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The new dashboard is a complete rewrite of our existing, renowned content management system. The document below will outline what's new, what's different, and what's not there.
What's New?
Total Redesign
- App-wide redesign, with most elements receiving a makeover in appearance and usability.
- Everything is mostly in the same place, but organised more ergonomically.
- Better looking forms, tables, date pickers, icon pickers, dropdown boxes and buttons etc.
- Total redesign of some pages such as activity feed.
- Dark mode available.
Image Gallery Overhaul
- Upload multiple images at once
- Place images from your image library anywhere across the app
- A new, slick interface for managing and previewing your app images.
- Ability to scale down quality of images on every upload.
Mobile Friendly & PWA
- Do everything that you can on your desktop, with the convenience of it being in your pocket.
- Install the app on your desktop for easy access in your Mac OS dock or windows toolbar.
- Install the app on your iOS device or android for easy access from your home screen.
Page Builder / HTML Module Improvements
- New image gallery page builder template
- Full screen code editor with autocomplete and find & replace utilities
- Live preview for HTML pages
- Duplicate a page builder in to another page builder module, or HTML page
Various Smaller Improvements
- Set a direct link module as your home page, meaning that an agenda session can be the first page attendees land on
- Global search, ability to search through all your modules without filtering through the long list
- Locations library for a central place to view all locations, and manage text locations.
- Improvements to make error messaging more clear.
- Information at every step of the way along the app
- Ability to now import & export challenges
- Performance improvements. App should now be much quicker, and will perform better when in areas with poor connection.
- Ability to batch delete library items such as images and documents.
- View the progress of videos when uploading multiple at once.
Tiny Tweaks
- Every form will now check to confirm you want to leave a page with unsaved changes
- View the name of your current window in the tab bar.
- More information displayed in tables in libraries
- View a preview on your iframe module
| Feature | Old CMS | New CMS |
| Login page link | App Settings -> Features page | App Settings -> Authentication tab |
| Widgets Module | Widget Module | Deprecated |
| Analytics | Sidebar tab Tab | Planned for future release |
| Cvent Integration | Integrations Page | Planned for future release |
| Display Screens | Sidebar Tab | Planned for future release |
| Google Analytics Setup | Integrations Tab | Planned for future release |
| Alerts | Sidebar tab | App Settings |
| Triggers | Sidebar tab | App Settings |
| Module Management | Sidebar | Module management page (home page for modules section) |