Site Update Blog

  • May 2016 Site Update

    Matt
    Our 3rd update of the year updates the core platform to the latest version, which contains 189 fixes/improvements by the platform vendor. On top of that, our development team has been busy improving and fixing the functionality we layer on top of the...

  • April 2016 Site Update

    Matt
    In last week's site update we deployed more fixes and improvements, and we made sure we sorted out video uploads and switched to a new HTML5-first player.. meaning no more Flash! New features / Highlights Switch the Brightcove video pla...

  • Improving search experience on our transactional sites

    Dudley
    We've had a response from our search team about some of the complaints we've had about searching on the transactional site.  We’ve been receiving some excellent feedback from you all on our new parametric search page. It’s a big step forwar...

  • March 2016 Site Update

    Matt
    In January we upgraded the site to the latest version of the platform we use (Jive). That was a massive undertaking for the team, and we've been pleased with how it's been received by our members, as well as how the site performed during the recent R...

  • Improvements to the video player

    Matt
    We know there are a few issues with video publishing on the Community site since the upgrade, and those are in hand. We've also listened to Community feedback on the video player that's used on the site. There were a couple of things we focussed on;&...

  • Q: Does element14 have an application for my mobile device

    element14jamie
    Q: Does element14 have an application for my mobile device?A: No, we have removed our mobile apps due to our optimization of the element14 Community mobile browser experience to be fully responsive on any device. Please visit www.element14.com/commun...

  • Upgrade Completed

    ChristyZ
    Greetings and Salutations! It's been awhile since we posted anything to the new features blog. We've not had a regular release for quite a long time, but that's because we've been working on another major upgrade to the site.  We...

  • Windows 10 on the rise

    Matt
    The web analytics software that we use on Community gives us a lot of anonymous data that helps us design features & make sure they work properly for a majority of our members. For example, it shows us that most people use Google Chrome (52%), so...

  • May 2015 Site Update

    Matt
    We've recently made some improvements and launched a few new features on element14 Community.  Have a look below and see how you might take advantage of these and do let us know if you have any questions to how to make the most of them and your ...

  • March 2015 Site Update

    Matt
    This is our second site update of 2015. Here are the new features and improvements; New Feature - You can now add filters/search to tables of data How to use tabbed content and filtered tablesNew Feature - You can now add tabbed content to your ...

  • February 2015 Site Update

    Matt
    This is our first site update of 2015. Here are the new features and improvements; An Image Gallery can be added to any piece of content (and SuperWidgets) -- How to use the Image GalleryNew Widget: "Latest YouTube Videos" widget (for Group and ...

  • Behind the Scenes Part II - Raspberry Pi 2

    ChristyZ
    As I'm sure you all know, a new version of the single board computer from the Raspberry Pi Foundation was announced on Monday February 2. We here at element14 are proud of our continued partnership with the Foundation and were happy to once again...

  • Behind the Scenes - Bug Tracking and Source Code Management

    Matt
    The end of December and beginning of January are relatively quiet in terms of development on the code that runs element14 Community, so it's a great opportunity for us to improve some of processes and tools we use behind the scenes. We'v...

  • December 2014 Site Update

    Matt
    On Tuesday night we deployed our last site update of the year. It includes a fair number of new features & improvements. These include; Home users in the UK & US get the opportunity to buy certain products from our sister companies, CPC ...

  • November 2014 Site Update

    Matt
    aka. The Bountiful Update  Last night we deployed a site update that includes a fair number of new features & improvements. These include; Reputation Center.. read about this new feature in this blog postCountdown timer to enrolment dea...

  • October 2014 Site Patch

    Matt
    Last night we deployed a patch release which upgrades the underlying platform.. it contained a whole load of bug fixes from the vendor, as well as a few that we squeezed in. It should address some of the problems our members have reported to us.&nbsp...

  • September 2014 Site Update

    Matt
    Last night we deployed a site update that includes a fair number of new features & improvements. These include; Added pricing for our partner companies - MCM and CPC - into our product Quick View (or pop-up) for select SKUs that they carry i...

  • August 2014 Site Update

    Matt
    Last night we deployed a site update that includes a fair number of new features & improvements. These include; Anti-spam improvements – You can now report spam from the Activity Stream. We’ve also improved the UI so that you always get visu...

  • July 2014 Site Patch

    Matt
    Last night we deployed a patch release which contains a some features and fixes we wanted to fast-track onto the site before our next full release (which is due towards the end of the month). Here's what we've deployed; Extension to our automate...

  • June 2014 Site Update

    Matt
    There have been a couple of releases in the past few months which haven’t warranted a blog post, but today’s June release includes; Design Center, which has been in private beta, and is now launched as a public beta. Those of you who use the Com...

  • April 2014 Site Update

    Matt
    On 16th of April We deployed our third release of the year. A number of the bug fixes are going in as a result of member feedback, which we do our best to read, investigate, and implement. Some problems are quite simple to fix, but some can be c...

  • March Site Update

    Matt
    We deployed our second release of the year on the 4th March. A number of the bug fixes are going in as a result of member feedback, which we do our best to read, investigate, and implement. As I mentioned in my last blog post, some problems are ...

  • New Feature: Show your author information in google search results

    element14Dave
     Do you want Google to display your name next to the content (blogs, Documents etc) you create on element14 within the search results? Similar to this:      Then all you need to do is:  On Google+1.   &n...

  • February Site Update

    Matt
    Since mid-December, the development team has been busy working on the first site update of 2014, which was successfully released last night (11th Feb). A lot of the enhancements and bug fixes are going in as a result of member feedback, which we do o...

  • @mention changes

    Dudley
    This guide refers to functionality that existed on our old element14 Community, Jive, but is no longer applicable to the new Verint environment. @ Mentions are very much still a thing in Verint and you can use it to mention both ...