinks in guidelines fields weren’t going anywhere.. now they take you exactly where you gotta go
• Sometimes, templates just didn't want to let go (disconnect), but now they're moving on 👋
• Projects weren't always duplicating, but now we're seeing double 👯‍♂️
• The search bar was sliding off the page but we've nudged that back into place now
• Unresolved comments were being a bit shy, but now they're out on full display 💁‍♀️
• New items just wanted to stay in bed (did not want to be created), but they up and out now
• Some revision were playing hide-and-seek, but they're well and truly visible now 🕵️‍♀️

We have now consolidated our legacy help documents 🔍

We now support en and em dashes in the newest version of GatherContent! 🙌

You can now loop someone into a workflow status change within the item 👋

We've made the bottom status bar a bit more neat and tidy. It all works the same, but it also now displays the style and formatting of selected text 😊

You can now search for items using the new search box in the top right hand corner 🔎

Users assigned to items will now receive an email when a workflow status is changed 💌

You can now duplicate a tab on a structure ✌️

You can now format guidelines fields with rich text! 🙌

• Revisions weren’t playing ball, but they’re scoring every time now 🏀
• Workflow statuses weren't always changing or showing in Recent Activity but now we've made sure that workflows are working!
• Project dates differed between the Overview tab and Project Dashboard - now everything's right on time ⏱
• Word and PDF exports were hiding some content from us. After careful negotiation, all content now exports ➡️

The latest version of the Drupal 8 module has been released - version 8.4 🙌 Download it here: https://www.drupal.org/project/gathercontent

• Hyperlinks weren't going anywhere.. now they take you wherever you need to go 😉
• We had a slow start connecting to some items which showed as loading, but now they're raring to go 🏁
• Images weren't showing in comment history... but that's history now!
• Character counts were playing about - now, you know you can count on them 💯
• Archived projects didn't leave the project dashboard right away - they're now shown the door immediately🚪
• Duplicating a project is now working perfectly - now, that's twice as fun 👯‍♂️
• Items weren't keeping good order in lists and exports - everything's orderly now ✅

You can now duplicate an item from an item in the new content editor 👯‍♀️

You can now archive an item from an item on the new content editor ⭐️

You can now integrate with Kentico 11 🙌

Hooray 🎉 We've released revisions in the new content editor! Along with seeing content edits, you can now see formatting and asset changes.

The new content editor now has a 'Read only' option on workflow statuses 👀

• We've made some tweaks to the on-boarding screen when using GatherContent on the mobile browser
• Option fields (checkboxes and radio buttons) were causing trouble when duplicating a template. They're now duplicated properly and save without problems 👍
• This also caused issues when making edits to templates and disconnected item structures. They're saving again as they should 💥
• Content was going MIA when exporting items as PDF and Word docs but we've fixed it now. Exports are a wily one! ⌚️
• We've fixed some quirks with comments and tables 🙌 Comments were losing their place on the page but we've restored order 😉
• Custom roles were behaving very uniquely but we're back to normal now ✅
• Some email notifications were getting lost in the post, but now they're signed, sealed, delivered 💌
• We've had teething pains with revisions in the new content editor 👶 Rusks all round!
• Tabs and Recent Activity had been playing truant but now they're back in line 👯‍♂️

We've done some design touch-ups on the structure editor 🎨

We've introduced webhooks to notify you of item workflow status changes ⇢

• We've improved performance with loading items in the new version of GatherContent.
• When updating your email address in GatherContent, some white screens were reported. No more!
• Project exports as csv are showing item urls again.
• 'Invalid date' due dates on items have now been fixed.
• Applying headings to content sometimes didn't stick. We've reinforced that glue 😉
• We've sorted the 'save' button on the Workflow tab.
• We've refreshed the refreshing when applying a template to an item.
• Accessing your projects through the project dashboard works again as it should.
• The ability to comment on an item without edit permission is working again 👍

• You can now get notified of item workflow status changes in Slack.

We've re-introduced importing content from a spreadsheet in the new version of GatherContent.

