What's new at GatherContent

New features since our last update:

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• Default groups and roles: You can now set the default group and role to which newly invited people will be added. Head to People & Groups and click on the "•••" menu button to set them
• Assigned user count: The Contributors button in the content editor now displays the number of people actively assigned to the item (whether they're assigned to the item itself, or the currently active status)
• Updates to more authentication pages: On top of our updates to logging in, you'll now see these updates rolled out across more of our authentication pages, such as our registration page

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Notable fixes and mentions of the past month:

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• Projects that were deleted were stubbornly un-deleting themselves. This has now been fixed 🧟
• People assigned to items were refusing to be removed. This has also been fixed 🙋

New features since our last update:

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• New login and authentication experience: We have released updates to our authentication system which by now most of you will have experienced. This brings with it improved security and performance and is the first step in drastically improving performance across all aspects of the product. You will be asked to log into GatherContent more often than you were previously.
• Updates to project exports: When exporting a project it wasn't always clear what was happening. Alas, no more! We now tell you exactly what's going on (no more waiting around for no reason). We've also tidied up our export options to keep things simple. Our newer .docx export has moved out of beta and has replaced the old one, which more accurately depicts the content of items, particularly asset fields and components. Our spreadsheet exports are now reduced to a single .csv format (.xlsx and .csv exports were identical, just different file types)

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Notable fixes and mentions of the past month:

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• Organising folders should now behave as expected 📂
• There are still issues lurking with the Writer extension. Please continue to share feedback if you encounter any 🙌

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What's next?

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• Updates to workflow: We're hard at work developing a new workflow experience. Workflow management will be refreshed across all plans, but plans with access to our Advanced Workflow feature will be able to work with multiple workflows in a single project, as well as set default schedules and assignees for each workflow step. Stay tuned 🔥

Normal service to our What's new page is resuming!

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New features since our last update:

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• Workflow assignments: Assign people to workflow statuses in an item, not just the item as a whole. Get the right people involved in your content workflow at the right time. Find out more ↗
• Inline images: Add images to text fields to allow for a more organic authoring experience. You can also adjust things like crop and size to inline images by clicking on the Settings button. Find out more ↗
• Zapier integration (beta): You can now integrate with Zapier and connect GatherContent with the tools you use every day. We have some common Zaps to get you started, or you can create your own! Separate Zapier account required. Find out more ↗

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Here are some highlights of the past month:

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• Fixed the 1MB upload limit (this is now back to the original 50MB limit) 📎
• Copying and pasting with the Writer extension enabled now behaves as it should ✍️
• Importing content via spreadsheets now work correctly 📃
• Components are back in revision history after a brief getaway 🦹
• Various other bug fixes and performance improvements 🐛
  

Components are here! 🙌

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Take your content modelling to the next level with components. With our new, eagerly awaited feature, you can create a library of reusable components and save heaps of time when working on the most flexible GatherContent projects ever.

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We've got everything you need to get started:

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• Video: Components in 60 seconds or less
• Help article: A guide to components
• Webpage: Components

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Components are available to all of our Start, Scale and Transform plan customers.

Have you ever wanted to upload your files to a project, not just an item? 🤔

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Well, now you can! 🙌

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🥁 Introducing our new assets feature that allows you to upload a file directly to a project.  Now you can seamlessly add files to your content items from your project's library of assets.

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Not only that, but you can get a real-time view of your asset's usage across the project.

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Visit your Files & Media folder to find out more.

Today is the day we release our asset library (on items) to all of our amazing customers! 🙌 🎉

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Once an asset has been uploaded, you can add it to any item that you need to. Saving you the job of having to upload the same asset over and over again. 👍

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To find out more, check out our super friendly help article. 😄

Hey, guess what?? 🤔 💡

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We've just released our new item editor loading strategy to all of you wonderful GatherContent users! This means that items will initially load 10 fields, and 5 more at a time as you scroll through the item. The result of which means that your items will load much faster. 🏎️ 💨

🎉 After a successful BETA release last month, we have now rolled our new template renovations to all GatherContent accounts.🎉

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You will now see our new shiny new Structure page, with a Template tab in the sidebar.

