Community Release - April 6, 2020
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New Features:
- Sitewide Forums Subcategories Added. All Five Levers Categories (Lobbying Congress, Media Relations, Grassroots Outreach, Grasstops Engagement, and Group Organizing) now provide feature subcategories to allow Community members to more easily drill down into specific topic areas and discussion.
- Note: If you were subscribed to a Five Levers Category before this update and would like to now be auto-subscribed to all subcategories within that lever, click the "Unsubscribe" button on the respective Lever Forum and then the "Subscribe" button again to update your subscriptions so that all subcategories will also send a notice at the frequency of your choosing.
- CCL Community Event Categories. Local Chapter and Regional Events now display on the main CCL Community Events page when that category is clicked, allowing members to view all local and regional events, even those outside of their own local chapter and custom teams.
- Resolved an issue where the "My Files" page was not fully displaying or sorting members' files uploaded to CCL Community.
- Updated the "Reply To Friends" button in "My Messages" inbox to indicate that replies would direct to only one's personal friends on CCL Community that were copied on any message sent from groups.
What's a release?
Simply put, a release is a package of software updates consisting of new features and bug fixes along with new content. On CCL Community, we'll release updates every other week.New Features
- Sitewide Forums Subcategories Added. All Five Levers Categories (Lobbying Congress, Media Relations, Grassroots Outreach, Grasstops Engagement, and Group Organizing) now provide feature subcategories to allow Community members to more easily drill down into specific topic areas and discussion. To access any, click on the category list topic you are interested in and the forum will filter and feature only those topic-area discussions.
- CCL Community Event Categories. Local Chapter and Regional Events now display on the main CCL Community Events page when that category is clicked, allowing members to view all local and regional events, even those outside of their own local chapter and custom teams. Additionally, National Leadership Meetings now display in the "Upcoming Events" block on the home page of National Leadership Role groups (Group Leaders, Liaisons, Trainers, etc.)
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue where the "My Files" page was not fully displaying or sorting members' files uploaded to CCL Community.
- Updated the "Reply To Friends" button in "My Messages" inbox to indicate that replies would direct to only one's personal friends on CCL Community that were copied on any message sent from groups.
New & Updated Content
Training:
- Communicating With Progressives - March 24th
- Generating Media Coverage - March 26th
- Self-Care For Stress Reduction - April 2nd
- Press Release Templates - updated April 6th
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