• We've made sure that bulk applying item templates from the Content tab works as it should in the new version of GatherContent 👍
• You can again assign people to an item from within the item.
• Template mappings using our integrations got slightly lost on the way to migrating your content (Wordpress). We've caught the misleading culprit and template mappings are back on the right track again 🗺
• The 'write content' permission wasn't respecting its values. We gave it a good ol' talking to and changed its mind 👍

We're super excited to release our brand new content and structure editor for all accounts created from today onwards 🎉The user experience has been completely redesigned and there are some great new features including:

• live collaboration
• @ing notifications in comments
• support for emojis in content 😎
• smarter and slicker email notifications
• viewing item HTML
• greater flexibility with tables
• ability to add quotes
• viewing contextual comment history
• word and character count as you type on an item

This is just the start of the goodness yet to come 🚀To read more about the changes that the new content and structure editor includes, please see these help articles:What's changed with the content editorWhat's changed with the structure editorRecent changes to GatherContent

• ​We fixed a bug where you weren't able to assign multiple people to items from the Content tab.
• Also, we sorted out the blank exports - we 💙 content!
• ​A few errors were reported when trying to assign users to an item. We've sorted that now 👍

Our Umbraco integration now supports v7.7, v7.8 and v7.9 🙌

• We've fixed a bug around updating the workflow status of multiple items from the Content tab.

We've upgraded our database server for better security and to enable faster page loads.

You can now integrate with EpiServer 10.2+ 🙌

Using the GatherContent EpiServer integration, you can:

• Migrate content into EpiServer
• Update migrated content in EpiServer

You can read all about the EpiServer integration in the documentation.

• We fixed a bug where exporting an Item as a PDF or Docx wasn't working correctly. This also caused issues with importing a csv file into GatherContent. All fixed now 👍 ☺️

The latest version of the integration includes AEM's export capability 🎉
Now you can:

• Migrate (export) content from AEM into GatherContent - Check out the help article
• Update migrated (exported) content in GatherContent - Check out the help article (scroll down to Export section

Other cool updates include:

• A hierarchy view in AEM for Import, Export and Update
• Abstract AEM Template Page mapping for Export
• Custom Structure items for Import and Export
• Parent Entries Items for Import
• Image Gallery support for Import (multiple attachments import)
• Copy Import and Export Mappings
• Import Results page unique URL

Click to access the AEM Integration home in our Help Centre

• Group Name IDs are now being refreshed when moving a Project across GatherContent accounts.

• When adding a new workflow status, the page was not reloading itself when completed.
  We've fixed that now!

• We fixed a bug where the comment notification checkboxes weren't populated.

The latest version of our Umbraco integration supports 7.6! 🙌

Major Drupal Integration improvements including Paragraphs module support! 🎉

Here's a full description of the major refactoring, architectural updates and new features!

• PHP integration library is now decoupled from the module, providing a quick starting point for any future PHP based framework integration. It also makes the Drupal integration more streamlined and allows for better support for future changes in the GatherContent API. https://github.com/Cheppers/gathercontent-client
• The GatherContent Drupal module has been split up into different components for performance and maintenance reasons, which allows sitebuilders to reduce the total number of modules enabled in production
• The GatherContent Drupal module has now support for Paragraphs in various configuration (single instance, unlimited instance)

• In some really specific situations, a user removed from an account was still notified of a comment reply.
• We fixed the permissions needed to access the Connect & Export tab.

You can now integrate with Craft 3 🙌

We've just launched the GatherContent Craft plugin. Compatible with Craft 3, the new plugin allows you to:

• Quickly import structured content from your GatherContent projects into your Craft site.
• Import your GatherContent media as Craft assets.
• Update imported pages in your Craft site.

You can read all about the plugin and how to get it set up on your site in the help docs:

Umbraco updates

We now support Umbraco Date Picker. Included in this update are some minor bug fixes.

Kentico improvements

Better metadata support for Kentico, and we've fixed a few other minor bugs.

We've just launched a Hubspot integration 🎉

Using the GatherContent HubSpot integration, You can:

• Migrate content into HubSpot
• Update migrated content in HubSpot

You can read all about the Hubspot integration in the documentation.

We've simplified the way in which account cancellation works

When you cancel your account, you'll still have access to your account until the end of the current subscription period. Downgrading your plan now works in the same way - a downgrade will take effect at end of the subscription period.

We also no longer delete data once an account is cancelled. This means if you change your mind, you simply need to log back into your account, add your payment details and your data will be available.

We've also update our Terms of Service to reflect this change.

We now support Sitecore Date and DateTime fields! We've also performed some minor bug fixes.

We've made a big batch of security enhancements 🔑