Here are some of the highlights from our latest release

Blogs
The blogs page now features the ability to create an article before delving into a channel. After selecting "Add Article" from a drop down menu you will select which channel to post your article in. When viewing a blog article, additional author information is now available below a post, this feature offers you the ability to view their profile and other articles. When the author of a post comments on their post, those comments…

At IGLOO Software, we are continually enhancing and improving our online community and social software solutions based on your feedback and recommendations. To find out more about the exciting new enhancements in this release, please take a moment and read our Product News blog.  

Next month IGLOO will be updating all communities with several exciting new features.  This release focuses on providing usability enhancements, improvements and an overall better experience using your community - for both administrators and end-users.  We have distributed our new features and updates across our key product areas: content management, collaboration, social networking and web publishing.  In this way, there is something that will benefit everyone  - whether you mainly use your…

Members of participating IGLOO communities our latest Desktop Client is now available for download. Version 1.3 holds some important improvements, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users will now be able to upload and manage community documents with our Desktop Client. Additionally the Desktop Client can now be used to manage your group space files, allowing you complete access over your community documents.

*Note - Windows 7 users please read our known issues and workarounds before proceeding with…

When creating posts in your community whether it is a blog, wiki or forum post you may have noticed that when you insert a photo it's necessary to upload the image to a gallery album. This however can lead to images which don't have much of a purpose outside your post and lead to clutter in your gallery. To avoid this you can follow the steps below.

While writing your post you will see an "add attachment" button below your content area, here you are able to upload an attachment to include in…

Favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon is a 16×16, 32×32 or 64×64 pixel square icon. You may find it necessary to change your favicon from our IGLOO logo to something custom for your community, this article will show you how to do this yourself. It is required to have your image saved as an ico file type before following these steps.

Step One:

Upload your custom ico file, you may upload this file to anywhere in your documents…

Below is a summary of the issues resolved with yesterday's patch release...

Internet Explorer (IE):

• Users will now able to change their passwords in IE (either through the 'Forgot Your Password' link or through editing their Login Settings)
• Replying to an internal message will only create one post
• Users can now send messages to other members using the "Send a Message" functionality

Widgets:

• Calendar widget will now display upcoming events  (even after edit)
• Search widget will now display results if…

This issue may have affected some users trying to sign in to IGLOO sites; users may have been seeing an error telling them that JavaScript needed to be enabled even if it already was. Also users who proceeded to try to login were then getting an error about a bad passwords.

The issue was caused by a version incompatibility during deployment which has since been corrected.

Thank-you for your patience and understanding. If you have any questions please contact support@igloosoftware.com

Group Spaces. Our new Group Space functionality makes it easier and more productive to collaborate with others in your community.  Group Spaces will provide dedicated, segmented areas of the community which can be used for projects, work groups, departments, teams, special interest groups and more.

Each Group Space will have a flexible homepage which you can fully customize with any of our drag-and-drop widgets.  This can help you create a Group Space dashboard so that you can quickly and easily…