🔔 Hear-ye Hear-ye🔔

We've just released our Template Renovations 🏗️ to a closed BETA group. You'll notice the top-bar has lost its old "Templates" link and gained an enticing "Structure" link instead. What's more, you now have the ability to quickly view and remove unused templates to keep your project work nice and tidy.🧹

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We hope to roll this out to all accounts in the near future. So, keep your 👀 on our What's New page.

We've recently released our new look fields! All you lovely people should now be seeing these in your projects, there is no additional functionality, but we think it looks great. 😎

We've fixed a bug where whitespace (eg tabs & indented text) which had been copy + pasted into a GatherContent field would not display, but were sneakily still there (just hiding 🙈).

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In practice this means you may now see some additional tabs & indents in your text fields. They were actually always there, we just didn't show them before. Also this could cause an issue with character counts being wrong, and they will now be correct!

Our export to docx functionality was beautiful in a mother's eyes, unfortunately others could be forgiven for disagreeing. But we've scrubbed it up and now you'll find a whole new export to docx function in the migrate tab of a project. Now everyone agrees that our docx exports are beautiful 🌳`

Ever wanted to split your template up into multiple sections, but the number of sections needed to vary? Well now you can: Introducing repeatable fields, so your item's author can decide how many sections are needed.

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Head over to your template, go to a text field's settings, and make it repeatable. Make it repeatable. Make it repeatable.

The fixed formatting toolbar is now live and in action across all accounts! With this new layer of writing bliss ✍️ , you'll be able to see your formatting options at all times while gleefully creating your content! 🎉

• The development minions 👷👷 have whipped up an extra delete button so you can now delete archived projects directly in the archive view!  
• Comments have been jazzed up and refreshed, you'll now be able to add comments by clicking on the comment bubble in the formatting bar or double-clicking on any content in the item. 💬
• Tabs have gone through a complete makeover! 💅 If you have access, head over to the structure/template editor now to check out what's changed!

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The BETA release of the fixed formatting toolbar is now live with a closed BETA group. It will be out of BETA and available in all accounts over the next few weeks. Watch this space for more updates! 👀

• You can now invite users who have apostrophes in their email address, as we didn't want to disappoint anyone.
• A number of niche scenarios could cause your mouse to vanish ✨ and pop up on a different part of the screen. This disappearing act has been debunked.
• On occasion, repeating identical searches could yield different results. These are now much more orderly🎖.
• One of our servers was misbehaving 🤖, and occasionally restarting when unnecessary. Users may have experienced disconnections. We have reminded the server who is in control.
• There was a ceiling limit on the number of files & media you could download at once (1000). This limit was necessary when first implemented, but it has now been lifted. We have the power 💪.

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↔️ The ability to change the writing direction from right to left has now left BETA. ↔️

All accounts can now access this handy feature by going to the individual project settings to chose which direction you would like the text displayed! 📝

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👥 🤝 📂 The new People and Groups layout and the Hierarchy view are now both permanent parts of the family and are no longer in BETA! 🎉

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🔗🔗🔗 You can now create multiple shareable links and send them to internal team member or external guest user all at the same time!! 💥💥💥

To view this in action, check out the steps to do this in our help guide here.

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• Some items were being a bit stubborn and did not want to leave when 'permanently delete' was clicked after selecting the item row, this is now fixed. 👋 🗑
• Internet Explorer was misbehaving and not loading all items correctly so we had to sort that out sharpish. 👍 🌎
• The hyperlink options to check URL & open URL in a new window were both preselected which wasn't very helpful, we fixed this so you can once again chose the option you want to. ✅
• When comments were deleted, the were still being included in the comment count under the content view! ✋ We put a stop to this! ⛔️
• If an import exceeds the item limits within your plan, when importing from the import tab, we know show how many items your plan limit will be exceeded by. 💯
• Newly created items were occasionally showing that a template was already applied!! 😱 We set that straight so all new items display 'no template applied' just as they should. 😺

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• The top item row was a little shy and was only showing half of itself, we've fixed that so all rows show entirely in the content tab 😲
• Conversation mark tags were leaking into the API output 👎, so we've put a stop to that! 👍
• ↪️ The pagination links in the API response is now using https. 

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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 😎
https://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!

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

Check out the help article

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

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.

• 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
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  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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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 🦶

• 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 🙌

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

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

• 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 👯‍♂️

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

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