Community Release - October 21, 2019
New Features:
- Community Events now feature a new design layout that more clearly highlights the ability to add an event to your personal online calendar, along with liking, and RSVPing for the event.
- Recent Activity blocks no longer duplicate activity
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
- Community Events now feature a new design layout that more clearly highlights the ability to add an event to your personal online calendar, along with liking, and RSVPing for the event. For any event, below the "Starts" and "Ends" information, users will see the following options:

- To add an event to your calendar, click on the "Add to calendar" icon and a drop-down menu will appear, allowing you to click to choose which personal online calendar you prefer to add this event to:

- After clicking, follow your calendar procedure in the new window or tab to "save" the event and add all of the details to your calendar.
- The Like and RSVP functions remain the same.
- The bookmark action for events has been added to the ellipsis icon on the right side of this row of updated event icons. To access it, click on the ellipsis (. . .) icon, then click on the "Bookmark" option from the menu. For Group Leaders and other Group Event Managers, the ability to "Edit" and "Delete" events has also been added to the ellipsis dropdown menu.

- Pagination scrolling options have been added to "Event" and "File" blocks, allowing a user to scroll to see the list:

Bug Fixes
- Recent Activity blocks no longer duplicate activity
New & Updated Content
Training:
- How To Lead A Lobby Team - updated Oct. 10th
- Using the Resources For the Future Carbon Pricing Calculator - added Oct. 17th
Resources:
- Op-Ed Template - added Oct. 14th
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