Product Update: Giveaway Winner Notifications, Registration Pop-Up Backgrounds & More

Our biweekly Product Updates give you a rundown of all the features and bug fixes that were rolled out today - plus one handy tip of the week.

NOTIFYING WINNERS

The 'Notify Winners' buttons in Radmin giveaways will now (always) send a "You just won tickets" email to every user marked as a Winner.

We recently discovered that CMs were unable to notify more than one batch of giveaway winners on any given event in Radmin. This problem has been fixed - but it is important to note that clicking 'Notify Winners' on any giveaway will now notify all users marked as a 'Winner' - including those who have already been notified.

Therefore, you should always un-mark previously-notified winners (and check them as 'Confirmed' when appropriate) before notifying new batches of winners.

METRO-SPECIFIC REGISTRATION BACKGROUNDS

We can now add metro-specific background photos for the registration pop-up and confirmation pop-up.

By popular demand! If you'd like to switch out either or both of these photos, please email support with your new images.

The proper dimensions are 950x430 for the registration pop-up:

And 600x410 for the confirmation pop-up:

Please keep in mind that since we are not currently able to adjust the display of the text and buttons on these pop-ups, it is important to only select images that will work with the current layout.

REPEATING EVENT CHECKS

Scrapers will now recognize single-day events as obvious dupes of weekly events that share a time, venue, name and day of the week.

Now, single day instances of weekly events will not be placed in metros' pending queues (huzzah!). This should save CMs time, cut back on headaches and reduce duplicate events on metro sites.

Please note that the single-day events will only be recognized as dupes if they match all of the requisite qualities (time, venue, exact name and day of the week) as the weekly repeating event.

QUICK FIXES

Your listings pages (including your metro's home page) will no longer display a count of "Events X of Y".

The additions of the 'Show Upcoming' feature and the Ongoing / Repeating Events widgets have caused these numbers to be inaccurate and confusing (see above as an example) - so we're removing them.

We fixed a bug that was preventing metros from updating their favicon fields.

We fixed an error that was occurring when a repeating event was changed to a single-day event.

We altered the language of Indianapolis' and St. Louis' registration pop-ups to be grammatically correct. Because we shouldn't be saying Indianapolis's edition of DoStuff - but rather Indianapolis' edition of DoStuff.

We removed metro titles from ECP metadata.

DID YOU KNOW?

Photo slideshows aren't just limited to past events. You can upload a slideshow to any upcoming event (in the same way you would a past event) and the Flickr widget will automatically display a "What's Coming" headline above your photos.

The "What's Coming" headline will automatically change to read "What You Missed" after the event has passed.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015