Product Release Notes: 28th January

Improvements & New Features: Event Foundations 🏠

1. New Homepage Blocks - Profile, Banner, and Quick Links

Why have we built it? We want to give organizers more control over the design of the Homepage of their event, making it more functional and more beautiful

What are the changes? Organizers are now able to create new Homepage Blocks that allow them to highlight: Exhibitors; Sponsors; Attendees; their own brand; content; and 'quick links'

The new Homepage Blocks that can be created are:
Banner Blocks
-Static Banners
Quick Link Blocks
- Icon Links Blocks
- Icon + Text Link Blocks
Profile Blocks
- User Blocks
- Company Blocks

Available from: 28th January 2022

Available to: All users, Automatically Enabled

Improvements & New Features: Connections 🤝

1. Profile Editing Restrictions and Permission

Why have we built it? We want to give organizers the ability to put restrictions on attendees editing their profile information, so that they can use their own database as a single source of truth

What are the changes?

• There is now a Permission toggle that allows certain Data Types to edit their profile

• When the toggle is disabled, you can put your own display message, support link text, and support link URL 

Available from: 28th January 2022
Available to: All Users, Automatically Enabled

2. Monetisation enhancements

Why have we built it? We want to make it easier to manage monetization plans through automation, whilst adding further control over monetization features

What are the changes?

• You can now assign the metadata key: monetization_product_id to a company profile. If the value matches the ID of one of the monetization plans, then the exhibiting company/team will be assigned that plan 

• Monetization IDs will now be shown in the Grip Dashboard

• The Disable User Upgrades feature allows you to disable the ability for Team Admins to upgrade plans on the Monetization Plans Overview page

• Team Admins will see “Please contact the event organizer to upgrade to this plan”

Available from: 28th January 2022
Available to: All Users, Automatically Enabled

Bugs and fixes 🐛 🔍

The team have, as always, fixed a number of little bugs this week... not that we don't like insects, 'cause we do.